Qrabfora) Free - Soili Free ligitieidi t 'yee — e - lfforia rerritterst: o..coomucti, Eprroß.-, Towanda; Saturday; April fit _ . Terms of The Reporter. N. , •• 1 le 30 pot annum. if paid withal& the year 110 rents will" kr detected—for esti - paid eetutilly hi sdionee $lOO will be denoted. No paper scut ammo years, antes* peel for, P Antrstaisreerrs: per square of ten Betts. Weems- Ibn the 11,61. and eons for each sublimient insertion: ...frll 4 Officio tilts 4 Union Block. iota eider& thrlPtibite &leave. -gen door to the Brodhrii, haste!. Ihrtenna beiptmo ntestiati'Adiuns• snit Waving taw When. - ' ,Co!The absence of the Utah must be, out apology loithe lack of Editorial this week..:; . (Itri the' Pennsylvanii Rouse of Renesen „ telives Inky,. - deemed Me bat probibitiii any minor From limiting mote than _ 10 hours it Jai in inanufactories) by a tio Irute. • • Bonthite l the robber of Adams & Co's eziortos, hie been convicted. • otr'The Act to incorporate the Susquehanna Rail Road Company has passed the.. Semite. .The 15th of April has been agreed upon as the day, foi finatadjourriment'of the Legislature. The Senate will hold iwo sessions a day during the romaiadei of die session. • News `of the Week by the Telegraph. riff. Iliad'lneendhitlim. Vacs, March 28.Alatat three o'clock this morning, a ttre'broke - out in the Daguerrian Gallery of It. 'Johnson, corner of Genesee and Forsyth streets. The fire was finally subdued, tut Mr. J. was completely burnt • out, and is bin partially in. slued. The building is the property of the Kellogg Itarlbitt estate, and is insured in the Ems Compa ny'. The - stores on the find floor, and the offices inn the second, were considerably injured, brit are covered by insurance. During the fire ' the Jewelry store of Brrulleywas enters , by burglars, mud tof i nerl of five, hundred dollars worth of goods. H. A fire; broke out last night in the tannery of H. Waterman; whityb was consumed; tckiether with a cotton tacrork, ass, 411, two dwelling houses and two stores. Loss 62,590. The hint of :the fire waa seen 14; miles distant. • ' Tiro a:tempte were , made here sluErig the night to set barns on fire. • . • ,Easentlaa at Capt. Irraseat. New Osurass, Match 27,—gy a late arrival from Texas we. have H. intelligence that the notorious Capt. Parker H. Prench,.whose frauds. have been extensively known, was lately executed near Du. tango, fur the,double erotic of robbery and murder. Terrible Fire at Ypsilanti, Milady's'. '.Yisitswrr, Michigan, bfamh 213.—k very de structive fire bnike out about cam o'clock thii morn ing, in J. Carly's grocery wore, on the corner of Congress and Washington streets; and the entire. 'guars north 01 Congress and east of •Washington Streets, crosAng'Huron street, was claim!y destroy id down to the over. 'Thirty-three buildings_were burnt, snit the toss As estimated at between $50,000 land 'illo,ooo,—with . ,insurance to Iffertmount of about 4115,000. • .Tie gaistislpatten teureutlos at resallillket Caennurf, March 28.-=The intended Eminel• Ipation convention at' Frankfort, ICy., does 'notiake place, but Cassius M. Clay, it is understood, is to wale a stusapapeeett. booth et all:rev:lber of thoirreu. PRILADILLPII, March 28.