The Very Latest from Pike's Peak—The Sunny Side. The St. T.Oll is Dmucr,it, June 15. devotes n lnrire space to the I ite?t intelligence from the Bike's Pmk mini-s, givii g news ot - tlic most agreeable character, th ■ i•orrcetiiess of which it vouches for. Nevti thelcss, the next mail m'v contradict this story. We give it, meanwhile for what it is worth : " Yesterday morning we r< reived a v;sit from Mr. I). T. SwiNuritNK. of .Newport, If I , ju.-t from Leavenworth, who hud in Ins possession about six hundred dollars worth of the gold, said to iiave been brought from Pike'- Peak '•)' tiie last express, and consigned to SHOOT k KrssEi.n, of Leavenworth. This gold Mr. SWINBURNE states he is now taking to New-York, to the agents of the gentlemen, to have its quality tested, and its value fixed. The specimens shown us were of three kinds, known to the miners as scale, shot and small grain gold, and appears to lie of line quality. The largest speiuten was of shot gold, and is valued at $4 50. Mr. S. states that a much larger amount would have been sent forward from the mines, but for the fact that the d ggers were asking S2O per ounce for it, which is more than it is worth. By the next arrival it is expected that thnt from $5,000 toso,ooo willbescntforwaid as the diggings are very rich. A great change had taken place among the people in the border towns aft< r the receipt of this gold, and winy who had left the mines we/e preparing to returji. IvussEl, A JONES, of Leavenworth, have again placed all their coaches and wagons upon the road, and they are crowded with passengers. It will be recol lected that this firm, from the failure of the of the mines in the early part of the season, and upon the representations of Mr. Fox.their agent at the gold mines, removed all their stock from the road. The recent discoveries have induced them to replace it. So contradictory heretofore have been the accounts in regard to these matters, that it has been found impossible to form any opinion as to tlie value or yield of the<e mines. But this has, no doubt, arisen from tlie fact that large numbers of persons visiting Bike's Beak were unprovided when the necessary meats to sus tain themselves, and not iminedia'ely finding gold in the quantities they expected, they left disheartened, without exploration of the stir rounding country, for their homes, with full be lief that they had been misled and deceived. The same state of tilings were experienced by the early California emigrants, and thousands would have returned to the States had there been the slightest possibility of doing so. More prudence should have been exercised in tin:mat ter, and less suffering would have been experi enced by the present emigration. Mr. Swtx BURN : is represented to ns as a most respecta le gentleman, worthy of confi dence, and one who would not under any cir enmstanees enter into a scheme to deceive his fellow-citizens. He is sanguine of the great wealth of those new discoveries, and looks for ward to rich results from thoir yield. Goods were going forward every day to the mines, and all fear of future suffering for want of provis ions was at an end. We trust it may be so, and that those who had tlie nerve to remain and work, may realize fortunes for their faith and perseverance." WAR AMONG THE B.'S —lt is rumored, says the Pittsburg Commercial Journal, that all is not harmony among the four Bctinsylvania B.'s who figure at Washington. Senator Bigler is said to have recently discovered that Judge Black, alio was elected to the Supreme Bench in October, 1851, by some 40,000 majority, while he, Bigler, was defeated by 37,000, had been iu correspondence with the Know-Notli ings, and acting on the principle that every tub must stand on its on bottom—in other words, that Judge Black was quite willing Bigler should lie sold if he himself could save his bacon. This is often tolerated in politics, but among the four B.'s, whose love is said to surpass that of David and Jonathan's, such things could never have been tolerated. B!a< k denies, but his letters are said to lie iu several hands, and Bigier is trying to secure some of the originals. Oh, that the B's should ever sting each other ! ! ! A NEGRO SCARF.HTO DEATH BV AN FIN IIAXT. - 'Die Ouchita (La.,) Herald relates the fol lowing, and calls at a case of" cDphantieide": " A negro man belonging to Dr. Sanders,of Holly Springs. Dallas county, we understand, was frightened to death by one of Mabic's elephants, week before last. The circumstan ces, ns we learned them, were these : After the performance of the company at Holly springs the elephants were removed a short distance from the pavilion and confined iu the bushes, to await the time of starting the next place of exhibition ; the negro, not knowing they were there, was passing near by, when one of them passed his trunk around the body of the bov, drawing him gently towards his clcphantship. The negro seeing the colossal proportions of the animal, which the darkness of the night no doubt greatly magnified, made a herculean effort, and succeeded in escaping from the dis agreeable embrace; lie ran a short distance and fell to the ground,arousing the whole neighbor hood with his cries ; being unable to rise he was taken upand carried to the house, where he soon after died, the doctor says, from uo other cause than •right." ANOTHER HAT STORY.