jirius from all Rations.
—The stone-cntters' strike on the new Cath
olic Cathedral in New York, has not yet terminated, one
party being obstinate in their demand and the other in
their refusal to comply.
John Brown is the name of a delegate to
Charleston, selected by the Democrats of Hillsdale, Mich,
igan. We wonder if he will be admitted.
—On Saturday the Recorder of St. Louis
fined Archie Thompson, Isaac Hopkins and Ed. liaincr,
three free persons of color, $lO each, and ordered them to
leavo the State in three days.
—The Niagara Falls Gazette says the ice
bridge which formed across the Ferry on the 31st of De.
csmber, remained there until the 4th inst.—over two
months. During all this time it has been a free highway
and the merchants have reaped considerable benefit from
that fact.
—Four of Philips' fire annihilators explod
ed Tuesday afternoon, at 20 and 28 Frauklort Street,
New York, injthe room adjoiuiug Mr. Jenkins' printing
office. The explosion shattered the windows and set the
building on fire, but no one was iiyured, aud the damage
by fire was only about s2ot).
—Several leading citizens of Philadelphia,
understanding that Mr. T. Buchanan Read, is about pay
ing a professional visit to England, have commissioned
him to paint a portrait of Hon. Geo. M. Dallas. American
Mia ?ter Plenipotentiary at the Court of St. James.
—John Wise of Lancaster, Pa., and John
TAYioanuiu of Troy. N. Y., are proposing to mike rerial
voyages from Boston to Loudon and Paris, the one to
statt in May and the other on the 4th of July next, pro
vided the city will pay the expense, which is estimated
l y La fountain at $U)i)5 and by Wise at $6OOO.
—lt is now believed that the yellow fever
having broken ont with great virulence atHavana.it
may not be entirely safe for Northerners to go to CUarles
i u on the 23d of April next.
—Thomas Jtflersonhs grand daughter, Mrs.
Meikieham. is now residing in Philadelphia, the widow
of the late Dr. David Scott Meikieham of Scotland.
—The next State election in Connecticut,
takes place in April. •
—Late English papers say the Prince of
- Wales will sail for Canada at the latter end of May or
tally in June, in the line-of-battle-ship Renown.
—The last Sabbath services in the Church
of St. George in-the-East, in taindon were conducted un
der the protection of fifty policemen !
—Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, j
graduated one hundred and seventy students, including '
one hundred and twenty-six from the Southern States, on
Monday.
—All manufacturing capital in the town of j
Falmouth, (Me.) is to be exempted from taxation for ten j
years. The tide at this place, at the foot of the great
dam, has a rise and fall of nine feet.
—The Tribune correspondent says Senator
Trerson of Ga., has lately been very busy on the track of |
some gentlemen of the lobby who have reported his vote j
to have been sold on one or more measures of the last
Congress.
—The number of children rendered orphans
by the late Lawrence calamity, is fifteen, the friends of
whom will be aided in their supp .rt by the relief fund,
■which amounted to about $13,000.
—At the oyster wharves on the Potomac
River oysters are so plenty that they are being vended to
the hucksters in some cases as low as ten cents per bush
el ; there.being 3,000 bushels in market.
—Philadelphia has now so many steam fire
engines (twenty-one) that hand-engines have become an
uauecded superfluity, and a considerable number of them
are ottered for sale.
—At New Orleans there is fine spring weath
er, the fruit trees are blossoming, and r ses, orange blos
soms and violets are out. But in Virginia the peaches
took an early start and were frozen in the bud.
—lt is said that the French Emperor is
about to confer the decoration of the Legion of Honor
upon Major Philip Kearney, of New York, for his .services
during the recent Italian campaign.
—The Quebec Gazette says the Prince of
Wales, on his visit to Canada, will be attended by a suite
of about twenty persons, among whom will be the Duke
of Cambridge, the Duke of Newcastle, and Major General
Bruce.
—lt is estimated by the Art Commissioners,
that the decorations of the Capitol, proposed by them,
will cost f 160,000.
