MretOforb eporter. Free Soh., Free Speech, free Men! Arrihrains fir APPr, ry Terrnersi. - • t. 0. GOODRICH, EDITOR. .... _„.. Towanda, Saturday, November 16, ls''o. Teries . oft tit Ilsperter. 82 10 per :menet : i( yelerf . orotero the Irrer SD wdl be dedoeleal , for rash prod oetually in advant t., 81 00 will be dedoeted„ • A rovatrnocar:cra. err milliner nf• ten Fiore. 311 erne For the 16 r i. and ?a rent* tot rotra roolorrporno lie•critern. UT'fhfiee m the rn on It north *Or of the Stomm. aril door In the Itend.ant Marl, Entrance Ll...atria llemers. Attain.' and I:lscrirr law offiera. Not it Ihan—bni Fair IVirslog I We shall nest week mail to our Anl.siribers whq are over rim ye irs in arrairi, whivh will, we trust meet with due MI riattoti. We oath d some time tan, that inch would he the course we should adopt, instead ofdunning indiscriminately, for the reason we did not wish In I hup those who err punctual. *and we have an idal that two Jmrs is long enough for any one to take a paper without ming for it. These-bills will be made out to the fiist of neatl and we 14iall exiwet that some attention will be paid in them ~11.1 every ease where there is no notice taken of them, we skill strike the mine from our Goa!, and -take immediate steps to see whether we are }o have anything for our labor or not. Such a course becomes imperatively neces sary—fiir if any subscriber who allows his account to run for years without settlement ; think+ tie is a benefit to a newspaper, he is under a great mistake —his patronage is a burden, and the quicker it is dispensed with the better. If payment is made by the tat of January, we will deduct fiotn the bill 4 50 cents a year, or If obliged to collect we shall hovellie whole amount. We shall do this wi:h reluctance, 6nt under a sense that a paper that is worth taking should be paid for, mid we are not able to print a paper gratnitouidy.— If any one offended by our asking for remunera tion, he had better pay up, and stop his pver,—lic is at libery so to do. The Elections. Nrw Your.—The official - returns make the elec tian of WASHINGTON. 11CNT,AS (;ovemor, certain by about 100- majority The Congressman elect ed stand )18 Whigs, and 16 Democrats. The Le gislature 'will be strongly Whig., which will ensure the election of a iVhig U. S Senanir, in place of D. S. DICK iNFON." Free schools hare carried by a layge•majori'y. thssAcirusu - rrs.—T'here is no choice by the peo ple for Governor, and the erection will dextrlve upon the Senate, which is unanuhteilly DeniOera tic,-as is the lionse—ihis result being brought about by a coalition of Free Boilers and Democrats, in opposition to :be IVebster party. We are gratified, in view of the Circurristances, to announce the triutnpliant re election of lloince MANN, in the F:ighth Congres•ionat District. Mr MANN wig thrown ores board by theWeb-ter once, at thc''•Regnlar' Whig Convention, but as an Independent has now a majority over all opposition No choice in rAII.I(ILI'i • DELAWARE. —llt is believed that the Demoera's have carried thi4 State, electing their Governor and member of Corrgres., by alrou,t 120 mi,j nity. Thanksglvlng In Pennsylw•nla. Governor Julincon ha. appointed Tlinrsday, the 12th day of Deveniber next, as a day of thatikspa ing: thrOn,:,hout the The following is hid proelarna ion : " Another revolution of the FeaKyns has been al most completed. Peace with all nations has been vouchsafed to our country by theSiipreme Disperr: see of National blessings A beneficent Providence has continued his guaiiliin care ()retitle people of 'rains Commonwealth. Ile has preserved us, under the ine:ittitions of free gorrrnment. in the gmetprra undisturbed enjoyment of civil and religiou.sbity. He has favored with healthful &waist - walnut abun dant harvest. laid V 1.1 ual happiiiess'reivards the irtrerprise of the citizen ; " The earth is full of the amino as of the LOr s il." the inestimable bounties of Providenc,e-fiimishe j i a Suitable subject tor mewl gratulation and .rrateful acknowledg ment, 'art enlezhiened sense of " duty arid gratitude to that Being horn is horn they IliivrAiailmunishes us to unite as one People, in offering up the hibute of fervent thanksgiving and praises to " Him who *inches over the destinies of nations," "who hearts: ofthe children of men," " who Lath prepared His Thmne the Heavens, and whose kingdom ruleth over all." Deeply impressed with the propriety of this duty, in accordance with a venerated . custom, and in compliance with the wishes oPihe great' body of the people, I, WlMani F Johnston. Governor of the said Commonwealth, do hereby appoint and ie Thursday. the 12th day of December next, as a day of general thanksg.iving throughout the State, and I hereby cf . commend and earnestly isrvite all the good people of this Commonwealth, to a sin cere and prayedul observance of the same:' HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MA9IZINE.—The No vember number of this excellent' monthly, closed the first volume. The ties' proof`of its well meri ted popularity will be found in the fact that at the expiration of the sixth month from the time °t its annotincement,it has an issue of fifty thousand Co. pies. The publishers, however, not satisfied with what they have already done for the work, pro mise that they will hive still greater care bestowed upon every department of the magazine. The work is one we can commend to the' itteution of oar readers. Ina ARCTIC Excentriox.