ii f porter. E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR. TOWANDA: Bdtnrbnn flloritinn, Sipril 7, 1853. DEMOCRATIC corx- TV CONVENTION.—The PrmocnitM' Standing Committee for Bradford County. heroliy call a Convention to be compo-cd of two Delegate from each election district in naid county, to !>e holdcnat Tow.ind.i on Toe-day evening. May S, 1-.>•>. for the pur jioee of eleetinjr deleafates to the' Democratic Btate Con vention, and have appointed the following Committees of Vigilance for the several districts of said county : COMHITTTKS OK VIOII.4SCE. Albany— Benjamin Wilcox. John Brown. Armenia —l.ysauder Shepard, Robert Mason. Asylum Edmund 11 orton. Daniel Wilson. Athens foro'- -M .ses Sawyer. lsaar Kvans. Athens tp. —David C. irdner, Ralph Tozor. Burlington Boro' —Addison M'Kean, Benjamin Iloss. *' Imp. —C. F. Nichols, Wyn. M'Kean. Canton —lram Wilson, Samuel Owens. Cohimbia —Horace liallard, John Morgan. Durell- —I). O. Hollon, Edward Hornet. Franklin- -.Jonathan Harmon, Win. Rlake. Granville —f.timan Putnam, C. D. Itoss. Herrick —Geo. W. Elliett, Joiin Anderson. Isßny —Aaron Knapp. Nelson Bevnolds. I.i'ehfield- T. R. Merrill, A. V. D. Teed. Monroe —Geo. Smith. James W. Irvine. Orwell—Geo. C. Krisbie, lfeber Wilson. Overton —Jacob Hotteiistein, Wm. Waltiuan. Pike —S. B. Stevens, Ira H. Smith. Rome—Hugh Hicks, John I), foe. Rirlgbrry- --Charles French, T. Covell. Shetheyuin —C. W. Itullis, Charles Chaffee. Sylrania Boro ' —L. F. Ooetchius, Seth Peck. Smitlifirld —S. 11. Crane. C. O. Huntington. Sjiringfield —John Barrett. 11. J. Bentley. Booth Creek —lra Crane, John Thompson. Standing Stone —Alanson Taylor, Asa Steven*. T'nvanda Boro' —Wm. H. Perkins, P. I>. Morrow. •• tp. —H. L, Scott. Dennis Magili. Tmcantla Xorth —S. 15. Foster, W. W. E vterbrooka. Troy Bi rd' — Asa Landon, Delos C Herrick. " tp -Fur man Porter, Alouzo Clilton. Toscarora —Hiram Shusnway, E. C. Wells. Ulster— M. S. Warner, I). O. Clmhbuck. Wells —John Browncl!. John Rowiec. Windham —'Wm. Sibley W. B. Dunham. l.yman Arnold, 11. C. Rufliucton. 111/mot —Charles White, C.enrge Eberly, Jr. H'yalusing —S. W. Biles, Justus Aokley. Wysox —S. Strickland, J. Myer Reed. The committees will call meetings on Saturday, May .">th, between the hours of 3 and 6. P. M. By order of Standing Committee. E. 0. GOODRICH, Chairman. NORTH PENNSYLVANIA RAIL ROAD CO. The North Pennsylvania Railroad Company have advertised for a mortgage loan of $2,500,- 000, bids for $1,000,000 of which will be re ceived at the Company's office, in Philadelphia, until the 21st of May next. The bonds will be issued of the denomination of SIOOO and SSOO, with coupons, interest at the rate of six per cent., payable January and July, ami will run thirty years, to the Ist of January, 1885. The bonds are secured by a first mortgage on the cutirc length of the road and branches, from Philadelphia to the Lehigh river, with all its depots, equipments, appurtenances and in come. The Company have already expended in cash on the property which it offers insceu- j rity by mortgage fr the payment of these bonds, j $1,9<>5,765, and holds in bona fide subscrip tions money sufficient to complete and equip the work some twenty miles out of Philadel phia. The proposed loan will be wholly ex- j pended on the road north from Doylestown, \ and is said to be amply sufficient to complete it through to the Lehigh river. The Lalgrr, in its money article, has the following very sensible remarks in regard to the importance of this road to the commercial and other inter-; ests of Philadelphia : The region of country through which this i road runs is one of the most productive in the State, and is believed by the enterprising gen tleman who have taken its construction in hand to be essential to the trade of our city and the ; prosperity of its commercial interests. It is i emphatically a Philadelphia enterprise, and aims to continue to this city, a profitable trade in our own State, the longer enjoyment of which, however, is threatened by the increased facili. | ties offered for reaching a more distant market. It has become manifest that to retain what our merchants have long enjoyed, something better than the wagoning of produce ami merchandise must be afforded. The North Pennsylvania Railroad is the result of this conviction, and ■ to carry the purpose into effect, up