Ths Iliinois Tornado. [From tbc Chi-ago I'ros, June 2.] Through a gentleman who left Monmouth yesterday morning, we learn many interesting particnlars of the sad tragedy attending the destruction of the village of Ellison by aw hirl wind. Fourteen persons were killed almost instant ly, one more than was stated by the telegraph, ten more it was supposed were mortally wound ed. Of these latter, two died next, three on Monday evening, making nineteen in all. Among the dead are a Mr. John Hand, his son about ten years of age. and a babe, the latter of whom is supposed to have been drown ed. The whole family ajijiear to have been whirled with the fragments of their dwelling quite up into the air and deposited a consider able distance from where the house stood near a slough. Mr. Hand was carried about fifteen rods, and in nis terrible flight received a fright ful wound in his side from a timber. He sur •vired till next morning. Mr. Hand had her infant in her arms when she struck the ground, but the concussion compelled her to let go her hold upon it, and it was tossed some distance into the slough, where she heard its cry, lint owing to her severe injuries, was unable to nt tenipt its rescue. There remained all night, her person jiartly in water.and in the course of its dreary watches the dead body of In-r infant was drifted to the shore, and she had it in her arms when discovered in the morning. Another family named McWdliains suffered terribly. Miss Mary Ann Mi Williams, about twenty two ; her sister H irriet, aged about sixteen, and her brother Thomas, about four teen, are among the dead, and the jioor old mother, eighty years of age—the only remain ing member of the family, except some older children, who were living at a distance—was very badly injured. The boy Thomas was not nt first conscious of having received any hurt, and rescued the body of his elder sister from the ruins soon after the catastrojihe, but he was so badly injured internally, that lie died the next morning. W.K.Thompson, his wife and child : Mrs. Ilrazelton and her two children, a son and daughter ; Martin Went worth, Levin a Lacey, j Ilirani Johnson and child, and two other }>er- , sous whose names were unknown to the infer- ; mant, made nj> the l'st of the fourteen instantly kiiled, comprised in a special dispatch to u>; , from Monmouth last evening. As near as can be ascertained in the confu sion which prevailed, about fifty jiersons were j very seriously and many more slightly injured, i Thetoniado struck the village about half-past i five o'eiock, and during its continuance no rain fell. The houses were frame structures.— There was a tavern stand and three stores, those of Sjmnel Johnson, Josejih Knowles and another. The appearunce of the dwellings and structures after the passage of the whirlwind in described by one cv.witness " as if one should ; tear to jiieces and scatter a lumber yard." Of roof's and walls, and the various struct uri. tin re was seen in many ins'anc -s s■•■lively a trace, as if a giant's hand had reduced ami torn them to shreds and qdinters. They lay scattered over the fields. Ilere a j. eee of broken furniture, and there a shattered door, and beyond an uudistiugui-hubic mass of tim bers and boards, floor beams, ceiling and raft ers. Even the bodies of the sufferers were torn to pieces. As an evidence of the fearful force of the ; tornado, it is mentioned in the telegraph from our sjieeial rcjiorter last evening, that of the victims,fragments of the bodies were scattered in all directions. An iron safe weighing nine hundred pound was taken from Johnson's store and carried thirty feet. Horses, cattle and hogs were taken up by the wind, carried in the air and dashed to the earth, killed by the fail. One cow was taken up, carried several rod-, and killed by the fail. 11 • r body lay at a distance from anything tin! could have inflic ted wound or injury upon her. A heavy cut stone door-step the dimensions of which are given to us as being some seven feet long by three in width, and several inches in thickness, was torn from its site and carried more than its length, or about twelve feet. The first trace of this violence is noticeable in Ellison timber, about a mile west of the vil lage, the place described bv John Mo\Vi!liam ns ' the meeting of the clouds," thence on through the timber, the evidences of its force were astounding. The trees do not seem to have been jirostra ted. They were only so in fact when released from the grasp of the storm King. They were pulled up by the roots, twisted, turned about pimply, and in j daces noticed by our informant, it seemed as if they had been torn up by groups, as a child would wantonly twist the tnjsof adjacent weeds and tear them from the ground. Trees a foot in diameter were thus made the sport of the tornado, and wore dashed crushed and*broken to the ground. WHAT Honrs COXCKAI.