ftttna front all Rations.
— Hod. Jobn Sherman 13 elected United
State* Senator from Ohio to place of Gov. Chase resign
ed. The selection will satisfy the Kepnblicans of the
country generally. Ifr. Sherman entered Congress six
years ago, and has served with eminent distinction, hav
ing been the first Republican candidate for Speaker of
the last Hbnse, and Chairman of the Committee of Ways
and Means. He is about 40 years of age. The New
York Tribune says, •' Mr Sherman 's withdrawl from the
Hoose creates a strong probability that tho Hon. G. A.
Grew, of Pa., will be the next Speaker."
—Mrs. Lieut Slemmer is receiving honors
wherever she goes. The citizens of Burlington, N. J..
where she formly resided, and where she lately made a
visit, honored her with a serenade a few evenings shrce.
Just now she is staying in Philadelphia. Her appearance
in a privata box at the Arch-street Theatre created a
marked sensation.
— HOD. W. L. Yancey was a little while
ago presented with a cane by his admirers, and now
Benjamin Robertson, of Kentucky, has sent him a splen
did pair of dark bay horses. Is there any significance in
the fact that Mr. Yancey's gifts are all aids to travsl ?
—A mill belonging to Henry Brokerboff,
of Bellefonte, situated at Roopeburg. fell a few day.* ago,
eauting great consternation among the inhabitants and
aotne damage to the property. About twelve hundred
baahels of grain had been deposited on the upper floor
whan the underpinning gave way and the entire mass
came down npon the lower floor.
—Not half the voters of Texas voted on
Seceeston. Many dared not vote—and the time wag so
ehort that many could not, while thousands voted' under
l he excitement of falsehood. There is a strong Union
feeling there, among the Germans of the interior especi
ally.
—The Mobile Advertiser considers the erec- \
tlon of a sand battery on the land side of Fort Pickens, j
aa a very annoying movement on the part of Lieut.Slem
mer; and well it may, as it renders the surprise of the
fort perfectly impossible. }
—Gen. Wool has returned to Troy. He .'
expresses himself as greatly pleased with the bearing of (
Mr. Lincoln, and indulges strong hopes that a peaceful (
settlement of our troubles will be reached.
—Messrs. Yancy, Post, and Dudley Mann,
the Commissioners whom the Confederate States have
sent to Europe on the boot less errand of demanding re
cognition for the new Government from the Great Powers j
have decided to go to England by the way of Havana.
—The " Freeman's Journal," a Democratic
paper, rebates tho grovelling attempt of the Journal of
Commerce to "sugar o'er" the treason ot Gen. Twiggs.
—Lieut. Slemmer, the commander at Fort
Pickens, is to be promoted for courage, teal and efflci
ancy.
—Benedict of the Cleveland Herald writing
from Washington in regard to the President's reception,
•ays:—" The ladies' dresses had evidently bcrn often
etepped on, for there was a gieat breadth upon the floor,
and very scant patterns about the shoulders."
—The Augnsta Chronicle says that the
seceding members of Congress have been furnished with
their quotas of seeds, and it is to be hoped they will dis
tribute them among their constituents, as it is probably
the last favor of the kind they will ever receive from the
United States Government.
—President Buchanan, the day before he
went out of office, pardoned Sherman M. Booth, of Wis
oonsin, who was in prison under sentence of the law for
helping to rescue a fugitive slave.
—The different Offices for Lycoming coun
ty are nearly finished, and are being occupied. They
cover the first floor. It is expected to use the Court
Room, on the second floor, lor the Court commencing
Monday, 15 Aprih The bnilding is an elegant and cost
ly structure.
—The increase in the Shamokin coal trade
in 1861 is encouraging. The amount shipped to March
16, a period of about ten weeks, was 30,450 tons. The
amount daring some time last year, 19,440 tons, or more
than 75 per cent., and this before the opening of naviga
tion.
A collision at Fort Pickens is apprehen
ded as likely soon to occur. If the 400 troops on the
Wyandotte are landed to reinforce the garrison, accrod
ing to instructions, the Fort, aided by that vessel and the
three sloops of war now there, will be in a condition to
repel any attack of the revolutionists.
—Gen. Twiggs has decliden a Brigadier
Generalship in the army of the Confederate States, on
account of feeble health.
—Foreign goods, free of duty, are beginn
ing to arrived at St. Louis, via New Orleans.
—Hostile Indians in large numbers are col
lecting on the western frontiers of Texas. A military
force is organizing to protect the Rio Grande.
