From Washington. WASHINGTON", TuesJay, March 23, 1955. The first act of the Lecompton drama in Congress is over. The hill has passed the Se nate by a majority of eight votes, and to-mor row will be sent to the other House. You will have already noticed that its supporters materially changed their tactics again to-day, —abandoning all together their proposition to yoke Minnesota and Kansas together in one bill, and confining the measure to the simple purpose of admitting Kansas into the Union, and extending all applicable laws of the Uni ted States over her. This was done iu conse quence of a caueus consultation had this morn ing, before the meeting of the Senate. It is auother indication of the alarm which recent developments have excited, lest the pertina ciously maintained Lecompton swindle shall be defeated at last. Another significant fact was the action of the caucus, agreeing to adopt PUGII'S amend ment, though in modified form, inferring, but not avowiug it as the opinion of Congress, that the people of Kansas have the right to change their constitution at any time. This amenJment, as adopted, in reality means noth ing, and no more effect than though it was not in the bill. Still it was offensive to South ern men, who fear it may be made the basis, by the Free-State men, for some future sup port of their right to override the provision of he Kansas Constitution, which implies that that instrument shall not be amended until after the year 1864. Its insertion would have been seriously resisted bv Southern men, were it not considered a sort of desperate remedy tb save the bill from certain destruction. 1 much mistake if this remedy docs not yet i prove itself worse than the disease. Mr. IVER SON, of Georgia, could not quite smother his wrath over it to-day ; and in the other House where the men to be controled and whipped in are so much more numerous, the task will be found very serious. The Senator from Georgia aforesaid, did not refrain from the denunciation ot JOHN CALHOUN, which most of his Southern col leagues share. He denounced, iu vehement terms, his course in declaring a Free-State Legislature, elected in Kansas, and came near ; letting a dangerous cat out of the bag, by \ stating incidentally (and accidentally, too, I j should judge) that CAI.HOCN'S recent manifes- i to was the result of the bad advice of South ern men. CALHOUN evidently has some scheme Of trickery in hand, which the " Southern men" aforesaid believe will be successful, Hut which Mr. IVERSON fears will be a more dan gerons weapon at the breech than at the muz | tie. Mr. WADE, of Ohio, asked him quietly i if he understood him aright, and whether he I fneant to say that Sotithern men had advised | CALHOUN to his recent course ? IVERSON saw at once that he had been imprudent, and ac cordingly he covered his own retreat by deny iDg the right ot Mr. WADE to catechise him. Mr. DOUGLAS, iu his speech of last evening, Undoubtedly exposed the scheme of tiickery 1 which IVERSON refused tOAinmask ; and it is | of a piece with the entire history of the swin dle of which it is one of the latest phases.— j Mr. DoroLAS showed conclusively that Mr. i CALHOUN, being absent from the Territory, i had no more right to decide upon the returns of election or issue certificates thereupon than bad any Senator in Congress, because the Kan sas Convention has provided that this duty, in the absence of the President of that body, should be performed by the President pro /em. or in the absence of the latter, by " the Com mittec of Seven."' The trick is perfectly tran sparent. CALHOUN has 'not issued certificates to the Free-State Legislature, but only declar ed that he will do so. This it was quite safe for Southern men to advise him to do—now that a vote or two Is of so much importance in the 1 House—for, having no power whatever in the premises, his act would have no validity what ever had he even issued the certificates instead of having tncrelv promised to do so. Is it pos sible that any Northern Representative can be deceived by such transparent charlatanry? or can hope to satisfy his constituents of his common sense or integrity if he swallows the bait thus set for him ? There is nothing new to be said about the question in the other House. The bill will probably be taken up there at once, upon a motion to refer to the Select Committee, with