—At Buttle Creek, Michigan, the other evening, two gentlemen and a lady—one of the real skirt-expanders— got aboard the cars for Chicago One gen tleman and his wife had through tickets, while the other paid his fare only to the first sta tion. From certain manifestations, the eon duetor concluded it was the intention of the trio to dead-head one of the party through. On arriving at Augusta, the gentleman did not get out, and on search being made, he was found secreted in the ladies saloon. He was brought forth and directed to leave the train at the next station, but on arriving there he was not to be Lund. After a long and diligent search, in which everybody had be come interested, it was concluded he had leap ed from the train while in motion. Specula tion was then rife as to his fate, when a gen tleman sitting near the lady of Gig dimensions' hinted that those hoops might there " a mvs tery unfold." On producing a light, four feet were seen protruding from her jiettieoats,which it was unreasonable to suppose belonged to one person, and the lady being requested to rise, which she did after some hesitation, re vealing the lost passenger. A young man about sixteen years of o lose the other one. The poor sufferer i • iw.G MI -i \ i v erif;cal .mufioii Horrible Affair. A clergyman in Des Moines, lowa, writes to his friends in New York the following ac count of a horrible tragedy in that town : DES MOIJ.ES, lowa, Monday, May 24, 1858. A tragical and frightful affair has just oc curred in our midst. Last evening, about dusk, while sitting in my library, I heard a sc ries of agonizing shrieks, and on running out to the gate saw Elizabeth King, a young girl whose residence is near ours, running towards the house, covered with blood. She fell be fore reaching the gate ; we jacked her up and conveyed her to her house. The only words she uttered were, "Oh God ! Chandler and Rossiter are both dead.'' My son was off with my horse, by the time she had told this, and several men at once followed hi in. My son went more swiftly than the rest, and when on the hill which slojics down from the chapel, near the brickyard, his horse shied suddenly into the cojt.se, almost leajting over the I tody of Chandler, who lav there stone dead. 1 reached the spot five minutes later, with a lan tern. Chandler was stark dead, and Rossiter lay near him, soaking the soil with his blood, and moaning with a convulsive gasjt now and then. I called for water, and Hung it in his face and questioned him. His only reply was, Let me die," and he afterwards added that "he was a great sinner." I said, " Ask God's forgiveness, Charlie ; man will never forgive you." lie was taken into a house.— The news sjtread like wild fire. The Metho dists at meeting heard of it, and crowds con tinued to till the woods and a.ljuceiit copse.— Chandler wts borne 0:1 a board to K 's house. But Rossiter still lives, but only, of course, to die by the law, if not by his wound or poj ular violence. It npjiears that Eliza beth had a long time since rejected Ilossiter's suit in favor of Chandler, and he thirsted for revenge. A week ago to-day, 1 accosted him in the street, an i expostulated with him on his reckless intemperance—a new vice with him. He declared that his rival should never marry Elizabeth, and said that he chose drunkenness, for it was that " which would give him more favor with King"—the girl's father. I said, " Remember, Charlie, the judgment of the great day, and God's punishment." He rc jilied, " There is no more hell than I now en dure ; I now suffer the worst I can suffer."— It is suj>|>o-ed that he has been nerving him self by brandy for six or seven weeks for this deed of murder. He slejit with his victim, who was a generous, open-hearted fellow, a brick-mason lav trade. He ate with him last evening. After tea, Chandler and Elizabeth walked out together. Ito-siter hid himself in the copse, stejijied into the path behind them as they were coming home, and fired at Chand ler, with a pistol placed within an inch of his head. Chandler fell dead. Rossiter then fir ed at Ek/ihetli. She fell, but rose again. He presented his jiistol again at her, when she seized it, exclaiming " Oil, Charlie, don't kill uie." He tired, but tlie ball went tiirouah her hand, struck her shoulder, and passed in and out bet seen hT skull and the scalp, mak ing two holes in her bonnet. Ro-sitcr then (nit lite pistol to his own head, and fell with a horrid wound in the right side of it, from v. hieli blood flowvd in great quantities. Ciiaml ler will be buried from the church this after noon. WHAT wn.t. THE IN PI.E DO ?