The Atlantic Telegraph
SUCCESSFUL !
COMMUNICATION PERFECT !
TRINITY HAY, August j, 1838.
T the Associated Press of New York.
Tlie Atluntie Telegraph fleet suited from
Qitet'iistuwn on Saturday, July iTtli.
They meet mid-ocean on Wednesday, the
28th, and made the splice at 1 r. M ,011 Thurs
day, the 29th#
They then separated, the Agamemnon and
Valorous bound to Valencia, Ireland, and the
Niagara and Gorgon for this place, where they
arrived yesterday.
This morning the end of the cable will be
landed.
It is sixteen hundred and ninety-eight nau
tical or nineteen hundred and fifty statute miles
from the Telegraph House at the head of
Valencia Harbor to the Telegraph House, Bay
of Hulls and Trinity Hay
For more than two-thirds the distance, the
water is over miles in depth.
The cable has been paid out from the Aga
memnon at ahout the same speed as from the
N'iagra. The electrical signals sent and re
ceived through the whole cable are perfect.
The machinery for paying out the cable,
worked in the most satisfactory manner, and
was not stopped for a single moment from the
time the splice was mode until we arrived
here.
Capt. Hudson, Messrs. Everett hnd Wood
house, the engineers, the electricians and otli
eers of the ships, add in fact every man on
hoard the telegraph fleet, has exerted himself
to the utmost to make the expedition success
ful.
Hy the blessing of Divine Providence it has
succeeded.
After the end of the cable is landed, and
connected with the land line of telegraph, and
the Niagara has discharged some cargo be
longing to the telegraph Company, she will
go to St. Johns for coals, and then proceed at
once to New Yorh. CYRUS W. FIEI.D.
TRINITY UAV. N*. K . Saturday, A up. 7.
The complete sucess of the Atlantic Cable ;
is placed beyond all doubt. Signals are now
being made through the whole extent of the
Cable, but it is unlikely that the Cable will be 1
opened for business for several days or perhaps I
weeks, as the electricians wil' require time for !
a series of experiments with their recording in
struments. Due notice will be given of the
opening of the line for business.
DISPATCH FROM MR. FIF.I.D.
TRINITY BAY, X. F., Saturday, Aug. 7-
TO the New-York Associated Press ;
Since our arrival here on the morning of the
6th, I have been continually receiving tel
egraphic messages asking for full particulars
in regard to the laying of the Atlantic cable,
to which it is impossible for me to reply, as
every moment of my time will be fully occupied
while I remain here, and I have handed to M r .
MCKAY, the Superintendent of the New Vork
Newfoundland and London Telegaph Com-1
pany's lines, my daily journal, and given him |
full permission to send, from the same, any
extracts that he might think of interest to
the public, especially those portions which will
reply to the communications that 1 have re
ceived. CYRUS W. FIELD.
THF. AGAMEMNON AT VALENCIA.
TRINITY BAY, Satuaday, Aug. 7.
To the Associated Press of New-York :
The Atlantic Telegraph Cable was success
ful landed here yesterday morning, and is in
perfect order.
The Agamemnon has landed her end of the
Cable, and we are now receiving signals from
the Telegraph House at \ alentia.
The United States steamer Niagara and
her Majesty's steamers Gorgon and Porcupine
leave for St. John's to-morrow.
Due notice will be given when the Atlantic
Telegraph Line will be open for public busi
ness. CYRUS W. FIELD.
DESPATCH FROM CYRUS W. FIELD TO THE
PRESIDENT.
PHILADELPHIA, August s.—The President,
who is at Bedford, received the first intima
tion of the successful laying of the Atlantic
cable through the agency of the Associated
Press The following is a copy of Mr Field's
message to the President :
" To the President of the United States, IJ'/sA
ington :
" Dear Sir : The Atlantic Telegraph cable
on board the United States frigate Niagara
and her Britannic Majesty's steamer Agamem
non was joined in mid ocean July 29, and has
been successfully laid ; and as soon as the two
end arc connected with the land lines, Queen
Victoria will send a message to you, and the
cable will be kept free until alter your reply
lias been transmitted.
" With great respect, I remain,
" Your obedient servant,
" CYRUS W. FIELD."
ARRIVAL OF PENNSYLVANIA COAL BOATS.—
The Rochester. Union of Monday says : This
morning two canal boats, loaded with coal,
arrived here cn route fur Buffalo. Tliey came
from Pittston, Pa., through the North Branch
and Junction canals to Elinira, ami then hy
Seneca Lake and canals to Montezuma. They
have cargoes of Pittston coal and are said to
be the first boats which ever came through.—
This coal has been brought lure before by
being rcshipped. These boats, met with con
siderable difficulty in consequence of low water
and had twice to shift cargoes. The gentle
man in charge of the boats, Mr. Lippiucott,
left some large pieces of coal here as samples,
and goes to Buffalo with his boats.
