The Burdell Murder.
The New of Monday, says the
proceedings of the Grand Jury in the Burdell
murder case, are, of course, kept a profound
secret ; but still enough has leaked out to show
that the testimony adduced on Wednesday was
unusually interesting, and developed several new
facts from witnesses who feared to appear be
fore the Coroner, as they apprehended an im
prisonment if they volunteered their evidence.
Two of the I est trained policemen at the Chiefs
office have been deputized to hunt up facts that
have a bearing on this mysterious case, and
they have been enabled to fnrn.sh several im
portant witnesses to the (Jrand -fury, and, be
sides have discovered a number of circumstan
ces that develope an entirely new and startling
theory of the murder, and put a different phase
on the whole matter.
Dr. John W. Francis was examined before
the Grand Jury on Wednesday, and his testi
mony went to show that the first stabs inflicted
on the body of Doctor Burdell must have been
given by a person thoroughly conversant with
the anatomy of the human frame, and. who
knew where to strike to inflict the most injury.
He thought it must have been the work of a
man educated as a physician, or at least of
one whose knowledge <>f the vital parts was
quite as accurate. This is somewhat in conflict
with the generally-received impression that the
murder was committed by a leinale.
Among the witnesses before the jury was a
private watchman, who testified that he shook
hands with Dr. B. at 10 1-2 o'clock on the
night of the nmrder, at the corner of Broad
way and Bond streets. His testimony, all of
which we cannot publish, will have a most im
portant bearing on the case Another witness
living at No. 30 Bond street, immediately op
posite the scene of the tragedy, testified that he
saw a strong light in the opposite window at
n quarter to 1 1 o'clock, and also smelt the odor
ot burning clothes about midnight. Ihe evi
dence of this witness would go to show that
the murderer must have been concealed in
the front room, an hypothesis confirmed bv the
situation of the body when Snodgrass opened
the door the morning after the murder.
The Grand Jury continued to work indus
triously yesterday in investigating the Burdell
murder, and although few witnesses were ex
amined, still their attention was occupied with
the case during the entire day and afternoon.
Onlv two witnesses were examined, and those
we understand were not very important cases.
—Thev were persons procured through the
aid of the authorities outside of the Coroner's
office, and were expected to give such evidence
us would lead to the clearing up of the myste
rv which surrounds the case. But the Grand
Jury were very much disappointed at the re
sult of their examination, as it did not reveal
one half of what was expected.
The Grand Jury then proceeded to weigh
the evidence taken before them, and spent the
entire afternoon and the greater part of last
evening in examining the evidence and discuss
ing the merits of the case. There seemed to
be a general disposition on the part of mem
bers present to conclude the investigation last
evening, so as to be able to report this morn
ing, when the Recorder opens the Court of
General Sessions.
Some strange revelations may he expected
when the Grand Jury have concluded their la
bors in the Bond street ease.
The police are on the track of another par
ty who is suspected of being the perpetrator
of the deed ; but as it might defeat the ends
of justice we refrain from publishing the facts
until the evidence is sufficiently strong to arrest
the suspected person.
IRISH Utor IN HUDSON CITY —A terrible
riot occurred among the Irish employed on the
Bergen tunnel in the city ol lluds< n, on tf.it
nrday lust. There are about 1200 men em
ployed on this work, and Saturday being pay
day, a large mass of these laborers, took the
opportunity to indulge in a ' free fight,' and ac
cording to the accounts received in the daily
papers, considerable blood was shed. Incited
and frenzied by the large quantity of liquor
drank, they could not let the opportunity pass,
it seems, without tickling their old feudish pro
pensities, and the Corkouiaus and Far-Downers
pitched into each other with all the fierceness
which is supposed to characterize their rows on
the bogs of their own country. One child
was killed, several men fatally wounded, great
many heads broken, and several shanties burn
ed. The riot lasted from Saturday afternoon
until late on Sunday morning, when it was stop
ped by the Militia, who captured forty or fifty
of the rioters and marched them oil' to the
county jail.
THE INAUGURATION BALL. —Wc learn from
the Xoti< nol Intelligencer, that the building
which has been erected on Judiciary Square
for this grandest of all similar fetes will re
quire but little time to put into complete prep
oration. It occupies a breadth of seventy feet,
extending from the sidewalk, on Fifth street,
quite up to the City Hall. This gives a length
<>f two hundred and thirty-live feet, and covers
an area of more than eighteen thousand square
feet. But this includes two rooms, the larger
of fifty-six feet wide for dancing alone, and
the other of twenty-one feet wide for the pur
poses of a supper-room. It is calculated that
from four to six thousand persons can be ac
comodated, and that witffout discomfort. The
band of music w ill consist of not less than six
ty performers, so that every branch of the
preparations is on the largest scale. The eye
no less than the ear, will be gratified, for as
many as six hundred gas-burners will pour forth
their united light upon the glittering scene. —
We understand that the cost of of the whole
will be $15,000 ; but there is no doubt that
this sum will be easily secured, such is the gen
eral desire to participate in this great quadri
cnnial festivity.
