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bilki.4ol4 PI &bAle W L.,.Mattey.
Vsfasin Or
Vilol R died WClettand
Wet Jefferson Mists.
Navy James C rhotottin.
ibilintelferGenistal
Attorney General Caleb Cushing.
illerieservelfieren IA brown high character, and
temarally oinsefulservice in distinguished public
positives heretotore. A brief statement of their
lives and history sill nut be uninteresting:
faog; LOuned-414!Ceb n*W.,Sricsatary 01
late is a native in Sturbridge, Mass., end is in the
67th year of his age. He graddated-at Brown Uni
varsity in 1808, and subsequently removed toTioy.
'N. Y., where 'hie-studied and- practised law, Silt!
became a prominent -democratic Dur
ing the war of 1812 Ito served as a volunteer, and
In 1816 was chosen Recorder of Troy, from which
etfice he was removed; in 181'8, by the Iriends of
Hoe. Clinton, who had been previnuslropposed by
both , Mr. blarcey and Mr. Van Buren. In 1821
Mr. blarcey removed to Albany, his present resi
dence, and was appointed Adjittant General by
Gov. Yates. The Legislature, in 1823, ejected 1.1,11
State Comptroller, and in 1829 lie was chosen a
Judge of the Supreme Court Of the Sate, which
position he resigned in 1831, to accept a seat it, the
4.1. S Senate Ile was in the Senate less than two
Neari when ho resigned, being elec:ed Giverhor of I
ew York, 1832 He was twice re elected, viz
in 1831 and 1836; but on a (mirth nomination, in
1838, ho shared iii the defeat oT the Democratic
party and William H. Seward was elected over
him. Atter retiring from the executive chair, Mar.
cey principally devoted los attention to his private
business until Mr Palk became President - , is 184-1,
when he received and accepted the post of Sect ! ".
wiry of War, the duties of which he discharged withl
signal abili . y.
Hon. James Militia, the Secretary cf the Trea.
sury, is about 50. years el age, nod of atheletic form
and energetic flab! P. lie is one of site ,iisnitgui,li
ed lawyers at the Louisville bar, where he has no
quilled great wean and an e!4.‘a:e I s and h ig. ;d r
thithrig is considered a prornimitit feai!er ot the
Kentucky democracy, al il is rely popular o hit
parr throughout the 11'estern Sate. Ile has ii
been a member of Coogiess, tut has f in d e xp e
rienee as a legislator in the Sate of Kemucky. lie
was Freside..t of the State Convention wh Ch form.
the new consteuiloa of Kelllerky. in 1819. In
1337, ikll. GLl:lifle was tin2e,l as a candidate for
Judge of Ow Supreme COll,l Je'ke Ca•
Iron, and on ilie death of Mr. Clay. in 1852, he
declined the olTer of Coverii.-r I " ," ell to ilipriint
him successor ta Mr. Ciay as ILited S ates Sera
-1014
}lnn. Bobe:t 11s Cie:land, the Secretary of tlie
Interior, is ahem 45 years of age ; emigrated from
Franklin roues y }'a , to Monroe, Michigan, where
he practiced laic , and was elected to Congress for
ihrec consecutive terms (1843 to 1849.) Ile had
torevionsly distingur hed blrnAelf all a member of
the State Consieutional Conventi,in, arid of the
Legislature Of Michigan, in which hitter body he
was chosen Speaker of the House in 1843 In No.
vem b et , 1351, he was elected Governor of Michi.
gan, and under the new constitution, was re-elect
ed in 1852. for a term of two- years, *which u.tll ex•
pire in January 1e53 NCorl2re-Ft he was chair.
man of the commijeu of commerce, in 1546, and
in 1848 was on the committee of forei4e affairs.
lion. Jearrson Davis, Secretary of War ; is a na•
live of Kentucky, but removed to in
early lifer. lie is about 45 years of age; and of ac
pi%e and energetic halts's. In 1828 he graduated at
%Vern Point, and sdnn alter receiver' a commission
secnutt lieu:evert% of U. S irrhntry, reel was
'made first lieutenant of rlragoons. The same year
he received the appointment of adjutant. 133 t
he resigned his commission in the army, and re
tired to private kid in Nlississippi. Ile married- a
daughter of General Tay Lo, and his lady died be,.
`seal years since. In 13a-I. Mr. Davis nas chosen
one of the Preiriihtit'.al Electors for Morirorsippi,
and voted tor. Polk and Dallas. The following
year he Was elected to Congress, and served ; one
term as a member of the of ReTreserrietives.
Ir. July, 1846, he was apportet..l Colonel of the re
igielete of volimmers riflemen raised'in Mississippi
and distinguished himself particularly in Mon•erry
And Buena Vista. Preen ent Polk offered him the
appointment of Brigadier General in the United
fetches Army, in 1847, but he declined the honor
The same year the Legislature elected firm United
/Later Senator, and he was placed on the Senate
Committee on Alifitary Afiairs, as chairman. in
1851, he resigned his seat iu the Serrate, end accep
le,t the .nomination of he Stare Righ - s party of
Mississippi aa a candidate for Governor, but Vr34
defeated by Gas. Foote. He has since remained
in private Vile.
in. James C. Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy,
is a lawyer rf Fayet eville, N C , w the prime of
life, ad of industroue habits Ile was elected a
member of the Twenty-ninth Congress (1875 '47)
Me was speaker of the House of Commons at the
late sessiun of the Legislature of North Carolina,
and was the Catidida e of the Democratic party for
Ur Tied States Senator; but his election war. defeat
ed by the opposititin of the Hnn Romulus M Sum.
hers,. and a iew other members of the Legislature
Mr. Dobbin was also • member of the National
tamvention'at Baltimore, and promptly seconded
the movement of the Virginia delrg Mon in favor
_hf the nomination of General Pierce. His speech
op the occasion was Much admired fur itsattning
eloquence.
