HEWS TROY ALL WM • Gov. CO7SICOR has appointed Thursday, April 26, as a Fast Day is Maine• Ex-Passmgyrs Johnson's relatives are to place a monument over his grave. GEN. Nathaniel Church has served in the Legislature of Rhode Island - 36 years. As Alabama negriii has: been sent to prison for two years - for stealing one_ busbelof corn. Tits Snpretne Court of lowa lasdeci ded that divorce cases must, hereafter, be tried in open court. THE Chicago Journal claims that Sena tor David Davis is in perfect accord with President Hayes. Dr.. N. H. CAnT, father of Miss Annie I.ouise Cary. died_ in Maine on Tuesday, April 10. , He wars 70 years old. A BALI-twins firm on Thursday ship „pcd 03,006 tin cans to Nast mn, to be used 'in packing pine-apples for that market. Mn.. and Mrs. A. J. M. White and ono of their daughters. of New-Bedford, -Mass_ all celebrated their birthdays on Monday 9th inst... Joax REDINGTON, of Warner, N. 1.4...,,n0w 79 years old, is one of a family ~1* nine children, all' of whom are living, the youngest being 56 years of age. THE Ginngers of Texas are wanting to Iznim why. their corn, bacon, &c., are 'nocv taxed as they never were before under any previous State laws or consti tutions. - Tnr.'lowa Prohibitionists are to hold a State convention in Des Moines, May 29. They are_ opposed to any person holding.' office who is not a Prohibitionist. • SomC. small change counterfeiters have b-den at work in the Knoxville, Fenn . .. :Jail. They made the splAtais coins, and sot them out' by the e'rfe - of one of the, • Tnr. Northwestern Horse-Nail Com- Fitly. -Chicago. has filled -ordera'recently for its steel-fled:Theo:l nails for' English hardware dealets: Tim Nicholson Pity Works, of Prori-, (epee., are producing.7.siv hundred dozen' of files pet day, which is probably nearly up to their full capacity. THE Merrimac Silver Mine Company, at Newburyport, Masa; has struck a vein of gray coyer - south of their shaft, the richest one discovered, per as lizh as six thousand dollars per ton. . THE Texak cattle drive tor' the coin— ming season' is estimated at a quarterof a million head. - CANADIAN reputed to be worth $lOO,- 000-has been committed for trials on the chaage-of strafing' horse blanket. BEM • TITER& were exported from New York far England. on Saturday, 285,000 pounds of freAi beef . A Ilt - sstAs*.vatcir hen :arrived at Con stantinOple to take off -the; Counsels of Viat coentry as soon' ae war is declared. Dn.:- steamship Leo, from Savannah, been burned at sea, ana twenty-one lives are•supposed to have been lost. Two Frenchmen have patented a som iiiferuus apparates for ,ping travelers to sleep on railway trains. . , DiAiitosrA can be sent to the African ili,zzitigs and bmld for more L , than in Lon don; and that's attother- queer thing. A MAYOR out West-bas dertermined to kill half the dL,lcrs u f tile city, and tan tlu bides Nr;tlt thtr;=iurat .. do of the other half. TlTE.rentilation of the Fel:fewer Rept e- F!.Atatires will be attended ta. M;enabers ofConorrePt - will breathe easier now. • 0 Tiit.; smallest Bible in the - world ia Printed on thin' unbleached India paper, tin9suring 4i by •.2-1. inches, andtonly half ::in inrh iu thickness; ' - lIAAs, a painter, was fatlly in jured on Friday on the Lehigh Valley Railroad. near Wilkesbarre, SOME of the saw mills on the West Br:11101 . am in operation, but another flood is needed to brink the most of the hugs duvcn. - - - - . :JOHN SAITH, living near Pottstown, at, tempted suicide on Saturday by cutting his throat. Prompt attention has proba bly-saved his life. A NUISBER of Pittston familes hare clubbed together and arranr, , ecnith a Scranton house to furnish their provisions and groceries at reduced prices. A seEcrAt agent of the Post Office Department visited Pittson to acertain wl4O was entitled to be appointed Post master. - lle•did not leave any intimati4. A ( - OIIIIESPOSPET Writes that the very -f!(ers int'onstantitiople, }ean andbaggard ?ti hey always. are, seem to bait groll inoi-a.scragg2.and wan than ever. - Tur.lat.t. winter was the mildest ever hnown in Oregon and Washington Terri . tsly. At Olympia, oii - Puget Sound, flow ers have been in bloom all the season. otters WELSH, Mayor of Topeka, Kan says lie was-a guest at the Southern llotel, St. Louis, and that the fire was burning several hours before the alarm Iv:. given IT is intimated at Washington that if the Republicans'will agree to a reduction of the army to :5.1100 men, the Democrats will vote a deficiency appropriation bill. PIiEgTIENT in an interview de clares that ho - is Only carrying out the vie,ws.expres.sed by him in this campaign for Governor of Ohio in his Southren p9ticy, and that he intends "to stick to it. THE Porte in its answer to the powers . uses strong. language, and refuses to dis :(rm until Russia does. The declaration 4`f war is expected' almost daily, and both 3.,arties are preparing for active operations. NV t NI HARKINS,. a drunken miner, stabbed three. riseu in Altoona on Satur day, one, fatally, and was„ himself shot three times. Be will probably die: New .Tersey_ Senate, having failed to confirm the Republican nominations Of tloyernor Bedle, he thereupon advised them to adjourn, which they immediately did. A WIDOW in lowa, whose husband was turned to death. while nnder imprison- Inent . for drunkennes:q i . has obtained a judgement for $6.000 against the man who sold him the licnibr: Pr is estimated that over 2841,000 per sons are employed in connection with the British railways. Now let some one esti mate upon.the American railroads. Ir - is proposed' id. Germany tb make wall paper which will adapt itself to the - degree of- 11nmination of the room be eoniing darker as the room grows light versa. - - Ctramodore_ Vande.rbilt's . widow has ilted on.a Southern teur with her moth er. her sister-in law and Dr. Linsley, the late: Commodore's physician. The wid -0-.v has received her legmcy, and has pre sented the Doctor witlit-10,000. -Ai Rome a society has been formed for the defense of family