NORTH PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD. —This work
betweeu Philadelphia and the Lehigh river,
will be opened for travel as far as G wynedd
sometime this month. The heavy sectiou eight
miles above this city, is 60 nearly completed,
that the two gangs of workmen are witliiu 80
feet of each other, and driving ahead day and
night with all possible despatch. From Front
and Willow streets the rail is laid to within
half a mile of the section referred to, and for
a distance of six miles north of the section the
rail has also been laid in the most substantial
manner. The Company has had four passenger
cars built by Messrs. Kimball & Gorton, which
are finished iu an attractive style, and three
locomotives, preparatory to the opening of the
road to Gwynedd. The locomotives, arc named,
Aramingo, Cohoeksiuk and Shacknmaxon.
The stations decided upon by the Road Com
mittee of the Board of Directors, are as
follows :—At Tioga street 3 miles north of
Willow street ; Fisher's lane 5 miles ; Green
lane 6 miles ; Oak lane 6 3-4 miles ; City Line
station 7 1-2 miles ; Old York Road station
8 1-2 miles ; Chclton Hills or Washington
lane 9 miles ; Taconv, the crossing of the
Plank road from Germantown to Willow
Grove, 10 1-2 miles ; Edgehill 11 3-4 miles ;
Camp Hill 13 1-2 miles ; Fort Washington
14 1-2 miles ; Wissahiekon 10 miles ; Penn
Lynu 17 1-2 miles, and Gwynedd 19 miles.—
Several of the station houses have already
been erected, and the others are in progress of
construction. The turn-table at Gwynedd is
nearly finished, and other improvements along
the line give the country through which the
road passes quite a business aspect. From
Gwynedd the main trunk is being pushed
vigorously to the Lehigh, and on the Doylstown
branch the number of workmen has been more
than doubled during the past week.— Ledger.
FIGHT WITH A HCGE RATTLESNAKE. —Mr.
Daniel Terrymau communicates to us an account
of a thrilling encounter he recently had with a
ruttlesnake. On first discovery, his snakeship
preparing to appropriate to his use a squirrel
by the side of the road, but possibly fancying
larger game, '• put after" Mr. T., who gave
" leg bail," and ran. On finding that the gap
between him and the snake was closing Mr. T.
sought the first weapon in the shape of a club,
aud turning, gave the snake a blow just as the
reptile was pausing and gathering for the fatal,
spring. The blow came just in the nick of time
and just in the right spot, severing the head
from the body. Mr. T. says :
" After the head was severed. The body |
continued to run in different directions, as is j
geuerally the case previous to death—but in !
this case it continued for an unusual length of
time, owing, no doubt, to the size of the reptile
and the amount of muscular strength which it
)K>ssessed. After it became sufficiently quiet,
so that it could be straigthencd out, I measur
ed it closely and found it to be exactly six feet ;
eleven inches in length by nine and a half
inches in circumference, being the largest one
of that species that had ever been seen in that
region of country. — Massitlon (Ohio) Aevrs.
THE MASSACHUSETTS KNOW-NOTHINGS—
Boston, Saturday, June 23, 1855.—A meeting
of the Know-Nothings in the Eleventh Ward
of this city last night was addressed by Senator
Wilson and Gov. Garduer. The former con- |
fined his speech to the subject of the Philadel- ;
phia Natioual Convention, asserting that it was !
the aim and desire of the Massachusetts de
legation to avoid the question of Slavery, which
was forced upou them by the South, and they
were obliged to meet it then and there.
In the Convention Mr. Bowling of Virginia
said he intended to whip some Massachusetts
man, and Judge Cone of Georgia demanded j
and would have a declaration from the North
in favor of Slavery ; otherwise her delegates
would leave. Mr. Wilson said that seventeen ,
of the Platform Committee supported the ma- j
jority resolutions,principallyjcoining from States ;
where the American party had been defeated ;
and they were opposed by fourteen delegates,
representing 12G Electoral votes in those States
where the American party had triumphed.—
The delegates from Georgia went in for George
Law for President, and six from Pennsylvania.
