A rase of t?ie most allocking cruelty lias recently occupied the attention of the conrt at Singapore. A Chinatnan being indebted to one tJoali Jee, lias servant, for wages, and the lat ter becoming importunate, lie determined tore lieve himself of his presence in the following manner : Having secured the services of four other of his countrymen, they seized the 1 unfor tunate Goah .fee, and having suspended liirn by his t lil from a tree—lbs feet not touching the ground—they beat him severely with poles, mid then proereded to gouge out his eves with a piece of bamlioo. Having accomplished this, they, with an iron nail, severed the eyes, which were hanging suspended down his checks. Af ter this he became senseless, and having bound him with ropes, they finally threw hini into the neighboring swamp, hoping that he would there perish. But it was not so, for, return ing to consciousness, he managed to grope '-is way to a friend's house close by, and gave in formation to the police of the whole affair.- They were all seized and brought to trial ; the ringleader was sentenced to be executed, and the others transported. 65T 11. P- E ESIJE, the man who succeeded in deluding fifteen young ladies into an accept ance of a false offer of employment as teach ers in Southern families, was on Thursday even ing brought from Washington by Officer SCHI.EMN. under a requisition from Gov P. CK ER, and placed in a cell in the Central Station bouse in Philadelphia. Many papers were found in his possession, evidencing numerous '• confidence" speculations in which he was en gaged, and also the applications of the young ladies, upon the charge of swindling whom he was arraigned before the Court yeste.day, a true bill having been found against him by the Graud Jury. He alleges that he was instiga ted to this fraud by a man with whom he re cently occupied a room in a boarding-house on South-Tenth street. This man is a New-York er, and he states that he will divulge the con nection held between them. He says that the money extorted from the deluded misse was obtained from biuj by bis co-operator by misrepresentation. ft©"" On Friday evening, the 12th of August last, as the mail train on the Erie Railroad was passing through the village of Smithboro in the midst of a terrible rain storm, the engi neer, James Tripp, saw something struck by the cow catcher,and rushing out of the window in front of the engine and aiong her whole length, seized a man by the hair and held on shouting to the fireman : "Itis u man, slow the engine, slow the engine !" Mr. Tripp held on while the engine ran at least sixty rods. YYben stopped the man was found to be Cornelius Y'ontz, of Smithboro, an aged man who had gone cut on an errand, holding over his bead an umbrella. The noise of the rain falling on the umbrella prevented him from hearing the engine until ho was struck. Of course both his ancles were smash ed, and if it had not been for the singular dar ing of Engineer Tripp, he must have been torn to pieces and scattered on the track. Mr. Y'ontz has eutirelv recovered excepting the use of bis legs. YVe do not know Mr. Tripp, but cannot help awarding to him the honor of saving a human life by risking his own to an extent unparalled in the history of rail roading Chcego Tiaws. How THF. HALL OF THE HOUSE OF R?:RNF;- SEXTATIVES WILL LOOK THIS WLXTKII. The Washington Star says, some workmen have been engaged for some time in arranging the floor of the new Hall of Representatives, un der the order of the last session, and in re moving the desks. The sofas, which are to take place of the chairs, have not as yet been placed in their positions The rows of seats rise above each other on the same elevation as before, but the space is circumscribed nearly one half, and the members will be seated much more comfortably and conveniently for the transaction of business. The vacant spaces to the right and left of the Speaker's chair, occa sioned by the new arrangement, will be occu pied with a large writing tables and ail the necessarj appliances. THF. GREAT REVIVAL — The extensive religi ons awakening in Ireland, greater than hereto fore in that country, is extending to Scot land and Wales. It has reached the col!ier> of Staffordshire, and in one place it isc-timat ed that there are five hundred converts. From among their own number, a collier has been raised up who daily preaches the Word with great power. In many of the coal-pits daily prayer meetings and Bible readings are held. In South Wales, so extraordinary Mho revival interest, that all the churches and chapels are crowded on week days as well as Sundays.