A Pure Douglas Electoral Ticket.
[From Forney's Press ]
In answer to a multitude of letters (which
We are utterly unable to publish), deinnuding
a pure Douglas electoral ticket in this Slate,
pledged against the Disuuionists, headed by
BRECKINRIDGE aud LANE, we are authorized to j
state that RICHARD J. lIAI.DE.MAN, Esq., the ,
Democratic Committee, appointed bv the regu
lar National Democratic Convention, will, I
under instructions from that Committee, ad- J
dress letters to the different candidates fur
•electors, appointed by the Reading Convention
demanding of them an explicit answer whether
they are iu favor of the nomination of DOUG- I
LAS and JOHNSON, for President and Vice Pre
sident. If they shall refuse to answer, or i
shall answer in favor of the Disumonists, then
their names will be stricken from the roll, and
others substituted. We are also desired to
state that it is intended to call a Democratic j
State Convention—whether a delegation or a
mass Convention hereafter to be determined — ;
which body will proceed to till any and all va
caccics on the electoral ticket. It ought to
gratify the friends of, Judge DOUGLAS to know
that he, himself, cordially sustains the policy
of having no connection, direct or indirect,with
the Disuuionists ; that he desires above all,and
mostofall, to maintain the position in which
he has been placed by his record and his norn
ination, and also that ho can enter into no
coalition with Disuuionists in the free States,
who insulted and degraded those gallant men
in the Southern States now lighting for the
National Democracy, and for the old fashioned
principles ot the Democratic party, against a
banded oligarchy intent alone upon the des
truction of the Union. No TRUE FRIEND of
DOUGLAS in Pennsylvania, or elsewhere, can
touch an electoral ticket which contains upon it
the single name of a JJrcckiiiridge Disttnionisl.
If ceil one out of the twenty seven electors Would
disgrace a Douglas ticket, precisely as a shig/e
drop of subtle poison thrown into a goblet of
pure and crystal water might render the whole a
deathly potion.
Government Corruption.
The testimony elicited by the Covode Inves
tigating Committee will shortly be laid before
the public, and will form a record of scanda
lous corruption such as the world has seldom
Been, and such as must awake the people to a
sense of the stern necessity existing for a re
formation. This testimony fixes crime upon
crime upon the Democratic adrniif >trution un
til the w hole thing looks to be a mas-of loath
some and disgusting oliicial putrefaction. The
following arc some of the crimes proven :
The use of $30,000 or -40,000 to carry the
Lcconipton and English bills through Coti
gre>s.
The stealing of that money from the Unit
ed States Treasury, under the pretence of pay
ing for printing.
The offer of SBO,OOO of the same kind of
6tcaliugs, to Col. J. \Y. barney, it he would
support the'Buchanan administration.
The most stupendous frauds in " Live Oak"
contracts for the Navy, for tlie purpose of en
riching political favorites and corrupting elec
tions.
The fraudulent appointment of political
favorites to the office of coal agent which the
House delared void.
That the Utah army was raised to force
Slavery into Kansas against the wishes of the
people.
The existence of corrupt combinations of
federal office holders to carry elections.
The use of public money to corrupt tiie bal
lot box and to defeat the will of the people ;
especially in the Philadelphia Custom House
and Navy Yard ; that Mr. Baker and his
brother were directly guilty of thus using the
public money, the culiro intimacy existing- be
tween Buchanan and the Bakers,and his know
ledge of and complicity with their corruptions.
The donation of SIO,OOO to the* Pennsylva
nia:) and a like sum to the Evening Argus
from the stealings of the printing funds.
The pay ing of large sums of money to men
because they were political favorites.
That s*>o,ooo per annum was given to po
litical favorites under the pretence of " Execu
tive Binding," and this amount was in excess
of the real cost of the work done.
The forging of six thousand naturalization
paper- to carry the election in Pennsylvania in
JooO, and the franking of them to parties by
" Democratic " members of Congress aud Sena
tor Big kr.
The expending of large stuns ol money in
Pennsylvania to organize a third party (like
the Bell aud Everett) to defeat Fremont.
Ti: RI. LK A<oiDtxr AND DEATH.— Win.
Dew,ill, of .Somerset county, was killed recent
ly under very painful circumstances. He was
plowing corn in one of his fields, and when
called to dinner unhitched his horse from the
plow, threw the traces over his buck and
mounted it, to ride to the house. Just as he
passed a brook that ran across the way, one
of the traces slipped down, the chain end of it
wound closely around iiis ankle, and its hook
caught in a link. His horse grew unmanage
able ; first it threw him from his back aud then
started off at a full speed, drawing him along
oil the ground. After it ran to the barn aad
around it several times, Mrs. Dcwall saw the
dreadful condition of her husband and hasten
ed to his relief, but this only frightened the
animal the more, aud turning in another direc
tion it jumped over a wood pile, causing a
dreadful annihilation of Mr. Dcwall's person.
In the flight of the horse he had been literal
•;y torn and crushed to pieces. His head was a
mangled mas. A long the way where he been
dragged, flesh and blood were seeti. When
takeu up he was lifeless.
