ailp leitgraph. HARRISBURG* Friday Afternoon, April 12. IS6I. , Ttiti STltn SPRINKLBII.—This useful institu tion will be put in operation on Monday next for the summer season. Tu*,:cf,tikonPitterna MEErmu will be held in the Prellbyterlan church, corner of Market Square v to-morrow (Saturday) afternoon, corn inen4niE at four o'clock, as usual. Tam HAZISIONY CLUB BALL, last night, was largtrattended by the lads and lasses of our city, nudiessed off pleasantly and creditably. iiieneial enjoyment ruled the occason, and "all vent merry as a marriage =I Donaricits says that if people were sent to To phetly::popular suffrage, James Buchanan would go by a larger majority than any one who has travelled that road since the man that invented accordeons. I=l=l Quna.—A rural editor says that a child was run over by a wagon three years old and cross eyed, Wbrch never spoke afterwards. He also publishes some lines which he sAys "were writ ten h:f young man who has long laid in the grave for his own amusement." Ittxua. Brut.— . --A bill was reported in the Sen-. lite meter**, authorizing the erection of a lockmp , in Middletown. An "institution" of thiellndlls greatly needed in the ancient km one; 'and should the bill pass, of which there . 3s no,doubt, the authorities will at once take eagigy?,s for the erection of a suitable building. Now RESERVOIL-Our City Fathers aro now (meld/awing : the propriety of constructing a new reservoir, the . present one being too small to furnish supplies of water adequate to the de maw:l4,of our rapidly extending city and in creasing population. Some suggest Allison's hill, and others the Park grounds, as the loca tion for the new reservoir. No definite action has yet been taken in the matter. READING AND COLDIIBIA RAILROAD.—The work of grailing this road, from Columbia to Ephrata, was ~snb-let 'yesterday by Col. Moore the ori ginah-oontractor, and the work will be col:a -mine:141in the several sections at once. The original contract binds Col. Moore to have the roa& completed by the fourth of July, 1862, iscullbeWork will consequently be pushed for ward-with vigor. 1..u0tr.. 7 1dr. J. Wesley Diehl, for several yeasavasi_a popular conductor on the Cumber land',Zilley Railroad, has been appointed Post master at Chambersburg. Welearn that he was not an applicant, but the contest between the ri vartitiOnte becime so fierce and bitter, that the Port