— The Lincoln Herald says there are some prodigious rat stories cur rent in that community- It is reported that one farmer and his work hands lately killed 5.- 000 rats in his corn fields. I'pon another farm 3,000 have been killed during tlie spring months. \\ hether these stories are numerically true or not is of little consequence, since it is certain that the rats are actually taking the country. For every one that is ki'led there seem to be a hundred born, or immigrate, to supply its place. At the present ratio of in crease they appear in a fair way to soon pre vent all profitable cultivation "of the soil Everywhere, in broad daylight, and careless of their enemies, do they pursue their plunder Illinois Journal. RATHER FISHY. —A carious method is said to have been adopted to discover the remains of n Railroad Conductor,latelydrowned in Shrews bury, \ t., borne quicksilver was placed on a loaf of brown bread, and the bread placed in the jMiiul where the man was drowned, when it immediately started off,like a thing of life, and at so rapid a rate, against a strong wind and the rolling of tlie waves, that it was difficult for those who followed in a boat to keep tip, until the aforesaid loaf of brown bread came over the spot where the unfortunate man lay at tlie bottom, iu a depth of sixty feet of water, when having performed its mission, it stopped, remaining perfectly stationary ! iictos frcm all £!atfcus. After the last frost, A panic seized npon ttic fanners an<l others in Lawrence county Pa., and flour ! ivas rau up to ten and even sixteen dollars a barrel! What j foot.- ! j —The new big Hotel in Philadelphia, has 1 j been named the " Continent.d.'' i -—The new Baptist meeting house in Blooms ! bur,- i- to be dedicated on the :iJ of July. The church i- ! 1 not yet formed. —Mrs Eleanor Burnside, widow of tin; late Judge Huniside, of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, died Middenly at Beliefocte, on tiro 3d inst., aged 73. —We are informed that the Shamokiu Fur nace is successfully engaged in making iron from ore ! brought fr mi Virginia. This ore is so rich that,not with i standing the great distance it is carried, it can be worked j protitably. —The Pittsburg Gi-e'tc suggests thnt tlie i Reputdicaii National Convention be held at St.Louis, Mo.. \ instead of Wheeling, as others have suggc.-ted. St. Louis j is the only Republican city in the South, and is large) enough to accommodate the delegates to the Convention, J while Wheeling is not. Last week an elderly man was brought as a convict to the Kentucky State Penitentiary, whose j six sons were already in that institution as convicts. —The Henry Clay Monument at Lexinton, ' is now more than one hundred feet high, and nearly ready . f >r the capital on which is to stand the statue of the states man. —The Boston Transcript estimates that the j whole quantity of gold which has been excavated from the bowels of the earth, since the earliest day, at nine thousand millions of dollars. slO 000 more has recently been paid over to Mr. Washington by the Treasurer of the Mount Vernon ! Association, which leaves but a little more than s'3O,(W to pay. —The population of Italy is set down at 27,107,047. This great body of people should be able to ' send an army into the lield able to do considerable tight ing. —Three cities, Chicago, Boston, and New York, have been the scenes of forty four murders since the Ist ot January last. —Jacob Shnltzman, a resident of Cumbria county, fell out of tho ted the other night, and died al mo-t instantly. He was 80 years old, and was the father of eleven children, ten of whom are now living and eight grand children. —The eldest son of William T. Forsyth,Esq., of Northumberland, a line boy of about 7 years of age was , accidentally drowned in the canal at that place o:i Wed nesday la.-t. The child had been standing on the wharf j and fell into the canal. —The people of Fannin county, Texas, have given the Met .odi-t preachers of that region, sixty days 11 leave in, otherwise if they remain and persist in their com>e, they will lie dealt with " as the R >utli has learn ed to deal with Abolitionists and negro thieves." —The wheat harvest has commenced in Mis sissippi, Georgia, and other Southern States. Next week wheat wiil be ready for cutting in Kentucky and South ern Illinois. —The venerable Nlrs. John C. Calhoun is now at the house of her son-in-law, Prof. Clemson, at Bla densburg. Gen. Pierce and his wife were at Vienna, May 21. lie was well, but Mrs. Pierce's health was not improving. James Madison Jefferson, a nephew of ! President Jefferson, died on the 23th of