THADDEUS STEVENS said, in Congress, when
an appropriation for a Jail was asked, that
Washington was a pauper upon the nation :
" We make their sewers, and everything
else, aud we feed them, in order that, at the
opening of a session, they may come here and
hiss if Freedom is mentioned, and applaud if
Slavery is mentioned. Before I will vote any
thing not absolutely necessary for this town,
they must reform their maimers. 1 shall vote
against this whole aj pr opriatiou. I should
hate to starve them, but, if they get so lean,
that, at the opening of the ses>ioti, they can
not howl or h;ss so much the better."
I ne Erie Railroad is to be sold on the
'JOth of November, under foreclosure of the
fifth mortgage aud in consonance with the ar
rangement for re-organizatiou. In the mean
time tbe Directors will make au effort to ex
tend or pay the second mortgage bands.-
Stockholders aud bondholders who have not
assented to the scheme of re-organization have
the privilege of six months alter the day of
;ak to give t>uch a^ent
§rabforViUportcr.
E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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FOR PRESIDENT,
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, of Illinois.
FOR VICE PRSIDLNT,
HANNIBAL HAMLIN, of Maine.
FOR GOVERNOR,
AND'W G. CURTIN, of Centre Co.
We publish in tl is neck's issue, anoth
er article from FORNEY'S Press, for the pur
pose of illustrating the spirit which animates
the DOUGLAS portiou of the Democracy. That
the feud between the two branches of the
" harmonious" is irreconcileable, is past doubt.
A portiou of the adherents of either interest
would be glad to patch up some arrangement
by which a union could be effected, but the
parties most interested are opposed to any
such accommodation. The secessionists have
everything to gain by unity of action, as their
hope would be to throw the election into the
House, where an election being impossible, the
Senate would elect LANE, who would become
acting President. The plan is a shrewd one,
but the people will prevent its consummation.
Mr. DOUGLAS and his friends are determined
that if lie cannot be elected now, no President
shall be chosen who will employ the patronage
of the administration to demoralize the party,
and prevent him from being the candidate in
1864. He has borue enough of the power wield
' ed by an administration hostile to his advance
ment. He unquestionably considers that four
years out of power will do much to harmonize
existing differences in the Democratic party,
that it mr.v present an unbroken front in 1861,
and by that time he can satisfy the South
that his elevation would promote their inter
! csts.
At present, there is every indication that
the Republican nominee will carry every
Northern Stuto. Vet lukewarmness and opa"
thy may lose us the victory when it seems al
most within our grasp. Jt behooves the Re
publicans to conduct the battle as if the co
horts of the administration were to lie met in
solid phalanx. The almighty power and forte
of plunder may at the last emergency effect
what now seems impossible. While victory
seems ready to perch upon our banners, danger
may be hovering near. Unceasing activity,
i and vigilance were never more necessary than
now. Wc call upon our Republican friend
throughout the County to continue the work
of perfecting their organization,—we urge
! upon those already organized the necessity ot
making their organization effective. In any
event, let us resolve that Bradford shall do
her whole duty.
Tiic Herald of last week contains a
long, elaborate aud able article from C. L.
WARD, E-q., who signs himself as " surviving
| Delegate from the 11th Congressional District"
addressed to R. J. IIALDKMAN, the Pennsylva
nia Member of the Democratic National Com
mittee, against the action of the Democratic
' State Committee recommending a union in this
State, upon certain terms,
Mr. \Y. reviews tlie action of the State
Convention, and the Charleston and Baltimore
Conventions, and dots not seem to be particu
larly pleased " with the threats and cavalier
demands" of our Southern brethren. He
goes for the DOUGLAS ticket, pure and simple,
and protests against any coalition with the
Secessionists.
DOUGLAS TO HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE. A
Washington letter-writer says that the frieuds
of Douglas, after a long consultation, have
determined to put him in nomination us a can
didate for the Presidency in 1861, immediate
ly after the November election, be the result
what it may. They arc resolved that his
competitor stall not have control of the Detu
cratic organization, to which the contest is
now mainly directed, but inteud to continue
the fight to the bitter end. As Messrs. Breck
inridge and Douglas are both young, they may
indulge the gratification of a protracted rival
ry i which we can afford to wish them all
joy.
Wrro's CRUSHED Our Now ?—A few years
ago Douglas stood in the United States Sen
ate, backed by a united Democratic Senate,
. and proclaimed, with a mien aud voice of in
sulting triumph, "we'll subdue the Republi
cans, and crush out the spirit of dissatisfaction
*in Kansas. ' But, soon after, Douglas was
compe'led to lower his tone, in order to save
his place in the United States Senate, aud now
the South has crushed him.
etaf Who dodged the vote on the Home
stead bill? Stepheu A. Douglas. Who dodg
ed on the admission of Kansas ? Stephen A.
Douglas. Who claims that "my great prin
ciple," Popular Sovereignty, has given to
slavery a degree aud a half more of the pub
lic domain than the slave power claimed ?
Stephen A. Douglas. Isn't he a pretty can
didate for the votes of free laboring mea ?
