Independent Republican. (Montrose, Pa.) 1855-1926, December 20, 1855, Image 2
Die . baepeijaeo-. 1101)0144Q. C. F. READ ff. FRAZIER, EDITOR& - MONTROSE, PA, Thursday, December 90, 1850. Itar We are requested to mention that the illumination of the new Store which did not come cam: Saturday evening last, on ac count of a failwe I to procure lamps enough for the occasion, will take place on Friday evening, January 25th 1856. or A letter from Alexandria_ states that , the Egyptian government has recently put into operation the decision relative to the abolition of Slaveri. Not only kit no longer allowed to sell slaVes in Egypt, but all those in the hands of priVate individuals were in formed that ,they ,were free. The condition of the farmers of Sus queharina'Op unty has greatly improved with in a few years past. The'soil they cultivate, though' not the richest, is , naturally good,being I. unsurpassed for grazing• and dairy purposes, and Producing fair i crops of grain. 'Their but ter and 'cheese takt premiums at our State Fairs, and are becoming knewn and prized in the cities. TII4 railroads aford -thorn fa cilities for reaching market, greatly superior to_those they fornierly gpssessed. And with gocCde crops, high prices and a convenient cash market, no wonder almost every farm shows more or lesssigns of recent Improve ments. The field, are better cultivated and fenced, the dwellings improved in appearance and surroundings, aid the barns' and other farm buildings increased in numbers and con venience. When we add that they, for the most part, provide good schools for their children4which are found more on r lesS, on most farms,) and take and read the' Independent Republican, outiiiiders will readily believe that our lot is cast amid a prosperous and intelligent com munity. ' If there c are any—as-we incline to `believe there arej—w.ho, with' means •suffie ient, have neglected either to provide pleas ant and comfortable homes, surrounded with trees and shrubbery, for their families o r barns and sheds for sheltering their stock,. with water alway4easily accessible—or good school houses, school books, and teachers for their children-or the REPUBLICAN and one, or' more good' city papers for the'amuse ment and improvement of the family circle, we would suggestithat delays are dangerous, and the mistake should be remedied as soon as possible. '.- or When Henry M. Fuller was elected Representative of the Luzerne District over that prince of d'Oughfaces;4,H. B. Wright, we supposed he was elected as an anti-Nebraska man. - He certainly has hadlthe reputation of being an opponent ofslaveryLe, :tension, here tofore, although before Coneess assembled we heard it intimated that h i e -would prove false to Free. Soil principlek His course while the House has been trynig to effect an organization, has destroyed all our confidence in him as a Free Sailer. Prompt action is nor required of the House, and for that, IM mediate organization is necessa4. Mr. Ful.' 1 ler in_ our opinion has it in , his !power to elect 1 Banks Speaker whenever he Ifhooses. But instead of doing this his duty, is we conceive, I • I to - his constituents and his oven professions, be is found actin in concert w`th the South; ern Know Notlungs, men 1,,. would vote for Richardson sooner thA: or Banks, and some of whom' a4nally did vote for Richard-, •, - son before voting for Fuller. i ,Nobody be lieves that these South Ameri6ens would ev ,er vote for a Speaker whom thei'deemed in imical to the. Slavery inter ts. . The infer ence, in the easel of Mr. F ller, is plain.— We are very 'sorry, for his defection nfoir when the North 4eds.all-her.strength. 11isTeses.—doinplaints stud remonstran tee sometime reth us because of errors that appear. in our, co lumns . • That such errors occur ""' tie true j'tis pity, and pity 'tis 'tis tree." There may be varirus causes for their existence. Sometimes tin. pfinters get heist ' ed, and-we must i rusb through the process of . proof reading, si lt things are ( generally hur ried up in this - nineteenth certury, so- as to be 'in time for the mails. Perhaps our sight is . getting dimor -our fawilties benumbed. re i from age or ov rwork. Perhaps the com positor, in cor , ting the type, again inserts the wrong letter, or puts -it in the wrong place, and thus makes " confusion worse con; founded." At ` ll events, from some cause , or other, the raiStakes are there too often.— ' Thus a torrespoedent writes us that he sent to the two Monirme papers a notice in which occurred the mine of Mr. Bnck, and one pa per made it Beech and the other Birch, and he thinks a third would have made it Maple, or some other Wood. ... • But let us re' wither that the world is, as it were, one gre t proofsheet, on which we • all are or Ghoul , be, trying to detect and cor t. meet the errors of our liyes; but we all fail, more or less, sd that even the most careful and suonmsful fini a few errors to be correct ed before the work is pronOunced perfect by the Great Proof Reader above, who alone --is not liable to lerr. • Imp". Thfct‘rokee Indians are considered - among the mot. difiliied of the aborigines of our countr y ' , They bare • a regular gov ernment and I f igislattue that enacts lawn for their nation. tii. bill was introduced 3 into - their Legislature to prohibit polygamy, but • was lost.. The Monztons Imre some mission aries among - thena, and douhtlesshad some influence in anetai \ ning the enany-wired•aye r . tem: . The Cherokees hare a •lair Abet *bite °:' '-hen nifty. hecohe Citizens by intermarrYing witlt the Cherekee wonaen and taking an oatkof allegiance to the nation. - .lUsainkaliries Leatana, • 169 - Bradlei tout been lecturing is this "Pla 6 e, for sOieitil - ireolOge pest, 9 0 the tei enee of Mind and flicked topics, to 4 9 . ' . lighted ,audiences. Her Phrenoksiail ex:: summations arelfogh4litoLlehqk .