The Bogus Laws of Kansas. ritOroSAL FOR THEIR REPEAL REPORT IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The Committee 011 Territories, to whom was r furred sundry petitions praying Congress to provide some measure of relief for the people of Kansas, submitted the following report : The wrongs of the people of Kansas have been abundantly proven, and at this day are scarcely denied. Toe necessity for some eff*c tiial remedy seems to be generally conceded The only difficulty in the settlement of this vex ed question is to be found in the diverse idea* entertained as to the efficiency of the varum legislative means which have been suggested for removing the evil complained of. The evil consists in the fact that the people of the Territory hare been deprived of their liberty, and reduced to a state of political vas salage by h power foreign to their so l and too powerful for thein alone to resist. At the first and subsequent clectious held in the Territory large bodies of men from an adjoining State without the semblance of citizenship, have en tered the Territory, voted, and then returned immediately to their homes ; conducting their invasions in such manner as clearly as to prove that their only object was to usurp the powers of Government. That object has been accomplished by the election and appointment of the various offi cers of the Territory, aud the enacting of its laws The powers thus usurped were placed in the bauds of a subservient minority of the citizens of the Territory, with ail the political arrangements necessary for the perpetuation of their power in the same hands and the per manent exclusion of the disfranchised majority. This perpetuation of power in the hands of the usurpers seems to have been a part of the ori ginal plan of the invading force ; for it is im possible to believe that an effort so extraordi nary and revolutionary in its character, and at tended with so great expense would have been undertaken for no other purpose than to se cure the control of the Territory for one or even two years, and then that" the usurped power was to be quietly surrendered into the hands of a defrauded people who could wipe off the usurpation and render the original desigu fruitless. Such an inference is impossible, unless we be lieve that men incur the risks and expense of great enterprises with the preconceived inten tion if successful of voluntarily surrendering all their advantages. The acts of the usurpers show that the j*r pctualion of their ill-gotten power was the great idea of the whole scheme. The object of the usurpation being to control the political char acter of the territory so as to make it a Slave State, the usurpers from without and their ac complices within having, in addition to the legislative and judicial power, secured through the complicity or meekness of the President, the Executive power also, applied themselves earnestly to closing every avenue by which the disfranchised and oppressed majority could re-< gain their lost privileges and participate in their own government. Election laws were in geniously framed for the purpose of admitting non-resident voters and excluding, as far us possible, the voters hostile to the usurpers.— The right of suffrage was made to depend up on political opinions. The duties and powers of election officers were so arranged, that in deciding on the right to vote, they could hold one rule for one set of men, and a different rule for another. And in furtherance of this policy, none but those favorable to the continuance of the usurping Government were permitted to act as officers of the election. And, while the polls were thrown open to such Indiaus of the Territory as had couformed to the customs of the white man, it was left to the unlimited dis cretion of these partisan Judges of Election to construe this vague designation of persons, and admit or exclude at their pleasure—thus giv ing another partisan means of control, easy of practice and difficult of detection. The voting places, instead of being permanent and noto rious, were made transitory and changeable,at the pleasure of zealous partisans, 011 whom the usurping Legislature conferred this cxtraordi nary power. With all these cunningly devised provisions to wrest froru the people their rights and to secure political control to a miHority, and with the constant interference of non-resident voters, stimulated and organized by secret societies formed and raamtained for the purpose in an adjoining State, it was almost if uot quite im possible for the people of the Territory to re cover their lost