_ _ _ -4,7pot.te.r Towanda, Wednesday. July 1, 1546. FUR CANAL COMMISSIONER, WILLIAM B. FOSTER, JR. OF BRADFORD CoVNTV BON. D•r LI WI rotor.—We learn from our Mernhey in Congress, that he is slowly recovering from his late severe illness, and hopes soon to be able to pay proper attention to his correspondents, so long, from necessity, neglected. Fourth of July Celebration I We take much pleasure in stating that the coming anniversary of our National Independence. is to be cele brated in a spirited and becoming manner by our citizens. The most extensive preparations are making to honor the day, sacred by the highest considerations. The Officers and Order of the day are as follows Orator—ULTASNS MERCER. Esq. • Reader—E. S. GOODRICH, Esq. • President—C. L. W♦RR, Esq. Vice Presidents—J. 1). MusTsarr., H. S. ?delimit, DR. &RUSE HESTON. (7mnrnittee of Arrangement—E. 0. Montanye, C. Reed, 0. E. Flynt. Wm. Keeler, 2J., E. 0. Go.lnch, Vandereoolc, J. Francisco, 11. P. G.:Oriel], P. Pow ell, Lome Lameraue. B. F. Powell, A. M. Coe. Marsha!—Cal. Davie M. Bur.z. As.istants—Col. Jonsr F. MCA36, W. C. BOGART, Maj. J. Cct.e and J. B. Foam One gun will be fired at day-break, and thirteen guns and ringing of the bells at sunrise. At I 1 o'clock. the procession will be formed on the Public Square, under the direction of the Chief Marshal and his Assistants.in the following 'order : 1. Martial music; 2. President aad Vice Presidents; 3. Clergy ; 4. Orator and Reader ; b. Athens Band; 6. Revolutionary Soldiers; 7. Com mittee of Arrangements; 8. State and County Officers ; 9. Citizens and Strangers. The procession thus formed, will proceed to the Methodist church, where will be read the Declaration of Independence, and the Oration delivered—after which the procession will be joined by the Ladies, and return in the same order to the Public Square, where a sump. tuous dinner will be provided under a Bowery, by our old and experienced landlord, WM. BINGOS. At the dose of the " feast of reason and How of soul," the company will be highly entertained with National airs of the Athena f3and, and a brilliant display of the Stars and Stripes. The proceedings will close with 28 rounds of heavy ordnance. n The invitation to juin our feltow.eitizene, in celebrating the ever glorious 4th, is extended to neighboring towns and counties. The Canal CommAssloner. We have front every section of the State abundant and chcerfng evidence of the unanirnity with which the democracy respond to the late nomination for Canal Commissioner. It is but an earnest, we are sure, of the victory which awaits the party, and an evidence that the arduous and efficient services whi c h Mr. F o gr re n has rendered our state, are appreciated by the tax-payers of the Commonwealth. There are exceptions, to be sure to this general unanimity ; for there are mercenary adventurers hanging upon the skirts of every party, rea dy to do valiant services as long as there is a prospect of spoils, but cold, inactive, or directly opposed, when there is no hope of fattening upon the public pap. One of the most prominent exhibitions of this mercenary spirit, we see now exhibited in the course of the Lycoming Gazette.. One of its proprietors—(or the proprietor—) held an office under the Canal Commissioners. Conse quently, that consistent sheet, long before the Conven tion, hoisted the name of Wm. B. Foster as, its candi date for re-nomination, and weekly indulged in laudato ry articles, sickening and disgusting to the real friends of Mr. F. It was then "Bending the suppliant hinges of the knee , That thnft might follow fawning." But its sycophancy was of no avail ; the Board of Canal Commissioners remorad the editor to make room for an other, anti presto! the Lycoming Gazette turns abont, and has consequently ever since been engaged in oppos ing Mr. Foster's claims. We extract from the Democratic Pre.s, a substantial democratic paper, without prejudice, the following re marks in connection with this matter: ."There is a paper published in Lycoming county, in this state, called the "Gazette," professedly democratic, that says that Mr. Foster cannot be elected, and as a matter of course, that the whigs will succeed. Lycom hag county,says dila vaunted organ of its democracy, will declare against the. democratic candidate at the October election. Suppose that Lycoming county does cast its vote against Mr. Foster. which we do riot feel inclined to believe, how can that small county influence the state? We cannot believe that the election will be so close that one coont). can decide the contest, and if the result should hang upon 'looming, we have no tears for the result.