—The Arkansas Convention has decided
against secession by a rote of 39 to 34. In Miasotiri the
Union majority is overwhelming. Secession advances
crab-fashion.
—On Thursday evening last, a young man
named Jacob Werner, who was in a mill in Manheim
township, York county, was'caught in the machinery of
the mill and crushed to death.
—Marshall H. Bailey, of Elkdale, Chester
county, was killed, on Saturday a week, by the explosion
of a revolver which he was loading. The ball entered his
right eye, and passed through his head.
—Wm. P. L. Painter, Esq., brother of the
Editor of the Muncy Luminary, has been appointed by
Gov. Curtin, and confirmed by the Senate, Superintend
ent of Public Printing.
—The highest Railroad bridge in Pennsyl
vania is on the Catawissa Road, and is 128 feet high.
—On the 3d of March instant forty mil
lions of Russian serfs were liberated. The day before
they were all slaves.
—Captain Fox reports that the supplies of
provisions at Fort Sumter will enable Major Anderson to
sustain his command until the 15th oi April.
—A yonng gentleman graduated at Yale
College recently, with a white head and whiskers, who
had entered with auburn locks and no beard. The change
took place in one night, on account of the anxiety inci
dent to a biennial examination.
—The secession excitement seoms to have
absorbed most of the corabativeness of the Louisianians.
It is reported that there has not been a single murder
In New Orleans for months past, and other deeds cf vio.
lence are singularly scarce.
—lt is not true, as previonsly reported,that
Sam Houston has resigned his Governorship of Texas
Ho still claims to be Chief Executive of the State, and
will not submit to be deposed without a struggle.
The Charleston Courier says : " South
Carelin a cannot act worthily or honorably as a State un
til her flag has been placed over Fort Snmter." Why
then, don't she place it there 7 Three or four thonsand,
men have been encamped around the Fort for two months
threatening to do it, but have not dared to Are a shot.
—On Monday afternoon the body of Mrs.
Margaret O'Leary, at Lima. was found in a field near
that village. She had left home on Saturday to go to a
friend's, and probably expired on tbe way, of disease of
the heart.
—A correspondent from Charleston state*
that President Davis has made a requisition upon the
Governors of South Carolina, Florida and Georgia for
troops, bat upon what service they are to be despatched
§rabforb Oporto.
E. O. GOODRICH, ) 7.^00
R. W. STUHROCH,] t-L"TUKS
TOWANDA :
Thursday Morning, April 4, 1861.
SINGS OF REACTION.
Passion and terror—not reason and calm re
flection—have manifestly been the impelling
causes of the rapid and destructive progress of
treason and secession in the South. A strange
and violent political hallucination seems to
have seized upon the popular mind. Corrupt
and ambitious leaders point to dangers which
have DO existence,to wrongs which were never
committed or even thought of, to oppressions
which have no existence save in their own dis
ordered imaginations As in some forms of
insanity, they see fiends in friends, enemies in
brethren, danger in security. Fidelity to the
government, the Constitution and the Union
is put into the same category with abolition
ism, and the man who refuses to be a traitor
is set down—"spotted," as the phrase down
there is—as an enemy of the South, a coward,
a craven, a submissionist.
Now among a people so fierce,so hot blood
ed, so little accustomed to cool reflection, and
who pride themselves above everything else
upon their spirit, their "chivalry," as they de
light to call it, such impressions as we have
just alluded to, once lodged in the general
heart of the community, are well calculated to
lead to acts of desperation and madness, out
rage and treason. The North has so far looked
on as men look at a maniac cutting his own
flesh and tearing his own clothes. While the
paroxysm is at its height they let them alone,
hoping that exhaustion will soon supervene,
and that some degree of rationality will return
when the mad fit shall have run its course.
Among the seceded States Florida is tho
weakest by far, and we have accounts that
the people there already bitterly bewail their
folly, and would gladly return to the Union if
they could. But they are territorially cut off
by South Carolina and Georgia,and mu9twait
their movements. In Georgia and Alabama
the madness is only partial, and the same is
probably true of all the seceded States but
South Carolina; and even there a little glim
mering of reason may still exist,although kept
down by terror and inexorable intolerance. In
Texas the Houston party is likely to gain the
ascendency over the party of the Southern
Confederation; but whether the triumph of
that party would keep that State in the Fed
eral Union we cannot tell.
