dittos from all Rations.
—C. H. Allen.a young man of Binghamtou,
committed suicide on Wednesday by taking laudanum,
—The latest news of Miss Nightingale is
that she is so weak that she is compelled to remain in a
recumbent position.
—The lowa City Reporter says : "It is
estimated that not less than nine thousand men will leave
lowa this season for the Pike's Peak region."'
—Sixty-four thousand four hundred and
eighty-six gallons of Sorghum molasses were manufac
tured in Keokuk county, lowa, lasl year, valued at $51,-
588 ,80.
—The city council of Wilmington, Del.,
have passed a severe ordinance against the sale of lottery
policies in thai town.
—The herring fisheries of the Chesapeake
are proving very successful. The run of herring is the
largest in a period of thirty years.
—The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
have lighted one of their cars with gas, and are prepar
ing to introduce it generally.
—The Iron yield of the four furuaces of
the Crane Iron Company at Catasaqua, for the four weeks
eading April 28th, amounted to 3182 tons.
—Mr. Henry S. White, a merchant of
Tremont, Illinois, was robbed at the New York House,
in Chicago, on Tuesday night, of $7,800.
—Four hundred and seventy-six Coolies ar
rived at Havana on 3d, by the French ship " Ville de
Lima." Fifty-one died on the passage.
—Dr. J. H. Christy, a young and promising
physician of Pittsburgh, died on Sunday from the effects
of ths virus from a dead body he was dissecting, commu
nicated to a wound in his thumb.
largest circulatiou of any one bank
in the United States is that of the Citizens' Bank, New
Orleans, viz, $5,531,000. Others in that city have large
issues, viz : Bank of Louisiana, $1,065,000 ; State Bank,
$2,838,000 ; Canal Bank, $1,628,000,
—At the recent city election of Philadel
phia, 70,000 votes were polled. This number is pretty
close upon the full poll of New York city. Overshadowed
by New York, few appreciate the magnitude of Philadel
phia as an American city.
. —One hundred guns were fired at Norfolk,
Va., on Tuesday evening, in honor of the victory of the
Benecia Boy. An effigy ol Morrissy, labeled " Morrissey
the Traitor," was patriotically hung and burnt on the
u me occasion.
—Sixteen trunks from the wreck of the ill
fated Hungarian arrived at boston, on Tuesday, in a Nova
•Scotia schooner from Port La Tour. They were con
signed to parties in Canada and contained articles of
personal property and clothing.
—Four companies of infantry, three of cav
alry, and three of artillery, comprising about 1,000 men,
will remain at Camp Floyd to keep the Mormons in sub
jection.
—The Pennsylvania papers say that already
two hundred oil wells have been found in that State, and
that speculation is increasing with each newly discovered
deposit.
—The Bermuda potato crop has generally
failed. It is thought that the entire crop this season will
not reach 25,000 barrels. The exportation alone last
year reached 38,465 barrels.
—Buffalo papers say that the crop of
peaches the coming year in that region will be an abun
dant one.
—The adjournment of the Charleston Con
vention to Baltimore is deemed the most humiliating
confession on the part of the Democratic party of lack of
strength and courage to construct a platform and nomi
nate a candidate before its opponent is known. Such an
acknowledgment is in itself equivalent to a defeat.
—lt is estimated that there are seventy
five hundred Indians in Michigan. They belong to five
different tribes, and speak as many different language.-.
—Mr. Cushing, the President of the
Charleston Convention, Messrs. Randall, of Pennsylva
nia, Farley, of Maine, Wright of New Jersey, Seward, of
Georgia, and some others, were old whigs. Some of the
candidates for the nomination belonged to the same
party.
Solid cast-steel spades and shovels are
now manufactured at Sheffield. A piece of solid cast
steel is taken, into which, by powerful machinery especi
ally invented fcr the purpose, a hole just large enough for
the foot of the handle to enter, is made ; afterwards it is
forged and hammered down to the required thickness.
—The furnace of David R. Porter, in Dau
phin county, was sold a few days since, to the Ilarrisburg
Bank, for $23,500.
—A dangerous counterfeit on the Common
wealth Bank of Philadelphia, was put in circulation a
lew days ago. A great many of them found their way to
the country.
—Robert Patesman, of West Milton,
Union county, brought a Clover stalk into the Miltonian
office one day last week, the root of which measures five
feel.
—"Old Father Hunt" is supplying the
Grove Presbyterian chnrch iu Danville—its pastor, Mr.
Collins, being indisposed to preach on acconnt of ill
health.