‘r l• : Site will.Leeture no Frie.arevaling, Dee.. 21st, at Bloomer . Ball, agaiiiii Itifslelity; and the iallciwingealag" ea liaillidaal Clausi. ;0, ' Go and hear her, , I I . , i n . Don't say . " lay " for." ie." , The WA -tlal who says, - 1 swat t& I lay- still i 7 "1 am laying under a Übe," te qpitePtely to be ta- ken for agoose.l Maay v)ritisa af conbider ablatnecit have lain - tindei . this imputbtion, and many still 1 . 4 under it[ " 1 ' Some writers, 'nstead o' unknowni.," say :` unbeknown " most ineligant and ildica. lons corruption. Gray's 4legy would hot be greatly improv by reading, : ' - " Here rests It' head upon a hip dearth, _ f A youth tof o and to fiime wtheka " Let this corn tioh , be unknown n your vocabulary.. ' Some very. *dious young ladies ~ in the habit of sayi g, "she ooke beautifully," " I feel miserably!, " " She ooks sb sweetly," . - &c., thinking, no doubt, thin they speak with remarkable aceucy. This , so Liras we can ii learn,is a recent i inuovation, and could nev er have been intrioduced 'tithe young ladies, when at school, hid studied' their Grammars carefully. In tt,. case .hey would here learned, that whdtt the word follo'wing the verb expresses scinie , quality of the preceding noun.or pronoun lit should ho an adjective, but when ikmodipes or qtialifies the verb it should he 'in adverb. Wel might as well say, "She is beautiftilly," "1 :lin miserably," as "She looki beautifully ":4c., for theqpialify ing word relateslo the nominative in he ease as much as ' in the other. I I _ Candid4.tes in the Horace. ' .'Nathaniel P. Banks, whO receives the Free Soil vote fur Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives,' is fiolil Waltham, Massachusetts. He was elected by the Free Soil Democrats in 1852, and re-alerted last Full by a combi nationel of Fre it DemOcrats, Whigs, and Know Nothings. He was President of the Republican Stat Conventiop that nominated Julius Rockwel . for Governor.. He ,is a , 1 1 .1 sound and renal). e opponent of Nebraskaism it all its phases, ,and fitted by parlimentary tact and experi ee for the difficult pOst of Speaker.- Cok Richardnon, the Democratic noininee, lives at .Quincy,llihnois, and representli one of the districts oti the l MisSouri frontier. Ile 1 is a warm personal. -and political friend f . Douglas, and Wail the " Engineer " of the 'N bra.bka bill in theillou l- se. His election would throw the commtttees and the control of the House into the hands of th e Slavery eaten sionista. • The Democra t ic Candidate for Clerk is an editor of a Virginia paper, which advocated the Nebraska bill, and defends, the outrages committed by the ltfisourians.on Kansas. ' Ilar' Mr. Gr. w, according to the Hanes. dale - Herald, hai ruined himself politically by opposing thel election of Richardson, wlio, the same authority assures ti, ,receives the support of everi Democrat in the House.— Probably Mr. Grow never eaieulated on the approval of . a h l pnker sheet like the . Herald ; but if he emitimrs Ito pursue a consistent and manly Free Soi equrse--as we doubt not he will—he is sure Of a'n abundance ofgond back ingl among the feemen. of the Wilmot dis.' triet. Dough are are not as•popular here , as they appear to be in. some of the neighboring districts—that,.for instance , in which the Her . aid is publishe d ; which re-elected Asa Pack er to Congress' after he had disgraced him self` by supporting the 'Nebraska bill. Three-fourths, zit least, of the people "of Susquehanna county openly apparove their Representative's <course iii supporting 1 Mr. Banks, and the other fourth would do the same if they were not, afraid it would be r,ebelliim against the parti r y, far with them :Party is King. ' - • I - \ THE Bison TON STA:NDARD,—Tbis excel lent Repuhlican . newspaper has beenrecently much enlarged lin dimeniions, and t e editor Mr. J..Vanvalkenburg announces i t hebas, secured the ass stance of the Rer. . Peck, formerly editor of k. the Su uchanna Seminary, at Bing tho s airistian Ad oate and Journal, the R . v. J. W.,Armstrong, Princi pal of i hamton, and P of- R. R. House, the inventcr • of the Printing Telegraph ; as, stateJ Contrib. uteri's: As tiStiinzfard has been heretofore one of the b et edited country papers with which we are acquainted, we are quite sure that, with: theialtiable aid be has now'reur cd \rim , Mr. y i ikenburg will; furnish such a sliest as the peopletif Broome County may well be proud i of, We only wish the paper may be as well sulorted as its . merits (ie-' . Sserve, I i • s, - I I • I THE - GOSPEII.• Eieorsnan.—Those entbusi, asts, who, imanini:g they have `° received a 7 . call," leave thf 'w ikshop or the plough, and without preps/360n, enter at on upon the labor -of cultivating the. Lord ' . vineyard;' sometimes furnish their 'hearers % ith r rath extraordinay pou' ndings or the script e!3.: ~ One of these as preaching, not a y thousand miles from .kontrose, on the y sinfultiess of ' Pride. .Afte.ripointing out / the evidences of a proud spirit too oftenl4ithibited even by professed Chritituis,,bd z eOntinued--" Not such e reter my brethren, I was_ the c of the meek and lowly Jes4s, the fri , d and companion of humble fisherrneti, and hi self a carpenter by trade. How ,:)wly waslth: place Of his birth. We read. in the Good look that tie was born in aistable, at i d. 'wrapped in a iiiddli elOth, that is , ;_ a hors? blanket my bretbren." - I , RiPORTER.. la y- it is 4 fact worthy of note that where the Know, Nothings are! of the Silver Gray or pro Slavery stripe, the Democracy very frequently united with them on the same can didates, in the late elections in New YOr and _other North* Stites. I This looksaslhough the Democratic Abborenice.of the order was not insuperable, where !t can be made to as. gist incarryi , g out the Objects of yeo•slavery doughEtnism, by defeating the Free Soil Fe. sionirte STA,* Ttakwimus s Asiocrariox.— . .Mbe reg. ular annual !meeting of the:State Teachers* Association Of Pemnsylrania s will ,be held ii Philedelpkia, on Wednesday, December 26th. Subject& .of ueb interest to die . frienda of education will be ieparted upon, and:. -discus. TesehesS, Superintendents, and 'friends of -Educetki i i generally, two invite& to it. L . tar The irearis&tirg TderV_ ) 1 1, after 'January 1. 