New Buildings. MR. EDITOR : —Having several times during the last year, heard intimations thrown out that oar \ ill age was at a stand-still, giving no signs of growth, I have been led to inquire into the cause of such expressions, and to ascertain if the facts of the case would justify such obser vations. Before statinjrihe fact,- t have gath ered. I will say. that such ideas must have ori ginated from the fact, that so If tie was doing iu the centre of the town fore-tor.-the numer ous buildings destroyed by fire in the eighteen months previous to 1-5 1. .lie centre <>i the town did. ami sail does, pr- .-en. a ucsoh it appearance, compared with what it once d.d. i; undeniable ; but Im-cause the number of store* is r.ot multiplied, is it nn\ cnvim sign that bu siness is at a stand ? Tie present number is. doubtless below the demand, but 1 think they arc about being supplied as fast as a health v progress wiil require. In the year 1854. the number of buildings erected, iu our village, amounted to forty-oue; counting dwellings aud such other buildings as are of respectable cost and character. Among the latter I have placed the Collegiate Insti tute, which I am told cost some $12,000, the walls of which were up the year before, but it was mainly built and brought into use iu 1854. The Presbyterian church was w holly built dur ing the year, and cost some SB,OO0 —uor have I counted in ray lift the splendid dwellings of Hon. JOHN" L.UFORTE, ULYSSES MERCCR, and G . F. MASON, Esquires, which were finished and brought into use iu 1854—nor yet the very large and costly new dwelling of EDWARD OVEF.- TON" Esq., the walls of which were, however, raised in the same year. Nor have I counted the enlargements partaking of the.cbaraeter of new buildings, such as thorc of J. A. RECORD, Mrs. H. A. MERCER and ALLEN MCKEAN, each of which ha 3 cost enough to build a good sized dweliiug. With these facts before me, I think our town lias made some progress, no! very rapid to be sure, but respectable, healthy. I also know that more mechanics were wanted all through the season, than could be had—a fair presumption is, that more would have lieeu done, had there been more workmen. The buildings then erected here the last year, would, if brought together iu gome new spot, make quite a village, and create quite u sen sation ! Tho buildings destroyed by fire, iu the same time, number four dwellings, two small barns, one otEce, and a part of the bridge, in all. say eight : a sad loss to be sure, which benefited no one, but no very killing matter. I now hear daily enquiries for dwellings and places of business, which are said to be diffi cult to find; aud I am told that fifty more houses would be filled at once if they could 1 e got, and I look confidently for renewed activi ty the coming season in our midst, especially in building. o. D. Toirand.:, March 15, 1855. ENGLAND Cor.VTINTT THE COST or THE WAR. —Mr. Bright. a clear-beaded merchaut of Eng- - land, and a member of Parliament, has been figuring up one year's cost of the war. He ! calculates that the British are paying one hun dred and fifty millions of dollars more for food < on account of the war, while the government are spending one hundred millions of dollars j extra on the same account; and what is there obtained in return ? Wheat is selling in Eng- • land for 735. Id. a quarter, or Is. Gd. higher than the highest price ever known since 1819. Yet the harvest of 1851 in England was the i roost productive ever known. He gives it as ; his solemn belief that if the foreign policy keeps food up so high, six millions qnarters of corn being kept out of the country by war. before two years arc over tho Government wiil shoot j Englishmen in the streets. Hundreds of sail- i ing vessels, and sixty or seventy of the largest steamers, instead of carrying passengers and ' manufactures to all parts of the world, are now j employed most tin productively in carrying sol- ( dicrs, horses, stores, shot, and shell to the ! Crimea. In the trade of the Baltic there is a ; failing off of 5000 vessels, about 50 per cent. [ in the Euglish, and nearly 90 per cent, in the I Russian. The vessels of tho ether States have j also suffered a proportionate diminution. Pros- j sia has suffered slightly ; Sweden forms the ! only exception. ' j —■ I THE SUFFERING IN THE CRIMEA. —The allied J soldiers iu the Crimea have been congratulat- j ing themselves on the termination of winter, j when their sufferings, they hope, will cease.