ESCAPED. —Hiram Law, a PERSON convicted for petit larceny, a prisoner in our county jail, on Wednesday morning last embraced an op portunity of escaping trom the court house cellar, into which he had been sent early in the morning by Sheriff Jenks, to get >oine kindling wood." The cellar window was open, and lie slipped out, and down by the Academy, and over the bridge, and then up the further side of the river, and near the Lend he left the river and took to the hills. In the mean time Sheriff Jenks was standing, nt the jail door, key in hand, waiting for his return. Jei.ks soon began lo think that it was taking Law longer than common to get his kindling, and he locked the jail and went down into the cellar, but the bird was flown. He rushed out and in great haste began to make enquiries, and finding that lie had crossed the bridge, he ran to the stable, and got out his black horse Catch-Thief, bounded on his hack, and mi the first spring horse and Jenks were both down the horse was smooth and the trost hard Jenks and Catch-Thief were soon 011 their feet again and off. At the bridge Catch Thief and Jenks kissed the soil again—cause the same —still Jenks, faint yet pursuing, hurried on and towards the bend got a glimpse cf Law breasting the mountain side in gallant style and just about to enter the woods. Jenks tied up his steed and took to his heels, but his falls and damaged shins did not increase his speed, while the bounds of Law were like those of a roe or young hart. Jenks tracked him through the woods but could not find him. He was and is gone, and in spite of the fact that Jenks is a law-abiding man he nmH ac knowledge that he is now Law-less.— Owe go Times. THE GRF.AT EASTERN. —It is at last decided that the new mauimoth steamer is, notwith standing her great size, by means exempt from the ills that ordinary ships are heir to. The directors having decided that the vessel should go to Southampton, there to receive the finishing touches necessary to iier eomple tion, she left Holyhead harbor on the 3d inst In steering clear of the Welsh coast the Great Eastern put out far enough tc sea to give those on board a taste of life on the ocean wave. It was supposed that the steamer would ride upon the waves without rolling or pitching like ordinary vessels, but this antici pation was doomed to disappointment. On the 4th lhe chairs and tables began to be un steady, to reel to and fro like a drunken man, and be at their wit's ends. Then the crockery followed, and cups, saucers and dishes, rushed furiously to desti uction against the pantry walls, and were dashed to pieces like a pot ter's vessql. About five o'clock in the after noon a giant wave came surging on towards the bows, and struck the Great Eastern with a loud boom, sending its green water in a heavy lump clear over the forward bulwarks, and drenching the men on deck. Thus did old Neptune baptize the gigantic steamer, ex actly twj years trom the day on which Mr. Brunei baptized her on the Thames. It was also proved by tiiis trial trip that the Great Eastern will require three hundred tons of coal a day to make her go at the rate of fifteen and a half knots an hour. So, on the whole, it may be questioned whether her gi gantic size is r.ot, after all, the chief and only merit of the mummolj) steamer. CONTENTS OF THK DEAD LETTER OFFICE.— The Washington Const itntim advertises the catalogue of letters which liave accumulated in the Dead Letter Office since 184*. The cat alogue embraces coats, hats, socks, drawers, gloves, scarfs, suspenders, patent.inhaling tube, gold pens, pencils, and ell kinds of small jew elry imaginable, under sleeves, fans, handker chiefs, box of dissecting instruments, pocket bibles, child reus'dresses, lace collars, books, buttons, cloth, purses, slippers, chemises, bed quilts, boots, shirts, gaffs for game fowls, corn lield hoe, black silk basque, hoods, shawls, gaiters, cigar cases, snuff' boxes, spectacles, false teeth, night caps, brogans, aprons panta lettes, ear trumpet, shoulder braces, silk (lag, razors, one hundred catechisms, watch crystals nipple glasses, demi veils, edging, and a thou sand other things too numerous to mention.— No pawnbroker's shop ever excelled in variety the collection of the Dead Letter Office. GF.N. SCOTT IN OREGON. —The arrival of Gen. Scott at Portland, Oregon, is announced by the Overland Mail. His reception was en thusiastic. Notice of his coming had been given, the steamer bearing him having touch ed at a point lower down the coast, from which word was forwarded. Gen. Harnev, it is reported, retired from his command with undisguised disgust arid anger. A dispatch received from Gen. Scott, at the War De partment, reports that the proposition he was instructed to make to Gov. Douglas had heen presented, and would doubtless be accepted.