—A general convention of sole leather
dealers of the States of New York and Pennsylvania is
in session in New York for the purpose of forming an as-
FOciaticn for tlw protection of tiieir interests. About
forty tanneries are represented. The cause of this move
ment is the depressed condition of the sole leather manu
facturing busiuess.
—On account of the refusal of Governor
Denison, of Ohio, to surrender, as fugitives from justice,
to the Virginia authorities, two alleged Harper's Ferry
Conspirators, Governor Letcher, of Virginia, has recom
mended to the Virginia legislature retaliatory measures,
it the course pursued by Ohio and lowa is to become the
settled policy of the non-slaveholdiug States.
—A decision has been made in the Forrest
Divorce case, confirming the report of the referee grant
ing four thonsaud dollars ulimony per annum to Mrs.
Forrest, from the date of the trial, and also granting the
motioa for a final judgment.
—Greenwood Cemetery*, near New York,
was established in June, 1840, and 69,010 persons hnd
been buried there up to the 23d ultimo.
The Albany EvcniDg Journal says that
Hon. Clark B.Cochrane will return to Washington next
week, and resume his ofScial duties.
—Several copies of Spurgeon's sermons
■were recently burned in the public square at Montgomery
Ala., by a Vigilance Committee, on the ground that they
contained Abolition doctrines and were incendiary.
—The people of Stockton, Me., recently
turned out, cut in the woods, and hauled to the houses, a
generous supply of wood to every widow in the village.
—A French astronomer says that, on the
Sth of March, there will he the highest tide kaown in
Europe for a century.
—The ice has disappeared again this winter
from the frozen well of Brandon, Vt. When there is ice
without, there is none within.
—A Justice of the Peace at Weehawken,
Hudson ccxraty, N. J., recently baptized three children
according to the usual religious rites. He states that the
parents are Germans, nnd they think he is empowered to
do anything— and he being a Yankee, thinking it no
harm to make as much as possible, does it.
—At the election in Mauch Chunk, March
10, the Republicans elected their entire ticket by a ma
jority of SO over the Union ticket nominated by the Dem
ocrats. The Republican majority last year was 30.
—There are in Pennsylvania 11,435 public
schools, 44,071 teachers, and 634,651 pupils. Including
Philadelphia, the cost of tuition was $2,047,651 92 ; of
h .Uliug expenses $533,413 81, aud the whole expense
for the year, 82,579,07a 77.
—Prentice says, "The Slavery issue iu
Kentucky is 25,000 nigger babies- a year." He also inti
mates that, " Mr. Buchanan may talk as muchas he will
about manifest destiny, but we never knew any man or
thing whose destiny was more manifest than his."
The proprietor of the Elmira Gazette an
nounces in k is paper of this week that he will commence !
the publication of - Daily Gazette " about the first of I
jKiy.
E. O. GOODRICH. EDITOR.
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Thursday Morning, March 22, 1860.
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Blanks. Hand bills, Ball tickets, 4"C.
The office of the REPORTER has
been removed to the wooden building two
doors west of the former location.
teg-We notice that the Susquehanna Re
publiain publishes the proceedings of several
Republican clubs which have been organized
preparatory to the coming election. We do
not know of the formation of a single club in
this County, Are we not neglecting the mat
ter too long ? The experience of 1856 was,
that township clubs were the most efficient
1 means of advancing the success of the cause.
We trust that our friends will no longer delay,
but perfect their organization, and be ready
when the nomination is made at Chicago, to
enter upon the contest.
We shall be pleased to publish the organi
zation of these clubs, with the names of the
officers, &c.
THE HOMESTEAD BILL.