principles.. This body confeis special privileges on 'those who are the fathers of three children, :and it has just awarded _its'civil crown to a lady named 3ladame, Bouillet, who has given birth - to her thirty-sixth child. THE Raleigh . --'ketts looks upon the establishment of a normal school in ,North Carolina for the education of teachers for the colored race as the "ini tiatory step toward the abolition of the " color line" in the politicaisphers." Tn Burlington Manufacturing Com. pan;', of Burlington, Vt., -have been awarded the contract of furnishing white Ilrandon tile and blac)conarble for the in the State Capitol, at Lansing, Mich., containing about twenty thousand THE Linen Manufacturing Company is .the great industrial institution of Willi mantic, Conu. The growth and impor t:lT:CC of the place is chiefly due to this industry. The company • already pays taNes on almost a million dollars' worth of property, amounting to One-third of the-total - town tax. - 31. FERDINAND de Lessetis spoke re mitly in Paris on the three . great enter prises which occupy the" attention of the civilized world, namely, a railroad across Asia, an American inter-oceanic canal, and an inland African sea. - - Tun women of Minnesota who are twenty-one; ye.irs gf age and citizens of the United States, now have the right to vote for all school ours, subject to the same requireMents of residences &.c., which are 'made for male voters at goner !. • - ' A nor of nineteen years and a girl of fourteen, in Sacramento county, Califor• _ nia, were so determined to marry, in - spite of the well grounded opposition of the parents of both that they ran away to San Francisco, hired a tug, and taking a minister, went three miles out to rota and - Ifai the union made legally. or at. least paid Neportet ZDITORS t E. co. commas. s. W. ALYORD. ?muds, Ps, MdcMlay, April 19. 1877. !MISTING OF "TEE OTA317)10161 COX. _ The Republican County Committee met pcnsuant to ptilionntment on Tuesday afternoon, March 11. After a tall discasston of the matter the following resolution was adopted : Resolved. That the Chairman call a C,otorention to meet on the second Tuesday In May for the pur pose of choosing delegates to the Republican State Convention, and Dominating such candidates as are to be voted for at the election In November. - • In pursuance of ;be tingeing action I hereby give notice that a convention for the purposes set forth la the resolution will be convened In the Court Rouse, Towanda, en TITESDAY. May I. et I o'clock, p. m.. to be composed of two delegates from each election district. The vigilance Committees will call the primary meetings on Saturdiy. May e, at such hours u may be deemed best. Said call should let forth spe cifically the time the polls will he kept open, as well aa the place of holding the caucus. The candidates to be . nominated are District At. to rney and County Surveyor. 18,H. CARNOCHAN, Chairman. A. M. 121115:11/0i, Secretary. The following named persona have been appoint ed vigilance Committees for the current year. 111GILINCZ CONNITTCP.S. 'Atha born--Dr C C Hooker. J.S Reynolds,. Albany-. Alex English; Boyd Willcox, Ste. ven - t. Armenta--A W Seward, Norman Smit William: h, Youngs. Apylam—N P Moody. Geo Herrick. E J Ayr, a. Athens bore-. Joseph M Ely, Jahn Carroll, X W Ncvlws. Barelay—Thos Dltchbum, L Putnam, p R Will iams. Atherri W A Plummer, 3 X Layton, John G Brink. Burfingtgn bore—J V Rice, W II D Green, N W Lane. Burlington twp-11 C Spencer, S P Dustin, ,W P I..ne. Burlington west—Alford Blackwell, S El Ballard, C McKean. vellum born—Theodore Pierce, A X Ayres, Ezek Newman. Canton twp—Hiram Lindley, Ichnbod Stellard, Chas Taylor. Columbia—H X Furgseon, C' , F. Cladding. Frantiln--Sterne McKee, Ross Vannest, Wm B Rockwell. Qranvillo—Orlando Taylor, C D Ross, O'Mara Shepherd: Herrick—W Nesbitt. James Newell. Jos Lee. Leltaysville—J G Beesley, W B Payson, X Prentice. Leßoy—R R. Palmer. Levi Sanford. Reuben Stone. Litchtield—C E McKinney, L;evi Morse, James St revel. Monroe born—X N Coolbaugh, John Dougherty, Orin Mingos. Monroe twp—T T Smiley, Ell Gale, A L Rock well. Orwell—A C Friable, A B Loring, 1) C Potter. Overton—Jae Mullenesux, Orrin Chase. Pike-3f E Beecher, X H Gregory, E S Steel. Ridertn7—J P Squires, 0 M Owen, Eugene Thompson. ' Rome hem-0 Rickey, "M L Towner, 0 - F Young. Rome twp—L D Prince, Chas H Stephens, T B Barnes. . Sheshequin—W II H Gore, A J Thompson, Hoe= sea Horton. -Standing Stone—Peter' Landmetier, Henry C Stevens, 'Hiram Gorden. Smithfield—G T Beeck C T Wood, Clarrence Voorhis : Springfield—Wm Tracy, W A Brown, OP Hark ness. South Creek—Samuel Thompson, W H Moore, John Dean. sylvania—Tom 'Arnold, Leroy Scoutin, Flnly F I rman. Terry—Shubal Bowman, John C Dyer, Jonathan Terry. Troy boro-J P e ck; H Grant, Geo_ L N II Pome roy. Troy twp—John F Hunt, Chafes Manly, M 0 Loomis. Towanda boro—lst ward—Judson Holcomb, Ed. Stevtias„ Ira B Humphrey. ward—R A Mercer. 0 1) Lyon, D L Pratt. 3d ward—D L Sweetly, Hiram Elsbree, E V Bev erly. Towanda twp—Geo For,Geo Scoville,ll MDavid son. Towanda North—W IT Smith, D 0 G B . . Tuscarorliarrowcllff, Pat Mahonef, E L Taylor. 