" The course of the Secessionists (says the
JV. Y. Cou>itr and Enquirer ) has been very
similar to that of the French Jacobins. They
have been guided solelv by a desire to gratify
their own interests.. They have utterly ignor
ed the wishes of the people, and when these
attempted to remonstrate, they have been im
peratively silenced. When some of the North
ern Alabamians refused to endorse their views,
they were told by Mr. Yancey that they would
be retrod. Their fear of the opinion of the
people has been wonderful, and proves how
little real fonndation the secession movement
%
possesses. The Louisiana Legislature request
ed that the Constitution of the new Confeder
acy should be submitted to the vote of the
people. The Convention decided not to sub
mit it. In Alabama the same game will prob
ably be played. In Texas the Secessionists
are pursuing the same tyrannical course, and a
conflict between them and the Unionists seems
probable. Daily evidences nre given of the
fact, that there is a large body of Union men
throughout the South which is only awaiting
an opportunity for expressing its sentiments.
It has been so completely overshadowed by
the Secessionists that they have not dared to
stir. By the Secessionists an expression in
favor the Union is regarded as but a form for
sanctioning Abolitionism. That these Union
men hare been thus trampled upon is the fault
of Mr. Buchanan. Had he only done his
duty, this conservative elament would soon
have overpowered the ultra one,and our coun
try would have been protected from the evil
which it now suffers."
EXTRA BESBION OF CONGRESS.
The question of calling an extra session of
Congress in the present critical condition of
the country is much discussed in political cir
cles ; but nothing has yet beeu determined
upon so far as the public are informed. The
great difficulty is, that of the thirty-four States
only tweaty-one have elected their members,
two of which, South Carolina and Florida, are
seceded States. Rhode Island and Con
necticut elect in April ; Virginia in May ;
Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, Ken
tucky, Tennessee, and perhaps others, in Au
gust. In April all the free States, except
California, will have their representatives cho
sen. Of the adhering slave States none are
now represented except Delaware, Missouri
and Arkansas. This is a bad state of things;
but it is the fault aloue of the States unrep
resented. Mr. BUCHANAN earnestly urged
this matter upon the of Congress
and the country ; hut not a single State act
ed npon his suggestion. Now if Congress
shall be called together, and they are not rep
resented, they have only themselves to blame.
General Assembly of Missouri,
Thursday by a vote of 61 to 42, resolved
that "it is inexpedient to take ai.y steps for
" a National Convention, to propose any
" amendments to the Constitution, as recotn
" mended by the State Convention."
FOREIGN NEWS. —Tbo tteamship Africa,
which left Liverpool- oc the 16th olt.,and call
ed at Qaeenstowu in the 17th, arriving at New
York, Monday morning. She brings £llO,OOO
in specie. The news is without special Impor
tance. An animnted discuwiou had occurred
in the Elcose of Commons, in regard to the
ueedless activity of the Police in investigating
the business of the Hungarian notes, thus ob
taining evidence for the Austrian Government
in its suit against KOSSCTH. The suit itself
had been postponed to the ensuing term of the
Exchequer Chamber. The debates in the
French Legislative Chambers were the increas
ing in violence and acrimony. The Ultramcm
tanists were indulging in unmeasured censure
of the Imperial policy, and denouncing the
scheme of Italian unity. The Spanish Cortes
had also its topic of angry debate in continua
tion of its treatment of the language used by
Lord PALMKRSTON in regard to the Slavetrade.
Ex Captain-Geo. CONCHA had denounced
America as the sole offeuder; and pointed out
the propriety of England directing its Anti-
Slavery crusade against this country. The
Duke of Tetuan declared that when the Span
ish Squadron took its place on the slave coast,
" every suspicions vessel,of whatever national
ity, England being no exception, should be
overhauled and searched." The movement in
Italy had assumed no new development since the
surrender of the citidal of Messina. The offi
cers and troops of that garrison, although the
surrender was unconditional, were to be treat
ed with all possible generosity. The capitula
tion of the Civatella del Tronth was looked
for hourly. The rescript of the Czar, receiv
ed at Warsaw, granting important war ces
sions to Poland, and promising others had af
forded great satisfaction. The mails from
India and China had not arrived when the
Afrixi left.
teJ-Tbe indictments against Ex Secretary
Floyd have been quashed at Washington, on
the ground—first, that there was no evidence
of fraud on his part, and second, that the
charge of malfeasance in the matter of the
Indian bonds was precluded from trial by
the act of 1857 which torbida a prosecution
when the party implicated has testified be
fore a Committee of Congress touching the
matter.