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
MEETING OF TIIE COUNTY COMMITTEE.—Tbe
members of the Republican County Committee are re
quested to meet in the Court House, in Towanda Borough
on Saturday, duly 28, 18C0, at 1 o'clock, p. m. A full
attendance is requested.
The following named persons compose said Commit
tee James 11. Webb, Uriah Terry, C. F. Nichols, Ed
ward Crandall, Lorenzo Grinnell, A. G. Brown, H. S.
Salsbury, J. B. Ingham, John Griffin.
JAMES 11. WEBB, Chairman.
fea?" MR. EDITOR :—lt was my good fortune !
[ to attend the exercises closing the late term of the Sus
quehanna Collegiate Institute on Tuesday of last week at
the Presbyterian Church. A respectable audience was
present to participate in the pleasure of the occasion,
| and we hazard nothing in saying that every person was
delighted with what he heard and saw. Ten or twelve
; original orations were delivered by the young men of the
, I Institute, each one abounding in choice patriotic senti
ments, clothed in eloquent language, and in a style of
elocution quite superior to that of the ordinary produc
tions of the kind. There was, to say the least, a strong
current of sound logical thought running through each
production which impressed the hearer and enlisted his
! hearty commendation. We listened to no spread eagle
| flights of the imagination, to no "tales of sound and
I fury signifying nothing," but to good common sense ex
pressed in forcible language, and finding its way at once
Jto the heart, as such thoughts always will. As we have
|no programme indicating the particular names'of the
i speakers of each oration before us, but have to depend
! upon memory, no young gentleman will accuse us of par
j tiality if we say that the two productions entitled " Sclf
; made men," and " Self-made or never made," pleased us '
| as touch for the noble thoughts they embodied in words 1
! as for the effective and forcible style or delivery, while
: the two entitled " Comparative wrongs of the Negro and
Indian," and " Slavery a Social Evil," though slightly au
! tagonistic yet mainly true, perhaps exhibiting the politi
cal predilections of the speakers, (in no offensive sense
however.) were spoken with great effect, and thrilled the
audience with emotion. Those entitled "The \oung j
Men of America," " Universal Education," and •' Incen-'.
lives to Noble Hiving," were chaste and finished produc
; tions, abounding in beautiful language and elevated '
thought. and as specimens of elocution quite and entirely 1
above the common order ot school exercises. The two j
entitled " American l.iherty" and Ambition," contain
ed patriotic sentiments, exhibited honorable aims anil
gave high promise of future excellence and success.
' The success of the scholar indicates the worth and
• j success of the teacher, it pleases us to know that the
I labors of Processors O. S. and W*H. 11. I)EAX are well
appreciated ia this community, that they possess a high
Order of talent, and are endowed with a tact and ability
to impart instructions of no common character. "The
, past year in its abundance of lalcu and appliance of skill,
: has fully demonstrated this. We do not belli ve that a
, better adaptation of moans to an important end was with
in the limits of human exertion, than they have effected,
and it pains u- to learn that we are to lose the labors of
. the latter gentleman, though only for a short period, and
we know that our regret is shared by ail h' patrons and
friends in this community. We wi.-h lii.-n su i ess and
bid htm God speed, wherever Providence may east his
lot.
'< Wc are happy to he enabled to ex pi ess our regard for
the female h achcrs of the lm-tit .te. Tint tin y have giv
' ! en satisfaction in their resjtectivc departments Ot labor
We know. We hope to see them again in their several
place- at the commencement of another term.
The exercises it the Church were closed by the deliv
ery of an addrc-s 1 y the Ilev. Br. Mi KDOCU, of Illmira,
N. Y. The utiject, as near as we can remember, was a
comparison of Ancient intellect with Modem, and it
elicited the interest of every person present. It was a
bold tint Ingenious and talented a -crtion of the equality
of ancient civilization .vitli modern, if not its absolute
j superiority. We know not when we have listened with
MI much pleasure to a discourse embodying.so many facts,
' exhibiting . > minute a I m.iudcljfe of hist -ry Cml so inge
nious in establishing what would seem a favorite theory.
We are entirely aware of the claims of antiquity to in
tellectual cultivation and progre . we know that its
| poets and orators and sculptors and philosophers and
i statesmen attained a lr h d giee of excellence indeed,
i nnd yet wc are quite unwilling to yield all the Doctor
claims, for the following rea-ons:
I'in-t, There can be no foundation for superior excel
lence in sti- nee, philosophy, government ami society
aside from Christianity, 'i he religion of a people is their
life and their law. Second, the philosophy of antiquity
was radically defective, it reasoned from the general to
tlie particular, from cause to effect, from abstraction to
' its dependencies. 11 iw diff rent this mode from the
i modern, that >f seeking for cause by reasoning from ef
fects, and inferring the general from an analysis of the
particular. 'Hits is the system of the greatest of modern
philosophers, Bacon It is the process of observation
and experience and lias supplanted all ancient philoso
1 pay of whatever school.
Third, Modern invention cud discovery, as 1-t, that of
pin powder. Thi-. if not an invention of the moderns,
wax first generally used by them in warfare, and its em
ployment ha- saved more lives than it has destroyed, it
has changed the whole a-pect < f war, rendering it less
i barbarous and revolting.