instructions compelling an Investigation to as certain beyond all doubt whether there is a shadow of reason for supposing the Lecomp ton Constitution to be either technically or in fact an embodiment of the will of the people of Kansas. This will be a test vote, —and if the Douglas Democrats are true to their col ors the motion for a reference will be success ful. There is no longer any disposition in the House to delay the final action upon the bill, —-and if the reference is ordered and the Com mittee enlarged in such way as to give the friends of investigation its control, a report will be made promotly as possible, with a view to disj>osing of the question in order that other business may be reached. WASHINGTON, Thursday, March 25, ISSB. The Kansas campaign of the Federal Capi tal is nearly over. On Thursday of next week the vote will probably bo taken in the House, and thus this long pending and agitating ques tion will be disposed of in its present phase. As I telegraphed you to-night, the opponents of Lecompton count upon a majority of seven in favor of amending the Senate bill in the form proposed by Mr. CRITTENDEN-— that is, by making it a bill admitting Kansas upon condi tion that the Lecompton Constitution shall be again submitted at a popular election, and is ratified by a fair majoritj of the people ; also, iu Ihe event of the rejection of that instrument, authorizing the call of a new Convention, Ac. This, of course—if adopted—would kill the Le oompton swindle ; but some of the It 'publicans object to it earnestly upon the ground that it would involve an assent by them to the accep tance of a Pro-Slavery Constitution, and the admission of Kansas with an organic law of that character, provided the people should choose to adopt it, or they should again be oheated and defrauded out of a fair expression of the papular will. These scruples, prob ably, will he overcome, however—for it does not follow that the acceptance of this mode of settlement, in the present instance, will estab lish a rule far Northern action in others where its application would he less safe. The South is accustomed to make precedents when want ed—and there is no reason why the North should do otherwise. I do n )t share in the confident anticipations of the defeat of the Lecompton swindle iu which some of our friends indulge. 'Die fight is a close one. The moral weapons are all with the opposition, but the material weopous and ammunition arc with the Lecomptonites. I hope the fraud cannot, be consummated. If past experience hud not taught me how uuafe it is to relv upon the moat solemn asseverations of j the merely sordid politician, I should have no doubt of the result. To-day there is a clear majority pledged to the defeat of the Lecomp ton scheme ; but I anticipate treachery ; and the confident manner of the leading Lecomp touites themselves gives color to the rumor that certain of the professed opponents of the measure are playing false for the purpose of blind. God grant it may not be so ; but the constituencies will do well to watch closely, and remember that treachery in such a case as this must have been purchased with a price. The rumor is revived that there will be two or three Republicans absent when the vote is taken. If there are. men wearing the Republican badges who can assent to make a trade with the Ad ministration, we shall know them wheu the list of absentees is scanned. THE WASHINGTON HOTEL POISONING. —We conversed yesterday with a very intelligent gen tleman of this city, one of the officers of the American Telegraph Company, who is among the sufferers by the mysterious disease which broke out in Washington city just prior to the last presidential inauguration. From a condition of great bodily vigor and a comfortable degree of corpulency, he has gradually wasted until reduced to a feeble invalid. During many weary days of confinement allotted to him, he has watched the progress of the malady till the list of the deceased victims has reached twen ty-seven, including many eminent naues ; and he calculates that out of a total of three hun dred sufferers, at least one half are in a state of decrepitude no better than his own. In spite of all the theories which have been ad vanced by medical men and Sanitary commit- j tees, he adheres to the belief that the fatal " epidemic," as it was called, was