ONE 03LLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANDA: Giitnrban Hlornittn, iflan 17, 185 U. K. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR. s&uF-gk* TO THE PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES TI p, , ot' the I'lMtetl States, without regard to past ■ u'-at diflve'iH-es <>r divisions, who are opposed to the it of ' " Mi<*oiiri Compromise, to the policy of the \itminMration, to the extension of Slavery into i'C o'lritories. in favor of the admission of Kansas as a ami of restoring the action of the Federal Go to the principles of Washington and Jefferson, i , itcd tiv the National Committee, appointed by the p u-i'iiiri: Convention of the 22d of February, 1856, to w ',"t each State three Delegates from each Congres- T, I|i tii' t. and six Delegates at large, to meet at pitil, VDKI.FHI A. on the 17th of JUNE next, for the . ■ recommending candidates to be supported for ;.7 ! fli, t*s of President and Vice President of the United Stiles. y p MORI; NX. x. A*. OEOBfiE G. Focu.X. H. V. vN( I- p. 111.UK. MD. A. J. STEVENS. lowa. „n V|. \"ti t:s. Conn. COKNEI.ICS COLE, Cal. |l,V'.!> WII.MOT. I'a- f. A WHENCE BItAINERP, VL \ ]• stosk Ohio- WILLIAM GROSE, Ind. V. M M. Cu UE. It. I. WVMAM SrOONF.It, Wis. ■/.. (bsu'itien, Mass. C. M. K. FACLISON, N. J. Kve. Va. E. I. WILLIAMS, Del. \> \VK K. II ti.i.owEi.L,Me.' JOHN G. FEE. Ky. t IEI *sn. 111. ; J AMES RKDPATII . Mo. I'VIKLKS DICKEY. Mich. I LEWIS CLEEH ANE, D.C. WASHINGTON. March 19. 18.56. Xational Committee. BLAIR ON THE NULLIFIERS. Franlis P. BI.AIR has written a letter to the late Republican meeting in New-York city, the length of which, we regret to say, will not per mit it- publication entire in our columns. We regret this the more, because we wish that every man who has over acted with the Demo cratic party, and particularly those who stood bv General JACKSON in the terrible contests through which lie passed, could read this let ter. to learn who are now the leaders and ru lers of the so-called Democratic party, what -e their antecedents, and also what constitutes modern 1 >emocraey. Mr. BLAIK jiossessed in an eminent degree ;■ confidence and respect of General JACKSON. He was the confidential adviser of that distiu '.ni>hei man, who, in his Presidential career, never formed a wrong estimate of any man.— L.iiijr. his letters abound with many expres -oti- of confidence and affection for Mr. BLAIR, 1 when aiiout to die, be bequeathed to him paper- and left his reputation in his keejv i:.j. Through all the struggles with the Bank, Mr. BI.AIR aided by his pen in securing that result, which has since covered the adrainistra t ■-uof Ben. JACKSON with such well-merited re nown. The latter on many occasions express > i i.i- gratitude for the efficient services he had performed as editor of the Globe, without which he might have been crushed beneath the num bers ami iufluenee of his opponents. The letter, from which we extract, consti tutes one of the most important and interest ing chapters of our political history. It shows the origin and rise of the nullification party, of which .Mr. CALHOUN was the father—how af i r striving in vain to unite the South upon tne question of the tariff, he raised the cry tnat slavery was in danger, to effect his favor ".e tlc-ign of unitiiiir the South as a section to command the North or separate from it. Par- La.'y successful in these endeavors, the qncs* tien f the annexation of Texas, was the fa rr !e opportunity to touch the chord to it dm feelings of the slaveholders every - re resjvonded. " The annexation of Texas," | ■"/- Mr. BLAIR, " produced the war with Mexi j wiii< h fully develojed the ambition of the I wvelto! ling interest for extended dominion." T ? Texas ipiestion was also employed to •' tie nomination of Mr. VAN BRUI:X, and the nomination of Col. POLK. Mr. Tv ® n , n placed in uomiuatiou by the of ler-' convention, at tiie instance of Mr. ■< N Thus the latter had readied hi> desideratum. He had snccecded in mak -1 thorough combination among the slave - of the South, animated in his cause by | i' <>f new conquests, by Lis iutrigues had l the nomination of both POLK and Tv : and was in a situation to demand autl ex froai I'.ilk whatever pledges he might re (,' 5c newspaper, had always been, as • r? -rated, a zealous supporter of General ' v and the measures of his admiuistra ; as strongly opposed to CALHOUN and 'tidying schemes. To get rid of Bi_\lß s " ic first care of CALHOFN, aud the first n demanded of POLK was to that effect, -id* ration of this arrangement, TYLER * from the field. After the electiou, ' ' i-oncocted scheme to oust BLAIR ' *utute an organ friendly to Mr. CAL p'Jched tJen. JACKSON'S ears, and he v stole addressed letters to Col. POLK ami E ,ik j n re gard to the matter. The t - dies a letter addressed to himself, *' mber 14th, 1844, in which General • xpn—-?