Mr. Wilson said that Gov. Gardner told the
South that not a city or town in Massachusetts '
would support the majority platform, and that !
Mr. Brooks of The A. Y. Repress had said |
that the whole North would spurn the plat
form. It was attempted in the platform to put
him (Wilson) down, to turn him out when Gov.
Gardner declared that if such was result he
too would leave. Mr. Wilson was severe on
the " doughfaced" New-York delegation, who
he charged with keeping the Massachusetts
delegation from the Council for twenty-fours
after the proceedings commenced.
WHEAT CROP IN GENESEE COUNTY. —The
Livingston Republican, of the 14th iust., says
that in the north-east part of that county the
Hessian Ely has seriously affected the crops—
destroying, comparatively speaking, the entire
crop. The Republican says :
" A gentleman showed us a stalk of wheat
on Monday that contained thirteen of the eggs
of the fly, uud we are assured by many who
have closely examined their fields that hardly
a stalk can be found that does not contain more
or less. Fields that one month ago promised
a bountiful harvest, now yellow and dead.—
And we suppose the worst has not yet devel
oped itself with this destructive animal.
HARVESTING IN VIRGINIA. —The farmers of
Virginia have commenced harvesting their
wheat. The crop is generally considered good,
except in the Southwest of the State, where
the fly has injured it ; but as large quantities
of wheat were sown, it is expected that the
harvest will be more abundant than usual.—
The drying of the straw immediately below the
head ; by which the ascent of sap is arrested,
is said to be one of the most reliable indications
of the maturity of the plant, and of the ne
cessity of cutting and curing it.
RAILROAD ACCIDENT AND DEATH.— Concord,
N. 11., Saturday, June 23, 1855.—An Irish
man named Sullivau was killed on the railroad
about a mile from here by the early train to
Boston. He stepped from one track to avoid
one train and was run down by another, the
approach of which he had not noticed. His
Lead was severed from his body.
RLT.CTION9 TO TAKE PLACE. —Alabama, Ar
kansas, lowa, Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas
hold their elections on the first Monday in Au
gust ; Tennessee on the first Thursday, and
North Carolina on the second Thursday of the
same mouth On the second Monday'in Sep
tember the election in Maine occurs, "and that
month" 00111 ° D th ' CrSt Tuesda - V of
Brai)fori) i!q)ortn\
* •
E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
:
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NO REPORTER NEXT WEEK.
In accordance with a time-honored and uni
versal custom, and for the purpose of showing
due deference to the Anniversary of our Na
tional Independence, we shall not issue the
Reporter next week. Our next number will
lie dated July 14tli.
GOV. REEDER TO BE REMOVED !
That Gov. RF.EDEK would be removed from
the Governorship of Kansas (uuless he could
be coaxed to resign) we have never had a
doubt, since he refused to lend himself to the
purposes of ATCHISON & Co. This weak, ira
| becile Administration, is too far suuk in the
i depths of servility, to hesitate wheu the South
bids it go deeper and deeper. Our readers
may he assured that Gov. REEDER, upon some
| pretence or other, will be a victim. We have
faith enough in his pluck to believe that he
does not intend to resign, hut will rather be
removed.
It will not be many months before Governor
REEDER will be removed, aud the tools of the
South will lie denouncing him as an Abolition
ist. Will the dough-face presses of Pennsyl
vania stand up in his defence. Very many
have gone a great ways towards committing
themselves, but they have a wonderful facility
in changing. We shall see.
BRADFORD COUNTY AHfiAD !
We have been shown a letter from ELI SH
EER, State Treasurer, dated the 25th instant,
acknowledging the receipt from P. FORBES, of
£9,473 88, being the full quota of State Tax
due from Bradford county for the present year.
The State Treasurer also adds, that Bradford
has the honor of being the first county to res
pond to his appeal iu behalf of the credit of
our good old Commonwealth.
The amouut of abatement is $473 68, which
of course is so much saved to the tax-payers.
The fears once entertained of a drought,
are now changed to the opposite extreme, a
superabundance of moisture having been vouch
safed us. Literally,
" The rain, it raiaeth every day."
