A Significant Contrast.
TTV would cull the attention of onr readers '•
to the following v- ry significant contrast. Tiii>
State —our good old Pennsylvania—having ,
so'd it* canals awl rail ro®ds, .s reducing its j
State debt at the rate of one raill:.n dollars a ,
tear. On the other hand, New Y"ik, hold- ,
ing on to her public works, find- her.-elf grow- ,
ing deeper ard deeper in debt, v. it h a decreas-,
ed revenoe and a sad financial prospect ahead. !
Tit is contrast is one that a!! can understand
and appreciate. And while e arc not pre-:]
pared to sanction theent re mdu i operandi of, ,
the sale of our Public Works, wc are glad,
very glad that they are gone. They were not ,
only a financial burthen, but were a nest for
the hatching of loco foeo corruption. They
were used for the vilest of purposes. In their (
aale we are relieved of this moral, financial aud '
political iticnbus.— Bloomsburg Republican.
[From the Lycoming Gazete ] ' >
Af'er the payment of the Augnst interest on i
the "State debt, this year, there remained in
the treasury of the State ha'f a million of solid .
doTTam, towards extinguishing the debt itself
—a rare circumstance for Pennsylvania, speak
ing well for the management of Ler resources,
and aognriog well for her future, unless she
fall into bad hands. The pnblie will readily
bee by this flattering state of the public treasury
how ranch reliance is to be placed in the clamor
about the sale of the public works. If it would
have Leen better for the State to have retain
ed possession of the public works,how it is that
while she st ill had possession of them,and before ;
the introduction of railways had so largely nit
off their business and depreciated their value,
she was often compelled to borrow money to
pay the interest on hjr public debt ? and why
is it that she is now, without them, not only
able to pay that interest, but to have a half a
million surplus upon which ."to advertise for the
redemption of the bonds which have hereto
fore required the payment of that interest ?
Political jugglers may prate, to suit their own
evil purposes, against the sale of the canals ; I
but the dollars in the public treasury will speak
the truth—truth which no distortion can efface.
Very truly does the Bulletin say, and the
p r escnt condition of treasury prove, that in
getting rid of the public works the common
wealth threw off a great load. Iu addition to
the already visible good results achieved by
the sale of the canals, she had secured the com
pletion of one of the greatest public improve-1
inents of the country, though which a great
proportion of vast trade o: the lakes wiil be '
seemed to her citizens, new country within her
own borders wiil be opened up to improvement
and the value of property iu hitherto unculti- j
vnted regions so increased as to measurably
lighten the public burdens of other parts of the !
State, and materially add to the present grad
ing condition of the public treasury. We re- j
peat, juggling politicians may, to snit their own |
disreputable ends, prate against the sale of the
canals, but the dollars in the State treasury
will tell the truth—and so loudly, too, that
political tricksters will not long be able to
deceive even a small portion of the public.
A HARD STORY TO BELIEVE.—A Cleveland
paper vouches for the truth of the following :
—" Last Monday afternoon, while h number
of deck hands were engaged in pin-lug a iuree
quantity of linseed oil iu the hold of the -teum
er Iron City, something gave way, ami a Log
head fell fair and square on the bead of a stal
wart darkey who was at \v>k hi die hold.—
The height from which the hogshead f--il wa
some six feet, and it ended about so that cm
of the heads struck lii.u. A wild though
smothered yell came up from the hold, and the
other darkies, turning pale as fidelity to their
parents would permit, rushed down to gather
up the mangled remains of their comrade Im
agine their consternation upon seeing the hogs
head standing upright and the frightened and !
somewhat lacerated countenance of the negro
protruding through the upper head ! Adaman
tine cranium had driven through both heads i
of the hogshead without doing material injure, j
more than a few cuts and a very bad " scare." ;
The hogshead had to be knocked to pieces iu
order to release him,and he emerged the greas
iest nigger probably ever seen iu America.—
M bile tl.ey were binding tip his head he was
heard to remark, " Uor a mighty, guess dis ere
darker don't want any more ile ou liar ! ' He
was at his work in the afternoon.
c
AN AWFUL RETIUHUTI N. —Some time last
spring a company of Pike's Peakers IcltGruy
▼ille,lll., for the Kansas gold regions. While |
travelling through the Indian country on their
way out, one of the company, a young man of j
desperate character, from the vicinity of (iray
vile, named Ilayues, declared his detennina-j
tion to shoot the first Indian he met ; and un
happily, during the day they overtook 011 the
prairie a defenceless squaw, when lie in mere
wicked wantonness, leveled his gun and shot
her dead.
