Mob Violence at the South. Two melancholy exhibitions of violence at the South occurred during the The first is the imprisonment of Rev. Mr. tvorth, in North Carolina, for making a remark precating the execution of John Bfbwm The Reverend gentleman judging tfooi a letter la>£- ly written to a friend in those-parts, seems rb have the martyr spirit. Dating his couiuiuuhiation at Greeuboro Jail, December 26, 1*59, he says: " I have been three-(laysincarcerated in this jail on changes of a "breach df the criminal laws of this state, in preaching and selling in cendiary books, Helper's Impending crisis, Ac. The excitement on my preliminary trial was great. I plead my own cuuse,but three lawyers were against me. My bonds were fixed at ten thousand dollars, a very modest sum in which to bind a preacher. My securities will file my bouds this afternoon, when I shall again have temporary liberty. My trial will come on in April, and though conscious of no offence against any just law, not even against the laws of North Carolina, in consequence of the great prejudice added to the tremendous excitement, I can hardly hope to escape. The punishment, if convicted is pii.'ory, whipping and inprison ment. Yesterday, the anniversary of the Saviour's Advent,l speut in my prison inreud iug my Bible and prayer. I seemed to hear mv Saviour's voice asking "Art thou ready to , suffer my sake ; canst thou enter into dungeons for thy Saviour's love, and suffer shame for j my sake V' Yes, Lord, lam willing to suffer j thy righteons will in all things.' - He poured his | love into my soul so boundlessly that I shots od aloud for joy. And let me say that I ful lv believe if I am sentenced so confinement or other punishment, God will glorify his name by my suffering for him as though I was at liberty and working in his vineyard. Olet me have my dear Christian brethren everywhere, that my faith fail not, and that I may in pat ienee possess my son!. Yours in the love of that Saviour who suffered shame for us. G WORTIT." Another case of a like character but with les3 regard to the forms of law in that of the tarriug and feathering of an Irish stonecutter iu South Carolina, for intimating that slavery tended to render labor discreditable. The facts of the case were stated iu part by the South Carolina papers, but was fully detailed by the man himself who has arrived iu X Y. city. He says the crime proved against him cousisted in saying that " a white laborer iu the South was looked upon as an inferior and degraded man." For this he was first put iu jail, was thea taken out and dragged through the streets to U distance cf three miles out of towu, and be there received thirty-nine lashes of a cowhide, after which he was tarred aud feathered, aud theu sent off on the railroad to Charleston. On the way he received another coat of tar, and arriving in Charleston was ngaift coufiued ingail till he was shipped for New York. The poor man seems to have suffered all but death, and is still iu a feeble and suffering condition. These are scenes which cannot fail to receive the condemnation of the civilized world. Such acts must inevitably retort upon their authors, and the community which can in any way coun tenance or tolerate-so flagrant a disregard of individual rights aud liberties, the fast tending to disorganization and anarchy. EXPULSION OF FREE NEGROES FROM ARK AN FA". —At the late session-of the Ark unsas Leg islature, an act was passed giving' the free negroes of that State the alternative of uiigrat ing before January 1, 1860, or of becoming slaves. As the time of probation has now ex pired, while some few individuals have prefer red servitude, the great body of the free color ed people of Arfcan.-aa are on their way north ward We learn that the upward bound boats nre crowded with them, and that Seymour, Indiana, on the line of the Ohio and Missis sippi railroad, affords a temporary ho ne for others. A party of forty, mostly women and children, arrived in this city last evening by the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad. They were welcom ed by a committee of ICD appointed frymi the colored people of the whom the re fugees were escorted to the Dumas House, on McAllister street, at which place a formal re ception was held. They were assured by the chairman of the Reception Committee, Peter H. Clark, that, if they were industrious and exemplary in their Conduct, they would be sure to gain a good livelihood and many friends.