Eruption of Vesuvius. NAPLES, Mar 10.—The lata has now advanc ed ten miles from its source, and is doing ter rible damage. Last night I went to the scene of most stirring interest, after an interval of j two days. How changed the neighborhood in two days ! Where 1 walked on Sunday night was now a sea of fire. The side road by which I had come down ito the main stream from Pollena and Massn di Somme was now full of blackened coke. The houses ou the borders of the village had fallen —in one thirty poor j people lived ; u small chapel was swallowed up, | u gentleman's villa, and a sad extent of vine-1 yard and garden ground. On the other side ; of the great lava bed another stream was branching off to San Sebastiano. We had hoped to have crossed it, and ascended to the cascade again, but it was no longer possible ; for, as oue says, speaking of a marshy country in the winter, the lava was out. The fire here had begun to enter the burial ground of the little town, but was diverted from its course by a wall. On the opposite side of the stream were the King and all the royal family. The banks on either side were thronged with curi ous and anxious multitudes, whose faces were lighted up with the blaze of hundreds of tor ches, and with the more resplendent flame of the rapidly descending lava. Siuce the morn ing it had moved a mile. It was like a vast river of glowing coke. As it moved on, the tens of thousands of lumps rolled and tumbled one over the other, crackling ami grinding, and grating ; and when, from the very face of it a large lump fell off, the appearance was that of an iron furnace when the irou is being drawn. To make the resemblance more complete, at such times men darted forwards with long poles, taken from the neighboring vineyards, and pulled out great masses of lava, in which they embedded money for sale. What struck me at first, and strikes me as the most majes tic feature in the whole scene, is the slow, si lent, irresistible motion of that fiery flood. Ac tive almighty power without an effort! Sweep ing everything before it, overcoming every ob stacle, growing op against intervening walls or houses, and devouriug them bodily, and then marchiug 011 in the same silent, unrelenting, ir resistible manner as before. There was a spot beneath my feet where a wall of mason work had been built to break the violence of the wiuter floods ; to this spot all eyes were direc ted. The fiery river would fall over it in an hour ; as yet it was distant from it TO yards, perhaps. Gradually it rose in height, and swelled out its vast proportions, and then vast masses fell off and rolled forward ; then it swelled again as fresh matter came pressing down behind, and so it broke, and on it rolled agaiu and again till it had arrived at the very edge. There was a general buzz and murmur of voices. The royal family stood opposite to me, intermingled with the crowd, looking 011 with iuteDse anxiety. At last it broke, not hurriedly, still with a certain show of majesty. At first a few small lumps fell down ; then poured over a pure liquid of metal, like thick treacle, clinging mass to mass, from its glutin ous character, and last of all tumbled over gi gautic lumps of scoriae. Then ou it moved once more iu its silent, regular course, swelling up and spreading over the vineyards 011 either side. The expectation is that the lava, should the eruption continue, will flow down to the Pontc Muddaloni, and into the sea. So grand aud so destructive an eruption has not been known for many years, aud even now we cannot tell how or when it will terminate. The mountain is literally seamed with lava, and many fear a violent explosion as the final sccueof the tra gedy. MORE TROUBLE. —The Richmond Enquirer tbtto ento p tut- notim 10 exemne tne Repre sentatives and Senators of Massachusetts from the Federal Congress, on oceouut of her Per sonal Liberty Law : "The slaveholding States can no longer, with safety, delay to act. What course shall they pursue ? This is a grave question, but it must be promptly and resolutely met. If the act of Massachusetts goes into effect, it will be the duty of the South to resist the entrance of the members of either branch of Congress from that State into the Capitol, until it is expung ed from her code book ! The South remains in its bearing to the North precisely where it stood when Washington tirst eutered upon his Presidential duties. It has never been guilty of the slightest aggression on any one of the so called Free States. From this position it must not swerve a line. '"The metropolis of the Republic is located