—The piece Jig' rope found at Prnt Riley, turned out to have belonged to Sir John Franklin's party : The lnndoit Daily News, on competent authority, says " there can be no doubt that Sir John Franklin has passed up W 4 lington inlet i<iliat his ships are probably frozen in there; and that the encampment at- Point Riley was formed by a detachment sent le be on the lookout * tor vasseli, who returned to their .ships when their provisions were exhausted or when the winter set in." New Yorte AND Eine RAILWAY —The Sullivan •r. Whig is creditably informed that the Nev Yorti 'f:rie R.uilroatl Company purpose to tun a single• track through the interior r f Sullivan County, *lead of layng a double track along the Delaware jiver, provided the people of Sullivan whit* it, awl are willing to oiler suitable eucournippent, and r,140 that the IP7i.l3 , ere trill grant the 11; 5 . tt...;.. • o=3 In ihis borough on Wednesday evening allot week, a huge lead evicted shawl. • The fiteler by leaving it at ibis °Mee will be Puibbly rewarded. • Off- Theyipinot der a Pte hint orihe Mary• ' , land Reform •Convit4ne. Visiitees balms' have been had. On the lasi ballot, the Whig candidate bad .1111, the Demecnine candidate, (General Haar. 4RID) 4e, awl the hidepeadetit Candidate 2. ISTe cem,ary it, a choke, SI _ , Accrue:at —Three men were buried by the fall of a bank of earth, on filltaril's section. on Tues• lay last. They a ere speedily extrieateil and tor. Innately all escaped with - life, dough severely b jilted. • Dr. J. N. STAINER, well known 10 our citizens flied a few days Pince, at Nuncy. Pa. by an apoplec tic stroke. is hie was insured in the Penn Igo iiial Co. for the hari&oise rum of .5-1000. t.t.,-We hail no idea ofincurring the ire of the valiant editor of the If yoming. Cernon•al, by nor al- Ingliar to black-mad. IVe didn't suppose he , WIII abnve bus.ineev, and thought we pointed out a fine cha ce for him to pnrket annthet $l5O, at Imo. 0;:ir- G. W. HAMERPLY has been appointed Poor masier at LancaSte!, Pa. A Am(' —Our reporter saw yesterday a Piker watch that was taken from the wreck of the Ten nessee. which boat murk in the Mississippi on the night of the Bth of February 1827—nearly 27 ypiur, a.m. Many remember the gloom which that dread ful catastrophe spread through the comity at the time. and it was the meaireof first awaking C on greets to give attention to the security of western *navigation. It was a dark n:ght, _and at the hour of about nine o'clock, the boat wrack a snag which penetrated the hull;und fmm ii, she drift. eifto where the water was some 40 feet deep, and sunk to the bottom—but two or three being saved to tell the story. For several years etrorts were made to field the precise point that she sunk, tut it was only about tco years ago that d was disco vered. Mr. M A. Mathias, with a diving bell, ard the usual attendant means, cut his way through vast masses of accumulated sediment, and finally got into the old wreck, from which consittetabfe property was recovered. The watch to which we refer was found in the berth along with the bones of a man, and the ,dial indicates near abott the lime that the boat went down. The steel works are corroded and gone to decay. but the brass and silver retain their shape and surface Commercial. Od. 26 Tor POWDF.II MILL EXPLIASION AT CAMDEN Mc —The Portland Advertiser contains a detailed ar count of the recent explosion of the powder mill of sweet & Co., at Camden, Me. it appears that Mr. James W. IValker, Elijah Loveland, anti Al exander Hopkins, were at work reran ing the pies' ; when a large cross bar fell to the ground, striking a large !stone xhich supported the refs. A spark was igeited, which ignited the line powder and dust Abut he press, and communicated to a large quantity of dry powder in the building,. This ex ploded with a report heard for slveral miles, blow. ing The building to atoms. The magazine, a few rods hum the mill, containing 225 casks ol powder then exploded, tue concussion teing fen at sixty miles distant. All the hnildnigs for a quarter of a n.ile round were more or loss injured, some .being near y destroyed. Of the mill anti magazine with the exception of a few pieces of timber, there is not a vestige to be found larger than a man's hand Stones weighing two lons, were thrown to a dt-tance of fifty rods. Hopkins anti Loveland were instantly killed : Wa'ker lived long enough to give an-amount of the accident, but soon after died —Bost.' Trtir , 4th. ENTERPRISING Loy cst..-51r. llenry Wheeler of theene county, and Dlinerva Steeley, of 51arctis sin co, 111., wanted to get monied, but their trienns did ,it want them to They drove forty-five miles to Alton, to order to escape this difficulty, but when they got there found that the law sternly required a lieen-e, which could only be had from the Coun ty Clerk, who resided in sandier town. Not .41'11 , - cm:waged, they engaged a parson and jumped into a skill, and were rowed over to a small bar in the river, directly opposite to Alton, w.here shortly af ter sunrise. ire the State of Missal - li. surrounded by water ; erviiely iss hoed from the world and the " rest of mortician," but in sight of the whole city, :hey solmnly plight td their troth. They returned in a few minus to the shore, where they were welcomedyifb cheers by the assembled people. • LICATION T 3 A CANDIDATE.—We find in the any Dutchman an account' of the pleasures of being a candidate, which may be useful to future aspirants for public glories. The Nachman says —That Pince last Saturday, seventy seven different 'men called upon a candidate to go security for their rent—and re:narks of another, that within tha last five days 319 patriots in depressed circumstances hate called on him to effect a small loan, " just to take op a note with." The same paper is ol opi- Rion that the man who accepts summation indent illitrict should immediately afterward open an alrhs-house, fir a large portion of his constituents will expeci to live out ol his bounty for the remain der of their lives. It adds this recommendation to Candidates to take its advice and ionhw g"char. ter the horse-boat anti gait the State till after the polls Ouse." WAIIITINGTON'S WATCII.