May last, at his residence, near F.lktou, Kv. —The Utica llerahl reports that Mrs. Daniel E. Sickles has taken rooms for the season at the (Afford Springs Hotel, and that she will resist any ap plication of lier luisl and for a divorce. —On the Eclipse course at Long Island Thursday, the trotting match between Flora Temple and Prin< ess resulted in tavor of tlie former. The stake were for $ "> ,000. —ln the Democratic County Convention at j Dubuque, lowa, Thursday, anti-Administration delegates j were selected to represent the Democracy of Dubuque in | tlie State Convention. The resolutions passed endorsed i the popular-sovereignty doctrine in an unmistakable manner. —The Democratic Stato Convention of Georgia has nominated Governor Brown for re-election. —ln New York Thursday, James Glass, convicted of killing Richard Owens, was sentenced to hard labor for life in the Slate prison. —Tlie Paris correspondent of the New York Ex\>rtss says: " Three Senators of the United States Congress arc now here : Mr. Seward of New York, Mr. Cliugham of North Carolina, and Mr. Sutnner of Massachusetts, the latter apparently in restored health, and just from Turin. Governor Fish goes home with his family iu July." —John G. Saxe, Esq., the poet, was on Thursday nominated for Governor of Vermont by the Democracy of that State. The fame of Mr. Saxe cannot be enhanced bv his election even to the high position of Governor. Douglas delegates to the Charleston Conven , tiou were selected at the same time. —The Hon. Shcrrard Clemens, who has so long been suffering from the consequences of his duel with young Wise, was married ou the Si.li iu-t., to Mrs. C. K. Groves, at her plantation in Madison parish, Loui , siana. A YOUNG LADY IN A TRANCE—NARROW I ESCAPE FROM BURIAL. —The Peoria (III.) lTn ■ ion of the Gth inst. learns from Mr. R. D.Story. • of Medina township, in that county, that his ■ daughter Elizabeth, agri of about nineteen > had a veritable trance a few days ago. The only premonitory symptom seems to have been that on the previous morning she " felt 1 keshe I had not slept all night, and yet was not con - scions of having been awake" She was in good health and spirits through the day, (31st - ultimo,) but retired early and seemed so sonnd i ly asleep when her sister came to bed that the j latter could not wake her. In the morning she • i was found apparently dead. In a few hoars ; 1 preparations were in progress for the burial of ■ ' the body, and Thursday set for the funeral.— ■ The neighbors were called iu, and after con > saltation, all concluded it best to bary her nt - the time suggested—no one considering it neces sary to call a physician. On Wednesday even - ing, however, before tbeeottiu had been brought f while the younger brother was looking on the - face of his dead sister, he thought he sate the lips move, and livid with fear rau to communi cate his suspicions to his mother. She was just | : entering the front floor, receiving some friends f from Henry County, and at the announcement -: uttered a most agonizing shriek of surprise.— i This was instantly followed by one from the I chamber where Elizabeth was lying ; and when t i the mother ami friends entered tae room she 1 was sitting on the cooling board, us much sur i ; prised at the alarm of her friends ns they were t at her sudden recovery from what they thought , the grave. The joy of her friends at her re- B coverv cau better Be imagined than described, j* On Saturday morning, Miss Story was iu per , feet health, but from dread superstition will , not explain her feelings while in the state of trance. Sba avoids speaking of it liraiifovL) ilcporter. E. O. GOODRICH. EDITOR. TOWANDA: Thursday Maraing, June 23, 1859. TtßUS— Our Dollar prr annum, invariably in advance.— Four weeks previous to the expiration of a subscription, notice will be given by a printed wrapper, and ij not re newer!, the paper will in all cases be stopped. CLI'CHIN.S— The Reporter will be sent to Clubs at the fol lowing extremely low rates : C copies for So 00 [ls copies for SI -00 10 copies for Soo| 20 copies for 15 00 ADVERTISEMFN'TS — For a square of ten lines or less. One Dollar for three or '.ess insertions, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion. Jon- WORK — Executed with accuracy and despatch, and a re isonulile prices—a ith event facility for lining Roots, Blanks, I'land-hills. Ball tickets, tfc. THE BATTLE OF MAGENTA. A Into arrival Wrings an account of a great and sanguinary battle between the Allied and Austrian forces, but the despatches are so ex aggerated and unsatisfactory as to render it al most impossible to determine how the fortunes of battle turn d. We give in another column, such brief accounts as are contained in the New York papers. From the fact, however, that the French army, commanded by the Em peror in person, had crossed the Ticino, and that after the bloody cneonuter at Magenta, the Austrian army had retreated, evacuating Milan ; with the rewards conferred upon