His companions were horror strickf n it the
blood-thirsty deed, but felt that they had no 1
power to purii a h him. Tne tribe to which the
squaw belonged was not far distant when the ;
■deed was perpetrated. They discovered her
lifeless body, and saw at once the manner of
her death. They pursued the party of Illinois
Pikes Peakers, and iu a few hours overtook
them, and demanded to know who hud commit
ted the murder.
The company of five or six Ihke's Peakers
found themselves surrounded by neatly two
hundred enraged Indians, who threatened to!
immolate the whole party if they did not point 1
out and give up the murderer. To save their
own lives, they gave np Ilayues to their ven
geance. He was taken by tlie Indians to a
distance, while his companions tarried ou their
route to see what would be his fate.
After a while the Indians returned, with their
victim literally flayed, alirc. They had skinned
him from head to foot. The wretched being i
was still alife when brought back to his com- I
panions, but in torments worse than hell fire.
He lived iu agony long enough to tell how he
had been tortured, but was soon released by
death from unspeakable sufferings. Terrible :
ns the revenge was, few can say it was not de- ,
served.
- 1
man at West Chester, filled, as usual, with
bold and nervous thought, he took occasion to
utter the following significant sentences :
" As far as I individually am concerned,there
can be uo fraternity in the Democratic party !
until the last spark of political life shall be
crashed out of the Leeomptonite ; and the be t
way to kill him is to exclude him from office.
We may not be able to elect men whom we i
would prefer, but we can certainly cause defeat
to a faithless enemy ; and such a defeat will be
by no means unimportant. It will indicate n
.sttiutary ksaon, and by removing bad principle
from tins market inav cause a demand for good
oa a."
Uom all JiaUfltis.
—■There is a mild milk panic in Cincinnati. ,
OmpLiiats of"la'le:.l impurity are nude daily to the ;
Slipr. A woman stated that s dairyman on Saturday 1
last milked a cow which died in twenty minutes after the I
operation ! Tba kine generally were disea.-cd and car
rup'ed. The Mayor didn't know how to act in the pre
miser
—Twenty one slaves, manumitted by the j
will of Playact Bo met, ot Mecklenburg county. Vir
ginia. hive gone to locate in Hardm county. Oh o. With
one exception, they lork forward with del ght to freedom
and self control. Mr. Burnet did not iree all his tdsroe
—only those who had been faithful, and were deemed
competent to take care of themselves.
—As the congregation of the Reformed
Dutch Church, Rochester. X. Y-, were worshipping Ix-t
Sunday morning, the floor gave way with a great crash,
setting about five feet and throwing a large number 01
people together into a con'used heap. The edifice is an
0 d oue and is raised on wooden blocks five foet lrutn the
ground.
—The main building of George B Sloat k
Co.'s Sewing Machine Manufactory at Philadelphia was
burned to the ground on Saturday morning. The fire
was the work of an incendiary. Insurance $30,000 The
destruction of the manufactory has thrown 700 persons
out of employment, hut they will at once re-commence
operations at the new quaiters provided for them by the
firm.
—Joseph M. Schloss, a Hebrew, having
been arrested at Cincinnati lor violation of the Sunday
law. in exposing goods for sale, it was decided that as he
kept the Jen i>h Sal hath, he had a right to transact his
ord.aary business on Sunday.
—The St. Joseph (Mo.) Gazette of the Bth
inst.. speaks of the arrival of a number ot Mormons from
Salt laike, in that city, who reported that four or five
thousand recusant Saints will make their exodus from
the Valley thus summer.
A letter has recently been received by
the Commissioner of Patents, from Mr. Robert Cortue,
London, in which, after congratulating the Commissioner
on the great success which has attended the effort to
propagate the tea plant in this country, from the seeds
which were forwarded by him from China, remark- that
a- much has been done in one year for the United States
as was done in three for the Government of India, owing
to the experience which time and opportunity have given
him.
—A schooner built and loaded near Mil
waukee, Wisconsin,after passing through Lake Michigan,
: the Straits of Macinac, Lake Huron, the St. Clair river,
Weiiand Canal, and the Lake route into the St. Lawrence
j river, into the Gulf of St. Lawrence aud Gut of Canco
into the blue Atlantic, has arriied at Charleston, S. C.
-—We see that John Piatt—the " Bully
Brooks " of Lycoming—ha- been sentenced for his attack
upon Daniel Bower, lisq., editor of the Wiiiiamsport
Press, to pay a fine of S4O and the cost- of prosecution
and enter security in the sum of S3OO to keep the peace
to all good citizens lor the period of six mouths. Too
; light, that's all.