— But from all accounts "there will only be a j change from one form of suffering to another, j for as soon as tho warm weather and the spring j rains eommeuce, the animal decomposition from the multitude of dead bodies of men aud horses 1 laying unbnried, will spread pestilence through the camp, which will depopulate it faster than i sickness is now doing. A French officer of: rank says, since the first landing of the troops in Turkey, 80,000 men and 40,000 horses have j perished. Vast numbers of both now lie in ! masses, or scattered over the earth as thev fell, j it being impossible to inter them in the pres-' eut state of the weather there, and they pre- j sent a spectacle that is disgustingly horrid.— ' There they will remain to be consumed by the cariou-catera or to putrify on the return of mild : weather. ANOTHER SCHEME BROKE DOWN. —Senator Cooper has been appointed President of Col. j Kinney's Central American Expedition. The ; project appears to have fizzled out rapidly since ! the suspicion of fillibnsterism has tainted it, whether justly or not we do not know. There ! is one fact certain, the breaking up of all the j schemes for the acquisition of territory by j force, shows that theft has not yet become so j popular as to be incorporated as a principle in ' onr national ethics. Iu the palmy days of the Greek Republic, stealing was not considered a crime, but onr republic rests on better moral foundations than the Grecian, and gives there- j fore promise of longer endnrnncc. S&° Yery large and dangerous fires are rag- ■ ing in the piuc woods between Savannah and Macon, Ga., and near Columbia, S. C. The : Southern telegraph wires are destroyed for a i corwidefcbV distance. o. Goonniru. EDITOR. TO AY 4 X D_Yr oatnibag Hlorniun, HI aid) 17, 1855. CHASE'S ATTEMPT AT EXCULPATION. It is an inevitable and natural consequence of a departure from the path of truth audreoti : inde, that the erring find themselves speedily ! entangled in an endless maze of falsehood and luplicitv, plunging deeper and deeper into the üby.-s oi" dissimulation and deceit, until finally. : falsehood will auswor no longer, and the wretch : becomes an object of contempt and scorn, crush ed beneath a sense of guilt aud infamy; or it m.iv be, if hardened and scared in evil-doing, j defiant of the judgment and contumely of a | discerning ami correctly judging public. Our quondam lViend CHASE, is experiencing i this truth, equally applicable in a political as i well as a moral sense, as the last number of the I Montrose Dcmcrot abundantly testifies. Con victed before the world, of altering a private letter, changing its language aud perverting its ' meaning, he meets the charge by indulging in ! a tirade of billingsgate aud invective, and in i imputations the most gross, directed against i tue private aud judicial character of Judge j WILMOT. Arraigned for the perpetration of a \ contemptible trick, inexcusable under any eir ' eumstauccb—-charged with a crime affecting his ! character as a man, aud his reputation as an ! editor, which it was in bis power to disprove, if false, and which blackens his name and fame , if true; he neither produces the evidence of bis ! innocence, nor vet shows his contrition by plead ing guilty, but launches out into a strain wor : thy of a fish-woman, and by inference, in.-iuuates against Judge WILMOT all the crimes in the calendar, murder and treason hardly excepted. N" ow W it'u J udge WILMOT'S private character, we have uot anything to do. The people of this district will, perhaps, be astonished to j learn, that the man they have 80 often aud so : uobly sustained, and whom they finally elevated to the responsible position he now occupies, is both a gambler and a drunkard. lie is com petent to take such steps to vindicate his own ' reputation as he thinks necessary, aud would uot thank us, we are certain, for volunteering l in his defence. Mr. CHASE, however, by his owu showing, has a heavy reckoning to settle, for having assisted to place upon the Bench a Judge whoso character is sullied by such grave aud infamous practices as he imputes to Judge I WLLMOT. With his Judicial career, we have this much I to do: We do not believe that the election of ; any man as a Judge removes