> great surprise at the rumor " ' i, but says that he has written Col. •} utw.n the subject. 1 date uutil the inauguration of K. the General was constantly exert • •riuem-e to avert the threatened dis i . .. • "sa in his judgment iinpcndeti over alb i! •• the B qvublican party and I'wind that the nullifying interest was - die action of the President, he ad > th to Mr POLK and Mr THE BRADFORD REPORTER. BIJUR, full of indignation and alarm, in which he predicts evil to Mr. POI.K and the Demo cratic party. It is fully established from the letters of General JACKSON, now first published, and from other facts long known, that as soon as Mr. TYLER had concluded an arrangement by which the Globe was to be superseded by a nullifying organ, $.">0,000 were taken from the U. S. Treasury and placed in the Middletown Bank. A letter is now on file in the Treasury Depart ment from JAMES BUCHANAN, recommending SIMON CAMERON, as the proper recipient of this favor. The first instalment for the purchase of tne Globe was paid in Middletown money, and the balance lay in that bank until 1847. Im mediately after the inauguration of Mr. POI.K, Mr. BLAIR was displaced and Mr. RICHIE installed in the official organ ; but in less than two years (as predicted by General JACKSON) BLAIR was solicited to agaiu take charge of the paper, which he declined. From that day to this, through the instru mentality of the government orgau, the nullify ing squadron have subjected to their control the organization of the democratic party. That the honest democrats of the country may see who are the leaders that have taken the con trol of the democratic party, Mr. BI.AIR makes the following faithful sketches : "The question now to be decided before the country, is whether the nnllifiers who have thus usurped the name and organization of the de mocratic party, but who have no principles iu common with it, shall be allowed to carry out their designs in such disguise. Their leaders on every question, in every difficult crisis of the country, from theeommeHeemeut of Gen. Jack son's administration, have been against the de mocrat-v " Who are the leaders in the South who now make such loud professions of democracy ? Who are that that repeat the word in chorus and have made it a party sing-song ? Men who never were democrats, but abhorred the name when it rallied the country around an adminis tration that was true to the representative principle, to the popular will, to the cause of free government, and now use it only to cover broken faith to constituents and violated com pacts between states. "The leading men in Virginia at this time, arc Hunter and Mason, its senators, and Wise, its governor. What were they in the days of conflict for the democracy, during tlie adminis tration of Jackson and Van Bureu—Hunter, a thorough Calhoun nuilifier, Mason, a mock con servative of the Hives and Talmage stamp.— Wise, siding with Calhoun at every step in his deadly warfare against Jackson and Van Bn ren Mr. Clingman, now a most prominent chief in North Carolina, in a late letter, bottoms his adhesion, and claims to the honors of the de mocracy of this day, on its hostility to that which recognizes Van Buren, Benton and Blair, among its followers. " .Mr. Butler, of South Carolina, who has inherited Mr. Calhoun's place in his state and in the Senate of the United States, in a letter of instructions, has given this list of dignitaries who wield the truncheon of the Palmetto de mocracy, from which be advises that the dele gates to the Cincinnati Convention be drawn. He says : " Let the state send her very first " men—such as Governor Richardson, Colonel "Pickens, Governor Hammond, Mr. Brown " well, Mr. Rhett, Governor Means, General " \\ a!lace, Mr. Woodward, General Thompson, " Richard Simpson, General Rogers. These gentlemen have reputations of something like ( 'hrule dignity," Gentlemen of " Cnrulc dig nity," in the days of Roman grandeur, were personages exalted by official station to tlie privilege of riding in a certain class of chariots, from the name of which that of their distinc tion was derived. Now the whole body ap pointed to go to Cincinnati to dictate a Presi dent