— The honest democracy of that sterling county, will ne ver lend themselves as the instruments to revenge the " private griefs" of discarded officeholdersor disappoint led politicians, as they would do in the event of their refusal to support Mr. Foster. The Lycoming Gazette, before the nomination of Mr. Foster, was foremost in urging his claims—declared him to be the choice of. the democrats of Lycoming—and boasted of its early friend ship for that excellent man. At that time the editor of the paper held a snug office under the Canal Commissioners and never did a " Swiss hireling with aioietenaci ty to a cause than he did. The editor warmly applaud ed the action of the State Convention, and Lycoming was set down as all right, but SOOT /" a change carneo'er the spirit of his dream." The Canal Commissioners, believing in the excellent doctrine that the public offices, with their emoluments were nuecreated for a privileged class, determined on removing all those who had been holding fat offices under their control, for the last ten years, and the editor of the ',yearning Gazette was one of the "victims." 'Filen Lycoming which was so well pleased with the nomination of Mr. Foster—Lycoming which was so vociferous and unanimous fur his selection by the democratic convention—then Lycoming was lug ged over to the opposition, represented as being in high dudgeOn at a nomination which the people demanded, all because the editor of the Gazette and its hangers on were not permitted to feed at the public crib. It is this paper that now gives such bright hopes to the whigs, end promises such an inglorious defeat to Mr. Foster. The whig paper. quota very feely from the columns of the Lycoming Gazette, and while they post articles before the public, as corning from a " genuine locofoco paper," they forget to tell the cause of the appearance of these articles. Well, under the circumstances, we don't blame them much for that !" • THE LICINSZ Quasi-to :J.—During the late session of the Legislature,. bill was passed giving to the citizens of the following counties of Pennsylvania the right to tote for or against licenses, at the annual election fur constables and other township officers: Chester, Brorpiehanna, Wyoming. Butler, Erie, Dela ware. Tiogt, Bradford, Cravvfool, M'Kesn, Elk, War ren, Payette. Alleaheny , Mercer, Meariteld, Washington, Beaver, and the township and borough of Mt. Pleasant in the county of Wayne, and the borough of Lewisburg, to Union oouuiy. Bradford Co. Standing Committee. The following named gentlemen were appointed as the Standing Committee for Bradford county for the prevent year, by the Democratic Convention, holden in September last: E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. PE fER C. WARD. EIUSON AsPEN WALL, FREDERICK ORWAN, CH ARLES STOCKWELL, JOHN BALDWIN, JOHN W ATKINS. Tug Trt F. ATT.—The following is n brief abstract of the treaty between the United Ntates and England, re garding Oregon, lately ratified by the Senate,: Ankle I, Fixes the territorial boundary between the United States and' Great Britain, west of the Rocky Mountains, nn the line of forty-nine degrees, till it reach es Queen Charlotte's Sound, and then through the Straits of Fuca to the ocean, which gives te l Great B r i. tain Van Coucer's Island. Art. 2. Declares the navigation of th.. Columbia river, up to where it strikes the line of forty-nine degrees, to tie free to the Hudson's Day Company, during the con• tinuance of Igo charter. .k Art. 3. The rivers. ports and hartr , re north of the folly-ninth degree, to be free to the commerce of both MEM Art. 4. Indemnity for the fitrts and trading stations of the Hudson's Bey Company sounth of forty-nine de grees, and of the Americans north of the same, if any there be. Art. 5. Indemnity for private property of citizens or subjects who may be south or north of forty-ninc de grees, if they wish to retire within their own territory. TUE CCMIII.III..ASD VALLEY RAILROAD BRIDOS. al Harlisburg, appears to be singularly unfortunate. We learn by the Reporter, that on Baturday,June 19, during the heavy gale of wind, one entire span of the Bridge was blown down, and the one adjoining it no much in jured, that it will be neceessary to remove it also. Not withioanding the many and serious reverses which the company have sustained, thel+ s ere still determined to prosecute the work, and confidently assert, that they will have the Bridge prepared fur transportation across the ri ver, by the first of December. Mu. Forrrta a Paosecers—The editor of the Penn. aylcania Repurter, soya, "that a recent absence for a few days in the Eastern section of the Slate, has satis fied us. that the prospect of the complete and final victo ry of the Democratic party at the fall election, and the election of Wst. B. FitaTca by an overwhelming majori ty, was never more flattering. • We did not see a single democrat who aid not speak of such a result as a matter of course, and even the whigs were forced to admit that with the entire strength of the Natives taken front their ranks, they stood no possible chance of success. -This, however, was but a whig boast, for that Mr. Foster will have a clear majority over both candidates we have not The slightest doubt. DEATH OF 1 MEMOSR OF Cosoncsa.