ONE 03LLAR PER ANNUM, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE.
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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 25<J
IHjit'll 1 212
Franklin ,1 155
Cranville, 1 ... .209
Herriek 1 216
T-eßoy 1
Lit< hiield 1 237
Monroe twp. 1 191
Monroe boro' 2 59
Orwell 1 283
Overton 1 91
Bike 3 394
Home 1 278
Ridgbery, 3 314
Shesbequin 2 359
Smithfield >4...'. 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