—Great anxie ty is now felt bv the opponents of the Lccomp ton Constitution throughout the States, em bracing the entire ILqiublican pi alanx and the great body of Anti-Lecomjiton Democrats, as to the result of the action to be taken bv the peojile of Kansas on the Lecompton bri bery bill. The repeated inquiry is made, what shall be done to prevent the people of Kan sas from accep:ing this bribe ? The Democ racy at Washington—the Lecomjiton, Pro- Slavery, Buchanan Democracy, regard it as a foregone conclusion that, with the |>rescnt in ducements held out, and with the control of the election in its own hands or in the hands of its corrujit millions, Kansas will come into the i nion a slave State, under the Lecomji ton Constitution. We must sav.as well to our 1 friends as to tlie miserable, mercenary minions |of tiie Administration. You mistake the j character of our people, when ynu imgine J there, is possibility of any such result. The mi s . ses of our people will spurn iri/h unmitigated • scorn and contempt any attempt to approach them ! with a bribe; and they have been so well edu- I cated in the devices of Democracy in Kansas, • as to be fully against every attempt to over '■ come them by intrigue or fraud. The people , arc fully posted a> to the action of Congress with i regard to this matter, and we have as yet found but one Judas in the whole Free-Slate j party, and he only conditionally so—the con- I dition being that CAI.IIOI X first issue certifi cates to Free-State i fiicers Tins condition complied with, and he would rest under an ad ditional bribe—that of being called to excr ei.-u the highest official functions known to a State Government. There are but few posi ' tion.s of that kind under Lecompton, conse ipicntly but few can t>e influenced bv any such ) considerations. — IMlC rence Repub. May :10. I S\r> AFFAIR AT AI.BION*. —We are pained to hear of an unfortunate occurrence at Albion, yesterday, which resulted in the sudden death of an estimable lady of that village. .Mrs j HIRAM SICKEI.S lost her life in consequence of taking poison by mistake for wine. As we : are informed, Mrs. SICKRLS went to a closet i and poured from a bottle what she supposed ' to lie wine, ami drank a considerable quantity. She was immediately seized by illness, and | told a lady who was in the house that she feared she had drank something else than wine. The lady gave her vinegar to drink and a physician was sent for. Dr. NOBI.F. j came and soon ascertained that she had drank ; aconite , a powerful poison used in the homoeo pathic practice. The Dr. applied such reme ; dies as he could command, but with no avail ; the lady expired in about two hours after tak ing the poison. It is supposed that the bot tle was brought from a drug store in haste by a son of deceased, who was visiting the fami ly. and had a sick child. The unfortunate occurrence caused much i excitement in Albion, where deceased lias ma ny relatives and friends.— Rochester Union. fca?" A large elk passed through Tunkhan nock, Pa., one day last week, destined for 1 Philadelphia, where, : we understand, it had been sold for the sum of SIOOO. The owner represented its weight at six HFNURF.II roi xns, nearly ?s heavy as a small horse.) and would trot a mile in two minutes and a half. It was broke to the harness and would drive well in a buggy. W'o learn that it was taken trom the wild of Xebrarbi, nm! i onl" f wo venr* old Uraiiforli ilcporter. E. O. GOODRICH, JiDl FOR. TOWAXDA : (Eljarshar) fllornutn, June 10, ISSS. I TKRMN —One DoH.tr per annum, incariably in advance. — Four weeks precious to the expiration of a subscription. notice will be given by a printed wrapper, and if not re newed, the paper will in all case# be stopped. CLI'BCINM — The Reporter will be sent to Clubs at the fol ! towing extremely loir rates : > copies f0r. .... 00 Jls copies for sl'2 00 10 copies for 800| 20 copies f0r. ... 15 00 ! ADVERTISEMENTS— For a square of ten lines or less. One Dollar for three or less insertions, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion. I JOB-WOKK — Executed with accuracy and despatch, and a i reasonable prices — with every facility for doing Rooks, Blanks, Hand-bills, Bali tickets, <§-r. MONEY may be sent by mail, at our risk—enclosed in an envelope, and property directed, ice will be responsible for its safe delivery. FOURTH OF JULY- We ore gratified in being able to state that the coming anniversary of onr National Inde pendence is to be celebrated in this place, place, in a manner worthy of the great event it commemorates, and of the public spirit of our citizens. The display to lie made on that day promises to be one of the finest ever wit nessed in this section of the country. Invita ' tions have been extended to Fire Companies in Bir.ghamton, Owego, Waverly, Elmira and Athens, to a portion of which favorable