[From the Evening Port.] The Great Floods. Our exchanges, which for six or seven weeks have heen filled with accounts of deluging rains lioui Kansas to the Atlantic, tornadoes here anil there, rivers overflowing their banks, little streams swollen to great torrents, town- sub i urged, iiuiiicnse crevasses and great destruc tion of property in consequence, now announce that the rains have for the most part ceased, that the great rivers have reached their max iintim height, and as their head waters arc Jowly falling, that the floods may at once be expected to abate. The Mississippi river and its tributary livers, the Ohio and .Missouri, have risen to a height unparalleled since the Moods of lift), but when it is considered over 1 itw large a portion ot the area which they drain, these rain storms have extended, it can not be wondered at. It has been calculated that one third of the average rain fall of the year has been brought within the compass of forty days, and that on this large portion of our territory fifteen inches depth of rain lias been averaged. Of course the soil was soon saturated, and the surplus water (lowed off and helped to swell the rivers and streams. The tornadoes and flooding rains which were so fre quent in the western states during the month of May, lmve been repeated in the east during 'he present mouth, though with considerably less violence. The destruction of property by these torna does and by the floods has been immense. In some villages of Illinois, one or more members of every family were hurt, by the overthrow of wooden buildings or brick chimneys, the up rooting of trees or the whirlwind violence of these tornadoes. The floods, where they do not float awav property, leave everything but the earth and its products pretty much a* they were before ; but the effect of them upon the crops of the present year is ruinous, though the richness of the alluvial deposits may help to make up for it hereafter. The Ohio last week at Cairo was forty-one feet above the point established by the engineers of the Cairo an 1 Illinois Central Companies as the line of ordin ary low water mark, and was within a foot of the grade of the levees. The crevasses of the Mississippi have, in some instance, relieved the flooded banks of that immense river ; but the flooding of the bottom lands has been more de trimental than the submergence of a few towns along the banks. The total loss by the floods is simply incalculable. It is clear that these excessive quantities of raia and other atmospheric irregularities orig inate in causes beyond the regions where they occur, and even beyond the Continent itself. A writer in the Philadelphia ,\u/k Atncri m conjectures that the southern hemisphere, or the opposite half of the northern hemisphere, will be found to have suffered a deficiency of rain corresponding to our excess, and that the excessive heat reported as prevailing in Australia, remotely, if not directly, influenced the supply of this part of tlic earth with an fxcess of moisture evaporated from the south ern seas. Whether this conjecture is well founded or not, experience enables us to assert that such violent irregularities in atmospheric conditions do not occur at more frequent inter vals than once ia twenty years, and it is not entirely a matter of conjecture that they cor respond in some sense to those violent changes in the human system, which, though disagree able at the time, nevertheless prevent the ac cess of some destructive disease, or work out the couditious of some future good. A NEW YORKER'S VISIT TO Vnsrvirs. Mr. Edmund M. Young, a New York merchant, now travelling in Italy, m.ikes, in a letter to a friend, the following mention of the late eruption of Vesuvius : " 1 have been here at a good time to -ee Vesuvius. For some days last week there had been more or les- of an eruption. The ascent of the mountain is partly m ide on horse back, but the cone to the crater is very steep and difficult. J found it extremely fatiguing, but persevered, and finally stood on the very top, looking directly into the crater ; and of all awful, horrible places, this cups the eliiuax. I walked over the top, the fumes of the sul- 1 phur nearly suffocating ine, and the blazing fire everywhere to be seen through the crevi ces, while the roar of the boiling lava fell up on the ear like the waves of the ocean. In fact, I stood upon a mere crust over the fire, and thrusting my stick through the occasional fissures, brought it out in a bla/.?. Theie was m >re danger than I was aware of at the time —so much so that nothing would tempt mc to undertake