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THE ASSAILANTS OF THE DEMOCRAT
IC PARTY-
Certain pretended organs of the Republican
party in this State, says the Harrisburg Union,
whose proprietors are filling their pockets from
the Federal coffers, and who therefore care not
how long the piesent troubles last, see nothing
in the majestic rising of the people in defence
of the Government but a splendid opportunity
ol making money for themselves and political
capital against the Democratic partv.
These same men, who employ all the time
not devoted to robbing the Treasury to charging
'he Democratic party with treason and stirring
up the extinct embers ol old controversies,
were not always so much in love with the U
nion and the Government. They used to speak
liglitiy of the Union, and talk about letting it
slide in certain contingencies. They incessant
ly ridiculed Democrats for expressing anxiety
tor the preservation of the Union. They laugh
ed at the idea of danger. They denominated
all men who were sclicitous lor the future of
the country as "Union savers"—a phrase to
which they attached a peculiar degree of odium.
They not only stubbornly refused to assent o a
peaceful settlement of our national troubles
when that was possible, but showed their dis
trust of the people by denying them the privil
ege of voting on the question. The Chicago
platform was their "higher law," placed far
above the Constitution. Perish a hundred U
nions, they exclaimed, rather than give an inch
of this party platform. They chronicled and
applauded every infraction<>f the fugitu e slave
law. After the cotton States seceded from the
Union, they were in favor of letting them drift; i
and they published articles to show tfiat war
would not restore the Union.
Such was the spirit and temper of the class
of newspapers previous to the great events that
aroused the nation to the necessity of war for
its own protection and preservation. The as
saults upon our flag, the ieduction of Fort Sum
ter, the immediate danger of the Capital, at
once excited and united the people. Past po
litical distinctions were forgotten in the pres
ence of perils that threatened to plunge us into
anarchy, and to destroy the glorious fabric of
government reared and strengthened by succes
sive generations of statesmen and pat riots. The
watchword flew with more than electric speed
from State to State, for it was the common im
pulse of patriotism that the Union must be pie
served and the Government sustained. All
classes and conditions of men, without respect
to their political opinions or prejudices, with
out pausing to discuss the origin of our national
troubles, without stopping to determine where
the greatest weight of responsibility should rest,
obeyed the summons of the nation to arms.—
Democrats did not hesitate or hold back. We
say it in no boastful spirit, but a3 an undenia
ble truth, that no political party in the country,
and even the party that triumphed at the last
election, furnished as many men for this war
as the Democratic party. The same fervent
love for the Union which impelled that party
to labor and plead for the preservation of the
Union by peaceful means, constrained its mem
bers to enter the ranks of the army after all
hopes of saving the Union by compromise had
vanished, and the Government was assailed by
armed toes. They did not waste time in dis
cussion and denunciation, or wait to conquer
their pi ejudices against the party in power;
nor did they pause to deliberate as to the pro
priety ot assisting an Administration in whose
elevation they had no hand, and from whose
domination they apprehended fearful consequen
ces. But they recognized their obligations to
the Government without regard to those admin
istering it, and their obedience was willing and
spontaneous.
Surely, it ever there was a time when the
voice of faction should be hushed, and when
the partizans o( the Administration ought to
cease their warfare upon the Democratic party,
whose members compose a large proportion of
the army, this is the time. And we are glad
to say that thse malignant assaults do not come
from men actually engaged in fighting the bat
tles of the country. They invariably come
from the class of patriots who stay at home to
rob the treasury—from contract-jobbers; fur
nishers of rotten clothing and worthless shoes ;
pensioners of the government ; men who hold
sinecures at Washington and are let loose to
vilify better citizens than themselves : public
thieves who have in (urn belonged to every |>olit
real party, and are ready at any time to sell out
to the highest bidder ; wretched political pros
titutes, despised by those whose wages they re
cieve. This is the despicable class of adventu
rers who endeavor to convict every Democrat
of sympathy with secession and treason who
will not deny his political faith, by subscribing
to the most ultra dogmas of the fanatical wing
cf the Republican party.
THE DEMOCRACY OF LUZERNE AND
WYOMING, FA.