within its limits. This metropolis it must control, and expel therefrom the Goths and Vandals who are attempting to undermine our great political edifice. No tnemljer of either House who comes from a State which sets at defiance a constitutional provision, or a law palpably in conformity with that constitution al provision, should be permitted to take his seat." THE M ASS ACHE SETTS NULLIFICATION" ACT. — The act lately passed over Governor GARDNER'S veto by the Legislature of Massachusetts, nul lifying the fugitive slave law, contaius the fol lowing provisions : 1. Allows the writ of habeas corpus in be half of fugitive slaves, and a trial by jury. 2. Heavy fines and the State prison for five years against any person who shall attempt to carry off, unlawfully, or come into the State for the purpose of so carrying off, an alleged fugitive slave, who is no fugitive according to Massachusetts law. 3. No State officer allowed to do anything in behalf of the return of a fugitive "to his master. Judge LORIXG compelled expressly to resign his office of United States Com missioner, or his office of Judge under the State. 4. State officers who may dare to assist in arresting, imprisoning, or detaining a fugitive slave, are subject to heavy fines and the State prison. 5. Closes the jails and prisons of the State against the acts of Congress in relation to fu gitive slaves. WHIPPING A WHITE MAN*.—A singular case has just been decided by the Circuit Court at Frankfort, Ky. Some time ago a man was tried by two Justices for petty larceny, who, after consulting the constable in the district as to their power in the case, ordered him to re ceive ten lashes. The sentence was carried into execution, notwithstanding the implorn tion of the wife of the accused. He brought suit for damages in the Franklin Circuit Court on the ground that the Justices exceeded their : jurisdiction, and the jury returned a verdict awarding damages in sBoo—s3oo against the constable and one of the Justices, and $2OO ! against the other Justice. [From the Luzerne Union, May 30th] Conflagration at Wilkes-Barre. On Saturday morning last, between the hours of three and four o'clock, the citizens of our borough were alarmed by the appalling cry of the most disastrous fire that has ever occurred in this vicinity. On proceeding to the scetrp of danger, it was found to issue from the rear of the building occupied by Wm. W. Loomis, as a saddle and harness manufactory. The fire engines, (as usual, in bad condition, ) were man ned and hastened to the spot with as much speed as circumstances would admit, and after finding that a simultaneous effort 011 the part of all to arrest the progress of the devouriug element would prove fruitless—there being a lamentable scarcity of water, coupled with a northwest wind blowing at the same time—the flames spread with such ragidity that in a very short time every building, extending from Squire Burrows' office, on Main street, to the south corner of the public square, which the day before preseuted so fine a business aspect, now lies in ruins ; presenting to the eye an uu sightly mass of smouldering ashes aud blacken ed walls. llow the fire originated is yet a mystery.— The prevailing opinion is, that some person may j have accidentally dropped a spark from a light ed cigar or pipe, 011 some straw or other com bustible matter which lay close in the rear of the buildings occupied by Messrs. Wilson & Frederick, and W. W. Loomis, while a few are of the opinion that the torch was lighted by the hand of the incendiary. The latter, how ever, is highly improbable, and scarcely enti tled to any credence whatever. We cannot find it iu our heart to believe that there ex- I ists in our community a being so lost to every j sense of virtue as to perpetrate so villaiuous an act. The following is a list of the property de | stroyed : Win. W. Loomis, in whose shop the fire is ! said to have originated, the aggregate amount of property is estimated at $3OOO ; insurance $lOOO ; loss $2OOO. Lord Butler, amount of property $8,400; insurance $1950; loss $0,450. Maj. S. 11. Putcrbangh, amount of property $4OOO ; insurance $lBOO ; loss $2200. Jo siah Lewis, Lewis & Barton, amount of pro perty $4,500 ; insurance $1,650 ; loss $2,850. G. P. Nicholson, amount of property $l,BOO ; insurance $4OO ; loss $1,400. Mrs. Overtoil, amount of property $1,200 ; insurance $4OO ; loss $BOO. Miss 11. Treadaway, amount of property $1,200 ; insurance $4OO ; loss $BOO. Dr. Boyd's loss is estimated at $1,900, there be ing, unfortunately no insurance. Mr. Hannutn's loss is supposed to be about $l3B. Messrs. Wilsou A Frederick, amount of property $B,- 000; iusurance $4,000; loss $4,000. D. Mor gan, amount of property lost $3,000; insurance j $BOO ; loss $2,200. Several families adjacent to the burnt district sustained more or less damage in various ways. The whole number of buildings destroyed, incladiug dwelling houses, stores, shops, aud offices, is fourteen. The aggregate amount of loss has been very little less than $50,000, about $12,000 of which is covered with insur ance. COUNTRY NEWSPAPERS.