Democratic watchman. (Bellefonte, Pa.) 1855-1940, March 18, 1857, Image 1
• . . :..;401 1 1 vv! Oti ,t7:411' ,•4•, , ;.. , v • *".ti: fit • ivt 1)61.:e. , •• ESMI }WIT lop ME ---161041"trat It _ th.zgthman, Till ,pmnn , lN v r ..irll,,an ENTRE DPIOORCOUN AT ICTY, NEWS ra C. IPWIIOII Ananrvintsiquin **lR!' wc'Y Nabay,llllr HOOVER. 110 IN advance, or If paid within el: sayer{,, toe will be elinrgod oh till sulmosip- Ursa hue I tip end of the year. . .1111:1VBSTIS NTH and BIANCA , . lintlooo boort ipd 24 the urinal rater, and esorj deserintlon of ar cp xa =NT IN CA . 11313 0 M1D In the neeteet manner, at the lower rime, add with the utmet despatah Raving parellipiod atame °Wootton of typo, we are p re plied 1p what, the onion of our train& DriIIOCRATIC CREED iuNfht e 4l,4l.4n4 o , l l,fy tiosSl rorsuassois, ro s ous or IV.. Posta; consoler-to sad hoopoe friend ship wi4 alheirt4owl; instan o r/ingalltollrellwitA mow • No. 11. - rho oirtt of ,Stotet aro( Tirritgrtes to didwrimoister their own JonesSion fairs No. ♦4. Freedom, and eynality, the sogere . ighty of a.,. cci.r eul am 'right o rho majority to r.soiiiieeousototiomallyge:preased. N.o. . rimoloy 141 thr "4. erpensliturrs, 4 e - e 444 No. S. lrreerkrrn of rslggion, 'verdant If the pato onotaoneral fliftirion of to formation. Na. Z. ppo.tinois to oil rrrret politirol . o won- OdloolOOPLe. and to esti rorrtertin poisn .s. No. S. A swerve prelerpotion of the g'etieral Coestilotioo.eod no xelienons fr.to f • OP N. . No. 9. No bigotry. or yo nir of re • r. or elis.• SesSiatt of birth noteuvr Amerrrou • usu... No. 10. Roams+ god protettio.t Jr the rights of all. No 111. The pyrserratioe of the Notstrofieotio* kwoo, end the r i ght of sAlt In the poblio dooloin eewdlhojlool4ooo.a ,of the Morrie-vs goverirotterer No. 1,1. - Upirpooirtax rood chairtoroi mood 'lie. Professional; • AIL. CUTTI, • ATTLOMNSY-AT-LAW. - averr-I,l` CIAMILIIIIIM. r• j AiIISII..RANXII. • AITOUSEL AT LAW, I,ILLEPONTR. PA., WV =IAN IL BLAIR, • • •-• • ATTORNEY AT LAW. MO:1314.:1 , XTE, PhNN Jprle T Pau , • 0,,v3-• CILAAJATCY it aLBERT, L 1 :Oil Lll, MUILPIIY a. CO ,ItiODA,9l' - Iltukur , rtlLl ~13 Char ;t A.ioy j...1.i.41 4tatleilg TOE & SON, • A life.y y ao, CA.. ail' • lt•i, 14, 441 1,, .1 , t., .;$.4411%y • T gaisDSN . - MP • rOI3N,EY AT LAW, - ' lIAL VIII=S•M kind,ettaing tt a tr- n b • illio a promptly attaarlatCla• i---......- - - - klari• firll, .a. ATTOktIY SY. AT.L A TA, BELLEVOXTE. PA Dew la ti Amide, ono door from tioarhook'a for WI, will attend raptly to boatman la Cando, L'llre trai aid &mantles. Dk .71112211 F. HtIIVEISON, sooossenr to Dr. 1114.11.1 m, MOpoilfally loaders kY prolissioual aer- Om to Ik. 'taws of P.OTTSK',I MILL'S sod Tiotolty Delos at dm Eutaw House. Satn:44.4o LARGE ABBORTXENT 0/Joseph 4. Bliskley'soolebrsted Italian yin lie, gag* lend violloquilo stripy ; filar violin rosin. bridges, dampers and ',aces, just received end fur eel• by tiltZ EN it PA : THERSHIP.-DIL I.INO J.. Pornot, haling aarociated with biai to the practice of medicine, Or .7 B MIT CIt die; offer their =deadens' serviced to We add's= of Bellefonte and vicinity. When woes abs =remitting attention of both will be given wlthoar additions' *Marge. 1W Dr. Mitchell's reaidenoe at hire Bonner's, noWfunte.. decta-td . • • .-.. DENTIST Y. -.1. D. WINGATE, ''' NilEttntON add MECHANICAL. DEN .