to the 23d , inst., $2,00(5,650 had been subscribed in this . city and along the line of the road. Besides its commercial importance, there is reason to j believe, that it will be remunerative from ordi- j nary freight and passenger business. But this is not the only resource of revenue. The Coal trade, it will be seen, is largely relied on, as i the following extract from the Company's Cir cular will show :—"Theßeading Railroad, the Schuylkill Navigation and the Lehigh Naviga-j tion, the distributing arteries of the Schuylkill anil the Lehigh coal regions are approximating their tonnage, and if the mining operations in the Schuylkill and Lehigh Valleys increase in the four years next to come, in a ratio corre sponding to the four years last gone by, the ex-; cess tonnage will soon require new lines to car- j ry it to market.'' The Company, in anticipation of the growing wants of trade and travel, are having the line of the road graded for a double track, thus giving additional value to the security offered for the loan asked. We have no doubt that this loan will be rea dily obtained. The affairs of the North Penn sylvania Railroad have been managed by Pres ident FKBVO.V with consummate prudence nnd ability, and while other Roads are depressed and brought under the hammer, this road is out of debt, and possesses the eontidence of the public. The policy pursued, has been, to push the road no faster than the means of the Com pany would permit, in the meantime demon strufliug its utility and value to the commercial interests of Philadelphia, and looking to its ultimate completion to its natural outlet at the State Line. The task which has devolved upon Mr. Fn> .VON has l>OL'u a delicate and arderotn one.— I'uderatanding fully the fertility and value of the country which was to be brought back to an acquaintance with Philadelphia by means vt ih.fc firoje.a. tie has labored unceasingly to i j demonstrate to the citizeus of that city their true interests. In a great degree lie has been successful. The merchants of Philadelphia , have permitted the trade which they once in joyed from Northern and Eastern Pcnnsylva : nia to pass away from them—and they now 1 understand that the building of this road will [once more bring to them a portion of the State . otherwise alienated. FOREIGN NEWS.— The arrival of the A ed. Rumor says | Napoleon insists npon the destruction of Sc- I bastopol, though England and Austria would •be content to leave the town standing. The ; basis of peace negotiations had been agreed ! upon, and the representatives were to sign it |on the 11th. Prussia refuses to accede to the treaty with the Allies, and is not admitted to the conference. The Allied Army has recom menced firing upon Sebastopol. Sickness is said to be decreasing. The Russians arc strong ly fortifying the valley of Inkennann. The re port of a battle in which Ostcn-Sacken was wounded is said to be false. Menehikoff has i gone to Moscow. The two Grand Dukes are : on the way to St. Petersburg. Ostcn-Sacken is l in command in Sebastopol, and Dialers is at ; Odessa. There is no news from the Danube. ; Disturbances have occurred in Syria, and Turk ; ish troops are sent, to Bcyront. The doings in the English Parliament are unimportant. The evidence before the Army Inquiry Committee confirms the worst reports of bad management. Monetary and commercial affairs had under gone a favorable change. It is still doubtful whether Napoleon really means to go to the Crimea. The Ministerial trouble in Belgium is not settled. From Spain we hear that ! Gen. Concha thinks Cuba is in a dangerous ' position. The Srxn.vv Liqi ok Law*.— The recently en acted Sunday Liquor Law went into operation on Sunday last. It provides that from and ' after the first of April, it shall not bo lawful Cor any person or persons to sell, trade or barter in any spirituous or malt liquors, wine or cider, on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, or for the keeper or keepers of any hotel, inn, or tavern, ale-house, beer-house, or other public house or place, knowingly to allow or permit any spirituous or malt liquors, wine or cider, to be drank on or within the ! premises or house, occupied or kept by such J keeper or keepers, his, her, or their agents and servants on the first day of the week." It also provides that all persons violating the pro visions of the foregoing section, shall, for each and every offence, pay the sum of fifty dollars line. Also, that "in addition to the fine, every person who shall violate the provisions of the first section above quoted, shall be considered ' to have committed a misdemeanor, and shall, i on conviction thereof, in any criminal court in • this Commonwealth, shall be fined in anv sum 1 not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not less ten nor more than sixty days, at the discretion of the court."' COXNECTICCT ELECTION-.