—lathes Henry Se% for I'o years connected with the Press of this city, tin& formed.) , Commercial reporter" for the U. S. Gazette, died, this afternoon. He was universally tespected ana esteemed: _ - • The Weliarld Canal, • ' To TIIL - EreTOMS 07 Tag Tatintam—l noticed your einem from the Express, antlioor comments thereon, in this morning's editionol your paper, re lative to the Welland Canal. . W ill you in justice to °swop, give egualpronti nonce to the following: I - have received a Telegraphic communication from Toronto, dated the 274 instant, Stating tire the Council had adjourned °without ° taking` action, tipon the retaliatory meauire of closing the Wel-i land Canal to American vessels. . _ .. . , . , . Theis is nbdangerthat such a disastrota pellet will ever be adopted by the Canadian •anthaTities. ~ I held :myself:o.l4 tea heretofore to contract for pmftorty to and from the Wert. viathe Welland- Canal and Oswer. • I. S.lLirmaJoits. ' ' ' ; - ''Agent Old Osaigiiiiite; Rio Bioid:it.- Washington Veins. WasurearoN; March 29,=-MniArtity *loners haws purchased Wciodley, a beautiful-coun try seat, near Georgetown, occupied by. Colonel Vitenzo Thomas,' Assistant Adjutaut Gt.netal,. for motif the new Military Asylums. The, price paid was. 520.000. The PoOmalUer General bra the City yesterday on a visit to.the Isl9rth. • • • The Supposed Wreck e! Ship Ivanhoe. PROVIDENCE, March 281—We have examined the snick.* picked up by 'Captain Watts,"ot the saloon: el Yuhark , nrthia poll, and: find one of the cation' bales marked P. in a diainand, number 163;- with a , plain p., end from appearance,.has been in the Wa ter some length of time.. The - other three bales contained no mark's. The flour, to all appearance,. had been in the water some weeks, as it was Wet in about three inches.'' On one of .the barrel heads there are the letters C. S. iii black, not, red paint, and it was inspected in . New York,, but - the name of the inspector could not be made out. Captain Watts states that be has passed the wreck befpre reported by him; 'on' the 18th instant,' 150 - mile south by west, off Montauk Point, and is utapi-I Ilion that he had been some time in-tbesame shut. lion at he saw it. ~ . &Nether Vesette the pahlle Ireneetleneviis. . , ~ Bstaysloac., March 31.—The Blayar,'• and . the membismof Councils of this cityihave received r i 'and accepted an invitation 'from e meMbertv of the Pennsylvania Legislature, to vigil Harrisburg Friday ot next week, Ilthy., , antl - partake of an ediertilinmetit. The Hon. auiel Webster' bai rileo been invited. r je RIDLE gclherr. boy named. muck. Watersiemployedltra 'ellifiefider factisiy, it'Neisti: ark; CitaleloE: lieetlackingh deash:lM Mietkfay: 'Hai *Fas c4i4v,hqky• attar 1441.; tirAlkeirV alith..atrached4o the " - maehistery, )VlO retrolvedNaand,the i sh4.4or. thesp'ace - Of 144 rniefftesi iiefforelpicecialdjxs oxtri 7 catied=7thiisliaffitlikifig abonr9o reiolutioniva iiri: note. He was taken up dead, Lis right arm wrenelv ed oil at the elbow, and•Stirekull dreadfully factor. riAr littAtop.oatO Wpm' :mein& Atititab r ecto. , - 1 1 . 11 4 1 M. ' , ...,7 , :..,"s ; GeriticAtietiA.Saego: 4 47lis Cornri3isii6fAri Of “ini9Triqtl,llooo44lSolteela.:enthorizeiki trill of die:gtitta percha Boleti-by the 800 boy' under tin* ehmet frAdvattelitie7erc.iest effalk 'rueoe r SoMittteilaenjr Pe4 loll .ank:Rou!et.PPS repnle.that ylret dOttleniky inn - rft.dlrr4l9,4ad eetrifinnifipitiVnitr Ititiheifi s *fid tr4lo:lltitrilettillit fijiwar-00ripehiniitttel t tripidniotift ordtelitiddf - 9( the treacere.?4.l4trat Stgrolard...l" , • CM iiirim ......_ _ _ir.....w.T er ai . .