Jainea Campbell,the Postmaster General,
the youngest member of the Cabinet, being only
about 35 or 36 years °rage, tea native of Philade!.
phis, and the present Attorney General of Pennsyl
vania, to which office he was appointed since the
gate erection last fall. He had pieviouely been a
lawyer of Philadelphia, and one of the Judges of
the Court of Common Fleas of that city. Ile is a
gentleman of pleasing tnarir:P!rn, and of the vorett
untiring industry, two admirable qualifies fur the
post assigned him.
Hon Caleb Curd)ing. the ktorney General, is a
Utilise of Massachusetts, in the 54th year of his
ageotnd distingnished for great learning. eloquence
and industry Id 1825 h s was elected a member
of theilower house of the Massachusetts Leg'slatire.
and the next year was seat to the S'a•e Senate from
Nevrburyport. Ila was subsequently for several
years in the Legislature, and in 1833 was sent to
Congress, where he served fir eight years. In
1846.7 he was again returned to the Legislature,
where (havinz previously been a Whig) he took
sides with the il , tnocranc members in advocating
the policy of the Mexican war ' and lair apprnpriat
ing 820.000 for equipping the Massachusetts re,gi
.l=inent of volunteers at the exp Price of the State
When this proposiaoa was defeweil. Mr. Cushing
advanced the money from. his own means, and
ftie regiment w'as made ready for service. He was
chosen Colonel of the regiment, and accompanied
it to the Rio Grande, in Mexico, in the spring of
1847, being attached to the army tinder command
of General Taylor.
During his absence in Mexico, the democrats
of Ntassachusetts nominated him as their candidate
for Govern r. , and the vo.ei polled by him was
quite nattering. And in 1850, was for the fifth time
elected to the legislature. lie declined the office
of Attorney General of Magsachusetts in 1851, ten
derail him by Gov. B.mtwell, and in 1851 was ap
pßinted a Jude of the Supreme Court of that
finite, where he has acqnired an enviable reputa
tion as a learned jurist. Mr. Cushing was the first
Commissioner sent to China by the United States,
and has held various other responsible positions,
Mr. Cashing became famous for his support of the
Tyler administration in Congress, but it was after
that that he went to China.
The City Councils of Pittsburg have passed a
resolution tendering to tbs,Legislature of Penney!.
wits en iny,i;atinn to visit the city. ,
tatteffithitervi
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ibellardoailnd di liiiiitsithuiheiato goaLlta4
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brought to sight : .; .- 4' ..-,,, ,
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The mistiat lagefaeot or,:ihe Capitgl exteasi* ,
'amd the atteged masorplicatiOn arid-embezzletheiit
u! appropriations. fur the wink, gave rise to a
sharp tletale in the Senate yesterday. Tuis matter
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the public public aticti ion if any dependence can be
placed in the concurring testimony of the newer
ima witnesses who have been examined Lime the
Senate's cmomittee of investigation, the =wiry
will be startled by the exhibition riot of a fraud
only, but of a system of frauds by which the neasn
ry
• has been rubbed of `nearly three hundred thou.
Sand dollen. We treat that there • iirlime 'enure:
to go through with the investigation and to sift the
matter thoroughly betwe the alumni:lent of Cow
cress.
Ju the remaiks we have made on this subject, it
has not beer. our purpose to cast unmerited censure
un 1111) .
• 0110 We lope teat the testimony will last.'
in oh each' individual his due responsibility, and
acquit each of 'everything of which he may he in•
[mem. One witnesa, we understand, testifies to
improper conduct hi sines out the contracts, and
• ibserineut improper measurement, by which vast
soma were wrongfully taken from the treasury and
applied to Nit ate uses. . But we think it right to
mice that the superintendent, who stands charged
a oh innumerable instances of embezzlement, was
not appointed by the architect. We have been iti
formed that the architect objected to his r ppoint•
inept. tart without avail ; and that he was appoint
ed t h roug h the partiality of Mr. Pilmore, with whom
he was u great favorite According to the witness
es who have app tared beloro the corutninee of in
vestigation; the superintendent permitted the use of
the labor and mate' talc of the government for pri•
pate purposes : that he employed laborers at high
wa ... !es , requiring them to pay over to him a large
pli! ion, and permitted such laborers to charge for
days and weeks when they were not at wink., he
receiving his abate of the improper allowance.—
Accordir.g to the witnesses—and they make no se
cret of toe testimony they have given—Mr. Fil•
mare's favorite Etiperiatrildetit used the power of
his p•isition to meddle actively in electiotia, and to
111:1.1 fere tyranically with the poli , ical tights of the
goArroment employees under him ; and 'actually
weft ro ler as to attempt to raise a mid) to ittsirit
sett aiors and representatives because they condemn
ed the work winch had been executed and oppoe
eil the appropritrian of halt a million for its contain
ance. In ordinary limes such developments would
electrify the nation ; but under the rule of Whig
p itrionsm and purity the public mind has become
so accustomed to recklessness, ineficiency, corrup
tion and fraud, that nothing but some great outrage
can produce a feeling of surprise No party ever
exceeded the Whig party iii pharisaical professions
of viitue; but The expetience of the last three
years has taught the people to estimate those loud
professions at their tine value, and within a few
dip; the whip party will go hence covered with
tact iced disgrace.