151:;ter--Geo B Rockwell, E B Mlner..l G frowic.. NS - ones—Copt Judson, Win Relyea, Morris Sbeii bard. • Wllmot—C 1 Stowell, - Jobu S Qntek, II Meeks: Wnrcen—Cyru!, G Bowen. Geo !Odgers, Nathan Yonng. Windham—Gee Mosta'lpt, Mr= ElMite, Jacob A Weller- Wyabatting—L M Stephens., C R Stone. Wysox—Wm H Conklin, M M Shores, A F Eddy. DIATRICT ATTORNEY. W. M. Cifit.ecitc, Esq., of Troy, is a candidate for District Attorney . , to be nominated by the Repub lican County Convention on the Ith of May. TILE MAY -CONYESTIOII. We are glad to learn that the May Convention is likely to be well at tended, and that delegates will be present from all the election districts in the county. This is just as it should be ; ;Ind when the people come to take an interest in the selection of delegates, the grumbling about: ings" and "combinations " will cease. It is, of course, impossible to satisfy all the claims of localities and candidates in a county so large as Bradford ; but delegates can easily so determine all questions whiab come before the Convention, that there shall be no ground for charges of unfairness or . favoritism. Let the May Conventthit resolve to have nothing to do with personal jealous ies and animosities, keeping in view only the best interests of the whole party, and their labors will rfteiTe the endorsement of the people. THE PRESIDENT'S POLICY. seems to be understood by a large class that the President's Southern policy is applied with the purpose of building up a party there favorable to his Administration, and disintegrating the Democratic organ ization: Such persons take but a narrow view of the subject. Presi dent HATES desires the prosperity of the whole country, and in adopting his " Southern policy " is actuated by higher and more patriotic motives than the building up of one or tear ing down another political party. If the Southern people accept in good faith , his generous terms, and lay aside their long-cherished prejudices and animosities, that section will be started on a new career of financial prosperity, which must ultimately result in pernianent benefit to the whole nation. As a .natural conse quence, the Republican party will be benefitted by anything which -pro motes the weal of the people. It is the party of human progress, free dom, and moral• elevation. The Democratic pasty has always been the reverse of this. Slavery and ig norance were the corn -stone of the party, and with these swept away it has no foundation. Should the President's patriotic and humane policy be slighted and his confidence betrayed by,the South; should the promise' of justice to the colored man be violated, we h ave no fears but that it will be changed to meet the circumstances of the case. The President is determined that equity before the, law and• exact jus tice shall be meted to all classes in the late rebellious States; and if mild means fails in the accomplish ment of that purpose, more vigorous measures will be adopted. In the meantime the country should put implicit confidence in President's Haus' methods, and render' him cheerful aid in testing his theorr. Tux Lixtims' nna Commission have • - node their - .rt. • THE FINANCIAL DEPSIISMION. Senator BAYARD, of Delaware, is represented :ss having lately given to an interviewer a most doled ac count of the deplorable condition of the state of business in that,. Coin monwealth, and what he represents seems to be equally true as to the depressed financial condition of the whole South. As to the Northi he condition of things is too apparent, and what is worse. the difficulties and embarrassments seem to be in, creasing. Santaine theorists and visionary economists joined with po litical demagoiues in ro4colored promises as to the results to follow the ending of the Presidential cam paign, promising that if their candi date was successful peace and pros perity were to spread' their wings over the land,,--industry_ to be re vived, commerce to spread her sails, furnace fires to be relighted, spindles set in motion, and poverty ; and want to be 'driven from the door. But these fair promises are yet far from. their fulfillment • times grow worse instead of better; and uniyersal bankruptcy seems imminent. People begin to realize that political cam pikns have little or nothing to do with the financial prosperity of the country, and that it is h vain to look to legitlative enactments for relief. The tithes are undoubtedly out of joint; and the theorists still come forward each with his pet reason for • the depression and his favorite dein sion for restoring the cotintryp the much-needed state of prosperity. One believes ,that the peaceful settle ment of the Snithern difficulties will unlock the whole difficulty, forget ting that in the South there is Thrtlit ical peace and concord,. excepting in South Carolina and Ifouisiana ;,an other purposes to destroy the 'sec tional agitation by getting up an anti-Romanist conflict ; a third wants the Secretary of the Treasury at 'Slice to call in the whole of the out standing five-twenties without having the means to pay them on demand ; a fourth wants a permanent free-trade policy adopted ; a fifth urges the im mediate funding and extinguishment of the whole 'outstanding volume'of the greenbacks ; a sixth yearns , for' resumption in geld; and so on to the end of the chapter. In our judgment the bettering of our financial condition depends upon none of these things. We are not to be benefitted by patties nor legisla tures. We are experiencing the nat ural results of over-production, ex travagance and prodigality. As we as a nation and as individuals have beck beyond our incomes, we Must expect to meet with the inevi table but disagreeable consequences of such foolishness. The nation must be in a condition to buy before pro duction commences. The accumula tions of the past ypars of over-pro duction in all the industries of the country must be exhausted, and at prices far below the cost of ma.nufae tare, before there can be employment given to the skilled labor of the country. Meanwhile, there will be thousands out of work, and abundant want and suffering. _ The means of purchasing, too, are limited. Incomes have wasted to nothing. Real estate is a burden to the owner. Retrenchment and econ omy are the order of the day. And from this changetteondition of things —this return to the national and do mestic economies will ; finidb- come the redemption of thCoOlintit from its financial gloom andclistrOw:l Not suddenly, but slowly: - 4 ; s2,the con sumers begin to feel Olt: I- prudence -- and frugality have achieved their inevitable results—that the incubus of debt is removed—the•demand will increase for the necessaries andlux uries of life, until the beneficial ef fect upon all branches of trade will be felt throughout the country. But let no one hope that this will sudden ly and speedily come about ; nor that it can be produced by any great political revolution, nor