BY DAVID OVER. Col. Mulligan's Surrender Confirmed. ACCOUNT OF THE DEFENCE AND SURRENDER OF LEXINGTON. CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—A special despatch from Quiney, to the Journal, says that Col. .Mulligan hail been released on parole, and will he hero this evening. He will remain until tOen. Fremont's orders are received. .Gen. Prentiss has telegraphed from Bror k fielsl to the Assistant Quartermaster, to pro vide subsistence for 2000 men, and to have it ready upon their arrival. The commissioned offiaers are retained as prisoners by toe rebels. QUINCT, 111., Sept. 23.—A part of Col. Mulligan'* command arriv -d here this evening. The balance, amounting to nearly 2000. are expected to-morrow. Tfcoso who have arrived say that the force at Lexiupton is only about 5000, including several companies <.f Home Guards, who are accused of having' shown cowardice. The surrender of Lexington w.i* utile at five o'olock on Friday afternoon. The flag was hauled down by the home Guard Colonel Mulligan is spoken of in the high net terui. He displayed great bravery dur ing the action, and when aked to surrenler, he iefused. Ilia aword was taken away by force. Colonel Mulligan and all the commissioned officers are held prisoners by tb9 rebels. ST. IJOCIS, Sept. 23.—A correct report from Jfffersoa City says, instead of 200 men en route for Quiucy, 2000 of Mnlligsn'* oom iand were sent over by tbe rebels, released ou parole, and are en route for Quiney. Claib. Jackson is at Lexington w ; 'h the re bel forces. No commissioned officers were released. The news to-day from Tusoamhia reports th>t Col. McCleary of the National troops, was attacked, on Friday, by a part-. . f rehcL under Parsons and Johnson, but i rernlsed theiu, with slight lo*s on our side. Cur forces, which were sent up the river last night, are now at Boouville, and will move forward to Lexington to morrow. Gen eral Davis leaves here to morrow, to take command and lend them on. Other troops will go forward immediately. PARTICULARS OF THE DEFENCE AND SURRENDER OF LEXINGTON. HUDSON, MO., Sept. 23— The following ac count of the scige of Lexington is furnished to the St Louis Republican, by Henry Brad* burn, one of Colonei Mulligan's 8 Idler*, who left Lexiogton on Saturday morning. The fort was surrendered on Friday after noon. The men fought for fifty-nine hours wittjout water, and had only three barrels of vinegar to quencb their thirst during all that time. There were no springs or wells of water io the oatnp ground. As baa been stated, the supply was only from the river, and this sup ply was cut off, after a desperate fight, on Wednesday. The camp ground consisted of about ten acres, sud was located a rhort distance from the river. There were breastworks entirely around it, with the exception of ttie portion ■ext to the river II was here the hardest fighting took place. The rebels procured a large number of hemp bales, rolled them in advance, aud under their oover gradually succeeded io securing a posi tion in the rear. They then cut off the sup ply of water, and had tbe fort completely surrounded. They made but few charges upoo the breast works, and during the entire seige their object seemed to be to surround tbe fort and cor off' the supply of water. Having succeeded in this, they waited until Col. Mulligan was com pelled to yield to a foe more terrible than the twenty-seven thousand rebels th:it sutrounded him. Previous to his suriender, he offered to take a position on a lev®! spot of ground, and give General Price the odds of four ti one io a fair and open fig! t, but no attention was paid to it. After the surrender, the rebels mounted tfte breastworks, ami seetaed mad with joy. As soon as the surrender took place, a party took doin' th 4 Sag and trailed it in the dust. ' An immense smount of gold, supposed to be about a quarter rf a million, fell into the pos session of tbe rebels. It was taken from the Banks and buried by Col. Mulligan on the camp ground some time ago, but tbe rebels speedily unearthed it. Colonel Mulligan wept like a child when he found himself compelled to surrender. On tbe morning after (be surrender, tbe men were all released on parole and ferried across the river; the < ffieer* were retained. 