the Irißepeliatqi ileptibtie4l?. CIRCULATION, 2176. C. F r READ dN. H. FRAZIER. EDITORS F. E. LOOMIS. CORRESPOYDINQ EDITOR MONTROSE, SUSQ.-CO., PA. THURSDAY,. MAY 6. 1,19,69. Rr Jostices' Dunning tits and War ngits-*a new supply just printed, and for sala-atthe independent netiats office. - Among our ner advertisements will be foundthat of Hivisrs. 11... H. Hall dr l f Co., merchants, of Binghamton. W'" The communication frcim New Mil ford which we publish this Week, was intesd -ed for last week's issue, but arrived a day too lair. _ ray' A lispateft from St.' Louis, dated :April 30th, states that the rinigrants at the 'Pilte's Peak mines, and those along the route, are enrolling themselves in compaikies for .Arizonti and Sonora. j Mr. Rtifus Cush - Man, alto 'has been : one. of, the Teachers in the Susquehanna County Normal School, will open a. Select School in•the Montrose Aridemy on the 18th inst., to continue twelve imekto The:price for the term will be, for studen6 cif the common" branches, 83,50; Algebra $4; rir A term of the Susquehanna County Normal School closed on Friday last with an examination and exhibition. The exhibition in the, evening,drew together a large assem blage of people. We understand that the blest term has been quite successful, the stu dents having made very satisfactory progress in their studies. • The next te rm i of the school will commence ko the latter part orAugust, when Professor Stoddard will return to take charge ci( Car Poniiozme—Last night a-car, belong. . in,g to a citizen of our town, got one of the " buttons" intended for dogs, and Was this morning found, in the garden dead.—Harris. burg Telegraph. ANOTHER. . CATASTROPEIE.—Harrisburg is not the Only place iisited by such mournful dispensations: Only a few mornings since, a lery fine cat belonging to a citizen of our town wee found. near Posts' store dead. The cause ot her death is unknown, though it is attributed to dOgs rather than " buttows."— Sbe was buried in the garden, and our " local editor," who attended the obsequies, propos es to furnish a three-column report next week. • . • lar The Chase Postoffice and the Porter Ridge Postoffice, in this county, have been discontinued. The Administration is "econ omizing" by discontinuing Postoffices in the Republican North, where the Department more than pays its way, and increasing the number at the South, where \they are a heavy charge to donation. - Mr• The Record of the Timer, published at Wilkesbarre, by - Wm. P. Miner, at two dollars per annum hi advance, is an excellent paper, as might be 4pected on_the principle of hereditary transmission, its editor being the son of . Hon. Charles Miner, whose fame as ah editor has long been wide-spread. The parr is prospering, and :his recently been, entailed to about the size of the Independent ItepuLlieon, Mid furnished With „new type , throughout. • Ltizerne has several Republican; newspaperree Record of the Times, The Pittston Gazette, and 77Le &TIM iOl7 -tail—and there appears to be some strife among the editors to see who shall publish the best paper. • gar Since - perbert and Sickles, each o whom shot down and killed a man in broad day and befortieveral witnesses, in Rash. ington, have been found "not guilts" of the crime of. murder, acme have - inferred that the right to kill any obnoxious individual is among she privileges conferred by the Con stitution - on Members of Congress. We do - not God any such privilege-given by that in. stTainiin ; but probibly Judge Crawford, be- fore whoa► the above named criminals were tried, does.• He couldfind it, we think,quite as easily as the Judges-of the Supreme Court found what the; professedto as the basis of their extra-judicial opinions in the Died Scott case. . _ one thing seems to be evident: a Demo, cystic Member of Congress is not thought in Washington to commit a crime in shooting a hotel waiter or a district-attorney. - Whether the same rule would apply to a Republican Congressman, is not so well settled, such a case not having yet occurred: E` Governor %rue of Virginia has writ: ten` a yam; against Mr. Buchanan, in which Its denounces our venerable President as the betrayer of his friends, the destroyer of his party,And the bitter enemy of Southern _hatreds and Southern rights'. This letter is the most forMidabli army yet presented by a Southern politician of Mr. BUCUISEN po. shut. It accuses him of barring-desert. ed the true Democratic platform in every . item, And of hinizn" g dullard the South by every act of his. Administration. it nonnees the Nebraska bill, the Lectompton scheme, the Tariff project, the Thirty Million billohe enormous growth of Government eipenditurekthePacifie Railroad, and every thing 'else which Mr.-Buchanan has supported or Imputed Since be cunt bat:o'er:ice. And after' this minute detail. Gov. Wise hurls at the President the sweeping accusation 'of lying !resented a Federal policy " which, in its whole outline sad filling up, yawed, an3r Federalism in all riots which"Hootiltoo, or ati - dihrosr e or Any other tafittffotariats, ever dared to pretteoor propose." - Or We bite chronicled no recent event with so grestpleasure u tbe reception of Henry G carto7,theil ou.BenuP?!.. The world haanlviriya - boinnWfor tbiNeadini = • -• ••,;i of her artnies.andihe onities of bee4enatee. Men of tci4ay.)orii,to, greet with appla►iie the political idventnrer., whom suctiesilits only title to notice. For pettifoggers, stump orators, fillibusters, convention-ienders, and office-seekers, they are ready to merch out with their drums and banners. But swell reception of a private citizen, a man of the study, aced not of the stump, whose only reo ommendatiou "is the fidelity with which thro' a long Mole has. pursuea the investigation of principles which i1d....n0t bring profit or popularity, is rare indeed; . and we will ac cept it u, we hope, significant of a better