—- The uaturc of the proposal is uudivulged. DF.ATH OF KIT CARSON. —Our advices from the Overland route announce the death of the celebrated pioneer and Christopher Carson, at Taos, New-Mexico, where he had been residing as Indian Agent. Carson was a native of Kentucky, having been born in Madison County, 180*9. Ilis father, shortly after that period, removed to Missouri, where Kit, when a lad of 15, was apprenticed to a saddler —occupying himself at that business two years, at the end of which lie joined a trapping expedition and a trapper he remain ed, until his familiarity with the great far West rendered hiin invaluable as a guide to explorers of the Plains For eight years he noted as hunter at Bent's Fort. When Col. Fremont engaged in his expeditions Carson ac companied him, and was over after his stead fast companion. In 1847 he received the rank of Lieutencnt in the Ilifle corps, United States army. His latest and most remarkable exploit on the Plains, was enacted in 1853, when he conducted a drove of G,(JOO sheep safely to California. tea" On Tuesday morning last, twelve hun dred cords of wood, belonging to the X. V. & E. ICR. Co., one mile West of Dunkirk, were discovered to be on fire. All the avail able force of Dunkirk, turned out and suc ceeded in extinguishing the fire, with a loss of only one hundred curds — JJcrnellstil/r Journal. tetT" The Administration press are just now doing more than teuthousand. " Ossawatomie Brow us" could do, to excite an insurrection among the Slaves at the South. Only con vince the Slaves, (as these papers seem de termined to-do) that all who profess Repub licanism ure ready to aid such an insurrection, ami risings, at. a hundred points, may be vcrv speedily looked lor.— Alb. lice. Jour.'" . Jirtns from all iiattons. —Charles Sumner has returned, and con tempatles entering upon his duties as U. S. Senator .with the opening of Congress. —The CattawUsa, Williamsport A' Elraira Railroad has been taken by the first mortgagers, and its name changed to Cattawissa Railroad. A lnu.se between Muncy and Fruitstown j was struck by lightning in the storm on Saturday after noon last, and three persons stunned by the shock. Out- , of them, a woman, it is feared will not recover. William Knox,of Philadelphia was Friday acquitted at Ilarnsburg of the charge of murder, preferr ed against him about two months ago, as our readers will remember, by a colored girl who was a domestic in his family at the time of the alleged occurrence. The jury j rendered a verdict without leaving the box. —The reports from Charlestown, Va., are 1 that all is quiet. Three or four companies of military are quartered in the town, andGov. Wise has ordered five hundred additional troops to iie present on the day of ex ecution. Brown is represented as manifesting sgtne signs of repentance. —The physicians of Judge and Mrs. Doug las have strongly urged upon them the necessity of a trip to the coast ol Florida, for the restoration of their health. —Gen. Tom Thumb will be 22 years old in January next. He reddes in Bridgeport, Conn., where he owns a line house on the main street, valued at over $5,000. He drives a pony which he says will travel a mile in three minutes. —The dogs killed in Cleveland, Oliio, are sold to a glove manufactory in Litchfield, Medina county, where the skins are made up into kid and buckskin. —lll the Massachusetts Senate an amend merit to the attachment law has been adopted, exempting the library of a debtor to the value of S3OO from attach ment. The present amount is SSO. —General Twiggs lias ordered a section of light artillery, four companies of infantry and two of cavalry, under the command of Major Heintzleiuan, to march to Fort Morrill on the Neuees, in Texas, there to await further orders. —lion. Beverly L. Clark, United States Minister resident to Honduras and Guatemala, was very ill at last accounts, and his recovery was not anticipated. —Within thirty-three days only twenty five stabbing and twenty shooting affrays, besides any num ber of destructive fires, have occurred at New Orleans. —Nine churches are to be sold in Cincin nati in December, for non-payment of taxes. Religion must be at a discount in the Queen City. —lt is stated at the Post Office Department that it had been discovered that the late Post Master tVescott, of Philidelphia, is a defaulter to the amount of nearly twenty thousand dollars. —Last week a young lady passed through Cincinnati en route for St. Louis, whither she had been forwarded by expr.