; i 2d. The discovery of the Mariner's Compass, by giv
-1 ing an impetus to navigation,colonization and commerce,
i has conferred upon the moderns the most important ben
' efits. The discovery, though claimed by the Chinese,
was clearly made in modern times, that is A. Lb, 1117.
| 3d. The discovery of the art of Printing. Wc arc
! aware that the Chinese claim a priority in this too, but
j if wo submit, to their claim, they ask its to go no farther
| back than the year 1000 of tbe Christian era. So great
j arc the blessings which have their origin in this art, that I
: he must lie a bold man who will contend that the world
; will again lapse into barbarism, or that having been
| known once in an early antiquity, as the Br. implied, it,
the world, has passed through ages of darkness since.
I 4th. The Steam Engine, Bail Road and Telegraph are
. ' so well known that wc have but to mention them in this
connection.
I Fourth. We think the sciences atte.-.t the superiority of
modern civilization. Astronomy was cultivated by the
ancients, but their systems were radically wrong. They
supposed the earth to he the centre of tbe system, it is
j true that Ptolemy in the second century assumed the
; central position of the sun, but the second century was
i clearly the commencement of the modern era. The an
j cients knew nothing of the existence of planets exterior
to Saturn and hardly conjectured any such. They were
ignorant of the law of gravitation, and also of those
magnificent truths which the telescope reveals. They
knew hut little of geography—that which we get from
Homer is entirely fabulous. He deified the Atlas moun
tains, and had the world rest on the shoulders of the God.
I Colchis was regarded by the poet as situated in the ex
treme east, where stood a temple of the sun in which the
j god of day rested his horses during the night, and front
which, in the morning, he drove his chariot through the
: Heavens: He indulges largely in the poet's fancy. In
j Sicily there were sirens who lured to destroy, magicians
j who transformed men into beasts, monsters of strange
> 1 form who fed upon the quivering limbs of the shipwreck
• ed mariner, and there also were the fabulous Uyclcps
with but one eye. The Cimmeriaus dwelt in total dark
| ncss at the mouth of tbe sea of Azoph, and the pigmies
and dwarfs who fought pitched battles with the cranes,
; according to hi authority, inhabited A.-ia Minor aud the
north of Europe. Herodotus was better skilled in geo
graphy than Homer, but he declares that Europe was as
! large as Asia and Africa put together. Of the latter
| region he knew nothing beyond the limits of Egypt.—
j The Romans, by their conquests, added to the knowledge
. ! of this science, but their ignorance of the globular form
; of the earth prevented the formation of any correct idea
j respecting it.
' Geology is entirely a science cultivated and built tip
. during the latter days of modern civilization. Plato be
( i lieved the earth a huge animal. It is singular that in 1819,
1 Kepler, the illustrious astronomer, should have revived
■ that doctrine, and thought that one day when the tide did
. ; not rise, it lay in a fainting tit. Had he lived but a few
months ago in Illinois be might have believed the great
hurricane a bad cough, or an epilepsy.
Chemistry too is a new science. It ia Jjaidly a hundred
years since its first principles were discovered. The au
cients might have made glass and worked the metals, but
their operations were as mechanical as those of the house
wife who bakes a loaf of bread. They had hardly begun
to dabble in Alchemy in its search for the philosopher's
stone.
They knew but little of medicine, nnd nothing of phys
iology aud rtiuute anatomy. Medicine is so dependent
on chemistry that they had no key to unlock its secrets,
while physiology and minute anatomy are sealed sciences
without the microscope.
And here it Is proper to say that the speaker was par
ticularly unfortunate in his comments upon that great
modern discovery—the circulation of the blood. The
quotations he introduced to substantiate the knowledge
of the ancients with it, only proved what the first mur
derer saw when he slew his victim—what the first sur
geon in all time found out when he dressed his first
wound, to wit, that the blood more*. What Harvey dis
covered is the fact that the blood Hows in a circle, —that
it goes out from the heart through the arteries to the ex
treme circumference of the body, and returns to the heart
through the veins. Its going out Is the first half of the
circle, its return is the last half, and completes it It is
not a mere driftiug on the current of lite through a
straight channel, but a complete circulation. This cir
cular movement of the blood through the body, with a
corresponding one through the lungs, is what physiolo
gists denominate the " Circulation of the blood," a pro
cess of which the ancients were as ignorant as they were
of the Magnetic Telegraph.
The application of the Moxa in the case of Mr. Sumner?
was, as the Br. told us, but a repetition of an ancient
practice. Every surgeon of a half dozen years standing
has employed it in the treatment of certain diseases nml I
thought it nothing singular. Mr. Sumner was an illus
trious patient, and he chose an illustrious surgeon.
But our notice cf this address is sufficiently extended
to indicate our belief in the higher civilization in which
we live. We cannot reconcile ourselves to the opinion
that two or three thousand years have passed, and yet j
our race with so many means of progress has uot ad- ■
vanced,- -that so many hopes and aspirations cliuging to !
our humanity of a coming future, are to be rendered void. 1
In many of his inferences was not the speaker mistaken. !