— The exiles, as before stated, are mostly women and children, the husbands and (fathers being held in servitude. They report concerning the emigration, that hundreds of the free colored men of Arkansas have left for Kansas, and hundreds more are about to follow. A GEORGIA CRITICISM OX THE ALABAMA SEX ATE. —The Senate of Alabama having passed a series of brave resolutions, recommending the Governor to call a convention to consider how to protect the State in case a Republican Pre sident "seizes" the Government, the Atlanta (Ga) American says : "The simple meaning of the preamble and resolution passed by the Alabama Senate is the same as that of Demo cratic resolutions generally, viz : As long as our leaders can retain power and govern the country, no matter what they do, we consider the Union a great blessing, and the " param ount public good but just as soon as our leaders lose, jnicer or whenever they have so misgoverned the country, become so cor rupt that the people threaten— and only threa ten—to eject them, then, in our judgment, the time has come to dissolve the Union ! That is the gist of the whole of their resolves,editorials and speeches."' FROZEN TO DEATH —On Friday night last a young man named James Eldredge, a resident of Vestal, attended a ball at Kattleville, and after it was over rode with a man to Chenango Forks. After staving at the Forks a short time he started to walk to Thomas Tabor's boose, on the East side of the river, about 1 1-2 miles South of the Forks, lie was found, we learn, the following morning. (having got about half the way to Tabor's,) in the road frozen to death. The night was very cold,and it is supposed the young man had become very uinch heated by the exercise of the dance, anil afterwards by exposure to the severe cold he became sleepy and laid down in the road—to rise no more.— Binghanptoa Republican PITTSBURGH MUNICIPAL ELECTION.— The mu nicipal election in Pittsburg,on Tuesday.resnlt ed in the success of the whole Republican ticket, and a large majority of Councilmen.— Mr. Errltt, the new Clerk of the State Senate wxs elected Controller, thus being chosen to t*o offices on the same day. Mr. Grow's Manly Letter. Air. Gro\y> letter tp Mr. Branch, declining the offer to decide bv Bingleeom.bat.Afce differ ence betfween them, will do him hooor where evc-r it is read. Among ! the barbarous cus toms which prevail in that part of our country where one race of men held another in bonv dage, is that of going out to fight byway of bringing a qanrrel to a conclusion— using phys ical means to terminate a difference of a mora nature Ir is not at "afT surprising that.fc those places where force is the motive by which ! one-half of our population are made to render ! obedience and service to the other, force shou.d < be held in such respect that it is called m tO ( arbitrate in disputes, as, is dou* among sav i a=, 'fjere in the free states, we take a difierent view of the matter, and onr people are educa ted to detest the custom of duelling as liar barous, iramorol and anti-Christiau. When men of the North are sent as representatives of the free states to Washington we should require them to behave as representatives of the North in all respects—that they should represent what is right iu our morals as weil as what is right in our politics ; that they I should not allow themselves to be seduced in to any connivauce at practices which their ed ucation and the concurrent testimouy of good men of all countries and their own consciences teach them are wrong. They should not per mit themselves to be barbarized by their as sociation with any class of mcu whom they may find at the seat of government. Mr. Grow has held nobly to his integrity, and bis firmness will receive the approbation of conscientious men everywhere. His manly letter to Branch has been published by lii's adversary, who will find himself obliged to leave the quarrel where it stands. It is just as well and just as satisfactorily concluded in this way as it the parties had had a shot at each other, and the seconds had then adjusted it. It seems that Mr. Grow lias been bound over, along with Mr. Branch, to keep the peace. What he has done to justify this pro needing on the part of the magistrate does not appear. He had uttered no menace, but only insisted oil the right of self defence iu case ho should be attacked ; and seb-defence is lawful, and will always be so, in spite of any bonds given to keep the peace. But tiiis is the Washington mode of administering law, and Mr. Grow is a northern man, which makes all the difference in the world.— Evening Post. ALL HONOR to MR, -GROW !