Bradford reporter. (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, August 16, 1851, Image 2
El OrstbrittO (?:'L Garter:4 IWn 11 1 Writes* • Ayr Pres 111rrriterp. E O. GOODRICH, EDITOR. Towanda, Saturday, August 16, 1651. Demooratie State Ntonitnatimu. • You uoviesisst. -- - WILLIAM D1GLEK,...,.0• CLuarscsai COUITT _ VOL CANAL CONNIIISSIOSES, - • SETH CLOVER, Or CIA ism Carlrrt rot Stotts or tar trearms COUNT, JEREMIAH 8. 8LACK.....0r Humour! Corrtu, JAMES 'CAMPBELL, or PIIIILADILFUn, ELLIS LEWIS, or Lase Arms. JOHN R. GIBSON or Cr* Coco Tr. WALTER H. LOWRIE...or Actsaacor Comm. Eledion, 7uesday, October 14, 1851 • Terms, of The Reposing.. $$ SO pelf annum—if id within the year 30 Ir dedurt-6r cash paid actually in advanee sI 00 will be d e le te d. Np paper rut over two years. unless paid for. A D vinieumerours. per square of ten lines. 50 cents fur the am. and SS eents for rich subsequent insertion. EDP Office on the " Union Bloch." north side of the Pnbltn !knave, nett hoer to the Bradford Hotel. &unlace broween • Mason. Adams' and Elwe IN taw offices. Democratic County Convention. THE Demcieratic Standing Committee for Bradfot d County, • -hereby call a Convention to be composed of two Delegates from each election-dis trict in said County. to be holden at Towanda. on Tuesday evening, September 2d, 1821, for the pur pose of placing in nomination candidates to be sup ported by the Democratic party of the county, at the approaching election, and have appointed the fol lowing Committees of Vigilance fur the several dis tricts of said county. Albany—Benj: Willcox, Peter Oterigere; Armenia—Jefferson Rundell. Isaac Williams; Asylum—A. J. Stone. John M. Horton ; Ache& tp.—Abm..l. 'Miller, Daniel MeDuffee ; N bo.—Moses sawyer, A. P. Stephens ; Burlington—C. F. Nichols, Benj. Ross; Canton—Frederick Hall, Justin Bothwell; Columbia—D. V. Barnes, Chas. Ballard; Darell—Robert 8011, Isaac Ennis Fraultlin—Nathan L. Dodge. Charles W. 'Stevens ; (Manville—Harrison ROss, E. A. Bailey; Herrick-- - -Francis Angle, Pembroke Squires ; Leroy—Lafayette Wooster, Win. E. Willcox ; Litchfield—Cyrus Merrill:4. Benj. Parks; Atonroe—Elisha Phioney, Freeman Sweet ; Orwell—H. Z. Frisby, Carlos Chubbock ; Pike—Geo. Graves, Edward Cr4ndal; Ridgbery—Wiitiam Gunianfes, Benj. Herman; Rome—Simeon Rockwell, Nosh Hicks; - Shesheqoin—C. W. Bulbs. Clinton Gore; Sinithfield-8. R. Cram, George 8. Peck; Springfield—H. 8. Grover, H. W. Root; -South Creek—John Reed jr. - Henry Thompson Standing Stone--hi 4 .etus Havens. Simon Stevens ; Towanda J. Trout. R. C. Smalley ; " tp.-11. C. fez. James W. Decker Trey bc.—F. 8. Elliott, F. 8. ()mine ; " tp.—John Porter. Amos Pierce ; Tosearora—.Harris Ackley, Hiram Bhumway ; Ulster—M. EL Warner, A. B. Smith Warren—Miranda Chaffee, Daniel Folk; Wells—Jebial Ayres, John Brown 0; Winditars--John 8. Anthony, Elija Ffilhoemaker 2d ; Wyalutting—Joseph Vananken. Benj. Ackley if ; Wymx—Curtis Prink. J. M. Reed; Wilms--J. 1.. Jones, Ichabod Corson ; The Committees wilt call meetings on Saturday, August Nth, betweegethe hours of 4 and 7.P. M. for the election of Delegates. We would enjoin upon the Conimittees the respon sibility which rests upon them, and the necessity of discharging their duty faithfully and fully. The primary meeting should be called on the day nam ed. at the tonal place for holding said meetings—or at some place most convenient to the democrats of district. Great care should be taken that every democrat has notice of the Delegate meeting, that all may have a chance of attending. The Standing Committee have reunited that the Conventions to elect delegates to the State Conven. Lion which have been held for the last two or three years at February Court, havii been of but little in terest to the DeSocrate of the County, and have been but thinly attended. In view of this, and of the fact that the next State Convention is ealled the 4th 'Of March. they have deemed* best to rut gent to the. Democracy of the • County, the propriety ofelecting Delegates to the State Convention at the County Convention which they have ntiw called; and they hereby authorize and eppoelqr the Con ',elation to elect said Delegates to The State Conven lion. if thl Convention shall lodge said ccomProP• er and seasonable. The Democrats of the County are rrodested to take the matter int 6 eonalderation,y, their Delegates may be able to represent the wishes and feelings of the great body of the party. . JAMES H. WEBB. H. L W BENCE SCOTT, N. EDMINSTER, P. E. MAYNARD. W. H. VANDYKE, J. H. BLACK. JOS. MEN ARM, E. C. OLIVER, August 5.1851. - Standing Committee. - August Zleatloas. Kaman —The elvction nl L W. Powell f(lowl.1 as Governor, is now certain : for Lieut. Gov. J. B. Thompson, (whig) is elected. The Democrats have gained at least one member of Congress, mak inglhe delegation stand equally divided. lutemrs.—The delegation will stand 8 democrats, t Whigs. The Legislature is overwhelmingly dem ocratic. Nolan CaaoL►>ta.--Suficient returns have not been received to give the precise result, but the va rious phrts of the stale referred to indicate that the Union ticket generally has been successful. in the VII ftb district, Edward Slimly (44) is believed to be defeated. Aunt/A.