THE LATE TERHIBLE. ACCIDIENT_ON THE PCNNSTL•
VANIA RAILEOAD.—The liawahurg Borough Lem,
of Monday, says :
Lee On Frirldy night we were toforrne•l that nine
persons had died hour the effects of the collision
The ageuts generally connected with the, road kept
a close mouth in relation to the matter. and we find
it impossible to gain any information from them
Mr. Ayres, who is conductor on the Central Rail
road, is an exception to the above, and he informs
us that there are but tour persons in all, died. One
very young child and its mother, and two men.—
There were nine, all Told, in the car, most of whom
were drovers, having change of the stock—horses
arid hogs—abbard the tram. The survivors are
more or less injured from the scalding arid steam,
en'ire contents of the boiler escaping into the
car) wh i ch w a s 10/tgeil immediately over the en
gine. 'the cause tut the stoppage to the height train
at (hit sprit was from wltnt rf fuel ; but from the
bursting of one of the boiler flues, a matter of which
was be) mid control. The accident resulted from
'he negb4erice arid carelessness of the conductor.
m. Musser or Mercer, who being an hour ahead
of the time of the passenger train, had arnple lime
to make every arrangement to slop the tram follow.
log him. Dlr. James S. slack, from Tuscarorabus,
Ohio, who was a passenger in the train and who
pave i t himself by jumping f om the car before the
collision, has lurni-hed us with the names of some
of the persons veered. LPYrIrl Eckhart!. of Colurn:.
Ma, Oillo, had his leg broken ; Jones Haskins, of
Palestine, Ohio, scalded ; Wm M Closkey, of Co
lunibia, Ohio, scalded, and riot expected in recov
Pr ; Nathan Wit-on, of Green county, Pa., Paul Art
demon, of Harrisburg, arid Charles King, of Unity,
Ohio, were also severely scalded We were una
ble to obmin the names of the persona killed, but
believ - V that they were emigrants ; the two men
were Germans, and the woman and child Irish.
The Item says to another pritagrarh :
Win Mercer, the conductor on the railroad
itirough whose carelessness four persons lost their
lives on Friday nrorrim4 lost, was arrested yester.
day, and taken before Esqui's Kline, who commit.
led him to jail to answer the charge. Ho was ar
rested by officer Lewis.
METPInDILLf IN TILE UNITED STATES —.The Editor
of the Zion's Herald fakes the following view of
the progress of Methodism iii\this country. He
saes :
" American Methodism is not )el a century old
In the iticeredilily stio,t space of eighty seven years
it has built tour thousand two hundred and twenty
churches. (which is little less than one for every
►week of her existence,) at a cosi of fourteen milt•
tons seven hundred iv.d thirty thousand five hun
dred and seventy-one debars. It has also erected
and endowed its colleges and numerous academies
with large sums It has built innumerable parson.
ages, and supplied itself with Church and Saliba
school literature. Now, most of these chinches,
having berm newly elected, rebuilt, or remodelled,
and most of these vast ou lays having been made
%chin the last (planer of a century, we think it no
exaggeration to estimate the expenditures of Metho
dism in the United States for home purposes at an
average very little shrill of one million of dollars
perannum - 16r the last twenty five years ; in addi
non to that, it has paid fur the support of its minis
try."
Trßlttlitt MURDER IN P/lIL 4 DELPHIA.--A marder
was di-covered in Philadelphia, March It th in a
house in Federal above Seventh street. Two wo
olen, named Hannah Shaw and Ellen Lynch, were
Junind lying weltering in their blood in the front
parlor, the Jailer in her nightclothes—her two chil
dr us, twins, two weeks old, were in beirti? stairs
crying Part of the house was occupied by John
Carroll arid wile. Both had been'oui all night to a
ball, arid the murder was not di-covered t II Mrs
Carroll returned home, at seven o'clock. M
Lyt eh's husband is a marine, who was paid.off on
Tuesday, and came to New York on Wednesday
morning, leaving seven or eight twenty dollar gold
pieces with his wife. Her trunk was broken open
and the money gone. The lock was picked with
a dirk knife, a. a piece of one was found broken
oft, and covered with blood lying by the side oldie
Houk.