The Homestead bill of Mr. Grow, says tlio
Ilarrisburg Telegraph, which passed the
House of Representatives on Monday, pro
vides : That any citizen of the United States,
or any person who has" filed bis intention to
become such in the manner prescribed by the
naturalization laws ; who is the head of a
family, or of the age of twenty-one years,—
may enter, free of cost, one quarter section of
unappropriated public lauds, upon which he
may have filed a pre-emptor claim, or which
may, at the time of application, be subject to
pre-emption at $1,25, or less per acre, or an
equal quantity, to be located in a body, after
the same shall have been surveyed. Persons
applying for the benefit of the act, arc requir
ed to make affidavit of the facts cited in the
foregoing, as also that the application is made
for his or her own benefit, aud Dot that of a
third person ; patents to be issued to such ap
plicants five years after the date of such entry
has been made, aud not sooner. If, at the
expiration of that p'eriod, the applicant shall
make affidavit that he or she continues to re
side upon and cultivate such land ; or if the
' applicant be dead, then his or her heirs, or
devisee, after proving by two creditable wit
nesses that he, she, or they still reside upon
such land, and have not alieaed or disposed of
any portion of it, such person or persons, be
ing citizens of the United States, on pay
ment of $lO, may receive a patent therefor.
In case of the death of both parents, leaving
an infant child, or children, the right and the
fee enures to its or their benefit, and the land
may be sold by the administrator for the use
and benefit of sueh children, but for no other
I purpose.
The 4th section provides that lands acquir
ed under the act shall not become liable for
any debts contracted prior to the issuing of
| the patent.
The sixth and last section provides that no
j person shall be permitted to make more than
; one eutry under the provisions of the act.—
This hurried digest scarcely does justice to the
i bill, but neither time nor space permit a
lengthier notice to-day.
The passage of this bill in the popular
branch of the National Legislature, by a large
majority, is cause enough for gratulation on
the part of workingmeu of the country. The
vote on its final passage stood : Yeas, 115 ;
Nays, 65.
Resolving the vote into elements, we find
that of the 115 voting for the bill, 29 were
Democrats, 1 American, and 85 Republicans.
To the credit of the free North let it stand,
that of the 65 voting against the bill, only
! one was a representative from a free State—
■ that unenviable one beiug no other than " our
' own Montgomery," from the free State of
Pennsylvania ! On the other hand, of the
115 voting " aye," one, Jamf.s Cbaig, is from
Missouri. Honor to that man ! Measures
should betaken to secure for Mr. Montgom
ery, that which constituted the sura of earthly
happiness in the views of John Mitchell. He
deserves a reward for his zealous regard for
the rights of the workingman.
The Homestead measure, then, from this
hour, must be considered a sectional, rather
than a party measure in the popular branch
of Congress—every " nay," save one, coming
from the lips of slaveholders. How the meas
ure will be received and acted npon in the
Senate remains to be seen. The measure had
its origin with the Republican party, and had
the vote of every Republican present in the
Honse, and unpaired. Besides this full en
dorsement, the Republican State Convention,
which met and deliberated in the State House
on the 22d alt., gave the measure its unquali
fied and hearty approval, and rts candidates
stand pledged to it, before the country. The
silence with which the Reading Convention
passed over this beneficent measure, is qaite
as significant as its endorsement of the Ad
ministration of J asces BcciTANAir. Its engi- j
necrs remembered the President > but, true to
their aturee r forgot the workiogmen. There
is a day of reckoning for those sins of omis
sion and commission.
To the indefatigable efforts of Mr. Grow
the landless owe very mnch. He has made
the measure his especial care, and we are glad
to chronicle for his efforts so great a measure
of success. -
AN UNLUCKY CANDIDATE. —Gen. Henry D.
Foster, the Democratic nominee for Governor,
has been singularly uufortunate in his efforts
to obtain public office. Fifteen years ago, he
was elected to Congress in the Westmoreland,
Indiana, and Cambria District, than good for
2,500 Democratic majority, and in 1856 and
'5l he served in the Legislature to secure, if
passible, his election to the tJuited States Sen
ate, bufhe never could command more than a
corporal's guard of strength. The first year,
he was beaten, three to one, by " weak-kneed
Biglerthe second year, Forney ran off with
the nomination. Foster then tried to get up a
bolt, aud to induce the Republicans and Amer
ican to join his little band of adherents, and
elect him, but they respectfully declined. —
While Foster was innocently negotiating with
Know-Nothings to elect him, Gen. Cameron
received the Anti-Forney Democrats,and,with
the United Opposition vote, was elected.—
When Foster found, to his unutterable surprise
that Cameron was elected, he changed, his vole,
and gave it to Forney 1 In 1858, he was nom
inated for Congress in the Westmoreland,
Indiana, and Armstrong District, and it was
hoped that his negative qualities would secure
him an election ; but John Covode beat him
to the tune of eleven hundred. He has thus
been shown to be exceedingly weak before the
people—a fact of which there will be additton
al proof a day or two after the October elec
tion.
