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Mai lam do Meihu and her daughter had j listened v.i'i: anxiety to the alarming sounds s i i the corridor, and they dared not Venture out v itli curious crowd that thronged there. All a l once the French consul, followed by a s ranger dressed in tlie uniform of the royal navy entered their box and said to them," " I beg you to accept m v idhii, ladies, and to follow me to my house, for it belongs to every child of France. Mndnm de Mellan and her daughter, who were too much disturbed to seek an explanation of so many mysterious incidents, followed his advice without hesitating. The widow took the arm of Albert, and Anna, that of the consul. ]>v the eandelabras which diffused a bright light in the entrance of the theatre they cOtild see as plainly as in mid-day, a pale and bald headed man, with bare shoulders, carried off by the police, amid the outcries of the mob. " Mv God!" exchuned Madam de Mellan, " that is Albert!" " No, uiadame," replied the consul, "that is not Albert de Kerbriant; he is a miscreant, who plotted against you and mademoiselle an abominable snare. He is a galley-slave, escap ed from the galleys of Toulon; he is marked on the shoulders with the letters T. F. f as you could see if the crowd would let you approach him." Madame de Mellan and her daughter were both so moved they could make no reply. In the house of the consul there was an in teresting change of mutual explanations and surprises, which brings our narrative to a very natural and legitimate denouement. All the rights usurped byjhc iinposter were restored to the real Albert de Kerbriant. The emotion that succeeded to this evening of alarm prevented the ladies from giving Albert de Kerbriant. the reception lie deserved; but the next day Madam de Mellan and her daughter could hardly find praises strong enough to give their young and agreeable res cuer; and that very day, at the dinner tabic of the consul of France, it was decided that the marriage of Anna and Albert should be cele brated at the chun4i of St. Louis, in Toulon, mid that the admiral should himself lie invited to witness the contract. Pioneer Festival. We have already given our readers an ab stract of the business transacted at the Pioneer and Historical Festival, held at Owego, on the 22d of February. The last number of the j Owego papers contains an extended notice of j the speeches and incidents of that interesting occasion, from which we make the following extracts: Oil our outside will be fouud the O-les prepared for the occasion. The old settlers present were railed upon to announce such as had deceased, in their respec tive counties, during the past year; but the call was not generally responded to. John Jones, an early settler of Chemung, was named by a gentleman from that county; but none were named as having died in any other of the counties included in the association, except Tioga. Hon. C. I*. AVERY, of Tioga, responded to this call, in behalf of Tioga county, as fol lows: Here approaches one of the most melancholy duties of our Annual Festivals,. Recording the names of the deceased. Tioga List: MASON* WEBSTER. Died Dec. 20th, 18.")t. aged 8(i years. T)at° of his settlement in this comity, 1701. He was from Lenox. Berkshire Co. Mass. A worthy man and good citizen. CIIABI.ES PUMPEI.I.V. Died Jan. 6th 1855, aged 75 years. Date of settlement here, 180'*; from Salisbury, Connecticut. He was a mem ber of the convention, *as a delegate from Broome county, this village being then within its limits, which framed the Constitution of 1821. A man of great energy of character, mild disposition and hospitable feelings. Wn.LiAM Pi. ATT. Died Jan. 12th, 1855 aged 63 years. From West Chester county in this State. A man of rare christian virtues. JAMES CONKT.IX. Died Jan. ffth, 1855, at the venerable age of 92 years. A worthy citizen. ERASTBS GOODRICH —Son of Judge Noah Goodrich. Died June 29th, 1854, at Buffalo, while on his way home from his sou's house in Illinois; aged fid years. A I.ANSON GOODRICH —Son of Captain Flia kim Goodrich. Died Nov. 6th, 1854, aged 61 years. Both from Glastonbury, Ct., and both, men without reproach. MRS. SAI.I.F.Y SARl.f.B —Widow of Richard Sarles, a revolutionary pensioner. Died Jan. 22d, 1855, aged, by some accounts, 9f>, by other computations 105 years. ROSSITKR PARMET.E. Died at the honse of one of his sons in this county, aged 72 years; of Guilford, Ct. Not a permanent resident here, but a worthy gentlemen and deserves a mention. JOB SHEPARD. Died Jan. 