Gen. MCMAHOX on the battle-field, by the Emperor, it is a pretty good evidence, that whatever the comparative losses may have been that the French are the victors. Another steamer, now due, will bring more accurate details. EFFECTS OF THE LATE FROST. —Sufficient time has now elapsed to enable observers to form a tolerable correct opinion as to the extent of damage occasioned by the severe frost of last Saturday and Sunday ; and from a careful ex amination of the numerous accounts furnished by the newspapers, covering the whole ground from Western New Yoik to St. Louis, we come to the conclusion that the representations first received by telegraph, were generally much ex aggerated. The entire belt of country extend ing from the North-Eastern States to the ex treme North-West, seems to have been more or less affected, though very unequally, even at places but little distant from each other. In isolated spots most kinds of vegetation were killed outright ; but as a general rule, the crops have not suffered beyond recovery. Corn aud potatoes, wheu but little above tho groiind, will bear a severe frost without receiving any permanent injury, and the crop will suffer no essential decrease. Wheat does not appear to have been much effected. According to one authority, the weevil and grasshoppers have suffered most. An old farmer in the Genesee Valley speaks of a late spring frost in 1810, by which the stalks, of wheat were actually frozen ; yet the yield was undiminished. Fruit in this State, as elsewhere, has probably suffer ed more than anything else, and much of it will be lost. In Ohio, so far as can be judged, the cold was felt with greatest severity,—corn, fruit and vegetables having been cut off to a great extent. Yet we are pleased to observe that the latest accounts from that direction, put the actual damage at a rather low figure. The Cleveland Plaindealer says that fruits have suffered considerably, but more than an average crop is expected. Grapes have suffered most. In Michigan the accounts are similar ; but the Detroit Advertiser thinks that State has suffer ed as little as any at the Northwest. Of Illinois the Louisville Journal says : —There were heavy frosts in the vicinity of Springfield, 111., Friday and Saturday nights, but the damage to crops is considered slight. No damage was done in Mi.-sonri. In Wisconsin, fruit was much injured. The Madison Journal thinks that corn and wheat are sufficiently advanced to be seriously damaged. The intelligence from Lower Canada is quite unfavorable. MlNNESOTA. —Preparations for the State election in Minnesota is already began,although the contest does not come off till October— Considerable importance is attached to it,from the fact that a'United States Senator is to be chosen by the Legislature then elected, and that the tw'o Minnesota Congressmen may possibly decide the political character of the next House of Representatives. Ex-Governor Ramsey is proposed by sorue of the papers as the Republican candidate for Governor. ftaJfThere is a rumor afloat that the Hon HOWEI.I. CURB, of Georgia, at present Mr. BU CHANAN'S Secretary of the Treasury, intends very soon to write a letter to a friend, 011 the Slavery question, which letter, by accident or otherwise, the writer and everybody else ex pects will get into the papers. We doubt the whole story. Rr. REV. ALOXZO POTTER, Bishop of the Diocese ot Pennsylvania, came passenger from Europe in the steamship Fulton, with his fami ly. lie returns with health greatly invigorat ed. CONVALESCENT. —Chief Justice Taney, who for the last few days, has been indisposed at his hotel in Richmond, Ya., was on Wednes day sufficiently well to attend the United States j Circuit Court iu that city. CriyN'o credit is given by the Goverument, or at the Mexican Legation, to the statements published iu reference to the intention of SAN TA ANNA to the retnrn to Mexico. There is confidence in the final success of the Constitu t'oml Government. A GEEAT BATTLE! ROUT OF THE AUSTRIANS AT MAGENTA! AUSTRIAN LOSS 27,000 MEN! Tlie Allies Lose 3,000 Men! The steamship Avg/o- Saxon,frova Liverpool, on Wednesday, the Bth in-t, passed Fuither Point, at 9 o'cldck Saturday morning, 011 her way to Quebec. The laws is of the highest importance. The latest news by the Europa, report ing the Amtrians in retreat across the Ticino, is fullv confirmed. The French crossed the Ticino at Buffalora and Turbigo. There was considerable fight ing at both places. Oh the 4th inst. a great battle took place at Magenta, twelve miles from Milan. NAPOLEON'S dispatches claim a decisive vic tory, and Paris was illuminated. He says that lite 1/ took 7,090 Austrian prisoners, and placed 12,000 more hnrsdu comb it besides cap! uring Ihit cannon and hen standards The French loss is stated by the Emperor at 3,000 men. The Austrians took one cannon. The French General KSFIXASSK was killed, and Marshal CANROBEKT was mortally wound ed. Five French marshals and generals were wounded. General MCMAHON