— Prayer meetings in churches, in school rooms, in work shops, and even in fields, are held morning and evening. In one town eiirhf public houses have been closed siuee the work began. It is now spreading into North Wales A clergyman of tiie Established Church writes : " There is no enthusiasm, but a deep, profound and awfully solemn impression." in some dis tricts, notorious for blasphemy, an oath is now never heard, nnd drunkards in thousands have become total abstainers. It is estimated that in two counties only, 0,000 persons, witliiu the last five months, have been converted. LANCASTER COUNTY TOBACCO CROP— The Lancaster county tobacco crop of 18b'J is heav ier than ever it was before. We cannot ven ture make an estimate of how many thousand acres are now in tobacco, lest we should wake it too small, and yet be thought bv some people abroad to be exaggerating YVe do not know about the lower end of tiie coun ty, but in the southwestern and western por tions of it, the traveler is never out of sight of tobacco fields. So far as we are able to judge, the crop is an exceedingly good one—basing our judgment upon the size of the plants, and if early frosts do not blight those nearly ready to cut, the tobacco crop will add thousands upon thousands of dollars to the capital ot Lancaster county.— Lancaster Ecpress. RAILROAD OPENING— The opening of the Snnbury aud Erie Railroad from Erie City to Union Mills, is to be celebrated by a demon stration fitting the occasion, at Union Mills, on Friday next. The company have twenty eight miles of road in running order from Erie eastward, and the track layers are employed in putting dowu the track to YVarren, which will be accomplished within a couple of months. The work on the line of this road is pushed forward with an energy and success hardly hoped for by its most sanguine friends fifteen months ago, and what is better, the expendi tures are very generally largely withiu the es- i tiuates. iirtos from all ilatlons. —The Elmira Press announces the resigna tion of C. A. Lane, the N. V. A Erie Railroad Station Ag'-nt at that place : and the removal of Isatv 11. Reynolds the head clerk in the freight office there. —.John Reynolds, a colored man by profes sion a whitt-washer, ate ninety large peaches Thursday, in Cleveland, on a wager. He arose from the repast ap pareutly refreshed and re-uiued his artistic avocation. —lt is said that ihenorthen lights last Mon day night so scared an old lady in Fairbaven, Mas*, that the got up, dre*ed herself, said a prayer, took a pinch of snuff, and went to the meeting house, w here sat on the steps singing hymns till broad daylight. Chief Justice Taney, of the United States Supreme Court, is in the eighty-third yea* of his age.— His eight neonates fhe court, with one single excep tion. arc all three score years and ten, and some of them considerably exceed that number. —FATAL MISTAKE.— A family named Fisher residing in New Castle, Pa., was poisoned a few days ago by eating toad stools in mistake for mush rooms. A child about two years old died from the effects, but the others arc recovering. — A man named SntRLPS announces that he intends to jump into Niagara River on the 16th inst, from White's Pleasure Grounds, a mile below the Falls, where Lilondin's rope crosses the river. Copper Ore in considerable quantities,has t>een found in Wolf township, Lycoming county. Pa.,and a mine is to be opened. So says the Muncy Luminary —The proceedings for the sale of the Erie Road, under the fourth mortgage of that Corporation .have been postponed to October, when a new Board of Directors will be in power. —Ex Governor David R. I'orter. of Harris . burg, has been elected vice president of the Sabine and ; Itio Grande Railroad Company, and designs leaving for Texas in a mouth or two to enrer upon the duties of his office. i Five of the women concerned in the tarring and feathering of a prostitute, at South Bend, Indiana, . some time ago, have been arrested and held to hail. —GEORGE H. FAIRCHILD, Esq., formerly of Waverly, has been nominated by the Democracy of ; Atchison, for the office of Mayor of that city. | —At a Camp Meeting in East Kingston, New • Hampshire, a Deputy Sheriff was arrested for peddlii g ' cakes and pies without license. After paying his fine,ss and costs, he arrested Elder J. V. Ilimes for selling | " Seeoud Advent " books, who was fined like the Sheriff but he refused to pay, and went to jail, confident that the