—Beni G Shields, the Union condi )tlase for Governor, has hero elected over Henry W. secessionist. The democrats gain • one member of Congress. Tamcssoc —Hot little has been heard from Tedriessee, bat the morns indicate the election of the Whigiandidate for Governor. lowa soma for <aunty officers on the dth Ar. hangs; for membsts of Congress on the same 41.4 y; Texas for Governor, Congress and Legisheare on the 7th. Qty. We would relpectfally mil the' attention of the Posumuser at Mon rodon, to weekly complaints which are made to as concerning the papers sent in the Cherry mail. The Reporter for Albany which should reach that place on Tuesday, at fur thered, is freqUeutly a sleek or ten days old before\ k p moire& There w gram neglect and inatten. tip somewhere, and we have sabiniued to it mull Ilackeattmae ceases to be a virtue. hreoanter Ihrisura...The Coed of Quarter iSeesior-3a Pawn . ni--has derided . in the ewe 1 a the Pennsylvania ittilroadi, after Inn ugement of conmet, that , the $2,060,00ii of steak herd by rhibt ile)phia bras not liable to butatire. iipreakyas et OW 44 ilkorplet • Nock .41noirsimboo • We prnmised, in announcing the domination of Hon. Wir. Joitee,' by the Whig Slate Convention,: to shoWthe &WC, bow intimately hi - bad' been entmected with the Sastinebantut County: Bank—to . expose the disicpatable fraud which bad been pro- Ikea in the matter of the "Stoplui Stock Compa ny," and how -far the Judge had been concerned in that dlegal and fraudulent transaction. The, we now set about—promising that our authority for what we shalt say, is the Report of the Commis sioners appointed to investigate the attain of the detain.* institmiop, and document/pin our possessioit aviedfrom the books ((hie Rank. That the press should dare to call in question the mniives or actions of Judge itgfitP :has awakened a pelted howl of astonishment from the clique of persons who in the gracious eflulgenee of his Honor's presence, as well asthose who are equally imp! sated with him in the nefarious transaction.— They endeavor to avoid the obloquy which inevita. bly images to their conchrt by (beery of n persecu. ton" and " petty malice." and other . argemnes of the same character, at Once both logical and conclu sive. We know no reason Why Judge Jessup (now that he is • candidate) is not as pmper a subject for newspaper remarks as any other candidate The purity of the Judicial Bench should most cer tainly be a subject of great interest to every' citizen, and he who asks to be electea to it, should at least come o 8 the bench of a lower eourt,whh - tinsullied ermine, and clean hands. There may be those who imagine that Judge Jerve is too exalted in character, too brilliant in beeline, to have his conduct or motives questioned, and that when we look at him it should be as "'through a glass, darkly" Such shall not be our course. We are not disposed to veil our gaze as we approach him, nor do we fear of being struck blind, by daring to scrutinize if there , be spots upon the 'taws even of this dasirling luminary. • The Commissioners (Messrs. Wetoirr and Brat • *war) repott . to the Legislature, in regard to the Surplus Stock transaction, as follows -11 The whole transaction in relation to the Surplus" Stock was in open end flagrant violatign of law, and Me groundwork of the subsapeentinismcmogentent and disasters of the institution. ' This declaration of the Commissioners every man who has examined the facts, will concnr in. The failure of the bank—the distress which it occasioned—are then directly chargeable upon those who were the plotters and executors of tha t notable scheme. Some of them are not now living ,—they are answerable to,a higher tribunal. We would not disturb their ashes--but charity for the dead will not serve to ward off odium from the living; nor answer as theic excuse when they are arraigned 11 the bar of public opinion. lodge les *yr we have every reason to believe, was the tatti er of this Commit) , It was his transcemdanl finan cial abilities which called it into being—watched over its birth— presided over and directed its opera tion through life—and Melly saw it indecently out pf the world. The Judge, in his testimony before the Commis sioners, if not directly guilty of prevarication, was singularly oblivious. He carried throughout an air of meekness and innocence which is refreshing to behold. Whatever others may have done, he at least, has had no knowledge of the affairs of the Bank or of the Stock Company. He ceased to be a director before the Bank went into operation. From time to time he was called upon to sign renewed stock notes, and did so. Farther than this, if the Judge is to be understood as hie testimony liter ally reads, be has been privy to - none of the linen. cial dodges of the Hank managers. Pure and immaculate Judge! . Who would imag ine from your ingenuous and straight forward tes timony, that you were cognizant of the transaction of that Company which met in secrecy in the Direc tor's room of the Susquehanna Bank, of which you were the presiding genius ! But the Judge says " that a reference to the books and papers or the Bank, would probably refresh his recollection as to further matters in this connection." We should certainly suppose that such reference was necessa ry to brighten the Judge's memory, and while he is about it we request him to take a peep into the minutes of the Stock`Company's proceedings. He Iwo somewhat- that mat a journal was kept. and 'that at the time he would have us believe that bs was a stranger to the bank and its operations; fur ther that to put his name an occasional stock note, he attended its meetings, and