—The Hon. Edward P. Herrick, Representative in Congress, of Rens selaer county, New York, departed this life at Washing ton on Sunday evening, June 20th, at 9 o'clock, after an illness of three days. He had been member of the Legislature, and took his seat in Congress for the first time, at the commencement of this session. He was, we believe, a farmer, but a man of talents and an influ ential member of the Whig:party, to which he belong ed, though highly respected by those who dilfertd from him in politics. (0' Altered ss's on the Lancuatcr Bank, altered from a broken note on some Eastern Bank, are in circulation in the lower part of the State. Nens.arAit PLATT, of Nichols, was prostrated with paralyses on Sunday, June 13. We learn that be is slowly recovering. [Front the Hancock Eagle, Extra.) Resumption of Hostilities in havoc. Scarce twenty-four hours had elapsed after the issue of our paper containing the " Peace Proclamation," as it has peen styled, before in formation reached the city that preparations were being made for a demonstration upon Nauvoo, and that an armed invasion might be expected in a few days, On Tuesday, as many of the remaining Mor mons as rout I get any conveyance, began push ing to the river. Many of these families are without the means of of subsistecce for a week. and we overheard an application which wa s made (or flour enough to last a single day. In the afternoon the New .Citizens met at the budding formerly known as the Seventies Hall, and after a protracted session, passed several reso lutions the object of which was to conciliate the hostile party and induce them to abandon their design of invading the city. Several members of the Anti-Mormon party were present. The meeting ahjourned under conisderable excite ment, which was increased by the information that armed bands were upon the prairies and the arrival of several person who were ejected from their homes and driven tit by the " Re;:tlators." Lynching has commenced in good earnest. A correspondent, whose statement can be implicit ly relied upon. and who was present at some of the scenes described sends us the following par ticulars : On Sunday last about sixty armed and mounted men came into this place, (Macedo nia) and threatened some three or lour f..milie as they valued their lives, to decamp instantly. They then called open a man by the name of Fabum, and instructed him to carry a •• warn ing" to his brother. He declined being .the bearer of the message. and was threatened with flagellation. They left hum with a promise to return; and sureenntigh, on Monday,morn ing, they held a council of war, and sentenced him to twenty lashes, well laid on with a hick ory goad. He was forthwith marched to the public square, and received fifteen of them. five having been remitted in consequence of his sufferings. The company was mostly from the northwest corner of the county.— They passed through La Harps, warning all obnoxious persons, and on arriving at White's settlement. barbarously mangled a man named Taylor. They supplied themselves with ne cessaries from the cellars, corn cribs and whis key barrels of their neighbors, and took up their march westward, after giving three cheers, which were reverberated from one empty house to another. Their course was charac terized by the greatest cruel !, and sever! sick and infirm persons are threatened if they do not leave instantly. This they cannot do, and they must stand the consequences. Fa bum, who was lashed su is not a amnion and never was one. After whipping him, they wanted him to join their party, which he in dignantly refused to do. A femole, residing in the the eastern part of the county, was scourged •• until the blood ran off her heels." [This is the language of our informant. We know not the provocation which led to the in• tliction of the chastisement.] A mormon who has been Irving to sell his property, worth $5OO, has been visited by a force, who com pelled him to take $lOO for it and leave. Ile seems satisfied that he got off as well as he did." Later Intelligence from the Army ! Col. ffileonfor Reonosa—.Brista's Proclama tion to Gen. Taylor—Strength of the Mexi can Amy—Another Battle Expected. The following comprises all the news which has reached us since our last, by the arrival at Mobile of the U. S. scooner Wolcott, and of the steamer Galveston, at New Orleans. It will be found to be important as well as interesting : General Taylor was at Matamoros waiting for reinfOrcements to march on Monterey. Seven hundred and fifty men were stationed at Barita live hundred at Point Isahel, and the remainder with the General at Matainoras—making in all, atatitll nine thousand strung. The Mexican forees were b e tween Matamoras and Monterey. for the purpose of repelling Gen. Taylor's advance. Report estimates them to be 15,000, but this umber is supposed to be exaggerated. The general impression was that they would make a stand there, and, if defeated, the war would be ended. The squadron is dispersed about the mouths of the different rivers, viz : the St. Mary's, off Tampico ; frigates Raritan and Mississippi, off Vera Cruz ; brig Lawrence. off Rio Grande ; ig Somers, off Alvarado ; the frigates Cumber land and Potomac, sloops John Adams and Fal mouth, gone to Pensacola for provisions and water. Tfie brig Porpoise to St. Domingqwith a special messenger on board. Schooner Flirt left Rio Grande on the evening of the sth for Vera Cruz with purser Watson on board, bear ing despatches to the senior officers in command then off Vera Cruz. From 50 to 60 sail inside the har off Rio Grande and Brazos St. Figo.