— The annual elec tion in this State took place 011 Monday last. A Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State and Controller were chosen, with a Legislature and members of Congress. The following were the candidates fur Governor : IIEXRY DITTOS (Whig) WM. MINOR, (K. N.) SAMCEI. IXGIIAM, (Dem.) The temperance men generally supported Mr. DITTO*. The returns are not all in vet, but the result will be nearly as folllows :—INGRAM, (Dem.) for Governor, 27,000; MINOR, (K. N.) 23,000; DITTOS, (Whig,) 9,000. No choice by the people. The Know-Nothings and Whigs have 19 or 20 of the 21 Senators, and probably 130 of the 231 Representatives, so that Minor will be elected by the Legislature. They have al so carried all four of the Congressmen. Org" The sale of a portion of DANIEL WEB BER'S Marshfielil property took place at the ohl homestead, on the 28th March. Real es tate to the amount of SIO,IOO was sold. The same property cost originally "over SIB,OOO. — A lot of cattle and sheep were also disposed of, which produced the sum of $2,100. Mr. WEBSTER'S affairs were left in a state of great embarrassment, but his friends, we believe, <*x pect to be able to save to the family some 300 or 400 acres of the estate, including the ohl mansion. At the time of his decease, it seems the Massachusetts statesman owed the moderate sum of $140,000, or thereabouts. WAR ON THE KNOW-XOTHINOS.—In the De mocratic County Convention, held at Philadel phia on Tuesday last, suspect ed of Know-Xothingism were examined under oath, and witnesses were also examined in re lation to the accusations against them. Those who refused to testify, or the accused against whom the charge was proved, were expelled. Among those expelled was Win. S. Allen, De mocratic County Commissioner, and on his re fusing to depart he was forcibly put out. EI.ECTIOV IN IOWA.—A few scattering rc ! turns of the election in lowa indicates the | success of the Prohibitory Liquor Law.— Dubuque gives 300 Democratic majority ; Da venport, 130 and Know-Nothing ma jority. Letter from Harrisburg. HAF.ll snrma, March 31,185.-. The Speaker of the Senate laid before that body a communication from .JAMES GOT;F.N, President of the State Agricultural Society, ami ex-officio President of the Farmers' High School, asking for an appropriation of £20,000 by the State for the purpose of founding this Institution, and placing it upon a permanent basis. He says that the State Society is able and willing to contribute £IO,OOO for the pur pose, and continues, "Let the Legislature en dow this School with but $20,000, and my life upon it, it will in a brief period, by the im provement of laud, by the increase of grain, roots and corn, beef, pork, butter and cheese, produce millions per annum to the State, over and above her present or prospective agricultu ral resources, unaided by such au educational institution." The bill to repeal lite tavern license laws was reported back from the Committee of Vice and Immorality in the Senate, when it was re committed for purposes of amendment. The amendments thus made make no alteration in the general features of the bill, but iudieate more in detail how applications shall be made to the Court for license to sell liquors in eases not prohibited, in which particular the terms of the bill were not sufficiently definite. The Senate thou modified the fines imposed for a violation of its provisions, when it was sent to the printer, and will be acted upon as soon as printed. A ineffectual effort was made in the House, this morning, to proceed to the consideration of the Governor's veto of the Pottstown Bank. The game being played by the Bank combina tion, is to prevent action upon this veto until a number of vetoes accumulate, when the whole batch will have a chance of being log-rolled