DR. RANK.— The Philadelphia Isrfger states
that the family of Dr. Kane, who is now in
Havana, received a dispatch on Monday, stat
ing that he was in a dying condition, and could
not long survive. A letter from Havana, da
ted February 12, and which has been tele
graphed t< Philadelphia from Mobile, says:
Dr. K aue is still alive ; but cannot lust thro'
the day. His mind keeps right. He has just
bill his friends and countrymen farewell."—
This letter is from William Morton, who has
been Dr. Kane's faithful servant and steward
for tiie last seven years, and who accompanied
him in both his Arctic expeditions. Dr. Kane's
disease is of a scrofulous nature, arising from
scurvy, the result of excessive exposure during
his explorations.
&ir Mr. I>. U. Rachman, latc^President of
the Lancaster Bank, has been bound over in
twelve thousand dollars, to answer the charge
of cmhcz/.l incut
Kansas to be a Slave State
We might til! columns with interesting de
tails relating to the affairs of Kansas, but it
is sufficient for the present, to put on record
this pregnant paragraph from the Washington
correspondence of The Tribune :
" The opinion is very generally entertained
here that the late proceedings of the Kansas
Bogus Legislature will accomplish the purpo
ses ot the invaders and conquerors of that Ter
ritory, so far as to create a Constitution estab
lishing slavery. The acts of the Legislature
seem to demonstrate that in the Convention to
lie held under its direction such a Constitution
will be adopted. That Constitution will be
framed next September, and presented to Con
gress for ratification, and for the admission of
Kansas as a slave State. Minnesota, which is
now ready, and whose admission the House
has already voted for, will be kept back by
the Senate until that time, when the plan will
be to admit them both together. This is the
next humiliation to which the free States are
doomed by the Oligarchs Hopes are enter
tained that the scheme may be in some way
frustrated by the terror of the Northern
doughfaces, fcarinfjteo eonsuuiate the original
conspiracy against Kansas, but we have every
reason to believe from experience that those
hopes will prove to be unfounded. The slave
holders rule this Republic with an iron hand,
and the Northern Democrats in Congress, now
reduced in numbers, are more than ever sub
missive to their inexorable demands. The only
qncston has been whether the Southern men
would not think it the safest policy to permit
Kansas to be a Free State, and act according
ly ; but this idea appears to be fading out.—
They seem to have determined that it is best
to bring the nose of the North to the grind
stone at once. As to what Northern Demo
cratic members of Congress, or Northern Dem
ocratic newspapers may say on this subject, it
is not of the least consequence. In the first
place they don't know what the Southern lea
ders have determined upon, and without this
knowledge their statements are valueless—
they have no functions in the matter except to
carry out and defend the policy that is dicta
ted to them by those leaders. This they will
do as they have done hitherto."
X. Y. &■ EIUE RAILROAD. —So energetically
had the repairs 011 the Deleware Division been
prosecuted since the freshet, that but for a
second misfortune the trains would have com
menced making their regular trips over the en
tire length of the road, this morning, But,
yesterday, the lliver again suddenly rose, and,
after the Mail train from New York had cros
sed the Delaware at Narrowsburgh, the trestle
work created as a temporary crossing until the
Bridge could be replaced by a substantial
structure, was carried away ! Well, we are
sorry ; but inasmuch as neither Superinten
dents nor Directors can control the storm and
tlood, we must wait patiently again until this
second misfortune shall be repaired, as we
have no doubt it speedily will be. Meantime,
the trains of the Erie Road, as heretofore
since the damage bv the freshet, will continue
to connect with the trains 011 the De'a vare,
Lackawana & Western Road, a route which
has been found a safe, pleasant and expedi
tious one by very many of our citizens during
the last week or two, who have had occasion to
visit New York and Philadelphia.— Oirrgo
(jazelte.
