The Great Balloon Voyage. The Watertown (N. Y.) E> former of the 6th instant contains an account of the Balloon ascension of Mr. LA MOUNTAIN and Mr. HAD DOCK, from Wateitowu 0:1 Thursday, toe ult., written by the latter. They ascended at 6 33 P. M , and in six minutes were far above the clouds. At 550 they were at least two miles high—thermometer 34 degrees They continued to ascend very rapidly, and at 6 10 the thermometer indicated a temperature of 18 degrees. The balloon then began to descend, and a quantity of ballast was thrown over At about half past seven they descended into a valley oeara high mountain, but as the place looked forbidding tiny threw over 30 pounds of ballast and rose again. In about twenty minutes they made another effort to descend, butfouud themselves surrounded by adense wil deniess and over a small lake. They then threw over all their ballust but !8 pouiule, and after getting over the wilderness, settled down by the side of a tree to wait till morning. Much rain fell through the night, and they became thoroughly drenched with it. At about six o'clock next morning they threw overboard all their remaining ballast, blankets, shawls, &c., and rose again. They were rupidly driven northward over an unbroken wilderness, and concluded that they bad gone too far. Mr. HADDOCK says : "As the current was driving us still to the north, we dare uot stay up, as we were drifting further aud still further to that 'frozen tide' from which we knew there was no escape. Mr. La M. seized the valve cord and discharged gas, aud we descended in safety by the side of a tall spruce. We made the Atlantic fast by her anchor, and for a momeut talked over what we should do. We had not a mouthful to eat ; no protection at night from the damp ground ; were distant we knew uot how far from habitation ; were hungry to start with ; no earthly hope of raising a fire, and no dis tinct idea as to where we were. We settled in onr own minds that we were either in John Brown's tract or in the great Canada wilder ness—to the south, we thoaght, of the Ottawa —and knew that a cotuse south by east would take us out, if we had strength enough to travel the distance. La M. stepped up to the balloon and gave the edge of the basket a parting shake, saying, 'Good bye, old Atlantic,' and I fancied I could see a tear iu his honest eye when he said it." They then started to the south, on foot,and after travelling about a mile and a half came to the bank of a small creek, upon which they found an old pork barrel with a Montreal in spection mark upon it, from which they con cluded they were iu Cauada. After travelling on Friday by the unknown creek, they discov ered au uninhabited lumber shanty, in which they spent the uight. The uext morning they built a raft, in the hope that could be floated out of the wilderness, as the lumber is floated out in the spring : but they encountered great difficulties from the shallowness of the waters, and from entering large lakes where they lost the channel entirely. Thus several weary days of suffering were passed away. Mr. HADDOCK says : "It had now been tour full dayssincc we we ate a meal. x\.ll we had eaten in the mean time was a frog apiece, four clams, and a few wild berries, whose acid properties and bitter taste had probably done us more harm than good. Our strength was beginning to fail very fast, and our systems were evidently about to undergo an extraordinary change. I did not permit myself to think of food—the thought of a well-covered table would have been too much. I thought over all of poor Strain's sufferings on the Isthmus of Darien, where he, too, was paddling a raft down an unknown stream, but never believed he could stand half the amount of suffering he did. Besides, he had means to make a fire—we had none. " He was upon a stream which he knew would lead to the sea and safety—we were up on waters whose flow we knew really nothing of, and were as much lost as though in the mountains of the noon. But we 'could not give it up so,' and took fresh courage as troub les appeared to thicken. " Well, we turned the raft around, and poled her back toward the place where we had entered this last lake. We had gone about a mile when we heard the sound of a pun,quick ly followed by a second report. No sound was ever so sweet to ineas that. We halloed as loud as we could a good many times, but could get no response. We kept our poles going, and had gone about half a mile, when I called La Mountain's attention to what I thought was a smoke curling up among the trees ou the side of a hill. My own eyesight had begun to fail me to an extent that 1 could not depend upon it when a long, steady gaze was uecessary. He said it was smoke, and that he thought jnst below it, on the bank, was a bark canoe. In a few moments the blue smoke rolled gently,yet unmistakably,above the tree tops, and we felt that we were saved.