He referred to Homer, atd yet in matters of history ;
i Homer Is not con.- nlcred reliable authority. His heroes !
• and her ines are regarded by many as fabulous. Troy j
has no certain existence in the past, and even the poet j
himself has been supposed a myth. Again, are we not
justified in the absence of such proof as it would be easy
! to render, ia believing that the rail road near the pyra
mids spoken of never had existence but in fancy, and :
were not the musical sounds said to have been emitted ;
i by the statute of Memnon, like the responses of the Bel- 1
phian oracle, but the jugglery of Egyptian priests, and j
may we not suppose this to have lieen the cae when au
thentic history informs us that the head of the statute
was .-buttered by tbe king, Catnbyses, with this charge
against it in his mouth ?
In closing we have to express the great pleasure we re
ceived in listening to this discourse. As an intellectual I
effort, it wafar in advance ot anything of the kind we :
ever heard. If we differ in opinion we can still admire
the talent and research which illumines each Rage,the '
humor which sparkles in the right place,aud the learning
which graces the whole performance. It is truly a gem
in literature.
THE BRADFORD COUNTY MEDIOAI. SOCIETY, ;
met at the " Tabernacle " in Tern town on Wednesday,
July 11. lsijn. The following members were present:
Brs. HOLMES, BAUSONS, MILLS, ALLEN, CI.AGETT, MOB
UAN, M\I>ILL. RT.T-s, COIU-HR, HUMKT. HOKTON, MASON.
The i're-ident, Br. HOLMES, presided, and read an in
augural itdilri-s.
Br. Bi.ts.s, reported a ease of Inflamatlon of the liotve!-.
Br. AI.I.EV, it case of Uterine Hydatids.
Br. t't.AOKTT, a ca.-e of Blennorrhogia.
I r. HOHTOV, a case ol Bscudo Phthisis, with Utero-i
Gestati n.
Br. HOLMES, a ca-c of Dipthcria. also a case of Biliary j
Calculi.
Dr. M Aiui.r., a ca-e of Hypertrophy of the heart, with :
enlargement of the Thyroid gland.
On motion of Dr. MORGAN, a Committee was appoint
ed consisting of Brs. MORGAN, HOKTON, and AI.I.EV, to
take into considerati in subjects contained in tlie Bresi-j
dent's address, and report at the next meeting.
Br. M YSON , then read a paper upon Dipthcria, and Dr. j
k'ORG ts read nn essay upon Jaundice.
The Committee on Meteorology reported that they had
obtained $13.00 mi subscription, for purchasing Mel cor j
"logical instruments, and that it required §30,00 more to
make up the amount.
On motion, Brs. MASON, ALLEN, HOLMES anil DKWITT,
were appointed a Committee to solicit subscriptions to
make iqi the above amount.
The President appointed Brs. HORTON and COOPER, es
sayists.
The Resolution offered at the last meeting, was tiien
discussed by Dra. ALLEN, BLISS, HOKTON, HOLMES and
M \ nn,l..
The subject of Biliary Calculi was selected for consid
eration at the next meeting.
Adjourned to meet in Towanda, on Wednesday. Sep
tember ■'>, 1-bO. E. H. MASON, Secretary.
NOTE. In response to the invitation of Dr. HOKTON
and Lady, the members with their ladies, and other it>-
vitcd guests, repaired to the house of the Doctor, aud
partook of their hospitalities. At 2 o'clock wc sat down
to a sumptuous and elegant dinner, which being finished,
various sentiments were read by the Secretary and re
sponded to by Rev. Mr. COOK, and Brs. MADILI., ALLEN,
BLISS and HOKTON.
A vote was unanimously passed expressive of our
thank* to the Doctor, Mrs. HOKTON , and family, for their
generous hospitalities on this occasion. K. H.Si.
MR. I'm TOR— Dear Sir: 0;I Saturday even
ing, -I tily 7, in accordance with a call, the Republicans of
Wvsox held a meeting on Shores Hill, for the purpose of
forming a Republican Club. Appropriate resolutions
were passed, fully endorsing our standard bearers, LIN
COLN, HAMLIN and CURTIN, with their avowed Re
publican principle*. A Committee was appointed to re
port permanent officers for the Club, who made tbe fol
lowing report:—
I'resident - WILLIAM LEWIS.
Vice Presidents JOHN TITTLE, GEO. GARD JOSHTA
LAMFHEKK, W. A. RENELUCT, M. D. STRICKLAND, ALBERT
LENT.
Recording Secretary —WlLLlAM CONKLIN.
Corresponding Secretary -I. P. SI'ALDIXQ.
Treasurer —(lEO. T. GRANGER.
Executive Committer —JOHN B. II INKS, B. E. WHITNEY
M. J. CooLßArun, CHESTER PIERCE, E. R. MYER, DAVID
SHORES, C. T. Fr RUT-ON, N. L. GREEN.
The Club then adjourned to meet at the State Road
School House, on Saturday, the ith day of August next,
at 7 o'clock, p. m.
WILLIAM CONKLIN, Secretary.