REPUBLICAN VICTORY. —The day breaks
grandly over the Granite hills of New Hamp
shire. The election of Tuesday resulted in the
triumph of the Republican State ticket by a
majority largely increased over that of last
year. To New Hampshire belongs the honor
of the first victory in the campaign of 1860.,
Last year Goodwin's majority over Cate, de
mocrat, was 3543. This year Goodwill's ma
jority is upward of 5000 ; showing an increase
of 1500 over last year. Last year the Repub
lican majority in the Legislature was 73 ; this
year the majority is 90—a gain of seventeen
over last year.
Iu 1856, Fremont had 55560ver Buchanan;
and the returns of Tuesday's work indicate
nearly as heavy a majority for Goodwin. A
more suspicious opening of the campaign could
not be asked for. All hail New Hampshire !
Honor to the freemen of her grauite-ribbed
hills !
teg- On Thursday morning, a man named
Tinker, died at Syracuse from taking poison.
He first poisoned his two children, aged about
8 and 6 years, and having laid them out and
folded their hands upon their breasts, he left
them in an unoccupied room where some of bis
furniture was stowed ; and went to bis hotel
and took the poison himself. On Tuesday he
poisooed a horse belonging to Dr. Searies of
Syracuse, and it is supposed be intended to try
to shoot Dr. Searies, as a loaded pistol was
found on him. The cause was the estrangement
of his wife and her intimacy with Dr. Searies,
under the influence of free love principles.—
Great excitemeut exists, and Dr. Searies has
has been locked up iu the Penitentiary to pro
tect him from the indignation of the citizens.
The Legislature of Kansas adjourned
on the 27th nit., at midnight, having distin
guished itself by granting many divorces, but
with the rest of its business left in a very con
fused state. For want of the Governor's sig
nature, the General Election bill, over which
the Legislature had labored much, failed to
become a law. As it provided for a registry
of the voters of the Territory, Gov. Medary,
who is constitutionally opposed to such forma
lities, was happy to find an excuse for over
looking the bill on the fact that'it was not pre
sented to him nntil near the close]of the session.
It is feared that this want of action leaves the
Territory without any statute under which it
can elect officers.
M&T Advices from Vera Cruz to the 7th
inst. state that Miramon bad arrived within a
few miles of that city, and that he was confi
dent of being able to conquer it. It was re
ported that Lord Russell had proposed to the
contending parties in Mexico an armistice of
several months, to enable a Mexican Congress
to arrange matters.
Republicans of Nebraska have met
with a glprious triumph in the recent election
of Delegates to the Constitutional Convention
about to bo held in that Territory. The Con
vention is to consist of 52 members, and the
returns, up to our latest information, indicate
the election of 40 Republicans. The Territory
has also undoubtedly voted in favor of State
government.
The final act of the sorrowful tragedy
of Harper's Ferry was performed Friday at
Charlestown. ANDREW STEVENS and WILLIAM
lIAZLETT, the last of the conspirators whom
Virginia, with all her ardor in pursuit, is like
ly to capture, were hong in the presence of a
gratified multitude. Both are said to have
exhibited unflinching courage. STEVENS died
painfully ; HAZLETT without a struggle.
J®" The Hon. LEWIS C. LEVIN died Friday
morning at Philadelphia. He had been a
member of Congress, and was a leading Native
American during the existence of that organ
isation.
FROM HARRISB
HjtERrsBVH9, 16, 1860.