The farmers are beginning to cry "enough,"
and complain somewhat that the ground is too
wet to work, and that their crops are suffering
for want of the hoe. Excepting this draw
back, which can hardly be considered serious,
the prospects arc very flattering for a great re
turn for the husbandman's labor. We hear of
no serious alarm felt of the weevil; and cer
'
taiuly if anything like the crop promised is re
alized, the harvest will be beyond anything
ever before experienced in this country.
FROM A SLAVE STATE. —The Delaware Re
publican says the people of the North and West
cannot be rallied to the support of a platform
which asserts that the laws in regard to slavery
j shall remain unchanged ; that Congress ought
! not to legislate on that subject within the ter
ritories of the United States, nor the District
of Columbia ; that it would have been the
height of folly for the Northern Delegates to
have acquiesced in those provisions, or remain
ed in the Convention, and candidly adds :—" If
slavery is a social and political evil, as Southern
men as well as Northern ones have declared,
our friends of the South should give way, and
not attempt to exteud or perpetuate it by an
additional law."
THE PROHIBITORY LIQUOR LAW goes into ef
fect in the State of New York on Wednesday
next, July 4th. By a singular construction, or
rather oversight,in the framers of the law, im
ported liquor in the original pacJuige, whether
iu casks or bottles, is exempt from seizure, and
its vender from the penalties of the law. It
will be readily seen that such a construction,
if sustained, will render the law a mere farce,
and make further legislation necessary.
LARGE STRAWBERRIES. —We are indebted to
DANIEL lIARKINS, of Ulster, for a lot of straw
berries, which fer size and flavor excel any
thing iu that line we have ever seen—twelve
of the largest weighing two and a half ounces.
If any one can furnish us with finer specimens
of this delightiul fruit we shall be pleased to
receive them.
jfcg- The recent heavy rains have again rais
ed the Susquehanna to a fine rafting pitch, and
considerable lumber has floated past on its way
to market. We have again had a recurrence
of that almost obsolete institution, a " Jane
freshet."
FOREIGN NEWS. —The steamer Baltic is due
with one week's later intelligence, but had not
arrived, at the time of our going to press. Her
intelligence is awaited with some anxiety, to
furnish the details of the bombardment of Se
' hastopul.
THE NORTH BRANCH CANAL.
Maj. Miner of the Record of the. Times,
chronicles in bis paper of last week " A trip on
the Tow-path," on the upper North Branch
Canal. He says :
The people north are pressing Mr. Maffet to
let the water in and open this upper section at
once. We are sure that any sensible man who
would take the trouble to ride along and exam
ine it carefully, will be convinced that it is not
possible to do business for weeks, or perhaps
months yet. The water was in last season, but
that does not prove that the canal will hold
water nor that it was in good condition. In
one place we saw a large pile of stumps of
trees grown during the long suspension, in the
prism of the canal and cut off eight or ten
inches above the ground and left to destroy
boats. They had been taken out by a stump
machine. In the Narrows large rocks and
stones are thickly strewn on the bottom, left
there when the work was taken off the con
tractors' hands, and very dangerous to naviga
tion as Capt. Willets will testify. Depression
in the bottom of the canal show leaks in every
rod, and from some, which has already been
examined and opened, nests of boulders as
large as a peck measure and larger had been
taken, through which a small river could escape,
and which must ultimately have occasioned
breeches. Until such places can be searched
out and removed Mr. Maffet will do injustice
to himself and to the State to let the water in.
The difficulty of fixing upon a time to open
is easily seen. For nearly two weeks the
heavy rains have driven off and disorganized
mauy of the gangs of hands employed, and of
course is so much time nearly lost. But we
feel assured that the untiring energy of Mr.
Maffet, if he can secure the co-operatiou of
friends along the line ; instead of meeting the
opposition of those interested in covering with
water, the bad work left, will push forward the
repairs, so that the black diamond may find its
way by water to its northern market this
summer or early in the fall. A force of nearly
four hundred men under twenty-four foremen
are actively engaged at the most important
points, soon to be increased to 500, and more
if they can be obtained. With fair weather
aud health, much work can be doue in a few
weeks.