privileges at the ballot box, so long as the usurpers shall insist on their advan tages already secured. To accomplish any po litical result iu any form of government, party organization is accessary. And iu order to prevent that in this case, the usurpers having control of the judiciary declared, through its decision, that any opposition or constructive resistance to this usurped and despotic rule constituted high treason, and would subject the offender to the penalty of death. They accord ingly procured indictments for treason against the active leaders of the majority, under which they cither imprisoned or drove them from the Territory. Raws were passed making it a crime to dis cuss the legitimate questions necessary for or ganized political action. Freedom of speech was denied and printing presses destroyed.— The citizens whose rights had been thus wrest ed from them were carefully excluded from the jury-box, and by test oaths from the pro fession of the law, while all the offices of the Territory were tilled with zealous partisans en listed iu the scheme of subjugation, and the whole administration of justice used as an en gine of this systematic oppression. The securi ty of the inalienable rights of men in the Ter ritory rested upon political opinion alone, while the right of the emigrant seeking a home on its soii to navigate a great highway of a ceigh- Iwiriug State depended entirely upon his politi cal sentiineuts. By all these means of oppres sion and wrong, the majority were bound and paralyzed to an almost impossibility of effort. Having thus briefly noticed this usurpation, and the character of some of its acts, your Committee, iu considering the remedy, deem it unnecessary to refer to other and subsequent acts of violence and outrage. The General Government, which was the proper and rightful protector of these people against such grievous wrongs, instead of re dressiug them and vindicating their rights, lent its power to shield and uphold the usurpation, declaring that as these frauds and outrages had assumed the form of law they must be sus tained and enforced, upon the ground that the President was bound to see all laws faithfully executed. Thus was presented the strange spectacle of the National Executive standing quietly by and permitting the organic law of the Territory p&ued by Congress to be tramp led upon, and ths solemn guaranties of the Constitution of the Republic ruthlessly violat ed by these usurpers iu their infusion", as well as in their subsequent legislation, neglecting wholly auy effort to see the law of Congress faithfully executed uutil the wrong had itself assumed the semblance of Territorial Law, and then insisting that his Constitutional duty re quired that he should guard the acts of the usurpers against the slightest infraction. Thus under pretence of seeing the laws faithfully executed, was the whole power of his office, wielded to maintain and sanctify a gross infrac tion of a law of Congress which bore his own signature. What remedy is there for this helpless and subjugated condition of this deeply wronged and injured people ? No remedy can be effectual which dot>3 not remove the usurpation and annihilate its offi cial power, so as to place all the citizens of the T; r itory upon an equality of rights and op portunities in the formation of an entirely new Government, free from the influence and cou trol of non-resident voters. The systematic, lawless guerilla warfare ' which was rapidly kindling a civil war may cease, the admiuistratiou of justice be purified; armed troops may be called to guard the polls against Violence ; burnt houses and ravaged towns may be rebuilt ; the marauding bauds that commanded the highways and subsisted by murder aud rapine may be expelled ; the great natural avenues which lead to the Terri tory may be stripped of the artillery and arm ed men which blockaded their passage : pres ses may be re-established ; persons confined on political offenses may be discharged ; exiles permitted to return ; freedom of speech may be again exercised without fear of death or the felon's ball and chaiu ; the prohibitions that closed the profession of the luw and the jury box against men on account of their political opinions may be removed. All this and more inav be done, aud yet, while it would be a source of heartfelt congratulation to every lo ver of justice, the great evil and its cause might 1 sti'l remain. All this might be done, and yet ! the government of the usurpers still go on in | its inexorable round of self-perpetuation. A majority would not avail against it—for, i