— Such a revulsion of feeling was almost too much for us. We could hardly believe our senses and credited anything favorable to our condi tion with the utmost caution. Our bitter dis appointments had taught us that lesson. " We paddled the raft with the ends of our poles directly across the lu"ke, near, perhaps, three-fourths of a mile wide, and made for the canoe. It proved to be a large one, evidently an ludian's. Up the bank I pressed, leaving La Mountain at the canoe to cut off a retreat by the Indian, in case he was timid and wished to avoid us. I came at once upon the shanties of a lumbering wood, and from the chimney of the furthest building a broad volume of smoke was rising, I halloed—a noise was heard inside and a noble-looking Indian cr.tne to the door 'Yous parlez Francois V was my eager inquiry as I grasped his outstretched hand. ' Yes,sir and English, too.' He drew me into the cabin and there was the head of the party, a noble hearted Scotchman, named Angus Cameron. I immediately told my story —that we came in with a balloon, were lost, and had been four days without food, asking where we were.— Imagine my surprise when he said we were one hundred and fifty miles due north of Ottawa in the dense, uninhabited forest, whose only limit was the Arctic circle, in a word, we were nearly 300 miles in a due north course from Watertown, in latitude 47. " Dinner was all ready. The party consist ed of fonr persons—Mr. Cameron, and his as sistant.who was also named Cameron ; LaMab MacDongall—a half-breed—and his son Pe&u reil. I despatched the yonng Indian for La Mountain, who euaie in after a moment the absolute picture of wretchedness. All that the cabin contained was freely tendered us, and ue began to eat. Language is inadequate to ex press our sensations while doing so. The clouds had all lifted from our sombre future, and the silver liniug shone all the br.ghter for :te de-p ,'arkn'rs ihronjh .vh: >h IJ. per? 9 \ " Here .let me state that the stream we came down so far with our raft is called Filliman'a creek ; the large lake we sailed around iscalled Bostekong lake aiud drains into Bosketong riv.r, which flows into the Catineao. Tie Cutiuauf joins the Ottawa opposite Ottawa City. .Mr. Camerou assured us that these streams are so tortuous, aud in many places so rapid, that no set of men could get a raft down no matter how well they knew the country, nor how much provisions they might have. He regarded our deliverance as purely Provideu tial, and many times remarked that we certain !y would have perished but for seeiug this smoke." Under the guidance of Mr. CAMERON they returned to the place where the balloon had beeu left, but finding her very much torn, concluded to abandon her. A party of Indians then acoompnffied them out of the wilderness, and on their return to the regions of civilization they were treated with much kindness. Mr. HADCOCK concludes his narrative as follows : " Several general conclusions and remarks shall terminate this narrative, already too long. 'Why did yon permit yourselves to go so far ?' will naturally be asked. To which we can only reply that the wind was exceedingly light when we ascended ; that we were very soou among the clouds, and consequently unable to take cognizance of our course, or to judge how fast we were travelling. Perhaps it is well here to remark that when you are sailing in a balloon you are utterly unconscious of motion, unless you can see the earth. Nor can you tell, by a compass, in which direction you are travelling unless yon are sufficient of an astro nomer to judge from the shifting angles form ed by certain stars. In a word, if you cannot see the earth, you cannot tell how last nor in which directiou you move. This will, perhaps explain why we unconsciously drifted off to latitudes so remote. When we rose above the thick masses of clouds, before sundown, we un doubtedly struck a rapid current which carried us northeast. It is my opinion that, after we had travelled in this current about an hour,we struck another current, from a variation of our altitude, which bore us off to the northwest When we-descended near the earth the first time, we ought to have couie down ; but we were unwilling to land at night in a deep wood, even though wc knew we were not far from habitations, and we thought it best to pick out a better place. This was our error, and it came very near being a fatal one to us—it certainly was so to the Atlantic. In trying to find onr 'hotter place' to land, we were un consciously up longer than we supposed, and as we were travelling in a current which swept us off to the northward at the rate of 100 miles an hour, we soon reached a country not pleasant nor profitable to land a balloon in " Politics in Minnesota. The distinguished Pennsylvania champion of Freedom and Free Labor, Hon GALUSHA A. Gnow, has just returned from a visit to Min nesota The editor of the Pittsburg Com mercial Journal, who had an interview