SUPERINTENDENT OK PUBLIC PRINTING. —It
affords us great pleasure to announce that our
friend WM. P. I. PAINTER, Esq. of Muncy, has
been appointed Superintendent of Public Print
ing of this State. Mr. PAINTER is well quali- •
fied for the position and we feel confident will
make an efficient officer.
SUMTER NOT YET EVACUATED. —Fort Sumter
has not yet been evacuated. It is thought
however, that it will be in a few days. The
course of the last Administration has made
it a military necessity.
FORT SUMTER—RETURN OK CAPTAIN FOX.—
Captain Fox, who visited Fort Sumter on the
requisition of the War Department, has re
turned to New York, and reported the result
of his mission It is very well understood
that he had a plan for introducing reinforce
ments, which had been submitted to members
of the Cabinet, and was regarded as a meas
urably practicable but attended with the pro
bability if not certainty of collision, which con
stituted the chief objection to its adoption.—
He is perfectly familiar with all the approach
es to the harbor of Charleston, having been
long connected with the coast survey, and had ,
practical experience as the commander of one
of Aspinwall's steamer. Ilis scheme did not
contemplate any serious danger in running
the gauntlet tf the batteries on the islands
which guard the channels, but only in landing
the men and provision at Sumter, after it had
been reached. If a lire was opened upon his
transport from Fort Moultrie or the other |
batteries, it would be necessary for Sumter i
to silcuce them in order to discharge the re in- j
forcement. Any attempt, therefore, looking
to that object would almost inevitably lend to
bloodshed, and before resorting to it, the Ad
ministration would be constrained to expect
that alternative. Even if successful without
great loss of life, nothing would he gained
but the retention of a fortress which has only
a local value in protecting Charleston, and is
of no national moment whatever.
Captain Fox is fully impressed with the
courage, integrity, and is sincerity of Major
Anderson, with whom, however, hiscomunica
! tion was necessarily limited, as Governor Pic
ens sent Captain Hartatein, late of our navy,
as an escert with him to the fort, who kept
; within earshot during most of the interview,
J or, at least, near enough to prevent any free
I communication. He consideres that the tort
can be reinforced either by millitary operation,
which, of course would require a force not at
the disposal of the President—or by the strat
egy already referred to, with its attendant
hazards of a desperate conflict. The supply
of provision now in the garrison will probably
enable Major Anderson to sustain his command
reasonably well until the 15th of April.—
From all the facts disclosed by this investiga
tion, it is manifest that Fort Sumter must be
abandoned, or civil war inaugurated. Captain
Fox is cautious, intelligent, and well informed,
and was brought to the notice of the Govern
ment by Mr. Aspinwall and some of the prin
cipal ship owners of New York and Boston.
FORT PlCKENS. —Notwithstanding all the
assertions which have been made the adminis
tration would follow the order for the evacu
ation of Fcrt Pickens, it seems now to be
pretty well understood in Washington that no
snch course will be taken. On the contrary,
it has been determined, to hold that, as well
as the other forts in the Gulf now in posses
sion of the Government, at all hazards, and
the necessary orders to that effect will soon be
issued. The Southern Commissioners now at
Washington, after consulations, have come to
the conclusion to "wait a little longer" for tbe
course of the Administration to be decided.
S9* Toe Banks of Philadelphia resnmed
specie payments on Monday. The country
Banks have, as yet, only partially followed
tbir example ; and the resumption cannot,
therefore be considered general.
LOCAL AND GENERAL.
LOST. —On Friday evening lost, between
Rockwell's and Powell's stores, a Lady's Black Cloak.—
The finder will receive the lhauks of the lady by leaving
it atlliie office.
CACTION. —As some medicine is reported to
have been taken which baa proved unsafe, it is important
to guaTd against the possibility of such results. Therefore
whenever any medicine is needed, the public may confl
dently rely upon the safety and goodness of Da. PORTER'S
llumt Rtmcditt which have been used during a long
practice with the happiest effects and astonishing suc
cess. MKDICCS.
APPOINTMENTS. —Among the appointments
lately made at Washiugton, are some of local interest.
L. P. WILUSTOK, of Tioga county, Associate Justice
of the Territory of Dacotab.
Dr. A. HCMFHRLV, of Tioga County, Special Mail
Agent.
HOWARD SFALDINO, of Troy, as Route Agent on the
Williamsport and Elmira Railroad, from Elmira to Port
Clinton, a distance of 197 miles.