being instituted by outside aid in spite of a : majority, its perpetuation by law is continued ! for a series of years at least in the same way. | Its Judges of Election being accomplices, and ! vested with ample power, force and violence ! would not be necessary to accomplish its pur- I pose. As evidence of this, it is only necessary i to cite the election of March 30, 1855, in the ! Vth, Ylth, Vllth and Xlth Districts, where i over 1,400 illegal votes were polled ; yet no force was used. In order to restore and main tain the liberties of the people, as well as as sert the honor and faith of the Government, it is necessary that the whole usurping Govern ment should be expunged, aud that elections ! should be opened for the citizens presided over by men above suspicion of fraud or of complic ity with the past subjugation. / ** * Republican Meeting. The Republican Club of Springfield, at their February monthly meeting, previous to attend ing to the usual business of such meetings, call ed for the Committee on Resolutions, who came forward and their Chairman, H. Spear, pre , seated the followiug, which were received with much enthusiasm : Resolved, 1. That fleeing from the great demolition of political parties to lay hold on the ijwimitive principles contained in the de claration of rights by which the battles of the Revolution were fought, ami our National Con stitution formed, we are greatly and happily surprised on arriving at the point to find the Abrahams, the Isaacs, the Jacobs of all par ties, together with the hundred and forty-four thousand and the innumerable company not boasting their former political preferences, hut shouting with one accord " E Pluribus Uuum," God restore to us the rights coutained in that declaration. 2. Resolved, That we know no superiors in political rights, acknowledge no leaders, and to call names would do injustice, yet we can not, we will not restrain u burst of applause at the name of any well-tried, yet firm Repub lican, beginning with WILMOT. 3. Resolved, That in the Republican Party and in that party only, do we see conservatism of all the just principles contained in the de ' iaration ot Rights, and all principles of the Constitution of the United States tending to the advancement of individual aud National Freedom, and in the formation said party we recognize no element of discord or disunion. 4. Resolved, That we are not surprised at the great alarm given to " a party who culti vate political availability 011 the hot-beds of Aristocracy " by the promulgation of correct Republican and real Democratic principles, or that they should tremble for the perpetuity of their uourished sectional institution, when the great orb of republican light shines with me ridian splendor through all the Northern States sending its rays more or less suppressed thro' the Southern States, and finally through the civilized world. Oh ! how trembles at its glare the usurper of the rights of others in eve ry state, in every land. 5. llcsolvrd, That life, liberty and the pur suit of happiness, arc rights bestowed upon every one by nature, and, as all the elements of nature are elements of order and kept pure by action, the Republican Club of Springfield inform the party in the County, State and Un ion that they are well orgauized—minute men —fully prepared to every good work. 6. Resolved, That the foregoing be signed by the officers of the Springfield Club, and published iu the Republican papers of Brad ford county, which was unanimously adopted. A G. BROWN, Chairman. O. A. V INCEST, Sec. BURNING OF A NEGRO IN ALABAMA. —We find the following account of the burning of a ne gro named Mose, at Abbeville, Ala., in the Eufaula Native. It will be recollected that the crime for which Mose was burned was the murder of his master : " A large concourse of people was assembled at Abbeville, numbering from four to five thou sand. The negro was taken from the jail by the guard ; no op|*>sition was offered by the sheriff. The place was arranged before the negro arrived. A green pine stake was set in the ground firmly, and around that a pile of fat pine was arranged, in diameter about six feet, and about four feet high. He was bound head and feet to the pole, aud before fire was placed to the pile, the wretch made the con fession ' that he had murdered his master, but would not have done it had it not been for a white man.' He made some other confessions, implicating a whkp man aud auother negro in the affair. " Our informant says that when he left the fire had already consumed his hand, legs and feet, and that they were