1856 will be owned . and 'edited 4 'A. - K. .hfcCltim and James Sellers. irteCliti is well*nown ihrou* the State as the altar of the t ehamkersburg, Niehig. Mr. (Sellers is a meilber, of the State Senstti.— We believe they': havoiihe ability and enter. ;prise to make this Telegraph a better paper 'than has ever before been 'published at the • , - State capital. this we are aware is not great praise, as. Harripburg has been behind most capitals, not to sky country towns; but we prefer to leave the Telegraph when it appears Mader, its new form and new editors, to speak (or its elf. 1 Thi Prospect* will be founds in our adver. columns. No Speaker—and Why. Editorial Corresponderlee of the N. Y. Tribune : - Wastretroras;Sat; tee;; _Dec. 15, 1955. : .. Two weeks of steady 'balloting for Speak: er in the House. haveiresulted in no -choice,. - and, Congress , -reniains unorganized for -the .tratisaetioa o bus/fleas._ The state of- our .Foreign Relations—in central.. America es- I pecially, but with Great Britain :and - with 1 Mexico as well 7 -4equire-s : investigation .by .''_angrests t•-• the , •meltitude ,of „Indian. Waral briaking out on every side invites discussion t I the:condition and.peri IS of Kansas imperative- I ly demand action.. Should American hands I be there reddened with - fraternal blood-, -the disorganization t.if.:ongress may be one main cause'of the calamity. .. A simple declaration by the House in favor of the Free-State ma jority in Kanias ivinild go far to disperse the invading.foree of.border, ruffians now threat- I edit* to burn Lawrence and annihilate its I . • 1 . • Westixs Oorrestiodeptee. • , r . inhabitants. . Why is the, House unable -to I . ... i ,.' • . -make such a declaration ? Ask these. Mein-1 LANCASTER, Nast The. - 10th,-1855. i .bens who will not permit f a 'Speaker to- be I Mass l Ml Eptions!:—For two weeks :the • • „ , chosen. . ;- ... Weather has Wert as flee as co.uld'be • at this My answer to the question; 4 Why is . there 1 aenson. So on the sixth, I too k parol leave no Speaker:Yet 1' is is tiAlows: ' 1 • i . fur a trip to the; Mirth West. Taking I the I. Many Members elected as Anti-Nebr./is- 1 ka were never hearty in the cause, and have . : Old Telegraph read for Galeni; I passed :as now wholly fallen away from it. ' 'll4 . may j fine a farrninw countiv as a man could risk to . 0 ? r — profeis to be what they . please;_ the country I will judge them by their nets . 'lee. Mt. Carrel, the, bounty seat Of ' Cairo) Ls. He who,elect- 1 County, was thelrs4 town of importaue es. o i I ed by anti• Nebraska constituency and'pr f ' i F. • passed. k is bmlt.dn a steep' side hill, at!the sing to sympathize with . . the spirit which ear foot. ried him into his seat, now resists and pre-1 of which runs Straddle Creek. On the vents .a\ choice of Speaker on the pretext that top of the hill are t neininary, ter) ,churches, heS,• • chu the candidate: ought to be _Mr. C. or Mr. P. inid the Court 1-1 . 0U.54 at the firth. of the liill • ' , , instead or Mr.• 8.., is'not true in heart to the • . . 1: tire a grist mill, and distillery. 1, The distille- cause . which sent him here , . Personal prof- 1 ry feeds one ItUndreit.cattle,i, two hundred cremes aro ' natural, includin g even John ' \f. .-, of 1 • - Wheeler s pre i.ri.,act. linisdf, th o ugh the Berkshire hogs, and no one knOwa how Man V: 1! mart porkers-'.: On the seventh, I took up preference of the - same indOidual by any oth er man would be' wholly! ueaccounfable.— he t line of march fur Galena.] If there ;are when a majority of the Champions. of a gu t : ,1 . 1. ; !Ini farmers to Susyiehanne;Coun ar who great 'cause have chosen a man of irreproach dare not come te the . Nest for fear of the able character and eminent, universally con 4kOck of descending from hills to ;dead level,' ceded fitness for a ministerial post; like that they had bette6ettie. between Mt. Carrel of Speaker, the small number who severally t .. , say, I won't support that candidate; I won't find Galena. Nas much rougher than Sus- go - into a nominatino : convention; and abide z. quelianna County as the latter -is rougher the choice of a majority ; I wont do anything' than the hock River prairies. ' - I. .but vote for my own favorite, and if th 6 lion . i dred' want a Speaker, they. must make .t heir : Lead ore is Worth thirty-eight dollars per en or a dozen dictate thousand lbs. There is .much the man—then I say this Minority are • not than formerly- • ' Onthee i ghth ,, '' • • 1 [ - ins ho 'less m ii l i ng I own choice and let us t . honest and hearty in their professions of de- Ossantly a.a only wester n cloulds can in, voticn to the common eatise, 'but render it: Making such a Mud - as Bunyannever dream. lip-service only to profit by and betray it.— Let the Country understand:then, most di;-. of. And to 'add another thorn, _the Wind tinetly, that there is not a real . majority .in shifted to the north west, and all day of the , b i the house opposed to the principle and lie , tenth,h we went Wallowing. throw+ the m ud policy embodied in Douglass Nebraska bill. While the cold wind made solid, walls of inud A majority may feel oblige] to vote right ' 1 • / ..on Masonry between every spoke. - i :. I any plain .preposition which unmistakably ,inhabitants 1 involves the issue of hostility. to Slavery Es onPlat tville is a town of a thousand the route frOm Galenal tension ; bat if so, at least a dozen of th e to this / p lae , *".. ;I number will vete so becaUse they must, and There is some4leadid. prairie_ On the route, . not because they want to. I)utitis maitly owned bykieculators who hold 'IL Personal aspiration has been our curse it so high that settlers pass on. • The fact is - I throughout this strug gle There are at least that land:speculators are a greater curse to• a dozen men electedas Anti-Nebraskti„cuch of whom can't imagine why the House is so this:region than. all .the swampS and slews . stone blind as not to see that he is• just the from here to the Ohie. - An the best timber man who ought to.be supp rted for Speak and,. full half the; prairie has-to pass through. Cr; This jack-o'-lantern haS just misled .Mr. their pestilent fingers. There is not an acre Fuller into . his present On:inure ; it, has soured and dis.alfected better men. I grieve ofGovernment Iland unentered; south of the to say it, but we shouldhave had a Speaker . Wisconsin River, an d speculators hold it.at 1 days ago if so many open or, secret aspirants from five to ten dollars per acre for prairie for the post. had not, each hoped that a con i and thirty to fifty . for timber. Yet it is a tinuance of the anarchy . would- ireeessPate a • fine country for the farmer.' The soil is good now deal, and that his own admirable fitness, and the surface free froM. stone, hat it. is quite fortunatepositionand eminent popularity might therein be recognized and rewarded. 