—A stiff necked old politician, living near
1 Detroit, recently refused to alh w his daughter to marry
; the man of her ch'-ice because he " didn't vote the legu
iar ticket." But the marriage took place in the parlor
while the old gentleman was holding a caucus in the li
brary.
—The Blootnsbnrg A Lackawanna Railroad
extension from Rupert to Danville, is completed, and the
first engine went through a few days ago. A corps of
engineers is now engaged in locating the road down the
northern side of the buxjuchanna to Chulasky and North
umberland, to connect with the Northern Central.
—The Postmaster at Warren, Ohio, writes
a! the r . -t of Mr. Timothy Bradley of Johnston. Ohio,
to say that the story of tla* corre-poudcnt announcing
that Mrs. D. was the hap, y mother of 8 children at a
birth ia a malicious hoax, and adds: "Mr. and Mrs.
Bradley are both respectable persons of respectable fain
ilus— have been married about six years, and have never
had any children."
Some wag states that Mr. Buchanan ia
no longer a bachelor. He has become wedded to Mis-
Government.
—The State canals of Ohio were offered at
public sale, on the 17th instant, but no bidder could be
found for them, and the State is therefore compelled to
remain in po&session of them.
Horace Greeley lias reached California,
and is lionized everywhere. Mr. G. e-timates that 3010
emigrants are on the way to California, over land.
—A shrewd operation to evade the liquor
1 law has been carried on for some time past, a few miles
j from West Killingly.on the border of Connecticut and
Rhode island. There has been built a shop one side rest
ing on Connecticut soil, and the other part in Rhode Is
land. When the officers from Connecticut approach, the
; < ntraband article is moved across the shop, which makes
it rest in Rhode Island, and r ice versa.
Ex President Franklin Pierce is expected
I home iu a short time. He will resume his residence in
Concord. X. If., where he has many friends. The private
. secretary of President Pierce, Sidney Webster, Esq., is
engaged in the successful practice of his profession as a
lawyer, in the city of Boston, as the partner of Hon.
I Ca'eb Cushing.
—S. K Kepner was Treasurer of Schuyl-
I kill county, Pa., until recently. His successor discovered
i liiin to be a defaulter in the sum of $45,000—5.30,000 to
I the State and i 1."1.00') to the county. His bondsmen have
. already paid SIO,OOO for him, and they will have to pay
: more.
—A Pa;:? correspondent of the Independence
fir/gc says he is assured that one of the last things otter
ed in the now celebrated interview at Villatranca was a
promise made by the Emperor of Austria to pass some
days next Winter at the Tuilleries.
A Pennsylvania!), named Charles Leslie,
a native of Clarion county, is said to have gathered over
a thousand ounces of gold du-t at Pike's Peak. Lucky
fellow! How many relatives he will discover that did
not know him when he was poor.
—At an Opposition meeting held at Rich
' ui'Oid on Monday evening, resolutions were passed favor
able to the nomination el John Minor Butts for the Pres
■ idency.
—The St. Louis (Mo.) Republican publishes
a letter from Arizona, givii g a very favorable account of
the silver mines in that region. There can be no doubt
that the metal abounds there, but the difficulties of work
ing the mines at such a distance from all skilled labor,
must be very great.
—Jenny Lind Goldschmidt is a member of
the New Episcopal C hurch, of St. John, iu the parish of
Putnam, London.
—A Yankee schoolmaster named Comstock
turned a drove of cattle into the cornfield of a farmer in
[ lowa, and during the conf.-.sion which this act created in
the family ran away with the tamer's daughter and rnar
j lied her.
—A committee from the Ashland Clnb of
Brooklyn, New York, waited upon the Hon. John Minor
Botts, at his rooms at the Astor House, last Tuesday
cvening, to inquire into his views on public questions,
and especially with reference to tha next Presidency.—
Mr. Bolts replied very Irankiy, and said.if nominated by
the united Opposition he would accept.
—The MePouoagb legacy to Baltimore citv,
after paying ail expenses, leaves a net result to the city
of $*>03,961,06.
—Peter Arnold, who ragrdered his three
children a few weeks since, near Freeport, Illinois, died
ic prison on the 11th lust.
-—The Hon. Graham N. Pitch 1$ seriously
|til at his r*Adcti)o ia fcogaMport, Liks lLl£L
ikairforb importer.
E. O. GOODRICH. EDITOR.
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DELEGATE ELECTIONS.
"Saturday next is the day appointed by the
County Committee for the election of Rele
gates to the Convention to he held at this place
on Monday evening, September sth. We trust
that the Vigilance Committees have faithfully
performed their duties, by giving ample notice
of the time and place of holding snch meetings,
that the Republican electors may all he cogni
zant of the location and hour of the caucus.