re sponses have been already received. The " F.iirchild Guards" a fine artillery company of Waverly, has promised to be present. It is now many years since the birth day of our National Freedom has met with an appro priate greeting in this place, and we rejoice to know that this year, at least, the proper man ifestations of the spirit of 'Tb will he exhibited by the descendants of those who achieved our Independence, or those who are enjoying the blessings secured by that glorious struggle. The 4th coming on Sunday, this year, the day previous, Saturday, has been selected upon which to hold the celebration. We have not yet learned the name of the orator of the day, , but that, with the programme, will shortly be announced to the public. We publish in our advertising columns, a proclamation from the President of the Sun- I bury an 1 Erie R. R , announcing the sale of the North Branch to a company. The Managers of the New North Biauch , Canal Company, are G. M. Holleuback, John Laporte, G. F. .Mason, II M. Fuller, II B. Wright. Col. Charles F Welles, Jr., is Pres ident, and Col. Ilolleuhack Treasurer of the Company. We mentioned Inst week, that an injunction ha l been applied for to restrain the Sunbury and Erie from consuniating tbe sale. The bill and ailidavit arc filed by John J. Sloeum, Esq. The hearing was set down for the 7th. A second bill was filed upon which Court enjoined the Company from further proceed ings and the Treasurer from negotiating Bonds until after hearing. I In the meantime tire Company is proceed ing with the necessary repairs upon the Canal. It is exported that by the Ft of July water will be in the entire distance. VIGILANCE COMMITTER IN* NEW ORLEANS.— A revolutionary movement occurred in New Orleans on Tuesday night, 2d inst., after the fashion of San Francisco, which resulted on Friday in the complete triumph of the Vigil ance Committee, the Mayor having resigued the municipal authority into their hands. Great preparations were made by both par ties in the morning, in anticipation of a colli sion, though the Mayor seemed to have some | difficulty in organizing his forces. Those of ; the Committee wore under the command of Maj. F K. Duncan, late of the F. S. army, and were well organized and drilled. The ex ! ctement was much increased as the day ad : vaneed, through various causes, one of which was the issue of an order by the Mayor for the arrest of John M iginuis, Esq., editor of j the True. Delta, and the threat of the oppo nents of the Committee to hang him it taken. At 1 o'clock P.M., a company of 50, under stood to be composed of men marked bv the Committee for punishment, took possession of • Canal-.-itreet with two cannon hut at *2 o'clock, when the announcement of the Committee's triumph was made, the crowd in Canal-street immediately withdrew and everything settled | down in quietness. At a regnlar monthly meeting of Naiad Fire Company, No. 2. held at the Engine - ' ft. ' House, on Friday evening, June 4, the follow j ing officers were elected for the ensuing term : Foreman —L I). MONTANYE. IS/ Ass't —CHARLES MEROCR. 2 d Ass J t —CITAS. 11. ALLEN. I Fipeman —WM. CONNELLY. Ass't Fipeman —EDWAßD BRITTON. Secretary- —O. I), (fooDEN'OUGH. Treasurer —F. B. CARY. This is a fine Company, composed of the youth of this place, and will, undoubtedly, " shine " on the coming 4th. _ AT a regular meeting of Franklin Fire Co., NO. 1, held at Firemans' Hall, on Satur day evening last, the following officers were elected for the ensuing term : Foreman —ll. A. CARY. IS/ Assistant —WM. B. DODGE. 2 d Assistant —ll. I>. ROCKWELL. Treasurer —ALl.EN M'KK AN. Secretary —J. 11. N i:\ i\s. I J'ipcman —GEOßGE BRITTON. JAMES K. MOORHEAD has been nominated for Corgre-', I \ the Bepublican •of \Megheny j county. A telegraph dispatch was on Friday receiv ed from General HARNEY by the Secretary of War, confirming the statement in a mspatch from St. Loais, to the effect that Governor C CMMING was reported to have been driven out of Salt Lake City. The intelligence, however, does not obtain full credence at the Depart ment, for the reason that General HARNEY merely repeats a report,and does not communi cate it as from direct intelligence to himself. Governor CL'MMIXG, it isbelieved, has returned to Fort Scott, as when he left there he intend ed to return in a fortnight. SZ&* IF A. BLRBANK, in addition to the many good things manufactured and kept at his Bakery and Confectionary establishment is receiving every day from New York, fresh supplies of fruit, pine apples, bananas, oranges, lemons, Ac. A SERIOFS AFFRAY. —We learn that on Sat urday last an altercation took place, in the Village of Springville, Susquehanna county, between a Mr. Bullard and a man by the name if George Wilson, which resulted in the severe of not fatal wound to the latter. The particu lars, as near as we could learn, arc these : It seems that Bullard had taken a pique at Wil son from some cause, and had previously ex pressed a desire to avenge Wilson. This op portnnity was presented on Saturday, in a blacksmith shop of that place, when some words passed between the parties, and Bullard seizing a pair of blacksmith's tongs, struck Wilson upon the side of his head cutting a large gash therein. No sympathy appears to lie expressed for Bullard. He was arrested and is now confined in the Jail of that county, to atone to the offended law. We understand they would not admit biifl to bail as the life of his victim is despaired of.