Mr. E. 0. GOODRICH :—For the last two
weeks the Pennsylvania Legislature has done
a large amount of work—laboring within the
Halls at least ten hours per day, and onr
Committees, about two hoars more, but by
their fruits shall the value of the labors be
judged. Private bills have accumulated rapidly
ia the latter portion of the session, but they
do not yet equal last year. Public bills are
few yet of far greater importance. Their
passage is necessarily slow, as every member is
interested, and must have a haad in amend
ments and debates. A bill fixing the place
of holding elections in Terry township, Brad
ford Co., has been signed by the Gov. An
act relating to the poor of Washington and
other counties, has been extended to Bradford.
It is calculated to guard the public from snch
indiscriminate wholesale pauperage as has
heretofore been thrust upon it, by requiring
every application for support to be made by
at least two reputable citizens, under oath,
" Pauperism made easy " is a public evil. For
the past week the House has been diligently
at work on the General Banking law, and yes
terday passed it by a vote of 51 to 36. The
general features of the bill are these. Every
Bank hereafter chartered shall deposite with
the Auditor General, State or United States
Bonds to the full amount of their is-ue, and
in addition, thereto, shall have at all times in
their vaults twenty per cent of their issue in
specie,—their bills to be issued and counter
signed by the Auditor General, and all bills
of all bauks to be uniform except the title of
the Bank. Should said State or U. S. stocks
at any time depreciate to six per cent below
par, the bauks are required either to deposite
additional stocks to supply the depreciation,
or return to the Auditor General a correspon
ding percentage of their issue. Thus every
bill issued will at all times be secured to its full j
face by State or United States bonds which
are convertible unto specie at a moment's no
tice, and twenty per cent over by the specie re
quired to be in their vaults. Every bill will
be of uuiform value whether issued by a bank
in Bradford County, or in Philadelphia. We
will see uo rate of discount for one bank and
a different rate for another, and the specie
which is being sent to Europe every year to
pay interest on our state bonds, which is now
over a million and a half a year, will be paid
at home ; and what is of more value, than ull,
every bill holder will be fully secured for
every dollar he holds. It seems certain that
the bill will pass the Senate—if so, it will not
remain long in the hands of the Governor un
signed, and this Legislature will have the
honor of passing ouo of the most useful laws
that has been on our statute books for the
past twenty years.
Immediately upon the passage of this bil 1
the House was greeted with a naessage from
the Gov. vetoing the Mouut Joy Bank bill.
The vetoed bill was immediately taken np and
came within two votes of passing, uotwith
standing the objection of the Gov.
A new Military bill has been the order for
every evening during the week. Its consid
eration has been the greatest farce ever wit
nessed in the House. At oue time it was
thought that the days of muskets and broom
sticks, ginger-bread and whiskey, sbam-fights
and real fights were about to dawn upon mil
itary-ridden Pennsylvania agaiu. Some dem
agogues who were watching the political as
pect of the battle, and nervously waiting to
see which was going to be the strong side,
thought yesterday ,the tide of war was set
ting in favor of the bill, and immediately
favored the House with speeches ou the glory
and pomp of war, and the beauties of militia
musters. They whistled, however, before they
got out of the woods, for last evening the bill
was killed and its generals succumbed —not
gracefully, but with some low mutterings aud
daggery looks.
The penal code is under consideration in the
Senate. It is undergoing such amendments
there that its passage this winter is greatly
endangered. The Appropriation bill has not
yet been finally reported to the House. This
comes of making a Philadelphiaa chairman of
the committee of Ways and Means. The
Senate has passed a resolution to adjourn the
3d of April. The House will coucur, but one
branch or the other will be compelled to re
consider, for it is evident the important bills
now on hand, cannot be disposed of by that
day. The Appropriation bill alone will take
till nearly that time. All might have been
accomplished, even before the 3d of April, if
the Appropriation bill had been properly man
aged. Yours, TRULY.
In the Senate on the 13th inst, an net rela
ting to suits in equity in the District Court of
Philadelphia being up for consideration, the
following remarks wer? made ;
Mr. M'CLURE. I have not used any
personal argument at all. I have only
answered the Senator's remarks made upon a
party ground. lie said he had been in the
Legislature for years and he never heard of
party being mentioned in public bills. I be
lieve it to be true. But if he sat in the Legis
ture during the Buckshot war, I will venture
to say he never cast anything but a party vote.