—A dew nights Finer, a watch was sold at the aoction room of Messrs. Cooley, Keese Si Co., which is said to have once belonged to General Washington. There areu num ber of well attested documents which veiify the genuineness of the character given to :he time piece ; bat the conditions of ibe sale• restricted the purchaser to a private perusal of the same. The watchis massive--of silver—and is richly chased. If wliat is claimed for it be authentic, it should be lone to the government. It was purchased by William E. Burton, the comedian. TII6 QUEEN dr larat.urn has been visiting Cie peasantLy and delighting her subjects by her con tle.cending manners. She lately went into the cot tage of an old woman who was smoking a pipe ; she brought the Queen a *cool, and bean to enter tain her royal visitor. On another occasion, the Queen went to another farm home, spoke ve freely to the "guile wife".and children, and final. ly took a t, dropout of the bottle" to the good health of the farmer and his tami*y. NAVIGATING VIC AIR —The Madrid papers state that a Spsni.h aeronaut, who boasts that be can guide hio'halloon against the wind, has been al lowee. fundia.by the Government for his undertaking, amid, on the 13th lust, was to ascend at .Madritl, whatever wind may blow, cross the Pyrenees, and over France, hovering especially over Bordeaux, and proceed to London, to receive from the Lug bah Government the reward offered to the man who shall discover the means of navigating the air in spite, of atmospheric currents. A Youth Scarrcucv.ro TO allt HUNG..--In Colum bus couniy, N C., week before last, Elisha Arnold, a hid .16 or 17 years of age, was.tried for the murder of Samuel Dyson, an eliterly man. He was con victed and sentenced to be hung sometime in No vember, but an appeal taken out on a point of law being allowed, the sentence will be suspended. At hol.' rhot Dyann without any ogler provocation than hiving been reproved for bad conduct. A Woarny Bartleu, Commissioner to determine the Mexican Boundary line, bass written to a gentlemen in Washington, enclosing 8409,50 a sum contributed by the members of the commis ftion as a tttn.ation in Mrs. Tennant, the vritto'v of tie late .Mr. John Tennant, MAGA AOCIDETIT AT Gamut —We have been fa vored by a correspondent at Gtetme, says the Che ming° ( N or w i ch) Vilma of the 6tb hut., with the par kulana of a sethts Stag e anr id en r, which orturrtit in dun village on the 30:6 ult. Ogilikasslaylitittieng, after tweadiltim,-Ille Stage retintoOmmininthatiatass to Owe. matted the Cheitaticia in'this village, with eight tor nine pansengetrii math sin ow a jai l t in driver. an d one whet who bait tai yr kit die di it Cr, to show where a lady passereger itap_ii tateia The in atieiviiiing to tun; his Stage to go into another sheet, in endeavoring to avoid lao la. dies who were crossing I with PG many on the seat With him, tamed Po short as to lappet the Stage under full anoint'. The fall was very severe. haside were Mf, Loak, the rapiers agent, who received a set upon the head, mail an injury tome hand ; Mrs. Chapman, mother of Nelson Chapman, of Oxford, who had line bone of her arm broken and some bruises, btu wassailer to go In her ma's at Oxford that day on the purket ; Mts. Gijbed, wile of Deacon Wheat, of Gelbertaville, who re eetred a cut on the head, and was considerably braised, but is dime. well, anal will soon be able to to to her friends ; Mrs. Downing, of Vestal, Broome enunty.:who at first appeared not to have received any injury, bat Anon showed tint loam the highl and rinirwwinn, her nervons sy.trint was allecteal, and she had lust all limn* ledge of a here she was Isom • She is now happily 'maimed to her reason, awl will 1141011 be able In pursue her journey. pier husband is here.. The alive( was retch injured, but is doirog, well , and will willwoon be nut. !Every attention was paid by the final host of the Chenauge House l and the eitineuA and physicians of the village, in the wants of the isajured The other pa-Amager/a, lhoui.,ll somewhat bruised, went on in the Stage. A Nrw SPECULASIOII.—The lIPIA ly invented steam diving bell butt.. built rerently at Paducah, hy.. is accomplishing wonders tut the Western: waters... Slie was built for the espies," purpose of rescuing proveity from sunken vessels, and soon alter being launched and [Repaired for lm.-mess, she Tiros-ceded l op the Cumberland river to the wreck of the Meanie? Ch: ries Cation, and in about three or lour weeks time the entiretcar,zo in the hull, con sisting of some 4boo barrels pork Hull lard, was 10. ken out, and finally ths hull *Mali was raised and removed from the ententel the river, in u Inch it had formelloa very serious obstruction. This even. sive job completed, she proceeded to the Ohio, here the machinery and boilers of a sunken boat were taken out. Thence she was bisected to the spot, a short fll4intlee below Cairo, where the reesm• cr Neptune sunk, thirty years ago, and with a dire oh lihy-live feet, a number of articles wets rescued, which were cousidered hopelessly lost. The iron' chest of the boat, containing sundry articles and a pocket book, filled with what were once hank notes, were among the contents of the chest, but they disappeared as soon as brought in contact with the stir, and fuelling remained but the calf .skin in hick they were enveloped . About ; five firunked pigft of lead in a good state of preservation, were Apo taken fora the Jeep, and a jar of butler, ileci• dedly the oldest now extant. The jar i 4 certainly a cu.iosity in its way, with the iiiiletitical saucer ou the month to preserve the commits from injury, and the r are of the shippers of this necessary ar ticle in those primitive days. Tux 111riamos —This most remarkable people. under their prophet Strang, hare made rust im p.oremenbi nit 11.