him from the peo ple. or divests him of the attributes and privi ; leges of a Freeman. We desire to see the pro j blem fully solved, and we believe it is in a fair I way of solution, in the case of Judge WILMOT. We have no intention now to discuss the mat- 1 ; j j ter; but we cannot refrain from saying, that j the very bitterness with which Judge WILMOT ; has been assailed by CHASE aud other members of the bar, is sufficient evidence, that they have | 110 fears of disturbing the even tenor of the Judge's impartiality by their warfare, and that j their professions of lear that his political pre ! judices may sway him, are at once stamped as ! hypocritical aud false, by their own conduct. I If there be the slightest swerving from the | strictest line of impartiality, forgetting that hu man nature is weak, and judgment liable to er ror, publish his short-comings to the world.— 1 Specify the offence, aud produce the proof.— But until that is done, we protest against these : vague fears, these undcfinable apprehensions. ' ; We have all of us, enough of errors, both of 'commission and omission, to answer for, without j ; being held responsible for undefined crimes and ! • errors which exist only in the imaginations of i those who would be rejoiced to see U3 stumble ; and fall. There are jealous eyes watching cve ; rv step of Judge WILMOT'S judicial career, and I we assure the public that they will have timely j and ample notice of any error or partiality he ; may be guilty of upon the Bench. | The charge agaiust Mr. CHASE was a plain : one. It was an offence which if not disproved, : was calculated to do his reputation great inju ' ry. To every right-minded maD, the wilful al i tering of the contents of a letter to misrepre j sont the views of the author, is but little short of positive forgery. The alteration of a letter | from Judge WILMOT to SIMON CAMERON* is the | charge against Mr. CHASE. HOW does he meet !it ? We will give his own language, to show ! how obtuse the moral perception of the man ' is : We published the letter from wlnt we believed to be a correct copy. We have uot now the original, and there fore cannot compare them, but we are entirely willing to take Mr. V." ILMOT'S word that the original does read as be i claims, for we cannot see that his version makes any dif -1 ferenee in the sentiment and point of the letter. The ver j eion which we published made him say that lie preferred Cameron over all his rivals, naming them, Buchanan, Daw ! son, Ac.. Ac., and those rivals nanxtf, everybody knows | do belong " to the old line Democracy,'' as lie terms them, ; We therefore can see no difference in" the version as pub ; iished, and the version which he gives himself; nor have i we found any impartial mind that can discover the differ j ence. * * * * We pnbiished what wc had no reason I to believe was not a true copy of the letter, and what his ! own correction shows to have been a correct copv in all | the essentials of correctness, viz : substance, meaning and j etnsf - h* possible that among the several copies taken, unintentionally a word or two might have been passed i over, and not discovered, for the reason that it did not mar | the sense. j For cool impndenec and for unblushing effron ' tery, these extracts bear off the palm ! Does | Mr. CHASE consider his readers so dull of ap prehension, that they will swallow his assertions ; mid professions without perceiving their want ;of truth and candor ? The dullest reader of Mr. W ILMOT'S letter will see that he is writing | with reference to the past, while Mr. CHASE'S mutilations make him refer to the present. Mr. WILMOT has been on terras of personal friend ship with Gen. CAMERON. Towards him he had not " expressed words of disparagement or un kindness." His election was preferred, under certain circumstances, to an " old liuc Demo- j crat." This is what Mr. WILMOT expresses, j while CHASE garbles the letter to make hirn express a preference for CAMERON* over the thir ty odd candidates named to the Convention ! Yet the acute and legal mind of Mr. CHASE, cannot " see any difference in the point and sen timent," and lie proclaims that his publication is "a correct copy in nil the essentials of cor rectness, \ i,*.: swbstnv.re, meruit'!