A 0 'NEWS PROM • ALL. NATNIa. , —The 'O'Sasslian 1.1 ) 00e ;loamy Sill be only 9,7uu talileslong., • —Vinnie - Beam Is going to the Vienna Exposition.. • - I The early crops in Virginia are Awing by bsi weather. —The San Francisco school Wind has discharged a school =harem for swearing. •• .I.—Last year's conicription in Bas amanntedto 12k226 men. • • —Nobody who uses tobacco can belong to the.colony, at Skiddy, Xenia". ; -..Brigham Young is &slung a tour through the northein section of Utah. I —A Bestial paper advises its rea ders not to lull the calf that lays the golden ogg." • I —The estimated expense of the yietthii Exhibition is sight and a halt million dollars. - L —two women have - recently emu- Utittcasuicide in Pins bemuse they had the - tooth ache. • . , A —SontVem planters find the pro l , ';inetion of pralines mere profitable than either , Jheat, corn or tobioco. _ . New York polioeman shot a 3,000 Bengal tiger Which had escaped frotnits 'cage while being landed, last newt.- -The people of a Kansas town have given a bail to raise money to pay their minister. —A. railroad baggago insurance company has been !brined in London, with a capital of ono million. —There are 10,000 Chinese in flan Francisco, and it ti estimated that they ocupy less thanlTOOdwdlings. —The supreme court of California . decides that the loss should fall on; the bent which pays a "raised cheat." I , 1 -A. coroner's jury in Missouri lately retnrned a rdiet of "came tehis death from calling Bill Jackson a liar." • 1 —There are twenty-five stove firms /a Troy, and each 'ono advertises , "the best atones in the world.", - 1 -Jowa adds to the post-Ofitte list a] new] village with the •romatie name or rat \Tomlin's Send." , -41.rscl'artington says that she never had the email-pox—not she. She was inoculated yaws ago by an cecnlist. , • 1 -, —lt is said that female composi tion "set. up" their copy veri - rapidg. being anxious to get the last word: —lt is considered cool tc, take a man's hat with his name written in it, simply' because yon want his autograph. - , , • —He who lads no newspa i pers of Loy kind i 4 owly spared of heaven that he may 'e d it on 'a New York jury. 7 —James B. Beck, meniber of griogress fron;Hentucky, was originally a slave t .rseer in that State. 1 , =The crnited States produced „o ver sixty millions of the precious Metals in 1 872—three millions, l more than in 1811. of ' —Judge Verne ' Itfari i ld• and Messrs. Upson and Monroe of Obio have reins• ed , to take a oent of pie extra back pay. _ ' . —Professor 4grassiz ham l % said that Niagara will run Ory in nineteen I,centuries. the Niagara haekmee have raised their fare in c °nate-mum: :1 - • —A reporter . the Poughkeepsie tctgle interviewed•Ortnter menagerie and left inept of his trowsers against the ban of the, age occupied by a hyena. —lndiana whisky has improved 80 . / or cent sauce the drought set In, and now cuts hair without being strapped or otherivise haCing its . edge touched up. —The Superintendent of the cen sui-pnts the loss in :theOate war, North and South, at 850.0 1 10 rrien—tbe Onion army lost MAO/Omen and the Robela 350,000. . • —A pathetic indication of tike ap p roach of Spring WAS noticed in Bat ger, the et licr day. 4 boy as seen sitting on a snow hack 20 feet high, ying a kite. —An Indiana Grand Jury has ' n dieted iwenty-onejminiatera for failure to re am marria,e lice reit with the proper curb- Cates. *. t..—Greit agitation prevails luneng mil Polish peasants lin Russia through au un founded report that; serfage will again be iq trOdund. —The overseers of the poor in a Vermont town set down in their annual report a chii.ge of $3 for "taking paupers to the me. The Cherokee county (Iowa) safe is locked, and 'the Combination lost, and the officials are adiertieing for somebody to pick the lock. *l' —The strength of the Italian army ou that let of January, 1873. was 536.914 men, of which 445,176 belong to the regular forces, and 191;738 to the militla.t —The first 1! regular hank was established at. Venice, in 1157. The Bank of Genoa was established in 1407; that of Amster- dam in 1609; England, 1694. —A Kentucky paper, in reporting a wedding, a.sya that the bride way tint partic ularly handsome. but her father threw in seven mules, and the hualmind was aatiefled. —Alftirs on tote ,St.- Louis, Kansas City and Northern Riilioad are becoming more stetted. audzo faith r trouble is apprehended. Several of the strikers are in jail. • —A new trial has been granted in a murder case in Sientmehto on the ground that ajor3 man slept during the add,rtini of the pri4oner's conned. , —"Bill," , stiid I Bob, "Why that tree called a weeping 'willow?" "Canso one of the sneaks., plagnythings grew nearonr school house, and supplied our master'with switches." --A manufacturer .advertises a patent sh c that will prevent horses from "ball• ing," Spines says that is not a new Om as Mrs. S. has used a shoe often to stop the young Spinere' hauling. • —A Vermont' man finds bear raising a good' business. He can get $2O for t 1.4 hide, sell the meat for s3o,.make 125 out of the grease and is paid $l5 bounty by the State for killing the • --James P. .Wells, the head and trout or the American gambling house recently broken up in Paris. was, ten years ago, a minis ter in good rtanding, and had Charge of a 31aasachusetts church. —The Forty-third Congress will have 172 new members. Will those 172 new members brand themselvesis fit snoop.sors of the Forty-second Congress by taking $1,600,000 more out of the Trossury? • —A wagon, on which was an anchor' weighing 2.06 pounds, and drawn.by heavy taut crossed the Connecticut river on the ice, from Glastentmrg to Rocky Hill, a few days ego. —The--Catifornia wine crop of 1871 is nearly a million and ii half of gallon& Of this it is expected that tiro-thirds will be exported. yielding an average prioeof seventy - - 11re sente a gallon. —Several new companies are organizing In the east to manufacture sewing machines, and it IN predicted that sixtv.ars dollars machines will sell at thirty l ilve dollars within a year. —Ther:New York Mail, which is tuna a punist. tells us that a favorite hotel is to be kept this season at one: of , the watering places •••by the widow of Mr.