Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1861-01-31
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port of the Union.
The Pittston Artillerists have rendered
fhsir services to Gov Curtin in support of the Union
So have whole regiment in Chester county.
An address to the Qneen of England, for
separate Irish Parliament and the right of setgovern-
ment has already received over 1000 signatures in Ire
land.
The monarch tree Of the Sierra Nevada,
known as the Miners Cabin" was blown down by the
hurricane of the I4th u 1t thirty feet in diameter
and supposed to be 5000 years old.
While wake over her husband was be.
ing held at Cincinnati on New Years time passed heavily
with Mrs Mclaughlin, she proposed game OF cards
0veoyed at having the queen Of trumps she forgot her
widowhood> and jumping up, upset the fluid lamp and
was dreadully burned.
1t is stated that the authorities at Wash
ingon will soon put the test to all the Government EN-
poyees at Washington and those who will not take the
oath to support the Union and the Constitution in all
their integrity will be removed without further words
The Golden Star, from Mobile for Liver
pool with cargo of $3.50 bales of cotton, has been lost
at sea- the captain his wife and seventeen Others per
ishing.
The required repairs Of the Great East
ern !" now lying securely and snugy on the beach at
Milford Haven have been commenced and are vigorous
being carried They will be completed early in the
spring.
The prize money taken at the Chinese
Emperor's Summer Palace amounts to about f-3OOO,
and is made up of El40O0 of silver, which the French
haLded over as British share and 80 900 realized in the
sale by auction of articles taken by British officers Gen
Montauban is said have realized f5 coo as bis share
Fears are entertained in respect to the
continued existence Of Dickinson College. Pennsylvania
Tha: institution loses her chatter when the number OF
students does not exceed 90. and should those from the
South secede as hey threaten the number will be redue
ed below this standard.
The students at the University OF Virgin
ia burned Gen Scott in egy the night Of the 18Th
amid repeated cheers for Senator Toombs and the seced
ing States and groans for Major Anderson. The card
attached it bearing the following inscription . Win
feld Scott would,be Dictator and DespOt."
Douglas says that inst one little Tesoiu-
sion in Congress declaring that the North is sorry for
her past conduct and will try to DO better in the tutue
will be as the oil OF peace upon the troubled waters OF
discord" Yes, sir" replies the Cincinnati Gazette
but the people of the North have got one big resolution
that they die before saying anything of the kind
The Prince Imperial of France is said
to be backward child in the hands of teachers but very
ant at catching ideas when Lett to himself His chief
amusement consists in acting conductor on railway
constructed in his garden. He conducts his little
friends from station 10 station with the greatest delight
Within a little less than three months,
Indiana has had four Governors. Gov Willards death
made way for Lieut.. Gov. Hammond, and Gov. Lane 5
resignation for Lieut.. Gov Morton
Some of the Yale students, about week
ago. caused several large Secession cockades to be dis
played about the college in positions conspicuous
than honorable On Sunday morning last the Southern
reaiated by raising palmetto flag one OF the towers
of Alumni Hall, and barricadug the entrance. lhe
reasonable emblem caused considerable excitement
The tower speedily carried by assault and the tag
pulled down and torn into fragments.
Another new project among Northern
and Border State men that OF Congress of three
mssioners from each State, to assemble at Washington
in February to devise basis of settlement of all cues
tons of doubtful construction respecting the rights OF
different sections. This to be submitted to the people
for ratification or rejection in the several States
The citizens Of North Alabama refuse to
submit to the ordinance Of secession and Mr. Yancey
says that South Alabama will compel Them. All Is
there be coercion in the case! viii not the whole OF
the fiery chvary of the surrounding States rush to the
OF North Alabama from the fury OF the coercion
lists !-Loui5riHe Journal
The Lynn Reporter states that orders for
boots and shoes continue to be received in that city from
various Southern cities. They are usually accompanied
by request that if the manufacturer has any doubts OF
the soyency the parties ordering, he will please to
signify and consider the order countermanded Buyers
from New Orleans were in the city last week.
In raising the treasure of the steamer
Maabar, which was wrecked last the coast
of Ceyon the divers worked under water through nine
feet of sand and then cut away large iron plates half
inch thick forming the sides of the mail of the
steamer Eighty thousand dollars worth of treasure
thus obtained in day The steamer had 81 j00,
600 in gold on board, all of which has been saved.
japanese Tommy, according to letter,
in the Home Journal from Kanagawa is very inferior
custom-house official and lives in a large compound
back of the custom house, behind high board fence,
painted black and looking very sombre where hud
died together custom house officials by the Under
the roof, neat onesory cottage with tiled roof, pa
pered screens, and mat floors. Tommy has place
where he may eat by day ana spread MS quits 10 seep
by night. The only furniture such gen tleman has,
needs in Japan is cupboard to put his bedding in by
day and chest of drawers for loose articles. The mats
are at the time carpet chairs, sofa and dining ta
bic. His income is free rent per diem allowance OF
RICE and eight ichibus, or two dollars and sxtyseven
cents month
Colts pistol and rifle factory is running
twentyfour hours time with double set Of hands, at
Hartford, Connecticut Orders from the South multi
plying.
Oil wells, in the western part of Penn
sylvana were known to the Seneca Indians more than
hundred years ago. and by settlers in the region seventy
wears apo