Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1861-02-07
Aems from all Aattons.

The Charleston Mercry Of Monday, re-
marks that, Saturday, officer Of Fort Sumpter
called at its Office and subscribed for the Mercury to be
mailed to him at the Fort for the merit three months
The Montour Iron works have commen-
ced operations again. The company having secured
pretty large contract the employees went to work again.
without being obliged to submit to production Of wages
Thus much suffering has doubtless been averted.
The Pemberton Mill, at Lawrence, Mass
the scene of the fearful loss of life months ago. has
been entirely rebuilt the old site at cost of nearly
$500 600. 1t will running forthwith and will
give employment about 1000 operatives David New
ns Co., of Boston Mass the former propretors,
still the owners.
The railroads crossing the Western pral-
ries protected from drifting in winter by high
enc es which serve in summer keep the cattle from
the track In the winter of 1852 before these fences
were constructed the Illinois Central Railroad Company
expended 800 in endeavorng to keep their track
clear.
The Eric papers state that twenty one
loads of oil making about eleven barrels, re-
ceved at that point the Sunbury and Erie Railroad
evening last week. 1t from Titusve and It'd
eoute, and indicates rapid increase in the oil yield of
those localities This kind of freight will in itself ere
long TASK the carrying cdpdClty VI tHc iOdu'
Last week John g Reading, Treasurer
of the committee of lumbermen appointed to sell such
of the logs that escaped from the Susquehanna boom
last spring as were found below the Shamokn dam, paid
to parties this vicinity about sxyone thousand dol
ars-noncy obtained by sale Of escaped ogs.- HiHiam
iiamspo1! Gaz.
Once a Week has a biography and por-
trait of our new President. The biography commences
as follows " Honest Old Abe the Americans call
Lincoln, was originally 5arm laborer in Illinois,
Frederick Douglas the little giant his defeated antas
onist was a cabinet maker" And all through the arti
Gle the little giant is denoted by the Of the col
ored Douglas. Such is fame.
An Indian Squaw, roaming around the
garrison at Fort Yuma. California discovered twenty
dollars worth of postage stamps in sheets in the officers
quarters, and happy thought struck her. Shortly af-
ter she created quite a commoton by appearing the
parade ground stuck all with the stamps regardless
Of dignity and decency The officer found that his post
age stamps intended for the mail, had been appropriated
to the female.
The Tribune announces: 1t is report
ed that SIR JoHy BIGELow having sold his interest in
the ErcDng Post Is about 70 become the proprietor Of
the Hoyli and will condgct j. a Republican journal
The State of California contributed near
" eleven thousand dollars towards the erection Of the
Washington monument the late Presidential election.
The Census OF Missouri shows that State
to have 4O7 $50 whites lSS Slaves and 52O2 free
negroes or in the aggregate: .524,62 This is much
larger than Missouri has yet been announced having
and it places the State next jim rank to Illinois in poju.
Of population the total being larger than either Indiana
Or Virginia.
1t is 81 ated that Young America Train,
(he success fu proprietor OF Tranways in Europe) in
connection with Mark Lemon Punch) Judge Halliburton
(sam Slick) and others has got up associated com
pany with a capital OF 5000 600. for the purpose Of
building great American Hotel" in London. They
have got possession Of three of ground in the
Strand, and are going ahead like bricks.
On Tuesday afternoon last another mon
ster cannon cast at the Fort Pitt Iron Foundry
Pittsburg which though smaller than the Floyd is
still an immense casting. The Union, as the new gun
is named has q twelve inch bore is the same exterior
diameter the Floyd" and six inches longer. 1t is
expected throw ball six miles. The whole quantity
Of metal used in The run IS l04 pounds, and tie
" Union, >, when finished, will weigh twenty-five tons
The time occupied in filling the mould p minutes
The gun was cast on the hollow principle and is per-
feet success.
A singular wager was won recently by a
skater on the Lake Of Geroasart, near NamuI Belgium
He betted that he would skate for an hour carrying
basket Of eggs his head without breaking them
lie accomplished the feat in first style having, dur
ing the hour written has in elaborate characters
the ice, besides tracing immense variety of compca
ed figures and las: set down the basket and received
his wager, amid the cheers Of all present.
"A few nights ago, on the GoIena and
Chicago Airline road, near Dixon, the engineer Of
train Of fourteen freight cars, when descending n long
and steep grade discovered that the had been
coupled and left behind and that he was going
ahead alone with his locomotive and tender. He soon
saw the train coming down the grade after him with re
nendous speed. He put steam his horse to keep out
Of the way; but they overlook him and such the
force of the collision that five Of the freight cars were
cut in two before they were brought to a stand.
The Chicago Journal says that one Of the
strangest phenomena in nature has recently developed
itself near the Horse Lake Polk county Wisconsin,
Flames of fire up through the earth in several oca
tiles and mans barn has been burned down by it.
Strange to say, theIre only be in the day time
the earth in the evening bearing close resemblance to
phosphorus. The air smells if impregnaed with sui
phur The most remarkable feature in this case is the
fact that woen articles in the houses by take fire.
athoug gh there is nothing visible to ignite them.
"A special dispatch from Frankfort, KY,
to the Cincinnati Commercial, states that George N
Sanders is at the former place assuming to be the mouth
piece of Judge Douglas, and SUCH advising the i'm
mediate secession of the border states, with view to
reconstruction" Atrocious has been large part of
the public of Mr. Douglas cannot wholly credit
the statement that he has Sanders to Frankfort
any such reasonable mission. Although he has gnomn
ousy retracted all his brave words about enforcing laws
and suppressng treason uttered at Norfolk Va and has
asserted there is power under the constitution to do