-ss. She was from Paris, and being iguorant of our language her friends had placed her in i charge of an express messenger. Faul Morphy is enjoying the hospitalities of Baltimore, visiting the chess clubs, and winning all the games of course. He is en route to his bme in New Orleans, and rays he has no idea of locating in New York. —lt is now confidently asserted, in high official quarters, that John A. Dix will be appointed to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Hon. John Mason, late American minister at the French Court. —The yellow fever is still prevailing to a considerable extent in Galveston and other towns of Texas. —A severe shock of an earthquake is re ported to have been felt in Chili on the sth October, causing much damage. lnformation from reliable sources at Pike's Peak, not designed for publication, states the productive gold capacity as exceeding anything yet discovered in the world. Russell. Majors .V Co., army contractors,have made arrangements for the transportation of eight thousand passengers, when the season opens. Gorrit Smith is improving somewhat. Dr. Gray, of the Asylum, has given Mr. Smith's friends the assurance that there is now a reasonable hope that lie will be entirely restored to health, although his condition was so bad at the time lie entered the Asylum that his life would have been in great danger bad he remained at home. —The Ilornellsville Tribune states that Col. Ward, of that village, and Samuel Swain liavo leased the railroad from Hornellsville to Attica. —The Sportsmen's Convention came off at Geneva on Tuesday. During the time it was in session that village looked like a second edition of Harper's Ferry. —The Ithaca Journal says that Hon. Lyman Truman and Hon. J. B. Williams, have gone on atrip down the Seneca River to Mosquito point and Jack's Reefs, to viev, the progress of the work of excavation. —George It. Gilmer, twice Governor of i Georgia, and lor three times between the years IS2I and • 1535, Member of Congress,, died a few days since. Since 1819, he has been several times a Member of the State Legislature, and iu 1835 pnblished a historical work call- I ed the Georgians. —Jerome Bonaparte, of Baltimore, who re cently returned home, has, to his honor, refused the dig nity of senator, which Prince Jerome, his father, tender : ed in order to retain him in France. He preferred the i simple title of citizen of the United States. —An effort, on Wednesday, in the Ilonso i of Representatives, to let Mr. Burnham out of jail, failed by a vote of IPJ to 38. Mr. Upham, of Salem, in opposing the release, said that Mr. Burnham was not only in con tempt of the Legislature, hut also of the entire comrauni ty. -Twenty-six Democratic meetings have iiecn held in Kentucky in as many counties, and fourteen have instructed the delegates to the State Convention to i favor Mr. Guthrie's nomination for the Presidency, and twelve have left their delegates nninstrueted. —The TI oshington Constitution, drilling the j Southern Members for the election of a Pro-Slavery Speaker of the House, says : " The jilurality rule must note be thought of for a moment by any Member who is I not one of Seward's coadjutors." A man from Cincinnati was suspected in Pulaski County,Ya., last week, of tampering with slaves, | and was hung up live times by a rope attached to his neck. A ft' r the last ascension he was let loose, with the I assurance that if caught in Virginia again he would have to stay up for a permanency. —A It-gal controversy, now in progress in Cincinnati, has developed a banking church. It is the German Lutheren Church on Kim street, above Twelfth. Tne deposits reached SBO 000, when the treasurer got his accounts so mixed up that nobody knows what became of the money. —John T. Brown, the Democratic member of Congress from the fifth Kentucky district, is under twenty-five years of age. and therefore, under the Consti tut. in, cannot take his seat at the opening of Congress.— He lacks a few months ot the required age. —Mr l'hdps, cf Missouri, will probably be the candidate of the Democratic party for Speaker of the ! House. At the last election, he was the only opponent I of Mr. Orr. and withdrew from the contest before the caucus came to a vote. —A young lady in Philadelphia, named Miss Anna Nicholson, died on Wednesday afternoon fiom the eucoi of morphine, administered through careless ness, instead of quinine. —lt if iindorst&o<J that the President's Mcs -a¥? ',T : li Jbe. brief. ■' irrahforb ilqiortfr. E. O. GOODRICH. EDITOR. TOWANDA : Thursday Morning, December 1,1859. TEKMS — One Dollar prr annum, invariably in advance— Four lecrlis previous to the expiration oj a subscription, notice will be given by a printed irrapper, and if not re newed, the paper will in all cases be stopped. CLUBMNI}— The Reporter will be sent to Clubs al the fol lowing extremelylow rates : it copies for $.5 Oft jIS copers for sl2 00 10 copies for S 00 1 '2O copies for 15 00 ADVERTISEMENTS— For a square of ten lines or less, One Dollar for three or less insertions, and twenty-five cents for each subsequent insertion. JOB-WORK —Executed u-ith accuracy