day, ishen society-will make some recogni-. Lion of those wbo are working best and most faithfully for it. = Mr. thireyhas long enjoyed . s reputation in Europe, greater than at bOtni. Ills books have commanded the attention of the ablest students of Political Economy in England and France, where alone that science has made much general progress. They have been adopted as text bOoks even in the uni versities of Sweden and Norway. His pa aition in the science is that of a great creat- F ice thinker: Surely, tio man' since , Adam except perhaps Mr. Buckle, from whom much may be expected, can be brn't into comparison with him. To see the work which he has accoriplished, - we need only look at the contradictions of the science when he began to devote himself to it. Malthus `NIA" teaching thit population tended to in crease more rapidly than food, and, that all efforts were useless to keep the former with in the bounds of the !stir. So, a diminu timcof population was the only alternative to famine, and in this light a war might be benefit ; and so, too, the leaders of society were no longer responsible for the poverty and misery by which they might be suf.- ;rounded. Ricardo was teaching's theory of rents, balled upon the idea that the best land was first occupied, and when resort was nee emery to the poorer, that' ent was paid- for the formeraccording to the difference between the two. So, the increase of wealth tended to, the bringing into cultivation constantly of poorer soils, and diminishing returns of labor, and so; too, rent is paid to those who have gained a prior possession by mere power, and not to possessors who have done any. thing to merit it. McCulloch was 'contend. ing that exchange and transportation were more profitable than production. And Cob den was advising the lower class to go to Olonies where they could buy rich lands cheap ; rather than stay at home where they were-compelled to pay high rents for poor ones. The great chartges in the science, have been mainly the result of Mr. Carefs work. He has done more than any other to lift it from the contempt into which it was falling, and establish it upon its present basis.— Against all these fallacies, which did violence to nature, and were in defiance of the con victions of the world, and made the promis es which Christianity gives of s corning social .order appear but as a dreain, Mr.. Carey op posed himself,His book ladled "The Past, the Present, and the Future," which is per haps the best resume of his system, contains the completest refutation of them. The originators of them were mere theorists, but be wakpratical.. They began with the as sertion of a law; and facts were *et aside or square cut to suit it. But he has worked in the method of the Baconian philosophy, and his lairs are but the expression;of the widest induction of facts.. To one whohas a love of seeing mere speculators exploded, there is little pleasanter reading than his refutation of Malthus and Ricardo in that work. With the -most compreLensive generalization of facts, be shows bat they were' not Simply mistaken, but d&ctly wrong. They were not only without the truth, but right in the face of it. -But we shall be -.content if we have led . one more reader to that remarkable book. 'As an exposition of some of the un derlying principles of civil and social - econo my, it-hag not yet been surpassed; It is per haps the best contribution our country has made to. Sociology, which Compte, calla the last in the series of the sciences. Indeed, its author has done much to show that the lime of society, as well as the laws which regulate the planets in their courses, are , the expres sion of the divine love and wisdom. • But the lesson Which we have need .now most to learn from him is that of - the unity of the nation, and that thii true ba-is of its material prosperity is a "developed, diversi fied,, self-centred industry," and the true spring of its moral life is the realization - of its calling, and its obligations of national justice and national right. ' We are losing even the idea 'of a nation. ExpanaiOn is called_growth, and vastness we mistike for strength. The party which ad. vocates national stealing in a raid upon Cuba, and has the impodence to call for thirty mill ions to carry it ont, - sets aside such a great unifying national work as - the Pacific Rail road would be. Her policy is in favor .of going abroad, rather than forging into a har. motions power that which we have. She seelui not a unit s but a anlomerate t . In in difference 0 history, it is forgotten that the Dutch Republic, which we have imitated, was so limited; or that Attica was the small est of the_Greek 'States. We may do well to remember, that tbe decline of Rome dated from the time when abe ceased to be a mitiott and became an empire; and most of all May we learn a lesson from , Wit great political 'text-bock the Old Team:Dent, and avoid that - scheme or system of -society against whiji Judea as a nation irks a witness, and which is there called Babel, or Babyloilian,lor it is to that, that this party is hturying rafr Ws; anti Bicknell's Bank'Note porter for May 2d, is out, and ibis I capita number, which every poison b tuskless sbo'd bsve, as a mere measure Of security apinst ha/ miaow. Thera are daseriptions oral:pout forty recent counterfeits, with full accounts of all irevioils ones. The editorial, me is welLfilled;al4 Os prices - awful •14 stocks and all other article are fill 9d =Mt. or the lobbsville Cowrie denounces the dnetriste attionlnterference by Congress tn.:Ake P h * be4 9 3',"iri The newest Denineratit:!doetrir.e - le , thiteterslities are cerviedinto ToritptY, and "the right slatertiAkist - 41"40 is <AO- - firmed by the Supreme Court of - thetnited States, (u of course it would be in - every cues on the yrinciples of .the Dred Scott de cision,) if the Terriurial Gegislature fails to