Pittston lies in the Lackawanna basin, about
nine miles from Scranton and we had supposed
that the coa! was a similar article under diffe
rent names and we incline to that opinion still.
Mr. Lippiucott asserts that the Pittston is a
different and superior article to the Scranton.
The latter has been the great staple variety
used here for some years past and it has varied
materially in quality that coming latest being
far the best. Consumers will rejoice at the
opening of every new route to the coal mines,
and especially one which gives an uninterrupted
water communication. When this is effected,
and navigation well established, we may look
for cheaper fuel.
BISHOP POTTER. —From a letter received in
this town, by the last English Steamer, we
learn that the health of this distinguished
Prelate is still in a very precarious condition.
He was sojouruing at Great Malern, in the
South-western part of Great Britain, and in a
mountainous region, where the atmosphere is
highly salubrious, and the locality a favorite
resort for invalids resident in that country
Mont rote Republican.
News from all Nations.
—The Richmond Inquirer says : The De
mocracy of Virginia, so far as we can judge, lias been
about equally divided 011 the question of Lecompton or
anti-I/ecompton."
—Salt Lake, in Utah, is Salter than the
sea. Two quarts of its water will make a pint of sail—
I Hock salt exists iu large quantities in the neighboring
hills.
—Gen. Ward B. Burnett has accepted the
surveyor generalship of Kansas, and will shortly proceed
to that Territory. He succeeds the notorious Calhoun.
—Senator Chamber was seriously, though
it is believed, not dangerously injured, by the explosion
of gas at his residence at Detroit, August 3.
—The Democratic Buchanan wages—ten
cents a day—is almost reached, but many laborers can
not get even that.
—John Ginter, of Sidonstown, York coun
ty, accident ly fell into a well 30 feet deep, at Carlisle, on
Tuesday week, instantly killing him. The deceased was
a young man about 28 years old, and the main support of
his father's family.
lncluding the Shamokin and Luzerne re
gions the decrease in the anthracite coal trade already
this season is some 3->O,OOO tous. The decrease in the
bituminous is about 100,000 tous.
—The Raftsman's Journal* ays that twenty
four rattle snakes were killed iu a month within four
miles ol Clearfield.
—lion. James T. Hale, of Centre county is
warmly urged for Congress hy the Opposition in that dis
trict, as the best most available man.
—Charles 11. Buckalew and family have
left home for their contemplated visit to Eucador in'Suuth
America.
—Daniel Bower lias again entered an edito.
rial den. in connection with the Wiliiamsport l'ress. Ik
will add to the usefulness of that journal.
—The Quaknkc railroad, which connects
the Cattawissa railroad with the Beaver Meadows road,
and forms a connection with New York city from the up
per Schuylkill coal region, will he completed and opened
about the first of August.
—The Republicans of Columbia county have
made up their Fall Ticket. They recommend NY. ft.
Hurley. Esq., of Bloomsburg, for Congress.
A mad dog was killed in Chillisquaqua,
week before last, by William Dyre, who foil nved the an
imal some distance 011 horseback, and when he came up
to him knocked him down with a st inc and then killed
him with a club. We have not learned that the dog bit
any animal while running through the country.
—Another Military Encampment is talked
of,—at I.ykenstown, Dauphin, Comity. Wiliiamsport,
Frceburg, Bellefone, bykeusto-.vu--th.it will do for these
hard times.
—The Republicans of the 20th District,
(Washington, Fayette and Greene.) are very much divid
ed as to the policy of nominating an opponent to Mr.
Montgomery. Mr. Hurd, of tiie Brownsville Clipper,
promises to run on his own hook, if no nomination be
made.
The Trial List of Juniatta county has
only seven cases.
—About 9 o'clock on the evening of the 28th
inst. fire broke out in the Lx-k ;-t II >tel,owned by R.M
Hauua, Esq., which resulted in the total destruction of
the building, and consumed the greater portion of the
furniture.iu connection with several hundred dollar-worth
of liquors. Mr. Hanna has au insurance of seventeen
h Iml red dollars, which will scarcely meet one third ol
his loss.
—lt must be interesting and pleasant to
the Democratic iron works of Pennsylvania t > learn that
the extensive c >ntract for iron pipe for the Washington
Water Works has been given to a company ia Glasgow,
Scotland.
—Alexander Wilson, a native of Roxbury,
Franklin county, Pa., hut recently residing in Philadel
phia, has just been appointed United States Attorney for
the Territory of Utah.