for ihe democracy derive their " curule dignity " entirely from having ridden with Mr. Calhoun in his nullifying car. " Mr. Butler, while providing delegates to nominate a Presidential candidate at Cincinna ti. is too honest to conceal a sneer at his fel lowship with a name against which his politi cal sentiments revolt. He hates all pretension to democracy on the part of his state, whose institutioßs are entirely at war with its princi ples, and he declares lie would have preferred her "beeping aloof, aroidiug the awutlgamotion "of moss meetings, in irhich democratic numbers " most more stronger than constitutional wight. " I irish," lie adds, " South Carolina rould hare " retained her constitutional ulcutitt), maintain " ing doctrines that could surcire a constitution; " that should giro security and a; unlit a" The equality in "constitutional weight " here meant is that which would put down the doctrine of a majority governing iu republics. Iu this the nuilifier speaks out. " Mr. Butler and General Atchison are the real authors of the Kansas act, but they never meant that the majority rule provided in the law should supplant the weight which the con stitutional equality of the South would bring to bear it down, by adding force, aud arms, and tactics to overcome the masses. These gentlemen, while maturing their measures, liv ed together in the city, in the closest intima cy, and now following the custom of the Ro man consuls (Mr. Rutler will pardon the allu sion) one takes the field to carry out their plans, while tiie other remains in the Senate to give support to his absent colleague. These two are the heirs of Mr..Calhoun's designs. His Octavius aiuk Antooy. They are the masters of the administration, and may stand for the representatives at large of the spurious Democ racy. "" Georgia, next to South Carolina,holds most sway in the new party ; and Messrs. Toombs, Stevens aud Dawson arg confessedly the com manding men in that State. Where did they study for their democratic diploma? In the school of every opposition that ever assailed the party re-established by Jackson. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. " REGARDLESS OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER," " Florida presents Mr. Yulee, as its senator and minister, to support the new order of de mocracy originated in South Carolina, and by adoption the President's democracy. He was a devout worshipper of Mr. Calhoun, and his faith is his religion. " The party iu Louisiana acknowledges Mr. Soule as its leader. A malconteut from France, who, as Minister of tho United States, insulted the governments of France and Spaiu byway of acquiring Cuba, through a peaceable nego tiation, depending for its success ou the good will of both !—and then proposed in the Os tend conference to ravish it by force from the arms of Spaiu, ou the ground of necessity !! This gentleman carries the delegation of Loui siana to choose a President for the democracy; a function to which lie is recommended by the boldest speeches for secession made during the debate ou the compromise of 1850. " Two military chieftains hold Mississippi un der a sort of martial law. The Secretary of War is provided in advance to represent her in the Senate during the next administration, and for the present he commands iu the cabi net. In the Senate, at the session of 1850, he out-lleroded the Ilerod of South Carolina iu pressing towards secession. He had taken all but the last step, that of walking out of the Senate and the Union with his hat in one hand and his state iu the other. His second in the command of the Mississippi democracy, Gen. Quitman, also caught the pronuncamiento in fectiou from Mexican Santa Ana and the he roes of his cast. Gen. Quitman, it is thought, would have been content to take himself out of the Union for the sake of Cuba, and leave our jMior republic to shift for itself. He could not compass his wish, and he remains to con quer the North for the South, making fillibus tering in Kansas, non-intervention, and the put ting down of the ballot box, the test of popu lar sovereignty. " In Teuuessee, Senator Jones and other in veterate enemies of Gen. Jackson have sup planted the old democracy. "These are the heads that manage the poli tical concerns of the slaveholders' party, and managing them fatally for their ultimate in terests. They have put " the democracy proper," (to use Gen. Jackson's expression, to distin guish those he relied on from the Calhoun pre tends rs to the name) under foot. They