- mita- .0 :IS *Lc • k'x_ t r „,- ... Airs til i ... I - „... !A - 0416n* rtice*d, f 1 end ' eel, vileit*esent lithe dreagat.ett ten ~ liSiosi betty the •et ..o h . I ani ' .1 W F. r t a ir bin, .'• h ef os tbrch w et r im . ity e q k •wi *ode p,... tm look plaeW neeitiptain Island, teamiles below Wheeling. at 46 half-past 10 o'clock at night. The night was . very 14.9m1M , •'• ..I —asit4r-i;. , T- .161114- ceived . each. Other the:hells were tappe.l ; hut through some unfortunate mistake Or accident - the Lowell ran across the bow .of „the Vinton, - which reek }meat er iter-hoilere. -The -Vinton ,wasw large boat, Carrying. ibe, 10qt 1,,,l o fts ) , Apt_Likas,,__Prliir lily the strongest hull 'Alf: anytobalm woo inlL 4 k The Lowell sank in about thirty seconds alter the lieitwir-.FlWW4roirtlnHelher leftf fleatins. , ~' _,, , .--,,,i . ' Her cabin passenge r s and cre w ,esceped, many of them in their night Clothei; tei the'ing eifthe.hitr -I;eimideck. or The fin; engineet, two firemen, end , twelve deck' plaseugent, wore.: drowned, :, The names of firemen and,4teekpassengetatarts.un g f id wn , they having been 'taken on . board at . Phut• burgh; and 'the Clerk hot having entered their:althea on'the register. A.' fare.. - tantilyi*edniiistineof a man, his wife, and children, front Bedfonl, Pa , : on their way West.ciere among those whit .peritthett. The captain of the Vinton immediately; ordered that the heatbe'stopped, arid lier,then towed the wreclrof the-Lowell'or cabin to' the 'shore, where everything that could eontribute.ta-the comfort: of those, saved was; done,. Alter sorne.lime, the steamer Messenger No. 2 ,came alongside, and Captain Fisher; oldie M., kindly look a number of tharratiengers on his boat to Ciniallnati. Joseph B. McKeourt, the first engineer, who was dreamed, levee a wifean 1 seven children residing •in Aire ghany. He was not the regular engineer, but had taken the place of Mt. Edward' B. Barton, who was attacked by illness, jruit an the Lowell weibackingt out hem the-whorl at Pittsburgh. Mr, kick)e hiss . will be,deepll, lamented by his brother engineers, among whom he occupied e high positien. David Evans, carpenter, and part owner of theboat, made a very narrow-escape. The cabin' icon sunk to the hurricane deck, and M. E. was caught under• neatk it; but he maneged, hoWever, to ;make his situation known to those on the top, of. the deck . by knocking"afrain'it it. Whereupon a hole was cut, thmugh,•and he etas released, though "he had` beim PO long in the water that hi was rustily chilled to death: Harrison Mason, the clerk who, owned three.eights of the boat., was insured lot. 51,200 in the Citizens' Insurance - Company. EdWard B. Bar. , Mon. who owned one eighth; had an . iratunmee of 8500 nwhis share in the Western Company. Cap. tains Force, Rogersand Evans„the remaining own. I era, had no instil-ant*. The cargo, c?nsisting of iron, nails, cotton yam and dry goods,Was shipped prinerpa yby a y ones & Co., of Pittsburiand "' • n 'll =a I [ was lulls , insured in the North American. Fire. .mesa', ,Westem aed Cotiaeme- iremrancts ofilees.— . The hull of the boat lies in about 30 feet of water. The engines will , be saved, also the cabin tumiture, and a large portion of the dry &ode, though in a damaged state: - , r. ' ' .-- 1 1 '• -, ' • jepovtgv, 1851 RAMAREATILZ RICIARD or A Docirolli A 1110101.