it again. The descent on the oppo site siiio of the mountain is made with com parative case. Wiieti we had reached the bot tom of the cone, we found that near where we had made the ascent, and while we were on the mountain, several new small craters had broken out, and were spouting forth red hot stones and lava at a fearful rate. We aj>- proaehed as near as safety would permit, and beheld a sight most awfully grand and sub lime. It is a satisfaction that I have been on Vesuvius under such circumstances, but I should never desire to repeat the operation." A YOUNG DEVIL. —The Baltimore Republi can gives the following as a few of the exploits of a boy only fifteen years of age, tiie son of a very respectable citizen of that city. "Not long ago, a young Newfoundland dog, the favorite of his father, was securely tied by this young Nero, who saturated the body with carnphenc or ethereal oil, and set lire to the inflammable fluid, which had the elTcct of roasting poor Towser until life lie came extinct, after the endurance of the most intense, agonizing suffering which the human mind can conceive. " The young demon being well pleased at the result of this grand experiment in cruelty, next endeavored also to roast alive his little sister, a bright, intelligent child, about six years of age. Having playfully bound her legs and arms with a clothes line, he placed her upon the cooking stove in the kitchen, heated to an intense degree, in order to pre pare dinner for the family. The shrieks and yells of the agonized little victim were fortu nately heard by the mother, who rushed down and removed the poor child before she was fa tally injured. Toleration of tlie young vil lain's crimes had now ceased to lie a virtue, an 1 the father was engaged in preparations to, effect his removal to the House of Itefugc, when the hopeful youth suddenly disappeared at night from his dwelling, and no tidings have beeu heard of him since." Hoc Cnoi.siu.—The hog cholera ha* been raging to a fearful extent of late throughout various portions of the country. Many far mers have lost nearly their entire stock. In \ alley horge it lias swept off hundreds, and is still raging. The prospect for pork in IV u ' "'D b certainly wiy unnroifii-inu News from all Nations. -The New York Sun says that, at a recent meeting <>f the si ckholders of the .New York and Erie Kailr-cnl. a st.it. uient was nt ile, by which it appears that the Company h> I. >-t ground to the tune of $400,064 dur ing the last six ni >nth.s. Other items swell the ileflcieu cy, in i. ding to meet obligations, to half a mill ion. \ Youth about IS years old, rode from I Toledo to Cleveland, one hundred and twenty miles, on the truck of a passenger car. When the cars arrived at Cleveland he was covered with dust, his liiubs tremen d >u>ly -tiff, and his in mth and nose so clogged with du-t that he could scarcely speak. On being safely landed lie very naturally complained of a roaring in his head. —The .Montour Iron Work? were sold at Sheriff s sale last Thursdavweck for finiS. sul.je -t to mort gages of SOOO,OOO. Michael v. Porter, lie started Wc-t on Saturday. —Mr. Schcnck.of Franklin, Warren county, Ohio, writes to the Ohio Fanner, thai the gr.i-shoppers are in iking th ir appearance there in vast numbers. He says : " I. i-t year we had millions of them ; this year we have hundred ■ of millions.'' For live years. Irelys, they j have been increasing on his farm,and he fears that.uii!e-s some means arc discovered for their destruction,they will totally ruin his own and his neighbors" clover fields. —The British Crown has recently purchased from the owners, the mansion of Longwood, formerly the residence of Napoleon I, with three acres attached, as als" the valley4n which the Emperor's tomb stands, con taining about twenty-three arc-, and presented the same to Louis Napoleon ami his heirs, iu perpetuity. The price I paid for b >t'i was about rid,ol'). 