THE UNITED STATES AND FRANCE. —The
reader will recollect that many months ago
some difficulty occurred with Dillon, the French
Consul at Sau Francisco. The French Minister
of Foreign Affairs demanded that Mr. Dillon
should have a salute when his flag was hoisted,
and Mr. Marcy uniformly refused to make any
recognition whatever. Since that time no
progress has been made in the affair, for the
reason that the French Cabinet insisted upon
the position which it had taken, while the
American Cabinet as firmly insisted on its own.
The affair has been recently brought before the
American Minister in a manner to convince
him that the time for a settlement had arrived,
and that further delay would only embarrass
the case. The American Minister, by some
meaus, has seen the letters written by this Mr.
Dillon to the French State Department, aud
these letters are said to be so insulting and so
outrageous toward the Government and people
of the United States that our Minister has not
peremptorily refused to make any concession ou
the position long ago taken by Mr. Marcy, but
he has deemed the case of sufficient importance
to make it the subject of a strong recommen
dation to the Government at Washingtan to
take some official aetiou against Mr. Dillon.
STATE AND COUNTY AGRICULTURAL FAIRS.—
The Canal Commissioners have resolved that
all freight iutended for the exhibition of the
Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society, to be
held at llarrisburg, and all freight intended for
the County Agricultural Fairs, to be held in
this State—shall be permitted to pass over the
State works free of toll, in going to and re
turning from the same : Provided that the re
gular toll shall be paid on all such freight sold
at or during the continuance of the said Fairs.
They have also resolved to issue excursion tick
ets over the Philadelphia and Columbia rail
road to persons visiting the State and County
Agricultural Fairs to be held in this State, this
fall—the fare on said tickets to be three ccuts
per mile for the rouud trip.
H®** The New-York Know-Nothings had a
meeting in the Park reeeutlv, to ratify the ac
tion of the Philadelphia Convention. The
speakers were Mr. Barker, of New-York, Ex-
Gov. Neil S. Brown, of Teunessec, Judge Hop
kins, of Alabama, Gen. Pilcher, of Kentucky,
W. W. M'Cali, of Florida, Mr. Houghton, of
North Carolina, Johu Cunningham, of South
Carolina, S. V. R. Mallory, of Ontario county,
and other gentlemen of " Southern Principles."
The principal topic discussed in each speech
was Slavery, in respect to which the action of
the Philadelphia Convention was endorsed, and
the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise, the
Fugitive Slave Law and the Kunsas outrages
pronounced to be matters which must not be
voted nor spoken against by any true disciple
of " Sam."
A BOLD WAGER.— The Cleveland Herald of
fers to stake its reputation for veracity, that
flour will be down to $6 50 per barrel in thir
ty days. It says the crops never looked bet
ter in the State of Ohio, and the prospect is
that there will be the largest yield ever known
in that State. There are thousands of bread
eaters who would rejoice to find the Herald
win its wager ; but however plentiful the har
vest may be, the time is too short to realize
the prediction. The first new flonr of the sea
son from Charleston was sold iu New-York a
few days ago for $l3 per barrel.
THE KNOW NOTHING DISRUPTION.
We have been obliged, by want of space, to
defer our notice of the proceedings of the late
Know-Nothing National Convention at Phila
delphia, until this week, and it is only because
the Order numbers many members in this
County, that we notice it at all.
This was the first National Convention which
has ever been held, and the wire-pullers have
been anxious to make such a platform as would
satisfy both sections of the country, and ren
der " Sam" triumphant in 1856. As might be
expected in ignoring the ouly question which
has any public interest, the Convention split
into fragments.
The platform builders made to the Conven
tion a majority and a minority report. The ma
jority platform, which caused the schism, is giv
eu in the following words, so far as the slavery
question is concerned :
Resolved, That the American party, having
arisen upon the ruins and in spite of the oppo
sition of the Whig and Democratic parties,can
not be held in any manner responsible for the
obnoxious acts or violated pledges of either ;
that -the systematic agitation of the slavery
question by those parties has elevated sectional
hostility into a positive element of political
power, and brought our institutions into peril.
