Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1861-02-21
Aems from all Adttons.

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No less than 81, 500, 600 are invested in
bee culture in Ohio
The Territory of Utah is knocking at the
door Of Congress for admission into the Union as
State hus even in these secession times, States
are coming IN almost fast the old ones are going
out.
A robin was seen flying among the trees
in Bellows Falls, Vermont, few days since. Even the
birds scorn and shun the ungrateful South.
The usual weekly export of cotton from
New Orleans is 20 900 bales From January Is TO Jan
uary % the actual export l72l85 bales, worth
ly 100000
A fre8het is feared by the residents and
mill owners on the streams in Northern New England
The snow than three feet Deep and the river has
ice more than foot thick on its surface.
The oyster packing trade of Baltimore
for the year 1860 reached the of three and half
millions of dollars in value The home consumption
estimated at a million.
The st. Louis Democrat Of the 7th says /:
Several hundred United States troops reached this city,
yesterday and proceeded the Barracks and arsenal"
There is O young man now in Chicago en-
gagged in the highly respectable, bat not very lucrative
business of posting, who worth $40 900 tive years
ago. Rum his ruin.
There is o tree in WilliamStowD, Mass,
go situated that it draws nourshment from Massachu
sets, New York and Vermont. 1t stands on the spot
where these three States join.
Kentucky is determined to resist aggres
sion and maintain her hts but she does not see in the
conduct Of the Northern States any good cause for her
making an ass Of herself
The students Of the Nashville Medical
College have presented goldheaded Gen. 10.
Lane Pity the Generals own head isn't of as much &C
count as the canes
The Fredericksburg Ns,cs suggests the
name Of secessa for the Gulf States Confederacy just
formed.
The Sewickley company of Nenango have
264 feet we'll from which they pumping two barrels
per hour, on the old forge tract, French creek.
"A great machine for penetrating the rock
for oil had just arrived at Franklin in yenango, all the
way from Boston and to be tested site near
that place. 1t is be driven by strong engine, and
will bore hole eight inches in diameter, thirty to forty
feet day. Should these promises be realized, this
shine will be q great institution in the oil region.
Five spans of the long bridge which
crosses the uelalla TVcF DaupAll were bAo"A
away on Thursday night Each span contains $50 feet,
making 25O feet of the bridge which has been destroy
ed. The loss to the company is 0OO
The United States forts built in South
ern waters have cost the country neery 100000 All
in the rest Of the Union the country little S
COOO0O Congress this year has yet made no appro-
priation for Qualifications But if every State IS 10 seize
and hold the public forts whenever chooses to secede
ca - .4-, F,r4sc,
tions and tLen it could have honest claim to them.
--Any man desiring to be martyr need
only vote to protect slavery the Territories by Const
tutional amendment The people willn submit to it,
Just mark the prediction.
We see it stated that the Baltimore
A1e, ican, which, from the start has sustained Gov
Hicks and fought the seceonists has more than doub
ed its circulation in the last eight weeks.
An enthusiastic patriot, while viewing
Kanes Arctic Panorama the other evening at St. Louis
was so overcome by sight of the tattered flag which
Kane planted on tue northern point ever reach
ed that he stepped forward asked permission to take
the flag and reverenty kissing it pressed to his heart
The electrified audience rose to their feet, and endorsed
the action with three hearty cheers.
On Tuesday evening about sevcntyfye
young Lie puLt-I5 "t NiC4lla~I gave 9hlpSA al tAS
ladies' ordinary Of the Burnet House, to Mr. Rob Lin
coin eldest son of the President. Gov. Morgan of In
diana sat at the head of the table his uis ris being
Gen. Sam. F. Carey, Of College HILL committee was
deputed hear invitation the President. He re-
turned with apology for not coming himself and say
ing that Bob may be put through Toasts drank,
and speeches made and sentiments uttered After thus
spending several hours in this pleasant way the compa
ny returned home happy princes.
The New York Herald now uses the term
poor Buchanan" The tune is changed as Sfr B. is
about to leave the White House.
Almost every day, says the Altoona Tri-
bun we notice cannon of the largest size and any guam
tity of shot she'll 0c going east the Pennsylvania
Railroad from the mandatory at Lawrenceville near
Pttsburg These guns intended for forts in the East
where they are being mounted rapidly possible
While we cannot bring ourselves to believe that are
about to be plunged into civil war, yet these things
looks considerably like it, and make US feel uneasy.
Matters are getting brisk at the Norfolk
Navy Yard. The Portsmouth and Germantown are being
rapidly prepared for commission. The premises lit
orally filed with COAL which seems to make the Virginia
people expect that Gosport will become great
coaing place for United States steamers.
We saw yesterday at the passenger station
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Eleventh and Market
number OF wrought iron cylindrical vessels which
informed contained compressed gas Upon further
inquiry we learned that Mr. Williams who had fitted up
the the Pennsylvania Central Railroad for burn
ing gas, had also taken a contract from Hathaway d
Leach OF this city for fitting out number Of to be
used the street railways in London. These cylinders
had been sent to the railroad work shops in Altoona to
be filed with gas by of the oompanys apparatus
there so that before long may expect TO hear OF
American street ralwaycars in London lighted with gas