hold the administration under the thumb, and every other Presidential aspirant at the N'orth, look ing to the Cincinnati Convention, and the fifty thousand office holders who seek to retain their stations and expect their preservation from the election of some one of these aspirants, com pose the rank and file of their northern mercen aries, whom Mr. Cushing may be said to repre sent, having first figured in Mr. Tyler's corpo poral's guard. " These are the elements of that spurious democracy which Gen. Jackson's intuitive sa gacity foresaw would be the offspring of the political embraces of Calhoun, Tyler and Polk. Among the last letters ever written by him. he predicted the ruin of the cause to which lie had devoted his life, and that Mr. Polk would be among the first to lament the course that led to it." In the days of JEFFERSON aud JACKSON, De mocracy did not consist in the name alone, nor diil it constitute the cutire mission of the de mocratic party to extend and strengthen the institution of slavery. Mr. BLAIR uiav besujv posed to understand the difference between Democracy then and now. The followiug is his definition of modern Democracy : The Kansas act is now the test of democra cy. This is the declaration of the President —of his official organ—of his officeholders, and of the slaveholders. The Jefferson and Jackson democracy is utterly scouted. And how is this test of democracy represented in Congress.' In the House, from the North, " The I nion ' counts about seveuteeu ; and of these there is scarcely one that did not reach his seat upon other issues than the Kansas question. In the Senate, from the North, there is not a senator can stand by the test, without notoriously misrepresenting his state. From the south there are no longer whigs or democrats—all parties are swallowed up in nullification of party principles for tlie pnqiose of extending slavery over new regions, and without the justification of the want of room in the slave states. The fifteen slave states, with little more than one-third of the inhabi tants of the free states, have an area of 851, 508 square miles ; the free states only 612, 597 square miles—the slave states having al so the advantage of a better soil and milder climate. What a revolution in the course of the first half century has slavery wrought, in the prin ciples that gave birth to our republic ! Free dom was the basis of that republic. It is now insisted that the constitution carries the prin ciple of bondage wherever its flag makes an acquisition. The democratic party made Jef ferson the apostle of its faith. Compare the Kansas act with the Declaration of Indepen dence, and the ordinance of 1787. In his first pajwr, Mr. Jefferson asserts the rights of humanity—iu the other, excludes slavery, from all the territories of the Union. The Kansas act would spread it over tlie continent ; and to effect it, establishes a new system of polities and morals for tlie democratic party, for which it is prescribed as a test. It is democratic now to break plighted faith between the states, in compacts made to pre serve the Union and its peace. It is democratic now to break faith with constituents and violate the representative principle on which our republics are all founded. It is democratic now to disobey the instruc tions of constituent bodies, and exert the force of the government to defeat the eflforts of the people to redress the wrong eommitted by one set of representatives, by turning them out and choosing auother. It is democratic now, after nullifying the clause authorizing Congress to m ike rules and regulations for the territories, aud all the com promises regulating their mode of settlement and interpolating the new principles of uou- intervention as the substitute, to connive at the use of armed force to defeat tlie new law —to drive the settlers from the polls where they were invited to decide the question of sla very—to introduce voters from a slave state to impose slavery on the territory against the will of the rightful voters, the actual settlers —and to elect a legislature representing the slaveholders of the invading state—to usurp the government of the territory—repeal the organic act of Congress—and destroy the rights guaranteed under it. It is democratic now to defend the estab lishment of test oaths, reqniring all settlers opjiosed to slavery to swear allegiance to a law they hold to be unconstitutional, to enti tle them to suffrage, and enabliug those not entitled to vote as settlers, to avoid taking the oath