[From the Harrisburg Telegraph.] Sale of the Fuhiic Works. Mr Editor :—My attention was called pome time pinco to the subject of Iro sale of the Public Works of the Stat", the public debt, Ac., by a controversy between " Invt >tigutor, of the Patriot ind I'kion of H.imsburg, and the editor of the Clinton Dr macro t. I was long aware that there was a groat and, for a time successful, attempt to keep the honest, hard work inc taxpayers in the dark as to the true financial condition of our State, us well us the profitableness of the Public \\ 01 ks. Of late years, however, enough has leaked out to euable the people to see that all wn not right. Hence the demand of the masses that our Public Works should be sold. The plunderers of " the Exact Scieree '' class were loud and furious in opposition, from Judge Black down, or up, to the Locktender. I have examined the subject with a great deal of care, aided only by the reports of De mocratic officen, and have been perfectly as tonished at the gross deception practiced upon the people. I find the public debt on the 3Dth day of November, Hl*, was 140,6 12,371,31 On the" the same terms, the State would have gained $5,000,431,09 by so daing. Again, had the whole Public Woiks been given away on the said 30th of November 18.".0 the State would this day have been $1,625,- 097,49 the gainer. Startling as the above facts are, they . Atwater, of | Berlin, Conn., which costs only one dollar, caught in a j •lining room in a hotel in Manchester, N. H., seventeen hundred flies in one minute, on a wager, and, of course, ! won the stakes. A German a'; Cincinnati made a bet of 1 .fifty dollars that lie could drink half a barrel of lager ; l eer in twenty-four hours. Seeing how he was going on, the other party paid hint ten dollars to throw up the bet. —We are pained to learn that the Hon. W. i B. Reed, our lute minister to China, is at present serious . ly ill, at his residence, Chestnut Hill. Mr. Buchanan declines being a candidate for the Presidency—so says the Bedford Gazette of yes terday, and so also says the Harrisburg Patriot and L'n• —Colonel Braxton Bragg, to whom General net ! Taylor, at the battle of Palo Alto addressed the famous ] words, " A little more grape, Captain Bragg," is report | ed to be the Democratic candidate for a local office at ! Lafourche, La. —The Mobile papers announce the death of I the Ifon. John Gayle, Judge of the United States District | Court of Alabama, who died at his residence, near Mobile, |on the 22.-t inst. He was in the (57th year of his age, and his health had been declining for some time previous to his death. —The Canard steamer Persia, which left New York on the (Jth inst., arrived at Liverpool on Fri day, the lath. The Liverpool Mercury says, that allow ing for the difference of time, she made the passage in ) nine days, live hours. This is an extraordinarily quick I trip. A German girl in Buffalo, named Monroe, swallowed twenty-two reed lea on Tuesday, and has digest ed the whole number under medical care. She intended j to kill herself, but did not succeed. —The cars have commenced running on the Baltimore City Passenger Railway. Great delight is man | Jested thereat by the papers of that city. They puff the ! railroad, they puff the cars, and they puff tlie conductors | who are all described as being " young gentlemen, most j attentive and obliging." Of course. Professor \V r ise leaves Lancaster iu a few days, to resume his ballooning experiments in tiie West. He forwarded last week to St. Louis, under the charge of i his son, the balloon " Jupiter." The father and sou will j make an ascension from St. Louis in a few days, and again ! attempt to reach the Atlantic States. —Last week a little girl, aged ten, was | placed in tlie New York State Lunatic* Asylum. The j child was a very intelligent one, and its close application j to study threw it into fits, and resulted in destroying the ! rhind. —Dr Doy, recently arrested in Kansas on a charge of Kidnapping, and confined in the St. Joseph (Mo.) jail, was rescued on Sunday morning during a se ; vere storm, and at last accounts had not been retaken. —A letter has been received in Paris from Baron Larrey, the Emperors surgeon, in which he states | that his horse wax killed by a bullet, which, had it not been interrupted, would probably have struck the Ein ; peror. —John, son of Judge Bressler of Clinton , county, while gathering whortleberries on the moan tain, Monday last, was bitten by a rattlesnake, in the hand.