A very !aige and enthusiastic meeting of the
Democracy of Luzerne and Wyoming counties
was held at the village ol Orange, Franklin
township, Luzerne county, on Thursday, the
20th ult., at 11 o'clock A. M. Alter raising
a most splendid hickory pole about SO feel high,
and running up to its head a very beautiful na
tional flag, and three cheers each for the Stars
and Stripes, the ladies participating and pres
ent, the Democracy and the Onion, the meet
ing was organized by the selection ol Ira Hal
ieck, Esq., President, and a large number of
Vice Presidents and Secretaries.
The following are the resolutions adopted :
Resolved, That the flag of our country— the
Stars and Stripes, under which our fathers
marched to victory on the battle fields of the
revolution, and which floated victoriously over
them in the second war lor independence in
1812, and which has ever been the boasted en
sign ol the brave and the free—has ever been
the banner of the Democracy, and they have
ever opposed and execrated blue lights, black
cockades, black Abolition flags or any others
by whomsoever devised or used as sym
bols of opposition to our once united and happy
but now distracted and unhappy country.
Resolved, That with Democrats, attachment
to the Federal Union, and a strict obedience to
the Constitution and laws, and liberty, equality,
and fraternity undr them, have ever been fun
damental doctrines and continual sources of ac
tion, not spasmodic and ephemeral, but contin
uous and eternal, and we do hereby declare our
unaltered and unalterable attachment to the
same.
Resolved, That we have no confidence in
ar,y man, or set of men, who will in times
like these, when everything is at stake, desert
true principles and a correct faith, under any
pretence or for any personal sinister purpose,
for we are satisfied that those who will betray
p r inciples, or even parties for personal consid
erations would for the same reason, if they were
sure of their reward, betray their country.
Resolved, That we have no confidence in
the pretended patriotr TI or Union sentiments
of men who have spent long, long years in
fighting for their country, opposing her in her
struggles against foreign powers, and defaming
her at home and abroad, and who now exult
and rejoice over the present civil war in our
country, the devastation and ruin that follow
in its path, and the destruction that is impend
ing over us.
Resolved, That the corruption exhibited in
our State and Naduuai AuiiMntmi. u ., i._
expenditures of the monies raised to clothe and
feed our gallant and patriotic soldiers and sup
ply them with other necessaries, deserves the
condemnation of every nonest man and true pa
triot, and displays mournful evidence of the
degeneracy of the men and the times.
Resolved, That we will support no man
in future for any office who does not come up
to the full Democrat Standard of qualification.
He must not only be a true and tried patriot,
ever on the side of his country and the whole
country, but he must also BECARACLE and HON
EST. PATRIOTISM, CATACITY, and HONESTY,
have ever been the true qualifications for Dem
ocratic candidates; and whether we succeed
in our endeavors or suffer defeat, we are re
solved to adhere to the Democratic standard
and apply its test to all candidates offered to or
claiming our suffrage.
Resolved, That while an adherence to the
Democratic Standard ot qualification has giv
en to the country and to the world such men
as Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison,
Monroe, Jackson, and a host of other great and
glorious names, a departure therefrom has giv
en us the poor, miserable, and corrupt imbeci
les now at the head of affairs, or seeking to be
placed there—a set ot soldier-robbers, State
plunderers, canal-thieves, and political moun
tebanks, a disgrace to their country, and an
offence before high Heaven.
After the adoption of the resolutions the
meeting was ably and eloquently addressed in
turn by Stephen Jenkins, A. R. Brundage, and
E. 13. Chase, Esqrs., amidst cheers and frequent
demonstrations of applause, after which the
meeting adjourned with nine rousing cheers.
TAXING THE NECESSARIES-
The Secretary of the Treasurj', in his late
report to Congress, says that ft will take
$318,519,581 87 the present year to carry on
the Governmeat and prosecute the present un
fortunate civil war, in which our country is
engaged. To raise this amount of money and
provide means to pay the interest on /t seems
to perplex him. He proposes that a portion
of it be raised by direct taxation, by levying a
tax on rpal and personal estate, as heavy as the
people will stand. This being inadequate, Mr.
Chase casts about for other means, and seems
to come to the conclusion that the poorer clas
ses had better be taxed excessively to pay the
leaches who are making fortunes out of the
War Department, and therefore proposes to in
crease the duties on the necessaries of life , by
raising the tariff on sugar, coffee, tea and mo
lasses. So, if Congress consents, the poor man
is not only to fight the bailies of his country,
but to bear the brunt of the war debt oy hav
ing to pay the increased (ax on the necessaries
of life, while his rich neighbor is to have his
luxuries at present. This is Republican equal
ity.— Greensburg Democrat.