further that the urinates of their, proceedings are recorded in his hand-writing. For fear be may not have the book handy we will publish a few extracts. If they are not correct, the Judge undoubtedly has the evidence to disprove them. It they are corectly copied, as we declare them to be, they open new light upon the faltering corruption of this damnable transaction : Extracts taken from the book of minutes kepi by the Sur plus Stock Company, being entered in the hand-writ ing of the Secretary of the Company. Prior to the sale of " the Hank of Susquehanna County," at a priblic auctibn (as provided in the act of incorporation) it was agreed and understood that it was advisable to keep out foreign speculators, and secure the stock permanently to persons residing in the county, and Wrn. Jessup, J. C. Biddle, Isaac Post, C. L. Ward and 8.8. Matron, associated them. selves into a company for the purpose of taking such surplus of the stock of the Bank, as may dot bid in by other citizens of the county at the public sale. They accordingly made an arrangement for a loan of the Towanda Dank to be appropriated to the purchase of stock under this arrangement. Elp. wards of ninety thousand dollars of stock was pur chased for the benefit of said company. It was 'agreed that of this amount each of the company might take what he might desire to bold barns file. A delay occurred in putting the Bank into oppera. tiom owing to the deranged state of the currency and nothing was done toivards paying in the furter. age on the stock, until the fall of 11138. tomesonversation had passed beiween persons in termed in the Mock and several Banks in the city of Philadelphia, more particular with the Cashier of the Manufacturers and Mechanics Bank. About the middle of November, J. C. Diddle who had been du ly elected Presjdent of the Institution, welt to Phila. delphia to conclude a final arrangement for a loan in behalf of the company enumerated, and also make some arrangement in relation to the future Corres pondence. of ;the Dank. Owing to the depressed state of the money market, notwithstanding the strongest assurances had been given of aid. he fail ed In making any suitable arrangement either for the Dant or the Company. Ile then proceeded to New York where through his friends Allen do Pas. son, an arrangement was made for funds required by the company to pay in their stock. At a meet. log of firersotrs interested in the - eqrile.steek held at the ry Room of the Bank** Wed. nesday Dee: , DilUt. There was present.CC. Bid, die, Isaac Mulford. D. Searle, Wm.. 1,. Post; nyrm•Wiellind C. L. Ward be the original company, lifm.liasup being absent. L C. Diddle was . appointed President of the coa pem,'and C. L. Ward - Secretary. i Arts? consoltatipu It was understood and agreed in. That the conipany should be enlarged and con :isle/ernes C. Biddle. Into Post,. Wm. Want, W‘Jessuiri Searle, HearyDritdter. D. Post, JUNI Lane and C. L. Ward. holding the stock termed "'surplus amektin equakproportkins.- • • 3d. plait the elpenieu -Warred in arranging the' , earplug stook eqnally eom. PIM= 3d. That Messrs. Diddle. C. L. Ward rind Wm. L.- Post. Ire &committee to ascertain and make up the amount of these expenses to be settled at the . nextmeetieg of - the company. - . . 4th. The same gentlemen report *hid at the next meeting some advisable plan of holding or dividing thew surplus stork* bold by the company - in view of its remaining safe from individual liability or transfer in trait for tit% security of the loans which have been made in arranging said stock. 6th. That It is deemed expedient to retain at least fifty thousand dollars of the surplus stook, per manently to the company (live thousand dollars to each of the same) and that the President of the company be authorised•to dispose of any of the surplus stock over the 06.000 aforesaid, to whom be may think proper and at par. until other wise advised at a meeting of the company. - The company here adjourned to meet at .the call of the President. Attest 0.1.. Ward Secretary, Oct. 7. 1839. At a meeting of the company, present. J. C. Bid dle. Isaac Post, David Post, Wm. 'I. Post, Henry Drinker. Wm. Jessup. 8. 8. Mulford and C. L. Waid. .1. C. Biddle President. The committee on that subject report that the es. penses in arranging " surplus stock" is as follows ; Donis on $60,000. Allen & Paxson, $6OO 00 Discount on $15,000 loan. 457 60 J. C. Biddle for expense of negotiating loan, bO.OO Expenses to Towanda. 5 00 P.Lusles expenses getting charter. 500 00 C. 1.. Ward & Wm. -L. Posts' ez. to Tow'da, 10 00 Wm. L. Post sending to Towanda, 16 50 $3,639 oci On this amount the tnetztbers of the company hare paid. - WED. Jessup. $5O 00 leaving due, $ll3 90 rt„ 8. Mulford, 60 00 do 113 90 Isaac Post, 50 00 do 113 90 Wm. L. Post. 72 10 do 92 40 J. O. Biddle, 105 00 do 58 90 Win. Ward, do 189 90 C. 1.. Ward. bOO .do 158 00 D. Post, • do 113 90 D. Searle, ' ' do . 143 90 H, Drinker, 331 50 Expenses to ba7ance ad. 1,639 00 Balance due as above from the several members of the company. 