1 —Mr.Elisha Roberts, of Madison Co.,K. Y., has a colt which lus been foaled with only one eye—a large one right in the middle "1 the forehead. —The business at Nantucket continues dull. There arc six- whaling vessels lying di-mmtlcd at the wharves. There is one, however, being refitted and will ere long be e pupped for her distant voyage. There are now only thirty whale ships belonging to the portengag | ed in the fishery. A number of gray squirrels which had been placed in the public squares of W.vllavcii have been driven from their lodging-places by swarms of lioney , bees. —The prints works of Phillip Allen & Sons, Providence, If. 1., w -resold at auction for $124,800, and bid off to the Woonsocket Company. The whole cost of the works was not less than $750,000. I —A gentleman who has of late traveled n extensively iu the Indian territory, west of Arkansas and south of Kansas, informs the Chicago Tribune, that hun j dreds of white settlers from Arkansas and Missouri have ! quietly moved into that region and occupied the waste lauds belonging ti the Indians, and that the Indian agents connive at it. —The treaty concluded between Commis sioner Mix and the delegation of Lower Sioux Indians | confines the tribe to that portion of the lands reserved to them by the treaty of is.il,south of the Minnesota Kiver, - and divides it among tin* heads of families so as to allow I c.u-h 80 acres, and retains the residue the common prop -1 erty of the tribe. —A riot lias occurred among the lumber men at "Still water, Minnesota, which the military were 1 called upon to quell. The leaders of the riotous demon stration have been arrested. No damage was doue. —The trial of George W. Harby, for mur der, in killin : Charles H. C. Stone, in March last, for the seduction of his daughter, was commenced and ended on Friday last in New Orleans, where the killing occurred. The result was an unqualified verdict of " Not guilty," which was r-reived with the loudest demonstrations of ! approval, which the Court found it impossible to restrain. i It is something noteworthy that a trial of s > much impor i tanre, and in which so much interest was felt, should only occupy a day. —lt is feared that Brigham Young has been ' acting possum with the U. S. authorities. —Mr. Colpeltzer, formerly of Union Co., Pa. and lately one of Montgomery's ruffians, was shot and killed in Kansas. He was married to a Miss Orwig near Mifiiinbtirg. —Appollos Woodward, Esq., formerly As sociate Judge of Lycoming county, died on the 21st inst., at his residence, tVilltamsport, in tiro H tth year of his age. Judge Woodward emigrated to Williamsport, from New Jersey, more than half a century ago. He had been twice married ami leaves several children—-<>mc of tbein very young—besides a number of grand-children arid great grandchildren. Bogus halves and quarters are nearly as t numerous a> the genuine cuius of these denominations.— They air easily detected by their extreme lightness, arid the rich greasy feel they have when passed betweeu the 1 thumb and finger. Mr. Win. Evens, now a resident of Bos tun, Mass., has recently made a donation to the town ol SmitlillcM, in that state; of ? IO.tXM) as a grateful tribute i for the support of himself and parents by said town, dur ing hi- infancy and childhood. His p >rents and himscif and o'!;< r children, w< re paupers in aid town and wcr<- iVu m.i' y )car- upported 'o it. E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR. TOAV A X DA: (Tl)iirsdan Xilorninn, Jnlti 1, 183 S. 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SHOCKING ACCIDENT AT A MASONIC CELEBRA TION.— A masonic celebration was held in Wellsville, N. V., Friday, June 25. After the oration, the meeting adjourned to a large i hall for dinner. About seven hundred persons had entered the hall, when about half its tloor gave way, precipitating about three hundred of the company to the next floor ; and at ihc same instant the floor above followed, with a ! quantity of cutters, fan.ting-mills, lumber, Ac., i burying the mass of people in the ruins. No i one was killed, but from forty to fifty persons ) were wounded, sonic twenty of them badly. Mr. and Mrs. METCAI.E, of Wellsville, Mrs. DANIEI. DEXTER, of Independence, Mrs. Coi ns, of Bingham, Pa., auu a Mr. JOHNSON, of Friendship, are reported dangerously injured. A Surveying Expedition to the Japan Seas is about to leave the United States, un der the coiauuud of Lieut. Brooke, of the U. S. Navy. They will leave from San Francis co, surveying the route across the Pacific to China and Japan. It is said there arc more ihan 450 small islands, reefs and shoals 0:1 that route, which are not located oa any chart yet compiled ; and in view of the rapidly in creasing commerce between our ports on the Pacific and China and Japan, the Secretary of the Navy has determined to do what lies in his power to dissipate an ignorance which lias already proved fatal to 111 iny a gallant ship. fey* By the arrival of the steam ship Tc nnrs scc at New-Orleans,we receive highly important news from Mexico —dates from the city being to the 19th, and from Vera Cruz to the 22 1 inst. Great excitement existed at the capita! with reference to the forced loan, all foreigners not complying with its terms being ordered to leave the