WHENEVER and wherever you see a man
clamorously denouncing every effort to settle
our National dilftcullieg, without incurring
the luss of life and treasure that must eventual
ly ensue, if the struggle OOPS on, and demand
ing, with all the fury of his natura, that noth
ing less than a complete annihilation of the en
tire South will do it may be set down as a
fixed fact that that individual is not going to
peril his life lor the success of his doctrines.
Jt is an undeniable truth, that boisterous lan
guage and a cowardly heart,always go together.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, AUGUST 3,1861.
THE NORTHERN TRAITORS-
We suppose that when an incendiary has
fired the dwelling he has long been threaten
ing, that even he, base as he has been, looks at
the flames with some compunctious visitings.
This seems to be the case with those traitors,
great and small, learned and unlearned, who
have been accustomed every 4th of July to
hold a traitorous saturnalia of abolitionism
and disunion in a grove at Farmington, Mass.
They should have been indicted as disturbers
of the public peace and safety years ago. But
on the last 4th these worthies, seeing some
tangible to give them hope of the accom
plishment of their objects are more mild. How
ever some morsels ot the meat on which they
fed may be presenttd. The President ol this
meeting said:
"The people have already driven the gov
ernment lar beyond its first intentions. The
anti-slavery men have done all this, and their
office agent, willing or unwilling, is Abra
ham Lincoln, and their agent in the field is
Winfield Scott.
Wendell Phillips said:
"Cadwalader and Patterson are following
in the first footsteps of Butler, and promise to
put down servile insurrections.. By the con
stitution they have no right to offer to do so.
It is alide unconstitutional and uncalled for.
What I ask of Lincoln and Scolt is to rebuke
those Generals. At least to hold the scales
even, for it has dicked the beam for slavery for
sixty years." * *
"Seward is all for the Union. He is* trai
tor. Honest elements in ItM Cabinet suffer
themselves to be compromised and balanced by
one who is powerful but known to be treach
erous. With such a man at the head of the
State, I believe we own the absence of compro
mise fo Charles Sumner in the Senate, and the
New York Tribune in the countiy. We have
an honest President, but, distrusting the strength
of the popular feeling behind him, he listens
overmuch to Seward."
Here is a prelty proposition fo: a man who
invokes God and pretends to love his country.
PHILLIPS said:
"A defeat that would madden the North, or
a victory that would drive the South to un
usual desperation and io reprisals, would force
the administration into an emancipatiou policy.
Let us pray that Jefferson Davis may have life
and courage and strong battalions spared him
to bring this question to a head. We speak
as abolitionists, not as citizens only."
A truly devilish proposiuon,—that the trai
tors may be so strong as to win a great battle,
U*/ llldl lilt? Hw.il. .>>UJ l/L iltßOUvu.. Uw |'|
ation. Our more charitable wish is that Phil
lips and Davis might ornament the same gal
lows.—Greensburg Democrat.
CONFISCATION OF SLAVES'. - '
The Senate last Tuesday on motion of Mr.
Trumbull, of 111., adopted an amendment to the
bill for the confiscation of the property of reb
els lound in aims against the Government.—
The amendment, provides," that any person
helg to service or labor," employed or in any
way aiding the rebellion against the Govern
ment, shail be forfeited to his master."
This is carrying out negro emancipation about
as far as the most ultra Abolitionist can desire.
Construed liberally, as is the custom ol the pres
ent Administration in dealing with constitution
al or legal provisions, we do not see whj' it
would not set at liberty every slave in the Ter
ritory which may be occupied by our armies.
Those who are " employed, or in any way aid
ing the rebellion," are indicated as subjects for
forfeit, and os almost every slave on the South
ern plantations, is emvloyed in raising cotton
which the masters are giving or subscribing to
the rebellion fund, or else in the cultivation of
breadstuff* for the supply of the Southern army,
it will be an easy matter, if the amendment oi
Senator Trumbull shall become a law, to dis
charge, under its provisions, every slave upon
whom the agents, civil or military, of the Gov
ernmen shall oe able to lay their hands.
Objections ts Senator Trumbull's plan may be
raised on account of its conflicting with the pro
visions of the Constitution; but this would
scarcely be deemed valid among those who have
already approved of the most palpable violations
of the Constitution. Such objections in these
days, are mere cob-webs, to be swept away as
frail and unsubstantial obstacles to the onward
march of Anti-Slavery spntiment.