through, by a majority of two-thirds. This, the friends of the Governor, desirous of sustain ing his position, are anxious to prevent, and to secure immediate action unpou this veto, so as to take each one in detail. If the Governor is not sustained, ami this lull pass bv a two thirds vote, he will probably veto all the bank bills in his hands, and commit to the Legisla ture the responsibility of passing them bv a two-thirds vote. It is even said, and I believe truly, that the Governor will soon veto a large number of the Bank bills passed, and in his possession. This log-rolling scheme can hard ly succeed. It must not be supposed that all the votes that passed a bank bill can be coun ted on against a veto. Some members, uni formly voting for these bills, will back water and sustain the Governor, when he applies the veto. The hill relative to foreign insurance conipa- I uies, which lately passed the Senate, and is ; now pending in the House, is not designed to interfere with the agencies of sound and re sponsible foreign companies, but as a defensive measure against the horde of dishouest and un reliable companies, which arc multiplying so rapidly in other States, and whose agents arc peddling their policies through this State. The House of Representatives did not arrive ; at a vote on the bill for the sale of the main ' line of the public works. The subject was nn ; der consideration yesterday, the question pend | ing being npon the motion to increase the mini mum price from seven to ten millions of dollars, and was discussed and postponed without ac tion upon it. After a great deal of talking upon this subject, it is most probable that the seven millions minimum, will be increased to eight millions, or possibly nine, and the bill passed. There is a great diversity of opinion as to the real value of these works, and vari ous and conflicting conclusions arrived at from nearly the same data. Ry sonic they arc valu ed at a price which would entirely preclude the possibility of sale, while others affect to view them as so burdensome an incumbrance that the State had 1 letter give them away, than re tain them in her possession. Iu the House of Representatives, considera ble discussion arose upon a proposition embrac ed in a supplement to the school laws, to ap point ANDREW G. CKRTI.V, THOMAS H. RI R ROWS, and C. A. BLACK, Commissioners to visit the Normal Schools of Massachusetts, Connec ticut and other Northern States, for the pur pose of obtaining correct information as to their organization, Ac., and examine sites for the es tablishment of two or more Normal Schools in this State ; and report to the next legislature. Mr. M'CUNTOCK explained and supported the section. He regarded the adoption of the sys tem of Normal Schools as necessary to the per fection of our school system. He argued that they had proved successful wherever they had been tried, and that they were absolutely es sential for the preparation and properly quali fying teachers for the performance of their du ties. The section was ultimately lost. Both Houses of the Legislature have ad journed until Tuesday next, for the purpose of affording members an opjiortuuity of going home, and attending to business which needs attention anout the Ist of April. Perhaps the amount of business to lie transacted between this and the close of the session, will not be materially affected by this interval, and the public might not be seriously damaged if it was. If the Legislature would take up the appropria tion bill, and, immediately after its passage, adjourn, they might be readily excused from further legislation. XEAI. DOW ELECTED MAYOR.—NEAT. DOW. after being twice beaten in similar contests, was Tuesday last chosen Mayor of Portland, Maine, after a vehement struggle, wherein the largest vote was thrown Portland ever polled. A majority of the new Council are also in favor of a thorough enforcement of Li jwor prohibition LOCAL Tn EWS. THE WEATHER, *C. —The "blow" of the past few days seems to have extended in every di rection. We have numerous accounts of lamen table accidents caused by the gale, both upon ; the seaboard and inland. It has apparently frightened away winter, which seem disposed I to make au unreasonable stay, and given us in i its place some indications of Spring. The few warm days we have experienced have sufficed to clear