occasioned i by nothing else than a malignant mineral poi son ; and the same opinion is held by othersuf ferers with whom he conversed. Up to a re cent period, he was treated by a physician of this neighboihood as for a malarious or atmos pheric poison, with no perceptible benefit; but upon the physician and the treatment being changed, substituting an antidote to arsenic, favorable symptoms became at once apparent, and he is now able to leave bis apartment. — The conclusions of the Washington examining committee, which attributed the disease to noxious aftluvia, desire at the time existing to secure a large appropriation from the city gov ernment for an extensive system of sewerage, and which has since been obtained. Whatever the origin of the disease, it is very difficult to satisfactorily account for all the phenomena attending it, especially the slow, deadly manner in which it preys upon the sys tem, year after year, until the vital principle is destroyed and the strong man prematurely cut off, unless the agency of a malignant min eral poison is admitted.— .Journal of Commerce. | KIDNAPPING CASE.— The New York llerald of yesterday says : James li. Finley alias ; Haley A. Howard, and his reputed wife, Anna ■ Rrainard, alias Anna Howard, were bro't to j this city front Maryland yesterday morning, j charged with kidnapping a colored girl, 11 j years of age, name Sarah Taylor, from this j city, and attempting to sell her in Washington j to a .slane dealer. It seems that on the Bth j inst. Finley and his wife pursuaded the pa- • rents of the girl, who lived in Raxter street, J to let her go with them to Newark, where they j promised to take her into service. Instead of j stopping at Newark they proceeded right on ! to Washington, and put up at Willard's hotel, j On the following morning Finley attempted to i sell the girl to a slave dealer for S6OO ; but i the girl discovered his design, and made sol much trouble about it that Finley and female | thought it best to decamp to Maryland. —; Meanwhile officers Lusk and Barry, of the j Fourteenth precinct, got an inkling of the af- j fair iu this city, anil were deputed to follow it | up. they arrested Dr. C. F. Clay, of this city, , who confessed to having seen the parties pur-. | chase tickets for Washington. He was re- j quired to give bail to appear as a witness. The officers then proceeded to Maryland, and after a search, succeeded in arresting Finley and lady at Ellicott Mills, Howard county. — The parties were brought before the Mayor yesterday morning, who sent them to the Re corder to take action on the charge. The girl is still iu Washington. V&T The narrative of Capt. DUNHAM, of the hark Adriatic, is published,in the Savannah pa pers. The captain gives a moving account of his adventures in escaping from French custo dy and eluding the search of the cruisers.— He alleges that the collision with the Lyonnias was no fault of bis, but that it resulted from culpable mismanagement on the part of the officers of the French steamer. In the ex cited state of the public feeling iu Franco, he deemed it impossible to obtain justice if brought to trial in that country, and therefore resolved to make his escape as soon as possible, and place the whole matter in the hands of his own Government. He adopted stratagem to effect his purpose. Under the pretext that his ves needed caulking, he engaged workmen osten sibly for that work, but during the noise and confusion incident to the operation, worked in the night upon his rigging, and when the ropes had been replaced, put quietly to sea, eluded the cruisers sent in search of him, and arrived safely at Savannah on the 18th inst. The United States storekeeper at Spczzia furnish ed him all the equipments needed for the voy age. The vessel put into Savannah in conse quence of a lack of provisions, the voyage hither from Maderia having been long and boisterous. By the arrival of the Santa Fe mail at Independence, Mo. we have later news from New Mexico. Capt MARCY, with one thou sand head of mules, was to leave Fort Union on his return to Camp Scott on the 25th inst. Lieut. BEAI.E was a passenger with the mail. He reports that the thirty fifth parallel of lati tude, to which he adhered strictly from Los Angelos, in California, is the best natural route for a railroad iu the world, shortening that surveyed by Lieut. WHIPPLE, five huudred miles. DEATH OF PAUDEEN. —McLaughlin, alias Paudeei), the notorious ruffian who was shot on Saturday morning last at a low dance house in Howard street, New York, by anoth er ruffian named Cunningham, died at the hos pital ou Monday morning. SAO ACCIDENT. —On Monday night the Cin cinnati Express on the N. Y. fc E. R. R. ran into a slide at Adrian, nine miles east of Horn ellsville, throwing the cars from the track.