— Remedies were applied, but be was in a precarious condi tion until Wednesday. Postmaster Glass, of New Brighton, Pa , has been arrested on a charge of passing counterfeit ! money. —The fruit crop in California, this year, ac cording to the San Francisco Herald, will amount to be tween six and seven millions of dollars. —The U. S. steam frigate San Jacinto, sail ed recently for the coast of Africa. ikiiifori) ilcpovtcr. E. O. GOODRICH. EDITOR. TOWANDA : Thursday Morning, August 4, 1859. Tcnsis— One Dollar per annum, invariably in advance.— Four weeks previous to the expiration of a subscription, notice will be given by a printed wrapper, and if not re newed, the paper ivill in all eases be stopped. CLUBBING —The Reporter irill be sent to Clubs (it the fol lowing extremely lore rates : 6 copies for $5 00 jls copies for 112 00 10 copies for S 00 | 20 copies for 15 00 A OVERT RSEMF.NTS — For a square of ten lines or less, One Dollar for three or less insertions, and twenty-Jive cents for each subsequent insertion. ■JOB-WORK— Executed with accuracy and despatch, anil a reasonable prices—with every facility for doing Books, Blanks, Hand-bills, Bali tickets, 4*<". TTIE REPUBLICAN co. fz&cff-y**.. COMMITTEE will meet at. the Court House, in the Borough of Towanila, SATURDAY. AUGUST 6. 1859, at I.T. M- The following named persons compose said Committee — W. C. Bogart, C. H. Ames, Otis Hamilton, Andrew Fee, B.'S. Hartt, I N.Evans, John G. Towner J G. Ham mond, Philander Long. July 26, 1859. W. C. BOGART, Chairman. BUCHANAN " DECLINES." We have an official announcement in the Bedford Gnzetle, that President BUCHANAN will not be a candidate for re nomination. As his Excellency : s now reposing from the cares of Stete at Bedford Springs, this declaration might be considered as final and authoritative but for the fact that papers known to be iu the confidence of " J. B." are urging his re-no inination, together with the equally well known fact, that the efforts of his office-holders are di rected towards the same consummation. That Mr. BUCHANAN has anxiously desired a re-nomination, has been apparant for some time. The patronage of his Administration has been employed for this purpose ; while lie has stultified himself and outraged the best in terests of the country, to conciliate that sec tional interest which controls the Democratic party, and makes or unmakes its Presidential candidates. It would be difficult to satisfy the public that he freely and voluntarily gives up the hope he has cherished, of being his own successor. We should vat her consider it as a feint, in strict accordance with the history of his public life, and the unrecoucilable and tor tuous course of his Presidential career, in which not content with disappointing the hopes of the country, he has violated and disregarded the professions and principles by which he was elevated to office, forgotten and repudiated old friends, and taken to his confidence and his affections, his life-long and bitterest enemies. If Mr. BUCHANAN has really resigned all hope of a re-nomination, it does credit to his sagncity. Surrounded by flatterers and syco phants, we had not expected him to realize the general estimation in which his Administration is held, and the univer.-a! verdict of condemna tion uttered by the people. The fate of pre vious Administrations may have forced upon him the unwelcome conclusion, that the South having used him to effect its purposes, would fail him at the Charleston Convention, and seek for some more serviceable candidate,to use and repudiate. ANOTHER DISSOLUTION BUGBEAR.— It is re ported in Washington that the Mississippi State Convention have instructed their dele gates to the Charleston Convention to withdraw from that body unless they succeed in engraft ing upon the platform the repeal of all laws against the African Slave Trade, and the enact ment by Congress of laws for the protection of Slave property in the United States Terri tory. The South Carolina delegation will fol low them. The next movement in the pro gramme is to call a Convention, if it is not al ready called, of disaffected Southern States, to meet on the 10th of November, to declare the dissolution of the Union, and to induce as many States as will co-operate to withdraw from it. The Convention may possibly meet, but you won't catch those Southern fire-eaters doing any such silly thing as attempting a dis solution of the Union. It is their interest to keep it whole, and they will never leave it of their own accord. SUNBURY AND ERIB RAILROAD. — Good pro gress is making on the work at the depot grounds of this roaa in Erie ; a freight depot is to be put up shortly. A locomotive for the passenger trains is expected at Erie in a few days. The work at the " Sink Hole," on the line of the road, near Waterford, will, it is expected, be permanently surmounted in a few days. Immediately thereafter the rails will be laid over it, and carried forward