26th, 1855, at Athens, Bradford co., near the line of this county; aged 53 years. EBHRAIM WOOD. Died Feb. Bth, 1855 in his 82d year. Date of settlement here 1799; from Rutland eo., Vermont. A man of mark ed integrity. EBHRAIM Lf.ACH. Died on Monday last, the 19th inst. aged 66 years. He came, with his father, Caleb Leach, from New York City to this village in 1806, and removed in 1808 to the town of Tioga, where he died. Ilisnative place, Plymouth county Mass. Mr. Leach was a man of scientific attainments, of a native mechanical genius and of a great worth of character. Mr. A. announced that his funeral takes place this day from his house in the town of Tioga, and that the funeral procession would reach the grave yard of the Presbyterian Church of this village at half-past three o'clock HI the afternoon, when his acquaintances and friends would have an opportunity of paying the last tribute of respect to his memory. Among other venerable persons present we noticed the following:— Hugh E. Fiddis, of the town of Tioga, aged 90 years in August last. Date of immigration, 1794-5. Also Mrs. Fiddis, his aged and excellent wife. Joseph Gaskill, aged 75 years. Date of im migration to this town March 20th, 1789. Jesse MeQuigg,whose father, John MeQuigg, became a resident of the village of Owego in 1789. Mr. MeQuigg recollects Owego well when it numbered but three families, his father's Jas. Mr Master's and Amos Draper's. Jonathan Piatt, aged 71 years. Date of immigration to Nichols, iu company with his father, 1793. The venerable Elisha Forsyth, who passed over the site of Owego from Wyoming, iu 17*7, v.'beu it boa-ted of but one white family, (Amos Draper's.) His lather hehl a Connecticut title j ;u Wyoming. which proved worthies Mr ; Forsyth helped to erect afterwards the first I frame building in Owego. The aged William Ferguson, of Owego, son of the pioneer and pensioner, Daniel hergu- SOII. Judge Briant Stoddard, son of Orringh Stoddard, one of the leading "proprietors of the Boston purchase. Date of immigration to the old town of Union, 1788. Was associate Judge of Broome county, Member of the Legislature, Ac. Now in the 81st year. The venerable Judge Willscy, of Candor. ltcv. (J. Grcatsinger, of Cliemung. The venerable Parley Coburn, now in his 81st year. D ite of immigration to Warren, Bradford eo., 1800. Klder Dimoek, of Montrose, an aged and venerable gentleman. The aged Mrs. Forsyth and Mrs. Willis, daughters of the pioneer, Thomas Parks, who took a lively interest in all the proceedings of. the day. Daniel Mills, of Barton; Eli/.ur Taleott, of Owego; John F. Satterlee, of Athens; llusseli j Gridley and Salmon Mead, of Candor; Messrs. Hunt, Coryell and Forman, of Nichols; Dr. Joel S Paige, formerly of this village, who' came from liis home in Genesee eo., to attend the Festival; the venerable Wm. Hoffman, of Chemung; Judge Mcßurney, of Steuben; j Judge Robinson, of Broome; JudgeLa Porte, ' of Towauda; and very may others whose names, j owing to the shortuess of the time and the | great amonut of business to be done, the See- j retarics did not obtain. Curious and valuable relics of theoldeu time ! exhibited at the Festival; An old family Bible printed in 1716 at j Amsterdam, Holland, containing records of the Van Yalkciiburg family, reaching back to 1810. Several members of this family were living at Wvsox in May 1778, when the houses of the settlement were destroyed by the Indians. — The wives ofSebastion and John Strope, whose ; maiden names were Van Valkenburg, Eva Van Valkenburg, their father and mother and several children were captured. The houses and every thing of value that could not be carried away as plunder, were consumed. The B.ble would have shared the same fate of the building but for the resolute heroism of the family, in rescuing it from the flames. 'The captives were taken at once to Tioga Point, ' were there when the English rangers and Indians, under Butler, embarked in their canoes for Wyoming; and were there when they returned with their booty and scalps from that desolate valley. The captives were soon after ordered np the Susquehanna, under an Indian escort, to Maughantowano, Owego, Bainbridge and Una dilla, and in tho fall retraced their steps to Tioga Point. Part of this journey was made upon the trail upon the bank and partly bv , water in canoes. Upon the victory of Hartley that fall near Shesheqnin, and upon the appre hension of Sullivan's approach the next season, they were marched with many other captives, i up the Tioga, Canisteo and down the Canes-1 arga creek and Genesee river to Fort Niagara; thence to Laehine and other points in Canada, where they were detained for over two years. j At the end of this time they were exchanged by cartel and sent to Skenesborongh, now White hall. and thence to Catskill, where they remain- ' cd until peace was fully established, after which they again emigrated to Wvsox and rebuilt.