protect it, it must be protected by .Ael of emigre:l. This destroys the doctrine of Popular Sovereignty entirely. _ The Phila delphia Press gays: •- u Mr. Buchanan; his Cabinet; and his de pendant* in office, have resolved to employ the whole machinery of Government in the destruction of the popular will in all the Ter ritories of this Cohn). Net only are the -pie of the Territories to be deprived of any control whatsoever over the subject of 'ivory, but every branch of the public set vice,—the judiciary. Congress, the executive, and, of course, thenrmy arid . the nary,-In to be enlisted intim enforcement -of a code by which slaVery is to be held in the Terri tories in defiance of the public will. There is no concealing of this purpose of the Ad- ministration. Its new ofgati, The lion, takes -tare to make It so plain that ' he who runs may read.' " - • For to hdepentien4, .Repsoliean. Close of the /lonia BahooL Miasma. Eurmna:—For the benefit of your numerous readers throughout the coun ty, I would ask to report the closing' exercis es of the ; ormal School, which has been in such successful operation in this Borough for the past year and a half,—Which took place on Friday evening last. I em aware that the reports of school proceedings now-B.days are Hemming considerable of a bore, and for she simple reason that the reports are too minute, and consequently lose interest for the public- But the Normal School is a pub. lie institution, and, as l- suppose, the public feel an Intereit in all matters connected with it. The school - has been; from its establish ment, unexpectedly well sustained, by the pub* in the bestowment of a large shire of patfonage which the.echool deserved, and by the young men and ladles of Susquehanna and adjoining counties, by the spirit I with which they have taken hold of The matter, aid aided the teachers in pushing forward the enterprise. The school, the past term, has numbered one hundred and fifty students—and during the year over two hundred and, fifty have been'in attendance. - I do not spppose that all of them were fitting thetnselyes for teach ers ; but the grater proportion of them were, a number 'sufficiently large to change the whole character of the profession in the coun ty, if it was as in years past. The closing address was delivered . on Wednesday afternoon previous to the exam. 'nation and exhibition, by Rev. B. B. Emory, subject, Mental and Moral Culture, as view ed in relation to man's moral obligations and accountability, with some general practiesd thoughts upon the subject of Education. 01 the examination on Friday se cannot speak personally, as we were prevented by other engagements from being present- But from what we know of Prof. Stoddard, we venture there was less superficiality about it than there is about many, schools of greater pretensions. The exercises "Friday evening were of a very pleasant and isgreeahle character.— Singing, music by Smith & Co.'s Band, and declamation, - with two laughable colloquies, made up the programme for the occasion.— The singing of a large company of little girls, all dressed alike, and looking like little fair ies, was one of the moat interesting features of the exhibition. The dramatic part of , the exercises was exceedingly well executed, and gave evidence of mere 'than ordinary talent ; _bat were we writing a criticism upon this part of the performances, we might take some Strong exceptions to the general effect of such exhibitions, especially upon the minds of the young. Though the exercises - were lenkthy, the audience gave no signs of weariness, except a portion that were . obliged to stand—that, in connection with the crowded state of the room, was the only cause of complaint; and the creed dispersed at a late hour in a very agreeable frame of mind. • • We see that Piot. Stoddard has given en. , coursgement that-be wißretum next Fall, in August or September, and reopen the school —the advantages of which we trust there will be many anxious to improve. • For fbe bidepeltdrad Republican. The Anademy Dedication at New Milford. NEW MILFORD, April-25, 1859:. ITESSRIL EDITORS noticed in your pa per of list week a letter signed " New Mil fordite," giving a brief account of the dedits. tory services in our new Academy, on:Jhe eve of the 14th inst. was also - present on, that occasion, and was myself highly grafi. fled with the performances; and particularly With the address of Prof. Stoddard, which waselevating and ennobling in its character, and well calculated to stimulate his hearers to increased exertion in the true faith ; being in fact a happy representation of our nation. al,motto. Presenting a lofty standard, the Professor urged us to press towards it with energy and determination, assuring us that itwas not ideal, neither impossible, but ac t4ally.attainable„ And that his sentiments could fail to be appreciated and admired, did not believe.' Ifence, - 1 was surprised that . your correspondent, if aiming, tn. communi. cate through - your columns an intelligent do. scriptiou of the proceedings , of the meeting, should have been unable to give a more ex plicit relation of this interesting portion ; es pecially as his Scope for methoranda must, cadge, have been nearly as extensive as the original manuscript . I The music, also, as far as I ant capable of judging, was evenmore then "tolerably well" executed , : though Ido not pretend to be a Rossini or a Melberg. Now I am itorryJo say, there appear to me evident' ymptoms; in the tone of the aforesidd epistle, of a morbid state of the "mind. Was this caused by trhysiCal de. nurgement l. would advise a trial of the "Ox ygenated Bittere." Or, if it proceeded from temporary causes incidental to the eve in question; I would respectfully suggest as , a caution on future similar occasions, some light exercise, - for instance taking a 'small part in the-exercises. '• Respectfully yours, A RZSIDEST Par as buldpestdent A/publican tiering Aecident. • • Jicitsox, April 25, 1859. Moms. Enrroas :—On ' the • 20th inst., Mr. Joel II; Lainb, of Jackson, while lifting a large atoms, behind.his cattle; was kicked by one of the cattle, 'sad both bones of: his leg broken. The fracture was reduced by Dr, Wheaton, and Rose's Patent Splint - - sp 'plied ; and the patient is doing. well. " •_. Mr. Lamb - was crippled in the other leg by: os o. kick of E bOrso l 416 w years alic - a. B. - jibi. the helPiindevet Rgitiblieten - 3 Timbers. 