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.
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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.