and despatch, and a reasonable prices—with entry facility for doing boohs blanks, Hand-bills, ball tickets, he. PEOPLE'S STATE CONVENTION—The cit ifjsf izcns of Pennsylvania, who are opposed to the principles and measures of the present National Admin istration, and to the Election of men to office who sustuin those principles and measures, are requested to meet in their respective counties, and to elect Delegates equal in nnmher to their repr#entutives in the General Assembly to a PEOPLE'S STATE CONVENTION to be held at HARRISBURO, on WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22d, IS6O. at 12 A. M.. to indicate their choice for the next Presi dency, nominate a candidate for Governor, form an Elec toral ticket, appoint Senatorial, ami to designate the time and mode n( Electing Dlctrlct Delegates to the Na tional Convention, and to transact such other business as may he deemed necessary to ensure success at the Gen eral Election. " LEVI KLINE, Chairman People's Executive Committee. ELECTING DELEGATES. The curiously worded call of the Chairman of the Stale Committee, for n Convention, is receiving the attention of the press of the State. The N'orristown JTeruld and Free Press, speaks out emphatically in rtferenee to the action of the Convention. That, paper says " there is evidently more work set out for this Convention to perform than was design ted by the Slate Committee under whose au thority it was called. Under the custom of the party in this State, no Convention has any business to indicate a "choice for the Presi dency," and iu the State Committee it was clearly understood that the "time and mode of electing District Delegates," should rest entirely with the people of the respective Dis tricts. The only legitimate duty of a State Convention is to nominate a candidate for Governor, form an Electoral Ticket and appoint Senatorial Delegates to the National Conven tion, aud we agree fully with the Rucks Coun ty Intelligencer in saying that "whatever is done more than this, will be prejudicial to the harmony and efficiency of the party, ami any attempt to forestall the will of tbe people of the several Congressional districts in the choice of delegates or a candidate for the Presidency should be sternly opposed " The Republicans of this county aud Con gressional District (saysthe Free Press,) claim and will exercise the right of electing their Delegate to the National Convention, and will further claim and exercise if they see proper, the right to instruct him as to their " choice for the Presidency." This lias been the cus tom, and in the abseuce of any known necessi ty for a change, they w ill adhere to it. The Intelligencer says " the Republicans of Rucks County " will do the same. In this section, the people expect to elect their Delegate to the National Convention, and they will not permit that right to be tak en from thcrn by any State Convention. The idea that the vote of a State should be a unit in the National Convention will answer when the wire workers desire to control a State for mercenary purposes, but to give expression to the popular voice, the Delegates should be elected by the people and lie held responsible to their constituents. It is no time now, for the Republican party to fall into the cor rupt methods adopted by the Democracy to set at defiance the will of the people, and for one we shall sternly resjst such a dangerous inmovution, as that proposed. fiSaF* Congress meets on Monday next. The qnestion of officers is exciting considerable at tention. As neither party is clearly iu & ma jority, various attempts at combinations are being made, with what success we shall see. The Tribune's special despatch of Monday says that " Mr. Douglas has caused his Anti- Lecompton friends to be informed that he de sires them to go into the Democratic caucus, and if objection is entertained to that, to op pose any combination with Republicans. Mr. Morris of Illinois is the only member of that delegation who is uudecided about following the caucus advice. Mr. Davis of Indiana has signified distinctly that lie will not support any Republican for Speaker or other office.