the river from tiie ice, and the prog nostications of those who have been foretelling damage and disasters from the ice in the pool of the dam, will prove false. Fortunately the ice, which above the dam, at one time, was nearly or quite two feet thick, has almost dis appeared, and the pool is nearly clear ; so much so that ferry boats arc crossing. The disappearance of the ice from the river without au accompanying "ice freshet," is a phenomenon unknown to the " oldest inhabi tant." Our lumbermen arc preparing for a " rise," of which there is now every indication, when the unusually large quantity of lumber piled in our neighborhood, will pass below, to find, we trust, ready sale at remunerating prices. Bit AOFORO Cot"N'TY AGRICULTURAL SociKTV. The following persons were elected Managers of the Bradford County Agricultural Society for the present year : EMANUEL FTl'YEß —Burlington. J. K. PIOLLET —Wysox. M. H. LAVXING— " ISAAC A. PARK— Herrick. D. F. I'OME ROV —Troy. J. T. I). MYER —Athens. E. W. HALE —Monroe. STEPHEN" POWELL —North Towauda. J. C. It inn WAY —Monroe. We arc requested by the Secretary, W. C. BOG ART, Esq., to say, that a meeting of the Managers will bo held at the office of Col. G. F. MASON, in Towanda, on Wednesday next, the 11th inst., at one o'clock, P. M. As bu siness of importance is to be transacted, it is hoped that every member of the Board will be present at the meeting. BARX Bl'RXEn. —The barn of ALEXANDER BROOKS, ol Factory ville, was burned on Sun day night last, with five cows and a large quan tity of hay. it is supjiosed to be the work of an incendiary. DWELLING BORNEO. —The dwelling of SAMUEL OWENS, in W ysox township, was destroyed bv lire on Monday last. The origin of the lire is unknown, but supposed to have been from the falling of sparks upon the kitchen roof. A portion of the furniture was saved. Loss pro bably about £ISOO, upon which there was no insurance. I HE VKXT FAIR OK THE N EW-VORK STATE AC mcn.-n RAL SOCIETY.— The next Annual State Fair of the New-York State Agricultural So ciety is to be held in Eliuira. It conies off some time in October next.— We are rejoiced at the success of our Ehnira neighbors iu securing to themselves this great Agricultural pageant. It was no more than right that the Southern Tier Counties should receive this late public acknowledgment of their swift advance in population and wealth. No other portion of the Empire State is at this time so rapidly growing into commercial and Agricultural importance. The Northern Tier Counties of Pennsylvania, have vied with their neighbors across the line in the race of pro gression, and have felt the same impulse of thrift and enterprise which Rail Road commu nication with the lakes and the sea board has created along the Southern frontier of our sis ter State. For ourselves, we feel not a little exultant iu the success of our Ehnira friends. KANSAS ELECTION-.— The returns of the re cent election in Kansas, show the election of the pro-slavery ticket for members of the Terri torial Legislature in Bull Creek, Lawrence, Douglas,Doniphan,Tecnmseli,Shawnee Mission, Leavenworth, and Hooky point Counties, by majorities rnnging from 200 to 800. Ihc Editor of the Kansas Free. State, was ducked in the Kew river by a mob, in conse quence of an objectionable speech. There are probably no anti-slavery men elected to the Legislature. TRIAL OK THE BIRNS RIOTERS.— The trial of the alleged rioters iu the Burns rendition ease, Messrs. Theodore Parker, Wendell Philips, Higginson, and others, commenced at Boston, on Tuesday, before Judges Curtis and Spraguc. They are defended by Hon. John P. Hale and other leading Free Soil lawyers. The de fense moved that the indictments be quashed on various grounds, one of which was that U. S. Marshal Freeman, who summoned the Jury, was the party alleged to have been assaulted, and was, therefore, not an indifferent party in the trial. DR. BE ALE'S CASE.