SEVEN CAR-LOADS OF HORSES AND THREE
PERSONS DROWNED. —During tlie late flood at
the Rock Island railroad bridge over the Du
Page river, at Joliet, Illinois, on Saturday,
Feb. 7th, a freight train, consisting of locomo
tive tender and seven cars loaded with horses,
approached the river. The engineer, ignorant
of any obstruction, and confident in the firm
ness and safety of the road, though covered
with water, held on his way, ploughing thro' a
stream two feet deep, guided by the iron
track until he reached the bridge, when the
appalling fact was revealed—but too late—the
swollen river had not only submerged the
bridge, but swept it away. Locomotive, ten
der, seven cars with their freight of horses,
one after another disappeared beneath the sur
face of the stream, deep enough by reason of
the freshet, to hide from view every vestige of
the train. Besides the noble freight of hor
ses, three men were drowned.
DFATII OF A lit MAN LIMB. — At Saratoga,
New York, last Doctors Freeman and
Penny amputated the leg of a Mr. Smith, the
cause of which was the actual death of the
limb. Some six weeks previously, Mr. Smith,
who is a healthy man, was seized, while walk
ing with a sudden pain in the leg, about half
way from the knee to the ankle, and immedi
ately all sensation of feeling below the region
of the pain ceased. The look and color of the
skin, and to the touch, was that of a dead
body, and all life or animation below, midway
from the knee to the ankle, was entirely era
dicated. It finally became so offensive that it
was found necessary to cut off the limb to pre
vent mortification.
FURNITURE DESTROYED BY RATS. —The Wash
ington correspondent of the St. Louis Leader
says that recently Col. Forney sent orders to
Washington to have his house aired, cleaned,
and put in order. It had been closed since
last fall. On opening the house, every part of
the furniture, from cellar to garret, was found
to have been gnawed to pieces by rats, and
the beds were torn all to pieces and their con
tents strewn about. The loss is estimated at
ouc thousand dollars.
Si&r An admonition against hasty funerals
occurred last week at Fremont, Ohio. Daniel
Stearns, who had been sick with the fever, ap
parently died. All arrangements were made
and the friends and clergyman were assembled
to pay the last tribute of respect to the sup
posed deceased, when the body felt warm to
the touch. Restoratives were administered,
and in a few minntes the man who came so
near being buried alive, was sitting np. He
is now in a fair way of recovery.
Jtegr Mr. McKay, son of the District At
torney of Wyoming, X V., is in jail at Buffalo,
for making and issuing counterfeit coin.—
The dies used by him come into his father's
possession as a prosecuting officer, on the trial
of a man sometime before for the same offence.
His son found them and used them, lie was
twenty two years of age.
THE SWEET EXPEDITION. —The sugar-cane
expedition has been heard from at Deinarara,
Sooth America, Dec. 20. At that date they
had collected 402 cases of choice sugar-cane
cuttings, and were about proceeding to Laguyra
• T t'arae "us for more.
sratfori) ileportrr.
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JSM, REPUBLICAN STATE
CON V KNTION.—The Re
punnet state Convention, for tlie
nomination of Candidates iVr Governor and other State
officers, will be held at Harrishurg on Wednesday, the
2">th of March, 15",7. Karh District will elect Delegates
in the usual tnauner. e'|iial in number to its representation
in the two houses ot the State Legislature ; and 110 persou
will tie entitled, by substitution, to represent a district in
which he does not re.-ide. CHARLES GIBBONS,
Chairman of State Executive Committee.
CONGRESS. —In the Senate, Thursday, the
bill from the House for the relief of the peo
ple of Kansas, repealing the existing statutes
and providing for a new election was received,
and a motion to lay on the table was rejected.
Subsequently the motion to lay on the table
was again made and carried. The debate on
the House amendments to the Submarine Tele
graph bill was resumed and concluded.
In the House, a bill was reported from the
Committee on Ways and Means, to extend the
time for the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad
to pay the duties on the iron imported for that
road. It was laid on the table by four ma
jority. Mr. Davis, of Maryland, by direction
of the Corruption Investigating Committee, of
fered to make a special report in the case of
William A. Gilbert, of New-York, and moved
that the report be printed. Mr. Grow denied
the right of the committee to make a report
without permission. An exciting scene en
sued, whereupon the Speaker said that Mr.
Davis must state the character of the report.
After much further uproar, Mr. Davis did read
the portion of the report referring to Mr. Gil
bert, concluding with a resolution that he be
expelled. The charge against Mr. G. is that
he voted for the lowa land bill for a corrupt
consideration ; aud that, for a certain sum of
money, lie helped to procure the passage of a
resolution or bill authorizing the purchase of
certain copies of a book by F. F. C. Triplett.
on the Pension and Bounty Land Law. A
long debate ensued, after which the special re
port was ordered to be printed, and the con
sideration of the resolutions postponed until
Wednesday next. Mr. Davis said that the
committee had three other special reports to
make concerning members. One charges W.
W. Welsh, of Connecticut, with participating
in the Triplett book speculation, and also with
attempting to procure money from James K.