4otii Hom.our, Aftil•Sltt, 1561).' 8. F. Mtn*, Supip.iiitend• eat :14 took the liberty, two•weeka ego, - to arlaftlia a letter to you asking for some in. forMetion4k, ward to the examination of teaebent.''.s `ft bas been generally supposed that the examination to which all who pro- pose to becometeachers are subjected, is for the purpose of ascertaining their qualilina time; to teach, and, if they pass throng i n- the examination at tisfactotily and. receive certifi cates front the examiner, they 'have always been regarded as fully qualified to discharge all the duties and responsibilities they pro goal; to take upon themselves. It has been so generally understocid that a person bear ing a certificate from the Minty Muperin- tendent ins ,competent V) teach all the branches of a good English education which are Usually taught in out ccinonon schools, ,that Trustees have taken such tertilicate as a guide in the Refection ortFacher.. But in your last report you communicated the as tounding intelligence that of the two hundred and seventy persons to *horn you hive giv ien licenses to teach school only "fifty" were "qualified; and you also communicaltd the still more astounding intelligence that of the two hundred and twenty teachers who were "unqualified," one hundred and forty were "unfit" to teach. This fact is en entirely at variance with all of our preconceived notions of the value and purpose of a certifiCate that have thought it would be conducive to my own interest at least to gain some informa tion concerning the object of the examine. tion. My neighbors manifest more. interest in the matter, if possible, thin) myself. At their request l have addressed you publicly, so that allinterested may be satisfied as to the true nature and Intent nf'a certificate. In asking for inforMation, I took occasion to say that yintr certificate, according to ynnr repott, is more an evidence that a teacher is "unfit" than that ,he "qualified." If a teacher presents himself before n board of trustees, and asks employment on the strength of one of your certificates ( there •is only one chance in seven, according to, the" figures of your report, that he is " qualified," and against this poor little one' chance in seven that he is qualified, there arc three 'chances that he is " unfit" to teach the school. This, certainly, is a strange piece _of intelli gence for a Superintendent to communiente to the trustees and patrons of district schools. The direct effect of this intelligence is to ins troy all confidencesin the value of a certifi cate. Indirectly it tends to destroy the pub lic confidence in the abilities and qualifies- tions of the examiner. Your report, Sir, has created the impres sion that there is something wrong in -the man:lgen - fent of our Common Schools. I have at all times maintained that the thing was capable of a reasonable - explanation,— that the enigma was capable of a rational so lution, and that no blame would attach to the . Superintendent. Nevertheless lam convinc ed that there is wrong somewhere ; for I can not induce Myself to believe. that it is right that two hundred and twenty teachers who are tenqualifirti fur their business should find ready employment in Susquehanna County. Why, it is njibel on-Jhe intelligence of our citizens. One hundred and forty teachers who . are " unfit " to tench, hired in our schools ! It is a disgrace upon every truiree in the county. Out 14 two hundred and se venty teachers who have received certificates only fifty qualified"! ! It is a burning shame. Parents, where are you that you do not re pel the libel upon your intelligence Trus tees, where ere you that you do not wipe out the disgrace restin s g upon you Teacher!, where are you ,that you do not respond to the imputation upon your reputations 'l' Sa• - yers , nkndent, where are you that you suffer such a shame, when it can be so • readily re moved by an easy explanatiou. Sir, -I am your friend and would . eter F Meld -you from unjust censure. I write you full in the faith that there is n wrong some, where which you can expose, to the great benefit of common school education and with much credit to yourself. Yours, tiuly, • - For the Indryuntkat Reptgliedvi. MR. PETER PIPER: Dear Sir:—As Mr Tewksbury does not seem inclined to notice your communication in the Republican of the 21st ult. (probably thinking his time can be better employed than in the apparently hope- less task of your illumination,) perhaps it may not be much out of the way for me to try to enlighten you on the subject which seems to ,exercise you so much, and which "may be all right, only you cannot understand it." It may de a thankless. effort, as y - our object seems to be, not so much to gain information, as covertly to foster a feeling unfavorable to Mr. Tewksbury among the people of the county. Every true friend of our common schools will meet all causeless attacks upon the County Superintendent with their merit ed contempt. Such attacks will, in most eases, be found' to come from an enemy to our Common School System. 1 As you assure that the "Trustees," as you dill them, will not knowingly employ " unfit" teachers, and that they "fire in the habit of thinking that any persmi who can exhibit a certificate from the County Superintendent is qualified to teach a common district schoial," allow me, (as a Yankee answer,) to ask a few questions: Ist. Have you, Peter Piper, ever teen a Teacher's Certificate? 