piling on more wood tosses siou of Greytown, and have thus cut him off from all communication with the Atlautie States. FROM TIIF. LEGISLATURE, we have nothing of importance. In the House, Mr. Eyster's Anti- Slavery resolutions had been discussed, Mr. WILLISTON, of Tioga, making an elaborate speech upon them. Mr. W AGENBKLLER had read a speech in vin dication of his vote for Gen. CAMERON, and re flecting severely upon FORNEY and Mr. BUCH ANAN'S interference in the Senatorial election. In another column will be found Mr. GRoy's report accompanying a bill for repeal ing the bogus laws of Kansas. It is to be hoped that the proposition will be accepted in order that the people of that Territory may be relieved from the operation of the present iui quitous and bloody code. PRESTON S. BROOKS, Representative in Congress from South Carolina, who had been ill with a cold for some days, died suddenly, on Tuesday evening, at Brown's Hotel in Wash ington, from an attack of croup. Posterity will remember him ouly for the deed which made him infamous, viz : his cowardly aud brutal assault upon Senator Sumner. ACCTDEXT. —A man named Clark Bimey, of Wiimot township, was fouud in the street in this place on Monday evening last, with his leg broken in two places. The limb was set by Dr.LiDn, andjthc sufferer is doing well, lie is ignorant of the manner in which the acci dent was caused. It if supposed that he was knocked down and run over by a sleigh. Republican Co. Convention. Pursuant to a call of the Republican Coun ty Committee, delegates from the different election districts of Bradford County met at the Court House, in this borough, on Monday evening, February 2d, and organized by elect ing JOHN F. LONG, President, E. O. GOOD RICH and S. 1). JIARKNESS Secretaries. The list of electiou districts being called, the following delegates appeared and presented their credentials : Albany—S Chapman, Myron Kellogg ; Armenia—A lSurnluim, A Ripley; Asylum —John K Dodge, George S Gamble ; Athens Boro'- -L \V Burehard, A H Spalding ; Burlington township—Justin Morley, Uosweli I.uther ; Burlington borough—John V Long, Mat how lktts ; Burlington west—Jeliial M'Ke&n, Jesse M'Kean; Columbia—Moses S Ay res, Sylvester Blood ; Canton —J Vandyke jr.. K W Colwell; Purell—B Lanorte, S M'K Laporto ; Franklin—J ft Spalding, Charles Stevens ; Granville—Sylvester Taylor, C L Ross, W Bunyan ; Herrii k—A (1 Camp, J S Angle : Litchfield—Samuel Davidson, Henry McKinney ; Leroy—C (1 Lamb, B R Palmer ; Monroe township—H B Myer, Samuel Cole ; Orwell —J W Payson. A W Alger; Pike—David S Codding, Edward ('raudal ; Rome—P Forbes, John Passmore ; Ridgbory—Hector Owens, Jesse Hammond ; Sheshequitt—M F Kinney, Jaliez Tompkins; Spr ngtield—O P llarknes.s, S D Harkness ; Smitlilield—Vlvin Seward, John Geror.ld ; Standing Stone— H \V Tracy. HIV Nobles ; Sylvan ia Boro'—R V Goctchius, Ileman Barrett ; Towanda boro'—K O Goodrich. Henry Ilassett ; " twp—H I. Scott, G H Watkina ; " North—Horace Granger, W J Mauger ; Troy boro'—E li Parsons, Nelson Adams ; " twp—H F Long, R Stiles'; Ulster—A B Smith. G W Nichols ; Wells—Charles Smith, J L Calkins ; Wiliuot—Jonathan Buttles, Mciv in Corson ; Wyalusing- Andrew Fee, Justus la;wis ; Wysox—W B Eddy, I F Spalding ; Ou motion, the following named persons were elected delegates to the Republican State Convention :—• T. Humphrey, of Orwell. John Passmore, of Rome. Edward Crandall, of Pike. E. B. Parsons, of Troy borough. Allen M'Kean, of Towandu. Bummer Lilley, of Columbia. On motion, the delegates elected were cm powered to substitute in case of inability to at tend. H. W. TRACY offered the following resolu tion, which was adopted unanimously : Resolved, That the delegates from this Coun ty be iustructed to vote only for the nomina tion of well-known and tried Republicans, and to oppose all attempts to form coalitions with parties or men who have no principles in com mon with us. On motion, the Convention adjourned. TRIAL AMI ACQUITTAL OK IKAAC SHURLOCK KOR THE MURDER OK PHILIP J. CLAWGKS.—Con siderable excitement was created in the city of Philadelphia last week, growing out of the tri al of Mr. Isaac Shurlock for the murder of Philip J. Clawges. The affair occurred on the evening of the sth of last November. Shur lock shot Clawges at the corner of Seventh and Chestnut streets, and when arrested, al leged that Clawges had seduced his wife, and ruined his happiness. Mrs. S. is represented as being a very handsome woman, and had been married about four years. Her husband was employed in the store of Clawges, and in this way became acquainted with her and was in the habit of paying frequent friendly visits to the house. It appears that upon one of these occasions, in the absence of her husband, he succeeded in administering to her an opi ate, and thereby accomplished his purpose.