—T!ie reply of Hon. Galusha A. Grow, to the challenge of an insolent Carolinian, on account of words spoken in debate in defence of the Constitu tion and of the rights of the people, thrills the hearts of good men everywhere I When a Northern Member of Congress—instead of weakly yielding (as did Cilley and Bro'ferickj to a supposed galling necessity to commit a, crime stamped with the condemnation of the human and divine law —takes the partriotic, courageous, manly, and religions view of the custom which Mr. Grow has, it indi atcs progress in the right directiad. We think Mr. Grow is net a church member, but it is evident that he has not. forgotten his childhood's pious instructions, and that Christian influence !r*ve a permanent hold upon him. His vivid re cognition of the laws of his own State, and of the body of which he is a Member, aNo >how the sterling integrity and honesty of the man. In this event, he has displayed high moralcouruge —a nobleand better quality than mere animal fearlessness —a quality, too, ranch needed in our day ami time. Mr. Grow's life is not his own. He ov.es it to his widowed mother^—io his generous and confiding con stituents —to his native and adopted State — and above all to the great cause of Free Soil, Free Labor and Free Homes. Let hint and all others maintain the sound and honorable position he has taken, and the horrid barbar ism of dueling will soon become extinct, and the duelist will be executed like any other as sassin.— Lncisburg Chronicle. THE RIGHT TALK. —Senator Wade, o f Ohio, recently made an able speech in the United States Senate, in which he incidentally alluded to Helper's book (which has so terribly fright ened our Southern friendsj, in the following language, which we commend to the fire-eating Union dissolvers and their " week kuced " al lies of the North. Senator Wade said " If arguments against Slavery cannot safe ty be made, that constitutes the greatest ob 'jecfion to the spread of that institution lie ever heard of. If we really have among us an in stitution we are cherishing, and seek to spread broadcast over the land, so delicate in its struc ture that a free people cannot have that infor mation concerning it which they crave, he said it was an inference more fatal to the institution than any he ever heard of before. He pro ceeded to allude to the muttered thunder of disunion meeting his cars from the Southern hemisphere in case a Republican President is elected. He felt no alarm from that cause. This Union will not easily be dissolved. Gen tlemen talk abont it in a very business like way, as though it was a nijigrzine to be blown up wlienevr-r they choose to apply the match ! This fabric has been more than eighty years building, and will not be destroyed i*i a day. He then spoke of the navigable rivers, lines of railroads, and other interests, interlacing the South and North. There never was so great and glorious a country. We are mar ried forever, for better or worse. We can make our condition very uncomfortable, but, nevertheless, there will be no divorcement be tween us. There is no way in which it can be effected, but least of all in the contingency mentioned. If you wait till a Republican President is elected, you will have waited a day too late. Why don't you doit now, when you have the Government in yonr own hands? I say to you, he would be but a sorry Repub lican who, if elected by a majority of the vo ters of the American people; and consequently backed by them, should fail to vindicate his right to the Presidential chair. He will do it. No man at the North is to be intimidated by the threatsof dissolution, which are thrown into his teeth daily. Why do you not do it ? There is no law requiring you to give us no tice of it. Yon had better do it at once without making threats. If the Republican candidate shall be constitutionally elected to preside for the next fonr yean over this ueo ple, my word for it, preside he will." DEATII OF HON. S. CASEY.— The Hon. Samuel Casey, Treasurer of the United States, died on the 22d December, at Caseyville, Ky , where it appears he retired in the beginning of last month on account of sickness. Ilis age was about seventy one years. He was appointed to the office of Treasurer of the United States in the early part of the administration of Mr. Pierce. jßrabfort) ilepovtcr. flf w P —' ""E. O, GOODRICH, EDITOR. J TOWANDA: Thursday Morning, January 12,1860. TERMS —One Dollar per annum, invariably in advance.~ Four weeks previous to Utt exp.ratipri f/J' a subscription, notice will be given by a pr i rife d \tra pptr, and if not re newed, the paper will in all cases be stopped. CLRNNIXO— The Reporter will be sent to Clubs at the fol ! 