— ' During all their wanderings this Bible was with tlieni—a treasure beyond all price enabling tlmm to rise sublime above their dark fortunes. It is a very large and heavy. The sides and back are of white oak, nearly, if not quite half an iueh in thickness and covered with leather the corners and edges tipjedwith brass, and the covers held together in front by moveable and massive brass clasps. Its length a foot and a half and in thickness nearly six inches. Upon the leather and wood are marks of the tire from which it was saved. When we realize the toil of a captivity, upon foot by the Indian trail, the great distance this family travelled, and the supplies which their natures required and which they were obliged to carry to keep from starvation, we may well believe that the captives required what the venerable old lady, Mrs. Willis, said, when Judge Jessup was speaking of its weight in the afternoon exercise—"The lore of God in their he iris made the burden light." For the facts connected with the captivity of this family, we are indebted to those publi cations by Judge Avery, entitled the "Sns quelinnua Valley;'' and for the presence of this valuable relic at our Festival we are ilidebted to Mr. Harry Strope, a grandson of Sebastion Strojie, who lives ujton the storied ground, and who had the kindness to make a journey with his daughter, of nearly forty miles, to be present on this interesting occasion. Another interesting article exhibited was the original document, signed by the Indian Chiefs, in 178(1, ceding the Owego half town ship to Ainos Drajier, whose Indian name was Ogh gwe-sau, meaning l'utridge. This was exhibited by Mr. Avery. Another—a spy glass of some two feet in length. A *r>phy of the border warfare of the Susquehanna, taken by the intrepid Col. John Franklin. Exhibited by Mr. Gore, a descendant of Obadiah Gore, whose name i* identified with Wyoming anutds. Another—a bass drum, used by the Forsyth Military Band, who culivened the Festival with their music, the shell of which was used in some of the hard-fought fields of the revo lution. This band and also the excellent Brass Band in attendance, who discoursed capital music through the day and evening, gave their services through the whole Festjjal, as a free will offering, without fee or reward, to the pioneers; for these old veterans are popular with everybody. In arranging and preparing the music, Mr. Hosford, of the Music Emporium, was active and public spirited. Independent Engine Company No. 5, had decorated the Hall a few days previously for one of their own assemblies, and courteously left their pictures and tasteful drapery and trimmings for the Festival, for which they had the thanks and best wishes of every one in attendance. Nor should special mention be omitted of the numerous and highly resectable attend ance of Ladies and Gentlemen from Bradford county. That County was not only admirably represented by many of her best men from Towanda, Alliens and other points, but also by the fairest of her fair ladies, who graced the occasion with their presence, adding life, bril liancy and intellectual enjoyment to the pro ceedings of the day and evening. Ax INSINUATION*. —A late number of an In diana paper announces the destruction of the editor's hut; who re upon a neighboring journal expressing the hope that there were not mann p7t : tu-i iVaiifort ilqjortcr. E. <). GOODRICH, EDITOR. TOWANDA : Satnrbug fllornmn, fllairl) 10. 1835. The New Post Office Bill. We find in the Globe a synopsis of this bill, which is likely to work many important changes, not to say improvements in onr postal system. Everything is to be prepaid after July, and the postage to California is to be ten cents instead of six. The bill provides that, in lion of the rates now established by law, there shall, after the commencement of the next fiscal quarter, be charged for every single letter in manuscript, or paper of any kind in which information shall be asked for or communicated in writing, or by marks or sigus, conveyed in the mail for any distance between places in the United States not exceeding three thousand miles, three cents; aud for any distance