-areal-land, in Lake 111u•higan.— •flrey nutnber about FIN hundred, and earh m an holds 40 to 160 acres of land as'ini everlasting in heritance. Beaver Islands hare the best inland fishery in the Union, and the best natural harbor no the lakes. Tiny hare two rail vessels of their own, and are building a w liar I fur passing steamers to stop at. Garden ,Island, six miles square. is one oldie tidiest and most beautiful island on the face of the earth. The Big Beaver is six by feu:teen miles in event Several beaudful, well timbered islands surround the Big Bearer; each about six miles square. We rate, lion ever, (hat have broken out among them. A enrresprinilein of the Cleveland (Ohio) Plawidealer says : Piler Adams, who is Mormon proarher and Tragedian by tams, had to flee fur his life, in rtni. sequilice of haring provoked the wrath .nf James E Strang. Quint the. prophets, who. it seems, AC:f, up his will as the supreme law. Strang is charged with robbirez the Gentiles, as he calls all who .lo not acknowledim his law, of provisioris and slOl other goods and chattels as the Saints retinue.— Adams promised to expose the winked practice of Strang and his followers. Strang has been arrest ed, taken to Mackinac, %%here he was tried and sentenced to six mouths' imprisonment in the coun t, j TOE NEW CONGRF.eIRMAN FROM COARLIRATOR.— The Chaileston Sun says Mal Mr. Aiken, the - uc. cessful ventilate to the thirty. semi Congre‘s, is as SOOo4 • lIIRUOMitioRI RA Mr. MICO, trllo 94:1 rftmall a cote. The defeat of Mr. Holmes, the .present member, however, by Mr. Aiken, merely because he vo'ed for the approptiations fur the Charleston Inc iheationr, whien the folks there think might p issibly be tun.etl against them by 'he Gen eral G t . wer ti rnew, le a ds the Natintial Inteligeneer to ask what they now send a member for at all.— If be is to rote fur nailing, he had as well stay at Immo. SENATOR Son .E i c:eching it strongly from the New (Means impers fir his 6'lk:elites speech on tetorn from Washingnin, in which he denomic ed Northern men residing in the South. and New Weans in particular, fur being under Northern in fluence. Ile said : "Gentlemen : I care very little for the opinion of this city. New Orleans is under Yankee influence —an influence which we runst get rid ol." The beauty of this sentiment is tie ninre strik ing from the but that Soule is a Frenchmen. by bit th. Destn ET .ORmvxmo.—A child abont three years of age, POtt of Mr. Jeltial Dayton, of Great 'lend, in t e ns county, was drowned by falling into a cistern of rater, on Sunday morning tom. The chili) hod been out-about an hour and a half when Mn. Dayton went out in search, and fitimil it dead in the cistern, with only about two feet of water This should be a worsting to all, to either hate their cisterns covered or curbed —Montrose De - mocral. Kr English papers received by the Asia. con f►rm the report that Are Rev. Henry W ilberforre, a son of the celebrated philanthropist, and brother of Samuel, the Bishop of Oxford, has joined the chinch of Rome, with his wife and children. lie was confirmed by the cardisal Archbishop of Mechlin, on Satunlay, the 23d of September, at Bolursclo. Mr. Wilberforce had been confirmed before the family left England. There was no re. bapti-ing. assurance having been given that the rite had been duly performed in the Church of England. THE WILL Or McDoanotrun THE ftl LuoNAtit g. —John MeCemitangla's will was read at New Or- leans on the 29th of October It gives $l,OOO and a house to his sr ter, Mrs Cole, of Baltimore, 925, 000 annually to the American Bible Society, and the bulk of his property amonnttng to over, $lO,OOO, 000, to New Orleaniand Baltimore, ror establishing schools and asylums for the poor. He bequeaths a large sum to the American Coloni7ation Society Seventeen executors appointed, including the fol lowing; Benj C Howard, John P. Kennedy, John C. Smith, Bnuitz Meyer and R. G.Gurley. INDIAN WAS to ARKANSAS—The Choctaw 'Mani gencer says war has broken not betweet. the Ton keyways & Wichetaws ,The Tonkeywaya are cannibals, and have roasted and eaten one of their antagonists. A• baffle °coated on the 20th Septem ber on or near a small stream called Rush creek, on the road from Washita to Fort Arbuckle. A Caddo Chief, states that the• Wichetaws had killed Toakeyvrar Indian, which wt; the occasion of th e fight. The ['mike:mays lost lire men beside• their wounded. Wturrst.t. iron Soismaner.