4 J 1 fie ,IQSM of i.bo rebels is not known, but it is thought to be not less than a thousand kilted and wounded. Their first attack prov ed more disastrous to them than the long siege which followed. For a day or two pre vious to tbe lest attack, they were engaged in burying their dead. Later from Missouri. CHICAGO, Wednesday, Sept. 25,1861. From tbe reports of some of Col. Mulligan's command, who reached this city last night, wo obtain the following additional particulars concerning the fall of Lexington. The men left Lexington ou Saturday after noon. Nearly two hour* were oocupied in ferrying them over the river. At three o'clock they siarted for Hannibal, forty miles diataot, under the poidance of several armed Seces sionist*. The advance portico reached Hamil ton at sundown. At 10 o'olock most of tbe parry took the train for Quinoy. Along the route to Hamilton they were in general kiudiy treated. All the money they could raise was A Wee*ly Pape., Devoid to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences. Agriculture, dec., &c —Terms: One Dollar tnd Fifty Cents in Advance. employed to get wagons to oarry the wounded, though all the severely wounded remained at Lexiogton. Only one commissioned officer, Lieut. Hol'enberg, escaped. All accounts agree that the loss of the re bels in killed and dangerously wounded was fro in 900 to 1200. The Quiney Whig of last night states, on information recivod froin an intelligent mem ber of Colonel Marshall's regiment, that a leading rebel surgeon conceded their loss to be 1,130. Our men lost 130 killed m' wouna ded. S 400 of Col. Mars!all'® hoiftfg were killed, being impossible to shelter them frrin the cannon of tbe enemy. After too surrender of Lexington many of our men killed their horses to prevent them from falling into tbe bands of the enemy, A large sum of money, estimated at one mill ion five bundled thousand dollars, in spe eie, was secured by General Price; after being buried by Col Mulligan m the oamp-ground to preserve it, A special telegraphic despatch to The Tri bur.e, of ibis ciy, says that Gen. Sigel, with h large force, and a!*o Gonrrsl* Line =>od Hunter, had arrived at Lexington, and attack ed Gen. Pi ice. An officer in the employ of the Government heard heavy firing while pasting Hamilton yesterday, and says that it was believed that Gen. Sipel bad Qrn. Price in the same posi tio.u that Col. Mulligan WHS placed in. In regasd to Gen ITur.ter, this cannot be true, as he w .s at Rolls, 250 miles from Lex* ington, on Saturday. JEFFERSON CITY, MO., Sept. 26, 1861. News received from Lexington reports Col. Grov-er of the Home Guards killed from a wound in the thigh; also the death of Lieut Colonel White of the Stifles Regiment of St. Lonis, killed by a musket ball. A man named Eldridge, a rebel from Lex ington, is hsre under arrest as a spy. He was sou* down by Gen. Price to learn the strength of our forces. Papers found on him state our forces at St. Lonis at only about 4000. Ben MsCulloch is marching rapidly to form a juuctii n wi'h Gen. Price with a large, well armed and well disciplined force, and a good supply of artillery. He is now very near Lexiogtvo. ST LOUIS, Sept. 25, 1861. By order from headquarters, Brigadier Geo. Curtis assumes command at St. Louis and vi cinity during the absence of Gen. Freuieut. The Fight tit Horristown Missouri— Col Johnson Hilled (From the Lawrence Republican. 19f//.j A messenger arrived Let evening witb des patches to Leavenworth from General Lane. A letter from Getieral Lne to his wife, written principally on private matters, has an addenda with substantially this announcement; Colonels Montgomery and Johnsou, with a detachment of my foree, attacked the enemy on Tuesday, witb the loss of Private Copeland and the gallant Colonel Johnson, end six men wounded, killing seven of tbe enemy, and ta king ail (bey bad. This was written evidently in a hurry, on tho evening of the departure of the messen gor. The messenger reported verbally the same, and passed hurriedly on, addiog that General Lane hail tnkm a battery and a large amount oj other property. The ioss of Johnson is a serious one to tho public .service A beloved citizeu, an able officer and a good man has falleu. Tho rebel force is represented gs having been under Gen. Raines. We learn from Capt. Sully that Col. Mont gomery led the expedition, and ibat it number ed six hundred meu. The engagement resul ted in tho complete triumph of the Union uaeD. One hundred rebel horses were cap tured, and all the rents and supplies of the enemy. Our loss was only two. Col. H. P. JCIIUHOD was a resident of tbis county. He was one of the leading men in the State, and universally respected. The new* of his death will euu-e the deepest pain to thousands of manly hearts from one end of Kansas to tin other. Col. Johnson was a native of Ohio; he came to Kansas from Ken tueky seven years ago. LITER* GALLANT CONDUCT OF COL. JOHNSON HE DIES PIERCED WITH NINE WOUNDS. From Adjutant S. li. Harrington, of the Kansas Ftt'th{Uo!. J ihost in'a), we have learn ed the details of the fight at Morristown, Mis souri. The fight began just, before sunrise on Tuesday morning. The villains Dumbered four hundred. 