country. The goods of the Ameri can residents who refused to submit, had been seized, and the American Minister, Mr FORSYTH had in consequence demanded and reecivcd his passports. The party favoring JUAREZ are re presented to be everywhere gaining strength, and /CURIA, fearing the consequences to him self should they ultimately succeed, was going to Tampico for refuge. lixiNots POLITICS—' The Republicans of Il linois seem to be thoroughly united in favor of the lion. Abraham Lincoln, us their candi date for United States Senator to succeed Judge Douglas. Out of one hundred Repub lican county conventions which have been held in the State, resolutions in his favor have been adopted by ninety-five. Mr. Lincoln was al ways a leading Whig during the existence of that party, and is a reliable man. fey" Senator Cameron entertained, at his residence, Lochicl, near llarrisburg, 011 Tues the loth inst., Lord Napier, and the British Minister, and Count Sartiges, the French Min ister, accompanied by Senator Seward, the Hon. Humphrey Marshall and other members of Congress, and the whole*party afterwards visited Pottsvillc, the Cornwall Iron Ore Bank, Reading, the coal mines etc., accom panied by Mr. Oullen, the President of the Reading Railroad, and Mr. Kortright, the British Cousul at Philadelphia. DEATH OK THE HON. ROBERT T. CONRAD—• The numerous friends of the Hon. Robert T. Conrad will regret to hear of his death,hvhich occurred at 7 o'clock, Sunday night, at his residence on the Lancaster Turnpike, above Market street, West Philadelphia. The de ceased hud been confined to his bed but a few days, and nothing serious was anticipated from his illness until Sunday afternoon, when he began rapidly to fail, and at 7 o'clock in the evening expired. FEY* The Jury in the case of Mrs. LITTLES, 011 trial at Rochester for the murder of her husband, rendered a verdict of guilty of man slaughter in the second degree, and the Court immediately sentenced her to Sing Sing for seven years—the longest term. FLORAL MUSICAL FESTIVAL.—A Musical Fes tival will be given at the Court House, on Wednesday evening, Jane 30, by Miss M. S. SMITH, who has been teaching the little girls of this place. The exercises will cousist of an agreeable and pleasing variety of Glees, Songs and Colloquies, and will form an even ing's entertainment of an interesting character. tkifer- A most violent rain storm passed over this place 011 Thursday last, flooding the streets, filling celiacs, and doing considerable damage. In Granville the same day, a hail storm did considerable damage to the growing crops THE NEW VOKK INEBRIATE ASYLIM —The location of the New York Inebriate Asylum having been fixed at Hinghamtoii, the citizens of that place have donated to the trustees of of the institution two hundred and fifty two acres of laud for their use and occupancy, at an estimated value of fifty thousand dollars. — The buildings will be situated a little way out side the village, on a plateau of two hundred and fifty-two feet elevation above the river, commanding a view of the Chenango and Sus quehanna velleys to a distance of twenty miles The work of excavation commences this week, and the walls will go up as rapidly as the funds will warrant. A boat fifty thousand dol lars have been subscribed, a portion of which is paid in already. Among the subscribers are no less than eight hundred physiciaus, four hundred clergymen, ninety judges, and ninety editors, the President of the United States and his Cabinet officers, Justices McLean, Crier and Wayne, Martin Van Buren, and other dis tinguished gentlemen. The trustees are sixty in number, and are men of the highest charac ter as individuals and men of business. KNIGHTS TKMIM.AI:.— The following gentle men have been installed officers of the Grand Commandery of Knights Teuiplar, for the en suing year : A. Jordan Swartz, of Heading, 11. E. G. Commander, in place of Bmjamiu Parke, Esq., of llarrisburg, who declined a re-election. W. 11. Allen, of Philadelphia, V. I). 11. G . Commander. C. E. Kuapp, Bloomsburg, E. G. G. J. A. Wright, Lowisbirg, E. C. G. Rev. B. II Wangh, llarrisburg, E. G. P. J. li. Hutchinson, Philadelphia, E.G.S. W. Alex. Wishart, Washington, E. G. J. W. Albert Culbertson, .Mouongahela City, E. G. Treasurer. Alfred Creigh, Washington, EG Il'cordcr Geo. 11. Clark, Pottstown, E G. St. B. Geo. 11. Bull, Towauda, E. G. Sw. B. Wra. C. Warden, Pittsburg, Warder. H. L. Smith, Altooiwi, G. Sent. THE An. ANTIC C.vnr.E.