Sweeney for reporting favorably on a claim
from the Committee on Invalid I'ensious.—
Francis S. Edwards, a member from N. York,
is charged with attempting to induce K. T.
Paine, of North Carolina, to vote corruptly
for a bill to .which he was opposed. O. B.
Matteson is charged with attempting to pro
cure a bribe from Des Moines'Navigation Com
pany, to aid in the passage of a law in which
that corporation was interested. Resolutions
are attached providing for the expulsion of
each of these members. The committee say
that the allegation that a number of members
had banded themselves together for corrupt
purposes is false, and was only used by these
few corrupt persons. James W. Simonton
reporter of the N. Y. Times charged with be
ing paid to use his influence for the passage
of the Wisconsin Laud Bill, and also in other
measures. The resolutions provide for his ex
pulsion from the floor of the House as a repor
ter. The committee report a bill to punish
members for corruption.
MR. BUCHANAN'S CABINET. —The Washing
ton Daily Globe says : It is reported, and be
lieved by many, that Mr. Buchanan's Cabinet
will be composed of Mr Cass as Secretary of
State ; Mr. Cobb, of Georgia, Secretary of
the Treasury ; ex-Gov. Floyd, of Virginia, Sec
retary of War ; ex Gov. Brown, of Tennessee
Secretary of the Navy ; Mr. Toucey, Attor
ney General ; Mr. Jones, of Pennsylvania,
Postmaster General ; and Jacob Thompson,
of Mississippi, Secretary of the Interior.
ftaj- Tlio Kansas correspondent of the St.
Louis Republican states that the bill "to au
thorize courts and judges to bail in certain ca
ses," which was lately passed by the Kansas
House, and afterwards vetoed by Governor
Geary, has again been passed by the House,
without a dissenting voice.
The remains of the late Hon. Prestou
S. lirooks were committed to the earth in the
Episcopal burying-grouud at Edgefield, South
Carolina, on Friday last. A vast concourse,
composed of military, citizens, and committees
from South Carolina and other States, were
present. The service was read by Ilcv. Mr.
Reid, of the Episcopal church.
The Ehu.ra Gazelle publishes an ac
count of the drowning of Kennedy, noticed by
us last week, which is full of falsehood and ex
aggeration. There is no truth whatever in
the Gazette's story, as the occurrence took place
very early in the morning, and was witnessed
by but two or three persons.
BRADFORD COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The annual meeting of this Society was held
at the Court House, in this Bofongh, on Wed
nesday croning, February 4th, 1851, M. 11.
LANING, Esq., in the chair.
On motion, a committee consisting of Messrs.
M C. Mercur, Justus Lewis, J. I>. McKean,
11. L. Scott and John F. Means, was appoint
ed to nominate and report at the next meeting
a list of officers for the ensuing year.
On motion adjourned to meet again on Mon
day evening. February 9, 1857.
Monday evening, February 9, Society met
pursuant to adjournment, STEPHEN" FUWKI.I. in
the chair. M. C. Mercur, chairman of the
committee on nominations, reported the follow
ing list of officers for the ensuing year :
Far President —M. 11. LINING.
Vice Presidents —Hon. HARRY A CKI.F.Y, Ho
RACE POUEROY, J. T. I>. MYER, ZEBII.ON FKIS
BIE, SIMEON DECKER.
Corresponding Secretory —W. C. BOGART.
Recording Secretary- —O. D. BARTLETT.
Managers — E. W. IIAI.E, Towauda tp. ; J.
C. KIDGWAY, Franklin ; M.S WARNER, Lister;
G. F. REUINGTON, Troy ; (i. C. Hit.i., Burling
ton ; PAIL S. FIRMAN, Springfield ; ALLEN
IIAI.E, Smith field ; JOHN F. CANHERI.AIN,Wy
a!using ; RICHARD ASHTON, Pike.
On motion, the report of the committee was
unanimously adopted.
The report of the Treasurer, wlricrli shows n
very flattering condition of the finances, will be
published next week.
IMPORTANT ARREST. —About the 21st of Jan
uary, says the Lycoming (Sazette, Justice I*l
- issued a warrant, on the complaint of G.
S. Post, one of the conductors on the William
sport A Elmira railroad, for the arrest of Geo.
W. Browning, of Lerov, Bradford county.—
Mr Post charged Browning with passing on
him, in payment of fare, a counterfeit five dol
lar bill, of the York County Bank. The war
rant was placed in the hands of Constable
Kemp, who proceeded in the 5.30 p. m. train
to Troy, and from thence to Lerov, where he
arrested Browning, and returned with him to
Williamsport in the next train. After a hear
ing before Justice Ulmer, he was committed
in default of 81000 bail. The prisoner appears
to have operated in connection with Mingus
and others, recently arrested in Philadelphia,
and passed the bill for which he was arrested
on his return from an interview with Mingus.