— Tunkhalinock I km. DROWNED !—Two little children, a son and daugter of Mr. IVF.S, residing in the neighbor hood of Bennett's Mills, Middlebury, were drowned 011 Saturday, 29th ult., at about 110011. It appears, from the best information we can gather, that the little ones attempted to cross a small stream much swollen by the rains and, as it is conjectured, becoming ter rified fell in. The crossing was by a single plank. The bodies were recovered by the sor rowing parents about 30 minutes after the children w< re missed from the house. They were buried on Monday.— Tioga Agitator. DISTRESSING AND FATAL ACCIDENT. —On Tuesday afternoon last, about i oVock, a lit tle child of Mr. II W. WARNER, who resides on the corner of Fox and Frinklin Streets, was run over by a train of cars, while playing on the track near the Depot, and both of its legs and one ann were crushed and severed from its body. The little sufferer, who was but IS months old, lingered in the greatest agony till about 9 o'clock Tuesday evening, when death terminated its sufferings.— Ourego j Tinus. FATAL ACCIDENT. —On Saturday morning last, about 7 o'clock, Mr. FREDERICK DENNIS, a young mm about 23 years of age, while engaged in felling a large tree, about three miles south of this village, was struck by another tree, which was broken off and lean ing against the one which he was felling, kil ling liiui instantly. His head was literally crushed to pieces.— Our ego Times. M 11. LEONARD, M. D., writes ns from Orcntt Creek, l'a., that the wife of PATRICK LEARY, who resides near Johnny cake Dam. gave birth to three living girls, on Saturday, May 30th, all of which are doing well. The weight of the three, is about Twenty Four Pounds ! ! Patrick and bis wife can beat the world, we think, on the weight of living babies. Where is Rarimm ? He must inaugurate another Babies' show.— Waverly Advocate. We learn from the Scrauton Republican that a man named M.vi.ov, attempted to over take a locomotive, with his horse. He watch eg wheel of a large lathe. 11l the counterfeit the left foot of the mechanic is not visible, while iu the genuine note it cau be seen on close inspection. —The saw, shingle and lath mill of Henry S. Smith, near the Sullivan County line, was destroyed by tire on Wednesday fortnight, and with a large amount of lu mher. Supposed to have originated from the stove —At a banquet in Kingston, C. W., recent ly, Dr. Mackay .-aid : " I consider you have more liber ty here than on the other side. Your Government can not go on ruling the county against the wishes of the mass of people, as the United States can, a id does.'' Prof. Harvey, of Madison University, Hamilton, N. Y., baptized on the Ttli ult., Samuel S:fii thra, a native Japanese. He is a young man who is the relic of a Japanese crew who were wrecked in the North, crn Pacific. It is in contemplation to make hiin a mis sionary to his own people. —The following banks of this State are set down among the list of discredited ones, in Peterson's Detector ; Hank of Crawford county, Meadville Pa. ; M'-Kean county Hank, Smethport, Pa. ; Shamokin Bank, Shamokin, Pa. ; Tioga county Bank, Tioga, Pa. —lt is said that hundreds of gallons of milk are daily returned to the distilleries, in New York, unsold, and that the question now put to the venders of doubtful milk is, "Do you sell the long-tail or stump-tail milk." —ln Mifflintown, on the Juniata, last week, three houses were entered and robbed, in one night A'- teinpts were nude to rob several others, there, and in Lewistown.also in Williimsport. There are gangs of burglars taking tours through the country. —The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has decided that the premiums, over (1 per cent, interest, taken by building ass ciations is usurious, and that all contracts to pay or be charged with mure than law ful interest, are void. —Some miners near Pottsville, and boat men at Sunbury, recently undertook to raise their wages by ri iti.us .