was made a Marshal of France and I)nke of Magenta. General PARAGUAY P'HILLIERS had been sup erseded in his command by General FCREY. Milan was insurgent, and had declared in favor of the King of Sardinia. The Austrians had retired from Milan but the French had not occupied it. Rumors prevalent at Paris represent the French loss at Magenta at from 9,000 to 12,- 000 men. The forces engaged are reported as 150,000 to 180,000 Austrians, and 100,000 to 130,000 French. The Austrian accounts speaks of a " series of buttles with varying success on both si/fes, but s/i'l undecided up to the night of the <Sth, with great losses on both sides.' The Austrians admit thatthey had four gen erals and five staff officers wounded. It was reported that General IIASS com manded the Austrians,. and also that the Emperor NAPOLEON partially commanded the French. The latest rumors detracted from the alleg ed French victory. It was believed that proposals for peace would be made if the French entered Milan. RUMORS FROM CORRESPONDENTS AND THE PRF.SS —The Times in its editorial remarks 011 the subject says, it now seems probable that this hard fight is even yet undecided, but that on whole the French have the best of it. The absence of late telegrams byway of Paiis is i.ot considered indicative of French success. The London Adrcrfiser says it was rumored last night that the Government had received a telegram from the British Minister at Vienna announcing an Austrian victory The opinion was becoming current in London that the victory of Magenta was a victory in which the French were defeated, and their failure to occupy Milan, only twenty miles from Magenta, strengthened this view. The movement which preceded the battle at Megenta was not clearly stated, but it was pre viously announced tiiat the Allies were about to cross the Ticino to the number of about 100,000 men,and it is presumed the rapid move ment of the allied army prevented the Austrians from completing the retreat which they had commenced, and compelled them to a.cept bat tle on the banks ot the river. The London Post says that General MCMAHON was raised on the battle-field to the rauk of Marshal. The Paris correspondent of the London Post, says the Emperor N APOLEON was present at the liattle of Magenta, but did not command in person. There is a report that General CAXROBERT was mortally wounded, and that five French Marshals or Generals were wounded. The Patch says that Marshal BAKAGUAY D'IIII.LIERS w as removed from his command and replaced by Gen. FOREY. Marshal YAILLAXT is superseded by Gen. RAXDOX, and the Minis try of War is to be confided provisionally to Gen. IIORAXA. (?) There were rumors in Paris on the Bth that the French loss was from 9,000 to 12,000 men hi/rs da combat. Generals NEIL and MCMAIIOX were said to be among the wounded. The Paris papers variously estimate the forces engaged at 100.000 to 120,000 French and 130,000 to 180,000 Austrians. General GARIBALDI had quitted Lecco, and General D'URRAX had retreated to Mouza. It was supposed that- GARIBALDI was directing his march against D'URBAN. The Paris correspondent of the London Post telegraphs that General MCMAHOX has been created Duke of Magenta. NARROW ESCAPE OK A DlVEß. —Captain Glcunie, a noted diver in the service of St. John's Diving Company, had a very narrow escape from death near St. John, X. 8., on Saturday last. A letter to one of the Boston owners of the company gives the following par ticulars of the occurrence : " Captain Glennie had been under water for two hours, looking for a mooring anchor, and had j 11-1 decided to come up, w hen the hose burst in the boat, and the air at once escaping the pressure of the water against his dress ; drove the blood from the lower part of his body to his head and neck, where the helmet | kept the water off, and a vacuum was created. His head swelled to nearly double its size, and the blood rushed out through every pore. He was drawn up immediately—say in about one ; minute—but was wholly insensible, and those present thought him dead ; he was com pletely black. In about an hour he came to his sense o , vomited tin some blood, and com menced to improve. He has been doing well ever since, and I hope will be able to leave his bed in a week or ten days." WASHINGTON COUNTY. —The Wool Trade is now being prosecuted in this county with con siderable spirit. A number of eastern dealers have arrived, who are busily engaged in tra versing the county and making purchases.— Several of the citizens of our county are also buying heavily. Prices appear to be good We have heatd of sales at sixty and sixty-five cents, and some very choice clips have brought even a higher figure.— JExaminer. LOCAL AND GENERAL. t-S- We have just received three volumes of the Waverly Novels, by Sir Walter Scott. They un entitled, THE ANTIQUARY, OLD MORTALITY and WAVER LY ; each comprising an entire novel—printed on supe rior white paper, and the whole will be completed in twenty-six volumes, making upward of 3300 pages.