The plan of Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas, is
more direct, and for that reason moie honest
than that of Mr. Trumbull; but a careful atten
tion to the declarations, private and official, of
the leaders ol the Anti-Slavery party, will dis
close a purpose to make this war what the bulk
of the Anti-Slavery men desire it to be, a war
against slavery. There may be different modes
ot appraaching the end, but all the movements
point to one and the same result, —a result
which is sure to be reached, it the advanced
Republicanism now in the ascendant, retains
its power. Whether it shall be by Executive
proclamation, as Senator Pomeroy proposes, or
in the more subtle method ol forfeiting such as
help to till the Southern plantations while their
masters go to the war, according to the plan of
Senator Trumbull, the end is the same.—Jour
nal of Commerce.
The Democrats of Monroe county have
nominated a straight out Democratic ticket.—
Republican paper.
l£? = "And why should they not ? The
Democratic party is now, and it is only by
carry ing out its principles that the people of
the North and South can ever live togeather
in harmony. The Democrats have joined
hands with their opponents to enable tlie Gov
ernment to put down rebellion and enforce
tne laws, but by no means have they agreed
to take back seats upon the rickety Chicago
platform. If there is any backing pown to be
done, it should be by the Republicans. Let
the Democratic party maintain its organization
everywhere : the cause of the Union will be
promoted thereby.— Doylestown Democrat.
Freedom of Thought and Opinion,
THE WAR FEVER IN BALDINSVILLE
BY AF.TEMU3 WARD.
As soon as I'd recooperated my physikill sys
tem, I went over into the village. The peas
antry was glad tpsee me. The school master
®ed it was cheerin to see that gigantic intelleck
among 'em onct more. That's what he called
me. I like master, and allers send
him tobacker when I'm ofTon a (ravelin cam
pane. he is a very sensible man.—
: Such men must be encouraged.
| 1 They don't git news very fast at Baldvinsville,
a nothin but a plank toads runs in there twice
i a week, and that's very rmtch out of repair So
i r.-.y nabers wasn't much posted op in regard to
the wars. 'Squire Baxter sed he'd voted the
| Dimocratic ticket for goin on forty years, and
die war was a dam black republican lie. Joe
Ptackpole who kills hogs for the 'Squire, and has
got a powerful muscle into Jjis arms, sed he'd
bet $5 he could lick the Crisis in a fair stand
up fight, if he wouldn't draw a knife on him
So it went—sum was for war, and sum was for
peace. The school master, however, sed the
Slave Oligarky must cower at the feet of the
North ere a year had flowed by, or pass over his
dead corpse. "Esto perpetua !" he added, 'and
sine qua non also I" sed I, sternly, wishing to
make a impression onto the villagers. "Re
quiescat in pace ?" sed the school master. "Too
iroo, too troo," I answered, "it's a scanderlus
fact!" -
The newspapers got along at last, chock full
of war, and the patriotic fever fairly bust out in
!faldinsville. 'Squire Baxter sed he didn't be
lieve iu Coercion, not one of 'em, and could
prove by a file of Eagles of Liberty in his gar
lit, that it was a Whig lie, got up to raise (tie
price of whisky and destroy our other liberties.
But the old 'Squire got putty rilev when he
heard how the rebels were cuttin up, and he
sed he reckoned he should skour up his old mus
kit and do a little square filin for the Old Flag,
which had allers bin on the ticket he'd voted,
and he was 100 old to Bolt now. The 'Squire
is all right at heart, but it takes longer for him
to fill his venerable Biler with steam than it
used to when he was young and frisky. As I
previously informed you, I am Captain of the
Baldinsville Company. I riz gradooally but
majestically from drummers' Secretary to my
present position. But I found the ranks wasn't
lull by no means, and commenced to recroot.—
Havin nofcist a gineral desire on the part of
young men who are into tl fe Crisis to wear ep-
pylits, I detarmined to have my company com
i-posed excloosively ol offissers, everybody to
u The *
! mong.the vans questions whicn 1 put to recroots:
Do you know a masked battery from a hunk
I of gingerbread"?
j , Do you know & eppylit from a piece of chalk?
It I trijsfcyou" with a real gun, how many
: men of your own company do you speck you
can manage to kill durin the war?