with him in that city, says his opinion is, that noth ing but enormous frauds can prevent the suc cess of ALEXANDER RAMSEV, the Republican Gubernatorial nominee, and the election of the Republican Congressional ticket. We. hope the " moccasin tracks" will be watched this time, and that the Republicans will not be again cheated out of their certificates. Mr. G.'s report confirms what we have before heard in regard to Minnesota being in a blaze of ex citement. Her people, while in a Territorial condition, could not take part in our Presiden tial excitements, and are disposed to make up for that by a breeze now. Quite a number of her principal nominees and voters arc old Penn sylvanians. Mr. Grow tells a good anecdote of the eloquent and eccentric Tom Marshall, of Kentucky, who was making a tour of that State, and accidentally was present at a Ho tel when a political discussion was being held. The type of Democracy there represented was of the Douglas stripe, and they had heard that Tom Marshall was one of them. He, howev er, utterly refused to be called out, but they only shouted the louder, " Marshall ! Marsh all !!" Finally Tom mounted the portico of the hotel, and discussed political affairs in his pleasant way. He began to give the history j of the Missouri Compromise—warmed up and ; became even more thau himself in his eloquent ; description of the merits of that measure.— . lie compared it to the magnificent temple of Diana of the Ephesians. " But," says he, " there were 'little giants' ia those days. One of the most ambitious of these had long ad mired this work of art—he knew he could nev ' er equal it—what do you think the little ras i cal did ? Why, he applied a torch and burnt it to the ground /" Tom launched off on some other subject, but the Douglas Democracy could not be found, when his speech was ended, to return him thanks. The felicitous manner in which this description was given is said to have exceeded anything ever before heard in that State. ANOTHER BREACH OE PROMISE—A wretch in the form of a man, was, a tew weeks siuce, in troduced to a lovely and confiding girl of six teen. lie pressed her hand and said in a thril ling tone that he thought the receut cold weather had rendered the ladies more lovely than ever.' She blushed and said 'very.' Her parents considered the thing settled, but he basely deserted the young lady, and her friends have instituted a suit to recover from him damages to the amount of $6,000. The scamp will be cautious in future, how he trifles with the affections of youug ladies and breaks into fragments their lovely hearts. MAN KILLED AT HAVANA.—A man by the name of Edward Fleming, while in the store of Jas McMil.'en, in Havana, got into a dis pnte with one Bradford Campbell abont some whiskey. The dispute ended in a fight in which Campbell kicked Fleming so severely that he died from the injuries inflicted. Campbell was indicted by the Grand Jury in session at Wat kins last week. He is now in jail at Havana. BCROLARV AT HAVANA. —On Wednesday night the 21st., the Depot of the Chemmig Branch Railroad at Havana, was broken into, aud an effort made to open the iron safe of the U. S. Express Cornpanj. Burglars suc ceeded in breaking the hinges of the safe, but failed to open it. No trace of thetillains ha 9 been discovered. KILLED.—A young man by the name of Amoie Smith of Friendship, Allegany county, w as suddenly struck and killed by a limb from a falling tree, while out in company with sev eral o'Aer young rn n n, on Momiav rvrh' hnn' jog coon' l.tmiriL t'.rsr. IkaMorfo Importer. E. O. GOODRICH. EDITOR. TOAV^jntoa.: Thursday Morning, October 13,1859. TERMS— 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 ij not re newed, the paper will in all eases be stopped. CLrnßlNO The Reporter will be sent to Clubs at the fol lowing extremely low rates : 6 copies for $8 00 J 15 copies for. . . sl2 00 10 copies for 8 00 | 20 copies for 15 00 ADVERTISEMENTS— For a square of ten line* or less. One Dollar for three or less insertions, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion. JOB-WORK— Executed with accuracy and despatch. and a reasonable prices—with every facility for doing Boohs Blanks, Hand-bills, Bali tickets, <J-r. THE ELECTION. At this time, (Wednesday noon) we have sufficient returns of the election held yes terday, to show that the general apathy has resulted in a very light vote, and a corresponding falling off in our usual ma jorities. The majority for the Republican State ticket will probably be between 2000 and 2500. Our entire County ticket in, of course, elected, though with reduced majorities. We are without any intelligence as to the result in the State. JST The Hon. DAVIDC. BKODERICK, United States Senator from California, was killed, Sept. 13, in a duel with Judge TEKRY, of the Supreme Court of California. The difficulty originated in a political quarrel. In June last in a speech delivered