with all pos sible speed to Union Mills and Warren. When the former place is reached, a passenger train will be put on. The road, as far as made, will compare favorably with any in America. B*3* The labors of the Kansas Constitutional Convention have been brought to a close. The Constitution, as perfected, is a radical Anti- Slavery instrument, but at the same time it does not extend the right of suffrage to ne groes as did the one adopted at Leavenworth. The State Legislature will consist of seventy- Representatives and twenty one Senators. To peka is fixed upon as the temporary capital, the priucipal competitor for the houor being Lawreuce. The latest advices from the Kansas gold region are encouraging for those contemplating emigration thither. The mines continued to yield well, and new " leads " were being dis covered. The greatest difficulty is represent ed to be from the scarcity of water. In oue place a flume eleven miles in extent was to be -coa&tracted, and tunneling had already been commenced. THE PUBLIC WORKS. In another column, will be found an article from the Telegraph, on the subject of the value to the State of the Public Works. We are aware that this subject is one in which public interest has in a great measure abated, being succeeded by a general feeling of relief at the transfer by the State of her interest in Public Improvements, but we publish this article to show how fallacious are the statements that the Public Works have ever been a source of revenue to the Commonwealth. The article was prepared from official documents, and the figures given may be relied upon as accurate. Leaving figures out of view, one fact has beeu sufficient to satisfy us of the unproduc tiveness, as a source of Revenue, of the State Improvements, and that was, that they have not contributed to the relief of the tax-payers, nor towards liquidating the debt of the Com monwealth. It has always been very eusy to make out tables showing the enormous amount derived from the Public Works, but the money never found its way into the Treasury ; but on the contrary, the outgo has been constant. If the Public Works had been the profit to the State, claimed by those interested in thieving along the lines, the Public debt ought to have been paid off before this time The proudest day Pennsylvania has seen for years, was that on which she divested herself of all interest in Public Improvements. The future will bear us out in saying that her progress towards extinguishing her public debt, and lightening the taxes of her people, will date from that period. FOREIGN NEWS.— Dy the arrival of the Yan derbilt steamship Ocean Quern off Cape Race, and the Canadian steamship Anglo-Saxon at Further Point, on her way to Quebec, we are put in possession of highly interesting Euro pean advices to the 20th inst., four days later than those brought by the Eitropa at New York. The unexpected Peace continued to be the absorbing topic of the English and Continental Press, and its provisions appear to be very generally unacceptable. The Paris correspondent of the London Post, Lord PAL MERSTOX'S organ, even asserts that the Emper ors of France and Austria have become con- vinced that the bases upon which it was found ed are impracticable in many respects. The Post had commenced an attack upon the pro ceedings at Villafranca,and with all the other English journals, treated them with ridicule. The Vienna correspondent of the Times says that the representatives of France, Austria and Sardinia were soon to meet at Zurich to conclude the Treaty of Peace, and the Post's Paris correspondent says that the conference has just been arranged at St. Cloud, to meet early next month. The proceedings in the British Parliament had been interesting. The Budget had been submitted by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and it exhibits a deficit of nearly £'5,000,000, which it is proposed to make up by direct taxation. The financial and commercial news is highly important. The English fuuds were flat, and a decline had taken place in Consols. The Austrian funds were buoyant. The subscribers to the pro posed Austrian Loan had been relieved from their obligations. The Markets were goner ally very dull and flat. A decline had taken place at Liverpool 011 all qualities of Cotton, and Breadstuff's and Provisions were also low er. An accident occurred on the Old Colo ny Railroad, at North Bridgewater, Mass., 011 Saturday morning, by which to persons lost their lives and two others were injured. The express train came in collision with a carriage in which were a man, two ladies and a child. One of the ladies and the child were instantly killed. The accident was caused by the man attempting to drive across the