Millenium had not yet come. Futher Sullivan, the Catholic priest in Northampton, Mass.,, has administered a severe castiga : tion to those of his flock who improve the Sundays by ! getting drunk. He alluded to the fact that eleven of the lay members were arrested on a recent Sunday, and threatened hereafter to proclaim in open meeting the names of those who should be found drunk and disturbing the public peace. —The Hon. Oliver J. Morgan, of Carrel. I A., has presented to Bishop Polk the handsome sum of #lO,llOO, as the foundation of a Professorship o! Agricul tural Chemistry in *' University of the South." Tiiis dona tion makes up the entire amount of $50,000, required by the charter of the establishment of the University. A Mastodon lias been discovered in the town of Plymouth, Michigan. But a portion of it has yet been exhumed. The larger of the tn o teeth is five inches in length and three and one half in breadth, and weighs two pounds and an ounce. —The Wisconsin Republican State Conven tion, on the 31-t ult., nominated Alexander W. Bandall, the present incumbent, tor Governor. —A young minted W. H. Jamison fell from Genesee Falls, Rochester, on the 31st ult., while witness ing the rope walking of Mons. DeLave, striking the rocks below, and was instantly killed. He fell a distance of | over 50 leet, and but a short distance from where Sam i Patch met bis death. —The Niagara House, originally known as the Franklin House, the most ancient hotel in the city of . Oswego, was destroyed by fire Friday morning at 1 o'clock. —Mr John Schuyler,of Chemung,has shown the editor of the Waverly Advocate a specimen of Siberian I oats in the stalk, measuring nearly six feet in length, which he says, will yield about seventy five bushels to the acre. Surely we live in an age of abundance. —At the Republican Caucus held in Wa verly for the election of delegates to the County Conven tion at Owego, a resolution was unanimously adopted in favor of the nomination of Hon. J. M. Parker, for Justice of the Supreme Court. Mrs. Earned, of Wellsville, committed sui ' cide on Monday last by hanging herself in the cellar. No ■ reason is asigued tor the act. —The Baltimore Patriot says that the pro perty of the late George Brown, who died in that city last week is estimated at $4,000,000. —The Keokuk (Iowa) Gate City, of the 36th ult., says that ex-Judge Watson, cf Chariton County 1 has been indicted for robbing the County sa e of $5,000, about a year since, when he was acting as County Judge. —lt is reported that Stevenson, the cele brated English engineer, received $225,000 for the plan ot the Victoria Bridge at Montreal. —The Republicans of Yates County have resolved to have a canvass of every school district, and save appointed a committee in district to do it.— This work ought to be done in each county. —The Hon. Amos Kendall, of Washington, reached his seventieth year on Tuesday last, on which occa-ion lie was visited aud congratulated by a number of I friends in that city. —Messrs Coeand Brooks of St. Louis, made a fine double ascension, in their celebratedjballoons Comet 1 and Excelsior, at 3 o'clock on Wednesday, front the Fair ' grounds in Ithaca. —The body of a middling-sized man contains ! a pound of phosphorus,which in a free state and inflamed, would burn him up and everything around him. —Schuyler Colfax, F. P. Blair, Jr., nnd ; Galusha A, Grow are all aimouneed to address Republican meetings in different portions of Minnesota, during the month of September. —Three prisoners escaped from the Seneca county jail at Ovid, on Thursday night last, by means of burrowing under the wall. No clue to the prisoners. —The annual income of Mr. Win. Mucdonald the owner of Flora Temple, is said to be $50,000. He re sides in Baltimore. —lt is estimated that there are on all the railways in the Uuited Statesii6,S9o locomotives,s,9lo pas senger cars, and 114,520 freight and other cars. —The movement of wheat into Chicago is !on a large scale. The Illinois Central brought in one day sixty-six car loads—about 25,000 bushels. A man, named Win. Reid, residing in Petersburg, Va., a few days ago vomited a snake six inches in length. The cause of his sickness is attributed to the presence of the snake in his stomach. —The U. S Marshal at Baltimore arrested Philip Reed, tiie post master at Poolville. Md., at the in stance of General Maguire, especial post office agent, on the charge of of opening and embezzling letteis. —The Pueific Rai'road is completed one hundred aud sixty-eight miles, from St. Louis to Syracuse and within ninety miles of Kansas City. 1 —The report that valuable ores of platinum have been found near Fredricktown, in Missouri, is con armed by ■ letter from Mr Kraut a Si. Loals cbrm'.t. gnibtelcjiorkr. E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR. TO WAND A: Thursday Morning, September 15, 1859. TERMS — One Dollar per annum, invariably in advance.