— Ol the 10th of June, the international fleet, bearing the cable that is to unite European an 1 American continents, sailed from Plymouth, England, and ere this, unless some accident has happened, they have parted in mid-ocean, an J, while Hie Agamem non is carrying one end to the coast of Ire laud, the Niagara is carrying the other to the coast of Newfoundland. Another Week mav bring each vessel to "ncr destine I haven, and solve the problem of the practicability of a telegraph across the Atlantic. Tue failure of last year has greatly diminished the public in terest in this grand experiment of the age ; but the confi lonce of scientific men in its ulti mate success is not diminished, and there is at this moment a deep and absorbing anxiety in thousands of great minds on both sides of the ocean, as to the ultimate issue of the under taking. POCKET PICKED.—A gentleman from this County, we see by the Philadelphia papers, while crossing the river 01 Thursday morning to take the 0 o'clock train for New Y'ork, had his wallet containing $2 >O, abstracted from his pocket. Tee thief got oil" with his pluu der and the loser returned to the city to lodge information of his 10-s at the Central station. fepThere is an organized gang of swindling ! ind brokers in Northern lowa and Southern Minnesota who are bound together by secret oaths and pass-words. They rob the emigrants by selling them counterfeit titles to lands. In lowa there are already detected sales of land to the amount of one hundred thousand dol lars, under these fictitious titles. S&- The appointment of Mr. Buekalew as Minister to Ecuador, creates a vacancy in the State Senate, which will have to be filled next fall. The counties of Columbia, Montour, Northumberland and Snyder form this Sena torial District. Judge Oaks and Col. James MoCormick, of Montour, and W.u. Forsyth, Esq, of Northumberland, have been meutioued as candidates for the succession. MAINE REPUBLICAN STATE CONVENTION.— The Republican State Convention, held at Au gusta, Friday, unanimously nominated lion. LOT M. MUKUILL for Governor. TIIB MILITARY ENCAMPMENT. —The Wiliiamsport Gazelle says " there is every in dication that the Military encampment to be held at this place, in September, will be the largest ever known in Pennsylvania. The or ders of Gov. Packer and Adjutant General Wilson have been published throughout the State, and we have the intelligence from a reliable source that about sixty companies have already reported to head-quarters their intention to be present. Gen. Wilson, when in Wiliiamsport, a few weeks ago, gave it as his opinion that the occasion would bring to gether nearly or quite ten thousand soldiers. The encampment is intended, as well be seen by the general orders, to embrace the military companies of the entire State—not merely a siugie division as is usually the ease—and pre parations arc being made here and elsewhere accordingly. We anticipate such a military display as will be hard to surpass in peaceful times. MASONIC UNION IN NEW YORK. —The Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons closed their session on Monday, after* effecting a free complete union with the Grand Lodge over which M. W. Jenkiuson presided. The di vision between these two bodies dates as far back as 1849, and the re-union thus effected is a garnd event among the fraternity. Congra tulatory sjieechcs were made by Captain Ryn ders, James Jenkinson and John F. Lewis. Representatives of the Grand Orient of France Peru, Venezuela, and of the Grand Lodges of Missouri, Canada, Minnesota. SitKonv. etc, were present Sidney llaydkii vs. The Willianwport and Elniira Rail road (' jiupatiy. iu the Court of (Jowmou I'lea;. of Iliad lord County. CHAIWK OF THE COURT. This action is brought to recover damages for injuries which the Plaintiff complains fee rect ived, in being thrown from the I til-roa< 1 track thro' the negligence of Defendants agents. The plaintiff was a passenger upon tiie road, ami by the terms of the contract,the defendants were bound to carry him safely, unavoidable accidents excepted. Kail road Companies do not become the in surers of the lives and limbs of their pa>sen gers ; but are bound to the highest degree of skill and care for their safety. They are liable for the slightest neglect, the least imprudence, wlu-reby the >aleLv iff the passenger is pot ia jeopardy. The law demands of the agents aud employees of the Kail-road companies iii behalf of the passenger, a degree of care, limited only by human skill and foresight ; nud a failure to come up to this standard, the law pronouu ces negligence. Then accidents only are re garded as unavoidable, which no care and skill could have prevented. Regard for hu man life demands that these