—The following well timed remarks in regard to country newspapers We clip from the Erie Gazette. Although written in and intended for another atmosphere, we think they are none the less adapted to this meridian : , "Wc learn that the North East Guard has breathed its last, after a sickly existence of 1 some three or four months. This is as we expected. Perfectly willintr . | snonirt start a paper anywhere, we yet regret i that so many engage in the business thought lessly and without seeming to be aware of the cost to which they unavoidably subject them | selves. 111 the counties of Erie, Chatauque and Crawford, particularly in the newspaper publishing mania has had full sweep, accom panied by the losses and disappointments usual " in such cases. The truth is, that if half the money that is frittered away in spasmodic efforts to start a new paper and rejuvenate old ones, was concentrated upon two, or three, or four papers in the country, most establishments would stand erect, unembarrassed by pecuniary pressures, a credit to the country, the pride of their patrons, a source of gratification to their publishers, affording a fair return for the cares, perplexities aud unceasing toils iuseperablc from their publication. We trust that in thus speaking we shall not ; be accused of sinister or selfish motives—or, in other words, of a desire to appropriate to | ourselves the whole field of Journalism. We are influenced by no such motives—we cherish no such desire—our wishes rather are to have ; every vacant place tilled, every want supplied, but not, as in the case under discussion, over ' supplied. For all such as would ascribe to us improper motives and inordinate desires, we have the same full store of pity we have for i those who are periodically attacked with the popular error that the printing of a weekly newspaper at one dollar a year, is a paying business per se, and that every httle village in ; our not thickly populated County can sustain | and support a paper of its own, mainly from | the patronage of its corporate limits. But for ; all the errors of the day, in this, as in other j matters, there is one corrective—one unfailing autidotc— experience —EXPEßlENCE. Tho'souie ' times apparently tardy in her ministrations, she ! is yet sure to ultimately teach and apply the lesson which folly or hasty action ba-s earned I for themselves. STEAMBOAT EXPLOSION OX LAKE WINNIPISEO. GES, N. H.—The new steamboat Red Hill, was completely wrecked at Lee's Mills, Moulton boro', N. H., on the 23d inst., by the explosion |of her boiler. No lives were lost, but several ; persons were severely injured. A portion of ; the boiler, weighing 2,000 or 3000 pounds, was thrown fifty or sixty rods, tearing up the earth where it fell, in the most remarkable manner. The Red IJill was built to run be tween Moultonboro', Tuftouboro', Alton Bay, . and Lake Village. OUTRAGE AND LYNCHING. —The Monticello i (Miss.) Journal has the following ; Just as our paper was going to press, we heard that a rape was committed on the per son of a white lady, living near Georgetown, on Tuesday last, by a runaway slave, belong ing to Gen. Cunningham. The negro was im mediately pursued and urrested by persons liv ing in the neighborhood. He confessed his guilt, and was hung. FIRE. —The dwelling House of Milo Peat, of Smithfleld, was burnt, with the coutents, one day last week. The family were away from horue nt the time. E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR. TOWANDA: Qatnrbcip fllorniitD, 3unc 9, 1855. CLOSE OF THE VOLUME. With the present number of the Reporter closes the Fifteenth volume. In pursuauce of the system of advance payments we have adop ted, this paper will be the last which some of our subscribers will receive. We regret to part with any of them, but the experience of the past has satisfied us that advance payments are better for the subscriber, and an actual ne cessity for the printer. We shall therefore, iu pursuance of this plan, which we are determin ed to strictly carry out, erase the names of all those not paying