Sunday afternOou last, the dwelling
house of Wm. Pollock, in Salem township, Luzerne coun
ty, was entirely consumed by fire. Loss sl2oo—no in
surance.
—Mr. Henry Lutcher of Williamsport,
while in the act of killing a beef, was suddenly struck
fipou the hand by the animal, driving a large knife in his
hand through the calf of his own leg, making a bad
wound.
—On Monday cveniifg last, George Mc-
Guire, while standing on a pile of iron rails, at the Mon
tour Works, in Danville, was instantly killed by light
uing. Several others near hira were also prostrated, but
soon recovered. Two horses on the towing-path were
killed, and a little boy was seriously injured by the fall
ing off thnhorse.
—Messrs. R. Maxwell, J. R. Coolbaugh,
and J. Piatt, have received the appointment of Marshals
to take the census of Lycoming county for 1860.
—J. H. McCormick, of Milton, Wm. El
liott, of Northumberland, and Perry Gearhart, of Rush,
have been appointed Marshals to take the census in
Northumberland county.
—Misery makes strange bedfellows. We
see 1< stated that a handsome young fellow recently mar
ried a rich old woman of seventy. He was miserable for
the want of money, and she for the want of a husband.
—A prominent member of the bar of But
ler county, in this State, John M. Hippie, Esq., has eloped
from the town of ButUr, leaving a wife and two chil
dren, and taking with him his eldest child and a young
woman named Maria J. Brinkcr.
—The Hon. Thomas Sergeant, formerly
Judge of the Supreme Court, died in Philadelphia, on
.Saturday, aged .9 years. He had been for many years
in official position, and was one oi the first lawyers at
the bar of that city.
It is said a suite of twenty nobjemen and
distinguished gentlemen, including two dukes and a ma
jor general, will accompany the Prince of Wales on his
visit to Canada this spring. Wont there he a time among
the lion hunters!
Henry Stoner, of Epbrata township,
county, lately felled a chestnut tree on his farm
which measured eighteen fe.t from the ground, 22 fee™
inches in circumference. When i* , , .
©f wood, and a large quantity V f rwU P UC * i 16 Cords
Reporter.
E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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THE CONSTITUTIONAL UNION CONVENTION. —
At Baltimore last week, assembled a body of
men who dignified tbeir meeting with this higli
souuding title. They comprised the opposi
tion of the South, who were doubtless honest
and sincere in their purposes and action—and
a few of those Northern politicians who dread
nothing so much as the promulgation of prin
ciples, and who would be out of place if ad
vocating any issue agitating the public mind.
The most of these Northern men, are ani
mated by an ardent desire to damage the Re
publican party, and with a "constitutional"
proclivity for following tortuous paths, deem
themselves capable of more mischief under
such a disguise as they have now adopted,than
when openly acting with the Democracy.
The Convention achieved the object of their
meeting, Thursday, by nominating for Presi
dent JOHN BELL, of Tennessee, and for Vice-
President, EDWARD EVERETT, of Massachusetts.
Upoß the first ballot, the strength of Mr.
BELL was so clearly apparent, that upon the
second nearly all the delegates hastened to
record their votes for him ; and he was de
clared the unanimous choice of the Conven
tion. Mr. EVERETT was subsequently, and by
acclamation, named for the second office.—
Prior to the balloting, the Committee upon
Business reported a preamble and resolutions
adverse to the utterance of any declaration of
principles ; pronouncing the Constitution itself
a sufficient platform with which to go before
the people.
THE SECEDERS. —WhiIe the war goes oil iD
the Senate between DOCGLAS and his opponents
the plan for getting the Seceders back into
the Baltimore Convention on the 18th of June
is pushed vigorously. The Address to them is
said to have received the signatures of Davis,
Hunter, Breckenridge, Mason, Clay, Slidell,
Benjamin, Green, Bragg, and other leaders.
It expresses admiration for their " uncomprom
ising adhesion to the constitution alludes
to the Southern delegations that remained in
the Convention because they dlC.red in princi
pie with the seceding States, but only because
they believed ia the end the Convention would
recognise the just rights of the South. The
Seceders are urged to forego any action at
Richmond, and to go into the Convention at
Baltimore, where the united South should
make another effort " to have their constituti
onal rights recognised." Should they fail.they
cau " then take such action as duty aud honor
may seem to demand at their hands." The
programme at Baltimore, after the Seceders
have returned, is thus given out by the Wash
ington Star : —" It is further understood to
embrace proof sufficient to satisfy the most
skeptical of the Seceders that, on re-assembl
ing, the Convention will adopt as the platform
of the Democratic party the report of the Plat
form Committee eudorscd by the delegations
of the seventeen Democratic States : and that
a harmonious nomination can and will doubt
less be made upon that platform." In other
words, everything is to be yielded to the dic
tators of the South—platform aud nomination.