- •
To THE CITIZENS OF TOWANDA. —Have you
ever examined the condition of our Cemetery. If you
have, did you not find it wanting some attention. Is it
not to much limited in the quan'.ity of land ? Would it
not be well to extend the present one, or take steps for a
new one with ample grounds ? Would it not be well to
call a meeting of the citizens of Towanda and vicinity,
to couaider t'. c subject. A CITIZEN,
" If there's a hole in your coata
I rede ye tent it,
A child's amang ye takin' notes
And faith he'll prent it."
San Marino vs. Louis Napoleon.
Tom Thumb vs. John C. Heenan.
Bradford Herald vs. Educational Editors.
It is a matter of regret throughout all creation, that
the Bradford Herald has given official notice that it will
not tolerate in any degree, any departure from the per
fect standard of excellence set up by Murray, Brown,
Webster, Worcester, Ac., in any attempt to improve and
advance the cause of education, which the above editors
may adopt. Not but what the Herald is entirely right
in its resolution the scourge by its "remorseless criticism,"
those unlucky old fogies from the field, and expose them
as charlatans aud quacks, if such they prove themselves
to be, It L but right that ignorance and incompetence
should encounter its just deserts, and be consigned to the I
scorn of the world for its presumption in undertaking to
enlighten its betters. But why threaten in advance ?
Why frighten a man from his path of duty and render
him incapable of pursuing it? As the electric eel be
numbs his enemy by a weird and ungentlcmanly trick he
has, or as a Chinese soldier scares an outside barbarian
j into tits, by hit discordant howls. Is it the part of a mag
nanimous foe to avail himself of such a seui vy advantage. \
especially when he knows his own power and proWCss
and the weakness of his adversary, and that the slightest
demonstration of hostility on his part, will strike him '
with a panic, as the thunder kills goslings, or sours milk.
For my part, Mr Editor, lam convinced that these chaps :
will do some good, aud lh.it we tught to tolerate their ef
forts, giving them a lair field for action, and, excusing
as far as we cau, in charity, their blunders. It is admit
ted that they have passport to our favor in advance, but
their " established reputations," and that all their lives
to the present. have been miserable failures when judged
by the severe rules of" rtwsorstless criticism ," yet, Young
America, though conscious of bis superiority, should be
magnanimous and forgiving, instead of annihilating lie
| should encourage—lustead of crushing lie should foster,
! for there is no error so hoory but it may l<e dispelled, no
| man so old but he may learn new truths, unless his men
tor disgusts him with his superciliousness anil arrogance.
I respectfully suggest the above considerations to the
Ilerdld, making no application of them, however, for it
is well known how folbeartng and gentlemanly its course
has always been, though driven to desperation by the in
. tolerab!" blunders ot its compeers In literature. How it
has winked at error in high places, and even now in its
I dire extremity of horror at being driven heading into the
I field ot " remorseless criticism " exclaims :
" The times are out of joint, Oh cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set them right." X.
KHif" We have been shown the State Trea
i surer* receipt to WILLIAM GKIFFIS, Treasurer of this
; County, for the sum of $8947,37, dated July it. lsfiO, be-
I ing the ijuota of State Tax due from Bradford. The
abatement tlins secured to the tax payers of the county
! is Sit:,37.
SAD. —The Elmira papers pivc the particu
, lars of a case of matrimonial infidelity and its conse
j quences, the parties to which were a short time since res
! idents of this place. The wife of a man, named BI.AN
' CHARD, residing in that village, aisiut two weeks since
i lelt her house, tilling her two children that she would
i bring them some candy when she returned. The next
that was heard from her, she wrote to her hu-brnd from
Syracuse. MR. BLANCHARD immediately repaired t > that
i city, where he found his wife an inmate of a brothel. He
j returned to Elmira in the condition of a broken-hearted
' maniac, and on Friday he attempted to commit snicide.
! He was, however, prevented by his friends, who suspect*
jed his purpose aud watched him. lie now iics in jail for
safe keeping.
ftST* Shipments of Coal from To Wan da by
, the Barclay R. R. A Coal Company. Navigation opened
May 7th, ISUO.
Shipments tor the week ending July 14,.. . 121'J tons.
Previous Shipments, 10050 •'
Amount for the -r.i-uii I'.'luu "
| Amount for same period last year, 10711 "
\ Increase, . 1 la.~> "
The W'aerrhj Advoetle, in its ficconnt
| of the Fourth of July Celebration at that place, ha- the
i following notice of Bin t.i Hose Company of this place :
" Directly alter the cordial welcome of our F-ltn'ru guests
1 the arrival of Biu-ta Hose Company, accompanied by its
I popular Brass Band, was announced. Mr. BANK-, in be
: half of our Firemen, received them, and 11. B. MCKKAN.
EB(., responded in belialt of his splendid company, in a
i happy, sparkling, and enth i.-i.i-tic speech. The sir re
I sounded agn!:i With chcrrs, and a grand, uniVcr-.il, and
i spontaneous panther was substituted for the usual tiger
; on such occasions. This was in commemoration ol the
j noble animal of that name, th it decorated their beauti
ful Hose Carriage. This Company well merits the nam"
; tlut it boars,, f lieing one of the moat attractive in this
! section of the country."'