001. Johnson rode at the head of tbe column. The first shot of the villains was directed at Col. Johnson. He rode gal lantly &Dd fearlessly into the ranks of tho enemy, and nine sho/s took effect upon the brave Kansas man we all knew, loved and hon ored. j\o similar instance of petsonal bra very has occurrtd since the. war began. 001. Johnson received three bullet wounds in tbe bead, two buckshot in tbe neck, one bullet in tbe left shoulder, one io the left thigh, ouo in tie right hand, and one in the left. His death was almost instantaneous. He died urging Katiaas men to fight for tbe flag his own life was lost in defending. The engagement ions a bruf and complete Union victory. Our men killed and captured all who did not run too rapidly, and burned the viliai n town. Six were wounded on our side, and two killed, one from Uapt. Krcitc'a 11 uJri y 1 oftka, tnd cue ficm Capt. Viele's CC D paty, Quindaro. Part* of tbe following companie® were engaged. G plains Moonlight, Hunt, Gibson, Clark, Stewart, Harvey, Watson, William*, Brodhead, | Sccman. BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY. OCT. 4. 1861. Fearful Mistake near Glasgow. UNION SOLDIERS KILLED BY THEIR OWN FRIENDS. .JEFFERSON CITY, Sept. 21—11 P. M.— Steamers latan and War Eagle arrived this evening, tbe latter hnving left here with the White Cloud and Desmoines on Wednesday, with troops for Lexington. Just below Glas gow, hearing Secessionists were there in force, it was deemed advisable to surround the place. Scouts were accordingly stationed by Major Tanner, Indiana Twenty second, aod Col. Wheatley, or Lieuteoant Colonel Heodriek, of the same regiment, it is stated, also sent scouts around the other way, and their meeting in a Coin Hie at night, Thursday, they mistook one another for enemirs, and f. red. killing twelve. m*n— eight of the Twenty sixth, three oj the Eighteenth, and one. of the Twen ty second Indiana, and wounding six or seven others. Major Tanner was daugerously wound* ed; he mm recover, but it is though' doubt ful. He wr.s a member of the Indiana Legis* iaturo, a man of talent, and reported as one "f tho ben office™ in the volunther service.— General Davis would rather lose half a regi ment, he says, than the Major. At Saline, our troop* found the plaoe deserted, and the houses and store* plundered. At Arrow Rook no rebels were found, but m number bad fled, bearing of the approach of boats. At Glasgow fifteen hundred armed Beoes siouiats also fled before our troops. Oar soldiers on the steamers destroyed four flat boats the rebel* for crossing the Missouri. Bonneville is now strongly fortified. Three regiment* there, aud a body of Home Guards. Col. Wortbiogton, of tbe lowa Fifth, writes that threo quarters of the Secessionist* in the country we*t of Boooeville, and capable of bearing arm*, are in the field. He has sent half bis regiment to Limine. He also reports Green advancing io Lexing ton, on tbit* eido of Missouri. Col. Hendricks could obtain no information of Green's command at Arrow Rock. COL. JAMES A. MULLIGAN. The following sketch of Col. James A. Mul ligan, the bravo defender of Lexington, Mo., has been famished to tbe Detroit JJdvertiser, from a gentleman who baa been intimately ac quainted with him for the past five or six years: Cel. Jame* A. Mulligan wis born in the city of Utica, New York, in the year 1829, and is consequently in his thirty second year. Hi* parents were natives of Ireland. Hi* mother, after the death of hit father, which took plaoe when tie was a child, removed to Chicago, where she has resided with ber sec for th past twenty-three year*. She married a respectable Itish-American in Chicago, nam ed Michael Lmtry, who has steadily watched witb a father's solicitude the expandiog mind of the brave young soldier. He was educated at the Catholic College of North Chicago, un der the superintendence of the Rev. Mr. Kin* sler, now of New York city, 110 is a strict member of the Catholio Church. In 1852, 1853, and 1854, he read law io tbe office of Hon. lsaao N. Arnold, Congressman from the •Chicago distriot. For a short tima he edited the Western Tablet, a semi-religious newspa per, in Chicago. In 1856 ho was admitted an attorney at law in Chicago. At this time he held tbe position of second lieutenant in the Chicago Shield Guards, one of the companies attached to tbe Irish brigade, now iu Missou ri, and which has done so well at Lexington. In tbe winter of 1857 Sanator Fitoh, of In* dtana, tendered him a clerkship in tbe Depart- 1 ment of the Interior. He aooepted the posi tion, and spent the winter at Washington.