It has therefore become the imperative duty of
the American party to interpose, for the pur
pose of giving peace to the country and per
petuity to the Union. That as experience has
shown it is impossible to reconcile opinions so
extreme as those which separate the disputants,
and as there can be no dishonor in submitting
to the laws, the National Council has deemed
it the best guarantee of common justice and of
future peace to abide by and maintain the ex
isting laws upon the subject of Slavery, as a
final and conclusive settlement of that subject
in spirit and in substance.
Resolved, That regarding it the highest du
ty to avow those opinions upon a subject so im
portant, in distinct aud unequivocal terms, it is
hereby declared as the sense of this National
Council, that Congress possesses no power un
der the Constitution to legislate upon the sub
ject of {slavery in the States, or to exclude any
State from admission into the Union because
her Constitution does or does not recognize the
institution of Slavery as a part of her social
system ; and expressly pretermitting any ex
pression of opinion upon the power of Congress
to establish or prohibit Slavery in any Territo
ry, it is the sense of this National' Council
that Congress ought not to legislate upon the
subject of Slavery within the Territories of
the United States, and that any interference
of Congress with slavery as it exists in the Dis
trict of Columbia would be a violation of the
spirit and intention of the compact by which
the State of Maryland ceded the District to
the United States, and a breach of the Nation
al Faith.
The minority resolution which was rejected
is as follows :
Resolved, That the repeal of the Missouri
Compromise was an infraction of the plighted
faith of the Nation and that it should be re
stored, and that if efforts to that end shall
fail, Congress should refuse to admit any state
tolerating slavery which shall be formed out of
any portion of the territory from which that
institution was excluded by that Compromise.
The majority report was adopted by the
Council—New York voting for it. Upon its
adoptiou, a portion of the Northern members
seceded, and organized by placing Seuator
WILSON, of Massachusetts, in the Chair, and
put forth the following as their platform :
To the jrople of the United Slates :
The undersigned, citizens of various States,
assembled at Philadelphia ou the 14th day of
June, 1855, feel constrained under the exist
ing state of affairs, to affirm the followinirprin
ciples :
FIRST— The unconditional restoration of that
time-honored Compromise, known as the Mis
souri Prohibition, which was destroyed in utter
disregard of the popular will—a wrong which
no lapse oftimecan palliate, and no plea for its
continuance can justify. And that we will use
all constitutional means to maintain the posi
tive guarantee of that compact, until the object
for which it was enacted has been consumma
ted by the admission of Kansas and Nebraska
as Free States.
SECOND — That the rights of the settlers in
Territories to the free aud undisturbed exercise
of the elective franchise guaranteed to them by
the laws under which they are organised, should
be promptly protected by the National Execu
tive whenever violated or threatened. And that
we cannot conscientiously act with those who
will not aid us in the correction of these Na
tional wrongs, and who will not even permit
their fair consideration and their full discus
sion.
THIRD—M e further declare our continued
and unalterable determination to use all hon
orable efforts to secure such a modification of
the Naturalization laws, aided by such an ele
vation of public sentiment, as will preserve the
true interests of the Nation, and will guaran
tee the three vital principles of a Republican
Government : SPIRITUAL FREEDOM A
FREE BIBLE, and FREE SCHOOLS—
thereby promoting the great work of American
izing America.
Foi RTH That we invoke the arm of legis
lation to arrest that growing evil, the depor
tation by foreign authorities of paupers and
convicts to our shores ; and that, as our Na
tional Constitution requires the Chief Execu
tive of our country to be of native birth, we
deem it equally necessary and important that
our Diplomatic Representatives abroad should
also possess no foreign prejudices to bias
their judgment or to influence their official ac
tion.
MASSACHUSETTS.— Henry J. Gardner, Hen
ry Wilson, John W. Foster, A. C. Carey II
W. Rugg, James Buffington, Andrew A/Rich
mond.
NEW HAMPSHIRE.— Anthony Colby, J.Mann,
S. B. Sherman.
VERMONT.— EveIyn Pierpoint, Jos. H. Bar
rett, Ryland Fletcher, R. M. Guilford, Jo. D
Hatch.