— Capt. Ayres, the Conductor, had his ribs bro ken, and a number of passengers were severely injured.— Bath Advocate. §rafofori ivqiortfr. E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR. RWANDA : OfljnrshaD filormnn, 3pril 1, lb'sß. TERMS — One Dollar per annum, invariably in advance.— Four weeks previous to the expiration of a subscription, notice will be given by a printed wrapper, and if not re newed, the paper will in all cases be slopped. CLUBBING —The Reporter will be sent to Clubs at the fol lowing extremely low rates : 6 copies for 00 jls copies for sl2 00 10 copies for Soo| 20 copies f0r... . 15 00 ADVERTISEMENTS — For a square of ten lines or less, One Dollar for three or less insertions, and twenty-Jive cents for each subsequent insertion. JOB-WORK — Executed irith accuracy and despatch, and a reasonable prices—with every facility for doing Rooks, Blanks, Hand bills, Rati tickets, §-c. MONEY may be sent by mail, at our risk—enclosed in an envelope, and property directed, we will be for its safe delivery. THE REPUBLICAN' CO. CO M M ITTKE are requested to meet at the . l.illey, Chester Thomas. M. F. Kinney, Win. M" Chaffee. E. O. GOODRICH, Chairman. March ill, ISOS. J __ j The Senate Kansas bill is to be taken up by general consent, to-day. Mr. STEPHENS gave notice that he intended to move the pre vious question. Should that be defeated an amendment will be offered, substantially era bodying Mr. CRITTENDEN'S proposition, which it is expected the South Americans will sup- i port. Some trouble has been experienced in j briuging a portion of the Republicans to vote for the bill with the amendment, because in ! theory it assents to the admission of Kansas as a slave state, should her people so decide. At latest accounts, however, the prospect of a solid vote was better. It is impossible to predict the result. The opponents of Lecomp ton have been sanguine of success, but there is no calculating what the patronage and pow er of the Government may have done, towards bribing X'ortheru members to betray their constituents. There was a caucus of the Democratic mem bers of Congress ou Saturday night, called for the purpose of attempting to devise some method by which the antagonistic elements of the Democratic Party—Lecompton and Auti- Lecompton —can be reconciled. It was re solved to appoint a committee of Twenty, ten of each division, to confer together and agree upon some course of action, the Committee to report on Tuesday evening. It is understood that this movement is merely the cover under which certain shaky Anti-Lecompton Demo crats will be enabled to transfer their alle giance to the Administration, arid by which the success of the Lecompton swindle wil be insured. fieay The evidence that we were correct in advising the editor of the Wayne County Ifrraid, " to mind his own business," is furnish ed by his answer. Onr advice was predicated upon the presumed ignorance of the editor aforesaid as to the true state of affairs, and a belief that the people of this District were com petent to regulate their domestic matters them selves. The Herald asserts that the opposition to the proposed change iu this Judicial I)is trict, is based upon the allegation that it is done to legislate Judge WILMOT out of office, an 1 accuses somebody of advocating Judge WILMOT'S " right to be considered the future Judge of his District." Friend BKARDSLEY, you might have displayed your ignorance with out showing so much unfairness. Pray, who opposes the change because it deprives Judge WILMOT of a seat upon the bench, as far as it relates personally to him ? It is exactly be cause his enemies have made it a personal mat ter, that we have denounced it. No man or set of men has a right to presume that Judge WILMOT is certain to be re-elected in October, or if they so presume, they have no right to deprive the people of their Constitutional right to elect. It is against the outrage upon