in advance. We have now given six mouths notice of our intention to do so—and if any one fails to receive the Repor ter after this number, they cau blame their own uegligence. We also have an amount due us from delinquents, which our necessities make it imperative we should have, and which we shall COLLECT AS SPEEDILY AS POSSIBLE. The system we have adopted meets the ap probation of our patrons much beyond our most cordial expectation. Those who have so prompt ly responded to our terms, have our most hear ty thanks—to those who have delayed, we say " do thou likewise." MORE THAN THEY WANT. —The Sau Francis- j co (California) auction marts are crowded with Chili and domestic flour ; cargo after cargo is offered, under the hammer, to be sold to the highest bidder. The lowest sale of a good ar ticle of superfine has been at $5 50 per barrel. Seven vessels have been loaded with wheat and flour for the Atlantic and Australian ports. The Times of that city says it is the general belief among farmers aud others who have had opportunities of observation, that the heavy crops of the past year will be far exceeded by those of the present; and in this view of the case, and impelled by the long existing low prices of farm products, business men have at leugth resolved to ship, in search of a market, a large portion of the flour, grain, etc., which California has in surplus. The amount of sav ing to California by this development of its own agricultural industry is equal to $12,000,- 000 annually. SUPREME COURT. —We find in the published decisions of the Supreme Court, the following relating to this District : GUY TOZER VS. JOHN F. SATTERLEE.—Brad ford county. Opiuion by Woodward, J.— Judgment reversed aud a venire de novo awarded. JENKINS VS. FOWLER. —Bradford county.— Opinion by Black, J. Judgment reversed aud venire facias de novo awarded. ELIAS MINIER VS. MYRON S WARNER.— Bradford county. Opinion by Knox, J. Judg ment affirmed. ALBERT ALDRICK rs. WM. JESSUP, ER Al.. Susquehanna county. Opinion by Knox, J.— Judgment affirmed. LESTER VS. CORNELL. —Susquehanna county. Opinion by Lewis, Chief J. Judgment af j finned. BRADFORD COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.— The following gentlemen were appointed a Committee of Judges on early fruit and vege tables to be presented for premiums the pre sent year, and report their awards at the next regular annual exhibition : JAMF.S M ACFARLAXE, 11. BOOTH, E. D. MOX TANYE, O. D. J3ARTLETT, WM. MIX. Specimens of all the different varieties of early fruit and vegetables of early decay, pro duced in this County, will be received by WM. C. BOGART, at his office in Towauda, for exam ination by the Judges. FOREIGN NEWS. —The steamship Africa ar rived at Halifax on Tuesday evening, with one week later intelligence from Europe. The news is not important. Negotiations are to be re-opened, and at tempts made to agree upon articles of peace. There has been further fighting betweeu the Russians and the allied forces, but the general aspect of affairs remain unchanged. The National Know-Nothing Conven tion met in Philadelphia on Tuesday last. The proceedings which have transpired, show any thing but unanimity in their deliberations. An attempt was made to prevent the Massachu setts delegates from taking their seats—they were, however, admitted. Smelling plunder from afar, the great object appears amongst the leaders to be, to form a platform upon which the North and South can both uuite— preserving silence in regard to Slavery and ignoring Kansas. CHOLERA AT NEW ORLEANS. —The New Or leans papers of the 26th ult., record several very 6udden deaths from cholera. Mons. God ard, the celebrated aeronaut, who was alive and well on the night of the 25th, was a corpse the next morning. Hugh Grant, a well known en gineer, and city surveyor, also died after a few hours illness. ARMING KANSAS EMIGRANTS. —A. A. LAW RENCE, of Boston, has subscribed $l,OOO to furnish arms to the free settlers in Kansas,and it is said that a quantity of arms and ammuni tion has been forwarded, including sixty of Sharp's rifles. A CHANCE FOR A PURCHASER. —The Maine Line of public works is to be sold at the Mer chant's Exchange in Philadelphia, on the even, of the 24th of July next. CHASE RAMPANT! Our eotemporarv, the Ex-Speak or, is attack ed serai-occasionally, with a tremendous spasm of independence and Free-soilism. While these spasmodic attacks last, he pitches into the Slave-power tremendously, denounces its arro gance, fulminates anathemas against' its pre scriptive intolerance, and threatens it with the direst