A man named Spring has been arrested on sus
picion....-tdood was foun d on his clothes The de.
ceased were sisters. Hannah Shaw had been mar
ried twice, and was about forty years old. Ellen
Lynch was about thirty-six. The affair has crested
great excitement. Mr. Carroll was arrested on
suspicion, but the examination his cleared hint
He is a colporteur or book agent. An examina
tion of the bodies of the murdered women hits taken
place ; lorty-one slabs were found Upon MIS. Lynch
five entering the heart ; and Seventeen wounds
on Mrs. Shaw. An attempt was made to bdm the
house after the murder, but the tire went out after
burning a hole in the kitchen floor. A number of
arrests on suspicion have been made, iunontst .
them, a Sing Sing convict, named Millar Spring
No money or knife woo 100.,51 upon him. •
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beigocratia state Noathuitiour.
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THOMAS IL FORSYTH, or Puna. Co,
A CDITOR L.
EPHRAIM BANKS, or 11firn.ui, Co.
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J. PORTER BRA WLEY, or Cita:arrow , Co
Terms et The Reporter.
11 50 per annum—if paid within the year 50 era will
se deducted—an cash paid actually in advance IP I 00 will be
Jeflueted. No paper sent overtwo years. tailless paid for.
Aartarismarcrs, per square of tell lines. 50 cents for the
Inn and 25 cents for each subsequent insertion.
MT Office in the " Union Block," north side of the Public
!kquiaTe,:ne.ll door to the Bradford flotel. Entrants [marten
Messrs. Adams' and Elwell's taw offices.
Tits NEXT STATL FAIL—The Executive Com
mittee of the Pennsylvania State Agricuiteral were
ty, have Neil upon the city of Ptusbutg u the
place for holding the next Agricultural lair. We
understand that there was no other proposition be.
fore the Committee, but that from Pittsburg, which
pledges a subscription of 22,500 towards defraying
the expenses.
The time fixed upon for holding the exhibition
has been settled upon to be the 27th, 29th, 29th,
and 30. h days of September next.
A GRICL" mast CH than --M r. Haldeman, a mem
ber of the Pennsylvania Legislature kom York
county, has introduced into that body a bill, to pro
vide for the appointment of an Agricultural Chem
ist fur this S:ate. It has been drawn up with care,
and will, it is said, pass the Legislature. The State
Agricultural Society n ge it, and Governor Bigler in
hie last annual message recommended the appoint
ment of such an officer, and supported his recom
mendation by an array of facts and arguments.
OPCNING or NAVIGATION —The water has been
let into the Stale Canals and the boats have corr.
menced running for the season. II nothing should
occur to interrupt the Navigation, this early open
ing cannot but result advantageously to the interests
of the Commonwealth. There seems to be a fair
prospect of a heavy businssis being done on the
public improvements this year.
Oz The Pennsylvania Furrn Journal for March
is before us and we are gratified at the evidences
of es increasing prosperity. I s articles, both origi•
nal and selected, are of great merit, and should be
in the hands of every farmer thronhout the State.
Each number contains 32 pages handsomely print.
ed with illustiations, and at the low price of Si per
annum. The new solemn commences chi the first
of nest month. Address Edilors Farm joUrnaf,
West Chester, Pa.
Itttcr front Narrishrg.
lIARRIsSURG, Maich 15, 1853
Thignage question has occupied a great portion
of the time of the Senate duririg the present seas
ion. This morning argument was brought to a
close, every &Claimer had advanced, enforced or
enfeebled his position and the Senate of Penn's' sol
emnly Ow the most mature consideration and re
flection, determined that we shall remain fintlet
the operation of the guage laws of 1851 and l 852•
by defeatmg a bill to repeal them.
In 1851 Mr. Waltzer, the Senator from Erie
Conroy, procured the passage of a law restricting
all railroads within a line dropped due south from,
Erie County, to the line of Marylind, and the wee.
tern bottntiary of the Stale to the guage of lour
fret eight and a half inches. Last winter (1852)
Mr Fermin of Philadelphia county introddced. a
bill providing that all railways within the !Eastern
line of the State and a line running directly North
and Smith, several degrees East • of Erie county,
should be oldie fixed width of four feet eight and
a half inches. At the commencement of the pres
ent session the whole State, was tinder the opera
tion of a guage law, except a small intermediate
space covered by neither.
The bill, which was defeated this morning, re
pealed the Fernon law of 1852, which Mr. Kunkel
proposed to amend so as also to repeal the law of
1851. The amendment was lost by a vote of yeas
13 nays 19 and the bill by yeas 15 nays 16.
The policy of attempting to tome trade and travel
in any particular ditection by Legislative enact
ments, is at least of very doubtful propriety. There
is no subject on which speculation and calculation
is more at fault than on the course of trade. It
will overleap and defy all the boucles and reshic
tions that prudence and in.reet can put to. Phila
delphia has been arming hertel;against every rival
who she imaginea could have been of the slightest
di•adt antage to tier, when a liberal policy would fir
better have advanced her interests; an.l again het
imagined interest has been potent in procuring the
defeat of a measure calculated to unfetter intercourse
between neighboring States and consequently to
increase the comfort of passengers and the rapid.
transit of freight.
The Governor in his annual Message recom
mended that the appropriation bill should be pass
ed at an early period in the session. The House
made some show of complying with this wise sug
gestion, by taking up the bill, but it has been post
poned, according to usage to be passed at the last
of the session, daring the hurry and bustle of pri
vate business seems to be almost impossible to
change this habi4
The bill relative to State Printitig has passed the
House and the Prinii..g will be allotted wider the
provision of that set, on the 3tst ol this month.