A worthy fellow named Crawford, living
in Lycoming county, stopped'the train of ears 011 Tuesday
last, by laying acrofs as they were coming into Miltm,
from Wiliiamsport. lie then wanted to get aboard but
the conductor refused him admittance.
—The barn of Phillip Hilbish, of Chapman
township, Snyder county, was struck by lightning two
weeks since, and w.is totally destroyed with all its con
tents. It was a new barn aud contaiued thirty tons of
hay.
—-Three barns were destroyed by fire in va
rious parts of Bucks county, last week, two of which
were struck by lightning, and the other tired by au incen
diary. The owners having housed their crops, sustained
heavy losses
—A little son of John Watson, of Hunting
don county, lost his life a short time since by drinking
laudanum. One of the family had been using it for the
tooth-ache anu set the bottle down on the window, where
the child got hold of it. Persons should be careful with
medicine.
—A decline in rents aud re.nl estate contin
ues in Philadelphia.
—Gen. 11. S. Foote is laboring under a pain
ful affliction at the residence of a friend near Memphis,
and fears are entertained that he cannot recover.
—The Coventry Herald announces the de
parture of the senior member for Coventry, the lit. Hon.
E. Kllice, for America. The lit. Hon. gentleman intends
to travel through Canada, and return home byway of
New York. He is expected to reach Eaglaud at the lat
ter end of October.
—Rev. John White,a superannuated preach
er, died suddenly near Pittsburg on Sunday last, while
on his way to church.
—On Saturday night the Pittsburg police
broke up a faro bank establishment, and arrested the pro
prietor.
—The Vestry men of Trinity Clinrch, New
York have determined on celebrating the event of the
ftr.-t successful working of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable
bv ringing a merry peal on their set of bells for an hour
after the transmission of the first message.
—M ossrs. Hill <fc Cheney's extensive stables I
in Manchester, N. H. were destroyed by fire on Friday,
and twenty-eight horses burned. The loss is about #B,OOO.
—James S. Reese, a late member of the Le
gislature of this State, died at Allentown ou Monday even
ing, aged 32 years and I) months.
—The Mountaineer says the crops in Cam
bria county were never better than they are this year.
—Postmaster Gen. Brown is expected to re
turn from his trip to Mississippi next week.
Messrs. Cook & Waltlron's flouring Mill,
at Hillsdale, Michigan, with a considerable quantity of
flour and grain, was totally consumed Saturday morning.
The fire broke out in the engine room. Loss #12,000 ;no
insurance.
—The boat Candor, of Kirkville, passed
Schenectady, Friday morning, with I,COO. bids of Flonr,
the largest load yet.
—The Lancaster Daily Times says, that
Mr. Isaac Bear, of Warwick township, in that county .and
one Uarber, drank seven gallons of whiskey in thirteen
days, when Bear died of luania-a-potu, leaving darker
master of the field.
—We do not know a man disposed to scorn
the humble, *hu was itul liitii-th a lair object of scorn to
tie humble-i.
llraftforir ilcporter.
O. GOODRICH. EDITOR.
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REPUBLICAN COUNTY
CONVENTION' The Republican
Count}- Committee having mot on
the "2d inst., it was resolved to call a Repul lican County
Convention to be composed of two delegates from each
Election District, to be held in the Court House, at To
wauda, on MONDAY EVENING, SEI'TEM BER <>. is.>B,
for the purpose of nominating a Republican Co. Ticket.
They have also appointed a Vigilance Committee in
each election District, whose duty it shall be to call pri
mary meetings of the Republican electors in each elec
tion district, for the purpose of electing delegates to said
County Convention. The Committees of Vigilance are
requested to confer together and call the primary meet
ings on Saturday the 4th day of Kopteiiil>cr next, bet ween
the hours of 3 and ti, i'. M., or at such other hour as may
in- convenient, and at the usual place of holding such
elections.
E. <). GOODRICH, ERASTCS WOLCOTT,
R. LA FORTE. I>. BAILEY.
I). I,II,LEY. CHESTER THOMAS,
M. F. KINNEY, WW. M. CHAFFEE.
COMMITTEES OF YICHI.AXCB.
Athens twp—S. \V. l'ark, John Griffin, I). F.' lark.
Athens born—X. C. Harris, A. H. Spalding, C C. Brooks.
Asylum—Edmund Horton. J. M. Wilson, D. H. Cm-bin.
Albany—James Wilcox, Daniel Kellogg, J. Sterigere.
Armenia—Robert Mason, jr., Nathan Sherwood, Ah nd
Ripley.