He had been arrested before for the same of
fense, but released on bail. On being taken
into custody, he made desperate efforts to es
cape and dispose of the money lie liad about
his person by throwing it away. Of the capi
tal thus disposed of, one hundred and forty five
dollars of counterfeit York County bills, and
one hundred dollars in bogus quarters, eagles
and gold dollars were recovered, and it is ex
pected that much more will be found when the
snow goes off.
A COUNTERFEIT XOTK PI.ATE SECURER. Oil
last Thursday night Deputy United States
Marshal Jenkins, and officer Samuel Johnson,
succeeded in securing, at a house in Luzerne
county, about twelve uiiles from Wilkesbarre,
the steel plate from which the new counterfeit
tcu dollar bills on the Girard Bank were print
ed. The press and materials had disappeared;
but the officers secured the plate. -Messrs.
Jenkins and Johnson have rendered the public
a good service in getting out of the hands of
rogues the means by which this dangerous coun
terfeit- was gotten up. The plate, which was
handed over to the officers of the bank, was
admirably executed, and the whole of the ras
cally work was in skillful hands, as the signa
tures and the tilling up were copied from the
genuine notes with perfect precision. A large
quantity of this spurious paper is in circulation,
and the public should keep a sharp look out
for it. Less than two weeks ago the danger
ous counterfeit made its first appearance, and
the plate is already in the hands of the bank.
We repeat that the officers who secured the
plate have rendered an essential service to the
community.
Big)- The newspapers have announced that
Dr. GI.FASOV had commenced a suit against
the editor of the Reporter, for libel, placing the
damages at SIO,OOO. If any of our readers
are distressed at the thought of our being
obliged to shell out a cool ten thousand, we
are happy to assure them that there is no pre
sent prospect of our pile being thus diminished
The Doctor was somewhat indignant, and very
properly too, at being thus summarily and dis
creditably killed otr—but upon learning the
circumstances under which the paragraph was
inserted in the Reporter, and also that we luid
used every exertion to contradict it—feeling
that there was no disposition on our part to
do him an injury or uukiuduess, immediately
discontinued the suit.
Jteg- The House of Representatives, on Tues
day, passed Grow's bill repealing all the bogus
laws of Kansas, declaring the present Territo
rial Legislature spurious and providing for a
new election. The vote on the bill iu the House
was 09 in the affirmative to 79 iu the negative.
A separate vote was taken on the preamble of
the bill, declaring unjust and unwarranted the
test oaths prescribed for voting or holding of
fice iu Kansas ; and that the House Commit
tee of Investigation report that the Legisla
ture was not elected by legal voters, but was
forced upon them by non-residents iu violation
of the organic act of the Territory, and hav
ing thus usurped legislative power, it enacted
cruel aud oppressive laws. Adopted, by 9.">
against 68.
It is stated that Col. Johu Preston, of
Louisiana, has lately made $860,000 from a
year's crop of molasses at 60 cents per gallon
EXTKA SESSION OK THK U. S. SENATE. — As
is customary on the cotningr in of a new Ad
ministration, an extra session of the United
States Senate has been called by the President.
The Washington l r vi<>n publishes the procla
mation of President FIERCE, in which he says
' that- " objects of interest to the United States
require that the Seriate should be convened,
'at 12 o'clock on the 4th of March next, to re
' ceive and act upon such communications as may j
be made to it on the part of the Executive j
i and he therefore calls upon nil who may at j
| that time lie entitled to act as members of that
: body to assemble on the day, and at the hour
| abore mentioned.
POWDER MII.I. EXPLOSION. —Abont five o
; clock on Saturday evening, the Tth inst., a se
rious accident occurred at the N\ apwallopen
Powder Mills, in Luzerne county, Pa. Two
voting men—one an Englishman and the other
a German— under the employ of Messrs. Par
rish, Silver & Co.. were almost instantly kill
ed by the explosion of one of the dry houses,
at a place which contained, at the time, about
seventy-live kegs powder. One of the men
was found immediately after, when life was ex
tinct., The other one only survived about an
hour and a half. Their clothes were entirely
torn from them, and tiieir forms and features
, were considerably disfigured, being burnt with
powder.