— In the Supreme Court ' at Philadelphia on Monday last, Chief Justice Lewis gave a decision granting a writ of error in the Beale case, on the ground that the jury i that tried the ease, instead of being sworn to tender a verdict according to the evidence, ! were to try the guilt or innocence of the dc-1 fondants ; also, that the defendant, instead of ' being sentenced to solitary confinement at labor, : was sentenced to imprisonment at hard labor. BFCG*" THAT REMARKABLE PIIEMOMEVO.V in na tural science, the coal mountain in Pennsylva nia, which has been on fire since 1837, will probably soon l>e extinguished, as the fire is approaching a point which can be submerged in water. A mass of coal has been consumed three-eighths of a mile long, tiO feet wide, 300 deep, nnd emial to 1,420,000 ton* of coal ft-a)"* At the City Election in Cincinnati ) Monday, a desperate fight, amounting to a riot, occurred between the Know-Nothings and the Foreign-born citizens. There arose a rumor that in the Eleventh \\ urd the Natives were not allowed to distribute tickets, wherc ! upon a large party of Know-Nothings under i took to put things to rights, and for a while it j was thought that several persons were killed. I Later dispatches say that no one is dead, or fatally wounded. The ballot-boxes were broken | up, thus destroying, it is supposed some six or seven hundred majority rightfully belonging to the "Sag-Nichts" or Anti-Know-Nothings. DREAUKTT. CATASTROPHE.— 'The new and ex tensive glass factory at the town of Progress, mouth of Rancocas Creek, New Jersey, was blown down on Wednesday, during the gale, and twenty-five workmen, engaged in the man ufacture of glass, were buried beneath the ru ins. At the latest dates from the scene of the disaster, eight dead bodies had been taken from the ruins, and several others were seri ously injured. The property belonged to Ju lius Ketter, and was damaged tu the extent of $15,000. The Assembly of the Law Softool at Cambridge Mass., has been dissolved by a vote of the law Faculty, in consequence of the im proper conduct of the young partisans of J udgc LORI.NO. DESTRUCTION OK THE TENNESSEE PENITEN TIARY.—The Tennessee Penitentiary is in ruins. About 3 o'clock on Thursday morning, a fire was discovered in the cabinet department of j the institution, which spread with alarming ! rapidity, and in a very short time the entire j portion set apart for the different branches of j trade, was completely enveloped in flames.— | The east wing of the main building also caught : fire, and was so greatly damaged as to render it useless. It being impossible to check the progress of the flames, the cells were all thrown open, and tlie prisoners conveyed to an inclosure, inside of the walls, and fortunately not a single pris oner escaped. One convict named Conner was j smothered to death. All the tools in the different shops were de stroyed, as was all the work. The loss is esti mated at SIOO,OOO. COUNTY TREASURERS. —Mr. Downing, from the committee of ways and means at ilarris ! burg, has reported the following supplement, ■ relating to County Treasurers : •§. 1. Be it enacted and Jr., That, the comity treasurers now in office in the different eouii j ties of this Commonwealth shall hold and en joy their respective offices for the term of three | years from the time thev entered upon the du ! ties thereof and that hereafter all eountv trea i surcrs shall he elected for the term of three I years and shall perform the duties and be sulv ! jeet to the provisions of the act to which this jis a supplement: Provided, That the treasu rers now in office whose terms are extended for one year shall give bonds according to the terms and provisions of the law under which they were elected conditioned for the faithful performance of their respective duties for the time herein added to their terms of office, i §. 2. Tliat so much of the said act of As ! senibly as is hereby altered and supplied is ! hereby repealed. ACCIDENT ON THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. A portion of the train from Pittsburg for Harrisburg was thrown off the track, bet ween 4 and 5 o'clock, Thursday morning, in eon sequence of the locomotive coming in contact with a large rock, which" had fallen on the track. The locomotive was turned completely around ; the baggage ear thrown into the Juniata river, (on the borders of which tho ! accident occurred, about twenty miles from Harrisburg,) and the fyst passenger ear shatter ed to pieces, by striking violently against the locomotive. It appears the car was so jammed up with the locomotive that it was some time before the doors of the former could be opened, during which the steam forced itself in among the passengers, many of whom were scalded, he sides being cut and bruised, but fortunately none were fatally or dangerously injured.