Burlington—Chas. Knapp, D. M. Alexander, W.Spencer. ]
Burlington bom—Philander Long, lioyt Ballard, G. C.
HflL
Burlington West—Thomas Blaekwell, Ed. Loomis, Ste
phen 11. S;i!os.
C niton—Oliver Wilson, M. H. Case. L. J. Andrews.
Columbia—George Furman, J C. M'Kean, D. I Alley.
Durell—l.'lysses Moody, Reuben Delong. R. Gilbert.
Franklin—Nelson Giflivrt, Matthew Marshall, Joseph
Spalding.
Granville—Win. Bitnvati, Valentine Saxton. 11. F. Taylor.
Herrick Geo. \\*. Elliott, E/.ekiel Carr, Orellana Stevens.
la-Roy —J. G. Hammond, R. Stone, M.L. Wooster.
l.itehflclu Milo Merrill,Stephen M.-Kinney. A. F.Camp
bell.
Monroe tp—C. M. Brown. I>. Kellogg, Fieeman Sweet.
Monroe bo. A. Mullan, S. S. Hinman, E. F. Voting.
Orwell -Win. I'. l'aysou, Josiah Newell, A. W. Alger.
Overton—Win. Waltman, James Hevarly, G. H itte.tine.
Pike—D. M. Bally, o. W. Northrop, Win. B. Stevens.
Rome—Pereeptor Forbes. Lawrcu e Vought, I>. Strope.
Ridgbiiry—C. T. C ivell, Reuben F. S (aires, H. Owens.
Shesherpiin—C. H. Ames, D. F. Morton. G. W. Ilia kuian.
Smithlield E. G. Parley, M. Bullock, Nb-wton Wood.
S with Creek—A. 11. Thompson, Lewis Fassett, John F.
Gillett.
Springfield S. I). Darkness, Joel \dains, E. D. Wilder.
Standing Stone—Wni. Kiugsley, Stephen Vought,George
A. Stephens.
Sylvania lo—Curtis Merrit, Peleg Peck, jr., O. Furman.
Towanda bo—J. V. Geiger, George Brittmi J. 11. Xevins.
Towanda tp. Lorenzo Bowman,H. C. Fox.Ha'TV Dei ker.
Towanda North—E. Rutty, Francis Granger, Wni. 11.
Foster.
Troy bo -William Morgan, Dudley Long, H. Poineroy.
Troy tp.— Howard Sp ihling, Reuben Stiles, John M'Kean.
Suscarora -E. C. Wells, Ferris Acklcy, A. F. Keeney.
Ulster—Thomas Mather, Geo. Nichols, s. N. Havens.
Warren -11. Dick- llson. Miles Prince, Jaines Cooper.
Wells -Lorenzo Grlnuell, H. Muslim-, Nathan Phelps.
Windham Geo. c. Carncr, W. P. Kinjron, 11. Koyce.
Wilmot—J. L. Jones, J. H. Tyrrell, Jonathan Bottles.
Wyalusing—C. W. Hollenback, Jacob Biles, Jas. Fee.
Wysox—l. I*. Spalding. J. B. Smith. John !>. Hi ties.
DEFEAT OF FRANCIS P. BLAIR.
The contest for member of Congress in the
St.. Louis District, Missouri, composed of the
city and county of St. Louis, has resulted iu
the election of Barrett, the Democratic candi-1
date, a plurality of six hundred over the Hon.
Francis I'. Blair, dr., and of fourteen hundred
over B reck eu ridge, the American nominee. A
•
very large vote, nearly 18,090 was cast, being
about 5,000 more than the Presidential vote ,
of 185(5. This is certainly a remarkable in- 1
crease. The New York Times says, " there
is no probability that the population of St. j
Louis has been augmented very largely within |
the last two years, certainly not to a degree
sufficient to justify so great an addition to its
vote. Last year the aggregate gubernatorial
vote was 11,569. Barrett receives, in round
numbers, 6,500, against 5,534 for Buchanan
in 1856, and 4.893 for Stewart, Democratic
Governor in 1857. \Ye hope there has been j
no illegal voting. Although successful by a
plurality, there is an absolute aggregate major- !
ily in the district of more than four thousand
against Barrett. Much interest has been felt
in the St. Louis canvass throughout the Union
owing to the fact that Mr. Blair is an avow
ed emancipationist, and in this sense the rep- ,
rcsentative of a powerful party in Missouri. — j
It was understood that the Administration
strongly desired his defeat, and that no efforts
would be spared to accomplish it. That such
was the case the enormous vote fully shows." j
Tin: KANSAS ELECTION. —It is thought that,
the whole vote of the territory, on the pro
position of rejecting or accepting the Act of j
Congress, will reach 13,000 ; and the oppo
nentsof the bill proclaim a majority of 9000.