at the Lecompton State Convention, at Sacramento, Judge TERRY spoke of Mr. BKODERICK in abusive terms, and Mr. B. retorted with harsh epithets, uttered, not in the pesencre of TERRY, but to his friend,one D. W. PERLEY. The latter challenged BROD ERICK, who refused to fight, but intimated his willingness to meet Judge TERRY at the close of the pending canvass. At the conclusion of the late election Judge TF.RRY sent a chal. lenge to Mr. BRODERICK, who accepted it. The meeting took place near San Francisco on the morning of the 13th of Sept. and at the first fire Mr. 8., fell, his antagonist's ball having pierced his lungs. FOREIGN NEW. —The steamer Canada, ar rived at New York on Saturday. The polit ical news is embodied in various rumors and reports from Paris respecting the settlement of Italian affairs. On the one had it is assert ed, on the authority of the Loudon Herald, that a definitive treaty of peace between France and Austria will speedily be signed, but that no formal treaty will be concluded between Austria and Sardinia. On the other hand, the Paris ratrie states that a Congress for the settlement of Italian affairs will be held at Brussels, under the Presidency of the King of the Belgiaus, and that the Archduke MAY IMILIAN' is about to be appointed Governor- General of Venetia, with extraordinary pow ers. TIDINGS OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN. —The he roic patience of Lady FRANKLIN has at last been rewarded. The Fvx, which she sent to the Artie regions last year, has returned, bring ing precise intelligence of the death of SIR JOHN FRANKLIN, with positive information as to the fate of the ships which he commanded. Sir JOHN, it seems, died on the 11th of June, 184T, and a record of the Expedition to the 25th of April, 1843—nearly a year later—had been discovered. The ships Erebus and Ter ror had been abandoned iu the ice three days previously, and their crews had started for the coast. The intelligence has no special impor tance to the world—but it possesses a melan choly iuterest,as giving precision and certainty to what was already known to be the fact. By later news from California we learn that the United States troops on San Juan Island are busily engaged iu fortifying their posision. General HARNEY, has written a letter to Gqv. DOUGLASS, intimating doubts of his sincerity, and expressing a determination to maiutaiu the position which he has taken at all hazards. REPUBLICANISM IN VIRGINIA. —It appeals that an out-and-out Republican has been elec ted to represent the Wheeling District, in the Senate of the Old Dominion. The discovery of this fact has caused much excitement among slave dealers and politicians, who are in a quan dary to know what to do with such a " rare bird." Some suggest the expediency of get ting him to resign, and that failing, to forcibly expel him from his seat, for holding opinions likely to gndanger " the future growth of the negro crop." THF. WATCHWORD. —They arc forraiDg " Irre pressible conflict clubs " in the State of New York. That is a capital idea. The slave trading Democracy shonld be made as familiar and tired of that phrase as the British were of Yankee Doodle. A paper is soon to be start ed called " The Irrepressible Conflict" If well conducted, we predict for it a great run. LAGER BEER BREWERY BURNED. —At ten o'clock last Sunday night a fire broke out in the extensive lager beer brewery of Albert Speyers, called the Lion Brewery, situated be tween 107 th and 106 th streets and Eighth and Tenth avenues, New York. The whole of the buildings were destroyed, together with their contents. The estimated loss amount to about $250,000 —insured for $145,000 in city com nai''*? Tfie y'frirj f Rr<* 'q •yns'nit LOCAL AND GENERAL. SHIPMENTS of Coal by the Barclay Kail Road and Coal Company Previous* Shipments 21.500 tens. For week ending October 8 ... 082 •* Amount for the season 22,882 tons. PENSION DRAWN BY FRAUD. —Some years since a Revolutionary Pensioner named Manhart died in Van Etten, Chwmiug County, leaving a wife, who soon married again, thereby loe:ng bcr claim to the pension. One James Van Etten, formerly a prominent citizen of that town, devised a plan to secure the pension by get ting Mrs. French—Manhart's widow—to swear that she remained un-married. Van Etten took the larger share of the money for the reward of his perjury and villany. pie fraud was recently detected and Van Etteu is now in jail awaiting a trial. FATAL RAILROAD ACCIDENT.—A man by the name of WM. PERKINS was run over and killed by the Night Express, about a mile and a half east of Wells burg, a few morniugs since. Mr. Perkius was walking on the track in a western direction. Seeing a train com ing towurd him he stepped from the track he was on to the other, when the Express coming up frm the east at the same moment struck him and killed him instantly. fta?