1 toGAng fciiemelifl4Q> rdtfOT t/TTA r | c 8 iTS topics for'.. ...fit 00 10 copies for 800 | '2O copies for 15 00 AN VKPTIST-MKVTS — For a square of ten lines or less, One Dollar for three or less injr/tions, and homty-five cents for each subsequent iiuurliop. JOB-WORK — Enroled with acciuacn and despatch, ami a rtusviflij>!c prices -u ith every facility for doing Eucls Btahrts, Hand-bHh , Fa!i tickets, t,-c. Republican Mass Convention. THE Republican County Committee having met, pur suant to a call.or the Chairman, at Toaranda, January 7," IRBO, adopted the following resolution : lie-solved. That the Rupublfoiins of Bradford County be requested t > meet in M;us Convention at the Court House, it: Towandu, oil MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 0, Is CO. for the purpose of electing two Representattve ftelegates to attend the State ( ouvention to be held at,Hrrisbarg on the 32d of February next, to provide for the election of a Senatorial Delegate to said Convention, and also to take such steps as may be necessary for 'the electron of two Delegate* from this Congressional District to the Chicago National Convention, in June next, and for the transaction of such other business as may be necessary. JAMES 11. WKiyj. URIAH TERRY, C. F. NIC ID M.S. EDWARD URANDAL, LORENZO OIHN'NELL, A.C, BROWN. H. 8. SAESBURY, J. B.INGHAM. JOHN CRIFFIN, County Committer. fQf The office of the REPORTER has been removed to the wooden building two doors west of tlie former location. GOVERNOR'S MESSAGE. 011 our outside will be found the Governor's message, which we take pleasure iu commend ing a fair and temperate document in most particulars. That part of the message re- luting to the financial condition of the Com monwealth will attract the particular atten tion of our citizens, aud its exhibit will prove gratifying. The State debt is steadily de creasing, and by the suleof the Public Works, bonds to the amount of upwards of eleven millions of dollurs are held, which in time will lie applied to the future liquidation of our in debtedness. Tiie chi*r source of congratulation men tioned in the message, is the fact that the State is now entirely free from the ownership or con trol of canals and railroads,and the gratifying fact that her public debt is decreasing at the rate of one million dollars per annum. Re lie-red from those sources of em'nrrasnient aud corruption, the future of our iroble Com monwealth is cheering, and her speedy release from debt certain. The Governor advocates the a'dmissjon of Kansas under the Constitution lately formed, as carrying out the doctriue of Popular Sov ereignty. CONGRESS The proceedings in Congress, during the last week, have varied but slightly from the usual routine. On Saturday before balloting for Speaker the twenty-eighth time, it was re solved not to adopt the plurality rule, by a vote of 108 to 106 in favor of putting the main question. Mr. Adrain, of New Jersey, was the oniv one of the Anti-Lecoinptionites who voted with the Republicans on this ques tion. The ballot which was taken just before the House adjourned resulted in 103 votes for Mr. Sherman : 80 for Mr. II imilton, of Texas the Democratic candidate; 14 for Mr. Gilmer and 3 scattering —still leaving Mr. Sherman in a miuority of 3. Vigorous attempts, as yet unsuccessful, have tieen made to,unite the Democrats, South Americans and Anti-Lecomptoniles. ORDERED TO LEAVE KENTUCKY —On Friday last thirty-six persons arrived in Cincinnati, having been ordered to leave Madison county, Kentucky, on account of tlicir abolition feel ing. They were the neighbors and co-workers of-the Rev. John G. Fee, a Kentucky aboli tionist, whose lectures at the North have at tracted some attention. It appears that there has been much excitement in the county since John Brown's Harper ferry raid, aud that the parties referred to left in consequence of res olutions passed by a large county meeting, giving them ten days to dppart the State, or abide the consequences. Rev. Mr. Fee is among the number proscribed. BATTLE AND DEFEAT OF CORTINAS- -From Brownsville, on the llio Grande, advices to the 2d inst., bring the gratifying news that Cortiuas has at last been sent about his busi ness. Gn the 24th nit., it appears, he succeed ed in taking the town of Rio Grande, after killing some of its people ; and was subse quently attacked by a party from Brownsville, who captured his guas and sixty of his men, and sent him in desperate flight into Mexico. The Americans lost nine men killed and sixteen wounded. HON". ISAAC BLACKFORD, senior Judge of the Court of Claims, died at Washington oil