— Four week* previous to the erpiralion of a subscription, notice tcill be given by a printed wrapper, and if not re newed, the paper will in all cases be stopped. CL,CUBING— The Reporter will be sent to Clubs al the fol lowing extremely low rates : 6 copies for $5 00 Jls eo-ptes for.. . .sl2 00 10 copies for aoo| 20 copies for 10 00 ADVERTISEMENTS — For a square of ten lines or less, One Dollar f 'or three or less insertions, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion. JOB-Wowc— Executed trilh accuracy and despatch, and a reasonable prices—with every facility for doing Books, Blanks, Hand-bills, Ball tickets, lj-c. Republican Candidates. FOR AUDITOR GENERAL, THOMAS E. COCHRAN, OF YORK CO. FOR PURVEYOR GENERAL, WILLIAM H. KEIM, OK BERKS CO. FOR SENATOR, E. REED MYER, OF BRADFORD CO. [Subject to the decision of the Conference.] FOR REPRESENTATIVES, THOMAS SMEAD, OF SPRINGFIELD, O. 11. T. KINNEY, OF SHESHEQUIX. FOB DISTRICT ATTORNEY. GUY 11. WATKINS, OF TOWANDA TP. FOR TREASURER, WM. GRIFFIS, OF STANDING STONE. FOR COMMISSIONER, WILLIAM A. THOMAS, OF TROY TP. FOR COUNTY SURVEYOR, JAMES J. NEWELL, OF ORWELL. FOR AUDITOR, JERE. TRAVIS, JR., OF BURLINGTON. COUNTY COMMITTEE. The following named gentlemen have been appointed as the Republican County Commit tee for the ensuing year : J \MES H. WEBB. URIAH TERRY. C. F. NICHOLS. EDWARD CUAXDAL. LORENZO GRINNELL. A. G. BROWN. H.S.SALSBIRY. J. B. INGHAM. JOHN GRIFFIN. THE SENATORIAL CONFERENCE. The Conferees for this Senatorial District met at Cumptown, on Monday last, to nomi nate a Republican candidate for Senator.— Bradford is represented by Jive. Conferees, Sus quehduua by four, Wyoming by tico. The Conference after organizing, proceeded to fix the number of Conferees to be admitted from Sullivan County, and decided that she was en title to but one —making the whole number of Conferees twelve. The candidates before the Conference were Hon. WM. JESSUP, of Su-quehanna, E. REED MYER, of Bradford, ELIJAXAN SMITH presented by Wyoming, and IIEVRY MF.TCALF, of Sulli van. The first forty or fifty ballots stood for Myer 5 votes, Jessup 4 votes, Smith 2 votes, Metcalf 1 vote—varied by an occasional change of a vote, not affecting the result. After the adjournment, at supper time, the name of MET CALF was withdrawn and the Sullivan Confer ee cast his vote for Myer—making the ballot stand Myer 6, Jessup 4, Smith 2, Over one hundred ballots were had with the snine re sult, and at our latest accounts (up to Tuesday night) they were no nearer a nomination than when they commenced. The best of feeling prevailed in the Confer ence—the members universally acknowledging the necessity of an agreement before they sep arate, but each holding on to his favorite, iu the hope that perseverance might win. Of course, before a nomination can be effected some one must give way, and we await the re sult with some anxiety, though without a doubt that the Conference will eventually give us a candidate. Conference Adjourns without Nominating. Since the above was written, the Conference has adjourned,on Wednesday morning, to meet again Monday, September 26—having had 198 ballots, without effecting a nomination. The last ballot standing Myer 4, Jessup4, Smith 4. SENATOR DOUGLAS' SPEECH AT COLUMBUS.— Senator Douglas, of Illinois, addressed the cit izens of Columbus, Ohio, on Wednesday after noon in a speech of great length, on Slavery in the Territories, and the Fugitive Slave law.— The speech is given iu full in the New York Times of Thursday. Senator Douglas says that the Republicans in 1856 claimed for Con gress the power to prohibit Slavery in the Territory, while the Democrats are pledged to the contrary doctrine of noti intervention by Congress and popular sovereignty in the Ter ritories. New Mexico and Kansas, he says, by their legislative acts, present cases which will put the advocates of these opposing prin ciples, both North and South, to the test, New Mexico having passed lws to protect Slavery, while Kansas has passed laws to exclude it from her territory. The Republicans are, therefore, pledged to exclude Slavery from New Mexico, while the other side are pledged to protect