* aitd'sevte? If Mr. CHASE can find n single reader of common judgment to sustain him in such an uuteaable position, or who will accept such a lame apolo gy for his duplicity and meanness, we are de ceived in the intelligence of the people of Sus quehanna. A more pitiful attempt at ]>etty fogging we never saw—evasive, contradictory, and improbable. We trust, in all sincerity, that-Mr. CHASE is able to satisfy his own con science—though moral perception must be ve ry weak, that can be satisfied with such excu ses. The ostrich, we are told, when pursued, buries its head in the sand, and foolishly ima gines that it is concealed from view. It is so with our eotemporary of the Democrat. He is a lawyer ; aud he would hardly insult the in telligence of a jury by asking them to render a verdict for a client upon as weak a defence as he makes for himself. Mr. CHASE takes uo notice of the alteration j of the word disparagement to " discouragement," i because it serves him for a half column of frothy i verbiage, in attempting to twist and torture the j expression to mean " no word of discern mgrmmt 1 ' : at the election of CAMERON*. He prolmbly could see " 110 difference in the seutimcut and point" I of the words; though cue referred to private | character, and the other is made to refer to j the electiou ! While he can sec no infamy in the alteration , of the letter, Mr. CHASE, evidently feels that it is necessary to explain how he came in pos session of the original. He blunders out a lame ! excuse in the following words:— The first W heard of WILMOT'S letter was after the Re publican ia this place, which was regarded at ilarrisburg as WILUOT'S peculiar organ, recently baptised as.-ucli, had ' made an attack upon CAMERON. Then it was that we ! heard from some of CAMERON'S friends about this letter I from WILMOT. Mr. L ATUHOE also informed us that he had heard such a letter was iu being. Soon afterwards an in cident occurred by which we were enabled to get it in our possession—and honorably too. We read the letter to gether. expressed our opinions upon it freely, and there j it ended. * * * Mr. LATHKor will not say that we read it to I him for the purpose of influencing his vote for CAMERON, ] aud no other person at llarrisburg will say that they ever J saw it in our possession. Soon after this, Mr. WILMOT'S | organ Towaada assailed us, representing that we were j at ilarrisburg for the purpose of aiding CAMERON'S elec | tinn, (a charge most infamously false,) and then it was that we procured through a friend a copy of the letter to jbe used in self-defence against the wicii ,, d charges of Mr. j WILMOT and his friends. Mr. WILMOT may therefore blame ! his over-zealous friends, not his enemies for the publica j tion of the letter. It will be observed, that "an incident" for ; tuuately occurs by which he was enabled to get I it iu his possession—"and honorably too !" Perfectly satisfactory to us, particularly after | the last declaration; though we fear that in quisitive people will have some curiosity to know what that "incident" was. Mr. CHASE admits that he had the original letter in his possession; that he read it to Mr. LATHROI\ and expressed his opinion freely upon it; and that afterwards for certain reasons he he procured through a frieud a copy. Iu a former quotation, he says, "we published the letter from what we believed to be a true copy." Now, it is somewhat singular that Mr. CHASE, (if lie speaks truly) should not have noticed the omission of the words, "of the old line de mocracy." We venture to say, that of all the men to whom the letter was shown, there was not one, who would not have detected such an omission. Certain it is, that when the garbled letter made its appearance, the attempted im position was instantly discovered by every one who had seen or heard the letter read: and Mr. LAI'ORTE immediately exposed the cheat through the columns of the Herald, at Harris burg. It is this plain and convincing evidence which Mr. CHASE attempts to shuffle off, by claiming that his omission was not material to the " sentiment and point of the letter." lie knows better than this : he understands per fectly well the state of popular sentiment iu the North, and that while under the state of par ties of which Mr. WILMOT speaks, the election of SIMON CAMERON would be " acquiesced" in, the people of this section have been expecting since the result of the last election, the selec tion of a sound friend of Freedom. Such an ouo is not CAMERON, and hence CHASE'S anxiety to make Mr WILMOT appear as if willing and anxious now for his success. . "j In our charity for Mr. CHASE we had hoped that lie had never seen the original of the let ter to Mr. CAMERON. He might then have plead in excuse that " he published what lie believed j to be a true copy." But by his own showing he has had the letter in his possession—has i read it to Mr. L.vrnr.or—expressed " his opin-! ions freely about," He cannot plead that he j was so indifferent to its meaning, that a garbled ; and mutilated copy was imposed upon him.