results. The last Democrat exhibits one of these periodical visitations. We extract from an article in last week's Democrat the following paragraphs, not because we believe they are sincerely uttered, but that we may have theui handy, when CHASE is sup porting pro-slavery candidates and endeavoring to deceive the friends of Freedom : "No interests unite men by ties so strong as do those of property. No combination is more powerful and daugerous, than one so cemented ; for to touch one extremity of that interest, is to arouse the whole Ixxly, as by an electric thrill. This will —this zeal —this unity, makes the Slave-power of this country to-day, the most dangerous property power o u earth. In his whole circuit, the sun shines upon nothing so shameless, so arrogant, so desperate. The insoleuce of overseerism is transferred from the plantation, to the broader arena of our com mon country ; and the unbowed neck of free labor must lie iu the dust at the feet of a mon ster of depravity, that has fattened into burly deformity, on human flesh and blood. Look at Kansas ! and see one proof of what we say." " As a party, we have hitherto acted with a portion of the South. It was their country as well as ours. We desired peace. We care fully abstained from auy interference with Sla i very in the States ; or with any of their con -1 stitutional rights ; but from the Revolution till • now, we have always held it a sacred principle j of the party, that Slavery limits should not ex pand Northward. This restrictive policy was ever ardent on the lips, and in the writings of the fathers of this Republic ; and our own par ty adopted it, as an instinct. But now there is no Democracy South. The Slave Aristoc racy has overshadowed it all. Their doctrine is extension and aggression. Of course the great Democratic party of the country must part company with them, and leave them in kindred alliance with Know-Nothingism." " OUR PLATFORM —Is the same it has ever been. We shall elect in the couuty and State, men holding the principles we hold—unchang ed by time. We carry that influence into the National Convention ; and there enforce such nominations. The South must not dispute that field with us, for her aggressions have made fu ture concessions impossible. If by any fraud she should defeat us there, we'll come home—De mocrats still. We'll light the enemy in the County and State field ; but the National tick et we'll bolt. In the next convention we will try again—confident that fraud cannot again cheat the party out of a ticket that will repre sent its principles." " The Democratic party made our institu tions, and has thus far led them on towards maturity and power. She has learned that "eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." In one form or another, every step in her career has been disputed. Now she is urged by eve ry instinct of freedom, to gather anew her en ergies for an earnest conflict WITH THE NARROW, BIGOTED, DNCONSTITCTIONAI. AND PROSCRIPTIVE SPIRIT OF XATIVISM AND WITH THE SI.AVE-POW ER IN ITS OI T-REAI HINO INSOLENCE. This is the rallying ground of the party —this her en terprise." HAII. STORM. —On Thursday of last week, we learn from the Lewisburg Chronicle, a hur ricane passed over a portiou of Buffalo Val ley, destroying property to the amount of thou sands of dollars. The furtherest point, north wardly, was in the neighborhood of lludy's Mill, passing across the turpike between Si monton's and Biehl's hotel, and spending its force around the Dreisbach meeting house. In the northern part of its course, the principal damage was done by wind to the fences ; but in the latter part of its devastating march, hail stones fell of such size and in such numbers and force as to knock flat upon the ground, and, as is supposed, completely destroy, large fields of as fine wheat and rye as ever gladden ed the eye of man. CHOLERA AT NEW ORLEANS. —There were 385 deaths in New Orleans for the week end ing the 21th ultimo, and of this number 204 were from cholera. The returns do not include one district, (Bouligny,) where the disease, it is stated, prevails to a serious exteut. The city had not been visited by a rain for the last pre vious ten weeks, and on the 28th ultimo the thermometer stood at 95 degrees in the shade. The rain of Saturday and Sunday last is said to have extended beyond Georgia, and proba bly to Louisiana. PENNSYLVANIA STATE INTEREST. —CoI. ELI SLIFER, the newly elected State Treasurer of Pennsylvania, has addressed a circular to the proper officers of the different counties, urging them to pay the taxes due the State