2d. If you have, do you consider a No. 5 certificate an assurance of the bearer's com petency ? 3d. Do you mean to insinuate that the "Trustees" of this comity inppose the. hold ers.of No. 1 and No. 5 certificates to be alike " qualified ?" and do you require any other " mark" to distinguish between teachers' quilifasit!ons--if so what ? 4th. Haveyou examined the reports of other Sullertotendents Are •not most or all of them open to the objection .you urge. against Mr. - Tewksburi's of reporting a por tion of the teachers unqualified Why dop't you make yoUr remarks general f ' sth. Are you, Peter Piper, any relation to that wise namesake of yours, of traditional memory, yclept " pumpkin eater ?" Now, friend Peter, let -me exhort you, while blowing your trumpet (I, beg your pardon, I meant pipe) -and Jousting furiously with the club end of a " sharp Stick" at any thing and everything which you 1 0 Cannot un deratand," to remember that you may turd out a Don Quixote and your steed a Rosi nante. Hoping you will continue your ioveitiga tionsinto public affairs ' and feor the public with'any " astounding disclosures" - whit.* a person of your inquiring disposition may have in his power to inaPart,,permit me, Mr. Piper,lo subscribe myself; Yours, decidedly, Yontro Awinica. R EPortrtil Ilrff" A novel proceeding dye the Lancas. I ter (Pa.) Etpiess—novel at least in this 1 State—took place in the Court of Common Pleas, on Saturday'. Catharine Zellers, a German woman made forimil 'application. and was sworn and admitted as a citizen of the United States— Some think she Is one of the "strcmg4ninded,* : and is getting eady to vote in "the good 'tinier. coming;"but die snore probable supposition is that she wants to sell "red-eye:t and has taken this oary step towards applying for a jar The-1108mM contaltut an ettiolb bh the TaVOrltiantist the federal government to wards the , South, as shown l among other tinny, in - the:orectiaa-in')hst stction of_ cut :tern - booties coatinglaani tl f*s ,thette in town of that same size at thei lsnith, - the commerce of the 'Netithern towns is much greater. than thaCiftf . the 4010. , ern. We extract the 6:41owl4: " We might extend indefinitely the tan"- parisons suggested by these tables in csanfiee• tion with cognate data obtained from like sources. We will give only a ?en% Maine has Custom-Houses costing in the aggregate *710,790, and has 765,110 tuns of registered and licensed shipping. Virginia's Custom- Houses (hot all ctunpleted - yet.) will 'cost *993,222, and her 'shipping measures 79,145 tuna. Massachusetts, with $1,257,991 in fin. ished Customliouses, and 517,009 tuns of shippihg, May be placed shouldet tta. shunt- - der (see Webstetsun Mayne,) with South Carolina, with *2,053,000 in Custom-Houses, (and the work still progresslbg,) and 57;530 tuns of shipping. New York has Custmn- Houses costing *1,452,405, and her !hipping counts 1 569 525 _inns. inaht. . . moth Custoht-nollse has already cost *2,- 912:5,!..58, and is going on,- and we may soy going down, at the rate of hnlf a million an nually; while her shipping dwindles away to 176,491 tans. From these facts, it appears that for - Bach tun of. registered and licensed shipping (a fair test of business at a Custom-flonse,) in thoihree leading commercial States of the North, the Government expends just about one dollar in ,Custom-Houi-e buildings; but in the three principal - commercial States of the South, it expends more t,han nineteen dol lars in like buildings for each tun of their shipping. This disparity between buildings and tunnage at the South, must- be accounted for on the gromid that Custom-Houses don't cost the slaveholders anything, but ships do. In delving a little deeper into the mass of facts before us, we find that Waldoborough, in Maine, with a Custom-House costing $25,324, owns 183,932 tuns of shipping, and built 41 large vessels in 1857, measuring 22,- 748 tuns; while Pensacola, with a Custom- House costing $43,004 owns only 5,433 tuns, and built in that year three *hole schooners of an aggregate burden of 242. tuns. Little Kennehunk, with a Custom-lrouse costing ex actly $1,600, built ships in 1857 measuring 5,996 tuns; and Charleston, with its two 'million Custom House (and scarcely half done at that,) and eanet to dissolve the Un• ion and meet the whole marine of the North in open sea-fight on the shortest notice, built, during the fiscal year ending on thu 30th of June, 1857, two schooners, two sloops, and two sail-boats, whose total measurement swells to the gigantic figure of 260nne,---or, to give the precise aggregate, its obtained from official sources, 20 tuns and 70-95ths of a tun." Rsyrisa Ilior.—There was a meeting iri Philadelphia, on Monday evening, to read such life-long Dernocrats as Col. Forney and those-who act with him, out of the Demo• erotic party ! The Lebanon Courigr well says that this meeting was presided over by that old and consistent Democrat, Josiah Randall, and was conducted by men with like Democratic antecedents. Now there is no one who has the least knowledge of the political history of our State, who does not know that Josiah Randall, up to a late date, was what WAR called a parlor Philadelphia Whig, whose aristocratic notions and _actions did the Whig party a great deal of harm.— :For such a man, then,-to undertake to read old Democrats out of the Democratic party, is one of the most refreshingly , cool transac tions that has. lately come under our ,notice.. But the fact - is, such men as Randall-,- Wm. B. Reed, and their like, are at the head of the Democratic party, controling Its policy and reaping its harvest of patronage and honors. That the indignation of old Demo crats gets up to the boiling hent, when they see such men assume the leadership _of their ptirty, can well'be imagined. But it is with such that Mr. Buchanan -.sympathizes. Ile was an old Federalist himself, and the aristo , erotic principles of the party of his youth still cling to hint. The Democratic org,anb salon having got into the possession of the Federalists, the question may well be asked, have we a Democratic party among ust If so, is it the party now headed 'by- Ronda; Reed, Buchanan, Toombs, Stephens, Cobb, • and Company ? PETER PIPER. A COMPETENT WITNESI 2 .