Sun day. Hon. Thos. A. Hendricks, and llou. James Hughes, member of the last Congress, from Indiaua, are named as candidates for the vacancy. THE CALIFORNIA SF.NATORSHIP. —The ac counts from California represent the contest for the TJ. S. Senatorship to have narrowed down to Messrs. Weller and Denver. FROM HARRISBURG Jan, T, T%e Legi slaltrc of Pennsylvania commenced its annual on Tuesday last. Thp. large Republican majority in totlv branches canned an unusually large attendant of disiutjerestejj, though somewhat hungry patriots, desirous of serving their country in any station from Chief Cle'rk down to Messefiger. The usual button- Uolipg and promising took place, until the as sembly of the party caucusscs. The Senate caucus nominated W. M. FRANCIS, of Vfnrtngo, for Speakafr, byr ou untfthnous vote. Gen. SHAFFER, of Lancaster gracefully yielded the field to Mr, F. whtTwns left Wit hout any opposition. For Clerk, Rcssitii, Eunpr,' | the able editor of the Pittsburg GazeUe, wus nominated. Mr. J H-OLCOMU of your couu y, who filled the office of Assistant Clerk, under Mr. HAMERSLEY with so much ability and sat isfaction, declining to be a candidate, C P HAJISDELL was nominated for the p'*st, For Transcribing Clerk, E. COWAN, J. C LEWIS and Geo. W. PA IT ON*. For Sergeant at arms. Geo. M. HI&L; Assistants, DANIEI. Oitrii and WK. P. BRADY. Doorkeeper, PETER S. MARKS, assistants J. B II INKS, JOSEPH UIPLKT, Mes senger, HERMAN YEKKF.S. The House caucus re-nominated WM. C. A. LAWRENCE, of Dauphin, for Speaker ; for C!ej;k, E. 11. RAICH, editor of the 3luuch Chunk GuzMt ; the latter appointing JOHN HAI L Assistant Cerk ; JOHN PICKING, L. ROGERS, S. C. SI.AYMAKER and M. WEYANP, Transcribing Clerks; Postmaster, ISRAEL GUTRLINS, Sergeant at arms, JOSEPH R. MATH EWS. Door keeper, JOHN C. MORGAN. Mes senger, A. I). DAVID. l'hesc nominations were all confirmed in the respective bodies to which tbey appertain, with the exception of Messenger iu the Sen ate, which a portion of the lb-publicans bol ted, and with the Democratic vote elected TMOMAS WALKER. The House having organized, the message of Gov PACKER was read, and the usual uurnbtr of copies ordered to be printed. The deat|i of M. 1). WITMAV, a member elect from Daupliiu county, was announced in the House, ou Friday, and a resolution adop ted to pay his widow $3OO, when the House adjourned until Tuesday. In the meantime the Standing Committees will be appointed. Tin- Legislature, of course, has hardly got in working order, as nothing can be done, un til the Committees are announced. One scat in the House is contested —from the Fctinli district of Philadelphia. In drawing the Com inirtee, strangely enough, tiie names of nine Opposition members came out of the box. if political preferences determined the case, the present occupant of the seat would stand a small chance of' retaining his position, but there will unquestionably be justice t}cue to all concerned. In this caldron of political schemes and in trigues, pin us for the future are already seeth ing. The question of Governor seems just now to be most prominent, though there ure those whose thoughts no " pent up Utica con tracts," but who are anxioudy speculating as to the proper candidate for the Presidency. I shall endeavor to keep your readers fully pes ted as the political movements litre, iu ad dition to my usual quota of Legislative news. I have taken some pains to aecertain the state of feeling here in regard to the selection of Delegates to the Chicago Convention. The Representatives being Iresh from the people, may now be supposed to represent' pretty (airly public sentiment. lam glad to learn that from all quarters there is a gent ral ex pression of dissent from the scheme of electing by the State Convention, and a disposition to allow the District to elect tht-trnwn D-h gates The feeling is prervlarit that conciliatory and discreet measures are nnv>-arv to save Pennsylvania from the support of ilo- Dem ocratic candidate for the Piesidenev, harked as he will be by almost snptrlmmnn exertions and unlimited means, and that the course best calculated to promote haruiouy, and reconcile diverse interests, is to allow each Di-tiict to send its own Delegates to Chicago, prepared to snpport sneh candidates as will give the greatest satisfaction to their constituency. If the North will persevere in the bold and de termined stand taken in regard to this matter, I have no doubt all will be well ff-jy The Republicans of Rhode Island held their Convention on Wednesday for the nom ination of a State ticket, and the election of Delegates to the