— : The Lawrence went to sea on the evening of the sth, on a cruise for ten days, at the expira tion of which she was expected to return 'to Pensacola. It is supposed she will be ordered north for repairs, having suffered from the ef fects of a gale on the 30th of May, and having been in commission over three years. ARRIVAL OF THE CALVES VON. The steamer Galveston was below at New Orleans on the 12tIvinst., having met with an accident to her whees, and reached the city on the 13th. The Galveston had on board Major Belt, Lieut. Hoot., and a • number of officers and men wounded in the last actions, and 108 par sang,ers besides. The Galveston lef: Brazos Santiago at noon on the Bth inst., and Galveston the evening of the 10th. The army wa. , about moving up the river to take the small towns on the right bank. The following additional particulars received by the. Galveston me rather important : FIRST SIoVEIINNT Or INVASION Of MEXICO. ••-•On Saturday the 7th instant, Lteut, Colonel Wi'son left Matamoras for Romosa, making the first movement towards the invasion of Mexico by the American army. Col. Wilson has a corn ?nand of live hundred strong. Pour companies of the lst regiment of infan try, under the respective commands of Major Abercrombie, Copts, Miller, Bachus, and La Moue; Capt. Pierce's company of Texan Ran ders. with section of Lieut. Bragg's battery, un der Fleets. Thomson and Johnstone, and a com pany of Alabama volunteers under Gen. Cesha, form the:ummand. This movement is highly interesting, because it opens the ball of carrying the war into the en emy's country. Reinose is a small town on the Rio Grande, sixty miles from Matamoras, and containing about one thousand inhabitants. It ispresumed that Col. Wilson and the brave sol (lifts under him, will take it without a blow,— at 'least the soldiers fear that such will be the Case. The volunteers are in good health and spirits —very few cases of sickness. It is rumored that Gen. Arista has sent.i proclamation to Gen. Tay lor. ordering him to leave Matamoras within a given time, or he should he obliged to come down from Monterey and chastise him for remaining on the west side of the Rio Grande. By the Galveston, the Picayune has received Galveston papervto the 10th inst. They bring up the news from the Rio Grande to the latest dates. and will be found interesting. We regret to say that Gov. 13utler of South Carolina. reached here in a very low state of health. but we are in hopes that a few days of quiet and repose will bring him up speedily. Volunteers have at last began to pour into Galveston freely. From the News of the 9th lost., we copy the follom ini A full company, under Capt. Arnold, arrived by the steamer Samuel M. Williams, on the sth inst. They are from Nacogdoches, and carry a standard with the words •• Old Nacogdoches" on it. A company from Jlsper and Jefferson coun ties arrived from 'Sabine, by water, last Satur day the 6th, commanded by Capt. Cheshire, who was in the bsttle of San Jacinto. These have also been received,, and left for Point Isa bel on the schooner Testa, Capt. Frisk, this morning. By this arrival, we have received the first two numbers of the Republic of the Rio Grande and Friend cf the People." The first number is dated June Ist, and the second June 8111.— The motto of the paper is, " Fear not—the brave and generous soldier it only to be dreaded in the held of battle." The leading articles are printed both in English and Spanish. The purpose is to convince the people of Ta maulipas, Coahuila, New Leon and Chihuahua, of the futility of resisting American arms, and to throw. upon the administration of Paredes the responstbdity of the war. A separation of the departments named above from the Central Go vernment of Mexico is the distinct aim of this new paper. We have not room for one of i ts leaders" to-day, but cull a few news items," as follows : 1110V1F.:11ENTS OF THE ENENY,--A traveller from Tampico met a government carrier be tween that place and Victor], about ten days ago. hunting fot the Mexican army, for whom he bore orders, he said, to retreat . upon Tampico. This would seem to indicate that the govern ment consider the day as definitely lost in this quarter, or were unable to reinforce their army sufficiently to enable it to stand another battle, and Were collecting its fragments for the defence. of Vera Cruz. The port of Tampico was not blockaded, he states, as vessels were entering and departing though an American sloop of war—the St. Ma ry's—was in eight. Mr. Cchatzell and the other Americans, who were su rudely driven from Nlatamoras by A inpudia, had