— Some three weeks after the affair occurred, Mrs. S. informed her husband and mother of what had happened. From the testimony, it appeared that from that time up to the time he committed the murder, Shurlock had not slept or taken any refreshment, except a glass of liquor. A pica of insanity was set up by his counsel, and it was shown that it had ex isted in the family for years. The ease occu pied the attention of the court for some four days, and resulted, on Saturday last, in a ver dict of " not guilty " The announcement of the verdict was received with tumultuous shouts and applause by those in attendance, and the most intense excitement prevailed botli in and outside of the court-room. A FUGITIVE SLAVE CASE. —A colored man named MICHAEL GROWN, was arrested in Phil adelphia last week, by JAMES CROSSIN and JOHN JENKINS, Deputy United States Mar shals, charged with being a fugitive slave be longing to WM 11. GATCHELL, of Baltimore. A hearing was had before DAVID PAUI. BROWN, jr., Slave Commissioner for the Eastern Dis trict of Pennsylvania. The son of GATCHELL swore positively to the identity of the colored man, who, it seems, ran away from his reputed owner some five years since. After the exam ination of several witnesses, Mr. Slave Com missioner BROWN delivered over the fugitive to the tender mercies of GATCHELL ; and on being heavily manacled he was taken by a posse of officers to the Prime street depot, and from thence to Baltimore. ARREST or MK. SIMONTON.—A Mr. Simou ton, Washington reporter of the New York Times, charged corrupt combination among members of Congress to carry land bills through the House. A Committee of investigation was appoint ed. Mr. Simonton was brought before the Committee but refnsed to answer. He is un der arrest, aud a law has been reported and passed for coercing witnesses to give testimony. It limits punishment for contempt in not au swering, to one month aud one year, aud a tiue of one dollar or one thousand dollars. Mr. Simonton refused positively to disclose whut he knew of bribery and corruption, says it would be a breach of confidence, and says he would suffer any peualty rather than do it. REJOICING. —The friends of Geueral CAME RON, in Suubury, Pa., celebrated his election to the V. S. Senate by an illumination and firing of caution on Saturday night, 17th inst. BRADFORD COUNTY MUSICAL ASSOCIATION.— | The Annual Meeting of the Association was ' held at the Court House, in the borough of; Towaoda, on Tuesday evening, Jan. 27, 1857. i The following persons were elected officers for the ensuing year : CHAS. R. COBURN, Presi- J dent ; O. F. Young, W. T. Davis, Vice Presi- j dents ; W. C. Bogurt, Secretary ; E T Fox, Treasurer ; J. G. Towner, C. E. Gladding, L. W. Camp, Committee of M imagers. On motion, it "Was Resolved, That the next Convention be held j at Rome village, to commence on Tuesday of ; the third week of January. 1858. On motion, W. C. Bogart, L. W. Camp and Mr. Martin were appointed a Committee on Resolutions, to report at the next meeting of the Association. Adjourned to Thursday even ing. Thursday evening, Jan. 2G, 1857, Associa tion met pursuant to adjournment. Tiie Com mittee on Resolutions reported the following, which were adopted unanimously : Resetted, That the holding of a Musical Convention in the County of Bradford can no longer be regarded as an experiment ; that the eminent success which has hitherto attend ed these annual gatherings of the friends of Musical Science in this county, should at once disjiel all doubt as to their practical benefit and utility ; that in a most eminent degree they supply the deficiency, long felt, in the dis semination of a correct knowledge of vocal mu sic among our people ; that it is most clearly the duty of the church, if it would seek to in spire and promote an acceptable and intelli gent rendering of the praises of God in the ' sanctuary, to give to this enterprise its encou ragement and fostering care. Reserved, That we most sincerely regret the 1 ill health which has prevented Professor ROOT ! from meeting with this Convention. Resolved , That we recognize in Mr. GEO. i B. Looms, a gentleman of high attainments | as a Musician and Teacher ; that his gentle manly and urbane deportment, his skill in con ducting the exercises of this Convention, labor ing as he has under circumstances of