- - - No man in the country is more thoroughly acquainted with all the qualities of Locofocoism than John W. Forney. Ile is perfectly familiar with all its elements, tendencies, practices, and purposes, and is a competent and credible witness against the party of which he was one of the high priests and most active and useful members. Here is his'testomeny: "The organization of the Democratic , par ty, in most of the free States, especially in New . York, New England, Pennsylvania and New Jersey, usurped by the. dependents of tbe-Federal •Administration, and perverted to the maintenance of doctrines at variance with the well-settled Democratic creed, Jabs. become a mere organization for defeat, , zind, must continue so, unleas arrested by a prompt; vigorous, and thorough counter movement. It has ceased to be a Denzocialic organization. The officers of the General Government use it and abuse it for their own ends, obeying the orders of their masters in the declaration of new dogmas of political bath, nominating for &nee those only who substitute these dogmas for the well-settled creed of the party itself, and shielding their , crimes with the name of such an organza. Lion.,' Ti G ROUNDS or Acurrrrat.—. The Washington correspondent of the New York, Times rays: - "After the trial Chad the pleasure of meet ing teh of.the gentlemen who composed the Jury, and I am specially instructed by them to state, and they wish it distinctly under stood, that they gave their-, verdict on the principle' that, in the absence•of any adequate punishment; by law for adultery, the man who violates the honor and desolates the -home of his neighbor, does to at die peril of his lifii,.and if be falls by the outraged hus band's bands, be , deserves his doom. This principle, they informed me, they agreed up on unanimously six days since. tar Forney's Preu does not mince mat• ten with regard to thii nornineeirof the late Buchananite State Convention. It says: - " Messrs. Rowe and Wright are the notori ous and accepted representatives of_ the treacheries inid betrayals ofdthe Federal Ad minlitmtion, and of that cohupt annbinatiou. in this . State which is toiling to commit the Demoonitie party to• the. ductiirie that the people shall not control the Territories, .aid, that slavery. iii to be protected by all the power of the ,Govemment. And for thii they ought to hi, and we hope they will be;` overwhelmingly defeated.° .12r- Bayard Taylor is about , to, erect 'an, elegant,. resideriee on the' Brand ywie, -in Chester county In this State,. near the scene of his early - boyhoodi - where his parents still reside. 'Ur The New York Triount, of which the fiat rounhei woe F 11411444 in April; 18411, *ion' circubAlpa Of 211,750 cop Sidles 00e. Daniel E.;pieilles has been teklultted: . The case Was sukiiitted to the 4urini, ten min: t4 - #1 hiefitritt-t'Wo orr Ztestfor afternoon, and etitoe 011 pregsetti they signifled.that on venSiet.Vlintie l ji a t e ly. On tint atilWeelieinetifienby)he'fareman— "ll4.4oloPhe etOwtrin tlfe, e!pnitt biiifie out: iSio slioas baii,andihand.„ kerchiefs were' waved, the peoldeouttido re- , sponded; and' neither ' !gambol nor Judge could prevent the wildest cries of exultation. It was evident that the verdict was in full ac, Corditace with popular opinion.' The c1.0‘41.1 ptessed around :;\ fr. Sic:ldes, manifesting their congratuhition% by extrava gant signs and exclamations.- Ills hand was no longer that or a murderer, , of an avenger.of society. wti4's seised and Av rung with delirious joy. the cheering was kept up continuously. . . • . So far there vas nothine unexPecled in all this; The friends of a man who has stood in a criminal dock for nineteen days; with ft sword suspended over his head, tnii3r ha ex cused for some extra dettatustrations of sat isfaction at his escape—but the scene was soon changed from one of-natural exultation into the most ridieulOus and disgusting farce. Captain Wiley printed an extatie kiss on the cheek of the unfortunate Sickles, as he now was ; thejury Were so eager to grasp his hand that he was obliged to climb over the forms to permit them that honor. With great difficulty and dvlax he, emerged from the Court House to find a thousand more greetings outside, and his friends blifely- pre vented the horses from being loosed, and his •carringe drawn to the hotel by the delighted. populace.- The procession of canines and the•shotitiog multitude might well have-been mistaken for the inauguration scene-of a new President. - • • Tlic jurors called on Mr, thinly at his ho . . el, and one of them (Mr. McDermott) re• vested him to tell the 'citizens of New York that the '• people of 3Vashington are not be hind those of any other part of the country in devotion to the family altar!" Whether he meant this as a delieate satire on sthe character of Mr. Sickles we are not .intorm .ed. Another juror brought his fiddle to tea tify his devotion to the family altar. Mr. Arnold, the foreman, had been oppressed by the fear that his health would give out Before the end of the trial ; but it had not, and 'he now "hoped that. his latest posterity would honor his memory fur having served on the jury." There were many other exhibitions of " af feetion" and regard, which included all the counsel - for - the defence,.some of whom acted a _ - leading pars in the comedy.' From the beginning of the trial, no othc result than acquittal has been. looked. We believe the verdict is entirely in 'accord. ante with the popular feeling.