— lie may not enter the Pemocractic caucus, and, in a possible contingency, may vote for the plurality rule. He is for Ilaskin for Speaker, i with whom he has corresponded, but who, like the Anti Lecompton men of Pennsylvania and New-Jersey, will decline to engage iu any such operation." Iteip The excitement in Virginia in regard to the rescue of JOHN BROWN has become so absurd as to be a matter of shame to those who have caused it. Troops have been kept under arms at Richmond ; troops have been hastened forward from Alexandria ; munitions of war have been expedited from the arsenal at Washington to the arsenal at Harpers lerry ; the Railroad Company has placed an armed guard to wait upon the Highness of the Harper's Ferry bridge, and yet the accounts from Baltimore, based upon the latast infor mation advanced from Charlestown, assure that no enemy lias appeared to withstand these formidable preparations ; aud that the moving cause of the extremely violent popular emotion | was the conflagration of a hay-stack. At Washington, it is gratifying to observe, the affair has been rated at its proper value. ftaF" The 6tate of feeling in Virginia, aftd especially in Jefferson county, is not snch as warm admirers of the Old Dominion care most to see. The population, it is painful to uotiee has given itself up to tbe vaguest panic terrors. Not all the strong display of military force garrisoning Charlestown ; not all the stern and changeless determination of the people to stand each by the other, should a conflict be come inevitable ; not all the evidence of sym pathy and compassion afforded equally by the North and by the South, can suffice to allay the terrors of this tremulous community. To present a mortifying instance, it was only uight before last, while the Rtreets of Charlestown were thronged with sleepless soldiery, a gun, obvious'y fired at an outpost, was suddenly heard, and was no sooner heard than the en tire population of the town was seen to plunge within doors and fortify itself with al! the re sources of lock mid bolt. The village rang with the call to arms, military commands were given loudly and wildly, and it was only when every preparation was made to receive the in vader, that it was found to be a aw, which had failed to return the countersign to a fright ened sentinel, and was entering tbe towu by forced marches. A second false alarm com pleted the panic, and Charlestown passed a sleepless night. Gov. WISE has returned to Richmond, breathing as lie went his determi nation neither to spare the convicts, nor to accept foreign aid in vindication of the sov ereignty of Virginia. STF.AMEU WRECKED. —The steamer Indian of the Canadian liue, which left Liverpool on the 9th ult. for Portland, was totally wrecked at Marie Joseph, a fishing village, about seventy miles from Halifax Twenty-seven lives were lost ; the victims being chiefly steerage pas sengers. All the cabin passengers are saved. Five of the crew, who had taken refuge in one of the boats, were picked up by the Brit ish schooner Ware, and taken into Boston. Their statements show that the steamer struck while running at a speed of eight knots per hour, and that the Captain was deceived by the soundings, having supposed himself to be off Cape Sable. The ship filled almost instant ly, and in the rush for the boats, three were swamped. The statements of the captain and purser confirm the story of the seaman in all essential particulars. The accounts ngree in stating that the morning was dark and hazy at the time of the disaster, and that the loss of life is attributable to the panic which pre vailed among the steerage passengers. Tiie Gladiator and Emperor, the vessels which res cued some of the survivors, succeeded also iD securing the mail of the Indian, which will be forwarded to Portland by the 6teainer Admi ral. SaeF The military occupation of Charles town ha 6 had the effect of suspending business, closing the churches, and depopulating the school-houses ; the latter having been turned into barracks for the troops. Preparations are going forward for the execution of BROWN. A general order, issued by Gen. TAI.IAKERRO, announces that that oflicer has assumed the supreme command of the forces quartered in the town, and pays a compliment to the mili tary skill of Col DAVIS, byway of compensa tion for depriving him of his command. La ter advices announce a rapid and formidable concentration of troops at Charlestown, to withstand an attempt at rescue, of which Gov. WISE and Mr. ANDREW IIINTER profess them selves to be reliably instructed. The students of the University of Virginia, eager to uphold the honor of the Commonwealth, have ten dered their services to Gov. WISE, in a body ; but His Excellency has uot yet accepted the offer. Another suspicious peddler has been arrested, and another barn has been fired by the torch of the incendiary. JOHN BROWN has been visited by the notorious HENRY CLAY PATE, of Kansas, with whom he had an in stant quarrel ; and a Methodist clergyman, Rev. Mr. MARCH, who had called to offer BROWN religious consolation, became so shocked at his views on Slavery that he left him with a denunciation. The Boston Traveller reports the return of Mr. HOYT, late BROWN'S counsel, from a trip to Ohio, where he obtaiuod affi davits to show that insanity is hereditary iu BROWN'S family. SCNBURY AND ERIE RAILROAD.