Hav you ever heard of Ginral Price, of Gin
j ral Price, of Missouri, and can you avoid simler
accidents in case of battle ?
Hav you ever had the measels, and if so how
j many ?
i How air you now ?
Show me your tongue, &c., &c. Sum of the
1 questions was sarcusstical.
The company filled up rapid, and last Sun
i day we went to the meetin house in full uni
j form. I had a seris time gitfin into my milita
| ry harness, as it was biit for me many years
ago; but I finally got inside of it, tho' it fitted
me putty clost. However, onct into it, I lookt
fine—in fact, aw inspirin. "Do you know me,
Mrs, Ward?" sed I, waikin into the kitchin.
"Knowyou, you old fool ? Of course I do."
I saw at onct that she did.
I started for the meetin house, and I'm fiaid
' 1 tried to walk too atrate, for I cum very near
Tallin over backwards; and in attemptin to re
; cover myself, my sword got mixed up with my
i legs, and I fell in among a choice collection ol
: young ladies, who was slandin near the church
j door a-seein the sojer boys come up. My cockt
! hat fell off, and sumhow my coat-tales got twis
| ted round my neck. The young ladies put
their bankerchers to their mouths and remark
| ed . "Te he," while my ancient lemale single
| friend, Sary Peasley, bust out into a loud laif.
j She exercised her mouth so violently that her
new false teeth fell out onto the ground.
"Miss Peasley," sed I gittin up and dustin
myself, "you must be more careful with them
sore teeth ol your'n or you'll hav to gum it
again !"
Methinks I had tier.
I'd bin to work hard all the week, and 1 felt
rather snoozy. I'm 'fraid I did git half asleep
| for on hearin the minister ask, "Why was
man made to mourn ?" I sed, "I giv it up,"
havin a vague idee that it was a conundrum.—
It was a onlorlinit remark, lor the whole meet
in house lookt at me with mingled surprise and
! indignation. I was about risin to a pint of or
der, when it*sudden!y occurd to nip whare I
j was, and I kept my seat, blushin like the red,
red rose—so to speak.
The next mornin I rose with the lark. (N,
' B.—l don't sleep with the lark, tho'. A goak.)
My little dawter was execootin ballids ac
| compauyn herself with tlie hand orgin, ami she
| wisht me to linger and hear her sing : "Haik
I hear a angel singin, a angel now is onto the
i wing."
"Let him fly, my child !" said I, a-bucklin
on my armer, "I must forth to my Biz."
. We air progressin pretty well with our drill.
As all air commandin offissers, there ain't no
jelusy ; and as we air all exceedin smart, it ain't
woith while to try to outstrip each other. The
idee of a company composed excloosively ol
Commannders-in-Chiels orriggernateil, I spose
I sk'urcely need say, in these Brane. Consid
ered as a idee, I flatter myself it is putty hefty.
We've got all the tacticks at our tong'sends,
but what we paiticly excel in is restin muskits.
We can rest muskits with anyoody. Our
corpse will do its duty. We go to the aid of
1 Columby—we fight for the stars ! •'
We'll be chopt into sassige meat before we'll
exhibit our coat tales to the foe.
We'll fight till ther's nothing left of us but
our little toes, and even they shall defiantly
wiggle 1
"Ever of the,"
A. WARD.
LIFE IN.JAVA.
HOTEL on THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD.
A conespondent who went out in the Uni
ted States steamer Niagara, in company with
the Japanese Embasay, writes as follows of
hotel life in Batavia, Island of Java :
Now, about Batavia and the hotel at which
lam stopping. How many in N. York believe
that, on the opposite side of the globe, ten
thousand miles nearei the sun, hotels to com
pare with the Oriental magnificence of New
York hotels can be found ? But such is the fact.
Everything we see here is 30 entirely differ
ent from what I have seen, or ever Imagined
before, it is bard to tell wheie, or how to begin.
In all the imaginary wilds of speculative fan
cy I had never dreamed of any thing to come
up to, or compare with Batavia. The place
that approaches nearest to it in the East Indies
or, in lact, in any part of the world, is Calcut
ta, and that by many is not considered equal to
Batavia.
The hotel at which I am stopping Is the Ho
tel des Indes, situated in the new, or upper
town, some -Half dozen miles from the water.—
This is a fair specimen of five or six others,
wjthin half a mile of each other. My hotel
and grounds cover ten acres. The whole
ground, like the rest of the city, is one immense
forest of trees and canals. The trees remind
one ven much of the elms of New Haven.