exceeding three thousand miles, ten cents. For a double letter the charge is to be double, for a treble letter, treble, and for a quadruple letter, quadruple these rates. Every letter or parcel not exceeding half au ounce In weight is to be deemed a single letter; and every additional weight of half an ounce, or less than half an ounce, is to be charged with an additional single postage. — Upon all letters passing through or in the mail | of the United States, except such as are to or from a foreign country, the postage is to be prepaid, except upon letters and packages ad dressed to officers of the government on official business, which shall be so marked on the envelope. And from and after January 1, 1856, the Postmaster-General may require postmasters to place postage stamps upon all prepaid letters upon which such stamps may not have been placed liv the writers. All drop-letters placed in any post office not for transmission through the mail, but for delivery only, are to be charg ed with postage at the rate of one cent each ; and all letters which are hereafter advertised as remaining over, or uncalled for, iu any post office, are to be charged with one cent each, in addition to the regular postage, both to be ac counted for as other postages now arc. No postmaster or other person is to be al lowed to sell any postage stamps or stamp en velops for any larger sum than that indicated upon their face, or for a larger suin than that charged therefor by the Postoffiee department; and any person who violates this provision is to be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, is to be fined in any sum not less than ten, nor more than five hundred dollars. THE INCREASE OF THE ARMY. —Congress has responded to the call of the War Department, and increased the army by four regiments of the line—two cavalry and two infantry. The cavalry to be organized under the law of 1846, , creating the regiment of mounted riflemen, aud the infantry in conformity with existing laws. This is right; and we applaud the measure.— It was demanded by exising necessities on our | expanded frontiers, from which daily comes to us the startling intelligence of continued Indian massacres, stamped with more than usual mer ciless barbarities. We are of the undoubting belief that the iucrease of the regular forces of the regular forces of the country was called for by every consideration of humanity, policy, aud expediency. There are at this time large num | hers of recruits at the depots in New York and Boston, intended, as we understand, for the ' organization of the infantry regiments, aud j about one thousand cavalry recruits at Jeffer son barracks (Western men) that can till one of the cavalry regiments without any delay. Da?- Among the votes given for SIMON CAM ERON in the Convention on Tuesday, 26th iust., will Ije found recorded the name of the Sen. - tor from this district. We regret to announce that upon every ballot, Mr. PIATT voted for Mr. CAMERON. Participating in the nomina tion of Mr. BUCKALEW, he voted for him at the first meeting of the Convention—but in the meantime, a " change has come over the spirit of his dream," and lie voluntarily plunges into the abyss from which there is no return. His misrepresenting the wishes of his constituents, might admit of palliation, but the dark cloud which now settles upon his name aud fame, time will never dissipate. J6S?" We call the attention of our readers to a letter in another column from Judge WII.MOT, in regard to the publication and alteration of his letter to CAMERON by Ex-Speaker CHASE. It is sonic what severe, but not more so than the occasion demands. We are somewhat anx ious to see what excuse Mr. CHASE can give for a trick so contemptible as that practised by him iu this case. The mutilation of a letter to change its meauiug, purposely to misrepre sent the author, is a crime but little short of forgery, aud which should damage the perpe trator in public estimation. Those of our citizens having Pianos which require tuning will do well to avail them selves of the stay of Mr. Lorn, whose adver tisement appears in another column. The in struments which lie furnishes have a celebrity equal to any in the Union. SENATOR BADGER, N. C. —lt is stated that the U. S. Senate, on Saturday night, in execu- I tive session, unanimously adopted a resolution ! expressive of the deep regret of the body at , the retirement of this distinguished Senator, ; whose term has expired. United States Senator. At twelve o'clock, precisely, the Speaker and members