of residence, on which the right of suffrage dejiends, by paying a dollar as a sub stitute for all other qualifications. It is democratic now to expel, as aliens, citizens invited by the Act of Congress to set tle the territory aud to intimidate emigrants opi>osed to slavery from entering, by examples of Lynch law which would disgrace barbarians. It is democracy now to pass sedition laws, prohibiting discussion aud the denial of slave ownership where slavery was not authorized, denouncing the penalty of death against that as a crime, which the organic law deputed as a duty to be performed by the people. It is democracy now in a President to see this reign of terror established by force and arms, and an usurpation made to triumph over the laws of the Uuited States, by a series of invasions, publicly prepared, announced in ad vance, and occupying more than a year in ac complishing their object, and yet not to raise a finger to avert the wrong, but after its con summation to proclaim that he would use all the force of the Union, of the army, and the militia, if necessary, to maintain it. Against this spurious democracy, which has thus perfected its system in tlie Kansas act, and made it their test, I, as a democrat of the Jefferson, Jackson and Van Burcn school eu- ter my protest. F. P. BLAIR. We have, been able only to give a meagre sketch of the rise and progress of the nullifica tion party, as elaWated by Mr. BI.AIR, and illustrated by facts and arguments. It is the duty of every Democrat to ponder well the present condition of that party which has as sumed the name of Democrat. Is it the same which in days of yore was led Jefferson, and Jackson and Van Buren ? Are the princi ciples the same as those inscribed on the ban ners of those illustrious leaders ? Or is it the party of CALHOUN, now seeking to carry out his project of nullification and division of the Union to aggrandize the South? Mr. BLAIR has shown that the leaders of the Democratic party now, are the men who so bitterly as sailed Gen. JACKSON and supported CALHOUN. Have their views changed ? Certainly Dot. Both in the Senate and the House, the most nltra nullifying and secession doctrines are openly proclaimed, by men who are control ing the Democratic party, and looking for ward to elevation by means of its organization. Is there anything left of the Democratic party, either of its leaders or measures, which can arouse the pride, and should enlist the ac tion of a Jefferson democrat ? Is it liecanse Southern nullifiers control it ? Is it because the extension and j>erpetuation of Slavery is its only object ? Can a freeman, with a free man's instincts, fellowship with a party which proscrilies all who do not bow down ami wor ship at the shrine of negro slavery. Is a man to be ostracised and proscribed because he will not uphold and applaud the institution of Slavery, because he will not swear that it is a godly and beneficent institution? And yet, fellow-democrats, the humblest post-mas ter at a cross-road would not be allowed to re tain his office should he permit himself to say he did not believe that slavery should be ex tended. The slave-power stifles the expression of free opinion. It claims and exercises a tyranny over the mind and conscience the most degrad ing and exacting. It expects that the North ern freeman shall shut up in his bosom all those feelings of sympathy for liberty and suffering bmanitv. which are the spontaneous offspring of Freedom, and laud an institution revolting to our better nature. It claims to shut our mouths against the expression of our senti ments—forbids us protesting against the un limited extension of the enrse, —and finally, would make us co partners in the crime of the institution, and bound by our constitutional ob ligations to protect and foster it. This is BOW the mission of the Democratic party. The highest hopes of Cxuiorx are more than likely to be realized, unless the Free men of the North shall arouse. Ilis disciples" have obtained possession of the Democratic or ganization, to furthet their schemes of nullifica tion. looking to the establishment of a great Sonthern Slave Empire, embracing the Slave States and the best part of Mexico and Cen tral America. Every day witnesses the acces sion to the Democracy of slaveholders who have been opposed to that organization, but now look npon it as the best means by which to sc. care the ends for which they are laboring.