Houses are placed two or three hundred feel
back from the street. In front, the area is fill
ed with trees, literally alive with birds, and ev
ery variety of plants ar.d flowers. Every house
has a stoop or piazza in front, on which, morn
ings and evenings, sit beautifully dressed ladies
and children. The houses are white as the
driven snow. In front are bird cages, elegant
lamps, beautiful pictures and steel engravings,
handsome marble top tables, rocking chairs,
lounges, &c. These articles are mostly of
French manufacture, of the nicest description.
One can ride here for miles on roa3s as
smooth as a floor, and see nothing different from
what I have described. At night the city is in
one blaze of light from lamps, no gas being al
lowed. The streets swarm, with Malay*, Jap
anese, and Chinamen but no negroes. They are
very civil and attentive as waiters, and wener
all V 'KiIICM. JWUIim aic upc II) *•
of all kinds left exposed, without being stolen.
There are no beggarsto be met with in thestrcets.
The hotel at which I am stopping—the main
building two stories high, with an immense pi
azza in front, is connected on each side by buil
dings like railroad depots, three or four hun
feet long. Each suite of rooms contains room
enough to make two, three, and even a half
dozen ordinary rooms, such as we get at hotels
in the United States. In front and back are
bath-houses, fountains, flower gardens, and out
houses, for [cooking and for servants, marble
floors, filed root?, ceilings from 20 to 25 feet
high, no carpets, and but few curtains.
Meals are served up in about the same style
as at the first class hotels in New York. The
habits of living are quite different. At day
light coffee and tea are taken to your room ; at
eight, same, with light refreshments : twelve,
breakfast; and at seven dinner. Coffee and fea
are always ready, day or night, same as baths.
No extra charge ; take them or not, as you
please. No business is done in the street in
the middle of the day, on account of the heat.
Nights and mornings are cool and delightful.—
Birds are singing all night.
A BEDFELLOW.
I wanderpd about the town the rest of the
day, watching the lazy negroes, and did not re
turn to my house till after dark. I struck a
match, ar.d set fire to a torch to go to bed by,
and, casting my eyes about to see it any thiog
had been disturbed, noticed something glitter
ing and shining under my akoko or low bam
boo bedstead. 1 did not pay much attention to
the object, which did not seem important by the
dim light of the torch, till just as I approached
the bed to arrange it, I saw that the glitter was
pioduced by the shining scales of an enormous
serpent, which lay quietly coiled up there
within two feet of me. My first motion was to
retreat behind the door ] then I bethought me to
kill it. But, unfortunately, my two guns were
set against the wall behind the bed, and the
snake was between me and them. As 1 stood
watctiing, and thinking what to do, keeping
the doorway fairly in the rear for a speedy re
treat, I noticed that my visitor did not move,
and finally 1 mustered up courage fo creep
along the floor to the bedside, and quickly gras
ped one gun. Happily, it was loaded very
heavily with large shot. 1 placed the muzzle
fairly against one of the coils ol the serpent and
fired, and then ran out. At the report there
was an instant rush of negroes from all sides,
eager to know what was the matter. They
thought some one had shot a man, and then run
into inv house for concealment. Of course they
all rushed in after, heller-skelter, and as quick
ly rushed out again, on finding a great snake
writhing about the floor. Then I went in cau
tiously to reconnoitre; happily, my torch had
kept alight, and I saw the snake upon the floor.
Mv shot had been so closely fired that it cut
the body fairly in two. and botl: ends were now
loping about the floor. 1 gave the head some
blows wrth a heavy stick, and thus killed (tie
animal ; and then, to iny surprise, it disgorged
a duck, which i! had probably swallowed that
afternoon, and then sought shelter in mv hut to
digest it quietly. This pretty sleeping com
panion measured eighteen feet in length. I
must confess that 1 dreamed more than once of
serpents tliat night, for they are my horror.—
Explorations and Jldvenlures in Equatorial
Jlfrica. By Paul B. d>i Cfutillu.
WHOLE .tDIRER, 296.1.
&1) e Schoolmaster Abroad.
SCHOOL ETHICS FOR PARENT AND CHILD.
No. 7.