* It is found impossible to prepare the llcporu of Premiums awarded at the Fair, in time for this issue. The List will be completed this week, and placed in the hands ot B. S. RTSSELL Esq., who will pay the premiums upon application of those entitled to the same. The list will be published in full next week. MR. E. O. GOODRICH— Editor Reporter— Dear Sir : I am not in the habit of taking notice of Newapaper articles, there is, however, an article in the Htrald of laat week which I have thought prudent to notice, t rritten by the real Editor of that sheet, at whose will the entire Democracy of this county mutt succumb— although hia name docs not stand before the public as such—purporting so give the proceedings of the Repub lican Conference, which among other things states that I Bent Col. LEE to Wnmiing county for the purpose of exercising Improper influences upon Mr. HARDING, one of the Conferees of that Connty, to vote for Mr. MVEU, and also, the writer states that he speaks knowingly when he says that a roll of Bank bills was put into the pocket of Mr. Ross, hy a man in the support of MYKR. Now, Sir, that gentleman in making the above state ments, asserts that which is without the foundation of truth. Col. LEK Ido not know, having never to my knowledge spoken to him upon any subject in my life.— And having heard the story as to Mr. Ross, during the ihterva! between the two meetings of the conference, 1 sought when there the second time an interview with him upon that subject, and he then informed me, that the story so far as it implicated the friends of MY EH, was untrue. J.H.WEBB. Two EDITORS GONE. —In Coudersport, on the 22d ult., Mr. HUG a YOUNG, Editor of the Tioga Agi tator was married to Miss L. A. BUTTER WORTH, of the former place. And on the 2Sth ult., Mr. THOMAS S. CHASE. Editor of the Potter Journal was married to Miss IDA BUTTERWOHTU of Coudersport. The two young ladies implicated in the above noted transactions are neices of Judge WILMOT. We tender to our brethren who have thus rashly ventured upon the " stormy sea of matrimony," our sincere and heart-felt congratulations, and wish them all the felicity attainable " under the circumstances." fca?"" The "Choral Union Association," of eastern Bradford, will hold their third annual Musical Convention, at Stevensville, commencing on tlie Ist of November. Prof. G. B. LOOMIS, of New York has been engaged to conduct the exercises, which, together with the other arrangements, must render this session both entertaining and profitable. The whole is to conclude with a Grand Concert on Friday evening the 4th. which we have no doubt will be a musical treat rarely to he met with. Prof. LOOMIS has already attained considerable reputa tion in this section as a musical leader, and will doubtless make this occasion one of interest and profit. COLLECTIONS FOR THE MOUNT VERNON FUND in Bradford County, continued : Amount previously reported < $163 50 Received from Mrx. A. Dewing, of Warren : Miss Sarah T. Curtis, Pbila $3 00 Mrs. J. C. Manning, Warren, 1 00 " E. Tallniadge, " 1 00 " S. Marnner, " 1 00 Miss Emma Cooper, " 100 Received from Miss Clara //. Stevens, of Athens : Mrs. J. E. Canfield, Athens, $1 00 " N. C. Harris, " 1 00 Miss Sarah Wheelock, " 1 00 " Clara 11. Stevens, " 1 00 Total $174 60 The next monthly report will be made about the last of November. Mrs. C. L. WARD, /anii/ Manager. Two cr three of the days of the Sulli van Connty Court, says the Democrat, were occupied In the trial of ISAAC BONES aud HENRY WARNER, charged with driving cattle from the North Mountain to which we have heretofore alluded. The case was ably conduct ed byfattorneys on both sides, and was submitted to the Jury on Saturday morning, which, at about 12 o'clock in the evening brought a verdict of " not guilty.'" This re sult must be particularly gratifying to Mr. SONKS and his family, as Mr. S. has heretofore sustained a high reputa tion for honesty. We are glad that he is able to prove himself innocent of the disgraceful crime of which he stood charged. When Court adjourned in the evening, the Judge or dered the Jury that when a verdict was agreed upon, they should ring the bell. According, abont 12 o'clock the bell was rung and the Judge aud lawyers, together with a crowd of spectators repaired to the Court House to hear the verdict. The Judge ordered the Sheriff to bring the prisoner, Warner, into Court. The Sheriff went to the cell for the purpose of bringing Warner forth .when lo! the cell door had been unlocked, and Mr, Warner had left for parts unknown. By means of a key which he had manufactured.he made his escape about an hour be fore the Jury, by their verdict would have liberated him. He has not since been heard from. BRADFORD COUNTY FAIR. —The sixth exhi bition of the Bradford County Agricultural Society, held at this place on Thursday and Friday last, was attended by a large concourse of people, and in every respect was successful, beyond the most sanguine expectation of its managers. The weather was delightful, and those in at tendance highly pleased with the arrangements and dis play. A MANLY ACT —Just as the Boston ex press train of Saturday was leaving the Bridge port depot, a girl, 8 years of age, and daught er of Mrs. Maitinee, fell between two cars up on one of the rails, while attempting to pass from one car to another. Mr. Wm. H. Clapp, of Hiram, Ohio, saw her fall, and at the im minent peril of his life jumped down between the cars, caught the child with one hand, and with the other clung to the car until the train was stopped. The child was uninjured, ex cept some slight bruises received in falling.