N'EW JERSEY ELECTIONS. —The New Jersey
State legislature met 011 Thursday last, in
joint convention, and elected the lion. John
II Thompson U. S. Senator from that State,
for six years from the 4th of March ; Elias
Kirkpatrick, Judge of the Court of Common
Pleas of Essex county, and Henry llilliaril
and Joseph O. Johnson, State Directors of the
Joint Companies ; 11. M. Smith, State Trea
surer ; J. li. Stoll, State Prison Keeper ; and
J. M. C'assidy, J. Pickle, J. La lor, Joseph Cun
, uingham, and T. F. Howell, Prison Inspectors.
Gov. Newell transmitted to the Senate the
following nominations :
Attorney Gcuerul—Hon. William L. Day
ton, of Trenton.
Clerk of the Supreme Court—Chas. I). Desh
lor, of New Brunswick.
At a Republican Convention lately held
in the Fifth Ward, Philadelphia, on motion of
Geo. A. Coffey, esq., the following resolutions
were unanimously adopted :
Rf.solreil, That the Republicans of the Fifth
ward of Philadelphia take pride and pleasure
in joining with their brother Republicans,
throughout, the Commonwealth, in proposing
for the office of Governor of Pennsylvania their
distinguished fellow-citizen, DAVID WILMOT, of
Bradford county.
Resolrcd, That the conspicuous abilities of
David Wilmot ; his great knowledge of and
experience in public affairs ; his high charac
ter and his tried and enthusiastic devotion to
Republican Freedom and Free Labor, render
lit eminently tit that the Republican hosts of
Pennsylvania be led on in the coming State
contest by him. whose name is immortal in the
history of the Republic as the reviser of the
Jefferson ordinance of 1788-9, under the name
of " The Wilmot Proviso."
Resolved, That we call 011 the Republican
' State Convention, which meets in Ilarrisburg
on the 25th of March, to nominate a pure Re
publican Ticket upon the broad and liberal
principles of Republicanism, and the platform
of June 12th, 1850.
THE CINCINNATI SPECI AL ELECTION for a MEM
ber of the Ohio House of Representatives, to
succeed John I'. Slough, the expelled member,
has resulted in the choice of Mr. Hosea, Re
publican, by a majority of 10 Slough, who
is a Democrat, was a candidate for re-election,
and there was also an American candidate run
ning, who received about live hundred votes.
The city of Cincinnati gave Hosea 416 majori
ty, but the rural districts of the county gave
Slough 406 majority.
fiSaT" The citizens of Williamsport are en
gaged in raising $25,000 of stock for the Wil
liamsport & Klmira R. R. Company, in order
to retain the Machine Shop for that road in
their town. Over half the sum is already se
cured.
MI RDER FROM JEALOUSY IN NEW ORLEANS.
—Tiie New Orleans Picayune, of the 4th itst.,
says : Last evening, Mrs. Mary Cull entered
the temporary abode of her husband and her
husband's alleged paramour, one Margaret
Kellev. As Mrs. Cull entered the house, and
attempted to pass into a rear room in quest of
her husband, Margaret Kelley grasped her by
the throat, and, as she did so, Mrs. Cull drew
a knife and plunged it into her heart, killing
her on the spot. Thereupon a citizen, who
was attracted to the spot by the noise of the
oc> urrence, entered, and seeing Mrs. Cull stand
ing over the prostrate body of the victim, took
her into custody, and conveyed her to the Ist
district lockup. According to Mrs. Cull's state
ment, her husband became acquainted with
Margaret Kelley, and at length it was rumor
ed that an improper intimacy existed between
them. The enraged wife went in pursuit of
her husband, and the bloody issue thereof we
have already stated. The prisoner does not
appear in the least to regret the bloody busi
ness in which she has been engaged.
SINGULAR HYDRAULIC EXPLOSION. —The large
air-chamber, Weighing JJ, 100 jx>uuds, attached
to the main pipe through which the water is
forced to the reservoirs of the Columbia Wa
ter Company, in the water house at the foot
of Walnut street, Columbia, l'a., was recently
broken from its fastenings by a heavy pressure
of air, and thrown through the ceiling, fifteen
or twenty feet high, and nearly through the
roof above. In falling it struck and broke a
heavy iron plate a few feet from its place, and
directly along side of the engineer, whose es
cape from being killed was very narrow. The
main pipe had been frozen tip for some time,
and the Water Company had been engaged in
trying to thaw it out by building lires over it.
The explosion was no doubt caused by pump
ing water which could not be forced up through
the pipe.
A Wise COURSE. —Judge McDowell 0 f
Chemung, observed the other day, while' at
tending the Court, that during a life of Idle
ness, extending over nearly fifty years—d r'im
which he has cleared more land, Imilt more
houses and bains than any man in Chen u er
county—he has never had a single case j|j
Co irt, not even a ease before a "u-tico ||j
method of disftnsing of eases likely to be lit
gions, was to " buy off the rascals,'" who < j
out swear him. and would piobtbly „ tli
their end, whether just or or not. The J u ,|
has a happy appreciation of "the 1 eautVs of
the law."— Elmirt (.V. V) Adv.