'broken and t herefore-letter : th an And even when- the hope has Varnished, the .• . tnost of the wes tern land. : , , - ~ - soreness of disappointed expectation; of trier- There was "finite an excitement • got up i itcd vanity, remains. 1 . . here last week.' llt seems Some of the Sold- i 111., ' Ainericanisinsti called, has stood in iers at. Prairie'ttclehine got enough Of Bering"and so marched ofr without any par ticular intention of returning. They were !orertaken at tliis place, and aa' ono ot- them still insisted u . 1 ,3.0 n leavi n g, he was shot dead sin the . street. It may be tLat it is necessary to shoot now !and then one tO keep the remainder under, i'yet I much mistake human nature if :such things do - riot provoke more anger than- fear lin the heart of that soldier's comrcades. ~ There was pretty strong indignation expres sed against the fofficer who did the deed, by • the citizens of tjhis place. ' Lancaster is Ithe county seat of Grant Co., and has just ab out as many naful•al advanta ges as itiontrose. riere I fell 'in with many . old Susquehannans. They are generally doing well iu the property making line,and to a man bei ahead Of S, latter Pays'-and the former did not. - man is , a talented man of, agree able manners and never geta mad. When the administra tion gets' laid :out,' however, the body had better be watched, or Chapman will pocket the political cent from the eyes of the corpse. As we've alviays been on: first - rate social terms with Chapman, we shall expect val uable documents. CHLOROTOR TN TIM CAR.S.—The Ilion, Herkimer county, N. Y., Independent, gives an account of the robbery, by the aid of chlo rofortn, of Mrs. David .Wright, of Toronto. while on the Hudson River Railroad. It was accomplished by a dark-eyed, well dressed, genteel looking lady, who, when Mrs. W. complained ofa pain in the head, said, "Ohl I have some Cologne with te, let me, put a little on your temples, it will doubtless relieve you !" A poste munnaie, containing Consid erable money ; her ticket, baggage cheek, and breast pin, were all taken ; and the robber, by means of the!,ehedr., also stole the baggage. The parties hed traveled together from Bal timore, and i the robbery took place near Poughkeepsie'. Mrs. Wright, who is lady in high social standing, and the wife of , a man of property, fasts so sensitive, that instead of giving notice of her moneyless ()audition, ate nothing for t!tt. days, fearful, doubtless, of being considered an impostor ' as instances or this kind _hair* been.detected heretofore. At AlhallYe she eaet younglady friend, who fuMished her !with fuhds, and at once relieve ad! her necessities, bat her baggage, money end jewelry were lost. lar The State Canvassers of Wisconsin have 410aned GOT; Barstow re-elected by 159 taiijority4The seat will be contented , on the! ground that 13asbford, the Republi lan andidatef i teceived it clear majority - oNio legal votes, the way of an election. Sorne of the Mem •erS are openly ; others secretly, attached to the mystiz ' Order.' Many.of these are good and true men who vote as they stand pledged to .do . .by their letters and Speces in the can vass - but the influence of t 6 ' Order' on such is strongiy exerted on the wrong side. tnstructions to vote against Banks are night ly concocted in the' secret founcils and sent on here le disquiet our fritkr.ds and inspirit our adversaries. The whole power of ' Na tional' twelfth-section' KnoW.Nothingism . is wielded with desperate .energy Against Banks.. lie is-denounced as an, apestate, a ' SeWardite,' a ' Black Republicar, and his election deprecated as the burial of ' Sain2—L I repeat, that; while good and true Men ad: here to the ' Order,' the .‘ Order' as such . ex erts a potent influence against Banks, and -in favor of anybody else. • ' . . 'Then why net try Pennington 3'. we are asked. , - • . For on; I was very willing to do so. I , idered id on the maim issue, and ired what he thought of more than for his views Clairvoiance. I : do not, talents so well adapted to; le of Mi.. Banks ;‘ but he ice, and , fur some days. 1 it deprecate his election. :ml friends were aSked, ied by supporting him He can get votes of Fol votes from Slave Statei . (et to consider that tho , et promised him on some) t he is leis firm, less hearty opposition to • the prize- i i bodied in the Nebraska: is. if he is elected,then,ll opposed to nay positive,!l the planting and nurtuee i .aises, somebody . must bel I cheated—either our • side_ or the. other- - -aud I. we prefer Mat -it be neither: We don't want an Anti-Nebraska Speaker elected liry:. the votes of deceived Nebraska men. We I prefer a clean victory or a clean defeat, We I. can better afford to be beaten than to be be- 1 4 trayed. ,If the House wants an Anti-Nebras 1 1 ka Speaker, it should. elect him who is the, choice - of a arge majority of the Auti-Nebra 'ka men ; if it wants one:of the other sort, let it Choose Mr. Richardson on • the. same primi ' I ciple. - We don't want a Speaker except to I organize tbe , committe.ss ; and it will be of I no usa to have the bills of the Session proper.l ly shaped in-committees if they are to be beat( en in the House.' If *e_have.not a majority,l in the Rouse, let the. Count ry know . the faeti at once, and not be deluded with expectations which the pregress•of. the SesSion is to dissi pate. Such are - the views of a.large majOri r l-. ty of the Anti-Nebraska men. I commend thetif to the consideration of their aistitn ,- ents. -. . 