— Tkfy have DO delicacy in publicly announcing their adhesion to the Democratic party, nor hesitation in giving as their reasons that it is the "natural ally of the South." What, then, is the duty of the Democrats of the North ? Will they aid in forwarding the schemes of nullification ? Will they assist in " crushing out'' the last vestige of Free Thought, Free Speech, Free Men ? Are they content that their posterity shall inherit a Republic in name only, where the greatest tyranny upon the face of the earth rules supreme, and inex orably denies the right to question the justice and lienefieence of its barbarous enactments and its horrible misdeeds ? If they wish to se cure the blessings of liberty unimpaired to that posterity, they cannot consistently aid in the success of the Democratic party as it is now marshalled. The success of that party will ar rest the progress of our free institutions ; will extend tlie dark shadow of slavery ; will de bar the free jwhite laborer from his share of our National Territory, by raising the barrier of Slave labor, which has ever been successful in keeping back white emigration ; and will at length by monstrous enactments aud unjustifia ble constructions succeed in keeping down the spirit of liberty. Against the Democracy of these modern days, in common with Mr. BLAIR, the,truc democracy of the North will euter their protest, and will not abate their efforts uutil the government in its administration is brought back to its original purity. PROCEEDINGS OF COURT. MONDAY, May 5, 18.56. The May Term and Sessions commenced to day, at 10 o'clock, A. M., Hon. DAVID WIL MOT President, und Hons. Harry Ackley and Myron Ballard Associate Judges. The amount of business before the Grand Jury was unusually small, presenting a gratify ing contrast with former Terms. GRAND JURY. W. C. Bogart, Caleb Abell, Helon Budd, Adiu Calkins, Timothy Case, Oliver Corbin, Johu L. Doty, Moses Gustin, Orrison Hibbard, John Huff, Edward Jones, Thomas Manlcy, Henry Warren, David S. Miller, Seth K. Por ter, J. M. Smiley, Abram Scouton. The Grand Jury were sworn on Monday, and WM. C. BOGART appointed Foreman. The following is the business transacted by them:— C"7H. rs. Samuel Kellum and Michael Thomp son.—lndictment for assault and battery upon ! the person of Israel Smith. True bill as to Kellum, ignoramus as to Thompson. Com. rs. Israel Smith ct. al. —lndictment for forcible entry and detaiuer, riot aud assault ; and battery uj>on the person of Samuel Kellum. True bill. Com. rs. Samuel Kellum and Chus. Kellum. —lndictment for forcible entry and detainer, Hiram Ilemans prosecutor. Grand Jury re turn a bill ignoramus, and prosecutor to pay the costs. [The above indictments arc "cross actions," growing out of an affray upou premises in dis pute between Kellum aud Smith, which occur red on the 24th of April last.] Com. rs. Wm. Ncice. —lndictment for assault and battery upou A. D. C. Miller on the 11th of March last. True bill. Com. r*. Bartholomew White, Jr.—lndict ment for perjury, Bartholomew White, Sen., prosecutor. True bill. Cum., rs. Aaron Scriiens. —lndictment for violating the liquor law of 1854, by selling to persons of known intemperate habits. True bill as to first, second and fourth counts, aud ignoramus as to third count. Com. r s. S. Cktslry Myers. —lndictment for violating liquor law of 1854. Grand Jury re turn a bill ignoramus. Com. rs. Jason P. Horton. —lndictment for violating liquor law of 1854. True bill on three counts, and ignoramus as to second count. Cim. Dr. E. P. Allen. —lndictment for vio lating liquor law of 1854. True bill as to two counts, ignoramus as to the remaining counts. Com. rs. Priscdla Johnson, (colored). —In- dictment for larceny. True bill. Com. rs. Joel M'After. —lndictment for as sault and battery upon the person of Samuel 11. M*A flee on the 17 th of February last.— True bill. Com. rs. John Rourb- —lndictment for lar ceny. True bill. Com. rs. Andretc J. Bayley. —lndictment for fornication and bastardy. True bill. The Grand Jury made the following pre sentment, which was ordered to be filed : M V\* SESSIONS. 