Chicago Conventfon. By a majority of six, Hon. THOMAS DAVIS was chosen to preside, and then reso'utions were adopted expressing the most devoted attachment to the Union, and condemning in the strongest terms the doctrine that portion of the country should refuse to submit to the election of a President by the majority. The Convention proceeded to ballot for candidates for the various State offices. Mr. TURNER, the present Governor, received but 15 votes out of 104, while Ex- Gov. ARNOLD had 34, and Mr. SETn PADEL EORD, of Providence, 55 The latter was do clured the candidate for Governor, and after filling ont the ticket, the Delegates to the Na tional Republican Convention were elected. THE MAINE DEFALCATION. —The Portland Advertiser says that the State will lose nothing by the default of Mr. I'tck, the Treasurer of Maine, as his bondsmen w ill answer to their responsibilities as soon as the amount can be ascertained. MEMBERS DISSATISFIED.— The members of the House of Representatives at Washington are much dissatisfied with the arrangements of tho Hall, and the desks and chairs will be re stored immediately after the organization. LOCAL AND GENERAL. . LUMBER TRADE.—The trde In white pine tombff, from the region of country border ing on {the Susquehanna branches, which find* a market Midiletown, Columbia and Ballhnoffc, wal very; fair the piql sea-ton, the receipts at-Baltimore alofie tjotng est minted at sixty millions of wet. Tkr American of that city, in a review of the tram? for tbe last year, says : " The prices obtained last vear averaged a little lilgh ff sum IW yatfTftWWir, 1 ro'ttfat ttitfV-rtnemay he et down at about a similar amount, the total quantity brought to market being several millions of feet, lea# than 1858. On the opening of the Susquehanna C.IHAI in April, the demand was very active and continued so until June, when it tell off, and prices declined about 12 per thousand feet for Culling*. The amount sold in the months of .Mine, Jnly, ASMast and Scptemlier was com paratfverjr snmff, but InWtnber a brisk demand again sprang up, and sales to a large amount were made at a small advance in price. Since then the trade ha been moderately active, and as the stocks in the hand* of com mission agents are small, they will-no doubt be sold out tasfore the Spt ing. The rates at which Lutulier is selling now are as follows : White Pine CulHogs. .. $13.Q0©15.00 " " selects and better.. 25.nttffi933.00 " siding ;.i. 11.M®14.0 Ilemlock, bright , -10.5 Officii .50 raited , 9 00(310.00 4-tOak ]ff.00@l!)00 5 8 " 12.00f{U.00 Cherry 2.>0f@35.00 Ash.. Ht.lHHft2o.oo IMpUir plank ..... .... : 16.'WqJ0.li0 " acMUflitur 14,00310.00 4 4 b >ards 314 00316-00 5-8 boards 12 ortfilB.nO Maple. 12.0u31ti.00 It may be well to state that an active peeted in the coming Spring, as tlie lumber men fn the Susquehanna region are making preparations for a brisk trade. The average value of Susquehanna i .umber Is set down at about $lB per 1,000 feet, which will make the total value about $1,080,000. LIKE OV JOHN BROWS.—A Biography of this remarkable man is to he published at once, for the lu-uefU nf hisfmniiy. The author i* JAMES BKKPATH, SO prominent iu Kansas annuls, an intimate personal friend of Capt. Brown, and a spirited and graphic writer. He is probably belter adapted for the task than any other person in the country. The work will contain an auto biographical account of Capt. Brown's early life. It will be published by Thayer A Eldridge of Boston, Mass., and will be an eloguut 12nio. volume of 400 pages, witb engravings, and will also contain a line steel portrait of Brown. 20,000 c->pies are already subscribed for. Its sale will surpass that of " Uncle Turn's Cabin." We un derstand that the publishers are in want of Agents to circulate it iu this section. On account of protracted ill-health E S. G'lonnfcii has sold the " L'xzetne U*itm " to M HANNUM, formerly publisher of the " Alltnlotrn iJtmo rrai.'' Amonsst the successful candidates for the subordinate stations ! n the legislature, is JOHN 11. MINES, of Wysnx, who has been elected Assistant Door Keeper of the Senate. Mr. H., Is ast ranch IU-publican, and well deserves the honor conferred upon him. Iter"- At a meeting called at Liporle, Dee 27. 