1 I Thus we stand at the close , of the second week, the House having just adjourned after a desultory- debate on several trifling prcipe,- sitions , of comproinise , and taking two ballots without ,material change from yesterday's: mute--Banks 105 i I trust that the Anti,;Ne braskii voters of )fr. Wheeter'S district will ponder well the speech Made by their *pre-. ientativo on thisOceasion and carefully weigh (if they can.find..them) big reasons for never voting for.anyboly who stands a chance Of, being..elscted-,..n t for any. 0130 who gets, twro• votes beside! his wri.. as for . this that theY sent this nut to Congress 1 n. a.. , ....' President Pierce has issued a prude =aim warning a persons against'engaging military expeditioi or enterprise in the State of Tile aragsa;-as being contrary to. their duty u good citi zens *nd to the laws of theircountry, and threatening tha puce of the United States. - , . 1 NEWS. AND NOT IONS. . --------,—. - 1 -- - i ~... The New York Lifelaustrated says " , filickneir is a &vete."• :Conadhif t 0... . qltivalids. ..; .... ' I'll take your part,' aii the dcig said ~ to, the cat, when he.robbed her of ir,ll her dinner. k 1 . " r . . . The depth of the Niagara' Miler - andel', the euspension bridge is seven hOmired fect—bein4 the deepest running stream Itnowo.i - • - •'. - A littlo girl Y a lter undergoing thel:4 , e ' agrceable - op ration of yaCcination; asked, "Now won't have to be baptized—will I? r • . 3 L , .. . . 'Gentler. writer • ttlipka the Ameri cans cons m e flier° tobacco and blow up more Steen* boats th t any otberfive potions: 1 e . I , ... The Bradford Reporiell notit.es,the at!- rival the first boat-load of coal, on the Norti Bran hlsfihat place reeepily. - . 4 came from Scrari; ton v . Elmira,- • i -• i I. I, .... Greeley 'writ ..t frcini Washingt9li , that the only line.of divisii s r,in the !Muse, is Nelira4:: ks. No one asks or cares anythipi for the Americah issue. 'lf a member is right 'on Nebraska, it is stiffi'• cunt. . . . A Lill has bech introduced into th Alabama Legislature, to exempt roiat levy and sale flqr debt one feels sla \ re 4: for the use and eoinfort Of ter t One ema c .0 te, use auu the family." The proposed law makes uo distinction between married Men andibachelos. There are in the pt•sent Congrc... three Smiths, the same number of Wrights,ofCamit-_ bellS, of Bells, of Jones, Washhurns'and of andfutirteett other names, •of which there • are - two members bearing etch sante name. , ... Swethual,'W..Q. lieynoldj, Geern.e, Sanderson, William Hartley, and D. I . Vriglft: ; hare giretilegal notice that they'luill apply to tlx neat. Legislature for the incorpOrLfion of the Lacka - sienna Bank, to be .located at Scranton. A. little, fellow iwhil6 talking with - his aunt the other ihtf, said-+" AuniV, I Sbenld think !I Satan must be an awful trouble tO fled," • lle niuit be trouble enough," she answered. l " I don't see hour . he catue to turn. Mat so, when there was no Devil. in • put him up to it!" was the reply-. I. .. It is loti l d .that. Tyler ; wli s b Was Gardiner, is heir" ; to a just discovered frit , tune in England, by which she will get fire- hundred thousand dollaars, Think! of John. yler being acci dently • President of. the United States,! accidentally " Marrying, one of the hands'omest :women in Anteri4m, and accidently haring afOrtune Of,half a million. t s ..111 the eas - e of,GLtiv,a I3aker, who has ff been on his trial in New 'cork eit)," for the murder of Dill Poole, the jury Werelitrable7tO agree, and were The nearest that tlicY could come. td Verdict was nine for murder with !,a recommetidatiOn to mercy, and three! for manslaughter in: the second degree. ' • • !. • , .• . Index; thelVaLliington correspondent Of . the Tribune, suggests, ;;`. If a law were passed mlt , ing the organizationof House la condition prece dent to pay, the present; 'obstructions wonlitdis.4p pear as rapidly its' a mist nefore the sun. And attire is very good reason why it should be so, in the 46 Of this flagrant waste of time, and factious disregatA of the National interests."' ! \ • • 3• - ; .... In the presentrl-lotie l ofllepresen‘- • !tires there arc three brothers, frOin three differ4nt liStates, viz : Israel .N l VashbUrne, - jr4 of Maine ; 118. Washburn of Illinois ;I and Cadwallader C. Wa r sh-• . ' 1 borne of Wisconsin. Thi first tWo named are new w meinbers,aud till arc strong oppetients of the prestpat; :lAdwiniStration. ' - . i -• • . 1 .. Not a solit:Lry ihtliyiatial has bPen,stint 11 to Kansas free of charge hy.tlie.ligrant Aid Soele il ty, but forty Georgians h4To lately been sent onto it help the Atchison men, cia4 hwT thcir passage pijid Mire by the slarcholdere. iWhatkql those papers that 44 disckivered so much wickedness; in the New England Society's operations hard to saii to this? 42 ' i ; - . I ~„, ;1; . i, - 1 .... The drurikarclyawns,everything,(Nett his soul and honor for r 1 1. Ih this he is below he beast. Were, a tiger to iiiadilen, himself with dr,nk and go home to Mrs. Tiger, and !scalp her and, the little ones, and then carry theicscalps to the neatest Pawn broker„ and pledge ithemifor rum; all tigerdbm would 'rise in indignation,land . S4 i that he .uas as had as a human being.