—We, a day or two since, came in possession of what purported to be a singular trill, •which it is said has lately beenro. veil at Liverpool, England. The testator, a Cal. Daniels, it: seams was formerly a :sojanmet for The somata insteps, et New Buren, COUR. In his will*as the following claose : • , I.e -t-And now, baring no other neat relat l*e and fi s teridi who need my bequest, I give to a rennin bookseller in New Haven, Connecticut, in the Uni ted States of America, all my shares in the Batiks of LireMbot Eitgliutd, Duitfilett.Seotland, ammust. our. as will appear by the certificates in my pos session, and by the Bank books, to four thousand and sisty•two pounds. rnneury. to name of the aknesaid tegmee 1 do nor retriemWr, bet be krill/a bonketose south of the Tontine Hotel, and is a Lego kart or fire story block, made of brick. havoc: a batik in one of its divisions. And my reason Se this betinetit is that the said hookeet. ler showed me many marks of kintkiess anti coot wit; erei visited me dining a sickness of several days. He was a married man, a member of the Ettgl'oh rhawh, anti, it now about forty years of a2s, or more. " Corfirir—if the above bequest cannot be rem plied with, kw lark of proof, or by reason of the death of the Imatee.. I hereby direct my esectcrus to thritle the shnres etinally between the fire parties first named, in this my last will and testa- mein." SEACCTION AXD PUOFARLS young mw named Clunks F. !tangles, ,recently a hand on board the Perry, was stabbed last Thursday ereuitts. by Aim Sullivan, who says that he had seduced her under promise of marriage, mid then alxmilotted bet. She had for a lo.ig time end a vored to obtain an imerview a its him. which be hail refit-ed. On Thursday evening she stopped at the Alhambra. an eating house iii South Maine rtreel, and raHed him out. Site asked him to walk a tilt lier and he refused ; go; several refusals she turned 'upon him with a auk knife, five or 80. inches in,lettmn, and plunged it with great force into his ab domen, inflicting a anal-which is probably mor tal. The girl is about twenty years old, and has ma:tined an hottest reputtamm. The ate was corn mired under a maddening semis of wining. and shC h a s, its yet, manifested no rezret, and no fear ; except that her virtim might escape. He was to have sailed in the I/attic—Providence Antral/ See. 7th . AFSAELT i'IN REPIN ET or Tll r: "II {ltill.D. " —Tlsi‘ morning about 9 o'clock, James Gordon B•nnet, end John Graham, late opposition Canilidare for sactrict Attorney. met in Broadway near the corner of White F 4. Bennet w a s accomp a nied b• l eis wrfe, who ; however, hail just reeppeil into aA le Gra ham, who was accomp.inied by a te Merry. somewhat known as a "li4lainty, man," struck Ben net will' hie fist a he approiwltetk but the latter partially dodged the blow, which took effect cm his hat arid knot keil it all out of ?drape. : IVidi the second blaw Graham knocked Bennet rlOwn. afer which lie slitark bun sereval blows with his ti •t and a email whip he earnest at his baud. Bennet colleted most in the lace, Iris tirLse appearing very much swollen and bloody abet . the etworrutor.— These are the facts as related In CIA by several ey witnesses. There were a immtwr of spectator"- 'tiv the nutra:ze, but nn anemia was made in prevent il, and we believe that ap to this time. Mr. Graham has not been tuteracil.—Tribiore, Nor: '9. Tur. Ft.vtNG MulitNE ci;t.nni:o.—The Flying Machine of Capt. John.-Tagrzart, which scent up fmm Jer,ey City on leethierility la.•t, aithunt the Captau, haw becitibearsl loan, anJ it it ilestroyea. The particulais ate tha• relate,) in the Sufic)lk De linntit.gdon. Suffolk Co., N. V. It descended item the house of Jonathan Gilder sleeve. at Clay fate. The ear beeanio entangled in the knee slide the balloon gently swayed with the n Ind above it. A huge opening was made in the balloon to permit the air to est ape: but one of the ladies approarLeil the balloon with a lighted candle, when the nittimmaible gee took lite, and a violent eeplossun Immediately tolluned, down the whole patty and burning two young men seiretely on the lace and halide. The ladiee es raped with very slight injuries. The balloon was to - pieees, and enkindled into a blaze at the e.atl/Clna. f.\r't7 r ervt to Missr‘sirct.—Serritior Fiiolr iwarr, io Effigy —The reception id Gen Foote in Missis• mai k r a by strniez vicisspniles. At "Colum• bus his "brilliant" speech was well received, and at Jackson he was u'elcome.l with a salute of are finery. At J:ickson and in bLtJtsru, it we arc to believe his former admirers and' now prejudiced opponents, he met with '•pet feet discomfiture " A.t the latter place, we team from the same ;Indio city. Gen. Foote awe, in the du-1.11.41.4in, denounce ed by ‘• HO9. Franklin Sinirti•• as a -traitor, and as, deserting his scat .in the Untied States Senate," and the " people became en exasperate;d, in t l he eonrse of the eveuing. that Mr. Foote was hang in effigy." These statements *e receive with ma ny grains of allowance. The Mississippian. how ever, says: "There is a majority of at least torn, ihnnsaiirl in Mi.si•rcippi in tdviir of prompt and el. (retire nicasumss of tesistanee." Kr The cholera continues to rage in Jamaica. Fui the twetit) loin hunts evhlm; nu the 28th ult. there were at Kt is-•n t fifty-three new ca- : •cs of cholera, and thirty deaths: at Port Royal twenty. one new C/1.4.1‘ and eieven deaths-. lot the twen ty lour hours ending MI the 29th there were at Kutasion twen y lit e new cases and thin - five deaths, the retain., however, being incomplete, at Port lovirl" eighteen new rasea and three deaths. mak Mg the total of deaths since the disease appear ed at Kingston three hundred and thirty-one, and at Port Royal one hundred and eighty-one. The di sease was very fatal at St. Catharine and other pla ces. The authorities .n each place were doing their utmost to arrest its progress. A *Eruct AND COLONIZATION —The Colonize ion Herald. publiolied at Philadelphia, ha ,, --Yeceivett an intereming letter Irom Elliott Creamiti, E4(1.. at Lon don principally in reference to Liberia, in which he tormigly urges the appointment, by the United States GOvemrnent, 01 a comml to Monrovia; and more especially, as England has, in her behalf, how appointed one—the Rev. A W. Haltom', a native of Ahita. ARTICLPS TOR TUC. LONDON 11:16011- al Intel['grocer learns that the Secretary of the Na vy has consented that the navy yard at New Yolk (including the requisite storage) .may be th.e.l ea a place of temporary clepraiiie and sale-keeping for articles intended for the Lotidori exhibition. Any articles, however valuable, may be placed thew with entire confidence, under the safeguards which give protection to the public property, LAND °Met: CLERKAAMII I .