51.307 00 Attest—C. L. Winn, Wx. L. Pore, Committee. The right of lesse Lane having beewassigngd to James C. Biddle was surrendered to the company. and the company is hereafter to consist of len--ihe remainder of the company heretofore named, own ing and boWing to stock in equal parts ; Isaac Post, Wm. L. Po.t, Wm. Ward, C. 1.. Ward. B. B. Mut. ford. J. C Biddle, Wm. Jessup and Henry Drinker. having paid in proportions of 187,50 each (700) towards the first instalment of the bonus. it was con• eluded by• them to take cash two shares of stock more for this payment, paying in cash $lOO each. making $lOO the par value of stock. This leaves the statement of expenses as before stated. Paid. Ilas to pay. Note given Win. Jessup, 'sso 00 $ll3 90 Jan. 29, 1842 'B.B. Mulford. 50 00 113 90 do Isaac Post. 50 00 113 90 do Win. L. Post, 71 50 92 40 do David Post. do 163 90 do James C. Biddle, 105 00 58 90 no note Henry Drinker, do 163 90 do Daniel Searle, do 162 90 June 29,1942 C. L Ward, 600 168 90 no note Wm. Ward, do 163 00 do I hereby for value reeeirad, tele:tee and relinquish to the other parties In interest, all my Oght and in terest in the company stock (so called.) They too, release all claims to farther contributions by me— and I disclaim all liabilities in any way concerned with said company stock. C. L. Waal). April 28, 1842. • At a meeting of the stockholders aforesaid.pres eut. Wm. Jessup, Wm. L. Post. Win. Ward David Post. Isaac Post. Henry Drinker, D. Searle, 8. 8. Mulford and C. L. Ward. Wm. Jessup and Wm. L Post Were appointed a committee to arrange the accounts and dividends and notes of the compady, and report on Tuesday of ttert week !2d lust. Agreed that the stock of the company be transferred and stand as heretofore in the name of Wm. Jessup & Co, and Wm. Jessup be authorised to transfer stock upon the conditions and restrictions heretofore imposed on James C. Biddle. [How ends the notes in the hand writing of C. Ward, and appears again in Wm. Jessup's hand as follows :] At a wetting of the stockholders Aug. 25. 1842, present, I. Post, Wm. Jessup, B. 8. Mulford, D. Searle, Wm. Ward. H. Drinker and Wm. Post I the shares of C. L. Ward and James C. Biddle, having been surrendered, the amount doe by them. J. C. Biddle 11511,90, C. 1.. Ward $158,90-017,80 sus divided among the eight others, and notes including limp given on the preceding page, was given as fol. lows : six month motes. dated ]an. 79,1812 Wm. Jessup, 8142 27 Daniel Searle. do 192 37 do Wm. L. Pont, do 120 87 ' do 8. 8. Mulford, do 142 37 do D. Post, 192 37 no note 1. Post, do 142 37 dated 29 Jan. 141411 Wm. Ward, do 192 37 do Henry Drinker. do 192 37 The old notes cancelled. and the above notes to be paid in 3Odays. By this it appears that Judge 'woe, was cogni• zant of the doings of the Surplus Company from its conception until the day he assigned the Stock, in open violation of the provisions of the ,charter, to the Bank, in order to cancel the stock notes which had been given himself and associates. The ostensible reason for this operation, was to keep stock °sof the hands of speculators. Such is the reason ffiven by the Judge in his testimony. Such is the' reason given in they introduction to the "little book" wherein was recorded the doings of die Sanhedrim. This long preamble, with its specious reasoning and plausible pretext, if it smith ; fled the consciences bf those who are implicated, we must say, they are easily persuaded. The name is given it of the " Surplus Sock Company," and its avowed object was to take whatever of the stock that might not be subscribed. The true object of it was the control of the Bank. Ninety thousand dollars were at once subscribed,, and the stock books immediately closed. It will be seen by the sth regulation of the Company that the control of die Bank was the object arrived at, and repeated refusals were made to dispose of Stock when the quantity wanted would lease them, less than 555,000. Of course, capitalists would not buy 'lock to have it managed by such a com pany, and heti:a:sales were 'fifteen. The chimes of Susquehanna Amid be made &Ware how deep ly they are indebted to the kindness and considers. lion of Wm. Uwe le Co. We treat they will up. Facials the efforts which were made to shield them from speculators. The gentlemen who were summoned before he Investigating Committee all speak of a Was being made at the Towanda Sank, and the five per cent upon thia Surplus Stock being paid to Commission. en in *wands money. The books of the Towan. da Sault have no evidence of such loan. ' The 1110,. 00Ckto.bo sure, was taken from the Towanda Bank, :and the Commissioners may haie seen the bundle , Oats - ming it, (and we doubt it it was opened ? ) bat ereallought back to Towanda- the neat days before night rested securely in its vaults, havi‘g anacreted the purpte*Gx which it was intended.— Many • poor ' wretch hai seen the Inside of the Peritendiuy, ft* straining the truth' no mor than hive some of the upright and'Phrisaieal grmdetnen whn testified in 'teganl ro this ban. a'term in per feet keeping with the whole fransaction—st bare. faced, imputlenNscandsloes movement; in otter de. fiance of the rights and security of community. —A want of space compels us to ease abruptly, but this subject shall claim Our attention, until we bare 'endeavored to show fully in its true colors the turpitude and rascahty'of the muunction. PENIXSTLVAIcti FARM Jevanat..