-1.1.. Jia an. 1 i . i • .. : . The iroites.tile llelixilel thinks Ch4so t ot•the Ifontroe.e Dtnioerci: has :n*tie two grace this takes in his- political career • : Jne the supportt: • of Judge Wihnot, and the ctiter'the. advoeacY of Fre:- Soil principles. Chase thinks so 1 too, and is doing s.jr:rue petiance for both offenCeS, hoping to regaie his standing as a national derrioCrat in tints for, :the i diSt.itmtion" of the loailes .and fishes ib neatl- 1 , Pros hien .?ct ion. • . The. province IA" N6vroundhla v tug „consented to the treaty Ibetween the Suite • .1 and 'Great Britain, the l'residept has issued his ',kw '', lamation, directing that he. various hg,ricultural !anti 1 , other products of said PA nvintje 'enumerated in paid f treaty, shall be admitted free 1 :of duty. The list of articiies thus admitted inHudest grain, flour, o: allkindS, moats, buttfr, cheeSe, tallow, hides, ittal t.tost agricultural protluCtions: • By a reent• Papat hrief; the lieneWm ; tine monastery at St. Vincent "a+ Latrobe,in l'enisyl •vatria, has beetrais94 to the dignity of an altheyiand the Itev. Bonif*ce is nareed finit Abhe-Mitre (miti•ell at..bet.y • This institution was„ founded only nice v^cars ago, by this same abbot; accornPanted by fifteen fri ars, and now he counts in his jurisdiction five Om:- asterks and one }Mildred and five Benedictines. , !rho progress of the Roman Church in the United Stittes is - regarded at Rome with more: than usual satiSfae• tion. • We'llaVe jest leut , .ited, says the Cllves. land Leader, that the *ansa.s ! Herald, has been: kus pended„' Mr. Joseph L. Speer one of its editors, *as lately assaulted by a Sang of Missouri cut•tbroats, and most shockingly btniten.. Ilis face and head,were horribly mingled ; his face was cut oimu foam mOuth to ear, and his neck wait partially cut ,off. lie ;was rescued before he was quite killed. We have le:tined no further particulars. 1 Mr-Speer way formerly aires bleat of this city. Howl much longer will the Xorila tolerate thesC things. 1 . " La BELLE Donmsusa.l%—The special Paris 6n-respondent of the N. Times tells :the % following curious story: • A young and frail Scotch girl, scarcely I more than a child, ',and beautiful as any of Walter Scott's heroines, hay lately - attracted the 'public. attention 'is 1. Paris 'by sleeping'! wherever she goes.iller 1 - tailic is Erina Wal- I . tcin; acid - her- Mother has brought her to Kris i• to try bytravel to cure 'filter of her singhlar , malady. At the oPera..ttic no sooner takes her seat in aibox than she falls to sleep, :find I thus 'remains, until i,he is awakened, and )t, I whilst in .this positipn that she has gained the title of "La .Belle Oornsiuse." • W hilei she sleeps she is said ti enjoy dreatns i so . loiely • and'so attractive thht the aitiaketting inter the I commonplace surreandings of this world dis pleases her, and she hastens back again 4nfb . dream-land., At home, lti a carriage, at the theater, wherever she is ;left alone for .a4ao ment, she settles into a Calm.and sweet sleep; and with a lovely and child-like face, iard dreams such as,she enjoys ; , one can readily Imagine that her face ',deep is the - centre for all eyes, and thiif,she ;well merits the ititle The Beautiful Bleeper."' - The symptOmi of this'case 'betray !one Of the curious .filirtris of hysteria, and.nodonbt4after time his cured her of the abnernial condition hi :milk* she ' now finds herself; 'As Will too upon , that period withla•S much fear as, she inoW,. does with - delight. 1 _ Aside from the diseased condition.of the - . -.- child's'ncrvous eysiernO t would be curtous: to knevi how much here:is of triateria)ityihowl I much of materiet4 inithie'Swegienborgianl communion with theland.of dream,. .. . . . • pitalien of the House.- • 1 ••• r` • ' : , . ~ . , „.., 110 prtiscat warm contest for the Speak er.stii-p of the N ational Honie:4; ; Ret a . ...-, ,ives renditra . appropriate the:- publiiiii a i n' , at this.time of a hat of the Speakers I f that . .. ~y, since. th 4 organization .ot ,gevernraint ; rider the 'Federal Constitution. d - • ICON •YEAIt. . .- 1 4st, 1789—F. A. Muhlenberg, of Pa.,, d, ;1791—Jona. Truruhull,. of Centf.;l ~ d,1793—. A. .in h lebeg, re-c ect r t tb, 17951:onaDa:toN,1et sth, i 7 : 7 la.Daytire:clected: . 61179i1he0. Sedg wick, Mass., F4.! 7th,lBolut.AieonN.c.jDoin. sth,lBo3nMacned. 9,jBsiat.lconeieeted. 10th, 1807. B. Vaurn, Mass., De r 1 18:.B.vtriireelected.l 12th, ISII-.-Henry clay, Dern. . .. 13th,.180—HenryClav, re.electedf. ~ • 1814----Laegdon Cleves, fl, C., - D 14th, 1815 -Henry Clay, re-elected. .1 ' 15t11,1817 , —Ifeury Clay, re-elected. 16th, 1819—Henry:Clay, re-elected. * - .1820—f-John W. Tayfor, N. Y., 17th, - 182 D—P. P. Barbour, 'Va., Dern. 18th, 1823—Henry Clay, re-elected.. 19th, 1825 .7 -John' W. Taylor, re-elected.. 20th, 1828-Andrew Stevenson, Va., Dem. 21st, 1829 Andrew Stevenson, re-elected. 22d, 1831—Andrew Stevenson,'re-elected: - 230, .1833-7-Andrew Stevenson; re-elected. 1835—john 80, Tenn., Anti Van-Bu ' ren Dern. • ' . '4 0 .. I '. i 24th, 1 .835--Janies K. Polk, Tenn., Dern. 1 25th, 1837=-James K. Polk, re•elected. . l i 26th, Robert M. T. Hunter, of Virginia, af , - ter a long and exciting conte s t. d 27th, 1841—John White, .K . y, Whig. .• . j-28th, 1813—John W. Jones, Va., D - eir. • ' 1 - 4 •29tii; 1845.--.-John W. Davis, Iti., Dern. !130th, 184711. C. Winthrop, Mass.,-Whig, i 31st, 1840—Howell Cobb, Ge., Dern., after a protracted contest. 1 32d, 1851—.,inn Boyd, Ky.-: Dem.. I ~ - - , 33d, 1853—Linn Boyd, re-elected. ' - - ORIGIN OF OLTIt DECIMAL CEI:RENCY.-4 letter has been discovered, recently, this country, from a venerable g.ntleman who came fram Wales Over fifty years since. In NoVeinber, 1.805, he became acquainted With Mr. Christian Heiss, grandfather of John tOrmerly of •the,firm of 114ellie iSz Ileiss, of theWashingtou Union, now of: the • New:Orleans Delta. Mr. H. was then fiftz one years of age, and had in his youth - been wagon-master through the whole Rev i dlution in Washington's army, or it,„'inay be the Pennsylvania live, which formed a portion - of it. On:one such occasion, while in ottyer satiOrt; it wits remarked how much better - the Americans managed their currency than oth .er nations, in the decimal form of it:; when Mr. Heisis immediately replied that it was so, , and that the author or 'inventor Was the Rev. Samuel Jones, D. D., of Lower Dub lin.• We have 'never heard this qUestion mooted before,. but we have no doubt that the.information imparted by Mt... llebs was most reliable, and it involves an interesting. hlstorical incident.