— ; His explanation has made the whole transac- j tion look darker and more inexplicable for him.! He lias involved himself in a labyrinth of con-! tradictions and improbabilities, which only ! make his conduct appear the more despicable j and inexcusable. He may attempt to bespat-! ter Judge WILMOT with foul abuse—he may as-; sail him with " Secret whispers, dark surmise, Or open and malicious lice," but he cannot divert public attention from the ; imputation under which he lies. A half utter- ! Ed, negative, slander, will not convince the pub- j lie of the correctness of his conduct, nor of the : purity of Lis motives. Mr. CHASE pronounces the assertion that lie has been "ut Ilarrisbnrg for the purpose of aiding CAMERON'S election, a charge most infa mously false." If Mr. CHASE, being at Harris bnrg, did not endeavor to promote the electiou of Mr. CAMERON, then we are deceived, and be grossly misrepresented. We heard, through! those certainly not unfriendly to him, that at the time of the first attempt to elect, he was at Hnmsburg, frieudly to, and secretly endea voring to aid CAMERON. At the next meeting of the Convention, we were " on hand" ourself, and whenever anything was said about him, it seemed to be the general understanding that he would, if lie could, help The remarks that we heard made iu public conversations, conveyed anything but a favorable opinion of his importance, and were not particularly flat tering to him generally. That he was in the employ of CAMERON*, we can ouly say that we firmly believe, and we know that such was the belief of every anti-CAwrnoN- man with whom we conversed st Uarrisourg; and we made it a point to "post ourself up" on the subject. He has certainly been very careful throughout the contest not to " express Rtiy word of discourage ment or uukindness" of Mr. CAMERON* through the columns of his paper, notwithstanding his intimate personal relations with "the great Statesman and man of spotless private charac ter, JAMES BUCHANAN*." What means this omi uous silence, when Mr. BUCHANAN'S body-guard have been on the alert ? It is more in sorrow than in anger we have followed Mr. CHASE through his t wis tings and subterfuges—that we have exposed his flimsy pretexts. We have confined ourselves simply to the letter. We do not seek to retort back the uugentlemanly language he employs. It is not such as our readers are accustomed to find iu our coiumns. We awaited the appearance of the Democrat with much anxiety that Mr. CHASE would be able to explain with credit to himself a transaction so nefarious on its face. We felt that a mis-step of this kind was fatal to the reputation and fortunes of a young man. Mr. CHASE apparently glories in its iniquity.— The consequences are his own. Like the ghost of the murdered Banquo this mutilated letter will rise up against him — a SCARLET LETTER — to proclaim his guilt, aud cover him with re morse and confusion. An error in judgment he might outlive and overcome—but the part he has had iu this disreputable transaction will cling to him as the poisoned shirt of Xessus, destroying public confidence in his integrity, and weakening the influence he should wield as an editor. FOREIGN NEWS. —The steamer rod fie arriv ed at New-York on Wednesday morning last. She brings ten days later intelligence, which is quite interesting. The Palmerston ministry, within ten days from its formation, had fallen to pieces—the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Home Secretary, and the chief Lord of the Admiralty having resigned. The ostensible cause of their resignation was the success of Mr. Roebuck's motiou for a Committee to in quire into the mismanagement of the war. It ! was well understood that, besides the cause spe ! cilied, there were points of private disagreement