—No. 5 of this useful and highly practical Agrieuhand work has been received at this 'office., it has the merit of being better addapted to the wants of the Farmer of Pennsylvania than any similar publication with which we have met; containing as it does the ex perience of oor beat farmers as to the different modes of cultivation, rearing of stock, fertiliztrg. etc, and keeping up fully with the pr Gress making in this branch of nnr National indul4iy. Now that a State 'Agricultural Society has beets tormed,which has its auxiliaries in almost every County, such a work, designed especially a' the organ through which the Fanning interest shall bete:petted, becomes doubly valuable, and we doubt Om (trill be property appre ciated and patronized. S. 114tleman, Editor :A. M. Spangler, Publisher, Lancaster: St a year. Onto.—The Democrats null Whigs 6f Ohio, have both completed their Stare tickets ' The following are the names of the eandilliftes Whig. Gestalt° Democratic. Samuel F. Vinton. -Deubein Wood. Lator-Croyclooft. • • Ephraim It. &Airy. William Madill, SVPREML JVIPUS:3. - Sherlock J. Andrew', . ;. Rufus P. gurney, Charlet. C. Convere, Wm B. Caldwell, k, Peter Odlin, 'i. John A. Corwin, Bellamy Storer , i. Thos. W. Bartley, GeOrge B. Way, ri = Allen G. Thurman, do 149 90 1,307 50 331 60 Cox.. litoica, the Democritic candidate for Gov. error will speak at the following named places, during the month of August. Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co, Aug. 15 Towanda, Bradford Co . ll 16 Montrose, Susquehanna Co., 41 19 Philadelphia, " 21 Montgomery,ll , 2 2 Barks, " .23 Schoylkill, " 24-45 Lancaster, " 27 Lorr.—ln this borough, a gold bracelet, with a locket attached, containing the daguerreotype like ness of an aged man. The finder will be liberally rewarded by leaving it at this office. execution of the Cesden Murderers. Mu:mantle, August B.—The execution of the Cosden murderers took place at Chestertown to-day, •and is described to have been one of the most ter. rible scenes ever witnessed. Each of the three unfortunate men swung off in to eternity, protesting their innocence to the last. All three swung off together The gallows was twenty feet high, and the hill six feet. The rope slipped from on Murphy's neck, which caused a shudder to run throne', the throng mein bled to witness the horrible sight. The flesh on his neck was tom - open, presenting a ghastly wound, he tell heavily to the ground, in the` most horrible manner. The excitement at this point was intense. He recovered his senses in about half an hour. When his comrades Taylor and Shelton, were taken down, he pronounced them murdered men. r , Morph, then vehemently repeated "his protesta tions of innocence, in the midst of Which he, wis led to the waflolJ, the fatal noose adjusted around his neck, and be was again launched off—the blood streaming from his neck. e The necks of both Taylor and Shelton broke at the first fall. They died seemingly without a drug. ee. The great fall caused 'the rope to cut through the flesh on their necks. Murphy, when brought to the gallows thesecond time, told the Sherin to go on with the murder, " for ; remember," said be, " you are not hanging murderers." it was, throughout, one of the most painful spec tacles ever witnessed. A Man Sant—.Last Monday night, Dept• Sheriff WILLARD was called up to go to the South part of the town and arrest David Inalion, on a charge of shooting Daniel Dennison, sometime during the evening. Whalltin was accordingly arrested and locked up in jail, until yesterday, when his exam ination took place before Justice RIPLEY. It appepred that Dennison had frequently been At Whallon's house, sometimes behaving very in decent and becoming very ugly towards the female members of the family, who were afraid of him.-- On this occasion he had a jug of whiskey and was intoxicated, being exceedingly. moisy and mating diverse threats—all of which were exceedingly an noying to the inmates of the house, particularly to two or three of them who were sick. Mallon ordered him to leave, and finally took down his gun and fired a charge of shot into the buck side of his thigh. The cry of murder was rais ed—Dennison was led towards home, but, either from faintness or intoxication, or both together was unable to proceed—Whallirn said he only in tended to " pepper" his legs, and he knew he had not killed him. Dr. Sprague testified to dressing the wound and gave it as his oppinion that the leg would be well in a taw days. 'Under all these circumstances, Jus ice Ripley awry properly held Mullion to bail f 1; a simple assault and Battery, for which he is too answer at the next court of sessions.—.Owego Gazette. Toss= to Pastetcrtvamia.S-The cultivation of tobacco has never been carried on to so great an ex tent in Pennsylvania as it this sewn. The high prices which good Pennsylvania tobacco comman. tied last year has givenothis impetus to its cultiva• lion, and caused many persons to engage in it who never before attempted it. The most extravagant rents have been paid for land, to be used for rain. log tobacco. In some sectionaoftancaster county as much as seventy-five dollars per acre has been asked and freely given. The ; present indications are, that the coming crop will not be an average one, and consequently their must be heavy lows to the growers. With a few etceptitms, all thefields we have seen give poor promise of a good yield. We hope, however, that the balanze of the season ill prove more propititions, and that the crop will - an average one at last.