The complete vote of Leavenworth county, and
partial returns from three other counties show ,
a majority of nearly 5000 votes against the
bill. No returns have yet been received from
the Southern and Western counties.
SENATOR SCMNER. —Paris papers inform us
that Senator Summer is under the care of the
most distinguished physicians. They affirm '
that the brain is sound, though there is some
remaining effusion, and the spinal raarow also ,
sound—the trouble being in the spine itself.—
He is submitting without analystlieties, with
the greatest fortitude, to a course of countcr
iritants—being cotton soaked in some infiama
ble substance, and ignited. He writes cautious
ly, but hopefully.
ERIE COUNTY NOMINATIONS. —The Repub
lican convention of Erie county nominated
John W. Campbell and Henry Teller for As
sembly. The latter was for many years a 1
Democrat, and the former an old lino Whig.
The Convention declared in favor of M. B.
Lowry for State Senator, and Elisha Babbitt
for Congress. I
THE ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH SUCCESSFUL 1
We are glad to be able to announce to our
readers, that the ATLANTIC TELEGRAM, BUS
been laid along the bottom of the ocean from
Valencia,on the west coast of Ireland,to Hull's,
or Trinity Bay, on the eastern coast of the is
land of Newfoundland. From there points it
will be extended to London, and New \ork,
and tliencc all over the civilized world.
Thus, after months of vexatious delay, and
enormous outlays of money, has this wonder of
the world been accomplished. It is a thought
too great for finite mind to grapple with, con
' uecting two continents with wires, conversing
as it were face to face, by lightning, with
friends on the other side of the Atlantic. Send
, ing and receiving dispatches upon matters of
1 business along a highway thousands of fathoms
down in old ocean's bed.
; The points connected by this submarine cable
are 1950 miles apart, and the most of the way
the ocean is over two miles in depth. This
Telegraph wire is far below the reach of the
most violent storm that ever dashed the waves
into resistless and relentless fury ; it will rest
there on its quiet bed while ships, perhaps
fleets, far above, are tossed to and fro, aud
driven awreck, waves are piled mountain high
and anon sink into fearful gulfs,vessels of every
class are dashed into pieces, and hundreds of
immortal beings descend to watery graves, but
these two thousand miles of wire rope are undis
i turbed bj the war of elements. Messages of
love or thoughts that burn, or commercial dis
patches or mournful tidings or diplomatic man
ifestoes, are meanwhile traversing these briny
depths. While wild tornadoes are spreading de
vastation along our coasts, and strewing our
shores with the wealth of England, and the
dead carcasses of human beings born far away
in other lands, the heart-rending tidings are si
lently transmitted to those whose riches are
thus scattered, and whose loved ones have thus
perished away from all the endearments of
home.
Some startling event transpires in the Brit
ish capitol, and the information has traveled
through the ocean and reaches our commercial
metropolis two or three hours before the event.
A financial embarrassment begins to press hard
upon our money men, and ere the shylocks in
Europe can take advantage cf it, the fact is
carried with lightning speed to the four quar
tors of the globe.
Death iu the form of some contagious dis
ease sweeps as with the besom of destruction,
over some portion of the old world, and thou
sands, to escape from death, as they suppose,
flock to our shores, but weeks before they reach
us, the dreadful intelligence is here, aud our
quarantine officials are on the lookout.
O ! the wonders, the secrets, the soul stir
ring incidents, the startling auiouncements,the
political intrigues, the commercial plannings,
the scientific hnmbuggerics, that will be trans
mitted through that submarine wire rope, while
it lies thus quietly beneath the ceaseles> mo
tion and commotion of the Atlantic waves.
Truly this L the great wonder, not only of
modern times, but of the world.
We believe too, that in its inception is an
American project, and American energy, most
nobly seconded by English perseverance, has
prosecuted it to its consummation.
This is indeed a signal triumph of science.
Lightning has not only been chained and made
j submissive to man's w ill, it is now compelled
to leave its native clement and run along the
unseen surface of the ocean bed.
LIFE AND TIMES OF WASHINGTON*. —Messrs.
Johnson Fry A* Co., of New York, are now issu
ing in numbers, an illustrated work, entitled
" The, life and Times of Washington," con
taining a particular account of National Prin
ciples, and Events, and of the Illustrious men
of the Revolution. By JOHN FREDERICK
SCHROEDER, D. I). This work is illustrated
with highly finished steel engravings from orig
inal designs of Historical Scenes, and full
length portraits. The printing is well execut
ed, aud its whole appearance elegant and at
tractive. It will be issued in semi-monthly
parts at 25 cents a number.