WHAT IT IIAS DONE. —Tbe "irrepressible
conflict" at Charleston has cleft the Democ
ratic party iu twain ; it has defeated the nom
ination of Douglas by the Rump Convention ;
it has prevented the nomination of any one
else ; it has turned the Democratic lambs out
into the bitter cold, and left them without a
shepherd ; it has transformed Squatter Sover
eignty into a caput mortum, and its author in
to a " dead cock in the pit."
[Cr* In the Constitutional Union Conven
tion, lately held at Ilaltimore, Pennsylvania
was represented bv 45 delegates, 30 of whom
were from the city of Philadelphia, though
answering for different Congressional districts
in the country.
We observe that this Congressional district
was represented by a delegate named E. C.
PECHIM. Mr. P. may be a resident of this
district, but if so is " unknown to fame."
THE STATE CAPITAL. —The Senate Chamber
at Ilarrisburg is now undergoiug repairs. It
will be recarpeted, embellished and newly
ventilated. In the House of Representatives
the golden eagle and the Speaker's chair have
been draped in heavy mourning as a mark of
respect to the late speaker, Hon. Wm. C. A.
Lawrence.
DEATH OF HON. THOMAS SERGEANT. —This
gentleman died in Philadelphia on Saturday
morning last, in the seventy-ninth year of bis
age. lie was an eminent lawyer and States
man in his day. He filled many important
positions of trust and honor in the State, all
of. which he discharged with great credit to
himself, and bgsefit to the people.
ARRIVAL OF THE JAPANESE EMBASSY. —The
U. S. frigate Roanoke, from Aspenwall on the
26th nit., with the Embassy dispatched by the
Court of Jeddo to Washington, arrived at
Sandy Hook Wednesday evening. Her Com
mander was tnen intercepted by dispatches
from the Navy Department directing him to
proceed to Uumpton Boads, where a vessel
would be iu readiness to receive his illustrious
passengers, and convey them to their destina
tion. The Japanese party appears to be
equally gratified with the courtesy and respect
with which it is treated, and with the novelty
of its surroundings. The landing at Panama,
that marvellous business of passing by rail
across the Isthmus, the ceremonious reception
on board the Roanoke, and the hospitality
prepared for them there have been alike objects
of satisfaction and gratitude. The officers ex
press themselves greatly pleased with the
strangers, whose manners are the perfection of
politeness and dignity.
£&* The Covode Committee is bringing to
light some new evidences of corruption. Mr.
Printer Wendell was before the Committee
Thursday, and his testimony proved that from
$30,000 to $40,000 was expended in carrying
the English bill through the House for brib
ing members. Mr. Bean of Ohio, a clerk in
Mr. Allen's office, in the last Congress, and
Mr. Alex. K. Hay of Philadelphia, a Wash
ington correspondent of The N. Y. Express,
and a member of the National Union party,
were the 'almoners of this fund. Mr. Wen
dell did notdeny that from SIO,OOO to $15,000
had been paid for a single vote, which was to
be reimbursed from Government patronage.
He was in frequeut intercourse with tbe Gray
llaired Old Public Functionary at the head
of the Government during the progress of the
English bill, and the presumption is, that Mr.
Buchanan was not altogether ignorant of the
means which were used to influence legislation.
It will bo interesting to kuow into whose
pockets this money found its way, and with
the clue giveo, it is not likely the Committee
will rest satisfied without eliciting some further
information.
JBa#-The Census takers will enter upon the
discharge of their duties on the first of next
month. They visit every house and family
withiu their limits, and will have inumerable
questions to ask. These will in part cover
the numbers, names, ages and sexes of every
family, as well as the products of every farm ;
the 'number of acres uncultivated, and tbe
number of horses, cattle, sheep and hogs upou
it. These questions should be answered
promptly, and as nearly as possible correctly,
aud in order to do so it would be advisable for
every bead of a family to write down the
answers ia advance. Farmers especially should
in their leisure moments prepare accurate
statements of the number of acres of land
thc-y uiay have under cultivation, the number
bushels of different kiuds of grain, the quan
tity of hay, fruit, &c., they produced last year,
together with the number of horses, cattle and
other stock they feed. This would greatly
facilitate the labors of the Census-Taker, aud
also render the information Government is
seeking more valuable and reliable.
