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.
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""E. O, GOODRICH, EDITOR.
J TOWANDA:
Thursday Morning, January 12,1860.
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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 <IL HKNKY M ETC ALE, Esq.. as Rep
resentative aud WILLIAM MKYLKKT of this County as
Senatorial Delegate ttie State Convention.
Rt solved. That we deem an expression of a cb ice of
candidates for I'rCsident and Vice President, or. the part
of the State Convention. premature and injudicious.
(.tu motion adjourned, nine die.
JOHN HIDDLESON, President.
C. J. Rictl AKDSOX, Secretary.
fitaC At the late election its SullivaD County,
C. O.FINCH had a small majority over his Republican
competitor. B. L. CIIETXEV, for Prothonotary. Proceed
ings have been instituted to contest the election, on the
ground of illegality in organizing the election board in
Cherry toWnsliip. Should the vote of that town-hip be
thrown out, Mr. CHEENEY would be elected. The Demo
eral denounces the Republican party for the movement,
and yet names Democrats as being the authors of It! -
Friend [.ATiinor.how do you reconcile this inconsistency?
The cold weather of last week has giv
en way to a decidedly more comfortable show by the
thermometer. We are now enjoying Northern weather
with Southern temperature, and the sleighing has gone
into a state of liquidation.
MR. Jon ANN F. BENDER, as will be seen by
'lis advertisement, is now ready, in the North Room of
the Ward House, to do ull kinds of Binding, in the supe
rior style which has gained biui such a reputation during
the !a.-t two,years.
We cut the following items from the
Elmira Vai'y Press :
ACCIDENT. —We are pained to learn tlint
Mr. ft ILIA AM COVELL —formerly of Elmira, and who has
served ns a Conductor on the Cattawissa K<>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.