-trike, l.isf were taken into the sate keeping of the strong arm of law, and thwarted iu that direction. —Several fields and patches of wheat, grown the present season at Montgomery, Ala., have been ! harvested recently and the yield was fine and of the best j quality. A Dr. Porsey, of Hopewell, Bedford county. Pa., while in a state of intoxication, oil Monday last, swallowed a dose of laudanum, which produced his death in a few hours. Ilis remains were forwarded to i Huntingdon. —William A. Bell, a well-known citizen of Boston, was accidentally killed in that city on Friday j evening, by falling out of a window at his residence. —Air. Jacob Landis, of New Brittain town ship, Bucks county, l'a., lost three fine hor-es, which died of iuflamatory sore throat, or choking distemper, as call by some. A- yet, there has been no remedy found for it. —The company who own " the Leviathan, " are about to issue preferred shares to the amount of £172.- 0(10 to complete her works. This will make the total cost of the vessel £so4.2o2—about four millions of dol lars. —A Gorman barber named Conrad Hassin ger. committed suicide in Newark, N. J.. on Monday, by hanging himself in a room over his shop. Domestic troubles the cause. —Henry W. Pratt, the teller of the Graf ton Bank, who robbed that institution of $ 12.000, has been sentenced to the house of correction for eighteen months. —One of the best " gold diggings" in lowa is said to b.> on a small stream emptying into Skunk river a short distance below the mouth of Crooked creek. —The great Barnmn, the " inimitable Pliiu eas "is out in a card in tbe City papers, proposing to bring over the Opera and Ballet companies of Her Majes ty's Theatre, London, with manager Luuiloy, Orches tra, and all, for a -hort season in New York, Philadelphia and Boston. The estimated cost is only $300,000. —A fire broke out in the large public school house, Cattawissa, not long since, which was got under by the old fashioned engines, men and women with full buckets of water. The Bloomsburg Republican says there has been no great calamity by fire iu Cattawis sa in her history of sixty years. A happy exemption ! A man, by the name of I). C. Tiffany, from the green hills of Susquehanna, was swindled cut of f 2j iu New York, last week, by the patent safe game. —A colored child of Lewis Thomas, about four years of age, was drowned in Kishacoquillas creek, la'wistown, ou Friday week, by falling from a skiff. The body was recovered, a short time after falling in, but life was extihet. Another tornado has visited Illinois, more disastrous in effect, even, than than the one previously reported. The village of Ellison, about twelve miles south of Monmouth, containing about five hundred inhsl - itants, was entirely destroyed, every house in the place being blown down, and fifteen persons being killed, and several others fatally injured. It is believed that not one of the inhabitants escaped some personal injury. —liufns Choate is sujrjrested by a Democrat ic paper as a candidate for Governor of Massachusetts at the next election. To reconcile the party to the noraina. tiou, the suggestion is accompanied with a hint that the Democrats will probably fail to elect their ticket this year, whoever is run. There is little or no pro bability that he would accept auy office which can be offered him. lt is understood, however much the Presi dent may desire to visit the West during the recess of Congress—publication hav ing been made that such was his intentions —that the pressure of public business will prevent him so doing. —A senator of the United States will be chosen at this session of the New Hampshire legislature, in place of John I'. Hale, whose term of service expires with the present Congress. No man believes in uousense, aitliogh ho often speak- it. Hear the other side. The only British outrage which r Cass has thought worthy toebmaJe the' ofi.n official representation to the tor, so far as Congress and the JL 11 ** advised, is that of the Cortes. We rmi'i— the correspondence and testimony in t| . * a few days since, 'flic witnesses assert* I *'* she had the American flag flying at head, and lite American Couiuf 8av d 7 tir her papers. Per contra, a the Herald writes from Kingston J* I ''.* (see another column,) that the Cortes bronght in there to be tried as a slave- no (lag was flying at the time of her t 'j and that there were no papers or other ment on board to indicate her nation' Now here is an important difference to facts. Mr. Ulythe, our Consul at is from the state of Mississippi, and ly what lawyers term "a willing the slave-traders. Should it torn oot tb Cortes had no flag flying, nor papers in I'''' the circumstance will go far to direct vy. 1 ' to the source of this extraordinary ' 1 ness about the inviolability of our fla" \j '* time, our readers will do well to keeper-! * those who wish to divert public atteutio' f. Kansas, upon those who wish for an iv- ' : of the navy ; upon those who wish en the arms of the President, with a v / ulterior designs upon Mexico and America ; upon those who want contract, and lastly, upon these who desire to coma,.' themselves to that-large and useful port on our adopted citizens, who believe that E - is tlie natural enemy of the human rj " Keening Post. TERRIBLE SITUATION.