prior to the Ist of August, in order to enable him to meet the interest due on the State debt at that time. A SELL. —The City Marshal of Bangor, Maine, seeing a man drinking something out of a bottle, offered him three dollars to tell him where he got it. The money was paid over and pocketed, and the marshall was shown to the pump ! The bottle contained water. THE PRESIDENCY. —The Chicago Democrat, edited by the Hon. Jxo. WENWORTH, ex-mera ber of Congress from Illinois, has hoisted the name of SAMUEL HOUSTON, of Texas, for Pre sident, and HENRY DODGE, of Wisconsin, for Vice President. FIRE AT PORT JERVIS. —At an early hour Friday morniug an immense wood-shed belong ing to the New-York and Erie Railroad Com pany, at Delaware, (Port Jervis,)was destroy ed by tire. It was over four hundred feet in length, about forty feet in width, and full of wood. The loss cannot be less than $20,000. Liquor Riot iu Portland. The Mayor of Portland, Me., anticipating the action of the City Council, recently purchas ed $1,600 worth of liquor for the City agency, but the liquor remaining on his hands several citizens entered a complaint, and a warrrant was issued for seizure, when the Mayor called a special meeting of the Aldermen, on Sutur-1 day afternoon, and a vote was passed to pur chase it for the city. About 10 o'clock, on Saturday night, a noisy mob assembled about the building used as the City Liquor Agency and attempted to break into it and destroy the liquor. The police attempted to preserve the peace, but failing to do so, the crowd became more threatening, two military companies were at last called out. At a late hour the mob broke iuto the build ing, when the military, drawn up on the oppo site side, fired a volley, killing Ephraimßobbins, of Eastport, second mate of the bark Louisa Eaton, of Portland, aud wounding several others, some of them severely. A squad of the Rifle Guard then charged with bayonets, and the crowd dispersed. One old gentleman who was said to be quietly on his way home received a severe bayonet wound. A few arrests were made. Auother man is reported dead. BOSTON, June 4. —The Portland papers of this morning furnish some additional particulars of the Liquor riot iu that city on Saturday night. The attack upon the building where the liquor was stored was made chiefly by boys, j who threw stones and oilier missiles. Mayor i Neal Dow soon after appeared upon the ground, armed with a sword, and closely followed by the military companies whom he had ordered j out. The appearance of the Mayor and military exasperated the crowd, and they were , received with groans and hisses. The Mayor then ordered the infantry to fire, but the captain refused to obey,saying the circumstances did not call for such measures. The Rifle Guard soon afterwards approached, and the mob having burst open the door of the liquor rooms, one section of the company fired by order of the Mayor. One person was killed, aud six or seven wounded. A public meeting of citizens was held this moruiug and a com mittee appointed to investigate all the circum stances. INDIGNATION MEETING. —.June 4. —The public j meeting called to-day, to investigate the pro ceedings of the City authorities, on Saturday i night, was largely attended. Judge Wells j presided, and several leading citizens addressed the meeting. A committee of nine were ap pointed to investigate the circumstances of the case, and if the City authorities are found to j be in error, to prosecute. A Committee was also appointed to wait upon Mayor Dow, and to request him, iu be- j half of the citizens, to resign his office. The funeral of Robbins took place t his even ing. He was. followed to the grave by an immense procession. A large number of special police are o i duty to-night. X EAI. Dow ACQUITTED. —Mayor Dow, of Port- j land, (Me.) has been acquitted on the liquor | charge. Judge Carter decided that no liquor | agency had been established, as no agent had been appointed ; but held that the statute did not specify whether it should be purchased '< > ■ fore or after the agent is selected, and that us subsequently the liquors were turned over to the city, there was no < v deuce of criminal in tent on the part of the Mayor. T-.TAI. ABANDONMENT OF THE KINNEY EX PEDITION. —The Kinuey expedition, which lias furnished newspaper paragraphs for six mouths, has been absolutely and positively abandoned. So we learn from our correspondent at Wash ington, writing on Thursday evening, who says that he states the fact upon the most authentic aud direct information. He adds : The reason assigned for this