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.
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THE REPUBLICAN' CO.
CO M M ITTKE are requested to meet
at the <lrand Jury Room, in the
Court House, on Thursday. April s.at 1 o'clock, I'. M.
A full attendance is desired. The following named per
sons compose said Committee ,
E. O. (rnodrich. Erastus Wolcntt, R. I.aporto, 1). Hai
lcv, I>. 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 <T
when, finding that he was in
carried out to sea, in order to cut t T.l
made a desperate grasp at his knife ■ '?
fasteued to his head half shut, a rrorti ,b'
hair being between the blade and hav'''
it was too late. The hungry monster'
deep, by a rapid movemeul. 1
and dashed furiously out from the sbo r
ed by the darky, wbo alternately
beneath the waves and rose to tU
grabbing at his kuife as he rushed on
most lightning speed in the wake of t ljt
He was seen at the distance of a HY.'"®
occasionally rose to the surface ; br '
appeared entirely, far beyond the rt a
sistance, and a victim of his own hazar
ing and imprudent temerity.—
CALHOUN'S PROMISES.— John Call
compton Kegeut of Kansas, has J;,,
letter, iu which he promises to issue ctr-'
of election as members of the Leconipw
Legislature " to the persons having tbt i
number of votes iu Leavenworth tour !
spective of the Delaware Crossing p .
The same John Calhoun, previous to .
tion to the Lecompton Convention, a
der to secure that election, published j ,
in which he promised, that, if chonta •
convention, he would give his vote at
fluence to secure the submission of theL
ton Constitution to the people. How .
that promise is well known. Is there r'
son for putting any more faith in this',
one ? —-V. Y. Tribune, 23 d.
POISONING CASE IN YATES COUNTY, \•
The Dundee Record states that Bar-::
has been undergoing an examination i
Esquire Yau Allen, of Penn Yan on tb-cy
of poisoning his father-in-law, JchnW:.-
Bnrrington, who died suddenly cu the!
! January last. The only evidence agay
: accused, is that a chemical analysis >.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".