of the Senate being introduced into the Hall of the House of Representatives, both bodies went into convention, pursuant to adjournment, for the purpose of electing a U. S. Senator in the place of Hon. JAMES COOPER, whose term of service expires on the 4th of March next. The Speaker of the Senate presided. On motion of Mr. Frailcy, the convention proceeded to a third ballot; when Messrs. Crabb, Cresswell, Frazier, Fry, Hal deman, Hendricks, Iloge. Killingcr, Piatt, Quiggle, Sellers, Shaman, Barrv, Boal, Cald well, Carlisle, Clover, Crawford, Criswell, Cum inings, (Phila. Co.) Cunmiiugs, (Somerset,) Donaldson, Eyster, Fletcher, Frailey, Free, Gross, Guy, Haines, Hubbs, King, Kirkpat riek, Krepps, Lane, M'Coukcy, M'Counell, Morrison, Muse, North, Palmer, Reese, Rit tenhouse, Rutter, Snllade, Shercr, Smith, (Al legheny,) Smith, (Blair,) Steliley, Stockdale, Sturdevant, Weddell, Wood, Yorkes, Zeigler, and Strong, Speaker —ss, voted for SIMON CAMERON. Messrs. Browne, Goodwin, Hamlin, Jamison, M'Cliutock, Sager, Walton, Wherry, Iliester, (Speaker,) Baker, Bush, Christ, Craig, Dough erty, Dunning, Edingcr, Fry, Johnson, M'Clean, Maxwell, Or, Thompson and Wright—23, vo ted for C. R. BUCKALEW. Messrs. Ball, Clapp, Foster, M'Coinbs, Ma gill and Stewart—6, voted for JOSEPH BLFFING TOX. Messrs. Darsie, Frick, Price, Skinner, Chatn berlin and Whitmcr—6, voted for THOMAS WIL LIAMS. Messrs. Ferguson, Franklin, Ilerr, M'Cul longh and Page—s, voted for JAMES YKKCII. Messrs. Jordan, Avery, Fearon, Leas, and Lowe —5, voted FOR J. V*'. MAYNARD. M essrs. Baldwin, Holoomb, Lnporte, M'Cal niont and Wickcrsham—s, voted for DAVID WILMOT. Messrs. Lewis, Hodgson, Maddockand Pcn nypackcr—4, voted for WM. It. IRWIN. Messrs. Taggart, Harrison, Liiidennan, and Menglc—4, voted for J. P. JONES. Messrs. Gwinner, Smith, (Phila. city) Steel and Thorn—4, voted for R. T. CONRAD. Messrs. Pratt and Waterhouse —2, voted for E. JOY MORRIS. Messrs. Mellinger and Downing—2, voted for THADDEIS STEVENS. Messrs. Bowman and Simpson—2, voted for J. S. LITTKI.L. Messrs. Lott and Powell—2, voted for JOHN W. HOWE. Buckalew—l, voted for J. S. BLACK. Flenuikeu—l, voted for J. S. BRADY. Bcrgstresser—l, voted for J. C. KUNKLE. Foust—l, voted for J. TODD. Morris—l, voted for 11. M. FULLER. There being no choice, a fourth and fifth ballots were had, with the same result. Mr. Browne moved that the Convention do adjourn to meet on the first Tuesday of Octo ber next. Mr. Ilaldeman moved to amend by inserting to-morrow at 12 o'clock. The previous question was called and sustain ed, aud the amendment of Mr. Haldcmau was disagreed to—yeas 63, nays 66. The question then being on the motion of Mr. Browne, it was agreed to —yeas 66, nays 65, as follows: Yeas—Messrs. Browne, Buckalew, Darsie, Ferguson, Flenuikeu, Frick, Goodwin, Hamlin, Jamison, Jordan, Avery, Baker, Baldwin, Ball Bcrgstresser, Bowman, Chambcrlin, Christ, I Clapp, Edinger, Fearon, Foster, Foust, Frank j 1 in, Fry, Gwinuer, Harrison, Ilerr, Hodgson, | Holeomb, Hubbs, Laportc, Lewis, Mellinger, Pratt, Price, Sellers, Skinner, Taggart, Wul- I ton, Wherry, Leas, Linderman, Lott, Lowe, M'Calinont, M'Clean, M'Combs, M'Cnllough, Maddock, MegilJ, Mengle, Morris, Orr, Page, Pennypackcr, Powell, Simpson, Smith, (Phila. city,) Steele, Stewart, Thorue, Waterhouse, Wickcrsham, Witmcr, Wright—66 N'avs—Messrs. Crabb, Cresswell, Fraizer, Fry, Haldeman, Hendricks, Hoge, Allcgood, j Barry, Boal, Bush, Caldwell, Carlisle, Clover, Craig, Crawford, Criswell, Cuiumings, (Phila. Co.) Cummings, (Somerset) Dougherty, Dou j aldson, Downing, Dunning, Eyster, Fletcher, Frailey, Free, Gross, Guy, Haines, Johnson, King, Kirkpatrick, Krepps, Lane, Killinger, M'Cliutock, Piatt, Quiggle, Sager, Shuman, Iliester, ( Speaker ,) M'Conkev, M'Counell, Maxwell, Morrison, Muse,North,Palmer,Reese, Ritteuhousc, Rutter, Sallade, Sherer, Smith, (Allegheny,) Smith, (Blair,) Stehley, Stock dale, Sturdevant, Thompson, Weddell, Wood, Yorkes, Zeigler aud Strong, Spe/tker —6s. This vote disposes of the question for the present session, being equivalent to au adjourn ment sine die. It was understood that the pre siding officer had some doubts about the regu larity of a motion to adjourn sine die, hence the postponement to the first Tuesday of October. Upon that day the Legislature may meet in two ways: by adjourning until the day; or by being called together by the Governor. Either of which contingencies is not likely to occur. Or the Legislature, by joint resolution, might resolve again to go into Convention, aud re considering