Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1861-02-14
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tree thereon.
"A dispatch from Atchison, Kansas, brings
news of the fearful destuton of the people in thet
State. 1t is reported that 900 people face to face
with actual want.
Letters from John Minor Bolts express
the utmost confidence in the triumph of Union sentiment
before the people of Virginia. Ee also scouts the idea
OF any assault on the Capitol from that State.
Mr. Mallory, of Florida, in withdrawing
from the Senate, was kind enough to say We do not
seek conquer you Let the Northern States be COM
forted. We not TO be invaded by Florida.
The chronological order of the secession
,ements may he titus ranked December 20 South
Carolina January g. Mississippi January II, Florida
and Alabama January 10, Georgia, and January %,
Louisiana. Texas may be expected speedily to follow
An Armstrong gun of large calibre ar
rived at Charleston few days ago from Europe via Sa
vannah Its destination is Georgeton, and it comes to
the order of Mr.. Weston, wealthy planter who resides
in that locality. He has also imported one hundred and
fifty muskets, at his own expense.
The Niagara Falls Gazette chronicles
sundy mishaps caused by the recent slippery state of
the roads 1t says: The other day. two young ladies
promenading Falls street, when of them
down " like a thousand of brick Jumping up she
claimed soto rocs, Before another winter I'll have
to hang to, if don't" 1t is not always that
people to such rational conclusions in the moment
of disaster"
It is reported that the recent prompt
obeyance of the laws at Cleveland has caused quite
scattering among the runaway slaves both in that and
neighboring cities. colored hack driver in Toledo
showed great presence of mind the other day. Coming
up from the depot with his hack evening" he jumped
from his box as he reached the Collins House.
where he was employed not stopping to let out his pas
sengers He called the proprietor Of the house aside and
requested payment of his wages, giving therefor the
following reasons guess its time for dis individual
to be leaving desc parts cause Use got my ole
de carriagen
The Semiannual interest on the State
Debt, amounting 10 $s73OOO was paid Off in Philadel
phia the lst instant, in specie its equivalent.
Lieut. Slemmer, in command at Fort
Pckens, and his lady natives of Norristown this
State salute of thrtyfour guns were fired in their
honor at that place Thursday last.
1t is reported at Washington that JEFF
erson Davis of Mississippi is to be the President of the
Southern Confederacy and John Sldel of Lousia-
na, Vice President. The Secessionsts induced Hunter
Of Virginia. to expect that he be the President
but they decline to give to him because Virginia
is slow in seeding.
The Statue of Gen jackson, before the
Presidents house, was most curiously ornamented on
Sunday morning The old anti-sectonalist held in his
haad the stars and STRIPES while the blue cockade
tied under the tail of the horse Great Indignation is
felt by the seceders and it is rumored that they will
quest the Commissioners to ask for an explanation.
"A correspondent of the Chicago Tribune,
writes from Camanche, Iowa. that Mr.. Gilbert of Alba,
ny, H., who started down the Mississippi with his fiat
boat days ago. was stopped short distance below
Memphis, by armed force which compelled him to
" tie up - there man from Albany, who was in his
company has returned, and reports this fact He says
that there several fat boats at the point in
like predicamenI.
The dykes in Holland were broken in va
rous places January sth and 9th, sweeping away the
houses of thousands of unfortunate creatures who
wandering cold hungry and homeless upon the dykes
At night the rush of the torrent is distinctly heard at
considerable distance.
The hiarines at Fort Washington, on the
Potomac below Washington and nearly opposite Mount
Vernon have been relieved by companies OF heavy art
lery from Fort Monroe The movement was effected 50
quietly and skfuy that the persons who reside in
the immediate vicinity were not aware of it.
The prudent poor Of Charleston are just
in bad plight. The Savings Bank of that city has
two millions of their money, and they can't get
cent Of The Directors say is invested in mortgages
city property and in city State Stocks-which
Only be turned into cash at ruinous sacrifices Thus
these chiyac rebels start out by plunderng the rich
and robbing the poor
Quite an exciting scene occurred in the
theater Monday night as " Our American Cousin at
Home was being played. While the panorama of the
Hudson passing before the audience, view of West
Point presented. Lord Dnndreary (Mr Sothern)
asked what place it was Miss Shaw answered, that
it was the place where American officers made,
where our Major Andersons came from At this
few Kisses heard but in instant the cheers of
the audience drowned them the gentlemen cheered and
the ladies' who ever true to their country showed
their patriotism by waving their handkerchies In the
meantime the orchestra struck up that patriotic tune
The Red White and Blue" which added to the already
exciting scene.
"A frSt-rate horse was sold at auction in
Hartford Saturday, for two dollars and fifty cents
There's more of the bitter fruits says The COurant-
Thirty ago that same horse sold for nine dol
lars, and was considered cheap at that
Since the commencement of the secession
movement the carrying of cotton the Pennsylvania
Railroad has very much increased. 1t is brought by
river from Memphis to Pittsburg, and sent thence
Philadelphia. Within few weeks past eighteen
thousand bales of cotton have gone by this point.
The snow lies from four to six feet in
depth in many parts ofNew England with huge drifts at
short intervals. When two teams meet on the public
roads, the drivers of the sleds have to compromise
about passing each other, is difficult to keep to
the right, as the law directs"
-Ex-Gov. Pollock is warmly urged, by
his friends for Collector of the Port of Pha
dephia An old personal friend of the President, his
chance is good.
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