—. who died last summer on a new and improved plan." . —A rbinoceios for Barnum's "World's Fair" arrived in New York from Europe this week. He is six feet high, nearly twelve feet long and weighs about four tons. He is nearly as largo as a full sized African ele phant. —A truthful exchange says that a man 101 years old was late yin Dayton, Ohio "looking for an opening to go Into business." We a/mold think the best place for .that aged turn to look for an "opening" would be. in a et me tery. Erreh, the defender of Strasbourg. now seventy-one years old and of Shy-three cerrs service. has been *worded a p.-noting of 9000 francs. which Is the same • --tint as was recently given to General Tro. • —lt is rather funny to mark the Similar opinion Bismarck and the Pom have of each other. The former says the Pope is a bigoted. Ill4istared old man. 'shits the-latter describes Bismarck as a persecuting Colossus. —Senator Chandler, it is said, Intends calling ap his rtwolutki authorizing a committee to investigate. during the recess. whet leeislation IS necessary in the way of snbsialerfor steamship companies and the re vival of commerce. There is considerable op- position to the resolution. • -Here is something ner:. Inventor hes attached to a pair of b arber's shears an elastic , hollow ball. which is im pressed by the operation of cutting, acid cur. rept of sir, forced out from the hall, is direct. d Along the edges of the blades. said Uwe swwfbe frevissate of tub , as fart as IlsWari • • fradfordltporlet .Towanda Mat *,iige,)% 27, 1873, . 1111DITORIls 0. GOODItICIIL ' 111. W. ALVORD 11.11DIVIIC.M1ITY. The new county bill was up for disomadon egaitt,'Oli Wednesday last, and Wail passed to third reading. Maj. Darrrr made an able and 'vigor ous speech against the infamous swindle. His argumenta, added-to those of Mr. Mug, which we publish elsewhere, would have eonVinced the Members thatihre bill ought to be detested, bad ittiut been for the fact that a majority of those Voting for it had their miens in their'pockets. It was Omply ridiculous for lifri BROCKWAY . to stand up with all the effrontery of a brazen harlot, and de clare than hid read the bill at the request of a fellow member, and had but recently decided to support it, when every member on the floor knew that he pocketed the lion's bore of the fond d sp n=ed so liber ally by Mr. HERDIC. Mr. 'B. a won derful conversion to the interests of Hiram is only equalled by that of the javemle and sanctimonious Wows, of Union county, who has been in the habit of sending up a owl at all legislation spired hit by Pars& It now turnb nit that his only moths opposing the great meniptilator was to " makeltim come down." After pledging himself oppose the bill and without any no tice to the contrary,, until within a few hours of the r time when the Vote was taken, he arVayred himself with Buocinat and loss:pus in favor of the bill which he had d(nounced as a swindle and an outrage. If he can satisfy, his people .that he acted from honed and pure motives, he will probably be returned next win ter. Bat if wen like PRIZE% BROCK WAY Ma WOLFE,' 'San be endorsed by their tonstitnenit it will be an evi dence that integrity and virtue are departing from the people. Tbe election of GEORGE S. Botir*ELL, to represent the State of Massacnsetts in ,the United States Senate; serves to keep up the list of pure and able men who have given .so much eclat to that State in years gone by. Massachusetts long since adopted a method of Senatorial rep resentation ,whiCb so long ruled at the south, and which has been the means of giving; great influence to the States folloWing it. This is,- to select the purest; and ablest men theg have, kid keep them in the united States Senate for a long term of years.,. By this means he State gets the benefit of their increasing exper ience and influence, while they have a strong induceMent, to keep them selves free froual,oorruption and to devote their best powers to their duties, in the probability of retaining their honors SG long as good behavior continues. Senator Stamm and Vice President Wlisox have long been colleagnes,—and their influence has-been very potent. Mr Bot,rwk.u. is a worthy enecessor of Wu sox. He has had eiperience in the House of Representatives, and wielded a 'Pow erful influence there. His career as Secretary of the Treasury -has been highly honOrable, and there is every reason of believing that his Senator ial career will be equal honor Ole with that which has already been developed, - BLAME AND THE SALARY STE s L.—The Washington Republican of March 11th, - thus relates how .Speaker Burn avoided all connection with the recent back-pay swindle: Afket. Mr. BLAME had interlined the word "hereafter," in the clause relafing to the Speaker's salary, it was found that there was some doubt whether that would be sfficient to cat off his back pay—for , the reason that the law would take effect as soon as signed, and some boars before:, the session expired. Taken in consideration with the clause "including all mem bers of the Forty-second Congress," there was at least ground for appre hending that the Speaker went to the Conference Committee and bad the word 'hereafter" struck out, - and the words "after the present Congress" inserted, thus finally and effectually cutting himself off from all possibility of the $5,000 which others • would have voted into his' pocket if he had simply remained silent. The Phila delphia Ledger thinks Speaker Baksx's conduct in - this matter de 'serve's "honorable mention." oft.. According to the report of Adjutant General Rtisszu., for 1872, the National Guard of this State now nnthbers fifteen regiments and six battalions, comprising, with the un attached companies, three hundred and twenty-three company 'organiza tions, viz ; eight cavalry, six artillery and three hundred and nine infantry. Of the regimental organizations, nine are in the First division, one in the second, two in the Ninth and three in Eighteenth. The aggregate of the National Guard comprises '126 com missioned officers (ificludingdivision, brigade, ieginiental and -staff.) and 13,566 enlisted men. Mr Pd. Iluxaor., of England, has under his charge two societies . of operatives. One is made up of total abstainers, in the other, Liqnor is used. In the former the' average time Of sickness in a year to each Member is one and three-quarter days; in. the latter it is eleven mid seven-eighth 177. 