It has been our dutj and our privilege, for
many consecutive years, to call the attention
of the electors to-there meetings, and urge the
importance of not neglecting the primary move
ments. We hear occasionally complaints as to
the working of the machinery by which nomi
nations are made, but all the abuses to which
it is liable might be remedied, if the voters
would take the matter in hand. A delegate
election is intended to ascertain the wishes of
the people, and appoint proper persons to rep
resent the feelings of the electors of each dis
! trict. It the masses will leave the primary
meetings to be attended by a few men, tbey
should not complain if a few men control and
mould the action of the district. The remedy
is simple and easy. The popular will can be
j clearly and unmistakably ascertained and ex
pressed by a turn-out of the people at the pri
mary meetings. If this is done, and care is
taken to elect good men, who will not he bias
ed by personal preferences, bnt controlled by
a desire to promote the welfare of the party,
the evils complained of will cease to exist.
In the selection of Delegates something more
should be looked to than the interests of any
particular candidate. There are are higher
and nobler duties for the Republican party to
perform, than putting this man or that man in
office. We trust that the time will never come
when the party objects will degenerate into a
mere scramble for place. Of all things,let the
Republicans frown down the assumption that
the party, or any portion of it, however small,
is the property of any man, or held to advance
any particular interest. That candidates
should multiply is inevitable. The County
offices are desirable, and a nomination is equiv
alent to an election. So much the more dan
ger that candidates in their extreme anxiety
should be liable to overstep the bounds of pru
dence, and bring into our organization abuses
which should be persistently and promptly dis
countenanced. It is difficult to lay down rules
for the government of either candidates, or
electors, but there is no difficulty in the latter
rebuking whatever tends to demoralize the
party. Our greatest danger is, from corrupt
ing influences ; and this danger may be kept
in check if the voters will attend the delegate
elections. Attending these meetings, let them
not be entirely swayed by their personal pre
ferences, but select inento represent them who
will take broad and liberal views, and look to
the integrity of our organization, and the tri
umph of principles instead of meu.
FOREIGN" NEWS. —By the arrival of the
Etna at Boston, we have news from Liverpool
to the 13th inst. The Zurich Conference has
resolved to prolong the Armistice until the
ratification of the treaty of peace. Symptoms
of disorder appeared in the Italian Dukedoms,
in consequence of the hostilities of the people
to the return of the Dukes. The English
Parliament was prorogued on the 13th. The
Lord Chancellor read the Queen's speech, in
which she promises to give attention to the
internal improvement of India, and urges the
importance of permanent national defences.—
Consuls had declined, and also French rentes.
A bad feeling exists in Germany. The col
lision between Austrian and Prussian soldiers
at Frankfort, is said to have been serious, but
no lives were lost. The Emperor of France
appears anxious to make a show of peace, but
iu Italy and in Germany things look "squally.''
ERIE RAILROAD A FFAIRS. —The Herald of
Tuesday says :—The Erie directors met to-d ly
to receive the report ot the committee which is
entrusted with the plan of reorganization. It
is understood that the committee propose to re
duce the capital stock and bonds to $26,800,-
000, to leave the mortgage debt as it stands—
say $ 15,000,000 —and to give 80 per cent of
the new stock to the unsecured bondholders,
and 20 per cent to the old stockholders. It is
also proposed to assess the new stockholders
$1,200,000, to pay off the floating debt, Ac.,
and to ask the bond holders to fund four cou
pons. If this be the best the committee can
do, we apprehend that they have lost their
time.
jfcgr The loss by the great fire iu New Bed
ford Mass., on Wednesday, exceeds even the
highest estimate of tbe telegraphic dispatches.
About eight thousand barrels of oil were de
stroyed, aud other property, swelling the ag
gregate loss to about $300,000, on which there
is said to less than SIO,OOO insurance.
SVPPRESMOSOFTHE SLAVE TBAPK. —We learn
from Washington that more extendve and
efficient measures have been initiated by the
Administration for the suppression of the Slave
trade. The squadron on the African Coast is
to be materially augurocnted, and among the
vessels to be sent there are to be several small
steamers suMable for navigating waters too
shallow for those ordinarily engaged in the
service. There will be a force of one hundred
and sixteen guns on the Slave coast, which is
double the number required under the treaties
of Great Britain An-efficient naval force is
also to be maintained on our own Coast, for
the purpose of capturing any slavers which may
succeed in eluding the vigilance of the vessels
of the African squaJron.
te£r~ A riot occurred, on Monday, at Taco
nv, mar Philadelphia, during an excursion of
the Sr. Vincent Sunday Schools, with the
Franklin llifle Company of that city. A par
ty of rowdies attacked thesolditrs during the
target firing ; the soldiers in defence, used the
butt-ends of their rifles, and some loaded theirs
with pebbles and fired upon the rowdies
About twenty persons were stabbed and other
wise wounded. The riot was resumed on the
arrival of the soldiers in the city, but the
prompt interference of the Police prevented
serious results.