reachad Tam pico in safety, though shaken in health by their 'breed journey of three hundred miles. They took shipping on the 23d ult. for this place, where they may be hourly expected. Arista's retreat will doubtless continue to the mountains. After losing the clay with five to one at Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma. it is not likely that he will make another stand on the plains. Gen. Taylor takes the field with so overwhelming a force and so admirably equipped in that tarrible arm, the light artillery, that it would be madness in the enemy to fight again, where defeat would be certain and re treat impossible. Monterey is the first position of any natural strength. and it also commands the entrance of the mountain pass to Saltillo.— It is there, in all probability, that Arista will make his great offset, which the importance of the object, his wounded pride, and the advan tages of the ground. will all conspire to take a brilliant, but a blOody day in the history of this war. We undetstand that Canales is at Olmitus Rancho, five leagues on this side of Reonosa, le vying contributions upon the people, and plun dering them of all their mules and other movea ble property. He has closed the road and in tercepts all communication from this direction, treating all those who are suspected of coming from this place with the greatest harshness. From a letter in the New Orleans Delta. dat ed June 7, we make the following extracts : General Canales, with his eighteen hundred cavalry, has fallen back, and is entrenched at Rennosa. A brush may therefore he looked fot petween him snd the command of Lieut. Col. Wi on. It is rumored herr that General Scott and Wool are ordered to Mexico ; this intelligence doe. not meet with the same favor. On Thursday, the Ricardo Rangers were sent out on a scout, after some armed Mexicans, who were discovered prowling about in the vicinity of the Andrew Jackson camp. They returned without finding them, but on their march they discovered, through information furnished by a Mexican, a lot of arms, swords, pistols, ect., concealed in a Ranchero's house, about five miles from camp. These, as well as the posses sor, were captured by them, and brought into camp. The proceeds of the booty will be dis tributed among the captors. Sickness prevails to some extent throughout the volunteers, confined, however, to bowel com plaints chiefly; but no sign of fever. The water and green corn are the principal causes, MAJOR RINGGOLD'S EFFECTS.-A letter from New Orleans to the Charleston News says : The coat, boots, and complete uniform of the late Major Ringgold, with his holsters, hous ing and saddle bloody red." were sent to his friends atthaltimore in the brig Architect, Capt. Grey which Bleared for that post yesterday.— The boots had been cut from his feet ; and the front of the saddle was completely torn away. Front the judgment of a person in horses and riders I learn that Major Ringgold must have been standing in Isis Blimps giving orders, with body facing a little .to the left The hall, it is inferred, came from the rettfWihe left and pass ed in his front, shattering tfie thigh about Mid way. The Postsc.'pt of a letter from Point Isabel, dated June 7, says : Two men died in the Hospital here yesterday and day before ; the balance, with one or two ex deptiotr, are doing well. A, number of wounded departed for St. Joseph's yesterday. I saw Capt. Page a moment ago, and saw his wound dressed. He is out of danger, but has made a dreadful sacrifice to his con - ntry's honor. Col. Mclntosh is improving very much, and the oth er wounded officers are doing very well. LOCUSTS.—This year is distinguished in the vicinity of Memphis, Tennessee, by the ap pearance of countless millions oflocesis, which have been visible for some days, making a ire mendous noise in the forests like the rontutu• ous roll of thousands of drums. How larYe a district of country they now infest in this vicin ity is impossible to tell ; we have heard how ever, that they extend, at least. from the up per counties of Mississippi to Jackson county. Tenn., north of Memphis, an area of nearly fifty miles. The locusts are said to be thirteen years' lo custs, having made their last appearance before this time in 1833, when the cholera was prev alent on the Mississippi. They were then said to have the letter C" plainly marked on their wings, the iuitial of the great scourge of nations. Science, however, must be skepti cal as to this fact without more testiniony than that derived fromsuperstitious rumor. I send you enclosed herewith, several wings plucked from locusts in Court-house Square in Meni bps, which plainly show the letter •• W." the initial of dread war, on the extremity of their outer wings, each locust having two pair of wings.' Had some savant of 1833 had the precaution to preserve wings at that time, we could not doubt about the initial they bare. As far as I can learn the natural history of these mysterious insects, they come out of the earth, every thirteenth