SINGULAR CASE OF SUICIDE —A prisoner in
tin* Michigan Penitentiary, sentenced to solita
ry confinement, was found dead in his cell
a steain pipe passing through his cell to warm
it had hurst, and as no cry for help could he
heard by the keeper, to save himself from he
iug cooked to death, the poor iuau cut lis
throat.
AN I NPARAI.I.KD OCCURRENCE, —At Syra
cuse, NVw York, tlie other day an Irishman
named Finney, in vomiting, forced one of h s
eye-balls out so that it hung on his cheek. It
was allowed to remain so until it swelled to an
enormous size and finally began to mortifv'
At this juncture Dr. Lighthill was called' and
succeeded in replacing the organ in its socket
though its sight is forever gone.
UNCI v. SAM'S PURSE.— It is calculated that
there will be a surplus balance i, t tin-I* >
Treasury in June 1857, of forty-three luiilVm
dollars.
FlSH. —Upwards of of forty busiieb of
white perch were cut out of the ice on Mon
day and Tuesday last, near Swan point Chesa
peake Bay. A whole school were frozen.
Arrival and Departure of Mails,
tVAVEltLY—Arrives daily, except Sundae.at K'l v\t
Departs <iu
Tl'XKN'K—Arrives daily, eX'-ept Sunday, at 12 M.
Departs do ] p yj
TROY—Arrives daily, except Sunday, at 7 P. M.
Departs do 7 \. \p
IX— Arrives Tuesday. Thursday atul SV r.
day, at Sp. M. Departs, -anie days, at OA. \J.
CANTON— Arrives Monday. Wednesday and Friday, nt
sP. M. Departs Tuesday, Thursdav atid Saturday
at (i A.M. " •'
MOXTIJOSK -Arrives Monday, Wedr.e-dar and Frid v
at i P.M. Departs Tuesday. Thursday and >at i
day. at 7 A.M.
LA POUTK— Arrives Monday. Weilne-day and Fridiv. at
2 P. M. Departs Tuesday . Thursday and Saltiid. v
at 12 M. '
WELI-SBVlNl—Arrives Tuesday . Tliiir-day and Satnr.L*
at 4P. M. llt parts Monday. Wednesday and F''-
day at fi A.M.
EATON—Arrives Wednesday and Saturday, at u P. M.
Departs Tuesday and Friday. at o A. M.
1 The morning mails 10-e at s o'riuek of the- evening n.e
vious : tin' afternoon mails "1 -i at 111 A. M.
July 21. 1 AO. H. t . I'ORTKH. P. 11.
In Wavc-rley. X. Y.. .January 2. Pi.77, I>y Rev. J.M. ('ulev.
CM \IH.KS M. WF.BB, of To-waada, and \l-s
; PKCDKXCF. J. PI FUCK, m Smithtield.
At the residence of F. l.lson, 17-u.. in Ridghrrrv. Feb.l2.
by Khl t A. 1. I'l.inuiion, FKI.IX HANFKN* to M -
i ELIZA BETH WMLHT. ail of Kidgberry.
KM'" Wright wrongs no on*."
DZZ ID,
Ln Franklin. Sunday. February 1.7. MAIIY ELLEN, *
of Joseph L. Johnson, aged 42 years. • inoiiths.
On the 2f<th d.iy i f Decemlier last, in Walker tji.. Centre
C Wli.l.lAM M'KKAX, aged -4 years, l't in .
The derea-ed.at the time of his death, m iv lie re k med
among the oldest of the first settlers of his enmity. Re
' le ivc-s a large circle of friends and relatives within the \-
eiiiity of his departed home, and also in Bradford -uiit
In Smithfiehl. Dee. 2.7 th, CII \MPI.IX <l. P.R< >W.V. ag.l
6 1 years. He ha- left befaiad a large citl fe of m Nana*
—but uot to inuiirn as th ise who have no hope.
On the 2d day of February in-t., at the reside! ■ "f lirr
fatlu r. in the town-hip of Columbia, ltr.id.ord county,
Mrs. M ARIAS HITCHCOCK, aged 22 years. 7 moid ■
and 4 days.
Tlie decease of Mrs. 11. was attended with ttnsually af
flictive circumstances. Site was married P* ember 24th.
IS,7G, and had not left the home of her childhood, ere the
| typhoid fever severed the tie which hound her I ■ life. 1 ;
! friends, her relatives, and in ire than all. to her li t
I She had profes.-l'd hope in tl;v -avior >. mi years •: -r.