—.Excha\nge!.Pupei, 7 We believe it is genera* supposed - that= lefTerson was- the inventor of - our 'decimal eurreney, he having when a member lof I '5. Con gress, proposed the adoption Of that method of nOtation, as an dinendinent to Mr. Nfor ris's repot t On the - currency.: L. W' By the arrival, at New York' of .the stealnship Baltic, w.e have 'intelligenCe from i Europe one week later, the latest LiYerpool [- date . being the first inst.: COtton,:flOur and wheat have deelmed and consols had advanc; .!...! ed. .On the =lid the Danish Conference met, but. did nothing. The. King ofSardinia. has left: Francaand jarrived in Eti,7land.. The King of Pinssia, in -his speech to the y Cham bers, announced decidedly , the continued neu-. trinity of Prussia. Sume unimportant chan ges occurred in the British. Cabiaet.• The Al liCd forces at Kertsh and Yenikale have augmented to -15,000 men. American stocks . I • have improved in the threign markets, with . large sales. i -Count dole, lortoerl6t distin guished French statesman, is now dead. • Ad-I miral &o at, commander of . the - Ft ench fleet' in the Black Sea, has died, of-the. t .:tblera,.-.! Tlic blockade of the 'White Sea by tlje AM - co i Was raised- on the Ist of October.: and 1161 American ship Telegraph had sailed I with. a full cargo of linseed, flax and hemp fkir Am-•, t sterdam. - . Another American ship, the White Cloud, wilh a similar cargo, Was detained 4y ice, and would probably have to remain all winter.. The operations of the Allies at Se bastopol, preparatory to attacking; the north.. ern forts, were proceeding rapidly. Omar Pacha had entered Kumis„ and reentuMenced , offensive operathina on the 9th of November. ' Rumor siys that Russia has directly 1-e'quest- I . I 1 bd Prussia to make conciliatory °t h iers -to the I \Vostern jiower:=, and Prussia is sahl to haVe . accepted the mission, Austria :consenting.— "notbcr . rumor is that proposititMs - - have ern tnade to Napoleon on behalf of Rtissia 1 , which can be ht norably accepted.: iiantely, that 'Russia will II cOneludE a peace • With the 1 11Vestera POWers.‘k.ithout the intervention of ither . Austria*or -Prussia. , ; The terms are said to be — Russia . f weeding u the guaninteed indipendence of the Dan bian• Principalities and the freethini 'cif.l.he i ,g lack .Sea. _ . Both parties tire to continue -the .Prepara: ions for hostilities, but .no .netive -operation's o be entered tiPon up to a date agreed -upon. • READING IN RAILROAD CAns...b , The state tents of the. inluritnis .effect upon the eyes, f the ptevaleut American habit, Of reading in the cars while in motion, have excited ayery „ , t. frenerai Interest.. Among the suggestions of gtethoils to oilviate the evil, -while retaining tbl(e Itixury of indulgence, we find the the fol- Ib p: in She Newark AdvertiAer. b . b A friend who spends some time in rail oad traveling observed that the, :notion had 1 . : tenderly 'to intermingle the. lines -whilst reading, in such a manner aslo cause paitkto the eye it sugge,ted itself to him. that it this n• . itermingling could be remedied it Would af ford the desired relief. This - he remedied 1)y using a blank card laid on the cOlumn he.. r z-, reading, and gradually passing it do*`, as he rend, not permitting more than one link to appear adove the card at once. - I.lPo*mak4r,, .4 tng the trial, l was surprised -to • find the ef feet so apparent. A blank card of greiin col or would be inure agreeable to the eye, - and would answer the. purpose admirably,. „The - aper must be f>tded the.width of one imn which facilitates the *sing of the card 'ith the thumb, the fingers grasping the `pa ce;. the paper can be moved ,or steadied -nth the left hand. . or Wages are much higher in California ban in Australia. According to P Astatement p the Sydney papers, the wages art,a'far book ;binders from $l2 to r.lo . pek,week:;[for lers from $l5 to $l7 per wee*,; -fur= ainters ifrom $2,00 to s3r per day,and so , on, l'lie , dif ference between the two regions arts* Most probabli, from the superior, activits;.and en terprise California, where - the most pston isbiag iRd ll 4rY 'is 1 4laifested in evOtbratich of civilized art attainablo in sit distant a place. Gold -mfning is the,.sole. bosiness 4li Th ist, Adstralia, whereas in ,Califctrnia it is- merely' I the basis on ..which ag r iculture, rniniufitetores l i commerce, literature ! 'and science tiro eVpry where rearing their substantial structures. 11Ser•Ibe following letter has been reeeiv ed froni-.6instantinople4ilat e d the - 19th. ".The' 'destruction of Sevastopol having - beettiwor,ved, upon; as you are aware, each corps has: received its portion to work upon. . - The city presents - consequently;. the most an inisted,,aspeet; Itls a demolition en -regale, and la:which - the four armies take part. The Muses and publiebuildingsi ore attacked at =• the base,sulid on all sides are heard the blows of the harnmeroind the crash of the rafters and timbers of the houses, 'which fall down amid clouds of dust.' The sold ers at once - proceed to the selection of all e materials ca p a bl e of bqipg einployt, vantageouly during the winter. Each ms d s hi mse lf with objette the most varied. nie ea sy. off planks, 'wirdows, dobrs, pre . - , fire-ironsi kitchen utensils, even to old' chairs end old. i - pots. , Indeed, t may .be, said that soon not nail,-nor a piece of woOd,, nor a tile., will re main in Sebastopol., Of course the houses occupied by the troops of occupation are re spected, but this respect has to be ertforced by detachments of soldiers stationed in the court yards—so'ardent is the desire for de molition. On the other hand, the engineers have resumed their mining works, in order to flovi up the military and inaritirne - estab % lishmenis of Sebastopol. _ The cannon -balls and shells found, are collected in huge pyra mids, and it is ascertained that a great nuin- . . ber arc fit for use." [ Fed. Fed. d. =9 EMI :.''