the rights of the people that we protest. We claim they have a right to elect their Judge, and if tliey sec fit to choose Judge WILMOT, they are not amenable to the Wayne County Herald, nor to any other self-coustituted cen sor. It is not true that, " that the Bradford bar almost unamimously declare that the due ad ministration of justice demands the change," ou the contrary, a majority of the acting mem bers of the bar is opposed to the change. We recollect that some years ago, Gov. BIULER saw fit to appoint Judge BARRETT to preside over the Courts of the District of which Wayne is a part, in opposition to the wishes of the editor of the Herald, who was de sirous of the appointment of (we believe) his friend DIMMICK. The indignation of BEARDS LEY was fully expressed because a foreign Judge was appointed to preside over them, although it was done iu a legal manner, no constitution al rights violated, and the people in a few months were to elect for themselves. Now it is proposed to impose upon us a foreign Judge in whose election our people would have no part, in gross and open violation of a Constitu tional guarantee, and for the avowed purpose (at least with its originators) of preventing the the people from electing for eight years to come. Against the former act, the editor of the Herald exhausted his indignation, so that he has only praises for the latter outrage 1 t&f 11. S. MAGRAW, State Treasurer, and WM. RICK, proprietor of the Pennsylvanian, had a street altercation in Philadelphia last week, in which the latter was considerably punished. The affair grew ont of politics, and is one of the fruits of the President's " Kan sas policy." TO SCHOOL DIRECTORS. At the suggestion of the County Superin tendent, we hate printed an assortment of; blanks in general use for school purposes, which ! we can supply to the Board of Directors of the diiFereut townships. One dollar will pro cure the following : —3 Bonds of District i Treasurer ; 3 Warrants to Collectors ; 3 Bonds of Collectors ; 32 Agreements with Teachers ; and 48 School Orders. These will last for years, and will save time and money. The State Superintendent, in his decisions, recommends " That Teachers' engagements with the Board of Directors should invariably be reduced to writing, and signed by the Teach er and the President of the Board before the Teacher takes charge of the School." The Superintendent wishes us to call the at tention of the School Directors of the several townships, to that clause of the school law which requires the annual report to be forward ed to him, by or before the first of June. A delay of more than ten duys after that date, without satisfactory reason, will forfeit the State appropriation. AWo that directors should send in as soon as possible the certificate from the president and secretary, as the State appropriation will not be received until the certificate has been forwarded to Harrisburg. But about half of these documents have yet beeu received. We invite the attcution of onr readers, particularly of that portion who visit Elmira, to the advertisements of MARSH fc Co., dealers in Dry Goods and Millinery, No. 5 Union Block, Elmira. They offer to cash purchas ers the great advantages of a large Stock and low prices, and their reputation has reached us as being the best place in that village to pur chase goods. That they are desirous of a call from the citizens of Bradford, is evident ; and where competition runs high, it is uo object to show goods at high prices. A horse and wagon belonging to AN DREW SEKBICH, of this place, were precipitated from the narrows, on the east side of the river, one day last week. The horse was drowned. The accident was caused by passing a team. A span of horses, belonging to STEI-IIKX STRICKLAND jr., last Friday, tried their speed down Main street, and turning the corner of Bridge street, " dumped" several barrels of lime, with the wagon box and hind wheels iu JOHN BIEDLEMAN'S excavation for a cellar, and then made for home. The damage was slight. It has already been mentioned that the Pre sident has issued his proclamation for sales of public lauds at the land ofli -es at Kdckapoo and Lecompton, Kansas Territory, in July next. The first sale at Kickapoo, on the sth July, embraces 189,005 acres, and that on the 19th, 701,082 acres. The sale at Lecompton on the sth of July will