— During his residence in Washington, he cor* responded with tbe Utiea Tele-graph, over tbo nam deplume of "Satan." After his return from VV ashington he was eleoted Captain of tbe Shield* Guard*. On tbe Dews arriving of the bombardment of Fort Sumter, ho threw his eoul into tbe national cause. The Irish Amer ican companies held a meeting, of whom be waa chairman. Shortly afterward* he went to Washington with a letter, written by tbe late Senator Douglas ou bis deatti bed, to the Pres ident, tendering a regiment to be called the "Irish Brigade." He waa oleoted Colonel, and immediately went to work with a will. The coarse of tbe "Brigade," up to the battle of Lexington, is well known; it has nobly, brave ly, and honorably douu it* duty. Coi. Mulliguo is worthy of all praise. A purer, a better man, does cot live in the State of Illinois. Sinco he was able to tell tbe dif ference between ale and water, a glass of spir ituous or malt liquor has not passed bis lips. He is a rigid temperance man, although be is jocund ami whole-souled to a fault. He is six feet three inches in height, witb a wiry, elastic frame,—a large, lustrons, hazel eye, — an open, frank Celtio face, stamped wuh cour age, pluck, and independence, surmounted with a bushy profusion of ha&, tinctured with gray. Honorable in all relations—rospeoted by all— be has won his way by untiring industry and on questionable oourage. On the 26th dny of October, 1859, be was married to Miss Marian Nugent, by the Roman Catbolio Bishop of Ohioago. A fine scholar, a good speaker, a brilliant writer, a promising lawyer, was be wheu the banner of tbe Union was insulted. Now be is—long inay tie continue so—one of tbe brave defenders of tbe Udkd. In one of his Ut-t letters received by the gentleman above allu ded to, he saye: "If 1 die, if 1 fall in defence of our laws and Constitution, let my example be followed by all—by every man who loves the fame and renown of the fathers who tnade as a gieat and honored people." THE NEW GOLGOTHA. We trust tbat those who have been insisting that this terrible civil war might have been averted hy timely concession and compromise on the part of the loyal State* will not shut iheir eyes to tbe spectacle now presented by KENTUCKY That State is the very borne of | Concession, the oradle of Compromise. There I has been no gathering of compromisers in which her Unionist* have not been forenjost, no device to flatter and placate Treason, tu which they have no: lent their best energies. lp tu this hour, though the people of Ken tucky hive given overwhelming Union uiajori* ties at three successive elections, they have done- nothing further. Their attitude has been tbat of neuriality between tho Federal Gov ernment and its rebel enemies; their Governor refuse! will; 'niult the President's requisition for Militia lo defeod tbe Federal Metropolis from immediately threatened oapture; and their leading journal eondetnuod the calling out of seVtutyfive thousand men, even for three; mouths, to maintain tbe Federal authority.— In short, Kentucky has pursued conciliation : in niter disregard of tbo dictates ot loyalty , and of patriotism. ller reward is invasion on ! both sides by the Confederate forces and the ; inauguration of a civil war destined to deso* lat® her homes and devastate her fields beyond all American example. Kentucky ha* for months hut her ears to the call of duty; she is compelled to open tbcm to the pressing re quirements of internal safety She has per sisted in neutrality so long a* that would serve tbe end* of rebellion; but those ends now ex act her positive aid, witb the possession of ber soil, nn:t she is summoned to fight or surren der. " THE SOUTH wants AM her own terri toiy, and must have J t'f," such are the terms in which a leading oracle of treason announces to her that her soil is not ber own nor yet the Natioo's, bur belongs to a power unknown to History or Geography, bat now seeking to es tablish iisclf on the ruins of the Amerioau Union. At tbo beck of this power, Kentucky, after her months of earnest, assiduous effoit for conciliation and pe*cr,1 r n Is he-a If rent in faction and on the eve ot being deluged with her own blood. Sue has served as a screen for tbe Rebels while they trampled out the life of East Tennessee; now they are readv to advance to the Ohio; sod Kemueky'-reitera ted Unionism, her useful neutrality, ato treat ed with utter contempt. "The South wonts all ber own territory: 1 " what right has Ken* tueky to call a single acre her own? If sbe dare assert such right, let tbe roar of cannon, the rattle of small-arms, awake brr from her delusion; let the flash of sabers, the glitter of bayonet*, unseal ber dim wee.' Kentucky stands between the traitors' actual positioa and the realization of their mad dreams of empire; so let her smoke and bleed till their baseless visions have been transformed ioto sober realiiie.