— The engineer was badly, and probably fatally, j hurt. The fireman and one brakeman were also seriously injured. The engineer resided in ' Harrisburg. The accident is attributed to the I neglect of the person whose duty it is to see j that the road is clear. PROWXEP. —On Friday last a lad named GCY BROWN, aired 6 years 5 months and 14 days, son of Mr. XATHAXIEI. Bnowx, living on Baldwin Street in this village, while playing on the ice on the Canal by the Church Street Bridge, fell into a hole cut out for getting water. His companions immediately gave the alarm to his father who repaired to the place and took him out. Though the little fellow was in hut a few moments, yet life was extinct. He was taken home and medical aid procured, but all efforts to resuscitate him were ineffectual. Ihe spark of life of this bright and jovous little fellow had fled and gone forever. It'was a severe shock upon his doting parents and loving brother and sister. We deeply sympa thise with the afflicted in their sudden and unexpected bereavement.— E/mira Gazette. Ax A VAI.AXCHE OK THEM.— The "old sol diers" are evidently " alive ami kicking."— Yesterday, about, 3,100 applicants for bounty land for them were received at the Pension Office ! Three hundred other business letters wore also received at that bureau, yesterday. These facts will give the distant readers fair idea of the labor performed in that branch of the Government's affairs at this point. Yet all goes on there like clock-work, Commissioner Waldo having so systematized liis affairs there, as that nearly every employee under him does much more than before Mr. W. assumed the direction of the Bureau's matters, and with greater ease and more comfort than when they were able to accomplish less.— ll'ashin "-ton Star. ° 1 IIK "W MF.AT FIELDS. —AII the accounts we have received represent the wheat fields through out the northwest in a very promising condition. Nothing has yet been said of the plant being winter-killed in any quarter, though that point cannot yet he positively determined. The cold has been very severe and long continued, but if there should be no alteration of freezing or thawing after the ground is once free from frost, the chances are that the wheat will not have suffered. THE CRIME, AN WAH.— The Brussels r publish a pamphlet, the press in Fran!-! " Tl being allowed to take such liberties, uildr, to Louis Napjileon, criticising the war'/'' ! which production is attributed to Prince v"' poll on. The Emperor, Louis Napoleon a.-,' iug to the writer of this pamphlet, real author of the Crimean expedition, an,j ■!. Arnuad was instructed to carry out the ' i' Sebastopol was to be taken by"a sudden meat. The disembarkation in the Crini, a".• the taking of Sebastopol, would comple^'!' 1 the eyes of the world, the defeat of R,|,' and would force peace out of her. Lord' p '"' lan put forth as an objection, the want''"' knowledge respecting the Kussiati for.-i . respecting the state of the place on tlu'-V"! side. Admiral llumelin also objected. J',"!' 1 Napoleon, Gen. Bosquet and the Dukcof e l' bridge all disapproved of the expedition " The affair at Alma was a check to the alii, which mado them alter their plan-, forth writer ascribes the disasters of Balakava v-'i Inkerman to carelessness of the English eral. At the latter battle, the writer say- Ire for Bosquet's timely arrival, the English Vi>r.| I have been defeated, their disordered coining would have fallen back upon each other, hav' been surrounded, driven to the shore, and into the sea. Luckily, tho soldiers repaired tb faults of their generals, and their irresistilh courage triumphed over the formidable attack combined by Prince Menseliikoff. After tin latter battle, Raglan suggested a re-embark,., j tion of the army. The object of tho paiujdjlct is to show that the expedition, a bantliu-' ~f Louis Napoleon, undertaken against the advicp of a number of the most distinguished uffuvis of tlie Council of War, is a failure, and couM not be anything else, as it was planned. That the true policy was to strike Russia from the , |)anube, but that did not suit Austria, who,.. ! alliance the parties were so anxious to secuf ! The pamphlet is making some noise, and tic Prince and the Emperur seem to be at heads. K ANSAS ELECTION.