MAINE. Louis 0. Cowan, A. S. Richmond,
B. D. Peck, J. L. Stevens, J. S. Say ward, J.
Covell, Jas. M. Lincoln.
OHlO.— Thos. 11. Ford, L. N. Olds, J. Mar
tin, J. K. Marlby, G. R. Morton, A. M'Kay,
H. 11. M'Aleer, J. E. Rees.
INDIANA. —W. Cumback, Schuyler Colfax
Godlove S. Orth, J. L. Ilarvey, F. D. Allen'
J. R. M. Bryant.
MICHIGAN. —IsraeI Cogshall, Moses A. Mc-
Naughton.
ILLINOIS. W. W. Danehower, W. N.Yonmr
11. S. Jennings, D. L. Eastman.
lOWA.— James Thoringtou, William Longh
bridge.
RHODE ISLAND.— J. C. Knight, N. Green,
•Wm. 11. Sweet.
CONNECTICUT.— David B. Booth, Thos Clark,
N. D. Sperry.
WISCONSIN.— D. C. Wood, R. Chandler, C.
W. Cook.
Pennsylvania, it will be observed, is not in
cluded in the list of States appended to this
address. Gov. JOHNSTON and others, subse
quently issued the following address. We see
it also stated that notwithstanding this Pro
test, Gov. JOHNSTON said to the Convention
that he would refer the matter to the Penn
sylvania State Convention, and notwithstand
in the Protest, labor earnestly for the success
of the cause, which causes the pro-slavery peo
ple to pronounce Pennsylvania right —for
them :
PROTEST OF PENNSYLVANIA, &C. —The under
signed, citizens of the United States and resi
dents of the States set opposite their names,
solemnly protest against the introduction of
any question connected with Slavery info the
platform of principles of the American party,
being convinced that no such issues were intend
ed to be embraced within its purposes and ob
jects.
That we believe in and shall defend the
right of freedom of opinion and discussion on
that and every otiier subject not intended to
be embraced within the design of our organi
zation.
That if the question of slavery is to be pass
ed upon and made a part of our National
creed, then in that event we cannot consistent
ly act with fidelity to our principles and for
mer professions, with any national organiza
tion whose action on the question of slavery
will result in endorsing the Kansas-Nebraska
act, and which refuses its sanction to the
principles of the Missouri compromise act of j
1820.
That wc believe that time-honored compact
was an honorable and fair adjustment of the
question of slavery.
We desire to place this Protest upon jour
nals of the Council, that in 110 future time the
undersigned may be charged with infraction of
expressed or implied faith to their fellow mem
bers in failing to support the majority resolu
tions.
PENNSYLVANIA.—W. F. Johnston, J. Bow
man Bell, D. E. Small, R. Coulter.
ILLINOIS.— John A. Prichet, W. I). Danen
liowcr.
NEW JERSEY.— A. S. Livingston, E. S. M'-
Clellan.
5 ERMOKT. — J. 11. Barret, Horace Kinsley,
It. M. Guillbrd, Evelyn Pierpoint, George D.
Hatch.
DELAWARE.—R. Clements.
CONNECTICUT.— David B. Booth.
This is the substance of the proceedings of
the Council in regard to the question which
now overshadows all other questions. It will
be seen that the South has triumphed, as she
always will triumph so long as the people are
content to be ruled by the machinery of Con
ventions and Councils. The same power which
has demoralized and pro-slaveryized the politi
cal parties of the country, was sufficient to bring
to its purposes, an organization which really
has no definite object—which is ephemeral, un
substantial and the creation of circumstances.
By this action of the National Convention, the
Know-Nothing organization has been sunder
ed—it has been most effectually broken up.—
For the fact, that the Northern members have
had pluck enough to stand up for the rights of
Freemen and the cause of Freedom, let them
have all honor. M e have been so accustomed
to dough-face servility and meekness on the
part of the Northern members of National Con
ventions, that it is refreshing to see something
like raaiiliuess and independence manifested.
