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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1860-06-14

Mr. Charles w Russell, q whesIiss. has
iasu"i long address 10 ibe Dem oeTats oF
b. section of tho State sSplssitofy Of his
eoar'e. aud q bis no, goibg With The sees.
ds's HodbiBks that tie Baltimors Cosyeu.
uSu vii pss what is called tAs Teaasssss
's.0IHii' . snd 'lst ttsy ought Ia be sequi-
ssosd ia aud adopted b. the Southern lism
oerA''e party. Upon Which, the Richmond
hn1airer sAys "We are sats6el that Nr.
has eii ). sistsksn is ssyposiBg that "ths
lea1essto RcsulaiioLs Wiil be satisfs storY
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q 'he DrtsooTa'ic ssssfsts fOm ihs South.
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asrded a. ifsly sEpressihg he conservative
spi"ioSs q The Democrats party % Ihs Coa-
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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1860-06-14

A Western exchange nskes the following
sEcslleBt suggestions, which nus, utet ih.
sppToba 100 of Ell rssders We t,us that
they will al,o b, received With fsvor b.
the old folts.' !, s.Js
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the sWceiss, ne mofiss Of home Do 20, lst
anything prevent soms toksu, b. Il ever -
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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1860-06-14

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tare, Va hss rsessliy sFgsn 3 600 70 BE-
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rifb ter Fifis 10 previous yssrs aud the rifi
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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1860-06-14

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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1860-06-14
Frederick Female Srmlnary.

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Virginia free press. (Charlestown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1832-1916, 1860-06-14
JOIN REED. IR..

C0aMisiIoHer an CAaHceTy Of tks Ciresu
end COsHIy Court Of I,6erson County.
nFFiCE "a Iar COuI,-tIouse, up stairs. lia he
- room for many years occupied As an ofhee
by the ia'e Ro5efi Wonnington, Esq.
Sn'raee, (eteePiCouri dsys) atthe sssidoor.
July %, tsSl-tf
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06
The Printer.

The Belfast Mercury gives the following in
relation to printers
From high to low, they are the same care
less, light-hearted, clever, well informed reck
less fellows, knowing how to act better than
they do-nothing at times-yet every thing if
occasion requires, or the fit takes them
Wherever yon 90 you are sure to meet one
No sooner are they comfortable ID one town
than they make tracks for another, even
though they have to travel on "hair space
means And to what will they not turn
their heads? We have seen, says an Ameri,
can editor, one and the same individual of the
craft, minister in California, a lawyer in
Missouri, sheriff in Ohio, boatman on the
Western canal, a sailor master of priVateer,
an auctioneer in New York, and pressman
in printing Office. Nor are these character
istics Of the printers in any one country-they
are every where the same. We have met
them as lecturers, actors, travelling preachers,
ventrloquists in fact, as every thing. We
have met, on a trampin this country, members
of this rowing profession, from all quarters of
the globe-Frenchme Spaniards Portu-
gucse, Germans and SWedes-and all appa-
renty as much at home as in their own coun-
try. Ardent lovers of libert king and
prestcraft find little favor in their eyes
They are always with the people When the
the chartist excitement was raging in England
the most eloquent leaders of the movement
were printers. When the barricades were
raised in Paris in l848, the compositors cast
their type into bullets and fred them at the
Royalist troops. When the Americans were
at war with Mexico, General Taylor's regi-
ment was composed almost exclusively OF vol
unteer printers, and they were the bravest Of
lis troops
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06

Thursday Morning, December 6, 1860.
geIettcO 4oetrp.

wurrrrFR thus inscribes his new volume of poems
Ham, B1llals" to his sister and we remember no more
ching s,auzas in the language Of dedication The ref
once to hi, mother not long dead, is very beautiiul
Ic.,I the old time back; bring these lays
To thee in memory Of the summer days,
When. by our native streams and forest ways,
We dream them over while the riyulets made
Songs Of their own, and the great pine trees laid
IN warm moon-lights the masses Of their shade.
And she was with US, living Ger again
Her life in ours, despite OF years and pain
The Autumns brightness after latter rain,
Beautiful in her holy peace. as one
Who stands at evening, when the work Is done,
GIorfcd in the setting Of the sun
Her memory makes our common landscape seem
Fairer than any of which painters dream
Lights the brown hills and sings in every stream
For she whose speech was always truths pure gold
Heard. not unpleased, lis simple Legends told,
And loved ilh Us the beautiful and old.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06