embrace 756.446 acres, and on the 19th 656,511 acres, making an ag gregate of 2.912,131 acres. These will be the first public sales of Government lands in the Territory. The Harrisburg Telegraph, of Friday, 26th, says : A hearing is to be had, in the case of the proposed effort to legislate Judge WU.MOT out of office, this afternoon, before the Judiciary Committees of the Senate and House. Judge WILMOT will appear before the Com mittee, in response to a request from the Chairman of the Senate Committee, to answer the charges alleged against him." We learn from the Argun that the body of GARRET COTTER, whose mysterious dis appearance on the 24th of December last, caus ed considerable excitement and alarm, was found on Sunday morning the 2lst inst., about forty rods from his own house, in Wilmot township, lying .behind a beech stump. He is supposed to have died from exposure to the inclemency of the weather. The Special Committee, appointed by the House, have reported, relative to the purchase of the Bank of Pennsylvania building, for a post office in Philadelphia,that Mr. John Miller, late postmaster, received $23,000 for his " ser vices," from Mr. Thomas Alliboae, President of the bank Judge Campbell, the late Post master General, stands wholly exonerated from all knowledge of, or participation in, this trans action. MAIL ROBBERY. —"On Friday night at about 5 1-2 o'clock some boys discovered in the Dele ware River, at Port Jervis, X'. V., a mail bag, which "had been cut open and robbed. The bag was marked for Painted Post, and must have left New-York by the night express train on Thursday evening, as the papers found iu it were the second and third editions of that day, but ali the letters were goue. S&f* Col. BENTON is confined to his bed, with cancer of the stomach. He works upon his Abridgement of the Congressional Debates as steadily as ever, and hopes to live long euongh to finish it. In the House, on Thursday, the bill for the sale of the public canals was again under con sideration, and the reading of the sec tiou (a test vote) was carried by a majority of niue. The second regiment of the Pennsylva nia volunteers have, by a unanimous vote, ten dered their services to the President for the Utah expedition. THZ XF.W ENGLAND CANCER. —The Rich mond South says : "We sometimes think if the whole of Yankee land was cut out like a cancer, we should have a very quiet and pros gerous career." PFITY SPITE. —Some of the rabid legal, personal and political rival of DAVID WILMOT, are trying to legislate liiiu out of office, by by abolishing the judicial district over which he presides, and attaching the counties to ad joining districts They say he is partial and unpopular. Well, but why punish the district for his sins ? and why, if he is so, not wait un til jjext fall, when there is to be a new elec tion for Judge, and then let the people—those most concerned, and oet informed—oust liiro 1 But the plotters fear to go before the people with him. We do not think party depravity is yet low enough for such a tiling, or that Gov. Packer would be mean enough to stoop to aid in such an assault upon an honorable but unsuccessful rival —but, if they should thrust him from the bench, they would rue the day. Instead of being cooped up, year after year, in Court Houses, listening to dry legal contests, his friends would keep WII.MOT on the stump in Pennsylvania from now until next Presidential election. Blaze away my hear ties ! The movement was begun in an underhand ed manner ; but the people have got wind of it, and are remonstrating without distinction of party. And the judges upon whom the soreheads want to pile Bradford and Susque hanna, don't want the job. The Sullivan Democrat, Bloomsburg Star, and Ed. pro tem of the Columbia Democrat, (all Administra tion papers) with mauy of the wiser party leaders, denouuee the scheme as unjust i impoli itic : they know the power of the free tongue of Wilmot ; they see the outrage of prevent ing two large counties from electing their own Judge, and they sec that in an election, Judge Wilmot or some other man of his party could overcome their majoritities if joined together in a district. Altogether, it is as unfortunate a scheme as Lecompton for the party. — Lew isburg Chronicle. MORE OK THE LOTTERY SWINDLE. —The New York Express says another haul was made by the police on