track before the train. Every possible warning was givei by the engineer, and unavailing attempts were made to stop the train in time to avoid the col lision. IION. RICHARD RUSH died at his residence in Philadelphia, 011 Saturday morning last. Letter from President Buchanan. The subjoined letter from President BUCH ANAN was addressed to Hon. WILSON MOCAX DLKSS, of Pittsburg : UEDFORI) SPRINGS, July 25,1859. MY DEAR SIR : I have received your kind note of the 19th inst., together with the lender from the Post. Whilst I appreciate, as it de serves, the ability and friendship displayed in that editorial, I regret that it has been pub lished. My determination not, under any cir cumstances, to become a candidate for re-elec tion, is final and conclusive. My best judg ment and strong inclination unite in favor of this course. To cast doubts upon my pre de termined purpose is calculated to impair my influence in carrying out important measures, and affords a pretext for saying that these (measures) have been dictated by a desire to be renominated. With kindest regards, Ac., Respecl fully vour friend, JAMES BUCHANAN. THF. CENSUS. —The President has appointed Mr. J. C. G. Kennedy, who was the Superin teudent of the seventh census, to make the necessary arrangements, in conformity with law tor the eighth census. Before the work of collecting the census is entered upon, which will not be until after the next session of Con gress, it is intended, if possible, to collate and arrange the returns of the seven censuses already tuken, so that they may be readily referred to and availed of for information. Many of these returns were never published. Tliey lie in the department, an immense mass of chaotic mat ter. Inquiries made either by individuals or authorized by Congress, in regard to specific facts presented in the returns, could not be readily answered. [Cp- Count de Sartiges. French Muuster at Washington has arrived in Paris. LOCAL AM) GENERAL. CAMP MEETING. —A Camp meeting for the Wyalnsing District of the M. E. Church, will commence on Wednesday, August 31, and continue till September 7, on land owned by I. FORD, about two miles south east of : Leßaysville. A boarding tent will be kept on the ground, and all huckstering must be kept within the limits pre scribed by law. The committee recommend that the Fri day previous to the commencement of the meeting be observed as a day of fasting and prayer throughout the district. Any person desiring information in reference to the matter, can address Rev. A.lt. JONES, lyeßayaville, Pa. Rev. I. CHILD, late of Rochester, N. Y., has been installed Pastor of the Baptist Church in this place, and regular service may hereafter be expected every Sabbath, at 10J o'clock in the moring, and G. P. M. Mr. C. will preach every Sabbath afternoon in the Baptist Church of Monroe. At a meeting of the Bradford County Medical Society, held at the Odd Fellows Hall in the borongh of Monroe, July 6, 1859, the following members were present: Dr. C. K. Ladd, Towanda, President; V. Hornet, and G. F. Horton, Terrytown ; W. L. Clagctt, Standlrg Stone; D. Holmes, Canton ; H. P. Moody, Frenchtown ; G. H. Morgan. Monroe ; C. T. Bliss, Leßoy ; A. K. Axtell, Troy ; T. F. Mndill, Wysox ;*E. H. Mason, Towanda. The minutes of last meeting were read and approved. Mr. Morgan reported a ease of local paralysis. Dr. Bliss reported a case of dropsy, and exhibited a large mass of steatomatous matter found attached to the ovaria and filling up the pelvis on autopsy of the case. Dr. Moody reported a case of empyema, with the dis charge of small concretions, after the operation of para centesip. Dr. Holmes reported a case of follicular pharyngitis. Dr. Holmes offered the following resolution, which was adopted : Resolved, That the clinic hours of this Society shall be between the Jiours of 2 and 3 o'clock, P. M., on each day of its meetings, and hat the persons presented forexam ihation must be patients of members of this Society. I>r. Morgan, chairman of the committee on Vaccine Virus, read a report, and asked that the committee be continued until next meeting, which was granted. The committee to whom was referred the case of Dr. Axtell, for mal practice, made the following report which was unanimously adopted : WHEREAS : Dr. A. K. Axtell has been prosecuted for an alleged injury done to the knee joint, while producing extension, bv lorce applied above the condyles of the lemor, or in that vicinity ; and whereas, it is asserted that the leg was flexed upon the thigh while extension was lieing made ; and whereas, a majority of your committee were present to examine the patient's knee, and heard the testimony at the trial, and are perfectly conversant with the facts in