—W'c are indebted to a gentleman of this City for the folloivin extract of a letter just received front lb brother in Lexington, Mo., under date of J March Li, 1855 : "We arc having stormy times out hero ! about the Kansas election. We suppose that j the Division of the Territories was so that the ! Northern one should be free and the Southern 1 one slave. Else, why were they divided at ,-n | early a day when one Government woi:hj | answer for both ? We exjan ted the abolition,.,; I would trouble us somewhat, but we had u j fears as to the final result as to them. " Lately we have learned that Gov. Iv c! - j is against us under the advice of the Admi:- j istrntiun. Alarmed at his defeat in the i States since the passage of the Kin-,, ! Nebraska bill, it is supposed that Geu. Pier-, is trying to recover hi< popularity in the N ;- by excluding Slavery from Kansas. And tlii, has caused the greatest possible excitem;: all through this region. We have our -IT: - lodges all over the State, where we raise n , and means, and thousands will le in Kan-;., j from this State before the election coiues "IT. "We are very sanguine. You may a-k cannot slaves be taken to Kansas, now ) c tainly they can ; but we want some law na---. for their protection after they get , u: we shall lose them all. " At the coming election in Kansas, t!i<-r no other question but Slavery and and Auii- Slaverv, and we shall be greatly disappoint, i if Slavery does nut carry."— Chiwgo Denver VISITORS TO WEST POINT. —The ii:i: gentlemen have heen appointed by I'lv-id m Pierce as a Board of Visitors to We.-i Poia They are to assemble at that place on tlie !•: dune next. Charles Negus. KM;.. lowa ; H„; ! Isaac Davis, Mass; John ('. McGee. K-', ! Col. II Shubart, Pennsylvania ; Hon. t\. \V. Chastain, Georgia ; Professor Jame- .I n,-, Louisiana; A. B. Hanson, Esq., Maryland: Hon. J. M. Henry, Mississippi; Col. Ilan- Crocker, Wisconsin ; Hon. ArnoM Wiswh Maine ; Rev. Gurdon Colt. Connecticut: lv Francis Vinton D. I>., Now York ; Stephen : 11. Lee Esq., North Carolina : Professor \Y. W . Mather Ohio ; lion. George S. Houston. Alabama. INTERVIEW WITH Loirs N.iroi.Fov— It is an nounced in recent Paris letters that "muiietiiattiy on the arrival of Ex-President Van Bureu in Paris, from Italy, lie received a proving in vitation from the French Emperor to pay hii:: a visit, with which he complied, and tiie two had a long interview. The Hon. Robert M. McLaue, L. S. Minister to China, who !& also been on a visit to Paris, has had several interviews, it is said, with the Emperor, anc also with the French Miuister of Foreign Affairs, RANK MANIA. —The Philadelphia Nort:: American in speaking of the proceedings o? the Legislature, says that Bank charters art granted with an apparent recklessness ami im moderation which have not in a great whit been equalled in the State. The work i carried on in an extravagant manner. Corp' rations are made by wholesale a batch lea.' constituted in a single session. The peoplewl eventually be the sufferers, as heretofore. WovnF.RFt'T- ESCAPE. —Colonel Philip-. Mobile, Alabama, a member of (In; late <'• gress, was on his way from Weldon to ('liarM town, S. C., when the ears stopped at a -fatioa hotise, and he went out into the air to cigar. "\\ hile thusengaged, another trainrs" into the one in which lie was a passeiurer. and the seat which he had occupied a ft' ff minutes before was completely demolished, his cloak, which was lying uj>on it. perforate' by a bar of iron and carried out through titf top of the car. W RtfUTTSVII.T.E (Pa.) WHOI.ESAI.E 1,1 M"t MARKET, March 29.—Inferior Cull Hoards drub Plank at $lO 00 ; Culling Hoards sl"'- 00 ; second Common S2O 00 ; first cruninp S3O 00; Pannel s:>7 50; Hemlock aris and Scantling sl2 00 ; do. long lengths 00; Pino Scantling $lB 00; Plaster W-' 2 00 o $2 50 ; Shingles 8 00 a 10 00. KAN/.VS KMMUJRATIOX. —Some idea of tide now setting towards Kanzasmav he torun v from the fact stated by the Toledo "(O.) {l that fifteen hundred emigrants passe 1 tin' - that place in one day last week. The IVti" papers say that large numbers are also pa--- - through that city. ' Xo data can be for estimating the number now tending t° ,:K same destination by wav of the Ohio rh ' but we are within bounds when we. say :.iat two weeks past it ha.- averaged -tie hue -- "