—II is slated ilibt Messrs. Strong, of Detroit, and Sweeny, of New Yolk, have been appointed clinks in the General Land Office, by the c.ret.-ary of the Interior. the Tribune pays that the Cabinet have. unanimously decided that the power of appointments and remo vals in the General Land Office is vested Sts':• the Secretary of the Interior, and not in Mr. Butterfield, the Commissioner of the Laud office. THE PAPAL STATE6.—The measures . contempla tett by the Holy See for the renovation of the Eng lish Chow+ are not to be confined to the foundation of the Bishopric of „Westminister. Bishops are to be appointed for Liverpool, Birmingham and other populous cities. of England and Scotland. It is re ported that the French Government has set I a com missionet to arrange an understanding with the Pa pal Government en the question of the army, which is•to continue to keep the Garrison at Rome.. It ty Fears that the effective force is to be 5,000 men. thtvelast.ierts.—A table of Ntati.stics in relation to this denomination of Christians shows the whole number of Societies in the Utitted States to be 105%1 chmrhes 757; clergyman 683. In thi. State there are 201 Secictie4. churches, act! 12! r , reartte ra. tiTiEPROM CALITOIMMA...-4110 Steamships Ern pint City, Georgia and Cherokee arrived DO Wed. neaday, twingitc later Intelligence from California, upwards of a tbotr passengers, and more than two millions of gold du and st. San Francisco has again berm stained by a Mite destroctiee fire, mid con sated property whir' is estimated to Lai* been ariteh 1,000;040. The boildingetwere mostly out and 'tier/ cheap, and the business in thit part otthe rity,being chief ly a retail one. the Ines, perhaps, is qot . mote than one-thinl'of that tit - the:Jane 'conflagration. 'The Pacrisc•News establishment was entirely destroyed —type, 111..h.Prii, paper, anil - buililings. The prows et.us al t o lost their account bueks. The content was owned by nine proprietors, and was valued at ..E.Vat 014 rifle nick sum Col. %Vetches. ter . lost $30,• 000. The Picayune building on Jai-ksoli.st. was also burnel but the greater portion of t h e material was saved, and the - piper appeared the nest riher• noon. The overland emigrants are' suffering severely. There are no provisiods east at the - moilittains. Capt. Waldo met two men who hail given up In ilia hater starvation.; same. day two men died from starvation on Cannon Desert ; those will& wag• min have tto food but their poor exhausted artirrfats; footmen subsisted nn the petrified flesh of therleart animals:omq the Tail, and tila*ll/LO and death am consininently :sweeping them &MIL The Cholera made its appeovanee on the Ath,- and eight petsons tall of a small train died id it in three hours. The I nil iar4i take every art vantage to steal their animals, and dips many are leU more than six hundred miles beyond the settlements. Twenty thousand persons are yet beyond the Desert, of which nun.. her fi:teen thousand 1 - are now destitute of all kind of provisions, yet the period of their r.,treatest'snfler ing has rr. t -an iced " " It will be imPossible for ten thousand - of this number to reach the mountains before the commencement of Winter." Captain. Waldo a-kg , for contributiotto. and oilers to the City Conned his claim to Sto,ooo worth of property; if they will forward that amount in flour and Erni.. ales for the sick - io that pl;nee. His reports are fear ful. A black man from Boston rode - express 400 miles with the information. any of them are women and children, .willtrWs and orphans. theft husbands and Litherslaving died with the Chide la. St Louts, Nov. 8, 1850.—.1 speech is shortly ex peered from Mr. Benton, relative to los rour,e iu the last ties.' of Congress, as well as hi.: resew position so far as regaids the duel topics of the day,. Crxrres.trr. Nov 11.—The Ohi.i State Cnweini tional CMI Vent lon bait adopted a Sertsnir that these 41 , 441 be tw iinpri.lotainent for debt Septe-x in eases of haul. A section was repnited. pittii.lint:4 the tight of guirrit2l" -^•nes an. l jn-41.ifitte... Another w . 3. report( 't6ce of Associate Juiltzes in Cam NO: sing this .rd • „ViNetsxATt, Nov. 11 —Santa Ye date:. In the .2.1 lobe-r. hare been tereired. man named Fox. who planed to minder. rind rot. Capt. C limner ;risd was_ rreAtra by Kit Cir.e.e. to ilbe pint was revealed after the pr,srty le It Santa Three-hundred warriors id the I'.llo Nati, m ea no an ecpediTion a4aingt the &flux, and aimater pary cut the !tame Itihe have gone to theiblouti tains to make tsar tr i ton he Amrsahens, w A 4niscrox, Nov. nrillfllPC contain. the otticill proclamation of a reciprocal healv w the Min - atm' (Lwernment. Ranticationg have been/mutual') exchanged betiTeett the two Gotetn men kt. MuNtrEt.tea, Nr)Y. 11.—Tne legilatoro i.f Ver mont have char-eh Ruben l'iermont att .111.1 e of the Irtrvit Intheiat arid .lamb Cnll.Pnrr. 'Aldo Rennet, nail Luke P li;tol. for the Seemal, and Fourth Di triers. They were ail elitt-en Ithout oiyeeition. nierros. Nov. 11.—it said that the WitteMT of the late rtotes-or Wetwer anti her tlaogirtept h.tve .t.tiled Ira Fayal in the bart,ne ion. A Wirt: S:urcrtir.urn To Dr:.trtt pr lir t 111, , -;t1.., ,, —The lollow 412 Ber011;11 of 11 trifintarl ion 11 ii jch 0C• entred on the tither ride ot the river, last wet k. may he retred noon, as we have it •from a hiend cog, lir rat of the facts. A Dutch f11:141, U il ' i...C. 