A BALLOONIST KILLED. —On Thursday last,
Mr. Couner was advertised to make a second
balloon ascension from Palace Gardeu, iu New
York. Despite the violent gusts of wind
which now aud then sprung up, and the re
monstrances of his friends, he persisted in at
tempting the ascension, but no sooucr had the
balloon left the ground, than it was dashed
with great force agains tthe Concert Saloon
which faces the garden. The basket caught
for a moment under the projecting eaves of
building, and then was hoisted against the sky
light with great force. The balloou iustantly
collapsed.
Mr. Conner was found on the roof of the
building, and the physicians who were immedi
ately summoned, ascertained that his injuries
were principally internal. Duriug the evening
he remaiued insensible, and expired at 11 P.
M. His wife witnessed the casnality and would
probably have shared her bnsband's fate, had
the ascension power of the balloon been fouud
sufficient to carry up two persons, as it was
her intention to have attempted the voyage
with him.
£•s?* The House of Representatives at
Washington Friday took an extraordinary
course in relation to the Territories. The
bills organizing five new Territories, in some
of which organization is imperatively needed,
reported by Mr. Grow from the Territorial
Committee, were successively tabled by Dem
ocratic votes, apparently under the lead of
Mr. Thayer of Massachusetts, a Republican.
Such opposition from the Southern side of the
House is easily understood ; but the constitu
ents of Republican members expect their rep
resentatives to meet the question of the pro
hibition of Slavery in the Territories without
shrinking, and to give to the people of those
regions the protection they demand and re
quire.
ft6T* President Buchanan has appointed
Calhoun Benham, United States Cistrict At
torney for California. Benham, it will be
recollected, was the principal second in the
duel which resulted in the death of the lamented
Broderick. Can it be that this appointment
has been given as a reward for the part he
took in that bloody tragedy, which deprived
the conntry of the services of an honest rep
resentative, and a far seeing statesman ? In
any light in which it can be viewed, it adds
another to the disgraceful acts of which the
President 6tands charged by his country.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
THE COUNTY SUPERINTENDENCY. —The trien
nial election of County Superintendent, which took place
last week, has generally excited much attention, and the
turn out of Directors in moat of the Counties has been
large. The interest evinced in the election of Super
intendents is proof that the office is working great good
for the Common School system.
In this Connty the re-election of Prof. COBCRN may be
said to have been unanimous, although the names of two
other gentlemen, in every respect worthy and competent,
were brought before the Convention. Prof. C. has fairly
earned the substantial endorsement of a re-election by
the labor and devotion he has given to the work for the
past three years. The burdens of tbe office, which would
weigh down an ordinary man, have been with him em
phatically a " labor of love." He has devoted his time
and energies, and brought to bear bis great experience,
to benefit the Common Schools of this County.
The responsibilities of the office are not generally un
derstood ; and would better appreciated if the public
were aware how many of the Superintendents elected
three years ago have failed to secure the confidence of
the people, and consequently have not been re-elected.
The Superintendent is environed with responsibilities at
every step—which he cannot evade, and which are liable
to cause dissatisfaction when promptly and frankly met.
Delicate questions arise in almost every School District,
of which the Superintendent must become the arbiter—
the hopes of several hundred expectant teachers depend
upon his judgment; who, with their often too partial
friends, are not apt to be satisfied with a decision which
secures some school from the injury inflicted by a
teacher not qualified—all of which, when conscientious
ly and fearlessly discharged, are not calculated to make
the Superintendent popular with those who differ with
him in opinion.
It is a high compliment to Prof. COBCRN, that despite
all these difficulties, and many others which we have not
enumerated, he was sustained by tbe almost unanimous
voice of the people of the County, as expressed through
the Directors assembled here, representing all shades of
opinions. We think the Convention acted wisely iu fix
ing the salary at the same amount (11000) paid for the
present term. We observe that in Columbia county the
Directors elected LEWIS APPLEMAN, and fixed the salary
at 1400,—whereupon the Superintendent elect, in accept
ing the office notified the Directors that they could not
expect him to devote his whole time to the performance
of the duties of the office, but that he would do the best
he could under the circumstances. In a County of such
extensive territory, and large number of schools as Brad
ford, the office of Superintendent demands the whole time
of one man, and he should properly have an assistant to
do all the schools full justice.
In Luzerne county, ABEL MABCY was elected at a sala
ry of SBOO ; In Lycoming county, HUGH CASTLES, at a
salary of SBOO ; Susquehanna, B. F. TEWKSBIKY was re
elected, salary S7OO ; Tioga, H. C. JOHNS, formerly of
this county, was elected.
EDITORIAL VISITS. —Mr. RJCHART of the
Pittston Gazette, dropped into our sanctum the other
day.