TEE pRINTING Pass AND OLD AGE - That
old age is not what it was in the days when
Cicero wrote his " Treatise uuon it-that it
has IameutabIy lost dignity and social position
within a hundred years-iS one Of the worlds
acknowledged changes. The rescue OF Old age
from its increasing neglect and inSguificance
has excited much attention but it is not unin-
terestng nor Improbable to see what is the
root Of the evil James Martineau, in one of
his admirable sermons lays it all to the print
ing press. He says:
OF how many honors has the printing press
alone deprived the hoary head 1t has driven
ont the era, so genial to the old of spoken wis
dom, aud threatnens a reign of silence, by put
ting all knowledge aud experience into type
The patriarch OF a community can never be
restored 20 the kind of Importance which be
possessed in the elder societies of the world
He was his neighbor'S chronicler, bearing with
in him tae only eXtant image of many depart
ed scenes and memorable deeds, and able to
link the dim traditions Of the past, with the
living incidents Of the present. He was their
most qualified counsellor, his memory serving
as the archives OF the State, and supplying
many a passage of history Illustrative of exist
=
pIexitv He was their poet representative
Of an age already passed from the actual into
the ideal associate or contemporary OF men
whose names have become venerable, and in
the ort-repeatcd tale Of other days, from which
time has expelled whatever was prosaic ,weay
ing the retrospect of life into an epic. He
was their priest, loving to nurture wonder and
spread the sense Of mystery, by recounting the
authentic prodigies of his,or his fatherS's years
when omen and prophecy were no duoions
things, but sober vrritieS which Providence had
no: yet bpgrudged the still pious earth. From
all these prerogativcs he is now deposcd, sup
planted in his authority by the journal and the
library. whose speeches. and iGpersonal lore
codIy. bnt effectually supplies The wants once
served by the living voice of elders kindlIng
with the inspiration of the past.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06
A WIDDER's GRIEF-" Artemus Ward I"

A WIDDER's GREF-" Artemus Ward :"
remarks that - There is something indescrb-
ably beautiful in the true wife'S devotion to
her husband. There is something very awful
in her grief when death takes him away
Leaves have their time to fall but death
comes irregularly and reIentlessly. We recent
ly heard a most touching instance Of the re
sgnation of an afectionate woman, at the
funeral Of her husband Though she had ador-
ed him, she did not repine at this dark hour
Looking at the remains Of her loved and lost
husband for the last time, she put on her bon
net aud thus spoke to the gentlemen whose sad
duty it was to ofliciate as pall.bearers You
paIl.bearers, just go into the buttery and get
some rum, and we'll start this man right
along ~
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06
PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWNDA

opened it and entered No one was there ;
everything appeared in precisely the same con-
dtiOn in which be had left it the evening be.
fore-his pen lying upon the paper as he had
dropped il on going out the candles on the
table and the mantle piece evidently not havir q
been lighted the window curtains drawn aside
as he had left them in fine there was not a
single trace OF any persons having been in The
room Had he been insane the night before
He must have been. He was growing old :;
something was the matter with his eyes or
brain anyhow he had been deceived, and it
was very foolish of him 10 have remained away
all night. Endeavoring 10 satisfy his mind
with some such reflections, as these, he remem-
bered he had not yet examined his bedroom.
Almost ashamed to make the search, now con-
vincPd it was all an haucination OF the senses
he crossed the narrow passage-way and opened
the door. He was thunderStruck The cell
ing, lofty, massive brick arch had fallen dur
ing the night, filing the room with rubbish
and crashing his bed into atoms. De Wette,
the Appariton, had saved the life of the great
German scholar
ThoIuck, who was walking with me in the
fields near Halle, when relating the anecdote,
added, upon conclusion do pot pretend to
account Tor the phenomenon, no knowledge,
scientific or metaphysical, in my possession, is
adequate to explain it but | have no more
doubtit actually, positively literally did occur,
than have Of the existence Of the sun."-At.
L1aic lIoaA'y
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06
Douglas on Public Affairs.