rear, mount the trees, the tallest they can tind, raise the stunning cry. which only two events have power to inter mit, a shower of rain or nightfall, and then their countless millions become a prey to death after a very few days. Before their decease they deposit eggs in the branches of the trees which, being warmed by the summer's sun, become worms, fall to the earth, and hide in its bosom, for thirteen long years. %V hat is their mode of life when thus inurned, or through what changes they pass in a crysalis state, un til.they come out of the earth the full grown strong-winged, and loud-mouthed war-locust —none can tell. - The facts are certain that none come out of the earth where there were no trees or forests thirteen years ago, and where those forests stood then, if replaced by streets, roads, or gardens now, tip they will come in their bannered array. The holes which they bore for admission into daylight are about the size of musket balls, and I have sounded them with my cane more than a foot in depth. Who cycles the year for them, and gives them note of time iii the subterranean abode, none can tell but their Maker. No obstacles can impede their passage up wards. not even a brick paved yard—they have perforated brick in' the city of Memphis. They are from one to two inches in length, about the size and shape of the largest mead ow bees in New England, and of a brown or snuff color, with red, porcelain-like, prominent eyes. They have done no damage to the fo liage of the trees; they live on song, and as their mission of procreation finishes itself, they drop dead front the trees, the ground being al ready covered with their dead.—N. F Jour nal of Commerce. •Our correspondent has sent us six wings, and the V is plain them than all. SERIOUS RAILROAD ACCIDESIT.—We learn ed yesterday from a passenger from Baltimore, that a serious accident occurred on Friday even ing on the raoad. between Cumberland and Baltimore, about 35 miles from Cumberland. The locomotive ran over a cow on the track, by which it was thrown off, with one of the passenger cars,,which was very much shatter. ed. Two passengers were injured, one an el derly gentleman, whose !mine is unknown, slightly, and the other. J. C. Dodge, of Bos ton. received a deep cut in hie- head. The ac. cident is attributed to the negligence of the en gineer, and a statement to that effect, we learn was about to be drawn up by the passengers. (Correspondence of the Public Ledger.) Auto from Santa Fe. lapwing, Jane 26-8 o'clock, P. M. An extra fYom the office of the Lexington Express, received by the Southern mail, brings important intelligence from Santa Fe. It states that Mr. Houck had arrived at Independence, Missouri. from Santa Fe, having made the trip in twenty days. He is said to have brought intelligence that the authorities at Santa Fe were fortifying that city. In addition to 2000 men then under arms, the Governor had made a requisition for 5000 more from Chihuahua. Every third man in Santa Fe and vicinity was to be drafted to bear arms in its delence, and provisions were being laid in as preparation for. a siege. Mr. Houck, it is added, expresses the opt' : ion th . at.Col Kearney ought not to take less than five hundred men on. his expedition against New Mexico. The St. Louis Era, of the 18th, says that a number of wagons, loaded with provisions and ammunition. have already started on their way across the prairies Col Kearney intends to, send them ahead as last as he can get them. More than two hundred dragoons have taken up' their line of march, The volunteers are at Fort Leavenworth, are going through daily drills and exercises. un der the direction of the regular officers of the army, and are said to be improving rapidly. The Indian volunteers have been mustered into the service, and also thirty companies of Illinois volunteers. How IT WAS DONE.—The Committee ap pointed to investigate the charges made by Mr. Ingersoll against Mr. Webster, rendered a verdict" not guilty." By what means they were enabled to come to this conclusion,—we learn something by the following extract of a letter to the Pennsylvanian. dated WASHINGTON, June 9th, 1846. The long expected and much concocted Re ,.iort of the so called Webster Special Commit tee, was ma4e in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. It seems that Mr. Pettit's refus ing to serve without the clerk, which the House refused to allow, and his consequent resignation, devolved the chairmanship of the Committee on Vinton, an old member from Ohio, but a Massachusetts man by birth and by nature, whose first move in the Committee is said to have been to limit the enquiry. Tt.e Committee kept all their proceedings secret, we . learß, so that Mr. Ingersoll not only was not called to substantiate his charges, but not allowed to know what was going on. Instead of that Mr. Tyler was sect for from the South and F. 0..1. Smith from the East, and examined as witnesses of course for Mr. We„bster. Mr. Tyler was one of the Senate committee once, which cleansed the Bank of the United States, he was excellent witness therefore for Mr. Webster, and the small piece of his testimony, speaks fur him. The majority of the Committee reported that the pap&s ought to be sealed up and kept se cret. Will the house sanction that! %VIII the people submit to it ? Mr. Brinkerhoff, at all evertts, by his manly Minority Wynn, discloses enough to let the country .see that every one of Mr. In , rersoll's charges is supported by ahuittiatit proof. FATAL Accuagyr.