j wich rendered it impossible for the members of the Cabinet to act together. It is noticeable that in the Parliamentary ; explanations the members of the Government j express hopes, confident hopes, that the pend ' iug negotiations will lead to an honorable peace. Nevertheless, none of the nations relax in their war activity. The Emperor of the French seems determin ed to proceed to the Crimea, to see, in person, what is going on, and uo doubt would, if he i could time his visit so as to be present at the : fall of Sevastopol. England and Austria have advised him to stay at home. Ilis absence, it is said, would not, in any case, exceed thirty days. Russia has declared war on Sardinia. It is slated, but on the faith of obscure correspon dence—that Tuscany has joined the Western Alliance. Naples has not. Affairs before Sevastopol arc unchanged. A battle has been fought at Eupatoria. On the 17th Gen. Liprandi, with a force about equal to, or perhaps a few thousand superior to the Turks, attacked them, and after four hours' tir ing retired beyond the range of the shells from the English ships, the Turks not pursuing. Omer Pasha commanded. There is uothing whatever new from the I Danube. Lord Raglan is said to have resigned, to ' avoid recall. The Earl of Luean and other of ficers have been invited to resign. Joseph Hume is dead—much respected and .regretted. Very inclement weather had caused suffer ing among the poor in England, and riots had occurred at Liverpool and Loudon. A change for the better was apparent within the past few days. NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION. —The election in this State, on Tuesday last, has resulted in over whelming defeat of the Administration. RALPH METCALF, Know Nothing, is chosen Governor by the people. The three members of Congress j elect, are thorough-going anti-Nebraska men. I The Legislature will be strongly auti-Adminis- j tration. Partial returns make Knt^v-Nothings 123; Democrats 29; Whigs 3. The Legisla ture will have the election of two U. S. Sena tors. A painful accident happened at Mere dith, N. 11., Tuesday, during the election. A j floor gave way iu the Town llall, pitching some three hundred men into a heap eighteen feet below. Five or six are probably dead, and a great number are severely injured. Nr.w JERSEY . LEGISLATION.— They have a " bribery and corruption" ease, in the New Jersey Legislature. A member of the House was offered SIOOO to vote for the several bank bills before that body. The House has since killed these bank bills. It wilTbe good for New Jersey if the same effect will follow the cause in the same proportion. Amendments to the Constitution. The resolutions proving certain important amendments to the constitution, passed the Senate on Thursday by a large majority. The first proposition relates to the public debts of the Commonwealth, and provides that the ag- j grogatc amount of debts hereafter contracted by the Commonwealth shall never exceed the sum of five hundred thousand dollars, oiccept in case of war to repel invasion, suppress in surrection, or to redeem the public debts of thfi Commonwealth ; and the money so raised shall be applied to the purpose for which tin; debt may be contracted, or to pay such debts, and to no other purpose. It is further provided, that to pay the pub lic debt of the Commonwealth, and debts which may hereafter be contracted in case of war, to repel invasion, to suppress insurrec tion, and to redeem the public debt, the Legis lature shall at their next session, after the adoption of this section of the Constitution, provide by law for the creation of a sinking fund which shall not be abolished tiil the said public debt be wholly paid, to consist of all the nett annual income from the public works and stocks owned by the Commonwealth, or any other funds arising under any revenue law now existing, or that may lie hereafter enacted, so far as the same may be required to pay the in terest of said debts, semi-annually, to reduce the principal thereof by a sum not less than five hundred thousand dollars, increased year ly by compounding at the rate of not less than live per centum per annum ; the said sinking fund shall be invested in the loans of the Com monwealth, which shall be cancelled from time to time in a manner to be provided by law.