—Penasy/vania Formers' Journal. Asornea Vcestom OP vat jtevourrtori IN Cuss. —A dispatch from Boston dated the Bth inst., say& , —"A lens?, received by one of the first mercantile finite in this city, dated Trinidad, Cuba, July 26, say.: You will probably hear pxaggensted accounts of. insurrection in various parts of the island. In - this place 56 voting men proceeded to a hill near by, and raised the slandered 01 Independence; they were pursued by the GovernMem troops, and .a por tion °Mem surrendered without resistance, and belted for mercy; the rest fled into the woods..—. This is all the nsing there hasbeen in this vicinity." The cornsspondemt also further says, that "whatever outbreak there-was, has bleed most thoroughly and effectually suppressed" , L bloeummt ro G =CUL WOslll.-..it is proposed thatlbie btotitiment ilia!! be ekectelin Cyrano Hill Cenfetery i near New York. -, itirbeas The movers in the mitgoificeni project of the - Ebony line of Sterainetewhich ire to ply between the pods of this linked States andlhat of die west ern cos* of Africa; are again at wink.' The neii Conyers is to tie prepared for sit application, to be made by; George - law and cshers—thongli it is probablellat Mr. Wes excessive modesty will duce him in withlidd . his name, and content self; In the outset at least, with doing good by stealth—for *liberal annual appropriation of mimey from the public treasury, by , which the ambers of the scheme may be enabled to make their inhales, whether the scheme itself succeeds or not. Several journals have, therefore, - Opened at once on this subject like a pack of well-framed hounds •—we mean no disrespect by the comparison, but only ye it to dlnstrade the- temarkable unison of these "great moral mina," as somebody calls them. The resources of Liberia are described in glowing terms—her products of indi.:o, coffee, eo!.. ten, sugar — the truits of her tropical orchards, oran ges, lemons, limes and cocoa nuts; Liberia, also, is the true borne of the negro, from whichhe was brought a savage, and to which he iiS to be return ed a civilized being; Liberia foto be the seat of an immense commerce, of which the United States ere to bold the key of all the tradeof the African continent is to flow by innumerabliChannels to the ports of Liberia, like,the tributaries to a mighty riv er, anti from Liberia it is to Ileitis wa; to America, or at least be distributed over the world by-Ameri can merchants. The slave trade in the meantime —for those who treat ell opfositioo to the slave trade at home al fanatical, unite in condemning the slave trade atit c al is abhorent to humanity—sup pressed b 3 the wer of the great republic of Libe ria, is-to cease On the Afiican coast. When people's minds are brought to a proper state by thee addressing their imagination and their philanthrophy, (he demand for money follows.— Your projector eis well as your lover knows the soft ,moment at which ad make his approaches. Mea sure* will be t a ken, of course, to obtain in each House reports favorable to theechetne of establish ing a line of steamers by the aid of the gneemment and the opinions of the majority of the press having been already secured in their favor, the bill for giving money to the Ebony Line is to be passed by Congress with as little discussion as possible. A bill of that class once passed, is never repeal ed—never, so far as our experience or observation serves us. No failure•on the part of the projectors to perform their part of the conditions on which the money is granted, puts Ihein in no danger of losing it, as long as they . have a plausible excuse to offer, as we liave seen in the history of the Sloo contract. Whenever the money of the treasury begins to flow out in a particular direction, it makes itself a per: manent channel in an incredibly short space of time. ft islemarkable that the very argomente which are °Beret, ie . favor of the establishment of a line of steamers by government are the very aiguments which show that euch aid is unnecessary. We quote a passage from one of the atticles intended, i . to prepare Congre for that appropriation of the public tends for th erection of a line of steamers to Africa, which 111 . Webster and other politicians of his class have declared their readiness to We fi nd it copied' from the Richmond Republican into this morning's I.7ournal of Commerce: "These steams re should sail from the urethan 1 ports, in which are eollecied the great body of the free colored people. 1 The removal of this class of the free population Would be but one of the benefits which the establishment of such a line would con- I far. It would open to us the richest commercial relations with Africa. The vessels might take out 1 the products of our factories, and the numerous ar ticles of every desotiption which are in demand in Liber.a, for trade with the natives They might bring back ivory, geld dust, oil, coffee, lemons, or anges, limes, and other tropical productions. To strengthen Liberia is the surest stay to open to us the commerce of Africa. Let Os enable her to open roads into the i interior as W. as practiCable It is believed that by a prudent and energeticosffort, the whole trade of the river Niger anti the valley of Timbactoo, would be thrown through Liberia in to the hands of American merchants. " Nothing can exceed the variety and value- of the productions of Liberia. Sugamtahe grows rap idly. Cotton is a native plant. Ono_ and hemp flourish there in great perfection. Oranges, coffee, wild honey, lemons, limes, mahogany, camwood, satin-wood and rosewood abound there. Mules, oxen, coarse wool sheep, bogs, fowls, horses and goats are found in great abundance. Here is a rich temptation to commerce, and