-! Thus reason tbe minimis of Jeff. Davis, a* they impel their hungry h<st*, invade her plenteous valiies, and already the wolves aud vultures of the Alleghenies snuff the gratifui odor nf human osrnage arising from those valleys, so rudely awakeDed from quiet and happiness to a demoniao orgy of crime and wreLheduess. —Will Kentucky be able to repel her in vading foes'? We fear not immediately. They j are armed, drilled, and embodied; she, long warned, is wholly unprepirod. Her Governor is a blackhearted traitor; so is the commander \ of her uioFt formidable military organizition, the "Sti<te Guard;" so are most of those who have for some years been her loading politi cians. White two-thirds of her voters are Unionists, it is quite probable that a majority of her fighters are Secessionists. Thousands of her wild and reckless youth are already en- i rolled in tho armies of Jeff. Divis, while not j five hundred natives of the State have till .now shouldered a musket for tbe Union. But tier ! Unionists, as well as their enemies, will have j outside help; Ohio and Indiana feel an inter est in her attitude as well as Virginia and Tennesseo. Keotueky is henceforth tbe arena of a desperate, desolating strife, which we trust is not to close until after the expulsion of her Rebel invaders and the vindication of ber tardy but earnest devotion to the Union of our fathers. -JV*. Y. Tribune. A WOMAN'S 'ADVENTURE!?. Harriet Uolburn, in Chicago, wax, a few days ago, charged with disorderly .conduct. — Tbe particulrr offence was quarrelling with a negroo with whom she was living. There was a history attached fo her ease—one of thoso histories of real life which occasionally come to light in the polio* court, and almost surpass belief in their strange details. Twelve years ago she was the cherished daughter of a south ern planter, at Nashville, Tenn. Her mother was a Creole, but was the lawful wife of ber father. At thirteen she ran away from borne with tbe sou of a New York merchant, named Clifford, and was married to bim. Within a year she was a mother and a wid : ow, ber husband having died in California, whither she had aceompanied him. She came home and returned to her father's house, where she was kindly received. She remained there a year or two, and, during her stay, assisted four of her father's slaves to escape, through sympathy with their desire for freedom. She married again with ber father's choice. Her husband proved to be a drunkard, and she obtained a divorce from bim. She married a j third time, stili with the consent aud advice :of tier lather. Her last husband, whose uame she uow bears, proved ber ruin. He was a Missippi gambler, and for twelve moDtbs aha accompanied bim up and down tbe river,(Leas ed in boy's clothes and passing for hia broth er. Bhe finally left bits, driven away by constant abuse, and threw berself upon tbe world for support. Her first iffort was a brakesman, to which capacity she served on the Chicago and Burlington railroad for three months. This wag six weeks age From that she drifted into the vortex of sin, which every unprotected woman find* in a large city sooner or later Bhe went down hill till the lowest round of the ladder was reached. She met, accidentally, with one of the slaves whom she had aided to escape years before, aod has lived witb him ever since in uoiawful connection. Tbe negro I* tier father's own son by a slave woman, and ; by natural ties is ber brother. There is no Dw, however, which sanction* tbat relation. She was intelligent, and showed by her con versation tbat she had seen better days. Tra ce* of fo r mer good looks were visible, and ® strong, robust frame proved that dissipation bad as yet had but little effect upoo ber body but her mind was, what tbe mind* of all fallen women are, a wreck and ruin. At an early age of twenty-four sbe i* a shameless woman, wbich is tbe lowest nf God's