Sunday and Monday. They took from the Post Office five hundred and for ty letters, containing a large amount of money and orders to send on jewelry to the writers, which they had drawn as gifts in the Gift En terprise Concern lately suppressed iu Broome street. The proprietors of this speculation were parties calling themselves C.E.TODD & Co. About fifty letters directed to HUNTINGDON A Co., were also taken out. $l3O were in three letters to TODD, and many of them con tained fifty dollars each. The Mayor invited the reporters to the pri vate office to view the batch, and said that re flections in a Sunday paper in relation to his causing letters to be taken from the Post Office were very ill-cboseu, and that he had positive authority from the parties to whom they were directed to take them out. Mr. TODD even sent down a letter himself to the Mayor, con- which he had received, and reques ted the Mayor to make the same disposition of it as he had done with the others, as TODD had promised to abandon the business. Mayor TIEMAN is of opinion that this money iu the letters should go towards the support of the poor of New York or our public school fund. One of the bogus pieces of jewelry, which was given away at a sls valuation, was shown ; it was not worth probably over 75 cents, being nothing bat the basest brass, with a gilding of Dutch metal. THE FLORIDA WAR ALMOST ENDED. —The Oeaia (Fla.) Champion confirms the recent re ports from other sources of the probable early termination of the war against the Indians in Florida. In its number of the 9th inst. it says : " We learn from a passenger who arrived here on the stage from Tampa, on the sth inst., that there is now a fair prospect of the imme diate termination of the Seminole war. The del egatiou from the West has been into the Indi an county, and, being unable to find anything of Bowlegs or his tribe, had returned, but soon made another effort to find them out. Ou the last occasion they had not proceeded far before they met a bearer of a white flag, and soon met Billy himself with several of his men. Billy said that he was satisfied with the war, as were most of his men ; but he wished to see Jumper, who did not go out with the rest of the dele i gation, before he could say what he would do. It is understood that Billy and Jumper have been at enmity for some time past, and it is supposed that if they can make up their diffi culty the Seminoles will agree to go West at once. We think the war in Florida is at an eud, but would have no effort relaxed for its earnest prosecutiou until the riddance is com pleted.'' Kg- Latest advices from Sonora state that General GANDARA, the leader of the rebellion in that State, has been entirely successful, having defeated the Government troops in sev eral engagements. The Governor, PESCHIERA, was surrounded by GANDARA'S troops, and could not escape. GANDARA had ordered all prisoners to be massacred, and had proclaim ed his intention to haug PESCHIERA, if he should be taken. PERTINENT REFLECTION. —The assault of Mr. Keitt on Mr. Grow, and its consequences seem to have attracted unusual attention from jour nals of all classes in Europe. The Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, a paper in Wales, which is now before us, has a long article, with all the details of this incident, which winds off as follows : "If we may be allowed to attach a dull re flections to so spicy a story,it is— T/tis comes of nigger-driving.'' THF, WII.MOT DISTRICT. —It is not prob able that this judicial district will be disposed of iu the manner recently proposed in the legis lature. The press of the various counties most to be effected by the proposed change has almost unanimously spoken out in opposi tion to it, and the people are awakening on the subject. No respectable number of per sons of any party here are iu favor it.— The Star of the North. ftgg- An immense Democratic Anti-Lecomp ton meeting was held at Pittsburg, Penn., Thursday night, which was addressed by Col. FORNEY and other prominent Democrats.— Resolutions reaffirming the Cincinnati Plat form and the doctrine of popalar rights were passed by acclamation. THE VIRGINIA BANKS.— The pressure upon the Banks of Virgiuia in the shape of public opinion, it is thought, may jiossibly induce a resumption of specie payments before Novem ber next. It is said that many of the banks are ready and wish to resume.