the vote to postpone, proceed to an election. In the meantime there is a probability that the seat occupied by Mr. COOPER will be for a time vacant. Congress meets in December, and until the election by the next Legislature Pennsylvania will have but one U. S. Senator. Some of the newspapers are investing Gover nor POLLOCK with the power to appoint. Such is not the case. U. S. Senators are only ap pointed to fill vacancies occasioned by death or resignation. THE WHEAT CROP. —The Milwaukie Daily Sentinel says the weather, thus far, has been favorable to the Winter Grain, and we hear good reports from our own as well as the ad joining States. In Ohio, the farmers say that the erop sowed last fall looks well and that the prospect of a heavy crop is a flattering one.— Like assurances are given in the Illinois pajiers. Respecting the crop in Michigan, the Detroit Free Press says : " From all sections we hear that the wheat is looking exceedingly well. The quantity up on the ground is greater than in any former year, and with no intervening calamity, the crop will be unprecedented." WASHINGTON CITY, Feb. 20, lb'ss. Editor Eejorlcr — Slß : — ln your paper of the 17th inst., you call the attention of your readers to the remarkable circumstance, that Maj. K INGSHURY had taken captive, on his farm, j a pure white crow, which was now on exhibi tion at Towanda. After perusing your remarks I called at the Patent Office, where every des cription of the feathered tribe, from the Hum ming Bird to the largest Ostrich, of every va riety of color and form, brought from almost every portion of the Globe, are on exhibition, free of access to citizen and stranger. There I found a beautiful pure white crow, the pcr souilicatiou (except color) of the real Llack crow, which was taken on the waters of the Potomac liny, below this city, where I was in formed bv the gentlemanly conductor Of the Patent Ofliee, the white crow is quite common. I was also shown a beautiful white Blue Bird, which was caught near Gape May. I am not familiar with ornithology, nevertheless I look iqioii this sjK'cies of creation with admiration ; and although I am not able to throw much light upon the history of the white crow, la]>- prchend that it*is a distinct and original spe cies of the crow, assimilating in all respects, ex cept color, to the black crow. I infer this from the fact that we find no cross or mixed colors as in fowls or other races. The pure white aud black crow, although of the same paternity, presents the anomalous fact of retaining tlic:r distinctive and unchanged colors 1 If this view of the question held good in the human race, I should have less confidence in practical abolitionism ! Science and careful investigation of chronology, however, has cs- j tablishcd pretty conclusively the phenomena j that in the eighth generation, the dark shade \ has exhausted itself, and the pure white man, like " RiEluml. r to him elf again I" " But, mix and turn, as you will, The black and white crow is the same, still!" I). M. BULL. LIQUOR LAW LEGISLATION.- — -The Senate Com mittee on Vice and Immorality, have made a long report upon the subject of restraining the sale of Intoxicating liquors. The Commitee, after viewing the various propositions suggest ed, propose a stringent law, as the best mea sure of reform the Legislature can adopt, with any regard to the demands and the aggrava tions of an evil they dare not disregard. It adopts the machinery of the existing general laws, requiring all who would sell under five gallons to take license from the court in all parts of the State, after full advertisement of their application, and subject to objection and contest by their neighbors, and the decision of the court after hearing all parties as to the oc casion of the license. All are tojje put under bond, with warrant of attorney to enter judg ment for a faithful observance of the law; the license fees are increased threefold, aud none can sell under H quart who is not licensed to keep an inn, and all inns must have at least six rooms and twelve beds for the exclusive use of travellers. In addition to this, in the city of Philadelphia, there is to be a Board of three Appraisers, whose certificate must lie necessa ry before a license shall be granted. Violators of law are to be punished with fines, imprison ment and forfeiture of license. Intoxication in public places is fined and punished as an of fence ; the furnishing of liquor to those who drink on the premises of intoxication, is pun ished as a distinct offence ; besides a responsi bility enacted for all resulting damage. The Committee do not present this as a final mea sure of reform, but as the best which can be obtained under the present public sentiment upon the subject. THE BOUNTY LAND BILL.