Some years ago a gentleman who stood high
in judicial circles was nomioated by the Oppo
sition as a candidate for Governor. He was
defeated, but the people from one of the
northern connties elected him judge. He was
accused, but great confidence was felt in the
Senate because a gentleman who had sat on
the bench, was there, but that confidence was
disappointed as that gentleman yielded to
party and the Judge first tottered aud finally
fell nnder party necessities. lam sick of this
thing. On every question that comes up, the
Senator from Chester throws np his hands and
says with holy horror, "My God, this party
question comes up every day." There have
been bat two party votes this session, and they
were important. lam sick of the matter as
tbe Senator himself.
Mr. BELL. A personal attack has been
made upon me, utterly unprovoked and on
founded. Prior to the introduction of certain
members of this Senate imported from tht
House, there was some degree of courtesy
observed ; we had not this personal crimina
tion and recrimination, nor were these repeat
ed interruptions experienced in carrying on the
business of this body. I have no objection to
answer here or eleswbere, for my conduct,
public or private ; but I tell the Senator from
Franklin, in reference to the Judge he has
mentioned in the northern portion of this State
that my action ou that question was not iu the
slightest degree influenced by his connection
with party* That gentleman was heard be
fore a committee of which I was a member,
and evidence was furnished that he was in the
habit of adjourning" the court for the purpose
of calling political meetings in the very temple
of justice itself ; that he took advantage of his
judicial positiou to influence, improperly, the
party questions of the day. Now, sir, I do
not object to this. Any man has a right to
hold his own opinions in party matters, but
when I heard he adjourned bis court for the
purpose of assembling party meetings, I deem
ed it a case in which investigation should be
made. It was not made, and I found, at last
it would have been of no manner of good, and
I was glad it was not instituted. I rise to
deny that my action in the case was influenced
iu auy way by.the motive asserted, except as
far as he soiled the ermine by descending from
the bench to this party arena, by which he
chose to be surrounded. Now, sir, in the part
of the country iu which I bad the honor to
hold a seat upon the bench, if the Judge en
tered a party meeting for any purpose,it would
damn him in the public estimation.
Mr. M'CLURE. I have but a word to say
in justice to myself, not in reply to the Senator
from Chester. Ido not eeusure the gentle
man's conduct heretofore on any question. I
simply referred to the fact, that it has become
a chrouic habit with the Senator from Chester
when anything does not meet his views to get
up and denounce the majority of the Senate,
upon party grounds. I referred to the fact
that he had, himself, cast votes in this Senate
going to the very heart of the judiciary, at the
behest of party. I referred to that fact not
to censure hirn, but to show that he had cast
party vote, and I must insist upon it reck'essly.
While the gentleman was ota the bench there
were judges who went into the political arena
constantly.
Mr. BELL I only said it was not the case
in my district.
Mr. M'CLURE. The president-judge of
the court of the Senator's district, a year or
two ago, went out into the country and stump
ed it from end to end.
Mr. BELL. That is since my time.
Mr. M'CLURE. I wish to be understood,
because I wish to practice all the courtesies
due from one Senator except that he shall say
that when I ain going to cast a vote agaiust
him, lam doing it for party purposes. When
a man comes here and holds up his bands in
that way, he must have clean ones.
Mr. LAXDOX. I have no speech to make
but as allusion has been made to men and mat
ters with which I am connected, I ought to
intimate as much as to say that I have heard
before what has been said. Otherwise, if 1
do not, when thejreport of that eloquent speech
goes into the northern part of Pennsylvania,
men may inquire where their Senator was.—
Foreign matter has been dragged in and I find
myself indirectly,as you all see,dragged in with
it from my connection with the men. Now, a
certain Judge's character has been brought in
here, end I really think, sir,' that the less fre
quently that matter is alluded to by a certain
political party, the better it will be for them,
before the country. It is said, sir, that man
disgraced himself by descending from the
bench and holding political meetings,occupying
the time of the jury and witness in listening to
his harangue. We know all about that.