Slavery in Kansas. The only course for the Democracy, therefore, is to adopt the principle of Popular Sovereignty, and permit each Territory to do as it pleases. This is the substance of his speech in relation to Territori al Sovereignty ; and in relation to the surren der of fugitive slaves he insists that it is a du ty imposed by the Constitution, and that every gcod citizen must be faithful to that constitu tional obligation. ftajf The Hon. T. B. Florence has been coa fined to his house iu Washington, duriug the past fortnight, by a painful bodily affliction FOREIGN NEWS. The Royal MUIL Steamship Enropn , from Liverpool on the 27th ult., with three days later intelligence from Europe, arrived at Hal ifax on Wednesday night. The news by this arrival is interesting. It is reported from the Zurich Conference that the Austrian and French Plenipoteutaries had regulated a settlement of the affairs of Lombard/ with the consent of the Sardinian representative. The affairs of the Duchies, it is understood, will be tnated of directly between the Courts of Paris and Vienna. It was believed that the Conference would be successfully terminated early during the present month. The object of the defen sive league formed by the provisiooa l Govern ments of Tuscany and Bologna and the Dicta tor of Modena, announced by the previous ar rival, is to prevent a restoration of the fallen Government and to maintain internal order.— The National Assembly of Modena had been prorogued, after voting several important de crees. Nothing certain has known relative to the object of Prince POXIATOWSKI'S mission to Italy. The Council of Ministers at Turin had decided that it was proper to consult the allied Powers, particularly France, before deciding upon the annexation of the provinces which desired it. The Venetians were complaining that the conduct of Austria had not changed since the peace. From Austria the rumors are agaiu warlike, and the Vienna correspon dents express the fear that the Italian ques tion will not be settled at Zurich. It is as serted that the furloughs granted to the Aus trian soldiers had been suspended, and that seven of the corps d'armee are to be retained upon a war footing. The fear of French in vasion has not yet died out in England. A enrious rumor is given on the authority of the Paris correspondent of the London Morning Advertiser —(rather questionable authority, however) —to the effect that France is about to establish a new seaport 011 the coast capa ble of accommodating a large number of trans ports, each of which is to be capable of con veying ten thousand troops. The English Board of Trade returns show an increase in exports amounting to upwards of £9,000,000 for the last seven months, as compared with the same period last year. In view of the strong feeling against the proposed fortifica tion of Antwerp, it was believed that the Bel gian Senate, which was couvoked for the 30th of August, would reject the bill passed by the Chamber of Deputies. Cochin China, we have the horrible rumor that all the Christians in two towns in Borneo have been massacred.— No particulars are given. The J Europa brings interesting commercial advices. The Liver pool Cotton market is reported dull, with pri ces easier. All descriptions of breadstuff's were very dull. Provisions heavy with a considera ble decliue in prices. ftir" Correspondence from the Pacific, fur nishes full particulars of the recent seizure of the island of San Juan by Gen. IIARNEY Capt. PICKF.TT, the American officer in com mand of the detachment stationed on the island, issued a general order, July 27, establishing a military post, requiring the inhabitants to re port to the officer in command in case of any incursions of the Indians, and declaring the laws of the United States in force, to the ex clusion of all others. Gov. DOUGLAS immedi ately issued a protest against the occupation of the island by the United States forces, de claring its whole territory the property of Great Britain ; and on the 3d of August sent a special message to the Colonial Legislature, stating the circumstances of the seizure, calling upon the Assemb'y to take action, and announ cing that a naval force would be immediately dispatched to the island to "protect the lives and property of the British citizens. 