determination is not the fillibustcring character of ehe expedi tion—not its violation of the neutrality laws of its tendency to complicate questions pending between the United States government aud that of Great Britain relative to the fulfillment of the Ciayton-Bulwer treaty. It was simply from the want of money—the want of ready means to defray the current and immediate expenses. To equip, provision, transport, support and keep in battle array a thousand men, by mere promises, is out of the question. War and fillibusterism would be perpetual and unceasing if mere promises were the sinews by which they could be kept in motion. The captain and owners of the shipping engaged by Col. Kinney are said to have been much exercised, of late, upon the subject of their own complicity with the enterprise. They wrote anxiously on the subject to the government here, and the replies they received convinced them that they could not enforce by law the payment of any sum contracted to be paid them for their services by the authors and backers of the enterprise. It is probable that they de clined further services, without ready cash. AI.LEDGED CASE OK SEDUCTION. —During the last few days much excitement had prevailed at Pittsburg, in consequence of an alleged attempt of Mr. Jeremiah McKibben, of Phi ladelphia, to shoot his brother-in-law, Mr. Isaac Craig, of Allegheny city, against whom he pre ferred an serious charge. The Pittsbug Dis patch has the following version of the painful affair : Mr. Craig, a few years ago, married a daughter of Chambers McKibben, Esq., at one time post-master in this city, and since (with his son) proprietor of the Merchant's Hotel Philadelphia. In November last another daughter of Mr. McKibben (a deaf and dumb girl) was on a visit to her sister in Allegheny, for a month, after which she returned home. Last week it was ascertained that she had been for some months eneiente, and on being que tioa ed she charged her brother-in-law with being her seducer, ller father and brother imme diately came here, removed Mrs Craig to the residence of her aunt, at Sewickly, during her husband's abseuce, and on meeting him, on their return, the shooting affair alluded to came off. Since then Mr. McKibben has instituted a civil action against Craig for seduction, claiming twenty thousand dollars damages, upon which Mr. Craig, (on Tuesday afternoon) surrendered himself to the sheriff without tendering bail, and now remains in his custody. It is due to the accused to.state that he denies the guilt imputed to him, and alleges that he was in search of the Messrs. McKibben to make the same statements to them, when attacked. The whole case, owiug in a great degree to the social position of all the parties, has created a great excitement in the com munity, aud a deep feeling agaiust the accus ed. ' ' I THE REFORM MOVEMENT IN ENGLAND.— It i 8 a cheering sign for the people of England, to hear the democratic sentiments now uttered by the press, at public meetings, and in Parliament When public meetings insist that government shall be conducted and the laws administered on the principle of the greatest good to the greatest number, public sentiment is ready to sustain such a principle, and class privilege and oligarchical rule have nearly lost their in fluence. The resolution in the House of Lord* of which notice of motion was given, declares " that it is only through the selection of men for public employment without regard to any thing but the public service, that the couutry can ho|>e to prosecute the war successfully and to obtain its only legitimate object— a secure and honorable peace." The notice of motion was rejected ; but its introduction and the sentiments elicted in the debate are very signifi cant of popular feeling. Lord Ellenborough is reported as uttering the following senti ments : But, my lords, how can we, sit here by the hereditary right conferred, for the most part ' upon our ancestors, for their services to the | State fur their fitness for public employment how can we refuse to adopt that principle ? It is the principle of our own origin. [Cheers.] It was because my father was a great lawyer I not because be was a party man, that he was I selected on account of fitness for a great oflire, j that of Chief Justice of the Pleas. He had : no family, no connections ; he rose altogether I by bis fitness. [Cheers.] It was not favor; j it was fitness that made Mr. Yorre Chancellor and Earl. [Cheers.] It was not favor, it was fitness that made Sir James Harris, the great diplomatist, Earl of Malmesburv.