In the preceding articles of the series we
merely took into consideration the duties ot pa
rents. In the following, the ethical relation of
the pupil to the school, shall be considered and
discussed. Should the teachers of the county
give them a perusal, and be in any wise bene
fitted by such perusal, we shall be amply rewar
ded lor the time and labor it has cost us to pre
pare them.
The duties of the pupil may be considered as
being six-fold, the first of which are their
DUTIES TO THE COMMUNITY.
Under this head may be embraced both those
they owe to school officers, and those they owe
to others. These duties are important. Pu~
pits should be deferential. The social powers
of man's nature are at all times to be cultiva
ted. Habits of politeness should be cultivated
at a very early age ; for, habits formed in child
hood cling to us in after life. Polite boys and
girls generally become polite and sensible men
and women. Deference is required from them
not only from' t any personal benefit they may de
rive, but because they must feel themselves,
children as they are, unequal to those whom
time taught many a valuable lesson before
they arrived at the age of maturity. Nothing
appears more appropriate, than when children
are always polite to those who may happen
to be their superiors, either in age or knowl
edge. Many of the impolite acts committed
by men and women under the false titles of
ladies and gentlemen, are but the result of long
continued habits acquired during schooldays.
Age and superiority always require respect
Irom all, and particularly from the young.
Man is always gratified when he can look back
over his youth through the dim vista of years,
and find that his pilgrimage has not been per l '
formed in vain, that like the ancient philoso
pher, through he may have lost a day, he has
not lost a lite-time. . The teacher may do
much, indeed, in aiding his pupils in acquiring
.9Hii*. It should be one ot his most
Ldiucol sndcarote to inculoato hQhif rf *
and deference in his pupils. In so doing he is *
helping to instil the most noble principles.
He is giving his a'td> in the civilization and en
lightenment of mankind.
KAPPA.'
NORMAL INSTRUCTION.
A great deal is said in the present day in
regard to Normal instruction. The question
arises, " Is Normal instruction of any practical
advantage ?" The present age is one that is
peculiarly utilitarian ; and particularly is Ibis
true with Americans.
Ten years ago Normal schools were almost
unheard of in Pennsylvania, while at present
there are but few sections which boast not of
these institutions. Since the establishment of
these schools in our Commonwealth, thousands
have received instructions in them, and our
" Old Keystone " now bids fair to outstrip in
education, not only all the other Middle States,
but also Yankeedom with all its nutmeg rms
and humbugs. That Normal Schools are of in
calculable benefit cannot be disputed. To prove
this we need only point to the particular por
tions of the State in which they have been es*
tablished and properly counducted. Those sec-;
tions that have enjoyed the benefits derived
lrom these schools, now stand as the first in the
State, in point of educational improvement.
Old fogyism is almost wholly eradicated, and
reformed methods of instruction are rapidly be-"
ing inaugurated.
The success of the first State Normal up to
the present day has been uxrivalled ; and even
now when the grand question of the stability
of our government is being decided on the bat
tle field, and thousands ot teachers are flocking
around the national standard, it still stands firm
and unshaken. ' While academies throughout
the State are suspending for want of patronage,
and even colleges meditate as much, it still
goes on in its noble work with almost four hun
dred students ; a number not excelled, neither
equalled by any collegiate institution in the
State, and by but few in the Union.
The end at which these institutions aim is
indeed a noble one. Our teachers must be
educated in order that they may educate. They
must be taught how to teach, in order that they
may teach well. Dull, lifeless, imitators ar
ot about as much practical benefit ir. the schooH
room when acting as teachers as the wooden •
man perched in a cornfield is, in
stones at the plundering crows. Perhaps one
of the greatest humbugs ol the age is that'
of every select school or academy taking upon
itself the title of Normal. When the princi
pals of such schools have been educated in.
good Noimal schools themselves, it is ail well
enough, but for one to presume to act as prin
cipal who has never received any normal in
struction himself) is simply absurd. Not every
book agent or patent bmsom. vtnden that travels,
through the country is a proper, person to take
charge of such a school. A' little more is
needed than one's being a native of a.particu
lar portion ohthe Union. It is truly astonish
ing how easily guilibiht y.\s practiced on some
individuals and in some communities. It is to
be hoped that those who now see through the
mists of the morning but dimly, will soon have
the fuil light ol day. break in all its glory upon
them. NORMAL.
VOL. 5. NO. 1.