Mr. GEORGE CHASE, formerly of the Bradford Herald,
spent several days in town last week. He does not speak
very encouragingly of Bradford county, as a locality for
Democratic papers to flourish in Wilmot, Grow A Co.,
have evidently succeeded in making a " dark corner " of
the Bradford district.— Luzerne Union.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING. —Mrs. JAMES CAR
NEY, residing about two mile* above Owego, during the
thunder storm on Monday last, songbt shelter under a
Chestnut tree, and while there a flash of lightning dart
ed down upon her person, from the effects of which she
I was severely injured. Dr. EASTMAN was called, and un
der his treatment, we are happy to learn, is in a fair way
j of recovery.
FIRE. —The Tannery of Mr. LUTHER STONE,
| situated one mile east of W'averly village, was burned
j about 2 o'clock Friday morning last. All the account
i books and every thing in the Tannery, except the Leath
! er in the vats were destroyed. Xeptune Engine Co. was
j on hand, and did good execution, though too late to save
| the buildiug. Loss, about $2,000. Insured in the Atlan
i tic Insurance Co. X. V. City, for 1,000.
J. J. SEBENICK, formerly of this place,
j is one of the delegates from the Allegheny Congressional
| district to Chicago.
HON, DAVID WII.MOT and 11. W. TRACY,
| Esq., delegates to the Republican Xutional Convention,
left this place on Friday night last, en route for Chicago.
, fcay- A bad break of about sixty feet occnr-
I red on the Junction Canal, Thursday morning, near the
i farm of JOHN G. LOWMAN, Esq., in the town of Chemung.
It will probably take a number of days to repair it.
♦
HORSES STOLEN. —Two men, one calling
his name Miller, called at the livery stable of Mr. P. H.
Meyers, in this borough on Wednesday last and under
pretense of desiring to hunt up a drove of cattle in one
of the neighboring counties, secured two of Mr. M's.
best horses and made off with them. They did not re
turn as promised, and suspicions being thereby aroused,
Mr. Meyers and one or two other men started in pursuit.
They traced the horses up the canal, beyond Tunkhan
nock ; and afterwards found both horses in the hands of
parties to whom they had been sold, in the vicinity of
Towanda. The worthies who stole them however, (for
it can be called nothing less) had made good their escape,
leaving the purchasers to " pocket their loss" and restore
the animals to their owners. Pity such gentry can not
be caught Luzerne Union.
These worthies were in this place, last week, and
made application at HOLMES' livery stable for a horse and
buggy to go to Waverly. Fortunately his suspicions were
excited, and the rascals were unsuccessful in their appli
cation.
•
The late rains having swollen the riv
er to a " rafting pitch," the lumbermen have mostly
started on their way to a market. On Sunday a large
fleet of rafts arrived at this place, and the water being
already quite low experienced much difficulty in passing
through the schute. Finally two rafts stuck fast in the
lower end of the schute, closing the channel. The shores
are lined with rafts, mostly from the Canisteo, which
must wait for higher water before they can proceed. At
this writing there is every prospect that they will not be
detained long.
4®* Shipments of Coal from Towanda by
the Barclay R. R. & Coal Company. Navigation opened
Monday 7th, 1860,
Shipments for the week ending May 16,...1647 tons.
a®* The Bradford County Medical Society
held its annual meeting in Towanda, May 9th.
The following members were present Drs. HOLMES,
HOKTON, AXTELL, MORGAN, HOMET, BLISS, CLAOKTT,
MADILL, RICE, MILLS, TRACY, ALLEN, PARSONS, COOPER,
TURNER, LADD, MASON, DEWITT.
The President, Dr. HOLMES, presided and delivered a
very interesting inaugural address, after which Dr. Buss
reported a case of Disease of the Heart. Dr. HOMET a
case of Dislocation of the Elbow. Dr. HORTON a case of
Peritoneal Inflammation. Dr. ALLEN a case of foreign
substance in the Trachea and its dislodgment after the
operation of Tracheatomy, also a case of Rupture of the
Uterus. Dr. HOLMES a case ,of Epithelial Cancer. Dr.
MASON a case of Metastasis of Rheumatism to the Liver
Dr. TRACY read an essay on some points In the diag
nosis of Pneumonia.
Dr. MADILL read an essay on the cause of Rheumatism.
Drs. HOLMES, TURNER and ALLEN were elected Sanita
ry Committee.
Drs. PARSONS and HOLMES were elected delegates, and
Drs. MILLS and TCRNM alternates to the State Medical
Society.
Dra. MASON and MADILL were elected delegated, and
Dra. HORTON and HOMET alternates to the United States
Medical Association.