1-59. by the Clnilrm.irt of the Sullivan County Be |Mibliran RtsindingCommitteefor the purpose of appoint ing Senatorial and Representative Conferees, to meet the others in this District, for the appointment of Delegates to this approaching lb-paid icon St.ite Convention. Jt MX HIDDLKSON* was elected President and C. J. RICH IK SON Secretary. lIENKY METCALV Esq., stated the object of the meeting. On motion AI/otvrusLIPPIMCOTT and WILLIAM GLIDE WELL were elected Senatorial and BEXJ. L. CIIEENEV and C.J. RICHAKDSOX Representative Conferees, with power of substitution. The following resolutions were als > passed, v 17.: Rcsntrrd, That the respective Conferees from this county I ■<-instructed tonne all laudable exertion* to se cure ti.i u.pp> iutuiciit ad for a num ber of Years—met with a severe accident at Williamsport. 011 Monday night, breaking his right leg in the locality of the ankle. He will probably be prostrated for a long .period in consequence. —We also learn that a man named DANIEL BKOWN cut a heavy g.uh in his foot while engaged in chopping in the woods a few miles from town, a day- or two since.— With his foot thus mangled, the sufferer was compelled to walk nearly tiro miles before he could procure assist ance. ELOTKMENT IS TIIE TOWN OF CIIKMVXG. —A strange ease of elopement took place in Chemung on Thursday, the 2ffthi:lt. The guilty twain were I.YMAX RL RT and Mrs. JERRY BOS WORTH, who absconded tn parts unknown— and left the country for the country's good. The denoue ment of this " love and desertion '' affair exhibits a case of total recklessness and abandon! lent, an 1 shows how depraved and fallen mortals may become in their amor ous and nulioly pursuits. Mrs. B. is a nihtdlejaged woman and the mother of a family of children, the younge-t of whom, is only four years of age.—the eldest, a daughter of fifteen summers, sweet and iutcllectual, whose image reflects an ideal of innocence, purity and virtue, and who now, by the shameful conduct of lier pwienl is left with the entire charge and responsibility of the little 'uns Mr. BOSWOHTH is an honest and industrious farmer, and lately has suspected his wife of infidelity, by the kindness and attention bestowed on her" Port Juan," to the en tire neglect of Himself. If " Jerry " is constituted as most men are. no doubt the entiniate and equivocal rela tions sustained between Mrs. B's paramour and herself, was rufficient to raise his ire and jealousy. En passant, Mrs. B„ although missing, will long live in the memory of the Cheimingan*. In their flight the fugitives surrep tiously took everything portable, or of any of value, from tlw house. Among the things purloined was the daugh ter's new bonnet that was purchased by her own labor. This LYMAN HURT was plated in a critical position before the public at the two la4t Courts held at Elmira, and is now under bonds in the sum of s*oo. He stands charged with stealing several hundred dollars from Mrs. Gtrr WELLS, of Chemung, and is accused of being an accom plice in the attempt to administer poison to Mrs. WRLLS' negro servant. COSMOPOLITAN. M. COLLINS makes an annonncement in our advertising columns, worthy the attention of those desirous of purchasing Winter Cloth tag. \Q m *d' at -V: v • tatt* JQTTiOv. CHASB, oTlTnld, la bis to the Legislature, states that the total amount of re€ijtB into the State Treasury, daring the last year, was $3,520,154, which with tb balance.of $226,118 remaining at the elose of the preceding year, made the snm subject to ddbafitment $5,746,272. The wholeamoont of dist'orsements was $3,552,304. The public works and educational institutions absorbed ' thr larger part of tWa sum. More than three, eDlire levy, for Slate purposes for the support of schools and school lihrariee Gov. CHASE recommends the reenaetmeni et the statutes which the last Legislature repeal ed, prohibiting slaveholding and kidnapping Ife thinks that It wonld be useless to pass aW!} giving the nogroel the right of suffrage ; the Courts, not the Legislature, are to determine this question. The militia of tire State which was nearly uiborganized four years ago, has been reorganized to such an extent that it forms a'htietens for a vohmteer force entirely com petent. to any ordinary emergency, in conclu sion, Gov. CHASE makes reference to the Har per's Ferry emrult, reaffirming the pontics which he took in his response to Gov. Wkr, auo maintaining that the South has done much to bring about the present unhappy state of feeling between the two sections of the coootry by repealing the Missouri Compromise,kidnap ping from the soil of the Free States persona guilty ouly of the crime of color, and by reit j erating so frequently and needlessly her threati I of dbaniou. B&* The Illinois Democratic State Convcr,- : tion, Wednesday, selected delegates to the Charleston Conveution, instructing them to , sustain Mi. DOUGLAS for the Presidency. The resolutions renflirm the Cincinnati Platform,'' \ and declare against a Congressional slaTocode I for the Territories, POTTER COCXTY. — The Republicans of this county harp concurred in the choice of L. V. Williston, E.