'there are 4 deaths in the for mer to 15 in the latter. V idle the totel abstainers lose by sickness $3 0 500, the drinkers lots is $28,769. This may be taken as a fair comparison for other places. t aim consew wreak°. • ctirriApoildent of the Sun and bernocryd says that one of Pcral Esanto's agents traversed Cascade township recently to get a petition signed, as he alleged, against the proposed division. After the same_ bad been signed by twenty;one per sons,• it *at' discoVered that the pe tition was in favor of the division; which, according to the new role, would cut Cascade township offirom Lycoming. The citifens of Cascade who were thus deceived are very indignant,and have signed petitions against the triad which PETER Hmunc, and his infamous tools propoPe toccarry out. It is astounding . that a decent !let of legislators : who have sworn to perform their duty to the people a' large, can be indnced after all the revelations of Priat HERDIC'S rascali ty and knavery,. to look witb favo'r upon the meaunres he is trying to secure by fraud and money.-:—Regis eir, Williamsport. Our exchanges are some of them engaged in a lively discussion, as to whether a Congrcs-inan why cannot conscientiously keep the bact pay recently, voted, can pi.operb take it and kive . it away. The only argument we have peen --aavanced in favor of thi§ method of disposink 'of other people's money , is that it ilia', hurt the feelings of other .Congress men who are willing to pocket the money. But why save the feelings of theae gentlemen 4 If they can be made ashamed - of themselves, the sootier it is clone the better: Amther suggestion is made that Congress men May omit to take the 'money without making_ the fact This might be-done from pure mod esty, but the modesty is misplaCed The country is entitled to know th, name of every man %•.-tio• refnies , to touch this pinniter culled back pay. It is not fair that t16.1-o who refuse it and those who t, Ik t t should be in distinguishable. such con %ision the inmieet i might suffer while the guilty would stand some chance of escaping public con tempt.—N. Y. Times. =::: BURNING OP THE ERIE DEPOT rig hatsv Crrr.--:Ahont, noon. on Friday last a fire i:roke ont in the ferry. house of the Erie Railway . . at the foot of Pavonia, avenue, Jersy City. A strong gale was -blowing 'from thf West, and the efforts to check thf flames proved unavailing,_,and thf trips . o4,the ferry boats were aban doned. The large wooden passenge3 - depotin the rear of the ferry houst toukAri3 almost simultaneously, and was destroyed.. Several trains were . hastily, removed uninjured. ' The'new freight depot, recently erected, was also consumed,' with a large aiuonnt of cotton, as was. the old fri•ight depot, heavily stored with freight. TAYI f OR'S saloon Was par tially destroy,d from locomotive sparks. All vessels in the vicinity were removed. The fire was got under about half past two. The depot i for western bound freight was savul. All the books and papers of the company were saved. The freight bnrned consisted of 1000 bales of. cotton, 200 hhds tobacco, and some oil cake. The loss by the fire is estimated at half a million dollars, including the following : New freight depot $2O 000; cotton $lOO 000; old freight de pot $15,000 :tobaco and other freight $50,000; passenger ' depot $l5 000: ferry building $12,000; ferry bridges $10,000; - Thiou's saloon $6000; with the exception of the latter, which is covered, the amount of insurance is nnascertained. There was no inter ruption to traffic by the Erie road. *sr There never was a contested election case decided by the Legis lature which has given such popular satisfactiou! as the decision of the Luzerne cases has elicite3. The for gery, perjury and other criminal arts exposed, only go to show the'desper ation of the Democrscr in their of forte to carry the last October elec tion, Now the exposure and punish ment, of their crimes, works with sal utary effect,' and will do more to pur ify the ballot-box than any influence yet invoked.to accomplish that most desirable object. Hereafter, .partic ularly in Luzerne county, honest men will be more vigilant during • an elebtion. oft. The appointment by the 'Pies West of Judge SHANNON, of Pittsburg, as thief Jnst'ice of the Supreme Court of Dacota, gives very general satisfaction. The Pittsburg Gazelle says ' : "The Jnage is Well qualified by years of experience and legal training for the position, rind will not fail, should he accept - the place, . td fill it with dignity and in q manner to re flect credit upon the Judiciary and upon hirdself. The compliment of the neruination by the President ifv the more conspicuous from the fact that it was not sought; and the:first =intimation the gentleman had .of it was the notiae by the press." A - 2 - W.No other Liberal was so completely subdued by.the•resnit of the' last Presidential election as Senator Scathtz. A year ago he was the most noisy. offensive and pugna cious man on the floor of the Senate. During Ithe last session he rarely uttered a word in support of - or op position to any measure or question. He has at length been heard from. In the CALDWELL case he has made 'a speech favoring the expulsion of that Senator. agi.. The •largest dismissal ever made by any President at one time will be made on the 20th of May next, when sixteen hundred Asses sors and Assistant Assessorki of In terns - ' '43 discharged. AMMIVAIS WAVERLY -Tai: - 4:1A:la mai D=oYED L~"~~ About t *Mock tm Tuesday morn its. a ice *lke oat in the , steam bakery of Mamma & CO. in the rear of the Oph;a House; Waverly. is the Are was discovered in an un occupied room, it is supposed to hive been the work of an incendiary. The fire rapidly spread to the wooden buildings in the vieinityi and ea the town has nothing het a. poor hand ,engine, ltie Beautiful - 1413ra Hale 'was sour) in rnintr. The OperikEfotts.- Co.'s lose is $30,000,0n which there is insurance of $15,000. The other losses are -u foll s ows : MAlilaltie bakery : hi:trued. Loss $12,. 