—Century. A Woman's Views. • The North lowa Timex cofitains a letterl from a lady, - commenting upon an edi torial in relation to the killing of Key.— The Colonel had said that " Sickles could not have lived had he not eakeyvengeance on the wily scoundrel who had robbed him of his position and disgraced hi name." His fair corrcspondent'had supposed that a man's vir tue was inherent, a part of his nature, and 'not simply a reflection of the virtue of his wife. But she infers from the editorial al. laded to, that "when Mr. Sickles went • to- Congress,- his position, ,his honor, depended upon the chaste behaviour of Mrs. Stckles, his wife, and she an - Italien at that ! The beautiful woman, captivated by the graces of a ban somer man than her husband, sins,, , is discovered, and exposed-Ind Mr. S., ,the Only innocent person in the affair, Shoots.Alr. Key, not for betraying his wife, but for dis honoring him t" This she *flounces " egre ' gious selfisbness, and continues as follows "It is strange =how differently - our sexes are constituted.. , Women survive these dis agreeable developments every day. 'lf Mr.. Sickles had hired this assignation house and met Mrs. Swizzlekdo you think - Mrs. Sick les would have gone out to shoot the faith less crinoline who had stolen her husband"? No, Sir I. Women do no such foolish thing's ; and why I Because; if we are 'virtuous we have confidence in our virtue,,,and we feel that no ;dereliction of the husband can or ought to effect the virtue: of the 'wife. But suppose on same fine Sabbath nicirning all Om women in Washington wha suspect their .truant lords, should sally nut, swords and .pistols by'their sides,' to chastise the dear creatures who had stolen their .affections— would not this Mark an interesting epoch in ,history r - - . . The following shows what 4t woman thinks of a man's courage • • . .. " And yet, this man; echo could. not meet the hollow shells of, humanity that formed his society-at Washington until he had iindi-, 'sated his honor, must cow meet the muiti -1 Ludes at his trial—bear the course jeerit gs of unprincipled libertinesconfrOnt this 'wife' whom ho magnanimously promised "not to injure"—hear again and again with exaggera tion and minutia:, ,the whole history 'of his misery reyived—,meet' the 'wondering looks of his little one: turning froth' father to moth er ftir an eiplanalon of this mystery, and in after years be-tortured by - her recurrence to ;the first chapter oiler life'sreality ! If he can & s ail this and dare'to' Meet his Maker at last with , the brand of a murderer -on 'bis . '344 and yet 'could not meet-the tallow-faced, moustachio'ed.puppies of hie elub•room, tell me, in God's name; in what Oansists the-Su -perior courage of Manhood 'P - . , - , • A: Fuxicr FiLisiwAy Itaren.—Tlie : Albliny iSianifitrd publishes the following ; : =l*iiettaity, a man named A. Wendover Martin' - arrived :in this city from Pompey; Wayne county; accompanied - by his wife . and two' children, and put Up at a-faihionable boardin,;•• - helix , kept by a widow lady. Beth Martin. an d . the, widow are gay in appearance. tie went out to take ii - walk, arid as'he did , not askliis wife to aceoMpanY him 'atter ,he . bad gone oat, she, dressed, the children and ;also. went oat. Martin returned very soon, founil that his wife had wane, and iheredpon fell into cony rsatiorr.with the widow. Cesaverration , grew into warm intimacy; and the Widow re 1-gretted that he was married. Martin-Wes completely captiVated, sud the 'last seee• - ol the pair they were leaving the hiiuse together. It is presumed that they took, the-7 o'clock boat for New York: Now the wife of Mar tin had lost - her way, and did not return to the hoUse.until B..eclock. She - was, greatly surptiSed on learning What had - transpired ; but she readily Concluded that ifshe had lost a husband, She had possession - of a finely fur nished Warding' house '‘!itti ti.-se of: ' good boarders, : which she yisely sleterilnined .to conduct for her own benefit, at least -until the . 1 runtiwaykreturii. . „.„ SALAilra 06.OTATE „ erai Appropriation as pawed Legislature, provides' the following wile 4 for the different:officers of the State govern. mint :=—Ociveroor, $4,000; Seeretery of the , CommotTesitb;sl,7oo; Deputy -Secretory qaf the' CorrimonWealth, $1,500.; Auditor General, $1,700; SurVeyor General, $1,600; ,Attoiney General,.s3,ooo ;' Adjutant Gener al; $000; State fluperintenilent of: Common. iSehoolic. sl,soo;:State Libmian, ssqo ; tete,Treasurer, $1,700. These Warlea-ara • , 14 - quarerly, at tha offica of rho State Getterel d'l ‘ - v me from te l ie t previons 'statements of a•teet: Pike's Peak for a desatut Agents of this iiiovenient atel and other pninrs, urging foe tion . .to-the pia regionob 0' Pike's Peak sti ent rnateri poet.. The letui ire base the( 7 1 cieipated develo emetics in t and the probab a ells:tattersall bars with their-prospects at plan of the leaders is not yet but it embraces, it is•said,-fi on - Sonora, and afterward, Durango and Chihuahua. Te grants hate already left di ? the Missouti for 'Pike's Peale , ... The Coward (N. IL) thatthnt on ,Thursday, the 14t brisk snow_storm, a vivid lighted up the leaden atom after, a tonsiderable jittery heavy rattling thunder. Ti wires leading to the telegra cord, and came upon the unceremonious flush and ref and with a heat which mel of the magnets. - - - .. Mr. William W. editor of The Washington member of one of the most farnilies of lteland, and a education and genial talent in the United States some has been connected e ith Commerce for two or three :has contributed to that pape -foreign politics. At the an taken great interest, ift the,c ward in Tammany Hall be forces otWood and Peale ut, to personal friend of NV rth, his sympathies ha W . h the Fowler faction, to sions, he has rendered i and it is probably on thei that he has been engaged assistant in conducting th We'may be sure that, in t e ll least.be distinguished for good 'manners, virtues it h, bilked hitherto.