—Wm. G. Moorhead, Esq., President, and Charles Gib bon, Esq., Solicitor of the Sunbury and Erie Railroad have sailed for England. Their ob ject is to negotiate three and a half millions of five per cent, bonds, which shall be one half of a mortgage of seven millions on the road. The other half is in possession of the State, as a consideration for the canals sold to the Railroad Company. RAIL ROAD ACCIDENT AT LANESBORO.—The Express freight bound west Sunday morning ran nine cars off the track near the centre of the Canewacta bridge at Lanesboro. One of the cats fell on a shoe shop, and smashed one end of the building in. No one happened to be in the shop at the time. A brakesman named Gray went down with the cars. Roth of his wrists are broken, and his shoulder is said to be out of joint—be is badly bruised otherwise. N. Y. A ERIE RAILROAD.—The New York Tribune of Tuesday states that the holders of the first mortgage bonds of the New York & Erie Railroad have applied to the State Comp troller to advertise and sell the Road for non payment of interest. The Comptroller has placed the matter in the hands of the Attor ney-General, who will proceed at onpc under the act of 1845. LOCAL AND GENERAL. WST The regular monthly meeting of the Franklin Fire 1 60.- will beheld at the Engine If ottse on Saturday evening, Dec. 3d, at fij o'clock, F. M. Aa it la the meeting for tie annnal election of officers, and the transaction of important business, It is hoped every member will hi in attendance. By order, J. T. GEIGEK, Bet'y. SOT See advertisement of "Tioga Point Agricultural Works," in another column. t&~ All Ladies holding subscription books of the Mount Vernon Association, will pleaseretrrrwlfcenV to me by mail or otherwise, with the subtfci'i'pt'ioiin re ceived, before the first of January next, in ordfcr tfikf the final report for the year, to the Vice Regent may be com pleted. MRS. C. I- WARD, Towanda, Nov. 24,1859. Lady Manager. FIRES. —On Wednesday forenoon, 23d ult. sq Hlarm of fire was given, caused by the burning of a bed in ESTELL'S tavern. When discovered, the l>edding was entirely consumed. A few pails of water sufficed to put it out, without the aid of the machines, which were promptly on hand. Considerable damage was done with water, and by removing furniture. On Friday morning, 2.7 th, about 5 o'clock, the unoccu pied building on the corner of Main and State streets, was discovered to be on fire. By the time the alarm could be given, and the fire department got upon the ground, the building was enveloped in flames. Being of a very combustible nature, it was soon consumed, and the fire was communicated to the small building south, occupied with GOIWRLINE'S meat market and dwelling which was Tery badly damaged. The corner building was formerly occnpied by CHESTKU WELIA' Furniture Ware-rooms. He loses about S6O worth of machinery, lumber, Ac., which had not been removed. Both buildings were owned by Dr. D. L. SCOTT, and were not insured. The tire was evidently the work of an in cendiary, as the building in which it was discovered had not been occupied for some time. THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY. —The Atlantic for December presents a very attractive table of contents.— In addition to the conclusion of the 4th volume, it con cludes the " Minister's Wooing," and " The Professor at the Breakfast Table." Some its other articles are " The Experience of Samuel Absalom, Filibuster" The Northern Lights and Stars ;" " Thomas Paine in Eng land and France ;" " Elkanah Brewster's Temptation " Magician ;" " Strange Countries for to see " Beauty at Billiards " Italy, 1859 ;'* " The Aurora Borealis and the usual very interesting literary notices. Some of the articles are more than usually entertaining. PHILLIPS, SAMPSON A Co. of Boston, are now the pub lishers, and the work under their management shows, if possible, signs of increasing value. IgaS" The Baptist Church on the Apalnchiu Creek, Tioga Co. N. Y.. was totally destroyed by fire on Saturday night, 19th ult. It was the work of incendiary, as no fire had been in or near the Chnrch for some days previous. On Saturday evening, the 19th nit., the barn of ALVA BUKNHAM, in Armenia, was totally de stroyed by fire, with a large amount of hay, grain, farm ing utensils, and a span of valuable horses. BVT A Free Lecture will be delivered by Rev. B. J. DOUGLASS before the Young Men's Christian Association, at the Court House, on Monday evening next. The public is invited to attend. N. Y. A E R. II —A mistake occnrred ic the Time Table of Waverly Station, and we publish it aa corrected. NEW TIME TABLE. —A new time table went into effect on the New York and Erie Railroad Inst Mot*- day, which regulates the running of trains as follows : GOING WEST. OOINO EAST. Dunkirk Express 5 38 p.M.[*Way, 6 32 p.