1 ' We have no confirmation, as yet, of the reported collision between the British and American troops. The disputed island lies northwester ly from the entrance to Puget Sound, and the main land of Washington Territory in the vicinity of Port Townsend, the Strait of Fuca being between. Joy The Republican State Convention of New York, was held at Syracuse on the the 4th inst., and made the following nominations : Sec'y or State E. W. LEAVENWORTH. Ormndago. Controller ROBERT PEXXISTON, Orange. Att'y Oener.il CH AS. G. MYERS, St. I.awrence. State Engineer ORVILL W. STORY. Allegheny. Treasurer PHILIP DOItSHKIMER. Erie. Canal Comm'r OGDEN N. CHAPIX. Albany Judge of Appeals... .HENRY E. D.WIES. New York, State Prison Insp... .DAVID P. FORREST, Shenectady. Clerk of Appeals... .CHARLES IIUGHES, Washington. It will be observed that in making their nominations the Republicans have declined mak ing any effort to conciliate the American or ganization, although Judge DAVIES, of New York, the candidate for Judge of the Court of Appeals, is partially claimed a* an American. The resolutions passed by the Convention re affirm the principles of the party as laid down in the Philadelphia platform, denounce the ad ministration of President BUCHANAN, go in strong for the completion of the Canals, and endorse Mr. GROW'S pre-emptiou right doctrine iu regard to the public lands. MORE STATE PRISON REVOLTS. —The Auburn papers of the 7th state that a serious distur bailee occurred on that day in the State Pris on. Deputy Keeper S. S. AUSTIN was assault ed in the shoe shop by a desperate convict and severely knocked on the nose with a shoemak er's hammer. Officer Roberts rushed to the rescue, and was struck over the head and cut severely. Assistance soon arrived and the dis turbance was soon qnelled. Seven or eight convicts were engaged in the affray. COL. KINNEY has turned up again, having lately been elected to the Legislature of Tex as from Nueces county. , . . ." LOCAL AM) GENERAL. " IIKART OF MID-LOTHIAN," andMhe " For tunes of Nigel," fcy Sir Walter Scott. Fonuhg the eleventh and twelfth volumes of the cheap and popular weekly publication of the Waver icy Novels for ttoe Mil lion, at 25 cents each, being issued by T. 11. Peterson to Brothers, Philadelphia. This enterprising firm are doing a great public benefit in thus plac'ing before the whole reading community, nine-tenths of whom are obliged to ; be economical in literary luxuries, the works of Sir WAL TER SCOTT in the present cheap and popular form. Each | volume is got up in a neat style, ail of the same size,and are priuted at the rate of 25 cents a volume, or the whole twenty-six volumes for five dollars, and sent free of pos tage to all, on receipt of this sum. This low price should place a set of them within the leach of everybody iu the land. GROW AT HOME —Hon G. A. GROW intends to return from the West about the Ist of October, after which he will address his fellow citizens of Susquehanna County on political topics, at places hereafter to be fixed i uwoa. * Bfegf" The Scranton Republican snys that Mr. S. STEVENSON, is engaged in his professional capacity in examining a route lor the fulfillment of the first plan of the North Pennsylvania Kailroud, viz., a direct line from Philadelphia to Waverly, N. Y., via Bloomsburg, Laporte and Towauda. — PETERSONS' COUNTERFEIT DEFECT' R is cor rected by the celebrated bonkers, Drexel to Co., and it is certainly the most reliable Detector published in the L'n ion. Everything is lair about it ; that may be known by the high standing ol the publishers and editors. The latest information is given of all counterfeit notes, brok en banks, the rates of discount, Ac. Every person in trade should subscribe to it and have a copy. The price is, mouthly, only one dollar a year ; semi monthly, two dollars. Address all orders to the publishers, T. 11. Peter son A Brothers, Philadelphia, and our word for it. you will never regret it. [Lp-Weare requested to state that the party advertised at the Itoyse House, Burlington, will uot take place this week, having been postponed iu con sequence of sickness iu the family of the proprietor. THE FARMER AND GARDENER, is the title of a new monthly agricultural Journal published in Philadel phia by our old friend A. M. Spongier. Mr. Spangk-r was formerly connected with the Farm Journal and will no doubt make the Farmer and Gardener a useful publica tion. Price tl per annum. CANAL EXTENSION. —The Union AVtrs, of Wednesday, says : The company of Engineers, survey ing the line for the extension of the Chenango Canal from Binghamton to Athens, are now at work opposite this village, iu Vestal, and have been tor the past week within a few miles of opposite, either up or down stream, s-.fficiently near to take