Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1859-12-08
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and the of prosecution and to imprisonment for
one year in the county Jail of Allegheny county.
The controversy among the Democracy
of Kentucky in regard TO the instruction of the delegates
from that State Charleston in favor of Hon. JAS Guthrie
is increasing in bitterness and evidently excites much
feeling. .---.......-..--
The Board Of Revenue Commissioners will
at Harrisburg February for the purpose of ad
usting the and equazing taxation This board
constituted by member from each judicial district
who is appointed by the judges of the several Conrts Of
Quarter Sessions in this Commonwealth.
Law is expensive, as well as vexatious
and uncertain. In recent case in Milwaukee it
out that the income of lawyer in that city for the
year was SIS, 900. Not so rery uncertain
We see it stated that the Michigan Cen
tral Road has running thirteen years under its
present management In the time not single passenger
has has been broken up by any accident the track
-John Browns ancestor, Peter Brown
in the May Flower in l62O his grandfather
a captain in the revolutionary army his father
commissary in the of 1872 and John Brown himself
took part in that war.
Senator Seward, at the latest advices,
After hasty trip to the Barbary Coast, he expected to
return America but his presence at the meeting of
Congress is doubtful.
"A little boy named Chase was found dead
in his seat at school in Detroit n few days since. No
cause could bedscovered for the sudden death but it is
supposed that he was seized with fit of apcplcxy.
The London Times editorially pronunces
the Great Eastern failure The Times says she will
in heavy sea- roll little and her propeng power
is indequate to the mass which is to be moved.
The Utica O5serrcr says Gerrit Smith
continues to improve His bodily and mental condition
are hopefully gaining. His appetite is better, and he
sleeps better than when brought to the Asylum.
Col Forney speaks of Judge Black, the
present Attorney General of the United States
person who is patiently waiting for the death of one of
the Judges Of the Supreme Court of the United States
with view to fill the vacancy"
KENTUCKY is going in strong for James
Guthrie for the Charleston nominee for the Presidency
seems probable that the State Convention which meets
on the Sth of Sanuary will instruct the Charleston dele
gates to go for Guthrie.
The trial of Stephens, old Browns con-
federate will not come on until the sitting of the U. s.
Fifteen returning Pixies Peak emigrants
are reported to have been drowned in attempting to
cross the Platte river in boats within short period
The clpper-ship Uncowah, which arrived
at San Francisco on the 25th ult, from New York.
ports that the 9th of August, when about fifty five
miles off Cape Horn she fell in with number of icebergs
the largest of which about eight miles long and three
hundred feet high.
Two married woman met in the streets of
Baltimore Tuesday and at pitched into each other
fearful destruction of bonnes and crnoline ensued and
finally one of the tigresses being knocked down, the
other seized flour barrel and broke upon her Jealousy
melted the combat
Charges have been preferred against Gen.
Ward B. Burnett Surveyor General of Kansas of ntoxi
cation extent ncapacating him for attention to his
duties.
The cannon invented by ex-senator James,
of Rhode Island WILL it is stated by scientific army
officers, carry shot with accuracy, six miles and over
-Advices from Brownsville state that out
of revenge, Cortnas had hung three Americans.
The Republican National Committee will
the Astor House in New York Wednesday Dec,
2l decide on the time for holding the National Con-
We presume the attendance will be full and that quite
number of leading Republicans not members of the Com
mittee will be present on the occasion.
-Advices from New Mexico to the 7th
inst state that Colonel Fauntery had arrived at Santa
Fe and assumed command of the department The In
dans still continued their depredatons the mail and
emigrant trains.
Major French, agent Of the Treasury
Department for the extension of the Capitol buildings
was arrested, in New York. on Saturday. by deputy
United States marshal, and taken to Washington.
A despatch from New York states that
Commodore Vanderbilt has brought out the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company for s2,OOO,OoO
A woman broke into Mrs Gardner's
millinery shop in Danville last month. but was caught
and boomstcked before she could get away with her
" things
On Friday last, Mr. Brown Of Newberry,
went out to fell tree on Pine Creek-it heard to
fall and after hours he not returning, search
made, wheu he found under the fallen tree-kiled
Lock Haven is said to be fixed upon as
the site for the Machine Shop of the Sunbury Erie
Railroad.
Gov. Wise has been greatly boaxed by
letters One from LeWl-DuIg tHoH Coulty says, IHdI
secret organization in that place with five hundred
bers intend to drop down. Virginia suddenly
Brown and this is called reliable letter.
The Scarlet Fever RACES in MELVILLE, Cum
berand county. and many homes have been desoated.
The Upper Missouri and Mississippi are
full of ice, and the boats delayed Above Nebraska
City on the Missouri there is ice gorge full five miles
in length.
Information has been received at Washing
ton which gives every reason to believe that the Liberal
Government of Mexico the Cabinet of which is united,
will agree to the pending treaty of the United States.
Resolutions have been offered in the South
Carolina Legislature that that State R ready enter with
other Southern States, into the formation of Southern