the case, therefore Resolved. That in the opinion of your committee, the force applied to the knee, or its vicinity, did not nor could not produce the alleged injury, a much greater force is frequently employeti under similar circumstances, with perfect impunity, to the knee joint, and that the course pursued by Dr. A. is highly commendable, and in accord ance with the best surgical practice. G. 11. MORG AN, 1 C. T. BLISS, B Committee. T. F. MADILL, ) Dr. Holmes presented a resolution adopted by the Med ical Association of the eastern district of the State of New York, inviting the nembers of the Bradford County Med ical Society to become members of their Association. Dr. Horton offered the following resolution which was adopted : WHEREAS : At the instance of Dr. Holmes, a member of tlie Medical Association of the eastern district of the Stats of New York, that Association have invited the members of this Society to membership with them, there fore Resolved. That the members of this Society tender their thanks to the Medical Association, and recommend the members of tiiis Society to comply with their invitation. Drs. Holmes and Bliss were appointed to read essays at the next meeting. The subject of Dysentery was selected for discussion at the next meeting. Dr. Moody offered the following resolution which was unanimously adopted : Resolved. That the thanks of this Society are tendered to the Odd Fellows, lor the gratuitous use of their Hall on this occasion. Adjourned to meet at Towanda,Wednesday September 7. E. H. MASON, Secretary. SHIPMENTS of Coal by the Barclay Rail Road and Coal Company : Previous Shipments 11,577 tons. For week ending July 30 991 " Amount for the season 12.579 tons. FIRE AT TROY. —On Tuesday n : ght, July 24th, about twelve o'clock, the harn of Gen. ELISHA CASE, in Troy, was discovered on fire, and all at tempts to save it proved useless. It was entirely con sumed, together with its valuable contents, consisting of two hundred bushels of line wheat, two hundred bushels of barley, and about one hundred and fifty tons of hay - - We are not informed as to the extent of Gen. CASE'S loss or whether any portion of it is covered by insurance.— The fire was undoubtedly the work of an incendiary, as no person in suit preferences or in dustry. Daily prayers, with singing and the reading of GOD'A Word in the Chapel. Mar.s-ly. Uorth Branch Canal Company. NOTICE. THE Stockholders of the North Branch J. Canal Company are hereby notified, by a >n ot the Board oi Managers, an Instalment of A Half Dollars per share, is required to be paid to tne Trea surer or bis Assistant, at their office in Wilkesßarre, by the lath day of September next, and if not paid within thirty days alter that time, the stock will be forfeited. GEO. M. UOLLENBACK, Treasurer. July 21. 1859. W. G. STERLING, Asst. Teas'r. IEIt U I T TRE ES, Shrubs and Vinos. THE undersigned will he prepared the com- JL ing Fall, to supply the public with a well selected and choice variety of trees.. shrubs and vines. All orders sent or given I will attend to filling and delivering my self. and hope to make satisfactory. Trees that shed the leaf should be transplanted in the fall, evergreens late in the spring. As some people think that nursery men should replace all trees that do not live, I would say, to those buying of me, that I do not agree to do so, but I will warrant my trees to lie in good order wheu deliv ered. I will warrant all to live, but in such a case I will have an extra price, and attend to setting out myself. N. B— I The following Insurance Companies have ap pointed me their Agent, to take risks of all classes where local agents are not found : The Farmer's Union Insur ance Co., and Great Western, united, now of Philadelphia, the Kensington of Philadelphia, the Lycoming County Mutual Insurance Company, of Muncy Pa., Anything in this line promptly attended. DANIEL HARK INS. Towanda, July 25,1859. UA RDWAIIE -A NEW LOT JUST received at MERCUR'S. DR. G. S. PECK, SURGEON AND MECHANICAL DENTIST, TOWANDA, Pa. No. 1, Brick Row, over E. T. Fox's store — entrance first door <.n Dine st. July 18,1859. County Treasurer, TO THE REPUBLICAN VOTERS OF BRADFORD : FELLOW CITIZENS— I offer myself as a Candidate for the office of COUNTY TREASURER, subject to the decision of the Republican County Conven tion, and respectfully ask the co-operation at my Repub lican triends in MY behalf. Should I be so fortunate as to be nominated and elected, I wilt perform the duties of said office with fidelity. E. It. VAUGHN. Wyalusipg, July 12, 1859. YI A )M AN S FRUIT BOTTLES, for ing Frait, Ac., Fresh all the year round These Bottles are cheaper and better than any other bottle or can in use. For sale by F. T. FOX.