stringent but just principles should be enforced by Courts aud Juries. To hold doctrines less rigid and exacting, would bring reproach upou the civi lization and Christianity of the age, cheapen human life, and make it the sport of the thoughtless or reckless men, often by habit, grown insensible or indifferent to danger, iu the inaiutainaucc of these principles society will | liud its highest safety, uud railroad Companies ultimately their true interest. Competing com panies, now too often engaged in rivalship of speed with a view to draw travel and enhance | their profits, will learn that dividends and the value of stock depend more upon the safety, than upon the speed with which they run. Von will, gentlemen, apply these principles to the facts of this case, and say whether or not, the accident of which the Plaintiff com plains, was unavoidable. If so the Plaintiff cannot recover. Every man must hear for himself those inevitable accidents, that may providentially befall him ; but no one should ever go from a court of justice unredressed, where his injuries were the result of another's negligence. Here the presumption of the law is against the Defendants. The law presumes them guilty of the negligence charged in the declaration, and the burden of proof is thrown upon them, to establish satisfactorily to your own minds, that the accident was unavoidable and in no degree the result of negligence. The Court here read to the jury the point submitted by the defendant's coutisc' and charged that it was substantially correct— that if the cars were not run at a greater rate of speed than was consistent with prudence and safety, considering the curvature and con dition of the road, and in view of the facts shown in the cause, the plaiutiff was not enti tled to recover. The court could not under take to say what rate of speed upon this road and at this point, was consistent with prudence aud safety. That depended upon many circum stances, and in this case is properly a question for the Jury under the evidence. A railroad track laid with unusual care and cost,and over which a vigilant police is constantly kept, so that every part of the track is carefully in spected after the passage of a train, and before the arrival of the next, and on which signal stations arc maintained, so that the engineer has at all times in sight a signal to assure him of safety or warn liirn of danger—upou such a road a much higher rate of speed would be consistent with prudence & safety, than upon one less carefully constructed, and less vigilant ly managed. The presumption of negligence is not over thrown, and the prudence and safety of the speed established by the mere fact that cars had Iveen frequently or u-ually run over the Koad at this point at the same speed. If so, an end would be put to nearly all cases of this character. It is doubtless a rare contingency, that two accidents of a similar nature to this, occur at the same point, or in close proximity; : and it could therefore generally be shown that the cars had run safely over a given and short piece of the Koad at the same rate of speed, until the occasioning of the accident complain ed of. You will, from the whole evidence in the cause bearing upon the question, deter -1 mine as to the nature and cause of this accident. If unavoidable the plaintiff cauuot recover. If the evidence fails to satisfy you that it was un avoidable —if you believe it could have been prevented by the exercise of the highest skill and caution, then were the defendants guilty of negligence, and the plaintiff is entitled to recover damages for the injuries he sustained. The measure or amount of damages from the nature of the case, is much within the discre tion of the Jury— a discretion, however, that must be controlled by the evidence. If you find the plaintiff's cause of action complete, he is entitled to recover not only such damages as lie may have sustained up to this time,but pros pective damages, or such damages as you be lieve under the evidence, lie will sustain in the future. You may properly consider his ability to labor and manage business prior to the inju ries of which lie complains, and his present ability or inability thus to labor and embark in business for the maintainaiicc of himself and family. LAKE'S TRIAL. —The trial of General LANF., Commander-in-Chief of the Kansas militia for the nnirder of JF.KKIXS, was commenced at Lawrence on the 14th instant. The killing is admitted by LAKE'S counsel, who contend, how over, that it w;L3 done in self-defence. Thus far the proof is that JKKKIKS persisted in going to the well