by any ape- Cial legislative interposition. Such mischT,evous expectations have done much to increase the difficulties by obscuring the true cause of their ex istence, and by clouding the paths which led to their end: NAT MCKAY, a Philadelphia gov ernment contractor, who has been severely criticised in the Philadelphia Times, undertook to chastise Col. McCLuitz while walking down Chest nut Street on Monday. The Colonel was attacked in front by McKAT and in the rear by several other parties, but escaped without serious injury. Two of the cowardly assailiants were arrested and held in bail to answer the charge in court. WADE HAMPTON, pleading for his poor bleeding South Carolina, re minds the Burlington Hawk - eye of the man who killed his father and mother, and then when the court asked him if he had anything to say befqre sen tence was' passed upon him, begged for the mercy of the court because he was "a pci n or orphan." HUGH RIDDLE. a well known and successful railroad man, formerly connected with the N. Y. and Erie, has been chosen President of the Chicago and Rock Island R. R. The selection is an excellent one, and is an earnest that the interests of the stock holders will be carefalltguanfed. • IT is generally reported' that TWEED has made a full confession of his connection with the Ring frauds, implicating parties of great political and social prominence. . , HON. THOS. W. MARION, 1111 . ex member of the • Legislature from Green county, this itate, has been arrested by detectlves for pulsing co mterfeit money- ' ' 4:4(e):yolufflup:l3:ipilli Author Torothio rise ord &me Li., of TM.. ST. - Lours, April I.lo—Abont half past one o'clock this morning the Sonthren Hotel, one orthe largest and most elegant establishments of the kind in this country, situated in the heart of the city, was found to be on fire. When discovered flames had evidently been at work some time, and were making rapid progress through the long corridors of the building. The great height of this magnifi cent building—sitiltorierendered the portion invaded by the flames ex tremely difficult of access to the fire men and for a momeni\they seemed paralyzed - with the terrible spectacle that loomed up before them. Efforts were made to get streams on the burn ing pile, but the great height was found to be a serious obstacle. . The-scene which now presented it self is described as one which beggard description, and cannot be fairly pres ented to the reader with all its hor rors., which seemed destined to ,in volve in one common ruin ; the great building and its hundreds of guests. The greater number of rooms of the upper floors were occupied by permanent boarders. These were suddenly awakened fi l m their sleep by the terrible and piercing cries of fire, which so-confused them that they scarcely knew where to go or what to'do. Their egress was cut off by the roaring flames which appeared to be beneath, around and above them, and their cries for help, as their out stretched arms were thrust from the • elevated windows were _agonizing to heir. - ' Many of the gu' ests to escape jump ed froin the fourth and sixth story windows. All the stores' and build, lugs in the Vicinity are filled with the dead and wounded. As near as can be ascertained fifty persons were killed and over one hundred injured. The mortality anion , ' the female help of the hotel is feared' to be. great. There were 'some two hundred of them, all of ,who.ku were lodged in the upper, story of the building. The Southern -Hotel WRS one of the finest buildings'of its kind in the United States. Its erection was com menced as early. as 1859, and it was not occupied before 1863, Or 1864. It had a frount on Fourth, Fifth and Walnut streets, was first-class in every respect, and the rates ranged fiom $3 t0 . 53.5Q and $4.50 per day, according to location of room. It was supplied with improved eleva tors, and there were telegraph, rord and steamboat ticket offices in the rotunda. It was elegantly furn; ished throughout, was locate(Vn . the central part of the city, and Was a great resort for business men. The original cost was not less than a mil lion of dollars. Warner, Laveille Co., were the proprietors. IT is surprising how -ready many Republicans are to credit any report of the opposition calculated to throw discredit upon prominent men in our own party. Far be it from us to shield an unworthy man, or apologize for the short-comings of officialoe cause they happen to be Reptiblicans„ but we have no patience with those who profess to be RepubliCans,:and yet never omit any opportunity of casting suspicion upon officials, and retailing the scandal of the opposi tion. So much has been said in re -gard to the conduct of the Republi- - cans of the II mse of Representatives inpasSing a bill to Tepeal an obnox ious law in -Philadelphia that many honest, well-meaning Republicans have etane to think a great outrage was ri,Tpetrated. In last week'S RE PORTER we gave a fair statement - of the proceedings, fully exculpating' . the majority from any oflimu that should attach to the disgraceful pro ceedings, and we now append a par agraph from the.,Philadelphia Prey, a journal wine never been noted • for subservincy to party dictation. A perusal of the paragraph ought to satisfy any reasonable man of the justice of the bill so soundly berated by the Democratic press: It is surprising that such a just measure as the prohibition_ of ,the appointments of deputies to be pres ent at- election polls by the Demo cratic Sheriff Of Philadelphia encoun tered the ferocious antagonism of the Democratic members of the House and Senate, and that they all allowed their hostility to the bill pro viding for this proper reform to - lead them to adopt the despicable expedi ent of defeating' appropriations 'to hospitals, medical colleges, asylums, and reform schools. We cannot un derstand why ,the whole course of legislation at Harrisburg should be_ affected by, the desire of Philadelphia to be relieved' of the necessity of pay ing the bills of Democratii: campaign committees. The chief object to be attained by the appointment of Sher iff's deputies in this city was the pro motion of the interests of Democrat ic candidates for --office by expendi tures of money of the tax-payers of this municipality; and one - of the best things done during the session was the - passage of this bill by which this abuse will hereafter be prevent ed. It is *ell understood here that Sheriff's deputies are useless as con servators of peace and 'order, and that - they are much more likely to create disturbances than to prevent them.