-q ~ of Tioga county, as Repre sentative delegate from that district to the State Convendion. Hon. T. L. Baldwin in the Senatorial delegate, SPECIAL ELECTION.— Tiie Speaker of the House of llepresentaiives has iw-ued a writ ft r a special election in Dauphin county, on Sat urday the 21 ft irixl., for a member of the Ilonse to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Marks D. W itman. THE COURSE OF TRUE LOVB, despite the ad age, sometimes runs smooth. E-quire Mar chant, of Cincinnati,was called 011 last week to unite in wedlock at the Burnett House a couple who had fled from Fayette Co., Ky— At the Spencer House another con pie—the male somewhat advanced and the bride hot eighteen—were also anxious to unite themselves for life. The proper authority was summoned and they were accommodated. The strangest part of the affair, is this, the bridegroom at the Burnet, and the bridegroom at the Spencer were son and father. Both had eloped from the same vicinity with the same intent, neither knew the purpose of the other, both came on the same train. When the voting man leaned of the facts, the Burnet House couple repaired to the Spencer, and it is said a most glorious time ensued. THE " DIAMONDS " OF PENNSYLVANIA. —The shipments of eoal from the different coal re? - ! ous in Pennsylvania, pxeejit the western part of the State, amounted last year to 7,804.000 tons, which, at $3,50 per ton in this market, whould make its value oner twenty seven mil lions of dollars. Adding about four millions of tons more for the western part of the State, and the value of the entire supply will not he far short of thirty-five millions of dollars.— This is pretty fair for a single product of the State. In Sullivan. Tioga county. Pa., by Iter. M. Rack welt. Mr. B T. BOWMAN of'Towamk. 0) Miss SARAH L. TINJAHAM ot the former place. DIED, In Wysnx. or Monday, Jnnnaiy 2nd. T.ittle MATT'K. infant daughter of Dr. Thamas F.aad Eliza W. XUdill, aped tour months. " He gathereth the lambs with his arm, and carrieth them in his bosom." In Ottawa. 111., Dec. 8,1809, Mrs. ZILPAH COLLINS, wife of aatr.es Collins and daughter of the late Elipha let Mason. Ewj. j 1 ■ ■ '' ' ileto afttorrtßrmcnts. ORPHANS' POURT SALE —By virtue of an order of the Orphans' Court of Bradford County, will be exposed to public sale, at the Court House, in the Borough of Towanda, on SATURDAY, February 4th. 1860, at 1 o'clock p. |f., the followinp de scrilied property, situated in Asylum township. Bradford County, to wi : All the south half of that certain piece or parcel of land, bepinninp at a stake corner of lot No. 4. surveyed to James Cu[Timings, thence west 266 perch es. thence south 60 p. to a post thence eust 200 p. to a post near a small creek, thence north 60 p. to the place of beginning. The said premises containing fifty acres, more or less, without Improvement, except that about tour acres has been chopped over. Sold as the property of Michael Cronk. dee'd. Attendance given and terms made known on the day of sale by A. J. NOBLE. January 10,1560. Administrator Great Bargains in Clothing! BEING desirions of closing out my stock of Winter Clothing. Overcoats, Ac., I offer the same at prices BELOW COST! A tirst-rate opportunity is offered to those desirous of procuring a Cheap Overcoat. Towanta, Jan. 11, 1860. J. M. COLLINS. BOOK BINDERY. r pHE subscriber having withdrawn from the Argus A building would respectfully inlorm the public that he has removed his Plain and Fancy Bindery to the North Room of the Wa:d House, formerly occupied by the Post Office, where he is now prepared to bind all kiDds of Books in the most approved and workmanlike manner.— Having to share my profit" with no sc-ond person t flat ter myseb that my prices will meet the satislactiuu of the public. Thankful for the confidence reposed in me and the pub lic appreciation of mv work, for the last two years, I shall endeavor in the future to merit the continuauce of public support. Pnrfieiilar attention given to re-binding Books. All work will be warranted. Terms, Cask. JOHAXX F. BENDER. Towanda, Jan. 11.1860. Bookbinder and Artist. BROO M,H ANDLES.—Manufncttirera will tiud a constant supply of Broom Handles, at the lowest prices, at the store of Towanda, Jan. 9, IS6O. H. 8. MERCUR. WHEEL BARROWS.—3O dirt wheel borrows for sale at <*t. 18, ltfW. W. A. ROCKWELL'S. PAPER IIANGINGS—IOOO yards Pa pering—so do Bordering-80 do Window Pattering at oU7, ROCKWELL'S.