The subject of Rheumatism was then discussed bj Dra.
ALLEN, AXTELL, HOMET, HORTON, MADILL, MILLS, MA
SON, PABsoNs'and TURNER.
Dra. MORGAN and MASON were appointed essayists for
the next meeting.
The following resolution was adopted for discussion at
the next meeting:
Resolved, That it is the duty of Physicians to discoun
tenance quackery in every form.
Adjourned to meet at Tcrrytown on the 11th of July
next at 10 o'clock, A. M.
E. H. MASON', Sec y.
figfAn extra supply of New York Dailies
will be received by COWLBS, at the Bakery, to supply
those who may feel interested in the proceedings of the
Chicago Convention.
GREAT LOSS or LUMBER AT WILUAMSPORT.
—The rain-storm which visited this vicinity on Wednes
day night and Thursday, seems to have been very heavy
about Willia.nsport. The West Branch of the Susque
hanna rose rapidly during Thursday night, and early Fri
day morning a portion of the large " boom" on the river,
for catching saw-logs as they float down from the lumber
region, gave way. A very large number of logs floated
off, causing a loss of $.10,000. We have no particulars.
The " boom " referred to was situated about two miles
above Williamsport, on the west side of the river, and is
about three miles in length. It was constructed at a
heavy expense by a company, and its loss will be a pub
lic calamity to the people in that section of Pennsylva
nia.
We are informed that Hon. A. S. DIVES, of this place,
is a considerable loser by this unfortunate event.—Elmi
ra Prut.
A Scholarship in the Binghamtou Com
mercial College, for sale at this office.
fleiy The Republicans of Wyalusing town
ship have organized a Republican Club, by choosing J.
T. STALFORD, Chairman : L. B. CAMP, Secretary, and L.
M. HKWIT, Corresponding Secretary.
ftayThe Republicans of Smithfield, nfter a
preliminary meeting on the.lth,met Friday eveuing. May
11, and organized a campaign Club, by the election of
the following officers :
President— STEPHEN It. CRANK.
Vice-Presidents— A. E. CHILD, V. S. VINCENT.
Recording Secretary—E. J. DUKFKY.
Corresponding Secretary—C. E. WOOD.
A Constitution with the following preamble was adopt
ed ;
Whereas, The Presidential election is approaching,
when the freemen of the United States will be called up
on to elect a man to the highest office in the gift of the
people ; and in view of the extensive and corrupt man
agement of the present administration, the continual
encroachment of Slavery! upon the rights of freedom,
we feel called upon to do our utmost to disseminate the
principles embodied in the Declaration of Independence,
which implies, FREEIKM OF SPEECH, FREEDOM OP THE
PRESS, FREE LABOR and FREE SOIL.
Although not the first to organize in this township,
yet we shall endeavor to be behind none in our devotion
to the principles of the party, and in our efforts to se
cure their triumph next November.
C. E. WOOD, Cor. Sec.
COURT PROCEEDINGS. —Monday, May lib,
the several Courts of Quarter Sessions, Oyer and Termi
ner, and Common Pleas, being called at 10 o'clock, A.
M. Judge WII.MOT, President, and LONG A. PASSMORE,
Associates present, and after a short session of about an
hour adjourned to meet again in the afternooh, at 2
o'clock, at which time it being again called, the follow
ing persons appeared and answered to their names as
Grand Jurors, to wit:
C. F. Nichols, Foreman, Nelson Adams, Chauncey
Arnold, Sterling Ackley, C. H. Campbell, John Crotsley,
Ezekiel Curry, Daniel Crandall, Alexander Ennis, Nelson
Wood, Roduey Cooley, S. H. Farnswortb, Samuel Far
wcll, Allen Hale, Shepherd Horton, William Pitcher, L.
D. Swain, Lindley Stone, Charles Thompson, Edwin S.
Tyrrell, Henry Verbryck; who were sent out under the
charge of the Court, and during the time they were in
session the following matters of businrss came before
| them and was disposed of in order, as follows :
I Com. r*. Daniel T. Iforton—Assault and' Battery with
intent to kill; Grand Jury return a true bill.
Com. vs. Amos Pierce—Assault and Battery ; true bill.
Com. r. AJbright Dunham, Miles Estes, Guilford
Dewers and Charles Sherman— Indictment for violating
grave and attempting to remove a dead body therefrom.
Grand Jury return a true bill.
Com. vs. Bradford .M'Cracken, Alexander Wiley and
Hiram Lindsley— Larceny ; Grand Jury return a true
bill.