— Tribune . . The' remarkable et is stated in Hall's Journal of Health that of the file thousand persons tried las year before th, New York our ofiSeest ns, only timely. four were sober when arr sted ! • ... A gentleman of E gland of large for. tune—worth £4o,ooo—w s indignant tin I- his daughter, an only c ild, foe marryirs against his wishes, lie q arreled with her disifiberitedi her, and left t to whole proper.," to his attorney and oche gentlemen. 11 , attorney hie, Warren, aut or of "Ten Thou sand a Year'," went to his co" legatees, go: them to sign their elaiins over to_birn,' and _then paid the whole .£40,000 to the daughter .. The Ohio Legisla ure - has petted a law making it a misdern nor to carry a pis tol, bowie knife, dirk, or ny other concealed weapon, under the permit of a fine not en. ceeding s2ooi and impri onment not moil than thirty days: , for the first offence; and $5OO finis and imprisonm nt for three month or . both, itt the discretion f the court, fur th. second offence., A. .... W align Hopkin resides in Guild hall, Vermont. A echo 1 teacher pumshe the daughter of William opkins, by male ing her occupy a lower s at in the school. William Ilopkins invited himeto his house and there beat him with n - oaken whipstock Hopkins then went befo e - the grand jury complained of himself, leaded guilty, an, was fined one dollar.e teacher being 3s satisfied, brought a civil snit for damage and recovered seven bun red dollar:. :. An improvemen in envelopes . been made by Mr. N bift, of Newjor' .1 which is a desideratum ,itb Such as are a eustomed to write on ruled paper. This it proved envelope -has foil the superscriptic of the letter,. lines on t e idside, which d not show, When the lette is Inefosed. .....11oward Malcola has refused an i fer 0f,3,000 dollars from a Southern public ing house, to strike out o his Bible Diction ry some allusion to' the difference betwee Hebrew servitude and A eriean slavery. .... Sufferets from S mtula :led Scroi lons affections, clean up! Why wear yo Pimples, Blotches, Cie rs, Sores' Wli have the life twisted out of you by Tfy•pe• sia, 'Rheumatism, and out? Why sell. Syphilitic and Mercurial diseases to rot th bonesf in your body,- o the flesh off y bonen'? Why let your ..: uggisli blood dra e and scatter its -discernrs through )t; veins] -Avne's COMP, i ' T of S9napail l 1 . cures these complaints, and 'cleanses the out of the system. Use it faithfully; and y bring to society a healthier, cleanlier, and f more acceptable rnembe.—Dentocrat, Bat more l lild. 1 - - , I .. The New. York East Annual Code ence of the M. E. Church, now in session New Ihven, Ct„, Bishbp Jatries presidir has passed a resolution. i Jr:l:most unanimitusl de•chiring that slareholding is a sin, and tr the yolord " alaveholdingl should be. insert. in the "general rul," as one of the thin forbidden by them. •'1 . , Tliaisavend "Anti.Rent' case', • volving the Van Rensselaer claims to re from lands conveyed in fee in Albany count N. Y., have' been decided by the Court Appeals. The decision its adverse to the t nnts. . All the Judges concur in the opurr that the rent in arrears bust be paid. '1 action of the Court of la t resort ts'netxrisa ly final. .... Washington Iry tog attained his S enty•sieth year on thn 3d of April. 1 neighbors indicated their, remembrance offerings of flowers, and by visits and gr ings.- Although during the past e4inter has suffered from eleeplssnes and asthma, IN on the . whole, improving in health. .... A Washington " correspondent of Tribune, speakinglif the acquittal ofSickl !aye, "it mey now be _regarded. as sett' that while Mr. Crewtord is Judge, no iv ber of Congress can tie convicted of a cr nal of ' •I ‘ - .. . Wives are cheap in: Delaware. • . cording to the Georgetown Messenger. was sold in that State, the other day, fer and a dog. . 1 .. 2. The Tribune -states that - there now published in the Unite_d.Statea not I than four thou And newspapers, at least t' hundred of which are daily, and five bun -seeni.weekly. Their' aeerage circulation l. , istadiated at two thousand each for the ,1 lies, twenty•five hundred'for the sen''''`, lies,. end fifteen hundred for the wee" 'Making a total circulation in this country more than four hundred mil li ons of no" per sheets per.rillitum. I . ..__ . James C. Watson writes Ito' rrhorl ,- , Mich. to the Altair Adrerliar, t he has discs:tiered a new comet near ale n the constellation Lynx. It is as isrlie -a 'star of thia•eleventh'inagnitude. .... t ... a Giant Mijan,,the French C° l 14u1 New Orleans has been arrested for assi' in the, e.seepe of a fugitive slave. Th,t b Spanish, Prussia Belgian u tb , have issued a rest a* an infritigentent of the rights el anis. „Count Idijan was discharged a t . Ourt arOrnance. • ; - , vigorousi protest against ,-, •'- RUE WL , ortli Confirm t movement at lupin Meths). • Leavenworth •erd the tnign i et' Ito live at 1 l'br their put. hopes on an.. o gold country, n o 1 great ttlitn• • he mines. The fully !developed, •t a descent up. .robably, upon thousand eta • rent points on heinocrat gates ult., during_ a ah of lightning b p ere, followed I I-17 a peal of fluid tool: the lh office in Con. , perator.'with an .rt as of a pistol, the wire in one rowne; the new onstflulion, 13 3 preinlnent noble ntletitan of fin lie has been five years, and ihe Journal •vf years 'put, an d • r the article s e time, he has conflicts; going to!. i ween the hosti:, ;.- Being an inn r. D." litter. /e naturally been which, on various i portant service.: ; recommendation Mr. Buchanan'i official organ.— is !mnds, it will at ood English-and 's not always en:
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