— Mr. Clapp was severely, though, it is believed, not dangerously, bruised. A NEW COUNTERFEIT. —Very dangerous coun terfeit Five dollar bills on the Lock Haven Bank, at Lock Haven, Pa., are in circnlation. The counterfeit is a perfect fac simile of the ilftos from all iiatfons. —The Richmond Enquirer learns that the Hon. John Lttchcr is in a very dangerous condition from an attack of erysipelas, a disease to which, lor aonae tine hack, he has been subject, but which now is more formidable than usual. Mr. Letcber ia at his home at Lexington. —The Bridgeport Advertiser understands that Mr. P. T. Barnum iutends to improve Ernat Bridge port by setting out shade treea along the highway. Mr. Barnum has advertised tor one thousand treea to enable him to carry out his plans. —A lady came near losing her life by a sin gular accident, in Louisville, while riding in a buggy. j One eud of a scarf, which she wore around her shoulders, blew off, and was caught in the spokes of one of the rap idly revolving wheels of tbe vehicle, and wound up in such a manner as to draw her neck down to the wheel, choking her severely. —The Equinoctial storm of Sept. "spiled" a great many Agricultural Fair*. The Dauphin county folks " stuck it out'' a few days, but finally adjourned un til the middle of October, hoping it would clear off by that time. —John Henry Kimball, who was worth $200,000 in well secu ed real estate in 1850, is now in jail as a vagrant—a victim of wine, women and the gam ing table. —One James Snyder who stabbed a man in Baltimore, tbe wound resulting fatally, has been arrested in Cattawisea. —lt is said Blondin is " played out" at the Falls, and no longer attracts a crowd. The boats which used to go to tbe exhibition from Toronto, Buffalo, frc., with hundreds on board, can now only muster a dozen or so of passengers. —The " Americans" of New York State have signalized the utter want of any principle by adopt ing half of the Republican ticket, and half the Demo cratic. A " half and half" thing, sold out cheap as it could, claiming the " balance of power." —Among the competitors for the prize to the best steam Plow, at the Chicago State Agricultural Fair, was one invented by James Waters, who,like Fawkes is a Pennsylvanian. —According to an official return of the Austrian Government just 'published, the total loss of the army in Italy, in killed, wounded and prisoners, was 1461 officers and 48,500 men. A well known scientific writer, informs ns that the next deluge will certainly not take place for 6300 years, which will be tolerably satisfactory for the present generation. —Colonel John Miller, a highly-respected citizen of Reading, and formerly representative from Berks county in the State Legislature, died suddenly Fri day morning, of apoplexy. —At the late election in San Francisco 10,- 889 votes were polled. —A breach of promise of marriage in Cal ifornia is a serious affair. A bad fellow, named Nichol as Mathewsou, recently neglected to consummate his oft repeated vows to Elizabeth Hildebrand, and Miss Eliza beth demands $20,000 from the naughty Nicholas, as a salve for her lacerated heart. —The Ship Yivid Light, about to sail from Boston, Mass., for Alexandria, Egypt, will take out four teen railroad cars for the railroad in Egypt. —The bondholders who purchased the North western railroad are endeavoring to make arrangements by which the Central lUil Road Company will lay bold ol and purchase tbe work. —The new Presbyterian Church at Hnr risburg is nearly completed. The spire is now being ; raised, and will be tbe highest in Pennsylvania, outside of Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. —An arrival from Gonaives brings advices from Hayti to September 17. The conspiracy which had been discovered simultaneously with the recent shooting of the President's daughter had been suppressed after a large number of arrests had been made. A visit from the President was looked for at Gonaives. —The Filibusters who recently attempted to escape from New-Orleans, under the guidance of Gen. WALKER, were captured Tuesday at the Southwest Pass, by the United States Marshal. The surrendered without resistance. —That was a singular forgery committed last week, way down ia Maine. Benjamin Kimball, a lawyer, was