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 <i l
. since our last issue, brings us one week later
. intelligence from Europe. The news is not
important. The new Emperor has announced
to the Array the death of his father, in a brief
manifesto, in which he gives the last words of
Nicholas, expressive of confidence in the loyal
|ty and success of his forces. The document is
i considered to be warlike. The Vienna Confer
ence met on the loth of March. Nothing of
i. °
; its doings had been develoj>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 -- "