The actiou of the Northern members ot the
Council has met with very general approba
tion in the North. It has received the sanc
tion of the Order very generally. Indeed, it
could hardly be otherwise. The passage of
the Kansas-Nebraska bill—a feeling of hostili
ty to the National Administration for its pro
slavery proclivities—have done more to fill the
Know-Nothing ranks, than any feelings of hos
tility to Catholics or foreigners. In this Coun
ty, at the last election, the Order numbered
some two thousand voters. Amongst all of
whom, we presume to say, there could not be
found one, who does not consider the usurpa
tions of Slavery as infinitely more to be feared
than any designs on the part of foreigners.—
We are somewhat curious to know what they
design to do under this state of affairs. If the
two political parties had become too pro-slavery,
what shall be said of the now intensely " Na
tional Know-Nothing organization ?
Gov. JOHNSTON.— M e published last week a
paragraph from the Tribune in regard to Gov.
JOHNSTON and his course in the late Know-
Nothing Council. He has written a letter to
the Tribune denying that he voted for the Pro-
Sla\ erv platform there adopted. He savs :
" I did not vote for said Platform, and do
not intend to do so hereafter. I opposed it in
Convention, spoke against its adoption in the
Convention, protested against it, and refused
all co-operation with any National organiza
tion that recognized or adopted it, lam now
what I have been—a firm aud consistent oppo
nent of Slavery extension."
CASE OF DR. BEAI.E.— "We learn from the
Philadelphia papers that the judges of the
supreme court of Pennsylvania arc unable to
agree in the case of I)r. Beale, on the writ of
error asking for a new trial ; that two of their
number are for affirming the proceedings of the
court below, one for amending the record in
some way, and the other two for a reversal.
If this be true, nothing further will be clone in
the matter until August next, when the judges
meet at Bedford.
CAPTURE OF FORT LARAMIE.— The reported
capture of Fort Laramie, by the Indians, is
discredited at Washington. Letters from the
Fort have been received to the Bth of May,
which report a good many Indians about, but
intimate uo fears for the safety of the Fort,
A VILLAINOUS SCOUNDREL. —We recentl
published an account of the elopement of R,./
W. SILK with with the wife of a respectabl
citizen of South Creek. We learn further that
he took the wife of this gentleman to Steuben
or Tompkins counties, (it is not yet ascertain
ed exactly which,) left her, and eloped with
the daughter of a citizen in one of those conn
ties. He was hotly pursued by the indicant
father, and so closely pressed that he abandon
ed the foolish girl and his horse and bu"-.r V
The latter belongs to a gentleman of Bin Sam"
ton— M. T. Wiuton, Esq.—of whom SILK had
purchased but not puid for them.
It is time that this scoundrel was hunted un
aud brought to justice. As near as we can
learn, his life has been but one continued rv
cord of villainies. He has more wives if w
are correctly informed, than a bashaw of three
tads, lie was driven out of Athens bv the in
diguant citizens for disreputable advances to
lady there. He figured in Steuben comfty
the same way—has succeeded in eloping with
four or live different women, and continued a
successful Lothario in spite of constables and
outraged people. He was a minister of the
Christian denomination, but was expelled from
that body at a recent conference of its ministry
We have been promised a detailed history of
his exploits, ami shall publish them so soon as
received.— Elmira Republican.
fit#- A very extraordinary disease has late
ly made its appearance in a "few families in this
city—some of them eminent in wealth and po
sition—which lias confounded our phvsieians
because of its novelty. At first they" classed
it under the head of erysiplas, but as it would
not bear that classification, some of them have
given it the name of " the plague." It appears
at first in some discolored spot, say on the face,
and extending, without suppuration, it soon
destroys life, as if by a general mortification.
If suppuration takes place, it passes off ; hut
if not, death is certain to follow. There is no
contagion about it, and it is not epidemic in
any form.
One or two physicians have resorted to the
knife, and cut out the plague spot on its first
appearance, and so have saved life. Fever
and delirium attend the progress of disease, if
" the spot" is left to spread. Such is our
information ; but as we have seen no case
with our own eye—and if we had, should not
be able to describe it scientifically—what we
say must be taken with this understanding.