'tl 11r was taken sick, sent. fir one ot their rmiglitiori's to i.ee whal.criuld be thine for tier. The tieLlihor ad ei..ed her to take a me tenant! go to bed evil sweat_ Aber the niiilibor left. the Dutchman put his wile to lied, and gave her the tea, ater which he coPee. led all the beds in the house Mid piled them on her The wife pmtested ;et:mist haring so math cloth ing over her--anal plead i all tor relief—btu it was of no u'e. the Lio.liaint t outsl lintlisten to her en•reaties. &ie . then hied to get out ot bed. bet the Ail \ bode enotneed on the top and held her down The wife: finally became quiet, and after hohling her down a while, the Itusburid dismounted. He then went to the bell and raised the covering horn lie, trine's face, and what did he behold ...,—the ride of ors bosom rereising in the arms of death !—Yes, :he wretch had snfloctced. miwilered tier. May justice overtake him.—Curtianati .Ncna pared. 111M31 A Alum. 11Ins5.ing —The Cherokee Advocate, of October 13, contains the me-sage 711 John Ries, princi,.al Chief of the, Cherokee Nation, in the Lea tAtiulet of hi- tribe. He laments the death - of Pres- Men I Taylor, adding due moral reflections thereon, esines-es peculiar regret at the death of Dr. Wm. Butler, late U. S. agent among, the Cherokees, re turns thanks to Divine Providence Mr the noodriest• ol the crops, rejoices that peace awl good' order generally prevail in the nation, !while be laments at the growth of a ( class of intenipemte and thieving characters, and purposes building a jail to correct them—suggests that the axpenses of the govern ment ooght to be diminished, and thinks it intlis petimble that a census of the people be taken, in order thit'fhe appropriation lately made by the Uni ted S!ate= Gm - commit, may. be pistly distributed— and all -in but hole more space than is occupied by this paragraph. • John Ross is a tnsu of busiti6is and wastes no wonls. fi;7" A. Great Pigeon Roost is al present In be seen about a mile and a half Iro i m Ruisetuna, Otte w:.ere mill* .of pigeons do congregate, pfoufac; ing a noise like the roaring, of. the ocean, arra w irh is heard at a great 111411111E1i. At night wailful; of persons repair thither with all in:km*6r of weapons, and kilt and afterwards bear away loads of pi. genus. WIIALCS n nix ST. LAWRENCE.- During the past month, several large whales have been captured in the Si. Lawrence, below Quebec. One of these animals, says the (imber. Mercury, evetitv•five leet in length, was harpooned at iiamouraska Maher caught on the 17111 St pt., was one hundred feet long. LeAGRI - ea' GAP RAILROAD—Workmen are alma dy locating themselves in.the vicinity of New Mil ford, and preparations are being made to com mence operations soon, along the whole line to the Great Brad , We understand that the coinpan n y contemplate having, the Road completer' from Great Bend to Hite Tunnel," a distance of thirty miles, by the first of August nest. This looks like a large calculation, nevertheletai in this age of wonders it will not do to doubt.—Monlrose Deinotrat. • . The census taker came across a married couple in Green counts-, Ohio, the husband 18 and the wile 16 years old. They have been married four years and bad two children, one of them be• su2 over three years old ! Ohl Whitey " mai last ' week removed from Washington to Kentucky. On arriving by railroad at Columbia, Penn., this music of a fireman's cele bration struck his ears, so elated him, that became near breaking the cars in his excitement. The inomic.Aerred to revive the memory of the old 't • ' NORTH CAROLINA IN THE FIELD --A Abbe niert.. i n g, at Williningtott. N. C. on Wednesday lam Or. rimed 11114 the fkonifirrii States should lake I nc ,. diate steps treslabiish a commercial Amino., s a d such a libretti trade with Europe as will Fruit., 'them indepeattesit of Northern merchants, m aim . facttares anifithip-owners. Also, that the repealtof iliiiquiptittir sloes low, or the abolition of i:lattety in the Diviiievof Colombia by the Federal Coii- I4ress,. will be such an inthention of settled hostili ties toSoutheni institittons as to justly ainl /Noi r .. ? VP. immures of - imperative newevvy and safety,. the seceasiins.of the Southern Slates from the Union, Kr We are astonished .(says the Tamer& Register) that the Boston pripers,hare not publi,„l, et: the following among their other remarkable eta tie*: A„ccrarliman ascended the..strps of one o f f f us fi l ar class hotels, and Isarrang.nea the crowd ai low*: ". Itere's the hand and Idled Jenny Linden; of the eirach. aentlemen,`you Pan arty of you have the pricilefze uflissing it fur five dollars--childre n half price !" • FREEMEN'S MASS MEETING.