—Press. TEN millions more of the old six per cent. United States bonds are called in to be replaced by the new 41 per cents. Nearly half of the en tire loan has now been taken and the remainder Is going as speedily as, the bonds can be printed. Every millon of the new loan thus placed repre nts an annual saving to the govern ment of $15,000 in _interest. This disposition of the entire, loan will re duce the yearly expenditures $4,500,- 000. THE stockholders of the Centen nial Exhibition' are no longer to re main in doubt as to what their por tion of the assets. will be, as the Su preme Court has just rendered a de cision that the $1,500,000 appropriat ed by Congress must be paid into the U: S. Treasury before any division of the assets is made among the stack holders in satisfaction and discharge of the capital stock. HON. !Non Youno, we are Pleased to notice, has been appointed Bank Inspector for one-half of Pennsylva nia. The right man in the right place. He is himest and =MU FUN On COBIEVONDENTS. Nzw Yoßt, The spring exodus Is alreisdr comtbeue ing. It . 'nks gay sopWliult_ erty *Od keep people*. uns mer end semd•tbein to Auld seaside country places, but those who wish to to Europe insist that it is cheaper to go - , there than to .- teman 'in New , t, l ot• rather at some fashionable watei The rumors of war in which aU Europe is gradually becoming involved has no terrors for them, as it will, if it eventual ly comes, be.earried beyond the reach of ordinary travel, and will only add an additional excitement to their summer tour, while it will also make money mat; ters easier here and help pay.the exoense. - While humanity is this seeking 6ieign shores the arrivals are of auothcr soil,. In the spring of the, year, just before the eir , MIA opens or begins its emigratory rounde, that portion of it which is so attractive to the small.boy is disembarked here. Lions and tigerr, elephants and monkeys,. big snakes and strange birds form-part of the cargoes of vessels, and the disembarking of an elephant lest week maracted so large a crowd and aa'.many followers as if he had been a royal object instead of a quad ruped. Of late years there has been a pretty species of entertainment, in which by tala leaux and pantomime the kenos in some poems have been acted. Barbara Freitch ie has been a , favorite for this kind of scenic effect, but the "Mistletoe Bough" which has reeently'been produced here in aid of charity, wet; by , far the finest affair - of the sort ever given. It was in the hands aed under, the supervision- of some of our wealthiest people, to whom the fun was this principal item, and who therefore spared no expense in) dress or decoratirm while the whole affair might or might not benefit 043 charity in. qttestien as it' Might be. As it happened it did half fill the coffers of the Hospital in whose aid it was given. The whole song was studied most artistically, aild Mrs. Oulager sang the verses, one for eachtableaux. There was the dinner in:the "old oak hall and the &meets; Lord- Lovers, young wife who was weary of dancing and ran away to hide; the old chest in which slig-sprang to her doom. 'This scene was &arming, the arch young..girl who played it being very lovely, and performing her part. admira bly. Then Abe lapse of fifty years; the dance around the maypole ou the village green, the arrival of UM okl man who so many years before lost his bride, and the final opening of the (Meat 'and finding the bridal veil, all of the terrible discovery that is shown to the public. ; This bids fair to prove a very fashiona hie spec es of entertainment. It is more easily arranged than a play, the dramatic .effects are very flue, and it permits the action a tableau does net allow, as well as giving widO scope, to originality in getting up the scenes and accessories, as they may be as simple or elaborately arranged as the means or the fancy of the actors may permit. - • • _ _ Mr. Keene, the San. Francisco Specula. tor who has been disporting himself in our Wall'Street Menagerie, has been hav ing a very handsome drag built. The . drag* tliat'gentlernan drive for their own amusement., are very little like the stage coach which most,of us. remember having taken excursions iu at some time of our liveg, not tbly among the White Hills of New' Hampshire. They are: much. lower' . apparently, have a larger look • and only -harry ten, instead of 13 or 14 passengers n the outside. The box - seat nest the driver is the seat of hotidr, then there is the seat just:back which becomes the next most desirable place. The Coaching Club willsixitihave their parade here, :end each'yea'r the num ber increases, while the horses that draw them are some of the finest in the.country. The.spring fever is felt in other direc tions as well, in the Yacht clubs, fit, the trotting' parks and the base ball grounds. Altogether we begin to believe the coy damsel bas really arrived with her train and her festivities. ' HOW TO REAM TILE POLE. Captain H. W. Howgate, " -- 61* the Signal Office, sees no grounds of discouragement in the failure of .fare's expedition to reach the North Pole. The seasons, ho remarks, vary in the Artie circle- as mar kedly as in more temperate latitudes, and in a favorable year the ice of the so.cAlled " Palacocrystic Sea" might be broken up. Captain How-gate would have a party of at least twenty hardy, resolute, and ex perienced - men, with provisions for three years, stationed at . sonie joint near the borders of the Polar Sea—for instance, where the Dißtorery wintered last year. These meu would seize the occasion of the opening of the frozen sea to push on to the pole. At the end of three years the party should be visited, and, if unsuccess ful in accomplishing the object, should•be revictnaled and left again to their work. With a,good, substantial building, such as could easily be carried on shipboard, they would be as comfortable and safe from atmospheric danger as the men of the Signal Service on the summit oil Mount Washington. " A good supply . 