— No portion of the sinking fund shall ever be applied to the payment of the debt of five hundred thusand dollars, mentioned in the first j section of this article, but the said sinking fund shall be applied only to the purpose herein spe cified. • The credit of the Commonwealth shall not in any way, be given or loaned to or in aid of | any individual company, corporation or asso , ciation, not shall the Commonwealth hereafter ' become a joint owner or stockholder in any ; any company, association or corporation, in this Commonwealth, or elsewhere, formed for any purpose. The Commonwealth shall never assume the debts of any county, city, borough or township, or of any corporation or associa tion, unless such debts shall have been contract ed to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or |to defend the State in war. The second propo sition relates to municipal subscriptions, and ; provides that the legislature shall never autho rise any county, city, borough or township, by | vote of its citizens or otherwise, to become a | stockholder in any joint stock company, asso ciation or corporation, or to raise money for or loan its credit to or in aid of such company or corporation. " Kate Ay'esford, a story of the Refugees. 1 " By CHARLES J. PETERSON*, author of "Cruising in the Last War," Ac., publisher of Peterson's Ladies National Magazine; This work is now in Press, and will be issued on the last of this month It is said not only to be a true tale of the times that " tried men's souls," not only a faithful picture of the man ners of '7O, but one of the most thrilling, pow erful, and absorbing stories ever penned. The Philadelphia Ledger says : It is on all hands pronounced the ablest original novel published lor many years." The Philadelphia Mercury says it is "a novel of thrilling interest. Mr. PETERSON* is deservedly a popular writer, and tins story will arid new lustre to his name.."— Address J. B. Peterson, No. 102, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BATH, N. Y.—A fire broke out at Bath, about 4 o'clock on Tuesday evening last in the Clinton House, totally de stroying tiiat building with Cayress Hall, and about a dozen stores and numerous offices, shops, &e. The following are among the hea viest losers : A. Hess, Clothing Store ; Potter A Secley, I Clothing Store ; Hart, Hat and Cap Store ; | 11. \\ . Church, Hardware Store ; L. V. Church i & Co., Hardware Store; Paine A Co., Dry Good Store ; Woods A Robie, Dry Good Store; G. A. Rogers, Dry Good Store ; E. lless, Drug Store ; L. C. Whiting, Dry Good Store; Ferris Baker ; It. Campbell. Total loss from $75,000 to SIOO,OOO. THE MONEY MARKET. —Money is very abun dant in > T ew York as will be seen by the fol lowing paragraph, which we cut from the mo ney article of the livening Post: —The money market is amply supplied for all wants, wheth er speculative or otherwise, without any cor responding disposition to use the means avail able. Money rates continue to decline. The value of money is from four to six per cent, on the market, where there is no supposed risk. Call loans 4a 6, discounts of prime paper 5a 0, of gooil paper G a 7. GEN. SHIELDS' SUCCESSOR.— The Chicago Tribune says that Governor Matteson will not give Judge Trumbull a certificate of his elec tion to the United States Senate. He bases his refusal on the ground that the Judge is not eligible, under the clause of the Constitution which prohibits any Judge of the Supreme Court from holdin gany other office during the term for which he was elected Judge, nor for one vear afifrr the expiration of such terra. Judge Trum ball resigned the office'of Judge, but the term for which he was elected has not yet expired. U. S. SENATOR.— A joint resolution has been introduced into the Senate, for the election of U. S. Senator on the 20th inst., and which was taken up on Monday last, debated on second reading, an- batc continued till lutein the afternoon, and the question was very thoroughly investigated upon both sides. After a fruitless attempt to introduce amendments, the resolution finally j assed unanimously. This was considered an important question by those most conversant with the schools of the County, and it is believed that the discus sion, carried on as it was in a spirit of kindues and with an anxiety to arrive at truth, wi ; , have a salutary influence. DR. ANDRES, of Smithfield, offered the fol lowing ; ReselvcJ, That