a strong inLocement to emigration. In tact, if the bee negrees do not soon embrace this opportunity of advancing their fortunes, we should not be surprised to pee the white men establishing a colony on the African cosi', and appropriating to themselves the spoils of the golden harvest." If there be any truth in this view of the matter, the interference' of the government is no more wanted to establish a line of steamers between this country and the Coast of Africa, than bet Ween the United States and Cuba. The trade between Ameri ca aqd Africa will assuredly find proper vehicles as soon as any occasion occurs for them, as the trade between out ports and those ut the West Indies has already dope. , H a line of garners would open to ns " the rich est commercial relations with Africa," our enter prising merchants will perceive the fact guile as soor. as any journalist, will establish the line with. out the help of i ths te goliticians. Show them what the Richmond lean calk; a golden harvest, and they will sharpen their sickles, and enter the field as reapers, to gather it for their garners. A vast trade, derived by Innumerable channels from the whole continent of Africa, is represented as °tiering its rich fruits to the grasp of American merchants. If on, they will be sure to reach out their hands withobt any further inducement. • We have two philanthropic societies in this coun try, the Colonization Society and the Anti-Slavery Society, both formed with henevolent views, and both contemplating, in different ways, the goodi of the African race. We sincerely hope that both will succeed in their objects; we shall be glad to see the establishment of a civilized republic on the coast of Africa, where the negro is not only the po litical, bat the sdcial equal of all around him ; and we shall be equally rejoiced at the communication of the blessing of Freedom to all in this country, without distinction of color. But the government has nothing to do with either society. II it bestows money on the Colonization Socity. the principle supporters of which- are citizens of the southern states, for the benefit of which it was founded, it would be but fair to balance this with a grant of funds to the Anti-Slavery Society, the principal members of which are citizens of the free states. The main objection, however, would.still be in force against both, that Congress has no right to make such a disposition of the public money. If a fine of steamers be important to the purpose of the Colonization Society, and commercial men are slow in establishing it, let the enterprise be quickened by charity ; let the opulent philanthropists who take an interest in the colonization scheme subscribe liberally; let them take shares in tras line of steam era, which is to carry on so vast a trade. and prove so lucrative to those engaged in it. Here is a work in which, if we may believe their own statements, their benevolence is sure to be rewarded as amply by personal advantage, as by the pleasure of doing good.—Erening Post _ Is Tins Reason on Iturnscv?—The New York Tribune relates an informing anecdote of the sagaci ty of a dog in saving the life of a child of Mr. Rob intuit', of Flatbush, Long Wand. This gentleman has two dogs; a small spaniel and a are bail breed deer hound. The small dog was playing with Mr. R.'s child near the cistern, when the child fell bead foremost into the water ' • the agonised mother, who from a window,, ivitnented the occurrence, saw the the spaniel rua to flat kennel of the hound, who in stantly ran to the spot; and, before the mother could reach the child, the noble animal had placed it in safety. Instinct might have induced the small dog to attempts rescue, bat evidently knowing his ina bility to do to, what prevented him horn trying, and caused• him, quick as thought,to fittch.the strong-, erdoV DMIOGRATIC MEETINd! The Democrats of Bradford Corn sett qnested to assemble in MASS MEETING x Towanda, on SATURDAY, the 16th d am August, 1851, at 2 o'clock M., for th e pose of respomiing to the nomination s of tit Reading Convention. According to sp oilt went COL. Wl:Wig IgGLEE, the D elk cratic nominee for Governor, wm be pre find address the meeting ; addresses m a y ber expected from other eloquent Pipeakeri. JAMES H. WEBB, Chaimw Democratic Standing Comnus At a Democratic meeting. held at the Grand Room of the Court House; on Tuesiay evening, t , I I, 1851, Col. G. F. MASON was chcisen to pr and-E. M. Fiala' elected Secretary. The object of the meeting, being to make !bea t essary arrangements for the meeting to • be at this place on Saturday next, on motion, t t Goodrich, J. D. Montanye. H. L. Shaw D, V l * cook 4ind J. F. Means, were appointetia Coin to meet Col. BIGLER, and convey hint feet , vine to Towanda. On motion, U. Mercer, 21. I. Seidl, Geo. gr.., son, C. 8. Russell. A. 1.. Crannier.