-. , A Correspondent recently informed us or the fellers. ing curious and Affecting circumstance :—Elappen. ing to pass the house cot a neighbor Ashen time since, who occupies a large estate neer me, I saw one of the servants takinka dead sheep dog away i n wheel-barrow to burv, and upon my remark ingre foal, " What is the poor - old dog deadl" [sir I tad known the dogfoig yeate, be narrated to me the following little incident: It appears that the, dog. had contracted an eatmoOlinary allection for enters! the wagon-horses,'but the horse being an old one, and very ailing, the -' woithyoceupier of the firm had him destroyed; and one morning missing lie dog, they found - him lying con the grave othis late favorite, nor could they get him away, except by . force. They conveyed him home, but he refrised his food, nor could they induceitim to take nourish meat of any kind; he pined for a Shod time and then died, and is now buried in the same grave with-the horse, having died,-I presume kom excessivegt:4 The servants were in the habitat placing him up, the horse's back, with the,Valle, in his month, and sending him to the pond vritli the honer when he went to drink, and- he- used frequently to ride the horse to and from the different fields; sn fact, he never was away from him.— Warmly. lour*, , MUMMA OT A NEGRO TRADICR it, NORTH Canon- NA.—The Eastern (N. C.) RePublinen of the 15th of March, says that six weeks previous a negro trader named Hunt, tee. Gltldsboro , for Fa nine, with six negroes. Awckhorses, a buggy and eanyall, and a man named Pitt, w Wahom he bad hired to as sist him.',. rem Weeks elferrdtc•Pot made his appearance at Rocky Mount; with; the liegroei•ve , tticles, and 010,000 io moneyisvith whichihe Ante. quite a dashing appeapn_ ce, rusil.when loestiened gave contradictory accounts of the manner in which he obtained the money and negroes. Finally ..he left for the North, giVine, hit Mune in the &inductor of theca& asGarrett; alter which threeof the:Lignites were attested, and on of Ahem stated that the patty encamped about a mile from Fayettville i when Hunt and Pitt walked into an adjoining aroridi, a report of a pistol - Wu lutifid;•Pitt returned s)one, and ordered the vehicles to'begetroadY.' Another amount states, that alter another examination crt.the negmee, they acknowledged that they had killed Hunt at Pitt'e instigation, wbo prpmised, them Hunt's money, and convey them lo a free State: and give thent . their . freedom: Pitt lasi heat& of at Petersburg, Ma l , and hay inet. y'et - been at. rated. -• • ' , A Monica KtiLta sT nag Dsvonite.We re. gret to learn that ambit . tragical' ixattrettee' took 'place oallonday last, within a few miles , of Pitts. burg. A yciOng fatly, whose !faintly is, of the at. most respectability, was chastising her Aldo brOthet ! or sister; when her windier ioterferett for,its prtneeJ, lion, up* which,',/tOrribla 'to reliiii,llti young 044 struck her with"' ixoker. - The blOw,.or stab rather I h i e took effect in- het alxkuneir,wh' It it penetrated, and the uncommon) .wpmen in acttlY fell .to the groom.. Medical aid was, at o proittri4; Imt_ ashore only rived tine 'after lie - htattlitte.... - PiUsbarg (AO Gazette ; MartA2t."--` ' s'-' " VALl:mitt Rtt.m.-A gentlemffi.oflllobile, Ala., has a ring which was thrownup by: a,Earty.olla borers,;who. were eSeatating, 'saw monthilign; a piece of grownd at COositeta, Aniap county. , 11 is said to be composed'of alight Metal E so• hard that no impression could bis mu/o,volt it by coning... 