charged with forging a deposition—signa tures of deponent and magistrate— by which the lawyer obtained a divorce from his own wife. —The Opposition of Northampton county held a Convention at Nazareth, on the first of October, and unanimously adopted resolutions recommending An drew H. Reeder for Governor. —A man named Jackson walked a hundred and fifteen hours, without sleep or rest, at Williamsport week before last. He commenced walking in the parlors at thp Kagle Hotel, on Tuesday morniDg at 4 o'clock, and continued walking until Saturday night at 11 o'clock The Gazette says he did not appear very much fatigued for one having traveled for so long a time without rest. —The trial of R. S. Macdonald, who shot Virginia Stewart at the Brandreth House in New York, has been postponed till the first Monday in December. —The Public House owned by John A. Shaut, in Avoca, was entirely consumed by fire, on* Sat urday night last. The barns and other buildings were saved with great exertion. —Mayor Weaver of Pittsburgh, has posi tively prohibited the running of cars npon the city rail roads on Sunday. An extended correspondence has la ken place between the mayor, the citizens and the com panies, and the result is that the Sunday t ravel is forbid den. The Vermont State Journal snvs : " Every month has been marked by front, and a drouth, severer than any known for many years, prevailed through the Summer. But under the influence of the rains of last week the grass has started vigorously, and strawberries are blooming the second time this season. —The man, Wm. Folton, who recently kill ed his child in Detroit, while firing a gun at his wife, has been found guilty of morder In the second degree. The Jury recommended him to mercy. —The Mayor of Rochester has officially prohibited any farther exhibitions of rope-walking at the Falls of the Gennese. DE LAVE will be compelled to beat up new quarters. —The Rome Sentinel is some on big stories. Its last is to the effect that the other day Mr. M. K. West, of Vienna, was riding in a buggy leading a colt behind it, when suddenly the colt jumped clean over Mr. W\, and landed by the Hide of the horse in the harness! Nobody was hurt. —The whole number of votes in the Charles ton Democratic Convention will be 606, of which 404, or two-thirds will be necessary for the choice of a Presiden tial candidate. —A arious plans for redncing the number of dead letters in the different Post Offices are being consid ered by the Post Office Department, with a view of adopt ing the most efficient method. —A man in Philadelphia on Friday night was ferociously attacked in the street by a woman armed with a razor. She inflicted a serious gash in his neck.— It is 9npposedshe mistook him for another person. —A tavern-keeper in Harrisbug, Pa., has been arretted and held for trial, at the suit of widow, whose husband had died from the effects of drinking to excess at the tavern of the defendant. A civil suit for •uL ■ will .!•* to ii.-titi." d. A VOLCANO IN ORECON. —The Oregonian of August 20th bays: "On Wednesday l Ui> t (August 17tb) the atmosphere became exceed ingly hot about mid-day. In the afternoon the heavens presented a singular appearance; dark, silvery coudensed clouds hung over the top of Mt. flood until evening. An occasio&l flash of fire conld be distinctly seen rolling up. On Thursday night the fire itas plainly seen by every one whose attention conld be called to the subject. Yesterday (19th) the moontaio was closely examined by those who hare re cently returned from a visit to its summit when by the naked eye or a glass, it was seen that a large mass of tbe northwest side had disappeared, and that the immense quantity of snow which, two weeks ago, covered the south side had disappeared. The dense cloud of steam and smoke constantly rising over and above its summit, together with tbe entire change in appearance heretofore, convinces us that Mt. Hood is now in a state of eruption which has broken out with iu a few days. S&r Tbe Austin (Texas) State Gazette, of the 23d nit., favors us with an extra, giving an account of the killing of Major R S. Neighbors, late United States Indian agent for Texas. The Gazette gathers its informa tion from a memorandum forwarded oo the stage way bill bv Capt. J. M. Smith, of the Waco House: "On Wednesday, tbe 14th inst, while Major R. S. Neighbors was cross ing from his hotel, at Belknap, to the old gar rison, he was intercepted by Messrs. Murphy and Cornet. The former asked Major N. if he had reported that he (Murphy) and cer taid others had, themselves, stolen certain hor ses, charged to have been stolen by the Indi ans. Major N. said "No, I never did," and was in the act of explanation, when young Cornet shot him. He exclaimed 'Oh Lord !' and tell dead. Cornet, at last dates, was at Murphy's and not arrested. Tb Chatauque Democrat learns that Judge Chamberlain, of Randolph, recently re ceived a package from some place iu Pennsylva nia, by mail. The package looked as though it might have coutained miniature likenesses, but upon removing the outside wrapper, the Judge became suspicious of a certain string that seemed to be connected with the contents of the package. He called iu a neighbor, and the package was carefully opened, Hnd found to contain two pistols loaded with powder and ball, capped and cocked, the string communi cating with the triggers. ON TRIAL FOR MLRDCR.