Mr. S. L. RISPON, the agent for this work,
is now engaging in Canvassing the County,
and will give our citizens an opportunity to
procure this valuable and attractive work.—
He is also agent for Shakespeare's Illustrated
J! orks, for which lie will receive subscriptions.
fey Teachers' Institutes will be held at the
following places, commencing on Monday at 2
o'clock P.M,and closing Saturday,at 12 o'clock
noon in each case, viz :
Leßaysville, September 13.
Springfield, September 20.
Canton, September 27.
Monroeion, October 4.
Mouth of Wyalusing, Oct. 11.
Certificates of attendance will be given to
all who attend regularly and punctually during
the whole session.
THE MAINE ERECTION, which takes place on
Monday, is important by reason of the influ
ence the result will have on the fall elections
of all the Northern States. Occurring first,
a decided gain either o" the Administration or
Opposition, will be regarded as an index of
the pnbhc sentiment of the North, and will
give substantial " aid and comfort" to the
winning party. The Administration is fully
alive to this tendency, and is understood to be
making vigorous efforts to carry the State.
feg" We have news of rejoicings, from all
quarters, on account of the success of the Sob-
Atlantic Telegraph experiment. By illumina
tions, fire work, firing of cannon, and the ring
ing of bells, the people express their joy as the
news reaches them. t
THE COAL TRADE. —CoaI operators in the
Wyoming Valley, are beginning to send their
coal through the North Branch, in considera
ble quantities. Quite a number of boats pass
here every day loaded with anthracite, on their
way to a market. The coal business is very
much depressed, and it is selling at low prices.
The Barclay Railroad and Coal Co. are find
ing market for considerable quantities of their
coal. Its superiority for many purposes, will
m ike it sought for, whenever it shall be fairly
tested.
The next regular meeting of the Brad
ford Teachers' Association, we are reqnested
to say, will meet at the Church at Taylor's, in
Granville. This change of time is made to
accommodate the citizens of Granville who
wish to attend a quarterly meeting upon the
previous Saturday. The regular notice will
appear in due time.
BisF" Two thousand troops, equipped with
the most effective arms known to the army,
we learn, will soon be in the Territories of
Washington and Oregon, and make a vigorous
fall and winter campaign against the hostile
Indians. Gen. Harney will command the op
erations.
A MISTAKE.—-A number of papers have an
nounced that 11. Bucher Swope was nominated
for State Senator in the district composed of
Blair, Clearfield and Cambria. No Senatorial
electiou occurs in that district this year.
SENATOR BICLER. —Our excellent United
States Senator, Mr. Bigler, is " illuminating"
a part of this State on the subject of Lecorop
ton—a dark subject at best, and one not capa
ble of being made mucb clearer by his most
limping logic. We can sympathise with a
Representative who goes out to defend himself
against ordinary accusations ; but it is the
height of impertinence for a man to attempt to
justify himself to tho*e whom he has shameful
ly betrayed. Mr. Bigler does not believe in
Lecompton, which he denounced in advance ;
and yet he asks others to do so He dare not
deny that he was fully committed to the very
principle for which Douglas contends ; and yet
he has attempted with his punv arm, to raise
the axe against Douglas, only because the lat
ter has been true to his pledge. Weak,as well
as reckless, in his inconsistency, this man would
now make a test upon the Democracy of the
very doctrines which he repudiated and then
swallowed. There can be no motive in all
these efforts but that of self. There is no re
irard for the President, whom Bigler has op
posed for " twelve years," and there is cer
tainly no love for the South, which he has suc
cessively betrayed.
We tmst some of the Democrats, who are
called upon to listen to Senator Bigler, will
not hesitate to remind him of his record on the
Kansas question : and especially of his " illu
ruination" speech, in reply to Judge Douglas.
The latter is a mine of uiind and of originality.
—Forney s Pre ss,
How TIIEY RAISE THE MONEY. —A Wash
ington letter writer mentions a circumstance
of recent occurrence in the General Land Office
which shows the nodus operandi by which
money is raised to defray tire distribution of
political documents. The Pennsylvania de
mocratic club have been for several mouths
past flooding the country with Kansas and
other political documents until lately, when
they came to wind tip their affairs, they found
that they were $5,000 in debt, and had not
the money to settle with. They accordingly
set their heads together for the purpose of
concocting some plan by which they could
raise the money, and finally agreed to appor
tion the debt among the various departments .
of the Government, and demand two per cent
of each man's salary for one month. Tire first
demand was made on the employees in the I
Land Office on Saturday last ; and each man
was compelled to pay two per cent of his salary
for the month of July, to raise the amount of
the debt set apart to the Land Office,which was !