* Night Ex. 3 50 A. M.jStock, 4 55 A. M. •Accomodat'n, 832 v. u.l* Accomodation, 738 A.M. •Way, 10 33 A. M.l Night Express, 1 23 A. M. 31 Ex. Freight, 658 p. M.j*N. Y. Ex. 11 27 A. M. Fast Freight, 540A. M. I Fast Freight, 11 05 A.M. • Except Sundnys. It Except Mondays. The Accomodation trains remain over night at Elmira. The way trains run between Binghamton and Elmira.— The way Freight trains remain over night at Owego. The Night Express both ways, the Stock Express, Express Freight and Fast Freight Trains run every day. ftaT We are indebted to COWI.ES for favors In the shape of periodicals. The public will find at his News Room, at the Bakery, all the latest and best publi cations of the day, with the New York daily papers, in advance of the mall. faT The last Fair of the First Weslyan Methodist Cfrnteb, will be held in the Engine House, on Thursday evening, Dec. 6th. With a due remembrance of past favors, the Colored people of this Rnrongh call, as they sincerely hope, for the last time on the generous public of this place for awl in discharging the remaining liabilities upon their church property. We hate endeav ored , as best wc might, to boild up and sustain an organ ization among our Colored people that shonld render them good citizens and God fearing men. This organi zation tew in numbers and feeble in means as it is, have paid by their individual subscription the sum of $368 68, thus we hope evidencing that while they call for aid, it is the call of those who have endeavored to help build up their cause by their own efforts, and by sacrifices little known to those in better circumstances in life. Trusting ! this last call may find as generous response as those of | former years, lam your ob't servant, S. COOPER. Attention is 'particularly directed to I an abstract from the official department of the " Penn ; sylvania School Journal," found in this paper. Directors are officially interested, and if through their neglect the State appropriation is withheld, the people will feel that they have an interest in the matter. We can see no good reason why the two documents spoken of, cannot be made out at the proper time as well as any other, if the proper officers of the School boards keep their hooka and papers as directed by law. THE BRITISH PERIODICALS. —The Messrs. ! Leonard Scott fc Co. of New York, who republish the four j great British Reviews and Blackwood's Magazine, deserve | the gratitude of all friends of sound and sterling litera : ture in this country. These periodicals have long been justly celebrated for their elaborate and able criticisms, ! their learned, brilliant, and attractive essays, and their j chaste and classic style. They represent respectively all the great parties of England, both in Church and State— The Ixmdon Quarterly representing the Conservatives, the Edinburgh Review the Whigs, the Westminister.Re view the Liberals, Blackwood's magazine the Tories, and the North British Review the Free Church of Scotland. But although each is thus the organ of a great party, none of tliem are illiberal or narrow-minded, or will give any conntenance to the prejudices and foolish vainglori ous theories which sometimes find advocates even in the ■ columns of the Timet. The reason is obvious ; their contributors are, without exception, men of snpcriur ed ! oration—men who are familiar, not only with British history, but with the history and ethnology of every civ ilized country. Hence it is that the English newspapers and the English periodicals are as unlike as possible on most international questions—nay on most subjects re lating to England itsejf. The former can seldom see any faults at home, or aught that is commendable abroad ; while, as a general thing, the latter are as willing to do justice to the French or the Germans as to their own reader*. This cosmopolitan spirit is a striking and noble feature in tlie periodicals under consideration, especially in the Review*: and it is one that groatly enhancestheif talue. If they were merely local in their view* andsym pathies the/ would not present. a* they do every q ovv i an epitome of lie literature of Europe and America , 1 need we say that there 1* not a book published in ; hemisphere that contains aofht that la new or nl®ak the pith of whfch is not to be found in one or other, the Quarterliea. Wae it too much, then, for us to k 1 we did at the beginning of this notice, that the gmu men who furnish us the reprints at Utt than oni J what the originals cost in England, desenre our Cri , I tnde ? The four Reviews and Blackwood only coat j,, ! In this conntry, while they cost 13! in England. The commencement of a new year affords a very fa,,, ] able time far procwrmg these works. In another col**, will be found an advertisement with full informal! *,, to price, Ac. J6T* Ijttd\e&' florae Magazine, published is 1 T. 8. ARTHUR A Co., at Philadelphia, for two dollar,, | year in advance, is the best Magazine for the family