creatures. She wag sent to Bridewell for twenty days. She stormed a litt'e, but the necessity was inexo rable, and bo went upas brajiSftsany of them. | News From Xorlh Carolina. A correspondent of the Tribune, writing! from Fortress Monroe, says: Of the siucertty of the population of the inland, in professing Union sentiments, not a doubt is entertained. The necessity of boats ! of light draft on Pamlico Sound is urgent. — The rebels continue to navigate the Sound, witb steam and sail craft, through Beaufort Bay to the sea at will, there beiog no craft at Hatteras to give them chase, although they inay be seen almost daily. The Government cannot to soon supply this want. 00l Haw kins contemplate* abandoning Fort Ulark and withktawing to Fort Hatteras, laaving Lieut. Col. Betts, with a detachment, encamped at the Windmill, two miles above, ou the tuner beaoh. Tbe sanitary oenditien of tbe post is good, notwithstanding the peculiar characteris. tics of lbs place. About a we k go, the Sutqueha ina took tbe bark jirgonaut. winch was ptaoeu in charge ot apr za-crew, and sent to Philadelphia. Ves sels that designed to enter Hatteras Inlet me said to have gone iu at Beaufort, whore there doe* not seem to be the requisite blockading force, if any at all. it is represented that the Union men of North Carolina are not aj little di appointed that the capture of Hatter as was not followed up when the whole State was ready to surreuder, and before time was given to the rebels to fortify the main shore, rnd coerce Union men into their measures. The delay that ha* taken place iu putting gunboats in tbe is represented as having been dis heatteniog to those who were looking for the coming of the Federal foreo*, aud were ready to jam ihem in putting down rebellion Though ground has bo*n bisi, it tuay be re covered yet by energetic action by the army and navy. BRISK SKIRMISH WITH THE ENEMY. | A Washington despatch to the New York Herald says: For some time paet the rebels near Monscn's Hill have been in the habit of having a strong picket guard Dear an old barn, about a nriie from Bailey's Cross Roads. From this place the rebels hsve kept up an incessant fire cn the Union troops. About one week ago, Lieu tenant Dihlgten, or the oavj (to attempted to fire the barn by throwiug a new projectile from the ordinary musket, but his attempt failed ol success. At dusk, ou Monday night, Cept, Bretbsnyder, with a detachment of the Seeoud Michigan Regiment, approached within a safe distance of the barn, and, by means of firing red-hit slugs at it, euoceeded in destroying the obnoxious building. The rebels made three several attempts to extinguish tbe flames, but were repulsed by well-directed musketry fire from tbe Miehiganders. Three large bay coeks and a cornorib were destroyed at ibe same time. Four of tho enemy were killed in the skirmish. s CESSATION OF PICKET FIRIJVG OJV BOTH SIDES. The order of General McClellan, prohibit ing the Union troops from firing on the rebel pickets, except to repel tbe assaults of the latter, is being faithfullj carried out. Tbe euetny seem to be desirous to imitate the or der of General McClellan, and to-day there j was a general cessation of the usual musket ry fusilade along the lines. This fact baa had tbe effect to bring the pickets of both armies within speaktEg distance, and tcwiay many social eoniabs took place between the soldiery. Captain Morse, of the Michigan Regiment, bad a conversation with aXJeorgia captain, in which the latter stated that be was happy to bear that Gen. McUlellau had issued the humane order in regard to firing on piokats, and aaid that tbe rebels would reciprocate. Tbe Rev. E. YATES REESE, D. D., editor of tbe Methodist Protestant newspaper of Bal timore, committed suicide by catting bis throat on tbe 14th instant. Tbe unfortunate man had suffered from mental derangement for some time past, caused by our national troub les. " C. S. A." is the abreviato title of the i seceded States. The full designation is "Con federate Stealing Association." Da Patterson is to be hung in a few days in Massachusetts for tbe murder of a young girl whom he had ruined. Great efforts have been made to procure a change of sentence, but the Governor refuses to interfere. The Richmond papers sre filled with accounts of highway robberies, stabbioga m the street, and burglaries. The Richmond "Whig" of | the IBtb states that six more federal prisoners . have f9oaned. VOL. 34. NO. 40. Ctoatinnal. by c. wTqreene" IE?" All communications for this department may be addressed to the Editor, at Bedford, Bedford county, Pa "In a Quandary.