000. f Insurance $B,lOO. liAntas' Jewelry store, loss $3,000. Inaurance $BOO. Cter this) store Was the resfi making e-tahiishittent of Mrs. HAVFN, 'who wet with a total loss. Thic stores in the Opera House were occnpied by the following per souti TalrrAes6iber shop. .Loss $l, 5000. No insarance,PEason Hvaroza- Matt, groceries provisions. t 12,500. lusttranee $lOO. Claus and Surtoa grocers. toss $6,0011 IRsur- Lnce $3 1. 000. Einit . undman'a bittbei .hop. Loqs $B6O. No insurance. FERUCSON billiard saloon. Loss ‘l2; 000. Insurance on tables 0090. Sirens' Restaurant. lima $2,000: Insurance $1,500. C. H. ALvoan, Rqstanrant.. 1.,05s $5OO. No ininr- Aiked • PARSA tiALL'b OC was damaged considrably. at least to the extent Of 'l2 000 ; insured. The first floor was occupiod by William &ca mel, Jewelry, end R. St. Pod, fuer ithant tailor. The second floor nnoc copied. The third floor, occupied. by L. O. O. F t ., who sustained most of he &tuning - C. The Waverly Hotel, 'adjoining the I perit House, dernaged,sl 500 ; cor ned by insurance. The jewelry store of D. D. KNAPP, the post-office build ingthe Facbange .block do other building is ihe vicinity wink dam aged by the heat, though the' losses are fully covered by insurance. END OP THE CALDWELL CASE. Senator CALDWELL, of Kansas, against , whom charges -of bribery were pening, resigned his eat 'he LT. S.. t. Senate on - Monday last. The . Governor of Kansas, to whom .; - he resignation , was tendejod, was in Washington, and immediately ac oepted if, so that all proceedings Oil •he lubject in the Senate we're Closed. Tt is hoped the p-ecedent ,set by the Sent during the last session willl tenkto purify that' body, and ot9Yent' the election of Senators by the use of money. THE ABANDONMENT OF THE OANAL. The Elmira Advertiser does no• understand why s-tne of the inbabi 'tints along the North Branch Caps 'eel restive at its abandonment. Rothe sus years ago one the officers of the Penn. & N. Y. Canal and R. (10. said that in " his op;nion the Panel .wonld . dry tip ; not that the company wrinla abandon it, as they would keep it up as long as the peo ple would keep boats in it." The saving clause did not mislead the hearers, as it was qnite apparent that the company could drive the traffic off from the line whenever' they chose to do so: They kept np, the canal for just as many seasons as they required its services, in gradine for their Bailroad, and distribatinv the iron and ties. therefor. After that the canal dried up more ranid ly. end the lest season—that of 1871 —the canal was in order for brtsi nesa three weeks before the close of nav;gation. Owners of bo'ats, warehouses. &c.. slongThe line saw all of this studied drying up process, but were 'power less to prevent it •, they were alike flowerless mhen the outrage9us bill for its final ahanaonment . wsta intro dived into the Pennsylvanitt Legis- I .tore ; their remonstrances were sought out and suppressed or de qtrflyeil and all movements looking to the indemnification of private in terests rejected, snniibarily, if nn with contempt. WAR the company's claim to he released so equitable so to be beyond question ? or what were - the potential reasons - which made it necessary to wait npnn the President.of the Pa. &. N. Y. Canal & R. R. Co. to learn what ebeap sop he would permit to be thrown to the people, clamorous outside. , " The RAMA R. R. official previously quoted. said that the railroad interest would he the leading interest of the coun try, and we see that it not only leadi, but drives as well. M. Editor, the day will come when the people will be found to have soma rights. and also the pow er to make their rights respec44l. When that millennial time does come, the "Pay Car" Will not be run to Harrfabnrg, or UT :Washing ton ; the Legislatures will not wait upon R. R. Presidents in a body, hat in hand, to inquire what may be their good pleasnre, - neither will the individual membert thereilf stand rip to vote on questions between the railways and people, with their pock. ets lined with Railroad passes. . itm.. A report from Harrisburg says that some time in the " wee small hours " of Tuesday morning.the New Connty bill passed the' House by a majority of six cotes. Did PRIZER, BuocrwAr and WOLFF, go out and hang themselveg? - The House of Representa tives of the State of Massachusetts, has refused to revoke the resolution of censure passed upon 'Mr. Sunni for his attempt.to have stricken from the figs of the- army the names of the Union 'victories. Wu. Fo•TEs, the man who murdered a Mr. Pvrtass in New York, some two years since, paid the penalty of his crime on the gallows on Friday 144. vs, A majority of the' Counties whose elections were held on Friday last, appear to have voted in favor of license. BPEEOII OF ROIL. E. 8. NUL When the bill for the division of thelottittrirsi - raiu■ R l l Hcr.PP on the lath - Ur litss„ of this minty, made to aide and stittunint tative speech in opposition-to . the eietuotra „Demi we gite Fen:Laths find them in thg Legudalite Jdtraal: This is a bill introduced here in. the behalf or interest more especially of persons not yosidonta of Bradford count i tl and it is a bill which involves the iuteresta bf thlit earinty; amid throutwhich this Houle , qr Lion its members; seem .by their votes etinde tt disposition or a willingness triviolate its territorial integrity, and they propose to perpe trate this outrage and wrong in op posit.on to its people. _I might as well ahoy( to this House. POW as at any other; time that if this law was divested of all qtiestions of petkinal interest, that out of the eleven thousind five hundred toters in Bradford cotinty there *odd hot be one thousand in favor of it. I un derstand and other gentlemen on the `floor also understand how easy it is to excite interest by motives of pe cuniary gain, and by presenting to the people advantages to be secured in the location of a county seat. We bad it contest tri Bradford county about thirty years ago or in eighteen hundred and forty. We bad a tote thirty yeaks ago there . ' upon this question. . There was a project of division in augurated then, but the feeling in opposition to the division was so strong that no gentleman could be nominated unless he was supposed to be against it. As far back as 1840. Stephen Pierce, Esq., was sent here as a Demotinitin fepreeentative, but When he came here