—At Rochester, N. Y ~ on Friday. during a thunder storm, the school house No. 9 Parker street, was unroofed, and the chimnies and gable end were driven into the ro a m occupied by the female department containing one hundred children, under charge of Miss Gould. The brick and timbers fell in all parts of the school, wounding almost every pupil in it, but killing none. The following is given as a list of their names as far as had been ascertained . ; Daughter ni Win. Wallace. leg broken ; Son of Win. Finley, badly bruised ; Philip Prior two; Patrick Fleming one; Richard Story, two; Joseph Cochrane, two; Patrick Anderson, two (one badly ;) James Buckley, two (one badly ;) Charles Buckley. one; Messrs. Doyle, McDonald, Chaffey, Doulan,Sheahan, Burns, Caton, Morrow.Kief er, Costigan and Davis, each one; Messrs. Bishop and Somerville. each two. The whole number of children reported to be injured is 34, alt but three or four, it is believed will re cover. Miss Gould greatly exerted herself in extricating the little sufferers, many of whom had crawled under the desks and benches when the crash was first heard. The boys' depart ment was hut slightly injured in the roof, and no one was hurt. Masses of the roof were carried 200 yards, and the heaviest portion twenty or thirty feet. HURRICANE IN BUCKS CouNTv.—Bucks co unty was visited on St>turday afternoon last by a hurricane which did much mischief, com ing from. the north-west. shifting suddenly to the north and north-north-east, and then again to the northwest from which point it continued to blow with great violence for about ten mi nutes. In Lower Makefield Township, Mr. W m Wharton had several fine apple trees blown down, and a large portion of fence levelled. Several other farmers in this township sustain ed considerable less in damage to frost trees. fences, &c. On the farm of Mr. Joel Mason, a pear, an apple and a Chesnut tree were blown down—the latter taken up completely by the roots. The pear tree, a very large one, loaded with fruit, was situated only about ten yards fron Mr. M's house, and was soaped asun der about six feet from its base. In its fall, one of his ehildi 2 en narrowly escaped being crushed. The gust was so sudden and violent, that persons in exposed situations could not keep their feet. Several parties of haymakers were surprised by the hurricane in the midst of their labors-their wagons were overturn ed, and persons on them made narrow escapes. herever a door or window was left open, the furniture was cast with_ violence against the walls, & carpets torn from the floors.—Ledger. CONSISTENCY.—" ire can do our own voting and our own fighting." This the lan guage of Native Americanism. But profess ions are not always carried out in practice.— One of the editors of the St. Louis American, a Native paper, who belonged to the "St. Louis Grays," when called into actual ser vice induced an Irishman to take his place in the carps as - a substitute ! There are, we apprehend, a good many political natives, who, if the day of trial come, would he willing to let Irishmen "do their fighting,."—.llb. Eve. Jour. WHAT NEXT ?—Gen. Morris's " Wood man., spare that tree," has been quoted entire in the British Parliament ! Tne subject which called it up was the Old British Constitution and the orator was a Mr. Cayley. There must have been a most plentiful amount of nose blowing on the occasion. STOLEN MONEY FOUND.—.A letter f t , Portland, Maine, published in the New li n :, Herald, gives the following curious intelligetC", upon a subject which has caused consid era b le excitement in that place, by a report of inoy. ey having been found buried on a hill, b a ,, of the city : The story is, and suppose it to be correct, that two boys were playing on the b i ll 141 Sabbath, and discovered a stake driven in the ground some distance. They attetopid pull it up, but as there appeared to be soa r thing at the bottom of it, their curiosity IN excited, and they dug down till a chest, "keg ei box, was discovered, which on opening, wa , found to contain about 811,000 in go le and silver. It is supposed to be a part of the rim e . ev stolen from the Cumberland Bank, in place, some 18 or 20 years ago---or, money which had been buried there by pirates or (Ai,. er villains. The story of the Bank robbery is this. A man who was about the ,Bank considerable, named Manly, formed the determination tot,: hove the vault of its weighty responsibility, and as he coulu not well do it alone, he trusted his plan to another man named R ot h . ... Th e ni g ht was filed upon, and every prem., lion made to carry their plans into effect—. 