— Each number contains about 1115 pages. A complete set, W volumes in all. will be sent to any one, to any place in the United States, free of postage, on the receipt of five dollars. One volume will be printed on each Satur day, in regular succession, until the whole twenty-six volumes are issued. Send and get them, they are most excellent reading, and remarkably cheap ; trom one of the ablest pens of the present day. SULLIVAN COUNTY. —We find in the Demo crat the following items : FATAL ACCIDENT It becomes our painful duty to re cord the death of Mr. DAVID IT. COOPER, who came to this county some two years since, and located upon the 1 banks of the Loyalsock, some live miles from this place. The circumstances of the sad event are as follows : On Tuesday last, Mr. COOPER was engaged in chopping logs for a barn, and having chopped oft"a small tree, in falling it lodged upon another sapling, and for the purpose of bringing it to the ground, he felled two other sma' 1 trees upon it; the probabilities are that the three trees re mained lodged, and that as be was passing under them to get to the fourth to chop that down, they unexpected ly fell, crushing him to the ground, and killing him in stantly. Mr. CoorKß was alone, and some distance from the house, and was not discovered until the next morning. Ke~ There now seems to be a fair prospect of a speedy completion of the extensive steam tannery, which was commenced at this place several years ago. A company now have it in charge, who intend to complete, stock, and have it doing business, by the first of September next. The m ain building, which is 220 by 10 feet, is al ready up and partly enclosed, and the leach house, which is 110 by 30 feet, is also enclosed, and will be brought to a speedy completion. Several wings and out-buildings will be attached, which will make the whole, when com pleted, the largest tannery in the State. A contract for two thousand cords of bark has been let, and the woods in this vicinity are alive with men skinning the hemlocks. flu • Engineers are now engaged in locating the Cata wissa and Towanda Railroad—the charter of that road having been renewed by the last Legislature. The por tion of the Road upon which they are now engaged is between this place and Rloomsbnrg, on the Lackawanna Road. The proposed Catawissa and Towanda Road is to commence at Rupert, or Bloomsbnrg, and intersects the X. Y. k E. R. R. at Waverly, passing through Sullivan near this place, and also passing through the coal fields of this county. We understand that the greatest obstacle to be surmounted on the route, is to get a proper gr ide over the North Mountain. Should this road be built, the untold mineral, coal, and timber resources of this county will be developed and thrown into market, and Sullivan be classed among the richest counties in the State. TIIK W OOL MARKET. —The Steuben County Courier of Wednesday last, in referring to the wool trade, says:—" As Steuben is the first conuty m the State in the production of Wool, we have taken some little pains for the benefit of our wool growing friends about what they may expect to realize for their wool. It can hardly be said that prices are fairly established— Some buyers insist on last year's prices, but the general impression is that Wool will range higher this year than i last. One lot was sold in Howard last week for 40 cents and another at 12. A dealer from IVnn Van was through this section last week inquiring of holders if they would tak e forty-fire rent*, but we do not learn that the former ! offered to give it; or the latter consented to take that price. Those figures refer of course to the best grades— From alt we can learn we incline to the opinion that the I best qualities will range from 10 to 45 cents ; they may run higher, but are quite as likely to fall as rise. Ex ! perienced and careful buyers do not bite very sharp as yet, but as competition is the life of business they may improve a trifle in a few days. A dealer in this town i offered forty-live cents last week for the " valley wool," j which was refused." g Tn F: SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN. —The publishers of this widely circulated and p- pular illustrated weekly journal of mechanics and science, announce that it will be enlarged on the first of July, and otherwise greatly improved, containing sixteen pages instead of eight, the present size, which will make it the largest and cheapest scientific journal in the world ; it is the only journal of its class that has ever succeeded in this country, and maintains a character for authority in all matters of me chanics, science and the arts, which is not excelled by any other j<m anal published in this country or in Europe. Although the publishers will incur an increased expense of SS,OOO a year by this enlargement, they have deter mined not to raise the price of subscription, relying upon their friends to indemnify them in this increased expen diture, by a corre-pouding increase of subscribers. Terms $2 a year, or 10 copies for sls. Specimen copies of the j paper with a pamphlet of information to inventors, fur- I nLhed gratis, by mail, on api lication to the publishers, | MI NN & Co. Xo. 37 Park Row, Xew York. SHIPMENTS of Coal by the Barclay Rail Road and Coal Company : I Previous Shipments 5.047 tons. I For week ending June IS 1,310 " Amount for the season 0,303 tons. BUSY MR. NELSON LF.E, proprietor of the American House, at Tunkhannock, while riding.on Wcd ! liesday evening, accidentally ran the wheel of his sulky j against a hitching post, was thrown out upon the ground, I and oue of his legs badly broken. The Wellsboro' Agitator, will accept our tie.