EDITORS REWARDED. —Our friend ALVORD is
not the only editor who bag been invested with the
dignity and duties of Post Master. At Wellsboro' HUGH
YOL-NO, editor of the Republican is the fortunate appli
cant.
THE POST OFFICE at this place has been re
moved to the Argus Bookstore, which has been Tery
neatly arranged for the accommodation of the public.
Mr. Postmaster ALVORD will make an attentive and oblig
ing officer, and demonstrate that it is not absolutely ne
cessary to import our Postmasters. The office, which
has for the few past years been a sort of foot ball to be
kicked about at convenience, has, we trust, found a per
manent location.
llov. ULYSSES MERCUR, President Judge
of this District left for Montrose, ou Saturday, to hold
the April term of the courts of that County, which com
menced on Mouday last. We have no doubt that he will"
gain the good opinions of the people of that County, by
his display of legal ability, and the energy and prompti
tude with which business will be dispatched.
J. G. PATTON offers for salo bis house and
lot on second street, near the College, on a credit of five
years. See advertisement in another column.
TAVKRN lICRNED. —-The tavern of X. T.{TIT
TLE, in East Sraithfield was burned on Saturday morning
last, the tire being communicated from the chimney
Very little of the contents of the house were saved.
RAILROAD lIOCSK —-In another column will
be found the announcement of "mine host" of the
" Railroad House," to which our travelling readers will
do well to pay heed. Mr. JORDAN has had the necessary
experience to qualify him to " keep a hotel," and his at
tention to the wants of his guests cannot fail of giving
satisfaction to those who may stop at his house.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY —This excellent
Magazine for April is on on r table. The "Professor's
Story" is concluded. In the May No. will be published
the first chapter" AGNUS O. SOKKKNTO," by the author
of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," This romance will be continu
ed each month throughout the year. Prof. HOLMES, au
thor of the " Professor's Story" will continue his contri
bution. Send for the Atlantic. Address TICKNOK A
FtKi.i>, Boston, enclosing Three Dollars ; or to new sub
scribers to the REPORTER we will furnish it at Two Dol
lars. Send in vonr names.
®-The " Farm-r and Girdner '' and
American Bee Jmi>-nal'' for April, have been received
Every page of these handsome monthlies is filled with
matter of deep importance to the men who cnlti vate the
soil ; or who are engiged in the interesting and profit
able occupation ot Bee Culture. The publisher, desirous
of having them thoroughly introduced,will send specimen
copies of either or both, without charge to all who may
desire it. The price per year ot these journals, is One
Dollar, each. Where both are 01 dered at the same time,
they are furnished at $1.35, with a handsome booh as a
Premium Address A. M. Spangler A Co., 25 North
Sixth Street, Philadelphia.
NEW PHASE or THE DIFTHERIA —A new and
somewhat startling- phase ot the diptheria has
manifested itself in this city; we hate heard
of bat two cases of the kind. It consists in a
complete paralysis of the limbs of the patient.
A little daughter of Dr. Hall, of the Asylum
was attacked several weeks since with the dip
theria, and after a severe and protracted strug
gle, recovered from the symptoms generally
apparent in the disease, but her limbs have
been paralyzed and her speech so much affect
ed that she is understood only with great ef
fort. It remains to be seen whether the par
ylisis is permanent; uo change hag been observ
ed in several weeks. Another child, residing
on William-st., daughter of Mr. Hoskins, is
affected in the same manner. This is a novel
manifestation of the diptheria, in the section
of the country, although the U. S. Medical
Journal, just received, cites several cases of a
similar nature in the East,and states that they
are rapidly becoming of more frequent occur
rence.—Auburn Advertiser.
SALARIES OF FOREIGN MINISTERS. —The sal
aries of the ministers to London and Paris are
$17,500 each; to Madrid, Berlin, Vienna, St.
Petersburg, Pekio, Turin, Mexico, and Bio
Janeiro, $12,000 ;to Santiago and Lima, $lO,-
000; to nil other courts, $7,500. The consuls
at London and Liverpool have a salary of $7,-
200; at Ilio Janeiro, Havana and Havre, $6,-
000; at Calcutta, Paris and Japan, $5,000; at
Hong Kong, Alexandria, Foeehow,Vera Cruz,
Panama and Callao, $3,500, Glasgow, Frank
fort, Constantinople, Tripoli, Tangier, Amoy,
Niagpo, Labaina and Valparaiso, $3,000.