-E.. M. Farm, Bridlenum were "appointed a Committee to Make needful arrangements for the meeting, and also prepare a list of officers to preside at the lune. After some further consultation, the melting, Owned. (Siam' by the amen.) A Period of itetklea Eitraraga During the sessions of 18364 and 1837-44., Ritner then occupying the Execiitive Chair Gov. Johnston being.a Lieutenant. to Thaddeotti vena, in the House,'lhere - was niore recklesiti travagance and - wasteful!' gYpethlitare of money, than has ever ocetirred ai any , other of our history as a Stateiald the evidence of extravagance meet-seat every lam as we twi t the fertile valleys and rugged mountains of Commonwealth First upon our southern in the county.of Adams, we find a serpentine t . that winds round the hills like another Cret an rinth—a barren, forsaken mass of excavations embankments--orergrown with weeds, briars' • brambles. This is the far famed Getrystuirg • road, to which Gov. Jo hnston . voted 6405,000, which cost the State 8667,000. Again, in the eastern section of the State, beautiful fertile valley in Chester county, the t eler beholds, in the fields of thg farme rs r and the hilrsides, rude piles of stone, half onion - r, bridges and viaducts. deep cuts and high embsa ments—here a level grade of a mile, and 1.. rude excavations without shape or torm--all a doped and given over again to the original ow.. of the soil, a blur and blemish npon the Seamy the valley. This is a* that remains of the Ad railroad. to which Goy. Johnston voted 0,1 HUNDRED AND TWENTY THOUSAND LARS in 1837. Again, in an adjoining 'county. as we wincr the mountain peaks, we behold tall piers, biol. arches, and high embankments, reminding us the ruins ol the ancient aqueducts of Rome. one place a mountain torrent in a deep . ravine passed at an elevation of eighty feet, to aunt,, a mountain is to be overcome with a series of' clined planes; in another en effort has been is to perforate the solid rock, bin before day light ir seen from the other side the work was abandon and lies a heap of-mouldering mins;.. a melancho, monument ol the folly of its projectors. This the celebrated Danville and Pottsyslle railroad, which Gov. Johnston voted ONE HUNDRED AN FIFTY THOUSAND DOLLARS in 1837, and 150 000 in 1838, and to which the State has paid rim ally, in addition, the sum of 515,000 interest on loan gnaranteed by_Governor Rimer and his ln in 1835. Again ; as the traveller wended his way, a years since, along the highways in the west corner of our State, he would meet long lines t canals excavated, locks, aquedects and cal. two.thivile built, but then rapidly going to decay, reminding him of the rains of the Valley of Nile. This was the Erie canal to which Gore Johnstrm'and Gov. Rimer appropriated more the one Million of dollars, the work that cost the plc over three millions, and which •was eventm: presented to a private company without ever ceiving one cent of compensation therefor. Again, around the stony base of Peter's moon , ?. iu oar own neighborhood a few years since e' have eontemplated with a sad heart the mini what seemed to be intended brills projectors great work, bat which evidently was located nue, !yin the wrong position. Here were high vertex and' slope walls built to protect the ernbaakc. from the fury of the Susguehannah, and there set locks completed and aqueducts half finished, it tended to pass the current of the canal high on rapid creeks, This was Governor Johnston and Gat. ernor Rimer's pet project—the Wiconisco Yuen to the Pennsylvania canal—a work on which they expender) THREE HUNDRED AND N'lNEft THOUSAND DOLLARS, and then it was presel# to a private company, without receiving for it dollar. This company completed it as origin:la designed by Ritner, Johnston and Stever s. and a visitor to Millersburg now witnesses the extraordw ry spectacle of a Feeder to a canal having itself to tt fed by a steam engine. These ruined works, on which millifins trey expended by Governor Johnston and Governor fit• ner, were the main causes of our present h debt.—lnvestigator. TB! PROPOS!! SIM' CANAL Drrarcrs THE Ocr.arm.—The company lately authorized to cab a canal or railroad between the rivers Atrate D San Joan, in New Granada, have in. view a rota where a boat canal was actually made, and b same years in use, towards the end of the lasted , . tory. it was dug by natives, under the directime a priest residing in that relion, and this fact proof the feasibility of the project. The route trainee sea is about three hundred miles up the Afiltv , thence by ' , anal to a navigable point of the Sr' Juan, when the passage to the Pacific is ohm — The land of course is low between and the sallif of water is reported to be sufficient. The company have a grant of a large swam"' land ,to be located by themselves; and, as the Chas country and its vicinity were among the riche* gold at the time of the conquest, and gold• is made there, this part of their acquisitions may rated at a very high value. Other privileges', tainted in their gmnt are also liberal. We may gin more particulars won —N. Y. Express. UNITIM) STATFA SHIPS OatMIMI TO .Cura.--Tle, New York Journal of Commerce says that &rpm ee were received by telegraph-on Tuesday e'e° at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, ordering the reheet ship Preblei and the brig Dolphin, to be role!, with all-dispatch, tovail direct for Cuba.- The ject is supposed to be to intercept any expedihw' that may be sent from this country for the inrreio of the Island. A reinforcement of marines will br put on board the Preble, in addition to her arreP complement.- It is belieied that orders hare bevel sent to Norfolk, directing:ilie dispatch of the 611 0 and Portsmooth:on the aims service. THe AUGUST linewasse.--The August intereet the State Debt, due on Fritley bun, watt role paid on demand—about 1/I.so;ooo'being phi lotto that day. The whole interest amounts to 5941, 00 —of which $820,000 is due to foreign stockholders and $321,000't0 domestic holder*.