The -Secretary of the Commonwealth, F. N.
Hugh. has resigned, and Charles A Black of
Greene - County has been appointed in his place.—
Mr. Black was in the senate with Gov. Biglert and
in that position displayed a great deal of ability._
The appointment is regarded with favor. Mr
Haghs has been or will be appointed Attorney Gen.
vital, to ette . eeiti Judge Campbell.
• toeri trtifr, i. er r.
lia . .e of 'addict notice, aew andeithus.
thi l ie g the eilizeai ot Ikadlord Coantyinon.
V .If far 0111 Howe in aim Illitrough AtfTo•
. • ' alp Thettalay eveaing t Mani 15, 111511:11 1 f
5 the. o /Piree otilvintl an impeemion apart *TM
imA tin new before theytriisliporto eti fermaylve :
nta, panting to the 44 - Canton antilltitena Railroad
Company° 'catarrh, to build literal rot la,_ fee.,
-midtAate larkaiiment mai -Viresemn .
i
Railroad. a
nree6ntaldll ealleri to oast by U. blerear,
rel., who nominated Ron. DAVID wit... Nor, as
Chairman.
Chi motion Of Col. aF. blaugOn, iai4insa, E.'
Oircnroi.. VAX PTIEZI! . . S
_H cwatas, kRAPP,
Strait; A. L CRAMISCR, lion. 0 TRACT, C. F.
Wm.'', H. W. Taarr,'ll. LAPORTE, BLS. WARMER,
N. C FIAURIR, and C. MATIIEVTIOR, were OleCled ,
Vice Presidents ; and E. A. Parson, H. C. Baig
W R. Storrs and 11. L. Scott, appoilted Secre
taries.
The President briefly explained the object of the
meeting, when on motion
U. Mercer, U. F. Mason, J. F. Means, ltl C.
Merear, .1. C. Powell Addison McKean arid E.
Reed Myer, were appointed by the Ceirman a
Committee to draft a Preamble and Rasorittions ex
pressive cif the sense of the meeting.
The Committee, miler retiring for a short time,
returned and reported the following, which were
unanimously adopted :
Wassix.iis, We herein:sited that objections have
teen reade, in the Senate, to giving the Canton and
Athens Railroad Company, authority to extend lat—
eral branches connecting with the Lackawanna and
Western Railroad ; and Whereas. The only reason
which we have heard assigned in favor of said ob.
jections is i that such lateral roads might operate to
the prejudice of the revenues of the North Drench
Canal ; and Whereas, We believe such objections
wholly unfounded ; Therefore
Resolved. flat in the opinion of this meeting. the
prorosed'ausbosity to the Canton and Athens Rail ,
road Company, to connect, by mean, of lateral roads
with thri Laileastanna and Western railroad, is
imperiously called for. to facilitate the development
of the mineral wealth of the County of Bradford.
Resolved. That said lateral roads, instead of di
verting freight and tonnage from the North Branch
Canal,will in' the main be confined to tonnage that
would never reach said Canal. but will be the means
of throwing freight upon the Canal which would
otherwise be diverted towards the New York and
Brie Railroad.
Resolved.T hat we see no conflicting inrifest be'
tween the Mirth Branch , Canal and' the proposed
lateral roads, and our Senator and Repr . esentatives
are hereby requested to urge the passage of a law
tiring to the said Canton and Athens Railroad Co.,
antbority to make such lateral roads.
After which, Col. G. f. Mason addressed the
meetmg with a few trppropriate remarks.
On motion of B. F. Powell, it was ordered that a
copy of the proceedings of this meeting be sent to
our Senator and Representatives.
On motion it was Resolved, That the peoreedings
of this meeting be published in all the papers of
Bradford, Susquehanna and Wyoming counties.
Oa motion the meeting adjourned sins die.
(Signed by the Officers )
Correasss.-0e National Legislature adjourned
on the 4th of March, but as usual much of the im.
portant bnginess was crowded into the last few
hours of the session, and it is u yt:t impossible to
tell what tills were finally passed. -
Letting.
The following is the allotment of tire grading op.
on the Williamsport and Elmira Railroad, made at
Elmira, N. Y , on the tat inst.
Sections, 1,2, 3—Burke & Co.
do 4 and 5 Barnes, Or wan & Co.
do 6, 7 and B—Jacob Severs
do 9 3t1.1 10—Flood &Goodrich.
-rio 11, 12 goal 13—Newman & Co.
do 14 and IL—Oiliest & Co.
do 16, 17, 18, 19 & 20—Hewes & Co.
do 21—Nestor & Co.
do 22, 23 anti 24-1 Stevens & Co.
do 25, 26 and 27—Molton & klurchard.
do 28— Wootlinfl, Dobbin," & Co.
do 29, 30 and 31—Meatis & Co.
do 32 and 33-Idiontirt & %char Jam!. •
do 34 and 35—Gettrite Miry.
do 36. 37 and 38-11 Howe & Co.
do 39 anti 40—Mullitton, Trott! & Co.
do 41 and 43—John MeNlahon.
do 43. 44 and 45—Gal!Nemo& Sauer'lee.
do 46, 47 and 43—Wood & McDonald.