S& * The following diplomatic and consular
nominations were made by the President 10 the
Senate, March 20; Minister to Austria,Anson
Burlingame, of Mass.; Minister to Denmnrk,
Bradford R Wood,of N. Y.; Minister to Bel
gium, Henry S. Sanford, ofCt.; Minister to
Rome, Rufus King, of Wis., Consul nt Havre,
Jas. O. Putnam, of N. Y.; Consul at London,
Freeman H. Morse, of Me.
*6T Several of the most important missions
were filled, March 18th, by the appointment
of Charles Francis Adams, of Mass., 41iuister
to England; Wm. L. Dayton, of N. J., Min
ister to France; George P. Marsb, of Vt.,
Minister to Italy; and James Watson Webb]
of N. Y., Minister of Turkey. William 8.
Thayer, of the New York Evening Post, has
been appointed Consnl General at Alexandria,
Egypt, with a salary of f3,500.
Charles F. Adams, our Minister to
Eogland, is the third of his family who has
represented the United States at the Court
of St. James. John Adams his grandfather,
and John Q Adams, his father, formerly
tilled the position.
J9The intelligence reaches os from the
West Indies by the Quaker City, which left
Havana on the 25th nit, and arrived at New
York Monday evening, is of the most startling
character, and almost rivale in importance to
the United States the events 'whieh are trans
piring within our own borders. Spain, it
seems, is disposed to tnke advantage of our
dissensions, and oar consequent indisposition
or inability to enforce the Monroe doctrine,
and is takiog measures to restore to her do
trains some of the fair possessions which she
has heretofore lost throngh adverse fortune.
Sao Domingo is the first point to which she
has directed her attention, and we now receive
the astounding announcement that a virtual
annexation has already taken place. During
some time post, it appears, a system of colon
ization has been quietly going on, large bodies
of emigrants being introduced upon the island,
with the view of promoting dissaffection to
wards the existing Government, and otherwise
furthering the interest of Spain. On the 16lh
inst. the Spanish flag was hoisted, much to the
astonishment of the blacks and native popula
tion, who appear to have been taken entirely
by surprise ; and on the 23J, immediately on
on the receipt of the news at Havana, the
Spanish frigate lilanca suited to the assistance
of the colonists, fully armed and equipped,
and with a large number of troops on board.
She was to be followed as soon as possible by
two screw steutn frigates, with an army of 5,-
000 men, when the " protectorate," as the
Spaniards are pleased to term it, would be ful
ly established. It was ulso reported that a
.large additional military and naval force was
on the way from Spain to Cubn, to be ready
for any emergency iu which it might be re
quired. The Island of Hayti is indicated as
the next point of operations.
TKXAS. —Dispatches have appeared in some
of the papers, stating that Gov. HOUSTON has
actually commenced an armed opposition to
the behests of the Texas Convention. Al
though these statements have been premature,
our latest reports from Texas indicates that
they may become true at any moment. Gov.
HOUSTON evidently intends to give the Seces
sionists some more trouble. He still considers
himself the Chief Executive Officer of Texas,
not withstanding the action of the Convention,
by which lie was deposed. On the 21st inst.
speeches were marie at Austin by HOUSTON
and Hon. A. J HAMILTON, late member of
Congress, in which the Convention and its acts
were severely denounced, as were also the
Southern Confederacy and its new constitution.
We do not learu from our dispatches how
these speeches were received, but the simple
fuct of their being delivered at the capital of
the State, when the Convention was in scs
sion, is significant.
ONE CENT POST OFFICE STAMPED ENVEL
OPES. —The Postoflice Department has been
notified by the contractor, that the cheap, one
cent stamped envelopes combining the new im
provement of the dissolving lines are now
ready for distribution.
These envelopes are chiefly intended for cir
culars, and have been issued in response to
memorials from publishers and merchants of
New York and other cities. They will, during
the present week, be distributed among the
most important Post offices for sale by them
at one dollar and ten cents per thousand, ex
elusive of the stamp, which is a reduction of
forty cents per thousand upon the rates of tbe
present one cent stamped envelope comprising
this improvement.
THE COMPLEXION OF THE NEXT CONGRESS — ;
In case it should become necessary to call a
special session of Congress its complexion
politically, will be a matter of some interest.