and undertook to divide the couuty—a question not entering in any manner into the eau viva pending his election —he igno• miniously failed in accomplishiog the object, though the only member from the county. The' will of 'our people manifested through remonstrances was fully made known in the Gener al Assembly, and so great *tart the respect of that liocly at that time for the declared wishes of the people that he failed utterly in accomplish ing.his object. Ho - was again before our people for the same office the succeeding year in eccordance with the universal usage , of the Democrat• is party to re nominate and ;maul) its Member of Assembly for the sec and year. So bitter_was the feeling of Our people against the effort he made for division that, though per sonally a popular and strong man, he was succeeded by Judge; Elwell, -Ind be made a yearling. The Legis lature at that day respected the wilt .if the people ; and whenever made known definitely, without any un certain sound, his • follow-members did not hesitate to respect that will instead of that of the member. Had they divided it as was then propos ed certainly the part that would have been taken would have been com paratively respectable in size and form. How is it now ? It is " with out form or comeliness," without symmetry, ugliness pervading every part of it, besides the larger portion of this territory is a howling-wilder ness, especially that part taken from Lycoming county. There are five members now representing on "this floor -.the territory affected by this measure, and supported by the mem bers from adjoining counties, and all sustained by a large majority of the people they represent , who are ar r.iyed against this scheme, and yet we are told, in the face of all these facts, that a majority of this House are ready to perpetrate this great wrong upon the people we represent. do not beleve this allegation to be true. Do gentlemen suppose they can escape just censure and suspicion of wrong if they pass this bill under each circumstances? If the wrong Is done it will be perpetrated at the instance and mainly. in the -interest of a inan not a citizen of the territo ry, and a few men,' his accomplices, interested in 'the proposed county seat. I speak of one man, he who learned to make clay pipe at ,- Pipe creek, in the State of. New York, who came to Cogan House valley some- years ago, and is now seeking to lay, green pipes in the, city of Harrisburg —a man who haii brought more dis grace on the Legislature by the man ner in which he seeks to secure leg islation than any other man iu t e , State. When he comes here to this Legislature he comes with no honest purpose • be comes here not for, hon est legislation ,• • he comes to preSent no claims in this matter having the support of the _people of the cowry ..hat it is sought to destroy, As ' have before stated this battle was _fought out in Bradford county, long rgo, and the people all thought the question settled ; and the questi o n nas been settled so far as the semi-' menta of the people' of the county are concerned, since there is as s ; most unanimous feeling in opposition -o any division. No one ever thought of reopening the matter again, until the discotery of this klinuequa Lund hole. Now it is claimed that the bill is in the interest of the people living inside of that territory ; bat I deny, sir, that it is in their interest. gradford county contains a pope's ion of fifty-three thousand settler ; there is embraced in her territory 'something less than-twelve hundred square miles ; it is a county free of indebtedness.. The county jail is just completed, and a tax was levied for that purpose—the commissioners deeming it wise policy . that, the tai. should be levied heavy enough to pay off all the cost within two years, rbat was done, and now the county is left where she was two years ago, When this enterprise was commenced —without any debt. Now, sir, the annual ordinary expenses of Brad ford county amount to about twenty fiv3 thousand dollars. That is all the expense she is subject to, unless -uch a necessity for such extraordi nary expenditures as I have spoken of occur. The tax 'upon the value lion of her property, necessary to meet ordinary expenses, is only ntiout five mills on - the dollar. I had some other figures which I desired to pre sent .to the House, but they have mysteriously diiappeared, as other papers disappear from the Himse. To continue, as I said• it takes about a five mill tax to pay the or dinary expenses of the county. Now in conversation with that 'gentleman last evening he said he thought they would not have to issue over one, hundred and twenty-thousand dol lars of bonds, eutherized by this bill, to erect the connty buildings and to pay the expenses attendant upon legislation. I suppor be bad refer ence teeth's legislation. Now, I say it is but fair to -presume, when' he admits that it will take one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars, that it will cost ' at least two hundred thousand dollars, aspielally when We consider. Ida ,Ordinarlly extravagant way of doing hu.intres, and &along improvetnewa I have nO.oomplaiut t' 11 ad with the way he hie el doing bnaiw-as, prdrided noes his own money it - is is habit of his, and of donne be will have latscind 'espen sive budding. thativili ()ampere fa notably with his large hotel_ at this point. tito hundred thouitandAol lays' will require fon the payment of ,an intet eat account annually, -fourteen thousand six hundred dol lars—add to this the ofdinary ex penses of holding - courts and - other elpensee, which could not be - less than Aitectn thousand dollars, and you have an =EMI heathen imposed upon these people of twenty-nine thousand aft hnndred dollars, which cannot be te'rlitced for tb next twee •ty years, for the reason that the bonds have twenty years to run be fore they are due. The ordinary expenses of Bradford county are about twenty-five 4bous _and dollars annually, and it is fair to assume that the ordinary expense: , of the new county will be equal to flfteett•thotia did dollars annually— ten thousand lea 3 tl:an those of Bradford county. „ The inssessedjalue of all the prop arty in the new county does not ex ceed one Million four hundred thous and dollars, and