up their board and lodging at the Major House in this village. We lear that in some instances they have found it necessary to " back up " and take another route, and if this is done several times over the same ground, they will of course make rather slow progress " going ahead." They are men who thorough ly understand their business, and when the survey is made and their report given, it can be relk-d upon as ac curate. tkb" Tlie Teachers' Institute, that is to commence in Wysox on the 10th of October, will be held in the basement of the Now School Presbyterian Church in that towu. B&f We publish in another column, the ad vertisement of the Superintendent for the annual e \ 'nii uatious of Teachers for the county. It appears Iroia re marks accompanying the notice, that it is of the utmost importance to teachers and all who expect to become j such during the year, to attend at the times and places noticed. CHURNS. —We called yesterday at THE hard ware store o( D. C. HALL, to fee the celebrated l.abor- Saving Churn, of Lake A Patton. Patented July 19, P69. It is a valuable improvement ir the department of churn ing. It is simple in its construction, durable aud efficient and not liable to get out of order, and is propelled by a crank. The power is so great that a small boy can churn with ease. For the advantages it posses-es we think the price very reasonable, ranging Irons eight to twelve dot lars, according to size. tegr The North Brunch Association of Uni- , versalists will hold its annual session at Standing Stor.e J on Wednesday and Thursday, the 2Mb and 29th da)s of September. Religious services will commence Wednes day at 10J A. M. A cordial invitation is extended to all. 11. E. WHITNEY, Standing Cleik. ♦- Btgy The Buchananites held a meeting on Monday evening, for the purpose of taking into consider ation their desperate situation. A Committee was ap pointed to report nominations for the ronsidetation of the meeting, who made the following ticket: — Representatives—MYifoN BALLARD, of Columbia. " —GEO. STEVENS, of Standing Stone. Treasurer—JOHN E. GOODRICH, of Troy. Commissioner—JOHN SAI.SBCRY, of Springfield. Auditor—JOHN BALDWIN, of Pike. Surveyor—WM. H. MORGAN, of Wysox. Prosecuting Attorney—J. B. REEVES, or Athens boro. All very respectable citizens, and should they happen to be elected (of which they stand about as much chance as of being struck by lightning) would, we have no doubt j faithfully fulfill the duties o( the offices for which they j hi-ve been named. The meeting was addressed by Messrs. C. L. WARD, ! EDWARD T. ELLIOTT, I>r. E. PAYNE and the inevitable Col. V. E. PIOLLET. We had not the felicity of beiug j present but we understand that the latter gentleman ven tilated his incorruptible integrity aud love of public economy in his usual earnest and eloquent style, and demonstrated that all the extravagance and corruption were in the Republican party. teif We are obliged to defer until next next week, the Court proceedings, and the meetiug of the Medical Society. ♦ v MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT.—ON Tuesday after noon last. Major BYRON KINGSBERY while descending the steps from the side-walk to the bar-room of the " Ward House," fell upon the iron railing and sliding down it was precipitated with great violence upon the stone pave ment, striking his head against the sharp corner of the stone window-sill and injuring himself so severely that he died in a short time. He is supposed to have been seized with a fainting fit of some kind, from an exclama tion made as he lost his balance. When taken up he was insensible, and though Drs. L.tpr, TURNER and PORTER, almost immediately rendered every assistance possible, nothing could be done for him. He was taken to his house, and died within ten minutes after reaching it, : having remained insensible from the time of his fall. 19* The well-known firm of T. B. Peter son and Brothers, 306 Chestnnt street, Philadelphia, have ! just commenced publishing a remarkably cheap edition of Dickens inimitable works of fiction. It is called " Petersons' Cheap Edition for the Million, of the entiie toiitingsof Char/es Dickens, Box," and will be issued complete iu twenty-eight weekly vol mes. One volume will be published tegularly on each and every Saturday, until the whole number of volumeo—twenty-eight—is ; completed. The low price fixed by the publishers for j them is only 25 cents a volume, or the whole twenty-j eight volumes for five dollars. 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