Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1861-04-18
ReiDs from all Aatfoms.

also received several letters from South Carolina on the
same subject There will be large emigration from the
gulf States to the Northwest this season.
Mr. Hassaurick, the new Minister to
Ecquador said have thanked the President for hav
ing appointed him to the highest place in his gift
which is nine thousand five hundred feet above the level
of the ocean, that being the height of Quito the capital
in which he will reside.
The official census of the United States
has Just been completed showing total OF thirty one
million, four hundred and twenty nine thousand, eight
hundred and ninety (3l 429, S9) OF these three
Millions rne hundred and fty-one thousand eight hun
dred and slaves
Among recent deaths at the South is
noticed that OF individual by the OF St. Clair
Morgan who claimed the honor of having fired the first
shot at the Star of the Vest while that vessel
deavoring to reinforce Fort Sumter He killed in
duel by Captain O'Hara, officer In Bragg's army.
The Louisville Journal says:-Iu 1856
we said the time would come when any man who should
oppose the reopenng of the African slave trade would
bO denounced as Abotonist Such time came a
year ago In the last Presidential said the
time would come when every opposing the dis
solution of the Union would be denounced Abo
zionist Such time has come now
The name Of the Lock Haven & Tyrone
Railroad has been changed to that of the Bald Eagle
Valley Railroad and reorganization taken place. for
the purpose of resumng work upon that improvement
In Erie county, Pa, q woman named
Barnes, los years Old is living. She is the widow Of
Revolutionary Pensoner and receives pension.
John Morrissey, the pugist, is reported
to be dead 1t is said that he died last Saturday
morning, in New York, of putrid sore throat
Colonel Fremont has arrived in Paris,
taking with him despatch bag to the American Lega
ton.
The London Times assists the memory
of English Creditors in reference to Mississippi Bonds
of which President Jefferson Davis the Great Re
pudator. The Times suggests that the BONDS Of the
Southern Conederacy may prove valueless those
of Mississippi.
Mr.. Heusten, the American Secretary
Of Legation at Japan, murdered by armed party
OF drunken patyes, in narrow street his way home
at night.
Florida has sold half million acres Of
wild land to New Orleans SPECTATORS at hco cents per
acre.
The salary OF the President is $25, 700
per annum of the Vice President Sc OOo Of each member
of the Cabinet, IS 900.
The Southcra people are grumbling at
the duty of two dollars leo. In the South dur
ing the heated term, ice is not merely luxury, but
necessity
Gen. W. T. Sherman, brother of the
Hon John Sherman OF Ohio who has for years been in
charge of the Military School of Louisiana wrote note
to the Governor Of that State few days prior to Scces
sion, resignng his position Superintendent in OF
the secession Of that State He born under the Stars
and Stripes and intended to be true to them.
Rev DR. Mott, for nearly sixty years
President of the Union College at Schenectady, n Y
and nearly ninety years of age is seriously i'll at Pha
dephia Fears entertained that he may not
Gen Scott is said to be engaged in writ
ing a full and accurate history of his campsgns-
The second volume is believed to be completed.
"A New Orleans paper says that the
agents European capitalists who have sent their cap
aI to Louisiana for profitable investment, have been
notified 10 withdraw the and return to its
-Parson Brownow says of JEFF. Davs: "a
vile traitor trained REBEL and inflated bigot he
richly deserves to be hanged old John Brown
did"
for the northern and southern district of Alabama, will
it is sad endeavor to hold his court at Athens in the
Union part of the State
The Editor Of the Allentown Democrat,
says that he offered large of money to sup.
port Senator Schinde in his Tonnage Tax vote, end that
he took the money.
The cheerful Washington correspondent
of the Richmond Examiner has got plan for taking
the Tortugas forts He would sell the islands to France
and " thus give Brother Jonathan a in which he
would soon get soundy thrashed.'
Gov Morgan has again vetoed the Sus-
quehanna Railroad bill.
There is now an active demand for gun
powder. The argus says that the powder mills at
Schagcoke, near Albany were recently visited by an
agent of the Government since which operations
very extensive scale have been commenced and double
of operatives put work 1t is understood the pro-
prieors have received large order for powder and
little excitement exists at the mills in consequence
The National Lqtslligen1er says: 1t will
be gratifying the friends of the late President know
that the reports concerning his health that have
ionaly been published have foundation. In letter to
friend in this city, dated at Wheatland, the Sth instant,
Mr.. Buchanan says: have enjoyed excellent health
since my to this place and have not been sick
a single minute notwithstanding what the papers say
feel ten years younger, though time rolls on apace."
"A day or two since, when one of the mail
bags coming from the South BY way of Alexandra, Va,
was empted in the court yard Of the Post Office, box
addressed to Abraham Lincoln fell out and was broken
OPEN from which two coppeTheads one four and half
and the other three feet long, crawed out The larger
one was benumbed and easily killed. the other very
lively and venomous and dispatched with diff
fculty and danger. What are we to think of people
who resort to such weapons of warfare?
The Montgomery papers mention terri
c bombshel invented by H. L. St. James, of Mobile for