7 It is massne, shaped like ordinary rings #orn by' gentlemen,'and initeadid stone'set,-If haisallat • tend liquare iinrface,. owi , whleh.ore einittved.a , skull and cross bones. It was buried•:l3 or , 14. feel • under, ground: and is slippage& to have belonged to one of De Soto's party, desrieg theit vraederings' in that region in 14538 and 48. Holies Sion insiiiiii Sreirs:::..4 - singular . wager , has been' laid in t3pain, betweetrthe troke'aVOse;' na and the , celetinnetl't babkerpSalanianci. - .i. II is' herse.,againel redroest. - ,The Dolts betsthat hither:. sin shall beat the locomotive en „the.,bledritl end ,iittenjuiz Riiiiitiall, whiblils'23 muter long: - . "Save' cid bonies'are le beentphliyedoeid 4ire'llf , " tie Ine' tinned 4has.: , Ail jockey : on& bonib . et Abe .-Tohinf. gate "11 Madrid t _to ride the fi E st,leigtee t eng,„4lejtver. a raper to the second;, who le ,to be ,n .. reedit** tenh = hnbiherliaisd - icrylde)nolberleagiie;?:and, tenh hnialteiterse' - icrylde,runitheileagie;l:and sb, on Itlesaid that the DakeStilcrillitelllutt leach league stay lie ;dotter in ~ iseirett..rninaterr making 4 1 - Edn.P-Iniqui,eo l4lllo- FiIPIP disviAlca ili'glanM sal have to: tie' 1., The jog? . road of ,etliich.:tbe! hcireirlipit is severilef. — vnes rn•fertglif. lbo:teiget c sit-mitikworiearkelespeol t•-• , - ''''' :" "" —• : • .•", , 1 ..... ...- •*. ...,:„ :, • - tr. • .. z.-;, jtiixf ta461 1 V., iiii, M e, . alc ogle oi the font tOtirisil * Jenny 'ltill lit' Weer Orlettiti, iobk 'place on the 18th inst., and atti*wal atilfilfsitifirif of silly people. -Thro.Playoug;i4a: _. _ , —112• arttontit -OF Ifits;entilialiW, idir-lbstireßve factentritilinc ar.drittn lipatte,orrAseit'tfingished,3 l!!ul %. 400 fix • ; I PM! Pli.tals iki.limf l )l4od'A al l 'liagorr, toatoilfr, 1 0 0 / ..; hajlioo4 l1 #88M011. 'tor 383 85; 'dual) fig , steeping ipttytienyitif t 175 20, the /owed edicts bringing Ir, , - , `-i- t',l , 2,4: ..,:-. 2g =EMI ME lIEMEMEE 07111 ,SCSTON, ~ , i. : 4 , WAlie , , • '... .• OA I,ridoriciiii, 61V111,, the %Apo o --: .. ~ „„„ ~,,v, . .day, brings f• 4,.. d Ist - tetii 4. i place. : iiii• f, , , , - k i deldts.. we again rebel! • *past Bar English liuthotitien, and it'was faired, at the latest 1 accounts; itig l the Hottentot were aso wavering ' been continued between the rebels a and their native and F.nglish allieli, iu which e. finales woreal• ways victorious *hen they had an open tied fight. Accountants drat'' , reinsiveik of •manPerrior. (smogs in akquarAts• , ,., ~ . .. , . .I.!t` Sititisitirismillt; the taiesituliii44l ifiaidioi. winding levies to the scene of liar, anti colonial's, • , - g, AL TN I A► • ••; • ' e I i - ~.r ' . . ..... prir t ttutn. o /the !rot tgn slut t etc, y it :wig' tlionglit ,itat ihtii - .Garetnitivatift.t 'Aitiott be iuthe head' , Of'ittettLeo *plaid! the -enemy: . = .-- On. Am 0 4 tual't 1 . 11 1 41 00 i Riktil•Paknif i ger! lit'jesuong,,atiac -ed., the „et;lottiota near Port erg, inicrreete repaired witTi'd - liiiiof I,Odo9tilteil: "r ti the it oflutruttry; &strong twee of Enfant attacked Fed White, unit they were - diverged with the loss of 20.killik tAfltfe inntnintretthrelth Jainism the Uolientots t anacked-Fott,Beauto#, and-were .re pulael - Thar chief; hia son,. Witte number people wete Airistricilifitinsi or sv . -1.