to support • this would make it. necessary (ko impose a tax on all the prot,erty ip the pro posed oew County of over twos per cent. I ask, in vie* of this fact alone, if there is any fair minded man who is willing, in face of the op. poirition to this rueasttte,.to impose such a burthen upon any'peoplel It he does he must have some other iu terest.at stake besides the interest',cf the people ial eater the new or the old county. It uoty be seitl that the estimate I have made is t , .0 high StippOse ti-An vie take Mr! Herdic's own admision that one nundred and tWentY,fi O ve thon , iind dollars oak' of the litms will be issued (whal I no means admit), making au inietest account to be paid annually of more than nine thousand dollars—add to this the ord , u4ry nnnunl espely4e of fifteen thousand dollars ilnd }cm Lave an annual burthen imposed upon these peple of twenty-four ilious and dollars, upon the new and sparse ly 1-ttled 'proposed new i county ‘ This is altnclat equal to the Whole ex , enses of the t.reseilt count, as it now stands. It is no answer to 3tha objection ws make in regard to this Matter for gentlemen to come here_ and hold up petitions which misrepresent to the House the sentiments of ..the people living in that district. They cannot justify the pamage of this bill. It is the duty of the Legishiture, if they have any di ty. at all, to protect the , :e people_ again3t the cueroachumots and exactions of men A, ho care Huth in„ whatever for the i serest of the people cxeept so fir as they can make thon available to advance their own seltish ends. I e.i.o conceive of no reasn. why this House iltould perpetrate this wrong nulessit will be through inotives that I do not wish to dwell upon anti concerning which I will raise no question. It.is urged here in favor of this division the people. of we:stern Bradford—the people, for instarce, of Troy—Wonld be. in favor of the divisionif they c 4111 be asmared that they coal be the county seat... I know of no town in Bradford.or any other couutyjhat .would not. Well, sir, we all know how men can be swayed 'by motives-of that kind, and perhaps they would be in favor of the, division of the cunty if they could be made the lodation of the• new county seat. 'lt is tue fail ing of human'tiature to beintinenced by motives of this - kind, yet their willingness would be no argument why the members of this House should vote for a bill of this kind when the great msj •trity are opposed to it. •If you will look at the map of the new county as prepared by this man yon will see that it is in the share of a soup ladle,•and of it is fol lowed out, it puts the county seat within four or five miles of the ulOrth ern line of the county. - Mr. BROCKWAY.• I. would like toiask the gentleman whether this bill locates the county seat at all. Yon say it locates it within four and a half Miles of the line. Does it 16 cate the county seat at allY Mr. MYER. ' I think can. be proven to . the satisfac , iou of any n id i tion man tha.tit does. Mr. BROCKWAY. - Does this bill do it ' Mr. MYER. This bill proposes three gentlemen for commisSioners and every one of those gentlemen aro known to be the personal friend of Mr. Herdic, and one, I am inform ed. is his business manager ; and the other man is a friend of his. if not a tool of his, in this tr.nsaction. lioes any man suppose that Peter Herelin would come to pass this bill and take an} chances about the : roes tion of the comaty , heat? If the friends of this hid are honest iu the matter, then I ask them Ito put an amendment to it providing , that the county seat shall be located within eight or ten mites of the geographi cal centre- That is certainly fair un less the bill is designed to advance the personal interest of one man in stead of the interest of the people. Now, Mr. Chairman, this bill has another very objectional feature con-, fleeted with it. It is that it studi onsly avoids taking enough of either one of the four counties to bring it within- the constitutional provision It is within the recollection of gentle men of middle age at least that this dividing of count , a, which bud -sprung np in Pennsylvania, had be come so onerous, _affording so many ficilitieri to speculators to make mon .. ey out of such projects—had become So grievous a wrong that there was introduced an amendmen• to the constitution prohibiting a , creation of any county in whichtiii i.• should be less than four hundred square miles. Now these gentlemen in . this case propose to create a county with a little more than four hundred square miles for the purpose of avoiding_ this constitutional pro Vi s As I have beforesaid, the matter has been agitete4'in onr cstmnty -be fore,Ttwenty-five or thirty years ago, slid the sentiment of the people was so strong against it that the; project was abondoned, and the peopli3 con t dered the vestion settled in our county. It i 4 in violation of the peo ple that this bill will be passed, if it is passed at all, and in violation of the spirit ofthe Constitution, if it does not viotate that specific provis ion by taking less than one tenth of the population from each connti . I will state as fact that when this mat ter was up in the committee, the at torney of Mr. Heidict asserted before that cominittee—l have a- right to speak in the case, it was done in pen session—he asseved ti at the reason why they would not. take more' than one-tenth was fortho pur pope of depriving the people of their right - to object, admitting that if, it were left to the people gt the eotmly, of coarse . that:th e y irdald not aonspfit. to the propoetal division, and.l ask if the r e is Any - reason - or justice in this course 1 1 •,.` Ur. BROCK WAY. I raise the point of order that the gentleman bas no right to divulge what trans pired !n- ` committee. tr. MYER. It Wan done in'open session ; any otfe was privileged to come in and go out, acid twenty gantlemen heard then what I have said. Of "coarse Ido not propose to speak of what oecurred after these gentleman were out. It was in open session that ,the declaration was made. Yet thetie people are here asking for this thing for Mr.