DiCAPR IRON PRISON —Asarm B. BROWN, who
vrasconfined its our county prison, for robbing the
store of Mr. George Hea on, watchmaker, made
his escape from confinement last Friday night.
fie wa. confined iti a cell on the second story - 4if
the building, and effected his escape by working
his way through the ceiling of his cell. In furor!).
pleshing this lie evinced a great deal of ingenuity
and tact.
The room was arched, and the brick wcrk was
of a thickness that woual require the labor of more
than one night to open a passage, hence ii was nec.
essary to contrive a plan to hide the fracture from
the eye of the keeper This he accomplished by
obtaining on some pretence a sufficient quantity of
white wash to prepare a piece of muslin, till in col.
or and appearance it made a very good imitation
of the wall. The Muslin, it is said, he tore from
one of the sheets belonging to his bed. He obtain
ed sufficient shoemaker's was to answer his pur
pose, by pretending that it was needed about his
loom, (he - wan employed in weaving ;) and by
pasting the muslin over the hole in the wall it es.
caped notice As to the tools used, they are not so
easily accounted for, but it is probable that the
keeper, under the impression that the building was
sobstantial and every thing secure, has not been
sufficiently cautious in admitting visitors, and it is
likely that some friend of the prisoner has smoggl
ed to him the necessaiy mole. At arty rate he had
them and used them to good advainage fur him
self.
By standing on his loom he was raised sofficient•
ly to work with convenience, and by coning the
mortar from around a Wick or two he loond but lit.
tle difficulty in taking out the number necessary to
make an opening of ,•ufficietit size to allow the pas
sage of his body ; the same with the .ccond layer
of brick. On reaching the roof of the building, with
an augur he cut an opening and made his passage
out. From here he descended to the yard by a lad
der of rope made from run Taken from the konro
and with another ladder of the same material, but
furnished with it hook to catch to the (roping of the
wall, he made his way from the prison yard
A reward of 8150 is offered for his apprehension
and return to proson.—Pollsviile Alindng /feeder.
A FArrtiror. Doc.—On Tbrirsdly morning, the
24th ott, @spathe Newatk Daily Advertiser, a boy,
Fix years old, on of A. L. Stiger, proprietor of the
Heath House, Schooley's Mountain, While sliding
on a fish pond, a short distance from the house, tell
in. His faithful dog sat by him, and tried In null
him out s and in doing tics polled his hat oil When
life was neatly extinct, a boy who was riding by.
saw the dog sitting on the ice by the Its: The dog
commenced barking as soon as the boy Caine in
eight, and attractei his attention, on that he gave
the alarm at the store, a few rods from Ide pond,
when immediate assistance was received. The
men were obliged to secure the dog, u he would.
not let them touch the child, who, when received,
though to olj appliques' due, was, di the tune
of a fri hunts reetSre,l ;a stirms'iort.
: - Air bagmen - Ciir -- Wion..=The: - Pigderkr
Register says Mr. N.H. Olds. of that city. bas per.
fected as improvemenE in the construction . "( Car
Irkiiife.lolll44( !WOW most inevitably co at inlay
eralitse. "At says Mr.b u U
lds hoideatiall dift
sky natittiegoreasf shrinking by castifsgaidtimirt
autrautee podisialielf the wheel separatalpJ-Theilla
syii fitted ogeilier 11th • bead joint, iby mans nit
use lathaithejaneesurface of the 611..1114 *e midi
de:itutfaiivof tikkeehtral part being exit-peifeetly.
and the parts secured to each other by bolts. so as
to be firm, and the wheel equally compact with the
;00Intauglelusilleimial.-oes lossawskuS,huitleaskage,
eonsing - the - difßeuity and &titer' ensing - front — the
shrinkage, there is another important advantage
which is likely to. be obtained froin Mr. Old's im
provement. We refer to the diminished expense
of repricing a worn-out wheel.. Hitherto when •
wheel has failed, the cost of replacing it has been
from ViB to S2O tnevehole wheel, of coarse having
to be rebuilt. Rot the only portions of Mr. Old's
whiellikely ilea 84P - facing is the oder rift, is
the central part will scarcely be exposed io any Cal.
natty; consequently the old rim can be, detached
and a new one fitted on at much less expense than
is required to supply s crew wheel. 141 heretofore cow;
structaL
Tea Darrinames Paorierri.--)1 bill his beat in
troduced into the New Jersey Legislature which
gives the Court of Chancery power to issue a coat-
Mission to investigate • charge of drunkenness on
the part of drunkards who own personal properly or
real estate. N such a person is wa•titrg or pis
mansgeing his property through intemperance of
life, the Orphan's Court may appoint a sdardian to
his estate, in which case the drunkard is to be di
vested of all control of, or interest in his property.
!fin becomes a sober man the Chancellor may re
store to him his estate. The same 6io provides
that ifany liquor dealer shill receive notice from
the guardian of Stich a drunkard not to sell him li
quor, and continues so t 4 do, he shall be liable to a
fine of ten dollars for each offense.