— Baltimore Suv. Fou.owi.vo A SHARK. —.Some time tleman and one of his servants, a? 0, ,1 gro, weut lishiug for rock ou the about ten miles from this City, 'jv'" their hooks and lines, and waited fo""' 5 The btir darky, after wuding out SO J. s from the shore, tied the line around !• His master told him there was dam, J? so ; but the sable fisherman susp* cultv or accideut. Soon an old r old sea dog, came aloug aud bait with a good relish, and Sambo kJ line with a firm grasp. The powerful t'' ever, drew liirn gradually out in d t .i I that strychniue was put into some: t | that was prepared for the deceased. % ! er this was put there by the accuseds I known. No symptoms of poisoning wc I hibited during the sickness of Mr. \Vr i son and daughter of the deceased, awn in-law, are the principal witnesses y. Kime. II! feeling in regard to the dis'ri: of property is at the bottom of thedS: ' Public opinion in B.irrington was sa against Kime, but has been somewhato by the weakness of the testimony agus; PROPER AND WELL-TIMED IXTFRFESD: A Captain Travis having advertised 2 ! sively that he would on a certain day s i on a wager, an orange from the ben: boy at Louisville, the Mayor of that y forbidden the experiment, and ordered lice to arrest the parties. | Iu RLL-lmrv. March 4th, hv F.hler C. R. Pain:*! GKS SVC IRKS to Mitss ALMIRA Wool' b :: bury, March lath, hy the same, HIRAM YOUNG I X. v. to Miss FRANCIS VAX BI'SKIRK ofP.3 i On the same day, by the same, CALVIN" 5" Miss MFLISSA GORDON, both of Kldgbury. DIED. i At Monroe, March Bth 185s, of Chronic DarrVn W. sou of Freeman and Xancy xreei, :a th-1 . of his age. " Yes he is gone. his sainted spirit's fied. And Charlie's numbered 'nnm? the siltslfc Itis ransomed soul to Heaven is borne a*/ To dwell with angels in unclouded day. In this Boroneh, on Friday the 1 nth of Mri MI AH iSWE.VZLY, ag< dOO years. Ncto LOST. ON Tuesday. March 23. between tv and Urowntown, a BLACK PORTM'N' aV'out seventy-five cents in silver and u >tis $lO. and {27. March 31,1858. JACOB Yl Spring and Summer Mild: FOR 1858. BY A. T. MARSH&! Wo. 5, Union Block. ELMIIOV, X. V. HAVING made extensive arrangement* ments in our MILLIXKRY I>KI'AHIM' v Cordially invite all to favor its with a caliber ing SI'RIXG or SUMMER MILLINERY, W-8 deut we can make it to the advantage of i OUR WHOLESALE DKI'ARTMD" Will tie full and complete, with everythingi- ' Millinery ; such as Straw Bonnets. Woomcc. - Gypsiettes of all kiuds aud styles for Ladiw wear.hythedozenorca.se. " Rnches and Flowers by the tox. Ribbon-L. or cartoon. Blonds, edgfng, footings and Sm', the dozen or piece. Bonnet Frames, Cr fty 1 -. by the dozen. Reeds and covered lmnes by Hand boxes hy the neat or gross. Foo^' 3 ' Lisses, Crown Linings and Cape Netty b. v!: ' „ in fart everything required in the Millinery great-st abtindance and at the very lowest t" SALE PULCES. ._ OUR RETAIL DEPARTMENT Will embrace a full and complete assort®*'-' the above mentioned articles at prices te s 'y . AH bonnets bought at the store will be In! 'l sr j, charge in the latest style and best manner. J"\ j by parties from out of tow n, will be packed W ed to the stages or cars free of expeu^ No. 5, Union Rlock, Elmira. X. Y. People of Bradford IN particular, and readers of the in general. , * MARSH A CO., OF ELMIRA. X. V * , to you and yours, and de>ire to inform one Vj they can and will nuke it greatly to L purchase everv thing you want in the ?■ 1 ., GOODB. FA.VCY GOODS and 1 ; l ! .1 si' > wholesale or retail of them at No 5.1 111011 aforesaid village of Elmira. X. Y. . g Their facilities are certainly unsiirpasse'i • • * ber of the firm is on the spot all the " ,s --the tastes and wants of their uumermis'' 11 * another of the firm is daily iu the auctw B yj porting houses in New York City, securing { and most desirable goods at the very * they buy exclusively for cash) and a* the. only they have no losses to make up. can and do sell so cheap AS to .delr and space preclnde the possibility of me quarter ot the many inducements wuicn . $ to trade at their popular establish""" ' ADVERTISEMENTS win from week toweesjj^jp 1 ed idea of the many advantages to be ' va on A. T. MAtt-ui > No. 5, Union Block, t £ P. 8. For farther particulars, sec ask those who have called, and g" set' 10 '—'f r PHE latest stvlp of 11A JL March ISA".