$350, or take the consequences, which they
were given to understand would be iustant re
moval.
KIU.EH BY A PLANING MACHlNE.— Franklin
Ilolman was instantly killed in a singular man
ner at Dole's planing mill in Bangor, on Fri
day last. Several of the knives were broken
from the cylinder of the planing machine as it
was revolving with velocity and one of them
struck Mr. Ilolman, scrvering his left arm,
and making a frightful wound in his side ; he
died instantly. A large fragment of one of
the knives weighing three pounds, was found
imbedded in his lungs, having entered the side
between the ribs, without breaking them, sev
ered the left lung, and divided the heart.
FALL OF A BRIDGE.—IOO Head of Cat/h in
the Canal. — Yesterday afternoon, the iron
bridge across the Canal at the foot of Law
rence street, while being crossed by a drove of
cattle, bound for the Bath Ferry gave way
and fell into the Canal ; 100 head of oxen
went down with the bridge. To save the cat
tle from drowning, the water on the first level
was drawn off. All the cattle were rescued.—
Albany Statesman. 3d inst.
WEST BRANCH AND SUSQUEHANNA CANAL.—
A meeting of the Directors of the West Branch
and Susquehanna Canal Company—the recent
purchasers of those Divisions of the Public
Works—was held at .Jersey Shore, Lycoming
county, recently, and it was determined to dis
pense with about one half of the officers that
had been heretofore employed in the manage
ment of the Canals. The company will em
ploy but one Superintendent to take charge of
the entire line from Farrandsvillc to the junc
tion, and but six foremen instead of thirteen
heretofore employed by the State. The sala
ries of all the officers in the employ of the com
pany have been reduced about fifty per cent.
GLASS WORKS DESTROYED BY FIRF.— The
Glass Works ot K. Warmser A Co., at Clarion
Pa., were destroyed by fire on the night of
July 20th. The buildings belonged to John
Agnew, who loses about SBOOO. Warmser A
Co. lose lumber and materials amounting to
about S3OOO.
THE CORN CROP UP THE VALLEY.—Thous
ands of acres in the Genesee Valley are cover
ed with Broom and Indian Corn, and the pa
pers up there say the yield will be enormous.
A DROLI. PRESIDENT —hi r LATE
j the Albany Evening Journal, Thnr' 10 " 1^ r '
tells us that a droll President we'i
the following concise words: la^e ? f J!
i He entered the White House, vrid
i ise of fnedom to Kansas on his lit,!*'
scheme for enslaving it in his pocket u 1 1
1 clared war against circulating notes v
weeks was issuing them himself
ink was drv-with which he pledgx) "'
my," he had drained the treason of
dollar. Before the printers were (]!, "' H
typing his inflexible determination',
borrow, he was in Wall streets.
, loan. ' ' lia ?i
He congratulated the country on t!
end of slavery agitation, and he has •
tating it ever since, He ordered P a •
I stop the fillibusters, and then recalled
: doing it. Walker of Nicaragua he
ced an outlaw and tendered him the l'!
ties of the White House. Walker of K' *
he furnished with written instructio;. 1
turned him out for obeying them. i>:
lie withheld the troops from Utah i
he proclaimed there was war, in order t '
them in Kansas, where lie insisted a
peace. He sells Forts at the wct for •
of their cost, in order to buy sites at
at ten times their value—his subordi
both cases pocketing the difference ij
continually asking for new steam frign'.'
he will not use those he has either on th.
of Africa or in the Gulf of Mexico. If.
out a steamer, ostensibly to catch the >•
I but with private orders in the captain'.
I to do nothing of the sort. Claiming tj'
most frugal of Presidents, he has spent ?
than any of his predecessors. Assami;,;.,
above party prejudices, lie makes partis.
the basis even of hia invitations to
—
Loss OF LITE IN THE COLLIERIES.— \-
flicting catastrophe, fatal in its cons,,
occurred at the Colliery of Col. llillni m
Wilkesbarre, on Thursday last by wh •, •.
men. Daniel Jones, Patrick McCauu,*,.)[
iel .Morgan, lost their lives ; and two
Valentine Rymer and David Reese, vw
ly suffocated to death. It seems Col. H
some men employed in sinking a shaft, f - • ■
purpose of viutilating a gangway in the
which was known to contain foul air a
farthest extremity ; and had not been-,
since May last. The work of sinking tlie- I ;
having progressed about far emugli t
the gangway, the miners were iiHuoii
riosity to enter the slojie and proceed tin
the gangway to the spot where thev sn
the shaft would penetrate. Thev entered
i seven or eight o'clock in the mon'n?