for water after LAVE had repeated ly threatened to shoot him if he did. YOUTHFUL MURDERER. —The Grand Jury of Albany county has found an indictment against a boy, leas than twelve years of age, for mur der. Ou the ltith of April some boys were piayiug marbles ; two of them had some dis pute about their game, and during the melee Joseph Callahan, Jr., was stabbed through the heart by Michael Norton. DEATH BY DROWKIKG. —Wo regret to loam, that a little son of Mr. Matthew Tallman, of Muncy Creek township, aged about five years, was drowned in Money Creek, about n mile from this place on Eriday last. He had gone into the water alone to bathe, and getting beyond his depth was drowned before assis tance arrived. I lis body was recovered soon after and was buried on Saturday.—Muiuif Luuiim rtf. fiSafSenator CRITTENDEN, on his way to his home in Kentucky, had an enthusiastic reeqv tion at Ciucinatli ami Covington. At the for mer place an address of wel<">me rns >mtdc bv ihe Hon TU M\- CPTUHN CELEBRATION OP TIIE 82.1 ANXIYKRS.Ua OK AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE AT TO W A X 1> n Saturday, July 3, 1858. PROGRAMME OF ARRANGEMENTS, fee, PKKSIDKNT -AV.M. ELWELL, F-g. ORATOR—JOHN' ADAMS, E RKAUKK— G. H. WATKIXs*. E ? CHIEF MARSHAL— J COL. JOHN" K. MEAN* ASSISTANT M \U-H ALS-COL. JOHN' A. CULIII MA J. JERK - j down Main Street to a [• '.at a few rods L i.,,. I Road Hotel : return up Main Street to tic- P!.,-ik"p " up the l'lank Koad to tite Grove ot M. M, ,"p The liue will there I e dispose 1 el and placed a I to the order of the Chief Marshal. ORDER OF EXERCISES. Prayer. Music. Reading Declaration of lad Musi.-. Oration. M -K. Line of procession will re-form in the same march through Lombard Street to Second sinvt ; ,. Second Street to Pine ; down Fine to M i.n St V to the Public Square, and di mi-s for dinner. FfREMEX'S PARADE, Signal le!Is at P. M. Grand parade. snuff* „ of the whole Department, comprising six ( imac . der the direction of Chief Engineer, 11 o. Oi>u. MILITARY PARADE. The FAIRCMU.D GI'ARIS will jnrsdc inrr. -i after the parade of the Fire Department. g'f In the evening. Grand Firemen's T>r a cession, with other Fire Works. The Committer *, take every precaution to prevent accident e cS'ithed tvitll fail Muni qui aa: prevent disf-iriAnee, mT th< law strict!'.- ■■•! odeiulers. The seats in trout of the stand, and i. jrr ..iiids, will lie strictly reserved for Lathes „_-i . children, until tin v are* suppli. J. w. c. hog ART, ) H. J. MADII.L, Comi- " I*. POWELL, | kriF" The fallowing interesting leUtr bj Gen. CASE WHS written to be read at the !;• Pioneer Festival at Montrose. It is a kit' fill sketch of tlie deprivations ami trials . dent to pioneer life—trials which to us, almost unendurable, but which to our foref: thers were not of snch magnitude. TYret many yet living iu Bradford, who will n .*- nize in this letter a faithful portrait of u: scenes through which they, too, pa.-vd, iassi duing the forest, and making oar C >u-•- what it now is, one of the most productiv..... pleasant in the State My father, Reuben Case, moved from Gr. ville, Washington Co., N. V., in tiie wr of 179J, and took op two lots of laud, w; he bonght of the State of Conecuh "!', fms then in Angustia township, Luzerne Co, ' Troy township, Bradford Co, 01 which r.-.m he built, the summer before, a log cabin fir logs high, (but they were big ones, ov it with bark, flooring and door off: lit basv ■ plank, with one end of the home left for a fir place and cliinimey, a hole left in t!ie barkr i'or the smoke to go out. In thi- shanty kj moved his family, consisting of a wifcaiul tnn j children, I being the oldest, then i my n: year—arrived there the sc :: r ' between my father's cabin and tifc rir r, Shesheqniii as it was called) a distance ot i miles, along np t?ngar creek. Dor wearc mill was on the river, and 1 have frepeat' been to mill horseback, to John SliqGtrt some three miles above Tioga Point, a - ' of the settlers, for the purchase their lots, and was then on Towaid getting others to contract,but tlu*y, thee 1 1 Indians, as they were called,burnt "Jj-* 1 ' 15 '", and niajvs, and after using a coat of :; feathers, and a short ride oil a rail, tbcj ed to their several wigwams. flu>w iir . l? for a few years only, for the settle. :tl " tiiat Pennsylvania owned the land. 1 j' mised and bought their farms over a- ■ 180 i, and 7, 1 think In we were organized i ! 't° ' . County. Our first Court was In J 1 lie house of Wiu. Means,in what ed Menusvillo, in his ball-room, r"j 'IjJ. I attended (he lir>t Court !rl I ''"''lll I Y „U .|„ v,. "■ 1