1856. The Grand Inqnest of Pennsylvania enquir ing for the County of Bradford, upon their solemn oaths aud afiirtnatious, respectfullv do present: — That they have examined the condition of the Public Buildings of the said County, and find the building situate on the north side of the Court House, in the borough of Towanda, and used for a coal and wood house and for privies for the accommodation of the public of fices and courts, is in an unsafe and bad con dition ; and owing to its extreme filthy condi tion has become a nuisance : And the Grand Jury recommend that the Commissioners of the County be authorized to remove immedi ately the said buildiug, aud erect in its stead a bnilding suitable for the said parposes, and in accordance with the Act of Assembly rela ting thereto. \YM C BOG ART. Foreman VOL. XVI. —NO. 49. ytAKTEK SESSIONS. Cow. l)r. E. P. AUea. —The defendant was indicted at the present sessions for violating thodiqtior law of 1854, by selling liquor to pcrsous of kuown intemperate habits. The ju ry found the defendant not guilty, and the county to pay the costs. Patrick k M'Alpin for Corn'th., Mercur, Lyman and Morrow for defendant. Com. vs. Israel Smith et. al. —The defendants were indicted at the present term for forcible entry and detainer, riot and assault and bat tery upon the person of Samuel Kellum. Ver dict not guilty, and prosecutor, Samuel Kel luin, to pay the costs. Mercur, Adams & D'A. Overton for Corn'th. Baird, Morrow, Win. and O. H. Watkins for defendants. Com. vs. Samuel Kellum. —lndicted at pre sent Term for assault and battery upon Israel Smith. Defendant plead guilty, aud was sen tenced to pay a fine of $5 and costs of prose cution. Com. vs. Priscilia Johnson, {colored). —In- dicted for larceny. Defendant being put upon trial pleads guilty of petit larceny. Com. vs. John Rourke. —Defendant was in dicted for larceny of a coat, pair of boots and stockings, the property of Bernard Hanaway, and it appeared that he had the boots on in court. The jury found him guilty. Defendant has spent two years in the House of Refuge, and is now sentenced to one year and four months in the Eastern Penitentiary. Com. vs. Jason P. llorton. —lndicted for upsetting a ballot-box (his own hat) at a town ship election. The prosecutor did not appear, and the case was dismissed as unfounded. Upon petition, the Court appoint W. E. Barton clerk of the township of Smithfield, iu place of J. L. Gcrould, removed from the county. Upon i>etition, the Court approre of the ap pointment of Chester Chaffee, as deputy con stable of Rome township. U[>ou petition, the Court approve the ap pointment of Horatio Black, as deputy high constable for the borough of Towanda. The Court order that application for licenses for the sale of vinous, spirituous, malt or brew ed liquors, shall be heard at the present term on Monday of the 2d week of Court, and af ter the present term, on Monday of the first week. The Court further order, that the Clerk of the Commissioners furuish to the Clerk of the court the number of taxables in each of ! boroughs and townships of the County of Brad ! ford. The following apportionment was made by the Court of Quarter Sessions of the aggregate number of hotels, inns or taverns to be licens ed in the County of Bradford, among the se veral townships and boroughs of said county, under the 17th section of the Act entitled an Act to regulate the sale of intoxicating liqnors : TOVrN-nir.s. | SO. TiTBHS. I XO. TAXABLE.-. Athens twp. 2 4oi Athens boro' 2 233 Armenia 1 84 Albany 1 527 Asylum .2 11l Burlington West 1 174 Burlington boro' 2 .49 Burlington twp. 1 257 Canton 3 433 Columbia 1 254...'. 447 Springfield i.~.. 394 South Creek 1 •.„ 167 Standing Stone .2 169 Sylvan ia 1 53 Tusearora 1 175 Towanda borough 3 222 Tswanda township : 1 .107 Towanda North 1 90 Troy township 1 293 T rov borough 2 .. 1 13 Clster 2 214 Wyaox, 1 237 Wval using 2 315 Wells. 1 243 Warrren 2 IVS Windham 1 „ 227 Wilmot 1 161 Total, 63 9Sii Upon petition, the Court appointed S. C. llovey, clerk of Ulster township, until next towuship election to supply present vacancy. Com. rs. J. J. Denmark and Oiirtr Bi'in fkard.—Continued uutil next terra. Com. vs. M. B. Royal. —Continued until next term. Sound Advice. We extract the following from the Pittsburg Gazrlte, and coincide most cordially and fully in the views expressed : It is not our province to interfere m local nominations, ami our remarks must not be un derstood as having any inclination that way ; but we take this occasion to say, in general terms, that the North is a constant loser, as she always has been, by a too frequent change of representatives. Northern constituencies send a man to Congress for two years, expect ing him to cope successfully with men who have been there all their liTes : and jost as he is Ixnrinning to learn the multifarious workings of the Congressional system, they turn him oat and send a new man to go through the same labor of learning and be discarded when he can begin to turn it to account. If thev