—A correspondent u Halifax, in this county, narrates the f ' ! ing thrilling incident: " One day of last he says, " a man named John ilorson li-•„ in the vicinity of this place, while out bun*;-- on the mountains below town, was one place to mount a high rock, by sera :. •! up the side. When he arrived near the ," he throw up his hand, and caught hold below ; to proceed further, au tea,.: fearful calamity awaited him. He wasa-;, of extraordinary nerve, however, and haTijg reflected a moment on his dreadful position thought betook him, which he was not slot ito execute. Taking his hatchet, which he or ried by his side, from its belt, with the :< ha M 1 he raised his body sufficiently over > top of tiie rock, and with one well dire blow, he cut the.savage reptile in two,justu it had prepared to make the fatal--printg t wards his person. The one portion of tk j snake immediately fell down the side of & rock, while the head still remained beside la hand fast to the tree, and it was some ia? before life was entirely extinct or he en.; move his hand, fir fear of its fangs. Aftr the snake was fully dead, took up & pieces, and after wrapping them upinapaprl started for home, satisfied with theadventures of that day." This incident is one of theme* thrilling we have ever heard, and oar ir. r mant vouches for its correctness. — Harris in; Herald. MR: MINER : —I sit down with a sad her to communicate to you the melancholy dea:: of the Rev. Joseph Barlow, of Franklin. ;> (|uchanna county, hut formerly of Provides: Luzerne county, where he was pastor of tb* Presbyterian church for a number of ycars- His death occurred on Saturday night the £: inst. The family bail retired at the usual hor when about midnight Mr. Barlow and his!iJf were awakened by a cracking noise and smell of something burning. Mr B iran diately rose from his bed and proceeded to adjoining room from whence the noise seen: : to proceed, and upon opening the door he v. met with fire and smoke. He perhaps inb': the flame instantly, as he fell to the floor, L: still clenched the handle of the door by hand. Mrs. I>. rushed to him and finding him pre trate used all her power to drag him a*a r but such was the death-like grip with WLAS he had taken hold of the handle of t! e d v : that slie found it impossible to move liirn. H" screams aroused the other members of thefaro 1 - ly who had only time to escape before : 1 house was completely filled with tire and -'n k J The fire was early discovered by one o! ti* neighbors, who rallied all the assistance fea sible, but to uo purpose, as the house and ft'- liitnre were entirely consumed, andbutasow portion of the body of Mr. Barlow waste covered. Strange indeed is the Providence that r 1 moves a servant of God from the Church at his family so suddenly and so terribly. Mr. Barlow was a venerable man, perhu -7b years of age, and as I 'earn had -ervea Church faithfully a large number of years Record of the Tunes. RORRKRY RY WHOLESALE —On Thure> night the dwellings of Muj. Perkins, .Mr • White and Air. E. S. Lowe were entered burglars, and robbed. At each place, c -' dcrstand, the thieves entered the sleeps rooms of the occupants and carried away clothing of the sleepers to other parts of ■■■ house, where they rifled the pockets at ' ,f " leisure. Mr. White lost about twenty do Alaj. Perkins from teu to fifteen and Mr. L*' about ten. The thieves also made an atu# to rob Air. Samuel Torbett, but were ered and driven away. Air Torbett s|,< ttiere were two of them—a large and a man. They seem to be armed with ail the a t pliances necsssary to carry on their busui snch as nippers for turning from the keys sticking in the inside of the (loor-'A J India rubber shoes to prevent noise, Ac. Saturday night two men, supposed to be same fellows, entered the dwelling :" t George Alaag, near Jersey Shore, ''.v tu _ • the door-key with their nippers. Air- was aroused by the noise, and on coming'' stairs, met them in the hall. His descnp wl of them corresponds with Air. Turhett s. On Saturday -light the smoke-house of • John K. Hays was robbed of a number of hams and shoulders. Runyan was also robbed, a short tiuie air o ' a large ijuautity of meat. — Lycoming t&~ A woman's body has been Hume of the Washington Mills, There are circumstances known to tlic which make it probable that city w>'| ' . add another ' horrible tregcdCt '- r list.