The new Senate numbers 29 Republican mem
her, to whom Kansas will add two making 31
Republicans, L 3 Democrats. The House nl
readv consists ot 99 Republicans, against 54
opposition of all sorts Connecticut, Kansas,
New Hampshrie and Rode Island may he ex
pected to add 10 to this number. The Dem
ocrats already are 47, and 50 more to be cho
sen, with three or four doubtful. Unless the
revolted States return, the Republicans will
have a cleat majority in both Houses .
BOLD ATTEMPT AT BANK ROB CERT —Tbe
New York Exchange Bank, at the corner of
Greenwich aud Dye street, was entered by
burglars after the building was closed on Sat
urday night. The robbers hired a cellar ad
joining the bank about a raouuth since, for
which they paid $l,lOO rent. They dug down
and went under ground about seventy feet until
they came under the vault of the bank. They
then dug up and took away the foundation of
the vault, which was constructed of stone and
iron, and succeeded in getting into the outer
portion, but they failed in breaking through
the inside iron chest, aud hence failed to get
any pluuder.
A MAN LOST AND FOUND DEAD. —On Tues
day, the 15tli inst., Andrew Jorden, residing
on IvettleCreek, Leidy Township, this county,
left Werts' public house to go home, iu com
pany with three or for other persons. They
took a rout leading twelve or fifteen miles
through the woods, and by some means separ
ated from each other. Jorden did not brrive
and search being made, he was found dead,
on Saturday the 19th inst., about eight or ten
miles fiom the place from where he started,
and only a few rods from the direct path.—
He leaves a wife and five or six children.—
Lock Haven Watchman.
ONE reason why the world is not reformed,
is because every man is bent on reforming oth
ers, but never thinks of reforming himself.
VIED,
In Taflon, Grant Co., Wisconsin, of Th/pkoid Ftvtr,
March 5, 1861. GEORGE A. BURNETT, aged 22yearn
oue month and four day*.
He leaves a wife and child and manv warm frien '* to
mourn his departure. He was lorraerly from Bradford
County.
In Wvsox. March 28. 1861 of Consumption, MAR! AM B.
wile of Peter Laplaut, aged 41 years and one month.
For filtcen years Mrs. Laplant has been a member of
tbe Baptist Church in this place, and although she had
been sorely afflicted she was ever wont to look to " Him
who doetb all things well" for consolation, and whea
called away from tbi* vale of tears she died as she had
lived,with her faith unbroken In the merit* of her Savior.
" Blessed are the poor in spirit; for they shall inherit
the kingdom of heaven." Co*.
iicto Snfoertfsfmmts.
HOUSE FOR, BALE
THE subscriber offers for sale, 0n .
credit, hii new bouse on second *t r t
College. For further particular, inquire *i r !! Ur , t *
Store. * c "■ Dn,
Towanda. March 29, 1861. j Q, p ATT „
EAILROADIIdfIr'
Near the Barclay Railroad t„ minu , J
PENN A
rr R. JORDAN respectfully i n f ornw
X. • the public tnat he ha* leased the we'l-kn
ern stand formerly occupied by M. T. Cckrivr
lower part of the borough of Towanda. which h
been refitted and thoroughly re furnished, he in?
patronage of the public with every confidence is '®'
can give entire satisfaction to sack at nut r*. „
with a call. ■*
Hi* BAU will be kept stocked with the Gstomiv
LIQUORS, and the bent brand* of CIGARS *
Kxtenitive stabling is connected with the hoa„
reliable attendants will enly bs kept. '
No pain* or expense wi 1 be spared to deserve the
ronage of the public—and tbe charge* will >*> 'J J*
ble.
Towanda, April 1, 1861.
~ R. ~M7~ : WELLES^"
(/.at e Senior Proprietor of the Tiota Pn,ni i.
farol Works.)
Has Recently Purchased the
ATHENS FURNITURE ROOMS,
AND
Cabinet Manufactory.
and will give hi* new business his [writonsl *Uttia i
with tbe assisUnce of
Mr. A. O. Hart, as Foreman,
he will strive to increase the popularity of this
KNOWN and favorite establishment.
A Splendid Assorlment of Giotb!
We hnve on hand and shall always keep the Tit'
BEST ASSORTMENT OF
Bureaus. Secretaries, Book Cm
to be fotiud within 100 miles of ns.—all of ourownu-.
rior manufacture. Come and see them.
SOFAS. TETE A TETES, LOUNGES. EASY CHAfe
MAHOGANY CHAIRS,
and Chairs of Every Description
Extension Dining Tables,
MARBLE-TOP AND CENTRE TABIC
(anything you may want in thai lint.)