-On the 13th' hist, ' - tre learn toy the Imingion (Miss) Earnd Sights, that slifroTate attempted to kill Miss Shepird,'.. by firing a giant!, the 011..0f which entered her breast s in the region of.tliehean t and lodging in the opposite Pitle: -Thiciiceiristith ces briefly are thiga. There 'riris ' a wedding,' at which brith parties were guests. Alley the marriage ceremony a 4iinAt. wan prponet4 tot, tut :the . host and hostess were church members., itylas proposed to Adjourn in a rleighouisio finiih the festivities of the night MheShephartt rehired to gicirshe Wits Alsoa membei of -this :choreic' , Mr. Tete;' utio• wisliedaounticipatesbasbanire, authority, .. , nutheit into •her'apartenent, where iha, hall Aetired rith her mother and some ritherlarties, add' liked her Oahe . would go over to the dance or not: 'OW hei*ly!.' ins in the nenative, he drew two - pistols, -one of which took diem as.above Mated., • Emm. hue se. 'corms bliss Slephardmatt.no% expected . to, hap., The Hamlet of , a lore( was taken by the crowd, and would have been dealt with su'mmari'ly; but for the interposition of onb or two influential persons...:... He is now c onfined in jail to mirth the June termof the,cireuit court,...,The man must hue bees. de ranged. AN Alp Crnien'teteatsosetren Fasuce..i. Mr.. Wm . B. Petty, .n native bora citizen of the Uni.• ted-States,twritea home to his friends that tie. has been incanprated for fifteen months past, in the prison ofPaindxmf, in France, on aeharge of which he is entirelyinnerent,und that he has had no Mu sistance from the American - Conant,. Mr. Rogues, of Nantes, whose ditty . n wmito_extend to him all the protection in his power. What Mr. Petty's offence was does not appear, but as the Conant has been they publicly licensed, the latter will dosigles corn• mouicam to.4ovemment the facts in then: , . . • racits Texas.=Galieeton paperil.' a 7di report that the tiody'or`a htr. floviird wiut fotind near San Antonio, pierced with several anowsand . ecalped. , Governor of ,Texas has appointed General JamesMaly to attend the World s Fair as a dale , gate from :hat State. • General Harney ,Col: Hardee and Captain Frerteh had-arrived inSan Antonio.. •The.latter gentleman was to take alone of thit : lmin to iiava.lor arasp this *pang. _ The project el the San Ant and MeliciurGalf Railroad were prospering. The city had subscribed 5.50.000, and other parties 5100,000. - General. Brooke has approved, in, an ands.' is. nett by him; the conduct of cafintihFind's mount. ed company in its s late' operations on the" Rio Grande. ,FAOSI Spi/WOIRT Ccumosiox--Murders lend o u r rages ,—Ataior Barden 4:.i the Boundary Com !. mission, nrrited Nitre from Texas yesterday.. He left the Commiesioa :WPM health ;runt qritila at El- Paso.'' All the ditfir tibia ~ .with the Mexican .Commissioners had bean safil!as.utorily arranged. Major B. reports 'tome horrible bloodshed and murders at Laco Bion, a frontier town._A band of ruffians had, infested the twin, and ie Perigee they "cominitted beir4•or so flagiante character, t!' Boundary Commission relied.* forcb ot-Americans and went in pursuit, °COM , Saunterers.... They sac. ceeded in arresting eight or , 'tee of the,gang, who, made'donsiderable resirnineri. were tried tuid e.onditmited 'ince abort tintis'' Mier their condemnation they were art immediately hung,. Arnogittre_eictims 01110 rimamina' koife e wus Mr., Clark, a son or fen. S. W._,Clark l ...S,....Senator. front Rhode Island. , •Otr , The N. Y.. Eipras.of yesterdaraftemoon,. says:n4Vat, Jeans from.: reliable sources -that