4f medicine," adds Captain Howgate, a skillful surgeon, and such fresh provisions as could be found by hunting-parties, would enable them to keep off scurvy, and "to maintain as good a sanitary condi tion as the inhabitants of Godhaven in Greenland. Game was folind in fair (juin- titles by the Polaris party On the Green land coast, and by thosa from the Aka and Discovery on the mainland to the - West, especially in the vicinity pc the last named vessel, where fifty-four musk-oxen were killed during the semen, with quan tities of other and smaller game.,,A seam of goal, coal was also found by the Dis covery's party, -which would render the question of fuel alight one and thus re move one of the greatest difficulties hith erto found by Arctic voyagers. Let an expedition be organized to start as early as practicable, and I firmly believe' that by 1S) the geography of the polar circle be definitely settled, and that without loss of life." Yellow is being subdued, and charming bonnets in other colors` are now worn. One of the prettiest recently was of pale blue, tlae..blond's favorite color. CArtivrzo, N. Y, April 14, 1377 Mn. EDITOR visited this place to day on business; after attending to the business I came for I, with the multitude visited the place where they expect to find oil. The parties engaged in the en terprise are very • sanguine of finding till, so much so that they bought some real es tate and leased about 10,000 acres in the vicinity of the well. Mr. Charles Shafer and Miles Hanay, of. Bradford, Pa., who own an interest in several wells that are paying liberally at the above place, one of which is.a flowing well that flows 13 barrels per day. They are young men well posted- in the business. They aro energetic, thorough men. Their machin ery is all new, and the derrick 'buildings and fixtures about' it are all first class. They fired up their engine to-day, for the first time, and expect to start the - -whole machinery to-night On Monday next they will commence mining day and night, and *ithin 80 days, with good luck will put the well down from 1,000 to 1,500 feet. They have a 15 home-powar engine, and a capacity of bailer sufficient to sink the well 2,000 feet. As I could see no surface indications of oil with my limited knowledge of the business, I madethe in quiry as t.) whether there was anything to strengthen their,belief cation • the .sur face.' Their reply was, that there was _some indicationwof oil visible, but they relied more upon the make of the coun try and the direct range with the Brad ford oil region, and Whiteiville, about 15 miles south of this place, where oil has already been found. Thismell is located about three-fourths of a mild. from Canis teo, up-Purchy creek, a small stream that empties into the Canisteo river nearthe village. It is a broken rough country, and I came to the conclusion while there, that if high hills and deep gorges were au indication of oil, they would Certainly find it. - • Canisteo is a smart business place, situ ated on the Erie railroad, and has a pop ulation of 2, 500, surrounded with a good agricultural secion; and what is .all im portant to the growth and prosperity of a 'town public ; spirited men. Among its business houses I notice a bank. several large dry goods houses, grocery houses, a large boot and shoe ,tmumfactory, a foun dry, a furniture Manufactory, a largo sash and blind manufactory, and a first class hotel kept by'H. C. Cheeney, all at work on full time. I am happy to say I see less Idle men here than any place of its size I.have visited in a long time. If any of the readeni of your paper should visit this place,'don't fail to give H. C. Cheeney; proprietor 'of the Canisteo House a call, as he is a first-class fellow, and will give 3ou 'a square meal of the best the market affords, well cooked and dilated out,* a good corps of waiters. Trarron.' STATE ESWI3. Tin penalty for osmotic boakilietbre the Ist of July is $l,O. Al4llMnr yak; Ail. I.a. A vino ip*rkOt Jo to toll - ,estoSithea in Belletcot*:- . - - %lAriiktit icOltoky hattitwolitprOn t- • • hithelsmn ty jail; , ' TEE daily shipments ikr oil from tbi nil regions now exceed the prodiew: - TWELVE thousand persons in Mercer county have taktmrthw„Murriy 7faxn* is an increasine'demand for residenxs in Oil City and none are to ,be had. It Is rhmored that workiiii to commence again on 'the Jersey Shore, Pine Creek_ and 13tiffalirtullmd. expects the J3elgiaelplato glass' workitio•t- ed% there. Thirty acres of land are offered as an inducement. IN the neighborhood of Bradford, Mc- Kean 'county; the new oil region, 900 perk. sous have signed the temperance pledge. Tun Locßiel iron works, Harrisbilrg, bare shut down for an indefinite period. All the labbrers have been paid. off and discharged. • ''A 'Anil of seventy left Shenandoah on Tuesday for the Black Hills. • Tun Allentown Academy, made a hundred dollars out of Mr. 134seehoes lecture.' DAVID Davis, crazed by business tronbles, •committed suicide, at Hyde rark,:on Monday night. THE aiissigtfees of the City Banking firth, Harrisburg, will disirllinto ,about 00,000 to depositors in Juno: J. C, another of the auditors of Luzerne golinty, has resigned,. and ;is sueceded by CaptainDetaoey. STATE Superintendent /Wickersham has called t meeting 'Of the ;county, city and borough 'school superintendents at 'liar. rishurg,, on the 24th. „ . Tth'...National Educator .calls attention to the filet that the Foufth Normal school 'district of this; state is without