Recent advices from Kansas gold region
report the most astonishing discoveries of the
precious metal in various localities, but especi
ally between Cape Lapoudre and the Cheyenne
Pass. A great rush of miners had occurred
towards the latter place, where the amounts
asserted to have been taken out daily by a
single hand are so extraordinary as to excite
a suspicion of exaggeration. At Denver City
a portion of the Constitution recently framed
at the Territorial Convention had been made
uublic, but excited no comment by the local
papers. No allusion is made in it to the Slavery
question.
BfiT" The New-Orleans papers announce that
under the terms of the law enacted by the Leg
islature of Louisiana last Winter, all free ne
groes arriving in the State on and after the
Ist of September, will be instantly clapped in
to jail, to secure the safety of the Common
wealth. Once immured in prison they must
remain there until the departure of the vessel
in which thev came. Masters of vessels are
required to report the presence of such per
sons amoDg their crews or passengers, under
severe penalties for neglect or refusal.
jfcsy 1B Trov, New York, last Saturday
evening, Chas. 11. Palmer, a member of the
band attached to Lent's Circus, committed an
assault upon Mr. L. 15. Lent, the proprietor
Palmer states that he asked Lent far some
money on his salary, and Lent said he did not
have any. Words ensued, and Palmer says
Lent struck him with a small cane, whereupon
he knocked him through a window.
&AF Ex-President PIERCE and Ex-Governor
SEYMOUR of Connecticut, arrived at Boston on
Saturday by the America, from Liverpool. In
the evening, Mr. PIERCE received the compli
ment of a serenade, and made a speech,in which
he returned thanks for the cordiality of his
welcome, and commented upon the greatness
of the eountrj.
JBh>~ The citizens of Baltimore have called
a town meeting to cousider the measures neces
sary to lelieve that city from the deplorable
consequences of the present reign of rowdyism.
The meeting is to be held on the sth of Sep
tember.
Itesy The Commissioner of Indian Affairs
has received a despatch announcing the arrival
at Leavenworth of the children who were
spared at the Mountain Meadow massacre.—
They will at once be taken to Carrolton,
Arkansas, near the point from which the ex
pedition with which they were connected start
ed, and will there be restored to their friends."
Mrs. Gow, who recently killed her son while
he was sleeping, has been declared insane by
the Grand Jury of Delaware county, New York,
and, by order of the court, will be sent to the
State Lunatic Asylum. No sane woman could
kill her child.
The Sons of Malta are making great
preparations for a grand tournament, boat race
and ball, at Washington, some time in Septem
ber. Sons from Baltimore, Philadelphia, New
York, and Boston will be invited.
s*®°- Eight boys escaped from the Western
House of Refuge at Rochester, on Wednesday.
Five of tliem were retaken. The boys nailed
clothes-bars together and thus formed a ladder
by means of which they scaled the walls. One
of these boys had previously served a term of
three years iu the Clinton State prison.
&£?*• A terrible tragedy occurred in Cincin
nati on the night of August 16. A man
named Thomas Eugene de Marbais, a druggist
by profession, shot his wife and then attempt
ed to kill himself. His wife was residing in
an assignation house On the night in ques
tion he called for her after she had retired to
bed, and they walked out together, as it after
wards appeared, with the understanding that
he was to commit the deed. After proceeding
some distance from the house he shot her in
the breast aHd himself in the head. Neither
wound was immediately mortal, but it is tho't
that both will prove so. Pecuniary difficul
ties appear to have been the leading cause of
the tragedy. A number of letters and other
papers were found on his person, in which the
most intense affection was expressed for his
wife, and she on her part appears to have loved
him with equal intensity.
LOCAL AM) GENERAL.
RWBLICA* CONTENTTOVS. —The Wyoming
Poimty Convention waa held at Tunkhannork, Monday.
August 22, HCNRY ROBERTS was elested President, aud
George 8. Fafcett and Jamas Frear, Secretaries.
Tha following Ticket was placed ia nomination :
Senator— ELBANAN SMITH.
Representative— JACOß KENKEPY.
County Surveyor— THOMAS A. MILLER.
Commissioner— HENßY ROBERTS.
District Attorney— RlCHAßD P. Rosa.
Auditor—DAVlD A. BARPWELL.