no little embarrassment, have won our highest regard and esteem, aud that in having us he has our best and warmest wishes for his future success and prosperity. Resolved, That the thanks of this Associa ! tion be tendered to Miss SARAH COBUKN, for her kindness in offering her Piano for the use of this Couveution. Resolved, That the proceedings be published iu the papers of this county. [From the Washington Union.] An Afflictive Dispensation. Among the most painful privations and dis appointments which we have known, resulting from the late terrible storm, is the ease of our friend, C. L. WARD, Esq., of Towauila, Penn sylvania. On Saturday, the 16th inst., lie received a despatch by telegraph announcing the arrival of his family at Charleston, from Havana, whither they had gone some months since, to try the effect of a change of climate in behalf of daughter, who had latterly evinced symp toms of a decline The tone of the despatch was such as to create anxiety, and he started instantly for New-York, in hopes to reach tin- Saturday's steamer for Charleston. Arriving too late, he immediately turned his course southward in the rail-ears. In consequence of the storm, he was two nights and two days be tween New-York and Philadelphia, and the same length of time between the latter city and Washington—reaching here only to find his further progress at an end for some time longer. The bay route by Norfolk to Weldon has been close for several days in consequci of the ice : and the road to llielinioiid still n mains impassable To complete his embarrass inent, the line of telegraph was out of order until yesterday, when the first intelligence he received was the afflictive announcement that his daughter died at Charleston 011 the 23d in stant. .Miss MARY \\ ARD, the deceased, was about twenty years of age, and a young lady of great beauty and accomplishments. She will be deeply mourned in her extended circle of acquaintances. [From the Owego Times.] Pr. GI.EASON*. — In last week's Times we copied an extract from the Bradford (I'a.) Reporter, stating that I>r. GI.EASON* had been shot, etc. We are happy to learn that such has not been the ease. The Doctor, it appears from onr correspondent, Dr. CHCRCHIM,, does not stand in fear of matrimonial bullets. We do not know how how such a story could be got up, and are sorry that we have given cir culatiou to it, though we did give our authori ty. OWEGO, January 23, 1837. Mr. SMVTH, Kn. TIMES : lkur Sir : I see by the Times of yesterday, an articls copied from the " Bradford Repor ter,'' stating that I)r. GI.F.ASON*, who Lectured at Towanda, and also at this place, was shot by his wife some four months since in Tennes see. For Dr. GI.KASON'S benefit I wish to say, in the first place, Dr. C. W. GLEASON, the lec turer, who lectured in this place, and after wards at Towanda and Elmira—has 110 wife, nor never had any to shoot him. Neither has the Doctor been in Tennessee during the last five years ; but he has been in Owego within the last two weeks and staid two days *>t the Ah-wa-ga House, and if it should finally so turn out that he has a wife, and that she wish es to shoot him, he can be found anv evening of this week at Moravia, Cayuga Co., N. Y. S. CHURCHILL. —The article to which Dr. CHURCHILL al ludes, was published on the authority of a statement in the Elmira Daily Gazette, which spoke positively as to the truth of the occur rence and the identity of the Dr. GI.EASON* known iu this section.—En. REPORTER. CARD. —The undersigned, I'astor of the M. PI Church, Towanda, acknowledges his obliga tions to his friends for their social aud gener ous Donation visit of the 23d ultimo. It is accepted as a token of personal regard and christian liberality. lie would assure them that he kindly feelings which prompted it, are reciprocated by himself aud family. ANDREW SUTHERLAND. *ar Mr. G iDDiNos, by the advice of his physician, has left Washington aud gone home. He requires rest and jcrfect exemption from excitement. THE DEATH OF MR. BROOKS Woshivgi uV Jan. 29.— An immense assemblage gathered this morning in Loth Houses. In the SENATE the death of Mr. Brooks was announced LY Mr. Evans, who was followed by Messrs Hun ter and Toonihs iu paying tributes to his MEM ory. In the House, the announcement was made by Mr. Keitt, of South Carolina, and ken the barque Essex, from Boston, for RH> which had taken two seamen from the raft be longing to the lost steamer Lyoimais. THE I seamen report sixty as having been drowned and that the remainder took to the boats AMI' they supposed, had been saved by PASSING ves- I sels. : 'U LIS 3151831 D J ;In Franklin, on the 12th ult., l>v Burr Rid"wav V. i i w !!r u /l M V RENn. The subject of Teacher's Institute/ aud other matters connected with the subject of education will be taken up and considered. J AS. MctVILLIAM January 23. 