a normal School. It is -ono -of :the largest, best, most ptogressive and wealthy : in the.state; It - consists 'of the following counties: Nortloempton, 244 schools;' Carbon with 130; hlbwroe, :124; Luzerne, with 354; Pike with 56; Wayne, with 210; making a total 0f11 , 826 schools.. •' • • • OrtnTs for - Pittsburg manufactures are ine asing from Brazil, Cuba,.3lexico, Canada, 'Continental Europe, Great Britain,' etc. The Centennial ttifW low prices are the principal causes; no doubt. Tun new gas company at iTarrisbuig will put to work in a short time about 2uo men to dig the necessary trenches and lay the required .number of pipes. In all sixteen' miles of • pipe will be put down; Tin: bronze bust of Washington, order. ed by the, last Legislature, for the State Library, will be 'placed in position in ten days-or two Weeks: The just is to be placed -on a pedestal about the centre of the library. Tuff 'glass business is improting. greater ixntion of-the factories are in operation. Soma of the chimney houses having t;orisideral4e stock on hands aro idle ap: present, .but" will be _in active operatioa in a few weeks. - lr is saidthat the remains of Samuel Meredith, the first treasurer of the United States, with those of his wife, lie in neglected graves on the western slope of historic Moosic lunge of mountains in Wayne county. • THI.: Bethlehem Iron Company have commenced the manufacture of. steel are, THE Patstosin Iron . `oinpatty . lnts pur chased about 4,000 tons of : iron ore front the Danville Iron Company, which is be ing shipped. TILE opinion is almost general, if not entirely so, among Pittsburg manufactur ers.ti4t, business will soon be fairly on it:t feet again. • Tut: Phomixville Bridge Works of Clark 'Reeves & Co., have closed contracts for the whole of the iron bridges on the Quebec, Montreal, Ottawa and Occidental Railway in Canada, over t;000 feet and between three and . four- thimsand tons. They !rave also just been awarded the contract for the Cincinnati Soul !tern bridge over the Tennessee river near Chat tanooga, , A CITIZEN' writing' to- the Erie Di:fp - Itch states that the city- and schOol debt, bond= ed and floating,. o 1 Erie, is now $1,300,- 000 or over. This enormous sum. repro seats over ten ,per cent. of the real estate os that city. ALTITOCOTT Pittsburg, is the great cen tro'of the glass industry of the United States, no plate-glass is • made there. All. the polished plate-glass works are west of that city. FIFTY acres of tobacco will be cultivat ed near Freeburg, Snyder county, this season. Those who_wero engaged in the , business last year Were well compensated for their trouble. . THE extensive tannery of Sterilseri Kistler, at Tannersv . Monroe county, has been burned. Two thousand sides of sole leather ready for market were among the losses. THE Montrose ReTubtican says Judge Streeter was unable to hold - Court last week on account of ill health. Judge Williams, of Tioga cotwty, oftipiated for -•-•,%. "wood beo" in Silviir Talc, Susque liaunah county, last week ended in a-row in which - Dennis, Edward; and - Patrick Knealy and Daniel Kane were seriously injitred. - - - • • . CAN ANL thieves are exciting the` boat men along the Lehigh. • ' . Tug trout crop in' many parts of the State is backward on account of the cold weather. TIIE llarrisburg Telegraph favors the Hon. Benjamine 'Harris Brewster for Auditor General. ' - VEnr little lumber was sold at Marietta last week, the prices ranging about the same as last year. Tnn Titusville Oil Exchange is in .. a; flourishing condition.' It is. out of debt, with $2,300 in the treasury. - TUE. amount of fees paid into the Le zerne county treasury by P. Barber, Prothoni.tary, under the salary law, for the month of March, was $1,994,91; total for the three months this year, $5,754,90. ,• ALL of the applications for tavern license, in Wgoming county, were grant ed by the Court, with the single except ion of that of Ebeu Drake, of Monroe,. the remonstrances being numerous and stating that . a licensed .tavern was not needed there. • • Dov LAPS SMITIT has • been appointed Postmaster at Wilkes-Barre. We will _vouch - for Mr. Smith as arpable.of filling any position or appointment where abili ty, work, and strict integrity are tliere 7 quisites. • AT 2. P. M. on Saturday a strike Was decided upon by the Brotherhood engine neers in the employ of the .Philadelphie .and- Reading Railroad. The men loft theirleicomotives at midnight, increasing, the number of strikers to about 300.. A' Wonderful Dlseovery. 7 -Onr namerous exchanges are Sited with accotints:Of most vnnidei4 tut - cures effected by Dr. flank's "Mei:twat WONDei." .It Is said to be the greatest vitalizer yet discovered, giving buoyancy' to tins spirits, etas- . tielty to the - step, and. making the Invalid hearty,. courageous and strong. It cures all diseases of the Myer,. Stomach, Kidneys and opine; Scrofula and all Diced 'Mosses; mune Nervous Prostration and Weakness or either sox, restoring Tone and ,ylgor to the wbolo system. Read too following cures: NOUMAN BUNT, Sheds Corners, N. Y., Wonder ful cure of dyspepsia and heart disease. Mrs. Z. A. White, Sheds Corners, N. Y., terrible Scrofula and Kldthiy-DlSease; gained 40 pounds.- A. H. lIAWLZX. Saratoga, says that , 4 `ifedleal Wonder " gave him health, strength and appetite. ' Abnzwr TnurAiiat.n„ TuneOok, N. If.; loath some scrofula; supposed to be In constitution; lIIM rrot. H. A. 111LaOr, Saratoga, N. YJ.ldeiy known as principal or ono of Mir leadi4g Institu tions ottearalng, says that his wife has, used the "Medica Wonder" for a complication of diseases with the most happy effect. No other remedy ever touched the case Qao IlaiNse, Oneida, cured of terrible catarrh. ELIZABETH WOOD, Sheds Corners, ovarian tumor at.d dropsy, reduced la' inches arounfl.body. Mrs. 1. S. ArrLaTON, Hillsboro, 14 H., spinal (these°. Dr. A. DALTON, Morrirrille, N. Y.:, sister in . bed two years with female and nervous diseases;' cured. Mrs. C. P. OUDrAT. H., confined to bed with female and kidney disease; cured. , Nb Wpaceter 1,000 other cures. Ask Year Dragest for •. breiltral 'Wonder," slid be cured. Mimed by Dr. GAGIS ft cohearitoga, ; • " " Far sale to Toeranda by Dr. H. U. PcuiTz f fi. ; wholesale, by if slum CWIRAN t , Co., • Legal. S - -- lIERIFF'S sALFS4-. By ` rtue of sundry,dlifta4asneil-114631.; this Alf Common Pleag el 4 i elageortholittal% aud i t 014 rooted, I will tapubtlagalietern :Ai the 34 day of Y. ISM at the 0126 4 ,1. 