On motion it was unanimously—
Resolved, That Wyoming County, claim* the same
right to name the State Senator as" any county in this
Senatorial District, and having unanimously presented
the name of Col. KLH AN AN SMITH, as their nominee, they
m->-t respectfully it-fe the other counties of This Senatorial
District to wit: Bradford, Susquehanna aud Sullivan to
concur in liis nomination. Knowing him to be a man in
whom we have confidence as Icing worthy to represent
the interests of this district.
Resolved. That Richard P. Ross and James B. Harding,
be the Senatorial Conferees on the part of Wyoming
county, to meet in Conference with the other counties ot
this District, and that they use all honorable means to
secure the nomination of 'Col. SMITH as the Republican
candidate for Senator.
—The Susquehanna County Convention was held on
the 22d ult.. presided over by S. H. TAYLOR.
The following County ticket was nominated
Senator— WlLLlAM JESSCP.
Representative— GEOßGE T. FRAZIER.
District Attorney— ALßEßT CU^IBERLIN.
County Commissioner—M. T. STEWART.
Treasurer— DAVlD W. TITOS.
Auditor— CHAHNCEY WRIGHT.
County Surveyor— WlLSON J. TYRRELL.
The followiug resolutions with reference to Senator
were adopted unanimously :
Resolved, That we solicit the concurrence of the Con
ventions of the other Counties of the district in this nom
ination ; and a Bradford and Wyoming have each teen
represented in the Senate since this County has received
the nomination, we claim their concurrence as of right.
Resolved. That S. B. Chase, Albert Chamberlin, H. 11.
Frazier. S. F. Carmalt. f>. R, Lathrop, (1. B. Kid red, arid
B. S. Bent ley tie Senatorial conferees, with power to sub
stitute, or fill vacancies : and also to settle with the other
conferees the proper ratio of representation in that and
future conferences—Sullivan County having been added
to this district since the last conference : also that the
meeting of conferee- lie held at Stepbensvillc on the first
Wednesday (Tth) of September next.
At the Republican Senatorial Conference, held Sept.
sth lS5d, the following resolutions were adopted :
Resolved. That the basis of representation for the Sen
atorial district lie for Bradford five votes ; for Susque
hanna four votes ; for Wyoming two votes.
Resolved. That the Senatorial Conference for this dis
trict shall hereafter meet at Camptown, in Bradford coun
ty. on the first Monday after the last County Convention
snail have been held.
These resolutions, which we suppose will still be held
as binding, will bring the Conference meeting, on Mon-
day, Septem' er 12, at Camptown, in this county, a cen
tral point, and a time which seems to he convenient. To
fix any other day, will be to create confu-ion and misun
derstanding, and for which there is no reason. We pre
sume that the Susquehanna Convention was not aware of
the passage of this resolution, naming the time and place
of meeting for the Conference.
SHIPMENTS of Coal by the Barclay Rail
Road and Coal Company :
Previous Shipments 15,710 tons.
For week ending August 27 757 "
Amount for the season 16 407 tons.
fc*TT" ?ee WEI.I.ES, BLOOD & Go's, new ad
vertisement of HorsePowers and Threshing Machines.—
They will make good all their assertions.
Prof COBI'RN, County Superintendent, has
been, during the past week, attending a Teachers' Insti
tute. at Lewiston, Mifflin County, showing the good peo
ple of that locality how such things should be done.
The Board of Education of the village
of Elmira, tendered to Prof. C. R. CoBI'RX, the appoint
ment as Principal of the High School, of that place
which is to be opened on the 12th iust. This school has
lately been projected, and w ill rtart under the most fav
orable auspices, a large amount of money having been
raised to insure its success, with proper buildings, Ac
The self ction of Mr. COBURX as its first Principal shows
that the Board of Education has a proper appreciation of
his experience, capability and industry, and is a well
merited compliment. The salary offered is very literal.
Prof. COBI RN. our people will be glad to learn, has de
clined the tempting offer, preferring to devote his time
and energies to the welfare ot the common schools of
Bradford County, feeling that his present position is one
where earnest and well-directed effort can accomplish
much good.
PARING ROBBERY. —On Wednesday night
last Mr. CAKI.TON CV HOOKER, Collector of Town Taxes
for Springfield, was knocked down and robbed of $ 2.14.
Mr. U. retaining home when two men sprang upon
him, knocked him down, tied his hands behind him, and
gagged him. They then rifled his pockets, left him
nearly dead. In this position he remained until next
morning, when he was discovered by THOMAS SMEAD
(near whose residence the affair occurred) and relieved
from his uncomfortable position, lie was nearly dead,
and still remains quite ill. Alter robbing him, the vil
lains retired a few rods, and kindled a fire, destroying
some of his papers, and mutilating his tax duplicate. A
more bold and outrageous piece of villainy we have never
recorded, and we trust the perpetrators will be discovered
and brought to justice.