-t bow for the following very handsome compli- I raent : [ " The Towanda Reporter entered last week on the twentieth year of its existence. Daring all that time its present proprietor and editor, E. O. GOODRICH, Esq., has had some part in its fortunes. The Reporter is one of our best country exchanges. In its treatment of the qnes j tions of the day, it is manly and high-toned, choosing ra ther to appeal to the reason and consciences of its read ers, than to their prejudices and passions. In this way it has won the confidence and respect of the people of Brad ford, and its present prosperity is a sure indication of their appreciation of its worth in the past and present.— May its future be bright, and may the editor, who i.s now nearly entitled to rank as a veteran, have many long and useful years before him." RazJ" The people of Tioga will celebrate on j the 4th, at Tioga Village. E. D. CULVER, ot Xew York, is to be the orator, and great preparations are making for a grand " old fashioned time." {ha?-'NEPTUNE FIRE Co., No. 1," of Waver ly, will visit Elmira, on the 4th of July. This Company was here on the last 4th, and added materially to the dis play made on that occasion. It is composed of fine-look ing men, and will attract attention wherever it goes. ROBBERY AT PITTSTON. —The Gazette, of the 15th says that " one of the most daring robberies ever committed in this section of the country was perpetrated on the night of the 2d inst., at the residence of J. A. Wie ner, Esq., in West Pittston. Bome time after the family had retired, some person at present unknown, feloniously entered the house through the bath room, coolly walked into Mr.Wisner's bedroom, while he was asleep, and stole a valuable gold watch, lying on the bureau, and a pair of 1 >ots, from the side of the bed. In Mr. Winner's coat pocket, which was lying near by, was several hundred dollars in bills, and abont thirty in gold, all of which was found untouched. The theory of this barefaced robbery is that the robber knowing Mr. Wisner bad just returned from a collecting tour of a few days, suspected he hndtbe results of his labors about his person, and broke in with a view of securing flic money, and was in some way dis turbed. (probably on consciously by Mr. Wisner himself,) and made good hie escape with the watch aud boots. The murks of bis fingers were discovered at the window, through which he entered. But as yet, no clue to the ras cal hits been obtained. Twenty-five dollars is offered for his apprehension. MOUNT VERNON.— We are indebted to the artist. Mr. C. H. WKI.I.s, for a view of the Home of Wash ington, engraved from drawings made on the ground by Mr. C., and printed in oil colors. As a correct represen tation of the in insion house and grounds at Mount Ver non , it excels anything we have ever seen .while as a work of art, it is unapproachable. The general interest awak ened in the purchase and restoration of Mount Vernon, will give this picture a large sale, independent of the fact that it is furnished at the extremely low price of fifty cent*— a figure at which we have never before seen a pic ture of this merit afforded. A new process in printing enables the publishers to afford it at this extremely low price. It is fit to adorn any parlur, and should cmbelli-h the walls of every dwelling. MARBLE FACTORY. —Those who have a mel ancholy duty to perform in marking the last resting place of the lamented dead, will find at BALDWIN'S Marble Fac tory, in the lower part of this place, an opportunity af forded them, for selecting such a monument as tlieir means or fancy may dictate. A large stock of American and Italian Marble is kept on hand, in sncb shape as will allow the speedy filling of an order for the most costly monument or the plainest tombstone. The workmanship upon such as are on hand will evidence the taste and skill o! the ariist, Mr. COBUKN, who is not to be excelled in all the adornments of his profession. Good stock and excel lent workmanship should recommend Baldwin's establish ment to the patronage of the public. j&S~Thc late burglaries in Troy, led to the arrest of a young man named NORTON, on suspicion of be ing concerned, who made a confession, implicating JOHN and PATRICK DKISCOI.L, who were also arrested, one at this place, and the other at