— [Cheers.] It was not favor which raised the father of the noble lord opposite (Viscount Canning) to that office the reward for which was the peerage which the noble viscount now holds. [Load cheers.] It was not favor which raised the brothers Cecil to be Ministers of Elizabeth and of James, and the founders of two great families. We are here for the services of our ancestors. It is for us, then, who sit here by that right, and enjoy dignity ! and honor by reason of their services and their i fitness for public employment—is it for us to | turn round aud say, " It is true our ancestors j rose by fitness, but our relatives shall enjoy advantages from connection with us, and from favor." [Cheers.] No ! This is very singular language in the mouth of a Peer. But the people of England do not w mt a ni'-re change of men, without a change jof principle. They want the principle of self government, which will enable the people to s;i v when wars shall be entered into, for what objects, and give them the power of complete control over taxation. EXTRAORDINARY SPEED.—ANTHONY D.THOMP- I SON, Conductor on the X. Y. & Erie Railroad, relates to us the following : Ou Wednesday last the Dunkirk Express. ' drawn by Engine 159, with Mr. THOMPSON, as I Conductor, and JOHN H AM,, as Enginer, ran i from Susqnahniina to Hornellsville, a distance | of 142 miles, in precisely three hours and forty | four wiit'i-trs ; or, deducting 36 minutes for I st.. -';!••. I'd of which were consumed at OwcgM, in tire it u. t/tul eight minute* run ning time! Allowing, also, for time iost in approaching and departing from Stations, and the speed of the train could not have been less than it mile u minute, or 60 miles an hour! If this rate of sjK*ed over an equal extent of road, lias ever beeu attained before in this country, we certainly have never heard of it. The passengers on the train were of course perfctly delighted, and on arriving at Hornellsville a deputation of their number waited upon the Conductor and Engineer and solicited them iu very strong terms to run the train through to Dunkirk, which of course, they was obliged to decline.— Cheego Gazette. MRS. PATTERSON TO BE DIVORCED. —The Bos ton Times announces that the real Mrs. Pat terson has turned up iu Lowell. She is a Cali fornia widow who has been suspected of some improprieties by the friends of her absent lord, but against whom nothing tangible could be found until the lliss affair transpired On Sat urday last the lady was takeu before a court on soine preliminary proceedings for divorce, instituted by the relatives and friends of her husband, and confronted by the clerk of the Washington House, who testified, under oath, that she was the ladv who was entered as " Mrs. Patterson," at that hotel. It is expec ted that the real facts in this curious ease will now be developed. Her real name is said to be MOODY ; and since the Hiss affair, she baa been missing until about a week ago, when she again made her appearance. ANOTHER BRIDGE BURNED AND REBCII.T.—O Saturday last the Railroad Bridge at Painted Post was destroyed by fire, and whilst the flames were doing their work of destruction, the fact was communicated by telegraph to the division Superintendent at this place, Mr HART, and a sufficient force put under motion, armed and equipped for building a new bridge, which, though 250 feet in length, was so far completed as to enable the trains to pass over it on Monday morning at 4 o'clock I—Oat! 1 ' Gazette. SHOCKING TRAGEDY IN NEW YORK.—-M" York, June 3.—Thos. Bailey Russum, formerly of Baltimore, but for manv years a residenttfj San Francisco, where he" held the office c Reg ister, committed suicide at a house of p v I stitution, in Leonard street, last evening. hJ shooting himself through the head with a F tol. The alleged cause of the rash act, the refusal of one of the inmates of the hou?<\ (who is represented as very handsome. 11 ; marry him—and he had been heard to threats his life iu case she would not comply. The deceased was already married, huvi't left a wife and two children in California. The coroner's held an inquest upon t 6 deceased to-day, aud returned a verdict above. DEATH OF the AUTHOR OF "DUESTIOKS We learn from tne New York Tribune, thj>* Mr. MORTIMER THOMFSON, better known tot- 1 public as " Doesticks," was accidentally k' l * ou Wednesday morning at Harbor, Ma gan, where he was spending a few days - out shooting at a mark with samecoui| ions, when an accidental bullet put an **"' . his life. Mr, THOMSON was a uativc ot Ma 1 gan ; his age was about 24.
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