.Emigration from. the, Western litnit4' of Missouri and lowa, to Utah; California and • Oregon, across the sterile plains of Kansas and Nebraska and the rugged 'steeps of - the Micky Mountains„ . is a- work of great danger and hardsliip;even under the best eircunistan ces. the.po6r way larers,:,mihosepoverty. will not permit them to buy; Worses, ,cattle, wagons, or other Means •of transportation. must iridefd have a hard-time ofit. During . the Califgrniii gold fever, one det2rmined man thus destitute, - Wheeled his baggage and provisiowtthewhalc of-the iinmense dtstatice to Calitornia„in,a barroW, over the plains, up and down the hills, across the rivers,- and thiough tile South Pass of the mountain bar- - , rier.' 1114 t indomitable emigrant will, no doubt, belong remembered by the / reading public, when his better provided fellows shall .havo beentgirgotteri. Bat he accomplished: more that the mere success of bis journey. 41e derilstrated the feasibilit- . ;7 of this mode; -' of transpo ting baggage dud provikioni - which • could not •be carried in any Other_waY„-with out a beast o burtlien. Nor has-his e heen i an. unprofitable. one. -I.2ast - spring,, tin - j• experienced naturalisttart.,ed on a scientific,. tour throngh . Westekn - Minnesota -and Ne braska, withoUt ':aninikils or- - attendents, and' conveying all his baggage - and provisions. in • a hand' cart, Which he 'pushed begird him.— • - The -Monitions; in their pilgrimage-to - the Salt. Lake settlemefits,.are often obliged to safer great hardships, on account of- their poverty. , .A Mormon missionary •paper, published in 'New tork city, advises the poorer on,* wile minnot.afford I * es,mu l es, or :oxeit, to use hand carts for. tralisp.ortation ps. their small ;children,l?: , ,, , gage and provisions fren - .. I:Misseuri.to Utah,, and the idea will most - p 37 . ) 19' r •• . , • . . 'THE' P.APEIL PLANT. v.: \' : this head, we have before us. a deseription,of: a plant d6coviirecl in this country- 'by Mrs, A: L. teainnoilte, of - Arena. .Sho'has furnish. ed 11S with . a'fine sample of cotton,' and also of ftak,frOm the.same - plant, • Whieh she de scribes 'as folloWs: "1 diScovered, two yeai's ago, a Plant that yields cotton and flax from the same root, and believe l' am the first person that ever cultivated, spun and knit frolic it:, Earn per suaded that . any . article that will make . -as: good cloth as can te made from , this plant will' make good paper, hence 1 011 it the Pa; per Plant. - Ir caNbe•plauted an- the spring . and cut in the f/91 or winter.. Frotn:a - Single . root" that 1 trdosplanted last, spring there grew twenty large stalks, with .tVee. hundred and five pods (containing the cotton) with - ,at leastsixty seeds in each. From this root I 'obtained seven ounces "of pure cotton, '.:and over .half a pOund of.flax. .k isia very heavy plant, and grows from six to seven feet , . INN',ILL'ABLE , ,REMEDreo.—Here - are- a few simple reniedie§ fur very prevalent disorder's, whiCh we have no hesitation in recommend ing as : z. lor sea sickness--stay at . Fur drunkenness--drink . cold water. Fix health—take !Lii.y.er's For accidents—keep; out of danger. • TO make money—:advertise hi the Reptth., For Coughs - and Colds—take Cherry Pee: Loral.. _ *. •- _To kep 11•ut of - jail—pay your debts.. To be happy— subieribe . for a newspaper.To please all--miud your 'own business.. . To hai-e a good conscience=--"pay the prin. ter." • M. S. Wilson: has removed his Stock of Good into his new Store (in the Brick MOO at the foot of Pub-. lie - . Avenue where the 3lereantile b - usiness will be con tinued utider,the Firm of M. S. Wilson & Son.: ditions, to their present Stock will be .eontintudly made and particadar 'attention given to keep up, general assortmentespecially in the Hardware line. • • I want to remind those indebted to me, that-I have beeii under the necessity of rebuilding aStore House and , consequently must- urge_ payrrent- 7 hoping all .. • will attend to it without further notice. ~ • Montrose, Dec. 19, 1855. M. S. WILSON: • Turnpike-Yotir• - The stockholdera of the, Lenox andllarmony turn pike road Companyorill.hola their-annual meeting en Monday', the 7tli day ofJanuary next at-10 o'clock A. 31. at the house of Joel. S,teenback in Gibson to elect officers for said: company fiftr_the ensiling year.. By order.of the Board. BENJ. COMFORT..Secy, Lanesboro, Dec. 1G 1855. • Adminliwtrator's Notice. I.No:ricE is hereby given that letters of adminis, tration upon the eafate of FREDERICK Pleat:Mao: late of the Boro' . of liusquebanna Depot deed, hare been been granted to the uitdersigned, and all persons-in, delned to said estate will please make immediate parnent, amt . :those• having claims will preaont the ; -..same.duly attested for aettlembitt. - • 4.A.M.EI,PIekERING, • ' Wm. H.-HUBBARD, -Snbquehinnit Depot,'Dee. 18, 1845.5. . • Mere icew Hooks. rnrrutr. YOE THE HOLIDATS. The subscriber has just !received a well - selected amortnient of new Books suitat4 for Christmas' and New 'yearti presents, a few of which are the .old Homestead, Geoffrey lifortotosi or:the Faithless OA . dian, Scenes in the practice of a' New 'York Surge Mn, Doesticks, the b'ook for fun,l Caste„ Stakespear's works, Daniel Boone and the 'Hunters of Kentucky,., alsolots of Minature Gift Booki.foithe - tittle ones. Call andsee. - , - A., N. BULLARD. - _ Coate at Last. ' Come rraff• Stoll 1 6 series of Arithmetics the best in use, by the 0 - o r single; Sanders' new Spelling' Book, Almeria - The Farmer's, Family Knickerbock er, United Sta ", .Know Nothing, Tribune - and even Ladies' rocket Almanacs for 185 a :, _ i. Diaries :for 'O6,, --all styles and,, aizes' the best, in market Law Books--a new sopily,lust received, Pardon.s Digest; complete.to 1865. - 11urd'a Golden. Gloss fur beautifvutgauld Preserv , ing the hair. Also Unrd'a ijuir tiestbrer, that will make 'the wool grow on the top of the head, the place wheret the wool ought ta grow. For sale at - the , Montrose Post Office, by .• : . A. N. BULLAR.O... , ... Montrose, -Doe. le, 8,415,, • . , .____i. • - Chrislssas Celebration. WHERE did Approprioto Religious Servicieiow '..Christmas Eoe,at the Utiverwat Mirth, itt Brooklyg.the 24th inst. The,Church wM be deccwe-. ted and illitinihated for the orcalOcult - - Removal. Cue Word More.