- Hordic &let tha whole people of Bradford county, fepfesitiited by the best men of the country, &V "Protestigg against this wrong. Now. Mr. Chair man, I put it to this House - if the circumstances of the ape justify tbe ptstage of this bill! If it is - piissed it gill beep the interest 'of a few men This man who represent', this new county—has been here for the last four - creeks—has been occupying thf. committee roonis.4Sl, the House, and sending for the metnbers find dril ling them to vote upon the question, and has bad as his assistant that venerable and extremely pure man, Jim Burns. Since the propositon of advocated ,'by such menu, and hi made evidently In such interests, I d.) not see be r gentlemen who vote for it can - the suspicion of being engagpii in schnething that is no too pure f f 7 .-, not assert that I know that ti 14 as been anything wrong done, it' I doe know that the g,entlemen v pass this bill, throulth tha rouse cannot ePcat,e great responq'ulity, and be halite to the charge of being oontroled by improper itititteni4l. - Now. Mr. Coatrnian, fat the 'pres e:it at least, I will leave this question with the committee. I will, perh•ins. vet have soma amendments to offer to the bill.- GOOD NEWS Ititnit NOUIsIOAN SPAIN. Slaxery Abollsard_ln Porto Ittee...The Law to Take Effcet at Once' WAsinNoToN. March 23 --Secretary Fish to=day received the *following 4dis-) atch from Minister Sickles,* da ted' Madrid. Marsh 22 : "The imme diate emansipation law for Porto Rico passed- to-bight unanimously. There was great enthusiasm in the Assembly." lATIER-b-ENAEMOre PASSAGE OF THE BILL. MADRID, March sp —The Amenably met yesterday with :the understand ing. that the vote E . ihinild be taken on the tillolition of slai•ery in Porto Rico. A r.-solution was adopted at ,the be ginning of the sitting that the cham lwr would _not adjourn until the sub bad- 6-en disposed of. - Sevor Figueras•announced that the ministry had agreed to stand or fall aid' the measure.' - Contrary to general expectation the House resolved to commence the debate, and subsequently by a unan imous vow passed the bill for the im mediate emancipation of the slaves in the island of Porto Rico. The an nouncement of -the r&stilt was receiv ed with cheers. The bill declares that the Repnblic , of Sykin will preserye the integrity of the Spanish dominions, and pro-: vides that the emancipated.slayes in Porto Rico shall enjoy the political tights Recorded to' citizens Spain. The . goxernment took ample pre cautions against any disorderly dem onstrations in the city. A PERMANENT COMMISSION The. Assi-mbly is considerinr , a resolution for thQ appointment of - a commission, composed of members of the. House, to watch over the government, : after the adjourn; went of the Chamber. li/L:The following is a literal copy of a sentence which was . passed upon a prisoner in Westmoreland, county in 1786 : Conmruswr. shit I ludic'ment for manslaughs ter. Tr e bill. And n o w to . Jacob Rudolpo wjt. November Ist, 1786, A Jury b.-ing raped corrne t r wit : Samuel Parr, etc., twelve hoi , tst. & lawful men oho being: dilly impanelled tried, Chosen - Sworn neon, thou - oaths respectibelv do say that Ja.coll.itu. , &Apt' the Prisoner at ite liar is Guilty of the . Felony & Manslaughter in manner and form as he shazdot indicted_ • • Jro!gment that Jacob Rudolph the Defendent be burnt on the Brown of the lett bawl with the letter M. be imprixoned for one Month.pay tine of tivelt .filling-, pay the costs of- prose cution A :rive secunty for his good Behaviour do+ire apenritl u.,£100 Miscellaneous. LIST bF LETTEllS,mmaining in the Poetoffice. Towanda, Ps.; March 19, 1573. . Altdiews Edward II Botght %Ira A 11. and' ewe Oco 1' LeihJas /I..wm.n j S Miller Francis 0 Benjamin David Madden Janie, Boha, acid McDonild Js.mies Horn Etta Brord • rank 011n . r.ted • Ansel Cron 11 P CanylV L - ve_Wepley, Carkufr Amanda Phibppe }MCA A ;Cot:mail Elichal Phulips i hos -A 'Coo y rhos Reynolds Hiram Coort.l -Helm Ryan Kato Campbell Wilson 84-Pe, rt Rosa - Dougherty mike ' Richardson 11rs 111 V Bssm sly Miami Rand Iph BXrou r 'Deshor /rest Rockland Goo W g • Shores AdAnne De.tn"nd Sarah Stephen. Mary A Decker Debut Snyth.Or 0 D Simmiroa Edward F'ply John 811.1.r.W Fit. 11 P Or.y Bell 0 E • Steck Petrick , 4 G ritley E U Stetler •eo 0151EICEI Grace Gee, Sslsmin Almira Griswold 0 A Beartwood Win Bentley Victor D , Smith 0 8 • /filet Alison P . Up on Wm H , Medley Richard. When% Mary A Barris • m Waltmsn • • c•• • Hatch Hattie White rhos Heinle Miss LA . ' Walborn Margant ' , • -Hastings L P Walls•snt A 8 Johnson Caroline Weaturcok Chili:tick . • -- I It diner G W 1 , TIFLO FOR POSTAGIC. - .„W ,-- m H Underhill. Selma. Laaille Co:, 111. yrederiek Welatualtli, Sallie' Lie Po CO., M. i • Persons calling for •bore letters :will - say siker' ttaed, giving data of list. W. ALVORD, P.M. _ GO TO JACOBS' ;TEMPLE OF FASHION MAIN STREET, FOR LATEST STYLES CLOTRING. COOPS SIECIIVED INS ST DAT. Tou ' anda, MarCh 2?. 2873 , • t'lt‘lSl FOR tiALF. Ott tiENT- In N , •rth Dome; adjoining lan& of Jos46 Seeley and S C.. Mann. Terms easy. Enquire of J. P. ttiniL l 43. Mart 27.18711 t. - 1o -R SALP,.-4 am plice cut' tattling 1S acres in ilteirenerine, cassdy sr a county. Pa.. on the contemplated railosd from Binghamton to Du.bore. one-half improved and fh a high state or cultivation. the remainder fit van*, tile timber. white oak. chestnut. hickory- and pine. Batidraaa nsa ty new; • ino.sto.y bon* ninety finished. with a never-cading spring of vatic run ning into the house and . frorill, thence to road n sr the barn. The barn . lit Meg 'nth underground stable, carpenter shop, &c. rnit, such as apples and pea: ayes. Butter nuts L and hickory nuts in abundance. Only a few rods to.chnreb and graded school This could makes line home for • mechanic or family wbn wish to retire from active business rile and snood the .etnainder of their days in a men and liaPtir home. For firther part milers eddies@ L Bi , herd. Bir^til. UM Susquehanna county. Pa. or B. Boren, Troy. Pa., or Laos ,Qt e4 viva. Steven villa- Pa. .Feh.l9 R"''''''4' EsTATE ellEAP.—lfie Netted tini - ed offers tor age very. clte.p, the follow reiterd real estate: • roe contender 190 acres, mo'tly Improved, eltuattFd to Towanda tawnstdp, also one drotrr lot contstolos e' acres.. . One farm cnnttin tot 103 acres in deginin tofu ship. putts improved. - • - One Arm containing 110 acres In Wysta an • Boma townships. ' • _ .tine auntie and Int In Towanda Borough. Tsro houses In South Tovandkurar the borough Also two lots. •• _ . _ tau.lllls • JOBB .noprze. Now AlUrertisements. P R I '~~ . a ..