Com. vs. Fame -Larceny ; true bill was fonndi-
Com.c*. Andrew Layton—Assault A Battery ; return
a true bill.
Com. vs. Byron Adams—Malicious Mischief; return
not a true bill, and County for cost.
In the matter for the application for a county bridge
across Towanda Creek, near Thomas Manly's, in Canton
—Grand Jury concur in- the report of the viewers, be
lieving that the bridge prayed for is necessary, and that
the erection thereof would be too expensive for said
township of Canton to bear. Grand Jury make the same
report in- the application for a County bridge the
Schrader Branch of the Towanda Creek, near Green
wood, in Monroe township.
Having finished the business brought before them, the
Grand Jury were discharged-on Wednesday afternoon.
The business that came before the Court and Traverse
Jury was taken up and disposed of in order, as follows .
Com. vs. Andrew Layton—lndictment, Assault arid-
Battery, committed upon John D. Keyser. May Bth,
Jury sworn and return a verdict of guilty. Defendent
sentenced to pay a fine of ten dollars and costs.
Com. t?. Daniel T. Horton—lndictment for Assault A
Battery with intent to kill, on complaint of Adam Sny
der. Jury called and sworn, and after a hearing the
Jury return a verdict of not gnilty, and fix the costs up
on the prosecutor, Adam Snyder. Rule granted to show
cause why so much of the verdict as fixes the costs on
the prosecutor shall not be set aside.
Com. vs. Dennis B. Knapp—lnnictment for obtaining
goods under false pretences, found at February Sessions
last. May Bth, Jury called and sworn, and after a hear
ing return a verdict of not guilty,* but that he pay the
costs in ten days, and stand committed until the sentence
be complied with.
Com. vs. Dr. Albright Dunham, Guilford H. Dewers,
Miles Estus and Charles Sherman—lndictment found at
the present Sessions for violating the grave of a deceased
person, and attempting to remove the body Ac., in tbe
township of Pike, on the night of March sth, last. De
fendants appear and plead guilty, and are sentenced to
pay each a fine of SIOO, and each undergo an imprison
ment in the County jail for one year ; this being the
lightest sentence which, by law, could be imposed for
this offence.
Com. vs. Alexander B. Wiley and Hiram Lindsley-,
Larocny ; the defendants having'plead guilty upon two
indictments preferred against them at the present Ses
sions; one on complaint of M. C. Allen, for stealing |
clothing and money of the value S4O, and the other on
complaint of George G. M'lntyje for stealing various ar
ticles of clothing and other articles, of value of $24
The defendants are schtenced to undergo each an impris
onment In the Penitentiary, at Philadelphia, for one year
and three months.
In the matter of the application for a new township to
be called Alba—This matter came up before the Court
upon the application of the petitioners for final hearing
and confirmation. After a full hearing the Court refuse
to confirm the report of the viewers made in this case, j
Samuel Shoemaker and Elijah Green—Petitioners for
the benefit of the Insolvent Laws. Appeared in Court
and were discharged under the provisions of the law.
Maria L. Clark vs. Thomas L. Clark—Divorce. On
reading depositions, and on motion of Mr. Smead the
Court decree a divorce to Maria L. Clark from the bonds
of matrimony.
Volcocia Knights ri. Benjamin L. Knights—Divorc?,
On reading depositions, and on motion of Mr. Smith th 9
Court decree a divorce to Volencia Knights from the
bonds of matrimony.
Rosetta Conklin ei Walter Conklin—Divorce. On
reading depositions, and on motion of Mr. Case, the
Court decree to Rosetta Cooklin a divorce from the bonds
of matrimony.
On Friday, in the afternoon, the Court having finished
the business brought before them adjourned over to Mon
day, the 14 th inst., at 10 o'clock. A.M.
DR. C. M. TURNER will deliver a lecture 00
Temperance, by request of the Sons of Temperance, at
the Methodist church, on Friday evening next.. From
the high reputation of the Doctor as a lecturer, a rar
treat may be anticipated.
The attention of dealers in this section
is called to the card of WILSON, BARNES A Co., whole
sale Gfocere, in our advertising columns. The two se
nior partners been formerly residents of our County, and
well and favorbly known, and purchasers at this estab
lishment will be certain of fair dealing and the lowest
prices.
TRACY & MOORE are now receiving a large
assortment of New Spring Goods, purchased at the low
est figures, and will he sold correspondingly. Those who
doubt, can call and see.
tof F. G. COBURN ha.s been appointed bj
the Governor, a Notary Public, for this borough.
JUDGE WHITE has been holding court here
during the present week, Judge WII.MOT being absent
at Chicago. The business has been very light, none of
the parties to suits being ready for trial, and tbe attend
ance being a complete failure.