Mr. BE LI;. I protest against being mis
represented. I merely said that was the alle
gation of members of bis bar. Ido not pre
tend to know anything about it myself.
Mr. LAXDOX. I speak from knowledge.
We, that are well acquainted with the man,
think highly of him, and we are not so miser
ably straightened iu our ideas of men's duties,
as to forbid a judge from opening his mouth.
We give him the privilege of holding and ex
pressing his opinion ; we go further ; we give
the same privilege to clergymen. We do not
uncitizenize a man because be is in the pulpit
or on the bench.
" A man's 3 man for a r that."
That man at certain times would express his
opinions at'the request of the people. There
was a clique of that bar that came to Ifarris
burg; they came as a self-constituted commit
tee ; they crept out of their county at night,
and said to every man who saw them, " Keep
still, don't let it be known." To the credit of
this Legislature, they were whipped out, and
when they came back, they took the towpath
instead of the public highway. As to the sen
timents of the people, they approve the course
of that man. When an effort was made to
destroy our judicial district, we conceived it
very near akin to border ruffianism transport
ed to Pennsylvania.. Whenever the bones of
that contest shall be dragged up from their
sepulchre by our friends from the opposite side
the effluvia of past memories will neither be
very p'casant to them nor to their memories.
The less said upon this matter the better for a
certain party, and for certain men. Those
who know this man, lionor him, and when they
invite him to make a political speech they ex
pect him to do it.
£7" The Delegates from this Congressional
District are yet to be chosen. In this Coun
ty, two Conferees were elected at February
Court. In Ticga, Conferees have also been
chosen. Susquehanna County holds a Con
vention on the 2d of April, for the purpose of
electing Conferees.
NOMINATIONS BY THE GOVERNOR. —On Thurs
day last Governor Facker sent to the Senate
the following nominations :
Thomas U. Burrowes, of Lancaster, Super
intendent of Common Schools.
CHICAGO CONVENTION. —Rooms have been
secured at the RICHMOND HOUSE, Chicago, for
the Pennsylvania delegation, who will be com
fortably quartered thereiu. The Richmond
House is a firsUdass hotel, and the proprietors
contrary to the groedy example set at Char
leston, pledge themselves not to charge more
tbao the ordinary rates.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
TUB CHENANOO EXTENSION. —We learn from
the Owrgo Timet, that '• after a fight of unexampled
severity and long continuance, and after two defeat*
which appeared conclusive against the rights and interests
of the Southern Tier, the Cjtnal bill, containing the clause
for the extension of the Chenango passed the Senate on
Friday last.
" The friends of the extension of the Chenango had to
contend against powers that Itave hitherto been the cou
trolling influence of the State , ami against whose com
mands no important measure could hope fur sticco-.. To
the energy, tact and indomitable perseverance of Senator
Truman, nobly and generously assisted by Senators Fer
ry, Hammond, McGraw, Ramsey, Richmond, Warner,
and others, the people of Southern New York are indebt
ed for the final success of this measure in the Senate.
" The bill is now fairly in the House, where, as yet, iu
fate is uncertain. Our Member, Hon. David Earll, will
do all that can be done for it. We are not over-sanguinrf
of ultimate success. A iimilar effort will be mads to
strikeout the Chcnaugo appropriation, and pass IUo
Canal bill without it. We hope this will not be success
ful, and if it be in the House, the whole hill will likely
ail in the Senate, which will do more to expedite and
secure the Chenango appropriation than may at firt ho
supposed."
THE GENESEE FARMER —The March nnmber
of this sterling agricultural journal is received. As usua',
it is brimful of practical information on all subjects inter
esting to the farmer and fruit grower. Its able review of
the markets is alone worth the price of the paper. No
farmer should he without an agricultural paper, aad w
would again commend the Uenetee Farmer to our read
ers. Price only 50 cents a year. Send the stamps to
Joseph Harris, Rochester, N. Y.
Dr. Wvr. A. MADILL, late of this place, has
opened an Eye Infirmary, in the St. Nicholas Building,
Elmira. Dr. M. has made this class of diseases his speci
ality, and has enjoyed the very best advantages tor a
thorough and practical knowledge of his profession.