Then again look at our BEAUTIFUL SETTS C |
Enameled Chamber Furnitau
of our own manufacture—goo 1 enough for aur ASK
CAN SOVEREIGN ! 1
Bedsteads, Beds & MatressJ
BEAUTIFUL MIRRORS, I
Looking Glasses, Plates d: FmM
ELEGANT SQUARE PICTURE AND OVAL PF B
GRAPH ER VMES,
a ltd floods too numerous to mention. I
We shall at all time* keep a full supply (4 aitfjrl
i-hed aud furnished ROSEWOOD, Ai A HOG IX Y >,
NUT, CHERRY and COMMON
READY-MADE COFFINS,
All orders, for Coffins of any description, ,],,
and price, riiall be exj>editiouly and satisfactorily I
We keep a GOOD HE \RSE, ready it all timr '■* I
at low rate* ; and can attend and conduct fuot.iin? §
where within 20 miles.
N. B. All article* of onr own manufacture a
ranted : and ail other Good* are care!tiUv *elwW* "I
the stuck* of the best and cheapest manuisclurtn.ji [' J
Middle and Eastern States.
PRICES CHEAP FOR CASH, I
OR SHORT APPROVED CREDIT.
ev Oo not buy elsewhere till at leust you
intil our stock of Goods.
P. If. ;:E|
Athens. Pa.. March 28. I*6l.
Mansfield Classical Semi™
Mansfield, Tioga Co., Fa.M
TIIE SPRING TERM of this In:H
will commence April 2d, 1861, and
teen weeks.
E. WILD MAN. A. M Prinriw' I
Mrs. H. P. It. WildjiaX Precepts* Bp*
Miss E. A. Chask Music Tcvu^H
Mr. ISAAC STICKSET Penmaait; EI
EXPENSES.
Tuition (Primary) per Term Ckß
Common English '
Higher English and Tjinguages.
Music. Piano or Melodean 'j^B
Use of Instrument
Room rent, per term
Fuel, per term * ■
Incidentals, per term Jj
Board in private families, per week
Every possible effort will be made, both bj'.titlM
tees and faculty, to afford as good advantage* *•
! had iu any School in the State. The Seminary;
i process of completion, which will enable u* V>
very best accommodation* to i;u
of the Spring Term. Particular attention *
to such as are preparing themselves for teschi-; J
who have sons or daugliters to educate, will A'
, send them to Mansfield.
Tuition payable one half at flie eommencfmmtJß
' term, and the remainder at tbe middle, or
arranged.
All kinds of produce taken in payment forb-B
brought at the commencement of the Terra.
price.
For farther particulars address the Princips' J
Vacancies in the Kacnllv will be filled immei*B|
"Rev. N. FELLOWS.r
A.J Ross, Sec'y. March 21,1861.
Burbank's Bakerj!
THE subscriber respectfully inform* t&'B
lie that he has resumed the managenw
above establishment, one door soulh of
House," where he is manufacturing
CRACKERS, El
of every description, sncli as oyster. milt
bntter, water, pic-nic. Graham,"sugar, wine
crackers. Also, Rusk, Buns, Butter Rott>.
diau aud Graham
BREAD & CAKE, y
of all kinds, constantly on hand and madet"
attention of the citizens of this place aad 1
called to the above, and they are assured dial
always be supplied with any of ibe-e articles- I,Jm
Wedding and Social artl
will be funiisbed with every description
Fruit, Pound, and fancy CAKES. Tivern *
Grocers will he*upplied on terms a edranut"
any other establishment in the Slate. In cooo* I
the above he has an
BATING SALOOff, ■
where everything in the line will be served *'
who may favor him with a sail.
Thankful for past favors he reMW tftwv
tinuanoe of tbe same. UENKV A-
Towanda. March 5,1661. _
BUT YOU& OAJLBSN * sS H
AT ■
Ibave the largest stock 3nd
tiardra Seed* ever offered for !* '* '
It is a well known fact that a large p
Garden Seeds sold throughout the con J
rior, and often worthies,-. In view
ken great pains to procure
Fresii and Reliable Se ■■
in fact the hest to be found ui
ply a want long felt in this cowmum
creuse r own salt* ID that line.) ■" H
Seeds before purchasing elsewhere K
r REMEMBER THAT GOOD SE -
MOKE THAN POOR ONES. 0l T?
*-WITH GOOD SEEDS YOl I '
VEGETABLES.
KT WITH POOR SEEDS NOV I