Senator Douglas, now that the exciting
Presidential campaign is over has found time
to express his opinions upon its results. 1t is
perfectly natural that he should feel some lit,
tie annoyance at the triumphant success of
Mr. Lincoln; and little manifestation Of that
feeling in speech the other day, though neith-
er dignifed nor commendable, was perhaps par
donabIe More recently be has put pen to
paper, on the same subject. Having been re-
quested by several prominent citizens of New
Orleans to deliver speech in that city :" on
the present condition of the affairs Of our coun-
try" Mr.. Douglas preferred to commit bis
thoughts to paper. In this manifesto he says,
what probably no man will doubt, that no man
in America regrets the election of Mr.. Lincoln
more than he does. He adds:
But while say this, am bound, as good
citizen and law-abiding man, to declare my
conscientious conviction that the mere election
Of any man to the Presidency by the American
people in accordance with the constitution and
laws, does not Of itself furnish any just cause
or reasonable ground for dissolvng the Federal
Union. 1t is not pretended, SO far as | am in
formed that any provision Of the Constitution
has been violated in the recent election. No
act has been done which impairs or destroys
The constitutional rights of any State or citi-
zen. Nothing has yet occurred to release any
citizen from bis oath Of fidelity to the Consti-
tuition Of the United States, which is the su-
preme law of every State and every citizen.
90 not anticipate, nor do deem it posi-.
ble in the present condition Of the country,
that, under the administration of Mr. Lincoln,
any act can be prepetrated that would destroy
or impair the constitutional rights of the cti-
zen, or invade the reserved rights Of the State
upon the subject of slavery.
To those, il any such there may be- who
look upon disunion aud Southern confederacy
as thing desirable in itself, and are only
waiting for the opportunity to accomplish that
which had been previously resolved upon-the
election of Mr.. Lincoln may furnish pretext
for precipitatinG the Southern States into re-
vouli0n. Bet to those who regard the Union
under most precious legacy ever bequeathed to
free people by a patriotic ancestry, and are
determined 10 maintain it as long as their rights
and liberties, equality and honor are protected
By it, the election Of Mr. Lincoln, in my hum
bic opinion, presents no just cause, no reaSona-
be excuse for dsunioa.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06

WAIVER OF EXEMPTION Supreme Court
is getting its eyes open to the folly of allowing
individuals to repeal acts of Assembly, and in
recent decision Judge Woodward remarks on
the exemption law:
Perhaps it would have been as well if the
Court had set out by denying altogether the
capacity OF the debtor to waive the statutory
exemption in favor Of any creditor. It might
have been urged in support Of the family of
the debtor rather than to the debtor himself,
and that his caprice or will, tempted as they
might be by the creditor. should not defeat the
Legislative benefactiOn to him or of those de-
pendent upon him.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06

Why ARE THE PRAIRIEs >TREELEss ?-The
Westerners, when they speculate on geology,
answer the question by affirming that the
prairie fres have burnt them off-that they
have been frightened out of existence by the
fires of the Indian At other times they vary
the theory by affirming that the absence Of
trees is due to the deficiency of rain but
neither does this stand examination, for the
maps of the distribution of rain show that the
fall Of rain on the praries about equals that
in other regions. Mr. Whitney, in his paper
on the Origin of the Praries, read before the
Scientific Congress, shows that the real cause
of the absence of arhorescent vegetation lies in
certain mechanical conditions of the soil, and
in its extreme fnensss- Wes:ey. pJTer
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06