— Three young men, named M-'Donell, Bain and Kelly, aged respect ively 16, 18, and 20 years, are on trial in Burlington, Yt., for the murder of John T. McKeeu. STARTLING COINCIDENCE.— WhiIe Rev. S. B West, of Paiuesville, Ohio, was preaching be fore the Grand River Association, last Wed nesday evening, and at the momeut while he was illustrating a truth, by a startling allusion to a burning dwelling, the flames were actually ■ consuming the dwelling of an aged couple,who were sittiug thrilled with tire eloqaent words of the preacher. Comfort Wetmore and wife ; had early in the evening left their home in the I care of two little girls, aged about eleven years, one an adopted child of tbe old people, the other a grandchild who was on a visit to her grandparents. As they neared their house, after the evening service, tbey discovered the house to be on fire, aud soon fonud the adopt ed child badly burned, but not fatally. She had crawled ont at the window, aud vainly en treated her companions to follow ; but frighten ed out of her reason, she took refuge under the bed and perished. She was soon drawn out with hooks, ber bead and limbs naostly con sumed. At the M. E. Parsonage in Towanda, the Bth inst., by Rev. S. Nichols. Mr. GEORGE R. EGLKSTON.to Miss MARY ANN SULLIVAN, both of Lister. DIED, In Conneant. Crawford County. Pa., Monday, Sept. 19, of heart disease, Mrs. JULIETTE, widow of the late C D. Godard, and daughter of Plyrrn and Lticv Phelps, of West Burlington, Bradford county, in her 2Mb year. In this village, on ithe 20th olf., Capt. TIMOTHY DEN, of Monroe township, aged 89 years and seven months. Capt. ALPF.JI was one of the pioneer settlers of northern Pennsylvania ; emigrating from Massachusetts, and fix ing his home in these sylvan wilds in December of the i year 1800. His axe cut the road for the teams as he ap proached the place which be had selected for a home.— He grappled manfully with tbe incouveniencesof frontier life, and the wild beasts of the mountains, and the forests alike stood ont of his way, and the earth and his mechan ical industry were compelled to yield him a support. He has lived until all the original surroundings have changed while he gazed upon them—the village, the church, the I railroad, and all the accompaniments of thrift, now cc ! cupy tbe cities upon which he gazed, in tbeir original attire. The red man has gone to his imaginary hunting ground, the sturdy pioneer has fallen a martyr to his pri vations and hardships ; and two generations have passed away from this western home, leaving a patriarch to tell us of events that were well nigh a century agone ; and '. thus to stand as a connecting link, associating us with ; niep and events of quite another era of time. The aged oak has finally fallen and the connecting link is broken and forever gone. Bowed with age and with locks whitened by the frosts of many winters, the sluggish stream is stayed and the weary wheels of life have ceased to move. Panoplied by a life of rich experience, and fed by fruitful thought and meditation, and nerved for the event, by leng and careful observation, he wrapped around him the mantle of his christian faith, and sat down to await the day of his appointed time as quietly as the infant reposing in the arms of maternrl affection. He has gone on that long journey. Verily, "As the 1 waters fall from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth np ; so man lietli down and riseth not, till tho 1 heavens be no more." COM. ' At Indiantown, Bureau county, 111., Sept. 11, SIMON KINNEY, Esq., aged 75 years and 15 days. After a severe and protracted illness, he quietly passed away to that spirit world in which he was a strong be liever. He was the first born white child on the waters of the Susquehanna, between Wyoming and the head of that river. Vt the age of 23 he left his native place (She shequin) and read law with Sbepard, of Aurora, N. Y„ and soon after the orgauiaation ot Bradford, mo\ ed to Towanda, where he practiced law for a series of years, and was twice elected a meml>er of the Pennsyl vania T.egislature. With him, P. Cash, Hon. D. Wllmot, and others read law ; and after leaving for the far west, he settled in Illinois, where he identified himself with her interests, and was one of the founders of her State Government. There, as here, they latneu! the loss ot so t.tu a fi lend I FE J tcii*.\* t „ xnait.
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