cirr, we receive. The December number is already on ht i with a very choice lot of contents. It is the best nuui)*. in the present volume. Now is an excellent time to*,,, scribe. Those in want of a first-class Magazine 6*4 I*. ter avaff themselves of this opportunity. See to it K : once. I®* Tlrt annual meeting of the Bradford County Agricultu&l' Society wif? be held at the Court House, in the boro' of Towauda, oh Monday evening, cemberS, 1859, at which time the annual election, C officers, will take place. The Executive Committee of the Sbciatv Wil mtet the office of W, C. Bogart, in the Iro' of Towandi o; Sat irday, the 3d December next, at 10 o'clock, A.M. V the transaction of business preparatory to the aunu, meeting of the Society. By order of the President, W. C. 800 ART, See jr SHIPMENTS of Coal by the Barclay RJJ) Road and Coal Company : Previous Shipments 28.M2 ton, For week ending November l'J 6 " A mount tor the season 28,770 tog, t&- we were chagrined at learning from & telegraphic dispatch, that Gov. Backer had tendered to Gov. WISE, of Virginia, the ser vices of 10,000 men to keep the peace in the Old Dimiuion. We are happy to learn, how ever, that the report was totally unfounded, and that all the military renown to be earned by fighting shadows and shooting hiirmleq cows will accrue to the credit of the Virginia heroes. If Gov. PACKER, or the Governor of any Northern State, wishes to make himself snpremely ridiculous and everlastingly infam ous, such a proceeding as was charged upou the Executive of Pennsylvania would aetoia plish it effectually. t&r N ewg from Brownsville, received ! New-Orleans by the Arizona, states that Cap! TOBIN, with a company of-one hundred Ran gers, was encamped half-way between Corpre Christi and Brownsville, awaiting reinforce ments. Fifty men of the First Artillery had arrived at Brazos, and would proceed at once to Brownsville. The sworn statements pot forth by one MILLER, which announced the capture of that town by CORTINAS, prove to have been utterly false. The force at Browns ville, numbering some 300 men, was cousfder ed sufficient to reptl any attack. CORTINA*' officer had been executed at Brownsville. Williamsport Press, in noticing an accident on the Williamsport and Elmira rail road last week, says : During the running of the Elmira Express Train on Tuesday evening last, near McKinney's Station, five miles above \Y iihamsport, a sad affair occurred by which a roan named Daniel B. Evans, lost his life.— From evidence bafore the Coroner's jury it is supposed the victim was under the influence of liquor, and unconsciously sat down on the track and fell ovef, the lower part of his bod; resting on the rail. The SLAVE EXODUS. —The Missouri Dm oerat says, that the shipments of slaves from St. Louis bate amounted to'h'nndreds per week for several months past. The negroes are not only tootiftg to the South by tray of St. Lonis aDd the Mississippi River, but are carried off in large droves through southwestern Missouri into Arkansas, many planters aad drivers pre ferring this as the safest mode of transit. The other day one of the wealthiest citizens of Platte Connty sent a drove of two hundred slaves through western Missouri into Arkan sas. A negro trader estimates that if the slave exodus continues at the present rate for the next fifteen years, there will not be left a I thousand negroes in Missonri borders. MASONIC. —At the regnlar quarterly com munication of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Pennsylvania, held at the Masonic Hall, Philadelphia, on Monday evening—2lst ult. tl e following companions were elected as Grand Officers for the ensuing Masonic year:—M. E. Grand High Priest, Benjamin Parke, of Har risburg; Grand King, Herman Yerkes, of Philadelphia ; Grand Scribe, J. L. Hutchin son, of Philadelphia ; Grand Treasurer, John Thompson, of Philadelphia ; Grand Secretary, William H. Adams, of Philadelphia. ISf A Washington despatch says that Gov. Wise, in recent conversations at that place, expressed his conviction that there is an extensive secret oath-bound organization in the State of Ohio, and elsewhere in the North, whose object is the rescue of Brown and as sociates, and revenge upon those who have been instrumental in bringing them to justice. This conviction is based upon letters received from persons in various parts of the country, in whose statements he places full confidence. Their names for obvious reasons he will not disclose. Mails Close at Towanda P. O. Waverly Through—Daily 12 M Athens Way—Daily 12 M Canton—Tri weekly .......... 12 M Eaton- Semi weekly 8 1* M Mont roue—Tri weekly .. . S 1* M Sheshequin—Tri weekly s I'M Wellsburg—Tri weekly 8 I'M Dusbore—lri weekly 12 H Tnnkhannock— Daily 1J VI Troy Tri weekly 13 M
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