The Albany (Ga ) Patriot !tains that .1" project is
in agitation at Tallahassee flit diiiding the State of
Florida. It is proposed by the advocates of the plan
to unite that portion of the State lying west of the
Chattahoochee and guwainte rivers to Georgia, the
balance to Constitute the future State. of Florida
The Patriot aprehends that the project will meet
with strenuous cpposion, and that nothing, will
come of The Savannah Georgian, however, be
lieves that if the question was put to a vote, three.
fourths of the voiers of Mitl.lle Florida Would be 10.
unit in favour of uniting, that portion nt the Stine to
Georgia. By Middle Florida our readers will &bitt
y* understand us, says the Georgian, to mean the
section, between the Suwannee and the IS palaehi.
cola rivers.
Tot Rts►et Fins gnotas.—At a fire in Cincin
nati, en Tuesday lasi, the .team fire engine for tht
first time, gave practical demonstration of its pow•
era. The Enquirer says that at the first sound of
the alarm, four horses were attached to it, and in
the short apace of eight minutes it was drawn from
Eighth street to the cistern. corner of fifteenth and
Vine, where it was pat in operation, by supplying
the engines of the tri and' codependent Leo. 2's with
more water than they could use. The power with
which the water was thrown through the hose, to the
engines stationed et the fire, was of such force as to
burst them. This practical illustration was consid
ered perfecrry satisfactory, and highly gratifying 6
the frig nds of the project.
GAS to Mar YorK.—Tlie cost of right:ng;ll;e City
of New York during the past year amounted to
$269,068. The whole number of gas posts put up
was 719, making the whole number of lamps now
burning 884 ; whole number of city lamps 15,007
—forming a continuous line of thirteew and three,
quarter miles of nil and gas, running from the Bat
iery to Kingshridge. The total amount of mains
laid in the city is two hundred are •wenty•nfae
miles, and those laid last year are competent to sop
ply 1.400 lamps more than are now burning.
(6-- It is ;!!kted in the Boston Herald, that Gen.
Abner Curtis, a greot shoe manufacturer, at East
Abington, hiassiachuse:!s, has issued proposals to
some twenty or thirty young 'nett in his manufac
turing warehouse, that it he they will. the current
year, be prudent, economical and faithin'. in their
dunes—show a balance sheet of savings, intlivuol•
ally, of one hundred and tif y dollars, and consum.
male marriage on or before the lirst day of January
neat ensiling, that he will, in all and every such
case bettc,.,•_made to appear , and proven unto him,
add, as a New Year's peseta in -remit°, a house
and lot upon his vast domain ats.l therewith one
hundred dollars for the purpose of assistirg in the
eree inn of a cottage Louse, severally, to his corps
of assistants aforesaid
ONE HUNDRED Mlits Pee Ilova.—" A Maine
Yankee" announce., ihroukh the National Intelli
gencer, the invention of a form '(road and improv
ed locomotive, which, he ea3s, will palely trarispoit
the mail* and passengers at the rate•nt 100 miles
per how ! The writer furthes says he has been
made equainted with the details of thieve improve
-11114111141 which are PO palpably correct in'iheory,
and leavible in practice, that every civil engineer
and railroad mail will, on no examination, at once
recogoise and admit, a. the desideratum, even to
the event of safety and riperd above indicated The
next Congrevs, it is 'laid, iv to be invited to perms
in. adoption, and give to the world the revisit of the
fiat experiment. The entniametion of a pose-rail
mad beiween W814614:1°9 and New Yosk may be
Irairened by the invention..
. A Lactsi.‘Tir Row.—.lll the Orrin Legislature. law
week, on account of some Ili‘agreettient, Mr Me.
dary snatched a crotch from Mr. George, a lame
member of o.e Legislature, arid struck Mr. Barnum,
another member, a tivmendous Wow over the head
and knocked him down. A scene of the utmost
confusion ensiled A resolution was immediately
passed arithorising the atres' of Mr. Medary, arid
he was promptly taken into custody by the Ser
geant at-Arms A committee of five were appoit.-
ted to investigate the matter. The Legislature
should expel a member guilty of such a gross vio
lation of &cruel.
HouLITT TURNED UP —We learn from Professor
Anderson, at present in Charleston, that he has re
ceived a lever from Louis Napoleon, Emperor of
the French, inclosing a check for £3O, which he
borrowed some years since trom the Professor in
London, accompanied with a present of a diamond
rin2, (interest we suppose.) with an invitation to
visit Paris. This will be cheering news to all vithe
were the Empe.orc. rrethlole, in the times that tri•
ed his soul —Eo. Mit ror.
Elscnatoas Istnissrs.—A bill is pending in the
Indiana legislature to compel old bachel or .. of 30
years Cl sge to marry or pay $5O a yen• into the
county treasury, to go to the first lady who shall
marry alter the first of January. The provisiont of
the bill apply to widowers atone year's standing.
"Scrofula."