KILLED BY LIGHTNING—A man by the name
of LEE was found dead a few days since, in a wheat field
near Sylvania. When found he had a sheaf in his hands,
having been struck by lightning during a thunder storm
a few hours before.
SUICIDE.— BENJAMIN .M CALKINS, of Colum
bia township, committed suicide on the 24th ult., by cut
ting his throat with a butcher knife. Mr. ('., who was a
highly respectable and wealthy citizen of that town, had
been deranged for some time, and the family apprehend
ing that he might attempt suicide, had been very cautions
in placing ont of his reach articles with which he might
do himself injury. He was heard on Wednesday, to go
into the pantry, and his wife immediately following him
found him with a large butcher knife in his hands. She
caught him around the body, when he suddenly drew the
knife across his throat, nearly severing his head from bis
bod) - . He died almost immediately. His insanity was
the result of ill health.
FIRE —The barns and sheds of CLINTON
HOLDEN. of Mansfield, were burned on the 23d inst., to
gether with their contents. It is supposed to be the work
of an incendiary. We have not learned whether there
was any insurance on the property or not. Loss, proba
bly, from 13,000 to $3,000.
BtstT" The Commissioners appointed to ap
praise damages on the North Branch Canal, advertise that
they will meet in pursuance of their appointment, at
Athens on the 27th inst. They will, as far as practicable,
examine claims in the order in which they occur, com
mencing at the northern boundary of the county.
CAMP M&ETING.—A camp meeting com
menced at Troy, on Tuesday last, and will continue over
the Sabbath. On Thursday and Friday Rev. JOHN P.
NEWMAN, ol the Bedtord Street Church, New York, will
be present. A general invitation is given to such as feci
au interest in the cause.
BRADFORP COUNTY TEACHERS' ASSOCIATION
—The next repilar meeting of the Bradford Co. Teachers'
Association will be held in Sylvania Boro', on Friday and
Saturday the 9th and 10th of September.
The exercises will consist in part, of an oration by the
Rev. GEO. LANDON, of Herrick ; of ESSAYS by MISSES H.
WOOLCOT and L. SMATT* HlE, at.d of dincuetriouson import
ant question* connected with the cause of education.
The following reaolntiona reported by the Busine*
Committee, will be dlscusaed :
Ist. Resolved\ That the School 1-aw ought to be modF
fied so as to exclhde children under seven year* of age.
2nd. Re-otred. That composition and dclAiuation should)
be regular exercises in the common school*.
3d. Resolved, That parent* ough* to be compelled by
law to send their children to school.
4th. Resolved, That the compensation of female teach
ers should Ire equal to that of male teachers.
sth. Resolved, That the common achool teacher should
not ia? required nor even permitted toteaih on Saturday.
fitli. Resolved, That teacher! should be provided with
a permanent boarding place.
Not only the memliem of the Association, tutf friends
of education, both in and out of the county, arc request
ed to be present and participate in the exercises.
Through the kindneaa of the citizens of Sylvania ar
rangements will be made for entertaining members of the
Association, and a full attendance Is desired.
OLIVER S. DEAN, Secretary.
Coi.LKCTIOKS FOR THE MoUJfT VeRVOX FIKD
in Bradford County, continued :
Amount previously reported sl4l 00
Received from Miss Theresa Piollet, of ll ysoz:
Mrs. Dr J. E Ingham, Wvsox 1 00
•' V. E. Piollet, " 1 00
" J. E. Piollet, " I 00
" Arabella Smith, " 1 Oft
" Andrew Barr, " 1 OO
Miss F.T. Piollet, " 1 0f
•' Alice M. Allen, " 1 00
" T. Adaline Cooly, " 100
Receivid from Mrs. Dr. Baker, of Canton:
Mrs. Alonzo Thomas, Canton 1 OO
Mr. Walter Heuman, " ••• 100
Received of Miss Mary Laning, of It'ysox
Mr*. Augusta Hinman, Wysox 1 OO
Received from Mrs. O. I'. Ballard, of Troy .
Mrs. D. W. C. Herrick, Troy 50
" E. W. Rigooy, " 1 00
" C. C. Paine, " 1 of>
" O. I'. Ballard, " 1 00
Miss M. E.Smith, ** 50
•• Lydia Wilber, " 1 of>
Mr. 11. d. Leonard. " 1 'At
Mr. S. I>. Aspinwall, " 50
Mr. X. M. Pomeroy, " 1 oft
Received from Mrs. Goodrich, of Tincanda
Mrs. Dr Mason, Towanda. 1 00
$163 50
The next Report will be made the last of September.