— The old soldiers' Bounty Land Bill as passed and sigucd by the President, is very much changed from the ori ginal bill as it passed the Senate. The estimate of the amount of land required by the Senate bill, as communicated in an official report of the Commissioner of the Land Office, was over 200,000,000 of acres. That quantity is reduc ed by the operation of Mr. Richardson's amend ment to one-tenth, or about 20,000,000 acres, and includes only the surviving soldiers of the wars front 1790 to this time,their widows, and children who arc now minors. This description embraces a conqrara lively small number of per sons. The vast majority of the soldiers are dead, their widows have followed them, and tlieir children are advanced in life. The bill requires the holders of warrants granted under the act, to pay the fee of the "Registers for its location, which is about a dollar and a half. PROGRESS OF PROHIBITION. —The State of Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, Wisconsin, Connecticut, Indiana and Illinois, have adopted laws, entirely prohibiting the sale of liquor. Ohio has adopted one punishing the adulter ation of liquor, and prohibiting the sale of all except wines from the native grape, beer, aud eider. New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey Pennsylvania, lowa ami California are the only Northern States in which no such law exists. No Southern State has yet adopted any\ pro hibitory law. DESTRUCTIVE STORM AT ELMIRA.—A regular West India white squall occurred in Euuiraon Tuesday night last, which occasioned much damage in blow ing down chimneys, unroofing houses, Ac. The ear house of the Williains port and Elmiru Railroad was blown down and destroyed. Three engines that were in the ear house were much injured. The signs, tree boxes, Ac., throughout the town were scattered. Mr. M'COY'S hotel near the depot, took fire during the storm and received considerable damage. [From the Independent Republican of March 1 Letter from Judge Wilmot. TOWANDA, Fcb'y. 24, 1355 To the Editors of the liepubliran: GENTLEMEN; —I hare just read, iu theMo-t rose Democrat of the 22nd inst., a letter 1/ porting to have becu written by me to Cameron. " ' Jn The letter published is GARBLED and FA I.sp I u thut part blazoned iu capitals, there U most material emission. Mr. Chase in bis insane desire to do me an injury, has gone far to verify the truth of r],,. portrait draw n of him last fall by a democrat ic cotcmporary. It will be recollected, that one of the papers published at the State (V,\ tul, zealous iu the supjiort of Governor liigl.. r presented a dag tier rottjpe under the title of " ROERBAOK"—"'-a name the very imjiersona tion of falsehood. Tlie efforts of Mr. Chase to misrepresent to hi£ readers, the position of (j (JV Biglcr upon the Nebraska question, obtaincj for him the complimentary notice, in the col umns of one of the Governor's metropolitan organs. I now charge him with having published over my nan c, a garbled leJfee; omitting a m terial part , with a view to change i's sense and to falsify my language aud position. The paragraph published by Mr. Chase, in italics and capitals, reads thus: " In respert to yourself I huee erprrtsrd no trord of dit. rouragtment or unkindness. ON TIIF, CONTRARY I II AVE REPEATEDLY EXPRESSED A PREFERENCE Fi >R YOU OVER ALE YOUR R1 VAI.S, (Buchanan, son, Ac, Ac.,) AND THIS W HEN IT WAS SUPPOSED THE " PARTY" WOULD HAVE THE UNDISPUTED POWER TO MAKE AN ELECTION." I am here made to express on the 22d of January last, the date of the letter, a prefer ence for Mr. Cameron over all his rivals—that is, over the gentlemen, ATTII AT TIMK. pub liely and generally known as candidates f..r United States Senator. That flie publication is carefully designed to convey tiiis meaning j. apparent from the language; but it will lie made more clear from the comments of Mr Chase. Iu commenting iipOn the above gar bled extract, Mr. Chase says: " Men of Susquehanna County! can yon read the above letter ami believe your senses? Would you have believed that David Wilmot could sink himself so low—could show himself the unprincipled demagogue who has not hesi tated to denounce Simon Cameron in public and private, as a man void of all moral and po litical integrity, as a " pro-slavery hack'' who had endeavored to