: not returning at noon, their friends - _ ■■
them in the mines, where three of them I
above stated, were found with life total v M
tinct, and tbo other two in un insen- I
tion, though >ti 11 alive. After great a* I
1 the bodies were all recovered, a:, . IV
Heese restored to consciousness The-;
state, that when they entered the mi .1
proceeded up the gangway, it was ptr.-ep- . I
that large (piautities of foul air, or v.. I
termed 1y miners " black damp."
and the men cautioned by Jones to pr
further. Still, one of them p< ■ ->:.-.te i. , U
soon seen to fall to the ground. As his *
rades endeavored to rescue him, each B
turn was overcome, until the whole i
prostrate, either dead, or in state of ins, •
ity and utter helplessness, where tiiey ■■
found by the persons who sought th.:.'..
afternoon. Of course, no one con! It.
place, until the foul air had be n tlr'v
iv means of a fan used for that puqw
which had not been in operation for so..
Two or three hours ela-ped, after th •
! tion was known, before thy,-, do
; ed. — Luzerne. I'at HI, Aug. 3.
(fey* The Syracuse X.Y C<> • re. •
, the following singular case of resu-citit
ter drowning. Two children, a son a:,li
ter of Wiliiaui Sabm, of that city, H
Onondaga creek on Monday, w'n
. ventured upon a log and fell in! • i • w •-
His little sister witnessed the a
j him rise atid disappear again, whorm; '
• ran home to inform her father of th 1 :in
; Mr. Sabin got hold of the boy's leg and t
him out. lie had been in the wat "
i twelve to fifteen minutes, and appear !.'
! when taken out. lie was laid out as
there not being the slightest evidence of t'
ty manifested since being res ije 1 from i
water. What is more strange an ! -hi.' ■ '
hour afterwards the boy was of- :
breathe. Every effort was employ d
parents for his recovery, and at twelve o !
tht lad tens conversing irif/i them!
Last week a little son of Judge I>ov
in Montezuma, Indiana, was bitten oath
i by a spider, while sleeping in a cradle y
: arm swelled rapidly, inflammation
other parts of the body, and the second u ;
after the injury the child died.
R/YY RKtje,ioirs NOTICE—R.-V. w. ::
J QfrOf of Oweiro, will prc.ich at tliv 1
tins place, next sabbath morning (l.th iiist.)
clock. j
\ CAMP MEETING N
"LTF Hill, TN commence the IIL-t an 1!>
! the following Sunday, T'ersons coming FNUN A ■
- had better bring doth tenia with them. T< ntj
! he furnished on the ground. Pasturing ! ,|I:
I NO huckstering will be allowed within the
J scrilxtd by law. A hoarding tent will be
jto fumfsti all who desire. Ity ORDER : '
SELECT SCI lOOb
For Young Ladies.
MISS MARY E. CIU'HRL'CK w-.nld req* . - '.
notice that SHE will open a Sele -t S -h
j litttlies ami Misses, in the room formerly o
Mi.-s II VNSONS, to commence on Mt'M'Al •V" -•
A limited number only will be taken, ami M'y
tors herself that from long experience in tc
will be enabled to do justice to the scholars cu;.
; tier care.
TERMS. FKR QT'ARTEL! OF 14 WEVK- T
First Chus— To i iclade the elementary H igi -- 1
Branches.
Strand Class — To include the moreadv N IDL a- . ~
IIMI branches, with Mathematics and I .at in. '
- Third Cfustt — To include Matheui :- M ' 1 :
Mental Philosophy, Rhetoric, Uotauv, A..with
Music— Instruction 0:1 the Piano, w.th <>C'
m<-nt iter quarter, $lO ; French, per term, S T. A 1
! ing SH, extra. ,
lustructiona in Vocal Music will bo given "
,
I Each pupil will be expected to provide
desk and chair. , , ...J
FT#* Any information in reference to thi- "
be obtained by applying to H. S. Mercuror T- ■'
Towinda, Augtu-t U, ls3B.
C ALT.—2OO Sacks Fiue Dairy
K ' bbls. eommon Salt for sale at N. 1, LHI T;
corner ot Main aud Bridge sts. .-,cr".
: 858 WM. A
TpRESH GROUND FLOCR,
Angiut 11, IR>B. ""
DIETETIC BALERATUS, aew
said to he perfectly pure and ti iruile-- ■
of powerful raising qualities ; aud will pr" .
more bread (suitable for the most delicate . 1 :
stomach) than can be made in the ordinary >•
at P.'J cts. per lb. hy •. A.
AugUSt 11, |S JN,