Mrs.C. L. WARD, Lady Manager.
Blondin Crosses the Niagara River With
a Cook Stove, and Cooks an Omelet.
The crowd gathered at the Falls, Thursday,
to'witness another of Blondiit's performances
upon the rope, although large, and numbering
many thousands, was somewiuit the atirallest,
we should say that has yet been collected, and
hardly more than two-thirds a* great as that
of the last occasion, lilondin's performance
would have been accounted in the outset of
these exhibitions a marvellous one, but after
the great, overshadowing, and unsurpassable
feat of last wreck, it could not seem very as
touishing, nor produce any very thrilling de
gree of interest in the minds of the spectators.
It was more of a curious and laughable spectacle
than an exciting one, and might be by many
preferred to the terribly great performance of
last Wednesday.
Biondin first crossed from the American to
the Canadian shore in manacles—a collar about
his neck, a chain pendant from his arms, and
two others from his wrists and ankle*. The
fetters were not very weighty and could not
have materially interfered with his performan
ces, or added very greatly to the fatigue of ibe
journey. During the passage, he performed
most of the feats previously exhibited—stand
ing upon his head, hanging beneath the rope,
swinging his body under it backward, sustain
ed by the arms with the elbows bent, &i\—all
difficult and daring in the extreme, but by
Uloudin himself made commonplace and simple.
The return performance was the most interest
ing.
After a stay of fifteen or twenty minutes up
on the Canadian shote, he started back witba
cook stove swung upon his back, the culinary
appurtenances thereto consisting of saucepan,
ladle, sundry dishes, and a pair of bellows,
securely fastened upon the stove. It must not
be imagined that the stove he bore upon his
back was a fullsized cast iron " Victor," neither
must it be fancied a miniature affair—a disguis
ed spirit-lamp chafing dish It was a goodly
sized, properly fashioned cooking stove, made
of Russia sheet iron, and boasting of a smoke
pipe about two feet in height. Arrived at the
centre of the rope, Boldin secured his pole and
proceeded with nonchalance to make prepara
tions for " camping." Unslinging his stove he
placed it upon the rope before him, sat down,
and with some pitchy, combustible material
built his fire, exciting it with the bellows, and
soon raising asmoke which proved thegeuuin
uess of the preparations for cooking.
When a proper degree of heat had been at
tained. he produced bis eggs, broke them into
his dish, and threw the shells into the river.—
The omelet was prepared with the skill ot a
chef dt• cuisine, and when it was complete he
lowered it to t he deck of the Maid of the Mist
where, we doubt not, it was divided into the
smallest possible shares, and eagerly treasured
by the passengers. Gathering up his" hotel,"
lilondin readjusted it upon bis back, and (pjick
ly landed himself and it upon the Americau
shore, amid the loud cheers of the throng.
MORE COUNTERFEITS. —In this month of
August, which is rapidly passing awav, siren!n
fi.ee new counterfeits have been put into circu
lation. This we learn from the number of
Peterson's Counterfeit Detector, an invaluable
assistant to every man of business. The onlv
figures, in this black list, upon banks iu this
State, are the following :
BANK OF CATASAUQCA, Catasaqua, Pa., ss,
spurious—vig a canal scene ; a man holding
two horses on the right, and a man and woman
under a tree on left ; goddess of liberty on the
right end leaning on figure 5 : head of Frank In
on lower left corner ; figure 5 in each upper
corner.
IIARRISBCRG BANK, Ilarrishnrg, Pa. ss,
photograph—vig. harvest scene on right lower
corner ; large 5 in centre ; State Capitol direct
ly underneath.
ss, " Five '' in genuine nearly tonches right
margin ; in bad note it is nearly 1 4 inch off,
others, the space between " V " and female on
right is wider than it is between the same ou
left ; in genuine these are the same.
ss, counterfeit—the engraving dark and
heavy ; signatures (particularly of cashier)
clumsy ; smoke from chimney on left, at letter
E, very dark ; cattle and female figures on rhrht
very coarse ; two or three horizontal flourishes
above and to the left of letter C in genuine,are
omitted in counterfeit, but may be added ia
future impressions.
£*£s- The Morning Xtirs, lately started in
Richmond, Va., as nu independant paper, has
discarded its neutrality in political matters,and
come out in the interests of the Opposition.—
It hoists the flag of the Hon. Johu. JUL Botts,
v>f that State, fuj the Presidency.