I tier relatives are consoled under this sue ailikti on n tie
prospect that ber redeemed spirit is with Jesi: in IV !►
| disc. Her funeral was attended by a large —• 'itl ly w. l
| wept. The sermon was preached by elder C. IV>-oe. •.
| Ti-'ga county, from Acts x. 2i—Preai Ring pes- • '-yJe-u*
j Christ.
| On the 22dalt., at Van Ftteiiville. X. Y.. Mrs. XAN' '
Kl.WKi.l., aged s'2 years.
For more than half a century th-~ d- ea-i d re-id' 1 a*
Athens, in this county, beloved and oti-et: ■ d i y a la:-'
circle of friends and acquaintances. For many yc.tr
w.xs a memtier of the Presbyterian < bttrcii. and
| life adorned her profession Rj the t xercise
j tian virtue. • Illessed are the dead which the the 1- '•<!•
I In Itelvidere. 111., on the 7th ult.. of e.-uet-tiim "ft"'
lungs, FANNY, daughter of X. C. and l- 1 '
kins, a -led J vcars.
Xcou
r. Os T .
I OST. near the re-iiletice of the <ul>- ri *r i s
J Tioga Conntv. Pennsylvania. n " r ■' '•}, .
January last, a LAND WAHRAXT. X<>. i-.^'•
myself," for 160 acres, under the act .f 3d "i J ~
fur services in the war ••!' I*l2. Saul ant -
ed by me in blank. All persons are cauti -
purchasing said warrant, a- ii is my isiteiit.
tlie Pension Office fur a duplicate "i ihr ...
February 21. 15.77. .IKWKTI >1 • •
ORPHAN'S COURT SALE -Bv J
of an order of the Orphans* Court Df Ir ■.
ty, will be exposed to public sale en the 1"'
Saturday the 2uth day of Mareh lust, ..t 1 ■ 6
Jf., the following property— , ■
A lot of land in Hcrriek town-hip. bound'-*! a*'
Beginning a beech north cornernt a1 t ri.n; _ '
Stevens, thence sooth 2">° west oiy-1" I"
lo k for a corner, thence south 3.C wc-t ••' "] •' I (
t' a post on the north line of I>. F. Huic- ''■ y ■ 1
80° west 37 6-10 perches to a post lor a er..o • • 4
north 64' west 116 perches to a post for a A .
north 24° eat along the east line oi Marsha- 1 . ' ,
to a post 62° on this cour>e. thence nortii l"v , .
perches to a post on north line of Warruit < - * k
thence souths:.' along said warrantTito M•. | ■
es to the beginning. Containing Wo acres a"• * ,
es, more or less, (excepting and reserving a ;
5 acres which has heretofore been sold '' th.bw
front the north end of the lot.) late the estii < "
Joues, deceased, with about 70 acres impr ( i
ling house, two barns, one corn house a id an f> . r
Terms—One hundred dollars on (lie 11 rtv . : I
hundred dollars on {riving possession of tfit* j 1 i
the balance in three equal annual inst.ilmci -
15. I.AIt>KTK. (Juardmn of the "i
Feb. 24. 18.>7. _ children of ThuiliaS J'',a*. _
\ CDITOR'S NOTICE. In the
i 1 the rolnntarv assignment of W n>. > ■} " , j 1(
Harris, Harvy McAlpin.anil Thompson >.uu-ta ,
benelit of creditors. In the Court of < omni"
Bradford county. r . iivte the *■
The undersigned Auditorappointed { ...
sets in the hands of the Assignees to tie ->y, -
in the above entitled cause, will attend ni
his appointment at his office, ill Athens 1 1 ' ; ,,, (
urday, March 21, 18.">7, at 1 o clock, ■ , a . ,-n'.
and place all persons having claims will IJ" • . (fee
he deharred front cl timing any m ir-v m in
assignees. "■ ' ' vuditoi"-
February 24, 18.">7.
LWECUTOIVS NOTICE.— N;TI"V
Hi l>v driven, that all persons indebted 1 ' , ||iwn
Mrs. Hi)XV BfRfH, deceased, late of M< . HT
ship, are requested to make CP™*"" ... p'ro-enttin'
those having demands gain-t said estate ■ 1
dulv authenticated for settlement. ... vviviit 'r
_ Feb. 26. 15:..;. (11 \BO> " —TTj
/ \NE HUNDRED BUSHELS
V' CLOVER SKF.M. Also a quant'tv ..II ,
forsdeby _ JO>M Itl "
Februnrt I. 1*".7.