SSr The malt house, at Elmira, was des
troyed by fire on Saturday night. The inmates— JAMßS
MAIIKK, wife and child—had a narrow escape from a hor
rible death, the wife being obliged to jump from a second
story window.
The house was owned by (Ixo. S. ROWKI.L, of Amster
dam, X. Y., and occupied by GEO. CONODON of Elmira.—
The loss is covered by insurance.
HON. W. H. SKWARO stopped over a night
last week, at Hhnira, and was visited by a large number
of the citizens, lleing called upon he made a short ad
dress, when three cheers were given for " the next Pres
ident, W. U. SEWARD." He left next morning for Auburr;
te?" The next meeting of the Alpha Epsi
lun Society will be held on Tue-day evening next. Being
the evening for the election of ofiicers a full attendance,
of members, is recpiested.
TEMPERANCE LECTURE. —I)r. JOHN M'INTOSH
will lecture on Temperance at Alpha FjisUun Hail on
Friday evening next, at 7 o'clock. A rich treat may be
I expected, as the Doctor wilt unquestionably handle tLe
subject in an original and able manner.
THE An. ANTIC TELEGRAPH CABI.E. —A reg
ular meeting of the Atlautie Telegraph Com
pany was to be held at London on the day the
North American left Liverpool. The report
of the Board of Directors states that the en
deavors which have been made for some months
back to raise the necessary additional cable
I have resulted in the subscription of i.70 000
The Board, however, are disposed to defray
from their own ss-yaiis, the expenses of keep
ing the Company irr existence for a further
period. A committee was constituted some
time buck to report on deep sea telegraph?,
and the conclusions arrived at wit! shortly be
laid before Parliament. The Chairman and
ofiicers of the Atlantic Telegraph Company
were among its members : and the belief is
tbat the information acquired in such asrtode
| monstrate that works of this character are
i much easiei of accomplishment than the most
| sanguine bare hitherto supposed them to be.—
[ The Board have likewise been encouraged by
these investigations to attempt to recovery of
the cable and its restoration to working ord Jer.
Two thousand pounds will *be required for
this purpose ; but in the worst event a consid
erable portion of this amount will be repaid by
the sale of the quantity of cable picked up
It ic accordingly proposed to offer the twenty
pound shares remaining unissued, giviug to the
subscribers a lieu oo tbe proceeds of all the
cable that may be saved, and the privilege, in
ease of success, receiving gratuitously a twenty
pound share, tully paid up. The balance sheet
of the Company shows the funds in hand to
be only £393. The total expenditures have
been £4GG,GSS.
CTWNTY COMMISSIONERS FL.VEU AVI) lifPRISON - -
ET>. —On Tuesday of last week the Supreme
Court of Pennsylvania, sitting at Philadelphia
fiued the Commissioners of Allegheny county
one thousaud dollars each, and ordered theui
to be committed to the prison of Allegheny
county until the fine is paid, for refusing to
obey a mandamus directing them to levy a tax
to pay the interest on the railroad bonds of
that county. The Chief Justice, is sentencing
one of the prisoners, remarked :
" You have been found guilty of one of the
most enormous offenses known to the Court
It is not only in your individual capacity, but
as a public official, in violation of your oath of
office to support the Constitution of 'the Unit
ed States as well as the Constitution of this
Commonwealth, you have allowed yourself to
be placed at the head of an orgauized rebellion
to the existing laws of the State - You have
given the cause to the custody of your eneini
and allowed them to be your advisers, aud
have counted the cost."
The offending Commissioners are now in
jail at Pittsburg, and are determined not to
obey the order of court. They perforin their
duties of office in prison and are visited by
hundreds as the greatest lions of the city.
ACCIDENT AT TROUT RUN —On Saturday
evening, LEWIS WADK, an employee on the
Williamsport and Elmira Railroad, met with
an accident at Trout Run, while engaged i
coupling cars. His arm was caught between
the couplings, the cars moving several rods
before his position was discovered, so that he
could be relieved. No booes were brokca, al
though his arm was so severely bruised that
be will be unable to use it for some time.