the study of any of the branches of an English education, ought to be encouraged in our Common Schools. After a short discussion upon the principles embodied in the resolution, Mr. GCYER propos : ed, as explanatory, and as calculated to correct a false impression made by the action of the Association, at its last meeting, upon a rc-solc : tion relative to the introduction of the higher • branches into our Common .Schools-, the follow ing resolutions,which he wished to have consid ered as a substitute for the one previously of fered by Dr. A SPECS : Resolved, That this Association, deprecates ; the practice of studying the higher branches i iu the Common Schools, before a thorough ac quaintance is formed with Orthography, Gram mar. Arithmetic and Geography; and a? teach ers of tiie Common Schools of Bradford Coun ty, we w ill discountenance the practice, believ it to be inimical to the true interest of the cause of education. Resolved, That we are in favor of gradri schools, w herein the higher branches follow th primary ones, and thoroughness is the first and best consideration. Resolved, That we believe the welfare of ! society, requires that our Common School* should be so arranged, as to place within the reach of all the children of the Commonwealth the blessings of a full and ample schooling it , any department, and we believe that anytuic" : short of this will not meet the wants, or satis i fy the expectation of community. The amendment prevailed, and on motion, the resolutions wore taken up and considc-rcd : seriatem. After a full discussion, in which | Messrs. GI VER, ANDRES, COLT, MORROW, and ; others participated, the resolutions were sever ally adopted. During the evening session, tho Association listened to an address from 11. N". CHAMTUX, upon the duty and respoiisi bill lies of parent-, i pertaining to teachers and scholars. The ad dress was eminently practical, and well c-alcn j la-tcd to direct the attention of parcjs to the : cause oi education. Miss C. A. STOCKWELL ! a.so reau a well written essay upon thenecesii- Ity of educating the masses. This article evinc j cd much thought and a fine taste, in the a*- rangement of its several parts— both produc tions were listened to with marked attention A vote ofjthatrks was presented to Mr. CHAD PLI.v and Miss STOCKWELL. On Saturday, the 24th, the Association Br. | at 9 A. sr., aud entered upon the discussion o: the following resolution : . Resolved, That it is the imperative dutycf every teacher, to maintain good order in scho;!. and adopt such measures as shall secure that important end, even if it becomes necessary to resort to corporeal punishment. This question being one of vital import nr.?", • and a practical one withal, called out a spirt ed debate, in which 11. N". CHAMPLIN*, S. 1' COLT, Dr. Buss, Misses CHCDBCCK, PHELPS TRACY and COBCRV, participated. Mr. COL: proposed the following amendment: Resolved, I hat order is essential to the Re cess of a school. In maintaining this, corpo real punishment should be a last resort; its infbetion may be the imperative duty oft teacher. The whole matter was finally laid upon it table to be called up as unfinished business at j the next meeting. Rev. S. F. COLT offered the following, which J was adopted without discussion : Resolved, That we believe it to be the only j effectual method of clcvutinpr the Corona Schools, to provide schools in which trnche* van be prepared for their arduous duties; at" ; tluit it would be the means of great I v iirpf' 7 ing the schools of this section of the Coinr: c ' i wealth, if the Legislature would appropriate' s sufficient sum, to enable the Normal 1 nu-nt of the Susquehanna Collegiate l:istiuij ( 1 to impart instruction gratuitously to thoM 1 "'- will pledge themselves to teach iu the Co®" mouwealth a specified time. On motion of C. R. COBCRN*, 0. .T. CHf [ BUCK, GIBSON* BABCOCK, Mrs. MARTHA A. [• TOX, Miss F. E. IIKNDRICK, were appointed 4 | Committee, to report upon a series ot t li '" j books to be used in the schools of the Count? \ Mr. O. J. CHUBBUCK and Miss FANNY 0. ^ v DRUB were appointed essayists for the; meeting—also Dr. C. T. Buss, K. GUVER#®! fh I'. D. MORROW, a Committee to prepare hir ness for the next meeting. On motion of S. F. COLT, Reached, | Essays be solicited from members, iVqirc:4r v | females) of the Association, embracing f' r -'