Mesas' EZTSACT or Roca Rom
This wonderful medicine is fast gaining for it. a popularity which no other medicine can boast
of. The plant, Rock Rose, is. used and recommend•
ed by many eminent physicians of our country.—
Hear what .1. H. Thompson, of Philadelphia, says,
" f have prescribed it in bad eases of scrofulous
patients at Wills Hospital." His suecce , s 'dimmed
the attention of senior physiciark He reports the
following remarkable use of white swelling of the
right hip in Feb. 1844. The lad was seven years
old, and; had the disease for three years, the bone
was diseolated upwards and outwards. There was
a large opening on the hip leading to the bone, into
which (could thrust my finger. I coon, ed three ut.
cers._ He had been under several pitpicians who
had given him up. I ordered a decoetion of Rock
Rose—itt two days his night sweats .a..ed, I then
ordered a teaspoonful of Rock ROOF. )hree times a
day; Thirty.nine days after.he was entirely wer.
MYERS' EXTRACT of ROCif ROSE. for sate
by Dr. H. C. POIRTINI; Towinda, Pta., of whom
pamphtem mat be Wad eve&
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Work
Eapeoi
Printini
Clerks
and
Orders.
Paid DI
do MC
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do 3 Doi
do -do
do John 1
and lak
2d itrei
do D Vans
swear'
do J D lit
do L Galles
do L W ti
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street In
do 8 8 Bail
do W Q Vogl
do Win Mix
do J G Pawn
do Wm Brim
do Cornelioi I
do H r Moon
do Montsor's
do James IWIoI
do Exhoneratioi
do do
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do on Illuplinait
do do
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Orders outstanding Jai
do Issued in
Orders returned and can
Orders outstanding Feb
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A m't in Treasury. Jan. 17
do due from Athens twi
do d 3 J E Geiger
do do D Vanderci
do do W A Chem
do do C T Smith
ttrawarri
Paid Mn Mamba)l for keeps
and McAdam paimers
do N Cc,rmey keephig
do T O'Day. do
do J Crager ketping Sweet
pauper
do Daniel Sweet keeping M
ton temporary pauper.
do C K Leta balance due-for
do Mrs. Hall keeping Maley
paupers , r
borough physician
do Rome township keeping .1 Lot:
tempoiary pauper
do Batley & Nevins For Gotir to
do Mra LaPlant temporary rebel
do C Wells for coffins fur paupei
do CM Manville, taking sick u
Waverly
do Thos Barnes dieting grate
do Wood for Mrs Green tempnrar
E T Fos for flour furnished to .
an d Mrs Moran
do D battle' keeping Ann McCarty
do Mingus wood fur Mrs Powers tem,
nary relief
do O'Day keeping McDonald tern. ps
do Moimanye's & Co shroud (or Male)
do do clothing fur Maley's boys
do J E Geiger per cent. collecting
do John Holmes use of horse to carry
body of Mrs. McAdam to grace
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Due from Athens township $9 SC
do D Vandercook Collector 39 IS
do W A Chamberlin du 33 77
do C T Smith do 343 90
In Treasury 63
Wr. the undersigned. Burgess and Tors Coact
of the norough of Totrand.t, do eerti!'y kr*.
inc to be s true and correct Btaterneot of the Ile
eetpti and Es pend dares of sratd Iforougl for is
year 1652. WM ELAN ELL. Burgess.
JNO, F. MEANS,
N N. BETTS.
11'. M. MANVILLE, Caeca
JNO. BEIDLMAN,
J. FRANUIsCO. t.
March 10,'62. A iteo—W.l. Serve -T. Clerk
FRESH AND NEW AtIRIV ALOF
SPRING & SUMMER
lIIFQ- ICI GED XIIP' MB •
21202irl l AinriS 451. CO.,
CORNER of the Public Square and MaioSur&
Towanda, Pa., respectfully give mow Ist
they are now opening and receiving direct frost*
City of New York, their NEW STOCK of SMILIG
and SUMMF:R GOODS, which, with their bola
stock on hand. comprises one' of the largestudt 6l
selected asanrunents to be found west of New To t '
Having been purcha*ed at
GREAT BAR'!GAINS!
They are enabled to offer them cheaper than nn-
They invite patticular attention to Meir asserted
of Ladies' Dress Goods
Consisting of laconet and Swiss !Gains, Frier
Lawns,Ginghams. Reed !Wwilins,
Cocheco, Fr.II River and other styles of
American Prints. in endlevt variety.
large assortment and for safe
cheap. They have also a
lante variety of YANFEEE NO.
Tit INS, embracing almost every thing
from a Crochet Needle to a Lady's Satch
el. They invite ` particulat attention rhe i f_
assortment of Carpeting of all prices and str'''
Also, Spring and Summer Hats. 9 °°U 1124
Shoes, Shoe Finding and Leather , tor
cones, Cfockefy, e Shelf Hardware 4c.
Their Stock haw been grieved with care. seo g t
be sold cheap: Farther comment is uneacessel
—give us a call. and we will show you eat P ilds
and prices, and convince you that the above !in
fiction. One motto is, " Small Profits & COM
Returns. HUN TAN f k A CA '
. ch 16. 1853.
Tow
' A ErM tN !ST R A TOR'S NOTICE.
A LL persons indebted to the estate of Wl* Le
tlereb G y r r e e n g e ue ll, s d ied eed to ,
mlnatekoefflurlington toonshivill
payment wabonf JeIAY ;
*OJ all persons having demands arsine s ' id i r a am i tt
are requested to present them duly &lobes
for settlement. ANN E. GRENEI.L.
MELEE B. GRENELIs
Administrato rs.
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