The special court called for next week will not 1* held,
and Jurors summoned to attend are officially notified
that they will not be wanted, which will be welcome
news to many farmers, just now busily engaged in their
spring work.
|®~RELIGIOU9 NOTICE. —The Pennsylvania
| State Convention of Universalists will meet at Athens
jon Weduesday and Thursday, June 6th 'and 7th. Revs.
ABEL C. THOMAS, I. D. WILLIAMSON, and other speakers
i will be in attendance ; and religious services will b
j holden both days, at the usual hours. The public are
1 cordially invited to attend.
Hair A young man, named STEVENSON, about
! 23 years of age, from I'ittston, was drowned on Friday
! last, in the Loyal Sock creek, nearly opposite Imports,
while attempting to cross in a boat. He was in company
with two other persons, who succeeded in gaining the
shore.
THE CHICAGO CONVENTION.
[Special Despatch to the Tribune.]
CHICAGO, May 14,1*60.
The weather is beautiful, and the excite
ment and crowd are increasing Seward's
friends are still hopeful. They hope to get
parts of the New Jersey, Illinois and Penn
| sylvania delegations, but give up ludiana.
They triumphantly ask, if Seward is not the
man, why do not his opponents unite upon a
' substitute ?
| Mr Rollins of Missouri, writes that if Mr.
Dates is nominated, he will take the nomina
tion for Governor, aud can carry the State in
August on a Republican platform.
Mr. Lane, the Republican canditate for
Governor of Indiana, says that with Seward
he and his party will be inevitably defeated ;
but with liutes, McLean, er Lincoln, aud per
haps others, he can sweep the State. The
opponents of Seward insist that he can not lie
nominated, since She doubtful States continue
solid against him, and, to all appearances, they
must remain so.
The California delegation holds a lettc?
from Fremont positively withdrawing his uame;-
it ia said' to be a very hue letter.
THE PENNSYLVANIA DELEGATES TO CHARLES
TON. —It is stated by one of our Philadelphia
exchanges, on reliable authority, that there ii
. no prospect whatever of any change in the
vote of the State delegation prior to the as
sembling af tbe Baltimore Convention on the
18th of June. That vote now stauds 9 1 -2 1
for Douglas and l'T> against him and for
Gurhtie. In case of Guthrie's chances de
. cliuiug, Frauklin Yunzant, of Bucks, and-
Owen Jones, of Montgomery, are next pledged
.to Douglas, r*. B". Browne, of Philadelphia,
does not intend to visit the Baltimore Conven
tion, but will seud a substitute against Doug
las.
RE-STLECTION OF SENATOR FOSTER. —The
j Connecticut Legislature Thursday morning
i elected Senator Lafayette S. Foster. The
Democratic candidate was the Hon. W. W.
Eaton of Hartford, who made a speech in the
Democratic Caucus Wednesday, taking strong
ground agatnst Mr. Dbnglas and his-doctrines,
| declaring that the seventeen Democratic States
; repudiate them, aod defending the Southern
view on the Territorial question. The voto
stood, in the Senate, 14 for Foster, and 1 for
Eaton ; ii> the liouse, for Foster and Iff
for Eaton.
I®- In the United States Senate Thursday,
I the Senate's Homestead bill was passed by a
! vote of 44 to 8, after Mr. Wilkiuson's amend
ment, which put preemptors of five years on
! the same footing with settlers who should
i hereafter settle upon the public lands, was re
jected by Democratic votes. Mr. Wade re
newed bis motion to substitute tbe House bilL
but it was rejected.
A COITLE OF HUGE METEORS IN OHIO.—
In Morgan, Muskingum, Coshocton, Morrow
and Tuscarawas counties the explosion was
distinctly heard. Near McCooeellsville, sev
eral boys observed a huge stone descend to the
earth, which they averred looked like a red
ball, leaving a line of smoke in its wake. A
gentleman in his field, near New Concord,
heard a terrific crash like thunder, which las
ted half a minute, and then plainly saw a large
body descending through the air iu an angling
direction, with a velocity apparently much
greater than it coqld have attained by his own
momentum. Going to the spot where it touched
the ground, he found a rock, weighing over
fifty pounds, embedded in the earth a depth
of two feet. The phenomena seem to be un
precedented. These stones were found nearly
fifty miles apart, although the explosion was
heard at ali the places mentioned from the di
rection of New Coucord. Houses were shak
en by the shock, and iu one or two instances
the doors bursted open. It occasioned a great
deal of consternation in that section of the
country, as well it might.— Columbus Statist
man.