ITA.ARM:R.RY FESTIVAL.—A Promenade Con
cert and Raspberry Festival will be given nt the Court
l!on-c t on Thursday evening, for the benefit of the Naiad
File Company, No. 2. The Towandi I!m.-Bind will
furnish the music, which is a guarantee tli.it the *• con
cord of sweet sounds " will itself ! e a great treat : will ■
tori kle the palates of those present, an abumui e ol
delicacies will be furnished, incident to such o v.,-i • s
We trust that our citizens wi'.l re-pond to this appeal
of the Naiad's with their usual lil erality. The boy-bav
demonstrated on more than one trying occasion, thei:
activity aud efficiency, and they now ask what they very
much need, sub.-tantials tokens of approbation to be
employed in advancing tlic usefulness of the Company.
ferT" A heavy shower, accompanied by hail,
j passed over the Southern part of the County, on Monday
i list. We hear of some damage to the crops.
An eclipse of the sun look place on
Wednesday rooming last, coming ofl' precisely at the
time advertised, a few minutes past 7 o'clock. The sun
appeared here about one third obscured, and the obscura
tion was visible for nearly two hours.
The path of the total exclip.-e was from the Pacific
Ocean through Hudson's Bay, touching the South (.'ape
of Greenland, across the Atlantic Ocean, then through
the northern part of 3pain, Algiers, Trq oli, Fezzan, part
of Egypt, through Nubia, where it left the earth wester
ly of the Red Sea.
FIRE AT BIXGIIAMTO.V. —About four o'clock
Friday morning, a tire broke out ou Court
street, known as " Place,*' and
occupied as a bakery, confectionary,' * carpen
ter's shop, grocery, two millinery r-tores, and a
stove, tin and sheet-iron manufactory. Seven
stores in all.
In less than two hours the stores aud a
greater part of their contents were destroyed.
Two thousand dollars, of which eleven hun
dred were in gold and silver, belonging to one
of the occnpants, was burnt up, together with
two gold watches.
The buildings were insured. The cautents
arc partially insured.
Washington Block adjoining was injured
some by water, Ac. lion. D. S. Dickinson's
office was in this block.
IN?" The Breckinridge men of Illinois held a
State Convention at Springfield Thursday,and
nominated a straight ticket for State officers
and Presidential electors. Resolutions were
passed urging the members of tlic party to pur
sue a similar course in every county and every
Senatorial District. This does not look like
the submission to the Douglas party which has
been reported within the last ten days as final
ly resolved on by the leaders of the Slave Code
Democracy of Illinois. They mean to wage
the war to the death.
THE SPLITS. —"Iis useless to make a detail
ed record of the " splits" and " bolts" amoDgst
the harmonious Democracy, f:>r they arc split
ting to pieces and bolting everywhere from
Maiue to California. If the Census Marshals
would undertake to enumerate the "splits,"'
they would find a formidable amount of labor.
•©-The steamer Vandcrbilr, with Euro-
I pean dates of the 4th inst., arrived at X Cvr
York ou Saturday night, bringing 285* pa s.
sengers, among whom was John C. Ileenan
The state of affairs nt Naples had improved
Tranquility had not been disturbed since the
' 28th ult., and the agitation had somewhaf
subsided. A dispatch from Turin says that
I Barou Talleyrand has been instructed" by hij
Government to insist that Count Cuvour
should give due consideration to the overtures
° f the °f Naples, relative to the forma
tion of an Italian Confederation, and the more
so as France had counseled these overtures-
We have but little news from Sicily. \o •><
tive movement had been made. The universal
suffrage of the people would be taken on the
question of the annexation of Sicily to Pied
mont. Numerous arrests had taken place at
Palermo of former functionaries. Oaribaldi
i had sent some columns of soldiers to re-esta 1 ,.
; lish order in the interior of the island. H;,
Ministry being unpopular, a new Ministry had
been formed. It is said a skirmish took pi ace
near Messina on th. 30th ult., between some
detachments of Garibaldi's forces of Rovai
troops. The same ardor for driving the Nea
politans out of the island continues to jireva;'
Agitation has increased in I!on;e since the
outbreak in Naples, and all letters say that a
crisis is imminent, as the attitude of parties
i toward each other was provocative of a coll,,
sion.
•©■The California Overland Mail, with
San Francisco dates of the 22J of June,arrived
at l'ayetteville, Ark , Thursday. T lie Repub
lican State (. onventio") had nominated Chas.
A. MVh' urne, W'm. 11. Meeks, Chas. A
1 u iif, nt;d Antonio M Pico candidates for
Presidential Electors The entire official vote
of Oregon elects Mr. Sliiel, the Democratic
j candidate for Congress, by IS vote-. The
Legislature i< from S to 10 Opposition major:-
ty on joint bailor, which defeats (ten. Lane's
j return to the f'nited States Senate. There
have been no recent disturbances at the Was
. hoe Mints.
THE GREEN* FIELDS ot the W EST. — It is
said that the whole West, from the Ohio t<|
the Missouri, is one va-t grain field. It is es
timated that the State of Ohio will have thif
ty milii HIS bushels of wheat—five million-,
more than it lias ever produced before—aud
that it is of the Lest rpiality.