114 ‘ l / 4,.. Court House, In Toliilltla. ila 1 11 • 10 . 0 C It. .„ Val following des 'Allied. pt is Mt . .6 , ..- • ' One lot of litsgtatatts In PTho a bolladaill on the north by landiftlf 0 0 Mr by lands of .1 Wt 'Beefs and OM pu e big • the south by Walls of.Juo Alderson and -A C Pratt, and on the west by-lands of A C Pratt and.the pub lic highway, containing 60 acres of land more or less, about 41 ac -s Improved, with I framed, house. -... , . ;. • .nrchard °Mut& tinso Seized and take Into nreeutton at the stilt of John a l Alderson Jr, vs fohn IV Addi Son. ALSO—Ono of ter lot of land situate In Burling ton twpoind bo oiled on' the north by lands of Royal Morton ft 9 Lane, on.tho east by lands of T and J fillfolle and Dennis Flynn, on the south by lands of M Travers, and on the *est by lot No. 2. F. 'Kendall and M Travel's*, containing 100 acres of-fund-more orjess; short etECITYMPM27:4ICII7I (rained house.and 2 rrimed barns thereon . ALSO—One other kit k nlf Rind situate In Burling ton twp, and bounded on the north by lands of Elan Kendall. on the east by Lot No. 1, on the south by latAs of 31 Tr3TerNAlll% , nt,lle west )frlope I publie highway, containing' 43 tlesnrthnd TriorW (4 lex; all Improved, with I (ratted house. 2 fronted barns and orchard of fruit trees thereon.- Seized and taken Into execution arthe atilt of W A Lane ve:P Burns. ALSO—One other lot or lan , : situate In 'rooters. rt/ Ilvgentl Ibuindietitt the north by Ishitoot Kit' Itugg anti Wm Peet, on the east by lands of Sam uel Tewksbury. on the south by lands In possession of Samuel Tewkiburyand Owen - McCrossen. and on the west by lands of S It Kinney, containing 52 acres of laud noire 9r less; no Impreyments and no buildings: ALSO/—Lot \o.2—situate In Tuscarora twit, and bounded on the north by lands of C C Benninger. on the east by lantranfilflner C Tubbs and Writ 3 Green, on the weigh by lands now In possession of Samuel Tety,ksbury, and ow.the west itty lands of Win Peet, (Attaining GO acres of land More or lest% emelt a acres improved, with one board house thereon. 2 •`.., ,f 1, ~ ~ R !V ht,so—Lot. ISituate in Tu.scarora twp. and Wooded on the north by lands of Griffin •,4telciln oh thee for foriaN Or Oh:m.ll4' TrUWilPd,, on' the south by lanitt'orrtneent (rms. AA oil filo West by lands.of Hiram Taylor,'containing 75 acres of Iwo; e d sosil prtels;.ll(4 1LL1K9,11:71 . 1/1114 . ! 11l . up. pail& Inge. -• J. • ' ' • • .`. I t ' "'. .- - ''' ALSO—Lot NI% 4—Sittiati, In Tuscarora twp, and bytinded,on the north by la ' (Is of. Ilegtus-Stevelist Wltittuan an(lWear 1 51,y.r0 Stevens estate, laMis In pueseSsimf tif ti isSi'er (sit. •11,,5athaa Slricklen; . J. 4111,3 Slutrer, Rufus Potte and 'trio 11. Cooper; on the east by land, of Avery Pickett. lands ; Inters owned by Wnt Ilmitsingt•r.lamllorilldfus Petro' A !Mon Pickett. 3 Jolson St ortl,•vittit. WM It Cotiper, and Theodore Silvara, on the south by lands of Jud son SturdeVant, Oliver Warper, A .1, Nivans, T El I .2jollPhilltli4 Ildvdand, O. Jl•andl3; Donovan and Guy TIIIIP:and on the west by lands of Griffin Ack ,..b•l , ( 4 4 1 alll- I DonOVan,(lesitna Patraer . ,,Waltuut a atln "(jar; cglusbtevens, - ,lffron Stevens estate, containing 1.074 acres of latld More or less, about 40 asiwo.laqprvyrtli yilfll 2 platticlitsuete c !lfigiboisei 2 Vila - shanties, I board barn, ainla few fruit trees thereon. - . - .M.SO-11.ot Fltnat' Rn. Tuscarora tvvpi Alla bounded on the north by lands of, , .ludson Str. -vrtrt awl An • Reynolds. on the east by - lands of CO;..rh•s P.tt ker 11/11er; : on f•untti lasi of Ditntnock Itlek and others, and on the hv lands of Alfred Arkley and .Alonzo writ; antalnleft C7O tent! of land,. rytorty -or shoat BO sores immured; qvl t h t 'Meant saw milt and all nuiehinery and mill fixtnreN ineladlng edge; outritf saws anti lath mills. 34 ranted houses. '1 kig '2 framed barns, 1 Nail:math alum and or. eltardiof ftult trees thereon: alfo 3 hoard shanties and 1 store Louse thereon. %Ailed and. taken - into execution at oho 'suit of Stark..3flller St D ovltt vs A Waltman. Also at suit of•sarne vs Sa n e. A r.s% i—tine other Ird of land situate West Bor -11:41ot( tlgiNatni,bounired or. the north by !ands of Thenlai Blackwell. no the ea,f by lands of Stephen Stile:into! Thootas Blackwell, On 14 south by Sugar ('reek and !atoll of Willing f:aniage, and on the west Iby Biaokw.•ii and Oliv.r Blackwell, containing 205 acres , of land tonic or luss,,ahoirt / 150 Vrta , ed. IN Itla;;.: trained housee,' a'fftrdcA lotto,:' stied: attuched. and 3 ere hams of fruit tree,illnire• on. Selpnl anditaltitiihN 0t.44:ut101: ,ult of E I.' , III , `IMY‘S ,!14..t• vs 11 A Pratt and .1:4 E Loomis. Af.t..A--Onv (Oher 144 land ..Tiffal 111 Mola:+o .twp. - 11:31tntiGi 5t01 . (14-ortho4 o log at a Birch on the hank of T,,wlin ::1 Creek; south 500.p.a.7d along the , line Tl:notio A Id-n*3 land, n o w ..f.i11.11.4i try S Mtit'll pf,rehei to a post: thence sonte3°., we.; 42 !";:r 3 pe,t Poe of or I rain Swe e t: by the bartli 19 4 ; !wt . ; to the "bank of the tuain brutal of the Towanda greek.: ,pl4 , :tice duwtr :1141 , Preek 9. fn.r to the place ef he,.7l l4 pipg; contain. ing ft arres and an per , :.ties of land iw ire or less. I.'' outer IOGAir land 14/QUltt in l%lonroo twp. hottiolrAl and deaeilhed and inflows': Begin.; twig at a 1,4 on the Vt....4i of th , aboved, , eril,- .tvd lot;iltolicAt our 11116?; oast II pereties to a stomp; tIo:ore smith 11',°, oast per to $ sngne corner; ;1 1 ,1,..• north t2' 2 0 ,, lo rwr to 3 poq; thew, east" 1.19 per to a pc.lst;l!wynil lih tt 11 yip w ct 37 "1-16 pi