—The Citizens of BradfuriLwithout distinction of party are itivited to awrable in mos. weetirt. at the Court House, on WVIDIVESDAv EVEN' of the first week of Court to Decenar next, for the purpfse of expressing their I. iews relative tootle. FUGIT4VE SLAVE LAW. It is confidently expected that there will be. a f u ll attendance ; and that the freerrirn of this crony will come prepred to say and do whaterer .m ay he6mie freemen in thepresent emergency. If the late is Constitutional and just, let rt be sustained,._Out if it is sect a law, that no man who regards his allegiance to his God is well as his ceMnir, can gate it his support. then let such measures be adopted as may seem best calculated to procure ifs "speedy're... peal: Let us do nothing rashly, or fur the sake of agitation.only ; rasher let us submit to be stares V I the sake of harniony. Hut let us do our" work liberately ; and when the interests of freedom ars in dmger, as thernow are. fiom the encroachmenu sf slavery, let as protect those interests at all liazartl., for they are the most sacred interests of men awl must not be given up. MANY CITI2E:St.t.i HE v. MR. W y ( Universalist) asA treach at - rhe Court House in this 8.1. °ugh, nevt Sunday ereninr, 17th inst. 11:e Jenny Lind. u ill 2.5115, 261 h, a11.127-'.l! 1 CII3 r a b v crtiscinc tag. NEW GOODS AT THE CENTRAL STORE! NN. BETTS' lies jost nrceived a fresh and rite. • rat stock of Fall and NVinter Goods, • hich he offers to the public at low prices, as cheap as the del i? . est , for sash or most Linda of produce. In his {stock will hi - found a good assortment of Ludles' Dress Gonda and Trimmings, suitable for the season, also a splendid assortment Ili Shawls, tolk,lioat and cotton laces, French *grit cull as .and Ladies Gentlemen's, Boy and Childs en's Boots dr. Shoes, a great variety. The good people of this village- and •ieinits. ire ir. rited to call and examine for themselves before parchas. ing elsewhere. be feeds assured flirt he C3n satisfy ahem AS to quality of god} and prices. Towanda. Nov. 12, 1850. FURAWSITING DEPOT ! TR.T.u!..criber. bdvini just received :11 Lr4e Iron to thei- stock, are prepared to f pt• son with i,;•curuplete witfit," consisting of Or , rrn rh, Coal , , pants, Sh t, Dirt criTg ; ter, Cr r rJ All of ohich will be said cheaper than Ito. rheapen for trendy pay. N. & A. C.IMPBEI.L. Towanda, rioiemher 14. Ichtl. „ . Variety, Grceery and Liquor Store! T w. TIFF.% NY 'llia remove I his establishment 1.4. directly aer Pis.the street from his old stand; in the store lately occupied by- Mr. Doane. a here he wit he harp; td nee his ul4 customers, anti as rimy new ones as may be desitou: 14 purchasing article: tor sv. the Invest prisstble• ntes. Nov. 11. s'sl). IT FS—a la:ee essprtmNit of Nitta.. for .3:C cf.rap IV 1. by. nil •B. RlNthstlEll h CO. B ROA DC 1.0 I . I IS; Cri t ar:bneres. Kenner sheep's gray cloth, der'.. nod very Ilw f by nil B. KINGSBEIIY M:UTIA NOTICE. THE attention of the commanding officers of the several compriies untfdr:ntl rn liaa wt.htn the County of Itqadford, i. lespecttully i rert.,l tit t 61113 ction of the Act of 17th April, A. U. I. ictire quirts the Capt .in or Commanding deer of turpot*. puny, to furnish a copy t f the rol! of said rouipanyott der oath orauttirmation to the County Comma/ et. at such time es tl:e ars.ressarent of - taxes are returned is each and every year, designating the township, mall or borough. in which each menther reside,. Arehart . are hereby reainested to furnish said ctqm, n 1 the ylla to the Cotnqnssioners on or herrn the t Oth thy cembet no t C. S. lirti3Ef.f., l'rk to t 4 11aCt. Cousswistrionci's Office, Towanda, Nov. 15, • REMOVED. Iv'.A CII A NIIIIE N has ir tr 46 oii ol . Clvi. ll'utcfi and letrelry More to B. hincrlcri & Co.'s Brick. block, 'where he keeps on hand a ser, extensive 'assortment of Clocks, Ifi'atcbvs. iserfir. Fancy Goods, to which be has just male a targs•Ali• lion. received by exprees hem New York: 0, , • OrP/Utit'S Court safe. J3T virtue of an order of the Orphans court of Dry ford tootle. there will be exp.-,:CI to public sik on the premiwea, at 2 o'clock, P. IV. of Tuesday, the 19th day-of November nest. the follosi l ml ' l ° 4 hid aitnate in Springfield township, bounded-34w= at a p 0.4 in the highway leading from the Blanc tool to Smithfield on the farm of K. IV at.m.and 110 ' nine north 4R° west 12' rods to a poet in be biog. thence north 74° east 4 rods to a post. thence south3G ° rev 14 rods to a post, therm, south 33° west 15 tub to a stump in the highway, thence'oorthlU ° ree- 111111 ; said, highway 19 4-10 rods to the bbginninx.r Coterie. rig one acre and forty-seven equiie rode of land—' lle late revirdencel .4; larson Watson,,lectrassd. Attendance will given and tho'terms of sale maik known by r LUCIUS FRENCH. Bprio3Geld, Oct. 8, 1850. : Administrator , - DOSTPONEMENT.—Tfie above vale man& paned until the 25th / that, at the 1;3111C Oure aal time of day. • L. / FRENCII, idininiaratm. SPORTSMEN ATTEND! LiAVING relinquished Alamos in Teasisho.,the subscriber has left the work be hbdon hsnJ sMb John E.. Geiger, at whose shop may be found fbe go° irljch were renmining with him. lie Eras also left his notes and. accounts with W Geiger, and that immcdiato .payment Must be made, or :tic, gives cm, timely notice to all indehloi be int lected to coat. fle trusts that this notice. ll3 be suffici e nt, without resort to the other thetme , b 4 " alterna . JOHN TROUT. Towanda. November 8, 18%0. DANATIMRIVRIAIIf (iii.ta - Messrs. Goss S Morgan. OULD respectfully announce to the citizen , d V Towanda and vicinity, that they hare wits roomisand are now operating over J.Kingsberj . !' wg ' main street, whore they are prepared to take ptetstr' In iha latest and moat improved style. Children wk.° at any age, Family Groups, separate pictures RS ca' sea, lockets, rings, dcc., correctly taken. `Jstisfact>•a given, or no charge made. Prices vary from $1 to „SIG. Forenoon light fair e ' rat. ll , 'Prs for children from 10 A.M. to 2 1'.1. 1 . 4 " Ladicsiand Gentlemen are 'requested f o call and et , ' mine iporirnelia. Towanda, Nov. 7, 1850. • ESTRAY. CAME to the enclosure ofthe subscriber on or Orel the 20th September, one yearling Steer, and tgle &qtr. l'he steer was dark red, with a white rpit the foinbead. The heifer also a dark' red. The °ll6- t; er can have . them hy proving property and .P l l l4 • Wyo., c, Iktol.er. EICil
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