1857. Secretary NOB "Advertisements. ~V~OTICE.—The Commissioners of Bradford .I.* County have fixed tip.,n the following ibva a-;d dates respectively for holding appeals, viz : Ulster, Athens U.ra', Athea- twp.. South Creek, Uidc bery and Wells, upon Monday February 23d. Springfield, Smithfieid, North T .wauda, 1 t.hmil.ir. Svl vania bor'. and Towanda buro'. upon Tuc-dav Feb.'.'rili. Armenia, Troy twp., Troy ix.ro". R .rliugt inbom'. Bur lington twp., Burlington West .ad Grauviiie UJM.U Wed nesday February 2.".th. Canton, I a-Roy, Franklin, Monroe bom", M-uir* tier., Overton, Albany and Towanda twp. upon Tiiur-J... Iteb ruarv 2 >t.i. Wilinot, A svl in. Purell, Tiiscamra, Wvilu-ing. l.it.li fie.d, Warren and Windham upon Friday Februa v 27th. Stand ,:g Stone. Herri :k, Orwell, Pike. Shi-lwipiinand Wysox upon Saturday February 2-th. ai" I i.e A s-esser- will be pun.t i.d in delivering the X ti.es t•• the taxable- mid in in .king their returns in per ..n on tne day designated in their Warrants, at which tim and place the It .aril of Revision will attendaad hear all sac i a-think themselves aggrieved by said ASSESS inent. .U 1 111 ke sacil alterations and deduction.- as shall t. .ii in seem j : t. By order of the C nnmissj intrs. Feb. 2, 1V.7. ' E. B. UOOLBAIT.H, Clerk. REL'EI ITS A N H EX BEX DITCHES OF I TOWAXDA BOROUGH FOR 1V,6. I'aid for work on streets and plauk walks, f222 is Election board ex pen-e-. 7 7,0 High constable distributing election notices, Ac,, ti 1 j Secretary and treasurer's .-.alary, Is ,5. 4" e-k and table for council office, )• On [ L >-t Crow-bar, 1 o. I'M!'. KX'OS. PEE IT. THX ; Wrn. U. Uogart 1850. s7l 44 ft'l 37 $ !•! 1.7 ! Win. Burton, ls.il. 2s S2 ... . ft; 00 *i 22 2 ' IU. U. Smith, 1852. Its 14 70 00 20 3s •'.<(*'. O. H.Eaton,lt>s4-5-0 1992 03 402 77 1529 2s $2242,73 $7.73,14 $0 (Hls22 "•<) $1641.01 Dr. A. T). MONTANYE, THEAS. TOVVAM.V HOKOI UH CK. Balance in treasury j'.{'..rough Order- re dan. 1, I,S3ii, " sl4 32; deemed 1V.6, $366 51 Rec'd. from M' Alpine, j Balance in treasury. 12 late treasurer, 1 00; _ _ i Rec'd front shows, 37 00 1 ?62j 66 ! " from collectors, 573 It s•>2s 00; 'Settled by judgment for the amount. TOWANDA BOSOM II ORDER ARCORST. ! Amount of orders is- | Borough orders can ! sued ill 1*56, $651 03 ceiled I*so, 56'J 54 i Outstanding orders, | Outstanding orders ! January 1,1856, 448 90 Jan. 1. 1837, 3J $1099 93f HO.'-' 93 INDEBTEDNESS or TOWANI.\ BOKO' JAM UTV IST. KV• Amount outstanding ls.ro' orders Jan. 1. 1*57. O. D. Bartlctt judgment 20th Feb., isj'2. intcrc-t __ and rost, '' John Devine assigned to C. L. Ward debt. interest and cost . . 4UI Borough scrip issued April 6. 1554. payable in 3. 4 and 5 years on interest, $2030 31 There has been collected on special borough and paid out on account of new engine house. TIN- > ' ing being iu an unfinished state, the cost ot the same, not Ie reported. .... „ „„ ULYSSES MERt't U. K.irge. JAMES MAf KIN'SON, M. C. MERUL'R. JOHN" F MEANS. ISAAC SM ALLEY. January 24. 1857. Town Council. Attest—A. D. MONTANVE. Secretary. We the undersigned Auditors of the Ix'rough da, do certify that we have examined the aeeoun *' , Town Council and Treasurer for the year 1*56. an them correct. JOfcX X. J. KEELFCR. Towanda, Jan. 27. 1857. Auditors. RECEIPTS AND EX PEN PITCHES OK POOH BINDS, H'B L> • I'aid to remove Irish family to native residence. ■ 3 J. B. Irvine, services Poor Master. 185a 1 -- V 9" C. K.Ladd services poor master and physician, j*;'-' - ()l| W. Bmwnson for cash advanced to Sally Han, I* l , Wood for temporary relief per Mix, poor master, j Digging grave for Green, - < Two coffins for paupers. no Temporary relief per Mix, poor ma-ter, $62 60 ACCOUNT WITH COM.ECTORS OK V'" >R ~L V I" • I COLLECTORS. DATE. CH'ED. PAID. EX ON. I K ' ! D. Vandercook 1849 $2360 $ 02 $lO 10 *-• IC. T. Smith, 1852 3s 83 la * . ys jG. H. Eaton, 1855 167 55 98 0O ;J $129 98 $9.8 02 $lO 40 s2*'3 f'. D*. A. D. MONTANVE TKEAS. POOS FI NDS T o *^' o * | Balance in Treasury, ll'aid lor orders. • ! Jan. 1,1856, 49 40 Balance in TreasuO. , T ! Rec'd.from M'Alpinc, j January l, IN". _— | late treasurer, 3 50j 150 t'2 1 From collectors, 98 02 j 150 92! CHARLES K. LADD > Ovenloe p ■ vcir I the Poor and Treasurer of the said hon'ugn TKi ' 1 1856, aud find them correct. y T K |TLK!I. i Towanda. January 27,1* >7.