4: Roth, when the night came, backed out, Of attempted to, saying that he had rathe r di nothing about it. Manly thereupon threatez ed to kill hint if he refused, and held a pis:,. to his breast, till he consented to go, 'fa- Bank was opened by false keys, and m „, thousand dollars removed—all : there was la ' : at any rate, and the country was scoured 14 every direction in search of the lost .rhino. Much of it was found, and still no one suspected. Manly came down to the 11, 1 ,, the succeeding morning, as bold as anv 0 , and made the observation—.• Upon ray that was a manly trick." At length,ihrot t; the fear manifested, and strange conduc t , : Roth, lie was suspected, charged with the ire.. bery. and roniessed it at once ; but would IN tell who was his accomplice. He also IIIiOTEU. ed where most of the money was buried; b,t . Manley, had the precaution to remove largest deposit, and, of course, it wtts found. As Roth came down, the hill with officers, under the arrest, he asked permits. to step into the hollow by the side of the for a spectfic purpose, which was grantee_ W Nile there, he placed a pistol to his own: k and ',w brains out ! Front some •: snot by bun, .Nlanly was apprehended, con% ed, and sent to prison for a term of year. year or two after his imprisonment exp.: he died with the small pax—he being the,i, man who had it at the time. It is SW?), that the money was buried near the holn on the hill, and in digging fur it, that he a have caught the infection from some of the ies which are there buried, of which he This, however, may, be only surnnee. the belief tends, and such is the story pine ent to that vicinity. MR. CATLIN'S COLLRCTION.—Mr. Ce now to Parts, has trait-mttted a tumor, Congress, offering.% at a very reason:o.le to our .go veytment, the tv hole of hi, 3 ,;, r , tile collection of korai" Portraits and V,es Scenes and Customs among more I;i3ri tribes of our A hori , i flee. Tile a wonderful result .of intlefamiabl ,, 1,60 r artistic genius. has been much aanort,' at anti :throat!. it is now in the Losers by request of the King of the rrrw. unless poi - chased by our Covet-11mPa: 1; prubshly heroine the property of ft, or some other European nation. The tons desire of the artist is that 0. should u, to his own country. 'Had he the nlrs; i hying, he remarks in a recent letter, he ttt. far prefer presenting it to his nn n Govern. than to sell it to any other. It 1, very properly by the Intelhi!eneer, tilt;' Government purchase it to preserve it la a' country as a tine memorial of a race now 1.1 ing,away.—Ledger. PREACHING AND PIGHTING, -- The ington correspondent of a New York writes the following!:— •• Rev. Henry Slicer, of the Methodm L' copal Church, preached for the [Lhami volumeers'at the Marine Barracks to-d.++ . he exhorted them like One of the patron! , the Revolution. He exhorted them N like men, and to beware', above all the;• being shot in the back. He said it ‘ia. e . ins principle of christianity, to be ready up, life or death, for our countrt. fir been himself a soldier, and through p.;;;;! vigor 01 youth, he felt as strong tieWe one again. The man who wont net :t for his country was hardy to he mue,: • chances of saving his own soul. 1;1 boys" said he spoke like a look." CASTLE OF SAN Ju/o; D'ULLoA.— certainly a singular fact, says the New Courier & Ennuirk.r the stone of fOrIIIiCAIIOII IS -now constructed was 0-; Crum one of the quarries air.ong the 11 , 0 , on the Hudson. A large number guns, some of them Paixhans, htve mounted ; a force of shout 3000 men Is .! competent and skilful English and engineers have the direction of the c‘'' and the whole is under the command et Brava, one of the ablest and bravest gev in the Mexican service. - The President of the Unded Stales,' the United States Gazette, h4s a perfecff• of the castle, with all its appendages , ''d" ll ' floating batteries. &c., furnished to kiwi ° an American officer for him, by the rro gineer that superintended the work fur !! co. SMALL BUSINESS.—The wing miaow the Connecticut Legislature made an eV. censure President PoLk. for his'iourse gard to the Mexican affairs, and Mexicans in their invasion of our terr:. we presume. Their resolution was 40 ! and these a s, , entlemen finding it would be v , down, and not wishing it to be se recorP left the House without a quorum. Tb' s say the least, a very small bustness —an ;, feel proud to say that it did not suet eed. „ is a democratic majority in both houses Connecticut Legislature. whieh o the passage of all such Anti-American rte* tions.—Dem. Press. Exer.ostor.;.—The Thomaston', 3l3o zette states that the Powder Mill at Maine, was blown up on Friday. the The accident ocurred after' the WorO 1 c: 1 left, consequently no person was inpro t l ,,. explosion, but we learn that cnsideral,': was broken in the immediate vicinity. port was heard, and the shock felt, nianv distant. At Union, the flash was seconds before the report was heard. titnated at $lOOO.