bribe him to his support— we ask could you have believed him capable of the baseness, while taking such a position here, to sit down and write Gen. Cameron that to wns his preference over all other ea adulates fur Ended States Senator/" Thus it is fixed beyond evasion, that Mr Chase designedly so published my letter, as to make me declare myself in favor of the elec tion of Gen. Cameron. Herein consists the de liberate and wicked misrepresentation—a shameful suppression of a part of the letter,which if published, would have effectually precluded any such construction. I expressed in my letter, no preference for Mr. Cameron over the candidates then Mori the public. By 110 fair or even possible con struction of the k'ttcr I wrote, could it be tor tured into an expression of my desire for hi election. Yet this is the foundation upon which Mr. Chase pours ont upon me denunci ations and revilings—iterating ami re-iterating charges duplicity, baseness, intrigue, dishonesty —a desire to sell my principles to the highest bidder—until his pure sonl takes affright, and lie contemplates the picture with " sadness rev i a/arm." Immaculate man ! Paragon of truth,integ rity and honor ! Can you not make another public appeal to the spirit of a sainted father —invoke once more the endearing tics of do mestic life, as an evidence of the high value yon place upon a spotless character? The sacred recollections of the one, and the holy obliga tions of the other, should have constrained you to the observance of that law, which declares neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.'' I)o you know the penalty God has affixed to the crime of bearing fake wit | ness ? Hear and tremble: " And the Judges shall iuak-e diligent inqui sition : and behold, if the witness be false wit- J ness, and hath testified falsely against his broth er ; then shall yc do unto him, as he hath the! to do unto his brother : so shall thou {Hit the evil away from among vou.'' Be assured, foolish man ! that God will in time vindicate His high enactments. In lbs benificent providence it is ordered, that a pit a man diggeth for his neighbor, therein, he thai diggeth it, shall lrinxett' fall. I preserved >0 copy of my letter, and can not therefore give its words ; but the emblaz oned paragraph, in which the grass fraud i~ perpetrated, by the omission of an important part, reads substantially thus: " In respect to yonrself I have expressed no wr.r.i •? disparagement or unkindness. On the contrary I iuw frequently expressed a preference for you overall ymirn val.s of the old litte democracy. Buchanan, Forney, Hirst. Dawson. Ai\. Ac., and tins when it was suppo.-eii tit " party" woukl have the undisputed power to make an <!• eetion." 'llie words OF THE OLD LINE DEM OCRATIC PARTY,"or "OLD LINE DE MOCRACY," or words of this import, ar j OMITTED ; and those words, clearly df> : and limit to a particular class, those rivals, ou: whom 1 hail given -Mr. Cameron a prcfcreikt I was not referring to the then present star of the Senatorial question, as would clearly ar pear by a correct reading of the letter: hut to the subject as it had presented itself before t" political character of the Legislature known. I say in the letter when speaking - having repeatedly expressed a preference for Mr. Cameron—and this when it was supp - ed the " part //" would have the {xover to unike an election." What PART Y was it, that it was supposed would have the power to make an aleetion, when I expressed a preference for Gen. Cameron over his rivals, Dawson, Fr ney, Hirst, Buchanan, Ac ? A reference 1(1 the OMITTED part of the letter would show, that it ivas the " old li ne democratic part* No one supposed, that party would hare t! power to make an election, at the date of ®. v letter, nor indeed, at the time after the rrsiii of the October election had become known Again, if 1 had been referring to the then pres ent time, with what propriety could 1 l' ave ' named Dawson, Fornev, Hirst and Buchanan, as his rivals? Not one of tbem was then i" the field as a candidate for the office of 1 ed States Senator. To have referred to F prescnt rivals—men then before the puldic tor the office—l should have named Curtia, Joiiu ston, Cooper, Conrad, Ac. It is well known that for more than a yen before the present Legislature was. clcctcy. and when there was every prospect that nm administration party would retaiu its asccudu.- cy in this State, that the names of I>a ff *' n ; Forney, Hirst, |l>uchnnau, and others of party, had been from lime to time, spokeu