*' We notice in the Educational Column of our neighbor, the Gazette, of the 6th mat. an ar ticle with the above oaptioo, in whiob wero a number of inquiries directed to "County Su perintendents and others." We must acknowN edgo that our riaibles were considerably ex cited while reading the production; but our impressions were rather on the serio-comic or der, for, while we wcro amused by some of the ideas advanced, we were sorry to believe that any of our teachers were so deplorably in th<? dark. As none of the Superintendents have deign? Ed ts answer tLe pathetic appeal, we, as one of the "others," will endeavor to answer a few of the question, disclaiming, however, in the commencement, the intention of exri i' g any acrimooiou? discussion. The writer begins "by referring to the fact, that tbe State Superintendent Las issued new instruction* ha relation to examinations, and accompiniei the statement with a slur—par enthetically upou the qualifications of the County Superintendents. Now we very muoh fear that tba writer had merely htqrd of such a requirement, as we cannot believe, had be seen the requirement itself, —as publi.-hed in the Jane number of the School Jonruai and repub'ished in our ctluran, July 6th, to .the was #o destitute of judgment as to be uuable to comprehend tha very explicit deficitioas of the two terms—Theory and Practioe— there given. Nor can we believe that be took the procaution before piaeing himself in such an unenviable position, to consult tbe standard LH tonery. We think the defini ions of both terms given in Webster's Unabridged, might be sufficiently clear to relieve bis embarasaiont. D->ea the writer know no difftronee between the Theory and Practice of medicine? A man may, by studying diligently the standard works upon the subject, become acquainted with the symptnns and characteristics of all the diseas es flsh is heir to, and with the remedies to be Bpplicd for their relief: ho may "understand perfectly all the functions of the different or gans, and tbe general operation of each in the performance of i's allotted action in the phys ical system cf a uian; and yet. if he has had no practice in the application of his knowledge he will find cases that will bsffie his skill, ow* ing to the different constitutions of his patients. The same course of reasoning is applicable to every profession and every trade. A per son may know how a building is erected; ho may be acquainted with the properties of the materials employed, and with tbe successive steps to be taken; yet, unless be has bad prac< lice in the using of tools, his work will proba bly lack in symmetry and finish. In few words, the difference is simply this. "Theory" is the. knowing how a thing j done and "Practioe," is the doing it. In our opinion questions like those proposed ia the communication, are proper questions for examination iu the "Theory" of teaching. We would respectfully submit the query: I direot questioning necessary in au examination of the Practice of teaching? Tbe editorial comments npon the decision referred to, io the same number of tbe Journal, distinctly state that tbe examination in tbe "Theory, shall be made at tho same time as in other branches, and tbe ftandiog shall be marked upou the certifieate then; bdt the standing in tbe "Practice," shall be marked ajtlfruitine the tchool. \\ e are inclined to think from our perusal of Novice's article, that, though be may be a sub scriber to the School Journal and the owner of such work* as "Page's Theory and Practice of loachiug," "Ogden's Science of Education and Art of Teaching," etc., he oannot be a very careful reader. We opine that tbe Su perintendents will be governed, in their exam inations, by the requirements heretofore men tioned, aud teachers "posting" themselves ac cordingly will have no difficulty i a securing the proper marks. Let them recollect that No. 5 is given to snoh as arc iguoraut of the fact, that there is a science of teaching, and that too, easily distinguishable from the art. We do uot generaly approve of writing ar ticles upou educational aubjeou over assumed signature.*,but in this esse we are heartily glad, lor tbe sake of the writer, that hie propei , uauio was withheld. As so many ot the mule teachers have en listed and there is a probability of a scarcity ot teachers this winter, those ladies who are ■ oompeteot, should be preparing for the exami | nations. Their service* will no doubt be re quired at a fair remuneration.
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