•SrJobri C. 1 feylman of Williamsporf.
who had free access to the Land Office at Uar
risburg, under J. Porter Draw lev, has bee,, ar
rested on a charge of it nJFng [rr.jimju * „ 3 . „f
paper-, in tha , i';, eby winch lie aud other
speculators had become rich.
Hon. Nathaniel P. Hohart, Auditor
under Gen Ritner, di, d in Polt-'owrr. e<i> the. i
3d in.-t. lie was in hi.- s vicnth year, highiv
esteemed and respected and known throughout
the State as a man of iuteliigei.ee and great
legal ability.
Near Auburn. K. '1 . on 1!:o HI- of July, at the rrsiden"!
*,l the in olc's father. !!•>;, i.'uf-ti a Tie, MA-, tormeih]
of tli-Comity, l>y R-.v. J. rh Moore, Mr. CYRI.'J
FiH.'i'rv (f .r-iieriv of Ch.-tmU r-burg, I'a ) to M l
HELEN M. THOMAS.
l)n T'ir-f'nv hi-t, t,v Rev S. Nichols ALFRED \iri l
to Miss C U.'UEBYE FOSTER i!I of this piace. ' ''
D IEI\
Li Or'., ' !. mie ~, l-t,O, t fit COOK, aged 80 year*,!
an.l I' month-.
'ln IE -n . he applied the words of David in refer I
enre to Ahtier. who fell 1 y private assassination Km"!
ve not 'h it t i-., prince and a great man fallen I
j Israel thi- lay." 2 Psalm. 3-38. A Prince anl a jew: l
man indeed. nt be uise I:.i ge of stature, or of uud-r I
-tanding, or ■ <* memory infinite not because lie I
~ titled prince or cliieflain of ibis world, hut because to I
was " .in Israelite indeed in whom was no gu !c." becao-'l
be was mighty in the script**and he had " the rpir I
of faith, love. |> wer and of a sound mind.and because- I
was "a deacon ho had used hi - office terll, and parch a- I
to himself a good degree, and jr : e.it bolduess in the fatal
wlii -h is in Christ Jisn.-."--l Timothy, 3 12. lie m I
| sober, grave, temperate, checrfu], " not greedy of filtfyl
lucre, holding the mystery of the faith in a pure ecu I
'science." lie was a deacon < f primitive stamp.—Aoi-I
3 " Full of the Holy Ghost, and wisdom and faith I
He was great in the sight of the Lord ; a Prince of Go'l
who, Jacob Eke, wrestled and prevailed with God. "11l
is required of a steward, that a man be found faith
lie was faithful , and taithtulness is true greatness "I
I God's sight. For years, when tiic Orwell Church hil
no minitter, he led the worship >n the sanctuary, and at I
tended prayer meetings, coudurted the months conce: j
I for prayer, attended funerals, visited, conversed and pry 1
!ed ;'h the -i -k and dying, (,'nder all these varying
eum.-tar.ces, his countenance wore a solemn and ehecrfj
expression. His children and grand children rise up auS
call him blessed. His neighbors " praise him—rax. i|
have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all." h{|
i a time offrcvival among the children of his DeigU'oih" *
one se.ir 'hed after the cause, The deacon said.the m '-!|
ers had a female prayer meeting weekly, to entreat (1 II
i in behalf of these their child cu. Those women said.V'B
good dercon prays so fervently, and exhorts so feeling, p
they cannot tiuj melt. These little children, from she®
i sixteen years old. Held their prayer meetioga „t the ta[l
I school house, instead of playing, and one ot lao.n is as*-]
preaching in the Great West.
Here was apostolic times again. Tlie Deacon using b a
office well, and the woinea laboring with him, and her fl
ing him in the (iospe!. Thus for half a century, did ill
i spare tbe deacou, until the pioneer church of Orwell hi 9
-ent off three colonies, one in Warren, one in Pike, (I S
Raysville) and oue in ro'teiville, (East Orwell.)
then, in a ripe old age, full of days and of honors, he*' ■
gathered "as a sho, k of corn," into Goil's gamer
high—to meet there a wife, gone twenty-one years A ■
fore, an infant son and two daughters, wno departed* ■
j joicing in the triumphs of christian hope, ouc fsnn'jß
1 above. A son and three daughters remain, with nnme' ■
I ons grand-children, to profit by his instructions and" ■
ample. May they be and do likewise. " Blessed artl
dead, that die lathe Lord."
In Athens. July (>, M ARY AUREBIA. daughter of T i
J- L. ami Mary ANN COIHHN, in the seventh year 1
age.
" Thou gavest, and we yield to thee,
God of the Human heart!
For bitter though grief s cup may be,
Thou givest but our part.
O, thou canst bid our grief be stilled.
Yet not rebuke our tear-;
How large a place her presence tilled,
Iloiv vacant it appear-.
" We mourn the sunshine of her smile,
The tendrils of her love ;
Oh, was she loved too well the while
Ere she was called above ?
Our chastened spirits bow in prayer
And blend all prayers, in one,—
Give us the hope to meet her there
When life's full is done."