- 1 8 7 3,' ~. EVANS & HILDRETIi ME !lime jest l'eietived their 4 FIRST SOCK OF REW SPRING DM GOODS AND WOULT. ... • ;' CALL SPECIAL' ATTENTION TO - THZIR Si tek Silks Black Alpacas, Diess Gibode, pomestics, Shawls, White Goods, Hosiery, Gloves, &c., Which They _are , tp4'erit4.• • AT POPULAR PRICES 4 . • EVANS ic intDRETH. Bridge Street Toerandz, Zimit 1 ' 1873 TOWANDA ANING MILL, Liu, BLIND, AND. DOOR FACTORY. The subscribers. tailing purchased the Planing Mill formerly owned by C. D. Camp & co.. and having thuicmghly repaired the name, are now prepared to do , , . . - . e , -.. 1 . P.l.4iiN.llo', . - MATCHING, • - sad to manufacture MOULDINGS, NEWELS, BALLUSTERS, &c., I■ the best-manner, and on reasonable terra! Persons from a distance can hare their tamier dressed to take back with them the lame day. . A large stock of SEASONED LUMBER ALWAYS ON RAND ALSO 1 SASH, BLINDS, DOORS, MOULDINGS, STAIR 11,1LLUSTERS,- SIDING, 'FLOORING, In fact everything in this line, aU of which will be sold cheap for cash. .. Ve also pay cish for luntbsr: For ,further infor mation enquire st our Pornlihtie 'Store ou Zalu Skeet. or at the Factory ooCharies Street. J. 0. FROST k SONS, t March! 12. 1673. THIRD ANN ti AL COURSE. I. O . -464' - rr LECTURE COISIMTITEg Make the followink . anriotintementa for the BEASOS OF 1117 A-3 ROBERT COLLYER, • Date , January 3, 1879 subject—.. The Inside Track." JOHN II..GOUGH, Data, - January 21.1873 Subject—•• EMI ANNA. E. DICKINSON,. Date ' 4 February 19, 1173. 1 . • Subject—•• Sillat'a to finder." Lill FREDERICK DOI:Mt - A SS, Date ..Febrnary RS, 1872. SubJeCt—.. E. U. CHAP , 'S 111:1d RrEZT VAUD gEtCLIED. will be The caber li.cta'ers it their Bengt-rex:La be secured. otherwise other lecturers will be engaged. " SEASON TWEETS, s3' 00. rkmeral &dm!Ratan . . ..... cants. Reserved 5eat5,.:.........' - 7. astits. For sale at litrl:prs Drag Stare.' COMMITTEE: Jav F. Its:Vaxasow, L. it Sow:. 8. W. ALTOII.I., N. P.. Towanda. Nov. 13. 1872. . • GLOVER p4l) TIIIuTHY SELD. Farmers and dealers will Ands good - stock of PEA VIRE - OR LARGE CLOVER. SEED, Werralied true to 1111116; also • .ohlo & State Clover,& Timothy seed Feb :1013 —At PDX lz MEBOIIli•& TO THE LADIES. ; Ku. M. E. anttllbOli, would respectfully in fo•-m the ladies pf Towanda; and trlciaits that, she is P' eP ve't to irliolleactnre knells of Artideial Hair at re skousble'rrrices, en,h as Switches, smuts, eurt., Puff. Frissetts. kc.. either from cumhin,a cr pre. pared hglr Residence on Third air. e•. nm tb of the rob 010 Cbw cii. All orders promptly atteze ed to. SatistaXoti guorauteed. M. IL ItOBINEION. Taitanda. March 27; 1873.307. HOLIDAY PREIENTS. il w rr• C H E s-. MO 1 :1 -1 -A FS - - : Cassimeres, LARGE AND DESIRABLE STOCK Embroideries, JEWELP:r! JEWELRY" CHEISTMAS AND NEV :EARS RESAWI;CG, &c. AT THE OLD 9T ND FORMERLY OCCPPIED BY llacejusl — eaired a large assorhlent of' •lovvir'; all the late.t,E9es.. Gobland Silver, from the cheapest t 7 the bct. Also a large assortment of liontetubtlr.tho place, two acorn sOnth of I'owcl. .t Co.'s, Towanda, ea. - L OOK H E R .11aviusr, bought the stock and fix tures of George Ridgway, at the old stand of the I ... _ i t would inform my friendi and coati:nen that I hall endeavor to keep on hand aae,ect stoa of . , . Cialan • C, 1 14.31131011.41:*9s - F HEADQt r ARTEES Fur anything in the tine id JEWEL E MUER ANDIPLATZD WARE. CHEAP ANL 13En FRENCH CLOciii: • GOLtt t AIS:'D SILVER ANEIIICAN AYD SPECTACLES, EYE GLASSES, OPERA CiL.ASSES., And a 101i:other -1, Torrancla, D. IR, 1R 2 OISE .-ARL-- NM NOW RECEIV.INC A-ft.--% 4 --OF-- SEASONABLE GOODS -TO RE-- SOLD AT LOW ITICTS: Towanda, October 23..157:: HUGUENIN BROTHERS, L A. WARNEA. American . and: Swiss •Wat - qll/-e" CLOCKS. GOLD, AND STEEL SPECTACLE); Watch;P, Cloelo=, aud:Jk•- • stlry esictuny repaired Wov.'2o'7 2 RED, WRITE: AND ELITE TEAS, COFFEES fl ‘ '? AN p FINE GROCERIES AN,I2 PROVISIONS is lach I will seftlnt tott , tin ?jct. • Thinking a p. nerens publi^ for then' s , rapst , Y for my 1 to tni.f..ftnne. I b .. ore by .riig i a.tt.gvn to business, to nicritp. rhatT . ct it , pat -I'o llo f ' • , Towanda, Mardi 12. 181.1 THE MOST SUCCPSSF CI; 1;01 1, ; and Monthly Makizine. Peutoreat', Voting Anierica. -Bran:int - watt inAtruct re _in. ireriLloirct stories. poems -puzzles. tractile. Lawet .41donale correspondence. etc...tune d l an its deuartments. is an ever uclentee t fami , y table of mstritletion and 8111 , 114 . 11:ellt copieslo mutat:mat Yearly $l. nr ‘ with choice of the fitdlowititt beautiful and valuable t' ruourns to e.ch aobter her; 4-. lit f.O ceht. et.tra: ce.:rem the fine Parlor CtireMOs.. wortb $5 each or Jae I. reahug Jevon e I:oek.. bound - to dot . p. worth $1 .. - id:pot4 free: Orli doe Icarldirt led t.....?- blaile.rocket Knife and a pallet of beat Paints, Feet rep; or a very.powertul br tdimounte tiabe cylinder, Itbry.tippecl aaJustable %tun uscop „worth posease l 6 cents: or- a need Steretwt!ye mtli A Aeries of %%Ow.. postage ti eentor an 0,: Litt Pito. te_rat h Alb um for bolding 50 )icturea p.l,tace lG .cents:_and valuable premiums for clubs Attires:: W. JENNINGS DEtlOhl *T: 838 Bro.Ad%sy. : , en ! Curt._ Feb.l2 WYONI. LNG SE3IINAIiY. It''.D - i ~.., . • COMMERCIAL COLLEGE. One of theilargest schools of the kind in the V&ttd Atatesi. Pieper's students for I 't.lit.:ge. O. adtddes • young ladies. Fnitlish biln:ches tlniroilettly tot lit. , t Gorman Protestor of music. Military taciici. Corlmercial ndlegr...~ thoromat rocrcAr.ti e iesttu• tion—:datioki. tutu directly from buplue.o. ,talal•h• men ,a. felegrephic demrtment-uheslualled. Spring, term opetis'April 8. 1873. .. Address Rev. C. copEttAVD; A If: President. or L A. RPR.OUIt. Praicitittl et Commercialcetlep ,e, ittngetom ____ Pa. - • • Feb to _____., , . _ • OR SALE --.A i , t , ry desirable prope•ty Carrp•owo. B-adt or,l 4" , Linty. Pl be bola. is In good onitr and the hrn on two %rate old 7be terms are Teti eitarnr fti flier partial:U*l . A amtv tn. Dr. V. Itninot, Capper:mu, Ps. • I= nutluivart BllO'S J.