Waverlv. About the same time, in a satchel belonging to a colored barber, named A. T. TAYLOR, were found most of the articles taken from GRANT'S store. TAYLOR, who was absent, was arrested on his return, and he also implicated the persons already in custody, and also Joim H. ELWKLL, a mason, working at East Troy. In the trunk of the latter were found arti cles which were stolen from the store of V. M. A H. F. LONG, of Troy borough. An examination before Esqnire KENDALL,resulted in the committment of JOHN DKISCOLI. EI.WELI., and TAYLOR, to the county jail, and of P. DRIS COLL and Norton as fugitives from justice from the State of Sew York, they having escaped from the jail of Seneca county. £\af"The attention of Farmers is directed to the advertisement of the Tioga Point Agricultural Works in another col umn. LOST —On the highway, on Wednesday, the 15th inst.. between John Black's, in Pike twp., and To wanda boro', a box containing a Breast Pin and Ear-rings. Any person delivering the same at this office, or at Win. Black's, in Leßaysville, will be suitably regarded. AN " ASTONISHING " ERROR CORRECTED. — A " startling" article in the New York lleraUl of the Sth instant, under the imposing head, " Astonishing Frauds in the I'ostoflice Depart ment,'' coolly states that recent investigations in the Postoffice Department lead to the belief that Department loses one million of dollars a year by the use of counterfeit anil washed post age stamps. We Bud, on inquiry, that no investigation has been made leading to the belief, or even the suspicion, that such startling and wholesale frauds have been committed. On the contrary, careful investigation in the Department has led to the conclusion that, although occasional attemps are made t) me cancelled and washed stamps in payment of postage, such attemps are rarely successful, and that no considerable loss to the revenue lias resulted frcm this abnse. We tiud that tlie Department has no reason to believe—either from proof or reasonable pre sumption—that there has been any counterfeit ing of postage stamps since their introduction into the service. The sale of postage stamps has increased and i.s increasing from year to year in a nearly uniform ratio. Surely this could not be the case tf the statements of the Herald were true. Moreover, it would be next to impossible to introduce counterfeit stamps to any considerable extent without exciting suspicion, except it may le through the agency of dishonest postoffice officials ; and in this way it would not be possible to succeed without assistance iu all the principal offices of the Union. In no one office could many spurious stamps be sold ; because the diminished demand for the legitimate stamps would necessarily at at one arrest the attention of the postmaster. Washington Constitution. BKZT" At Potter's Field, New York, during nine weeks past, over 27,000 coffins have been raised out of 17 pits, each 200 feet long, and from Bto 10 feet wide. The coffins in which the bodies were originally burned were broken up. and t lie bodies packed into boxes 6 feet long, 20 inches wide, and 20 inches deep.— The remains of from three to forty bodies were packed in each box, or eighteen in each on an average, and the boxes were removed to Ward's Island. The dead are now all cleared away, and the old coffins now only remain.— Among them may be seen several in which infants must have been buried. These are removed daily bv cartloads to Central Park, where they are burned at night, and the smell from them during tlieir combustion is horrible. The smell from the boards on the ground is also very bad. There is also a lot extending from 48th to 49th streets, between Fourth and Lexington Avenues, which is said to be a mass of human bones. Its dimensions are 484 by 100 feet ' - THE CAPITOL DOME. —Some one hundred and fifty tons of iron-work for the interior of the dome has just been received from New-York and the work ltas thus received a new impet us. This iron is now in process of being put in place, to do which a considerable number of woikman are engaged, giving a busy appear ance to a part of the Capitol which has had to rest a considerable time for the necessary cast ings. We lenni that by December next the whole of the first section, or that part of tho dome now in hand, will be completed, so as to allow the next or " pilaster "section to be com menced. There has been no delay on the work from the beginning, and the apparent stoppago on the dome was apparent only, the founders at New York, to the number of about two hundred, having been continually employed thereon.— Washington States, June 10. HOG CHOLERA. —We learn that this terrible disease i.s prevailing to an alarming extent among the hogs at Bridgeport, Fa volte county. A large number very fine ones have died from its effects during the past four weeks.— Wash. {Da.) Ktaminer. fcif Paul Morphy will visit Philadelphia, this week, en route for New Orlcaus.
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