It is not the plague, for it is not contagions
or epidemic. But what is it ? The plague
may lie imported, nay has been imported, into
the south of France, from Turkey ; but it may
be some new disease, which, like the cholera
is to destroy the human race. We should be
obliged to some medical man for some scienti
fic or more specific account of the disease.—
-V. 1" Express.
PRESIDENT PIERCE. —A despatch from Wash
ington is to the effect that President Pierce
lias called upon Governor lleederand the other
officials of the Territory of Kansas, to account
for certain speculations in that Territory with
the half-breeds, in violation of the acts of
Congress, and has informed Gov. Reeder tbr
hceannot be kept in ofllce unless the iuipre>>;<>ns
now on his mind shall be removed by satisfac
tory explanations. Governor Uceder prom - -
to give the required information when he shall
have reached Kansas.
This investigation may perhaps be well en
ough, for it will, wc think, vindicate Gov. Ree
ders reputation,and render comparatively harm
less the malice of the Missonrians. But in
meantime, the President should stand by Reeder
with firmness in the execution of the" law-. j
The present is an emergency which makes or
breaks political reputation, and the President (
should stand firm.— Eottsrile Register.
ATTEMPT TO RAISE A CHAIN USED IX REVO
LUTIONARY TIMES. —Mr. Bishop, owner of
Bishop's Floating Derrick, yesterday, at West
Point, commenced the undertaking of raising
the massive chain which, under orders from
M ashington, in 1778, we think, was made—ib '
weight being five hundred tons—and strong
across the Hudson, at West Point to intercept 1
the passage of British vessels about that plftc
The chain was broken at each side a few year
after it was put up and has remained undisturbed j
since, though one or or two of its massive link
were for years on exhibition at the late Albany
Museum. The depth of the river at the poit* |
where it lies is 125 feet. Mr. Bishop bi
son uded it, and satisfied himself that he ca:
raise it.— AlbanuArgus.
REPUBLICAN CONVENTlON.— C'incinnr.ti, h-t [
23.—A convention, numerously attended. va I
held here to-day, to nominate delegates to ' |
Republican State Convention, to be held s
Columbus, on the 13th of July. Owing tot. j;
fact that two calls had been published, onet ■
to-day and another for the 7th of July, ag'
deal of excitement prevailed ; but a compress
was finally effected, and it was agreed tn :
this should be the only convention ; and t:
Know Nothings, Auti Slavery meu and out
siders all united, and the list of delegate t- |
ported by the compromise committee was al- ■
unanimously confirmed.
CHINA.— A letter from Fuh-chan of Maf-' j
9th, says the rebels have abandoned Shanghai
and the place is once more in the hands of
imperialists. At Fuh-Chau everythingiF'
though the embarrassments of tiie author "
are great. At Canton the
to be gaining some advantages, and they •
taken from the rebels the only city of K;tt- ? j
held by them for some time. At Am") ;U "
Niugpo matter are quiet. Foreign trade * '
to be growing rapidly. It is estimated _t> i
about fifty ships with terns have been sent"-
this port during the past season.
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THE PUBLIC WORKS OF PENNSYLVANIA | 1
public improvements of this State, duriu-' |, J
month of May, yielded tolls to the [ ]
the amount of $234,894, being an facrcs*" | 1
$73,044 over the same mouth last . vea3 Vi> ,
increase on the Delaware division is f J
over May of last year, and on the nw' n ||a
consisting of the Philadelphia and Co°* | J
railroad, the Canal and Portage railroad- - 8
Columbia to Pittsburgh, the increase ha--'-* 14
about $7,000, 3
DEATH FROM INHALING VITRIOL. —Las' F
a fire occurred on board a steamboat u'
burg, which was caused by the I ■
bottle of vitriol. In extinguishing the *
boat hand named James Hayman 111 ! K!
quantity of the vapor, from theeff-'c^;'; 1 . K
he died the next day in great airon.y
son who placed the bottle of vitriol on ■ m
th<: boat has laid himself open to a tiufo- V
and an impisomncnt of eighteen won A s -