Pretty ExPERIMESr.-P Professor Rogers has
solved the problem of " seeing through mill
stone" Ia paper read before the Scientific
Association at Newport, he says:
Take a sheet of foolscap or letter paper,
roll it up so that the opening at one end shall
be large enough TO take in the full size of the
eye, and at the other end let the opening be
not half as large. Take it in the right hand,
holding it between the thnmb and the forcfn-
ger place the large end to the right eye and
look through it with both eyes open to the
light. You 1rlH sec a hole through your hand
If you take it in your left hand it will be the
same. You will in both cases'be astonshed to
see that you have hole in your hand. The
alluSiOn is most complete"
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06

A SINGULAR STORY is told Of an apple tree
planted over the grave Of Roger Williams
This tree had pushed downward one of its
main roots in a sloping direction, aud nearly
straight course toward the precise spot that
had been occupd by the skull of Roger
Williams There making q turu conforming
with its circumference, the root followed the
direction of the backbone to the hips, aud
thence divided into two branches each fol-
lowing leg home to the heel, where they
both turned upward to the eXtremities of the
toes of the skeleton. One of the roots formed
a slight crook at the part occupied by the
knee joint thus producing an increased resem
bance to the outlines of the skeleton of Roger
Williams, as if indeed, nodded thereto by the
powers of vegetable life. This slngularly form
ed root has been carefully preserved, las con-
stituting very impressive exemplifcation of
the mode in which the contents of the grave
have been entirely absorbed.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06

\ MEMORABLE GUN.-Among the relics Of
the glorious war of 1912 which were gathered
at Cleveland on the 10th ult., in honor of the
Inauguration of the Perry Statue was the
memorable Croghan gun. It's service is thus
related by a correspondent of the Cleveland
Leader
In the brlliaucy of Perry's victory, let us
remember the unexampled defence at Fort
Stephenson, now Fremont, Just forty days be-
fore that naval exploit. \ large quantity Of
stores was collected here. Gen Harrison, with
a council of war, had declared that the post
should be abandoned indefensble
against heavy canuon-and gave orders to
Maj. Croghan to that effect Croghan dis
obeyed, or perhaps, before it could be carried
out. the British and Indians, 10 a large body
from Maiden, attacked the fort. 1t had but
one cannon-a 6pounder.
Sir George Provost, in q dispatch to the
Home Government from Montreal, of the 25th
August 1918, states that Gen Proctor moved
forward from Maiden, July 25th, with $50 re-
gulars and between SOC and 400 Indians, and
six pieces of artillery.
Fort Stephenson was garrlSoned with $50
en- under CrOghan, who had Just turned
his twenty first year Proctor demanded
a surrender, and ,told the unvarying story
of the danger of provoking general massacre
by the savages unless the fort was yielded to
all of which Croghan replied that the Indians
would have none left to massacre if the
English conquered, for every man would have
died at the post.
Croghan's musketry did not prevent the
enemy from advancing to within thirty feet,
when under the darkness of the night the one
cannon was unma>ked, and cut down twenty
seven at single discharge. The enemy re-
coled and retreated, losing ninety men-the
Americans one. Tins the supplies and men
were saved to move forward, after Perry'S
victory aiding in the pursuit of of the fleeing
Proctor and Tecumseh.
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06

A GOOD ANECDorE is told of Mrs. Patterson,
of Baltimore, the lady connected with the
Bonaparte family by marriage Being in
Italy, at an evening party it fell to her lot to
he handed into the supper table by a Young
English nobeman who had good share of the
puppy in his composition. Thinking to quiz
the old lady, he said "You are acquainted
with the Americans, believe" Very wei" 4"
"A monstrously vulgar people, aren't they :?
" Yes but what could you expect when yon
consider that they are descended from the
English? Had their progenitors, now been
Italians or Spaniards, We might look for some
good breeding among them" The nobleman
did not venture to address Mrs Patterson
again that evening
Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-06

II. W BEEcHER Our government is now
like ship that having run long upon one tack
aad very nearly run upon the lee shore, being
on the point of changing her course, and no
longer catching the wind in that direction, the
sails flap and the ship rocks, but just as soon
as the jib catches little of the wing on the
other side, and the bow begins to move about,
we shall have weathered the last rock, and
then, with sail set from top to deck, we shall
bear away with full freghted prosperity for
ages yet to come.