• i woaddleorm hie friends and patrons that Ilse panataaantly lambed la Bellefonte, and that win ha !sappy to attend to any who wish his pro. Ilteleieteld sterviese. All work done In' the neatest alliintLareantatt. tilt'-- and residence - in Vle third house east : Nwerboalt'a 'Franklin Ireton ' stil-ly ' teltll - BN 4MoM BEN, suaess.... it OK°. I Almon. BELHFONTE, PA WIROLIBIALS AND RZTAIL tt.ron Dive, Mad*loos, Perfumery, Paints, Oils, Var nieboo, Dyo4Btuffs, Toilet tiosi:s. Uruntien, Hair and roodainonlbos, Vanay mid Toast, Artiolos.kimatia and dinniddorDrmoes, Harden Settle find our stock oompleto WA all pad at moderato prices L 3 ,1 Ili and Nodelnns from dm 000ntry mire noltood in oiedtnino our stook. min . 'ovals mutAr GROCERY STORE --gralostorr tea patronage so liberally be- Eepee - irba by a generous °ammonia) and Weriet - olotantloa to business, to alwayr . le Meth a the approbation of an appreciating . ile lafatins hh frisnds, customers , mid the li that he prepared to furnish eirtty Is well known stand with livery variety ot ililto ano that May be rolled (or Porhotto 4: =40 ammosalas .111 please call and Watt their &elm Op ea Ilif IN, If I ad determined to give sails ' Jr- li t -- WILLIAM PRINKR. CIA.RD.—DR. J. RHOAIiS hi lltillill irealsis4 informs the °Mame b( Joaltron OM% alle• the lierrounding oountrythat ho has lopeated at Jeekstiovill ' o, and will 1 ad Wall palls in the different branclios , i 'oedipal or surgical, at reasonable • pmpamai to insert artificial torah as eerdM 10,the fittest 'improvements and tile meet IT=slim, sad toy perform all other operations ' Margery Is good style anal at reasonable il t:alitreffier past Ihvats, he hoptorhy prempt at - il 111-taistikmoullnumne 01 V i l la tt'sl i t illibi t i s I " iii Ho patronage titre him 1 I rinf. le Alia Wriii• Or (all only as his moor, nu I .kill piny 1 .11-2 -0 -0 T S. C. limo. JAIL T. MAL'. 0. N. MOALLOmix A ti W. M. MURRAY. , Minn PAIVON SPECIAL DS:PoSTTs MIMES, Mo AL LISTE It, II Al, r A. l'll., • litic,,Aworre, °slm it Cu., p,p f i, . ;.• BELLIVIR AN - ter/10*ES DIS COUNTED. (KM.LX*P i MAI.DIB, AND PROCEEDS RE TTZD PROMPTLY. tillE_ AID ONSPECIA L DEPOSITS FOR N Dj a hAlaill UNDER SIX MONTHS A A OF FOUR PERCENT i rg ovt, —von SIX MONTHS OD. . AT TAR RATE OF liVii PER • ~ . PAR ANNUM . •' , M14.11M5 :TM DANT CONSTANTLY ON MASA fisE 6-910 , , . . • a , . , ' • . _ qr.l • . ree...4 1',T1.4.4101. ' .a.— ... ~...... .i.........r.4 . • i,:,f l• •' .' ..: .. .!......:-- '.'-., , :'-.', ,' la .2.: .• r ,;, , . i 'is ~ ' ••^ --...1- .4 ' :,,,, •-. , r „ 5,..•(,7:,-._, - ., . f I .-, 1 . f 1 13 r . . ~ :•1 •' . 4 . , t ' . '. ~. 111 : .., ; ~.. .• • .... .. . . . , Ftorn the I3aw y Pturisgfranratt TILIBV T.E TO DR._ KAIVE, Whet tidinge those, so mid, from Caha'silbeite, The Aiello wanerer is, ales I no More The shaft of death again lineyre rely sped, isal !AIM Vieille — WM the Went deed That fatal shaft that still unerring flies Athld the Polar stows or Tropic Alfa Bear hint, yo mountora r tiront that foreign oe And let hint moulder In his naUve land— Along the banks where Schuylkill winds his wave, There, 'told the woodlands, And an bonor'd grove. Why feel rogtot t or why in anguleh weep? W hen nature takes her last and pesoefui &loop? Ills toil is o'ori, hie retiree was b . :lively run— Besought for glory and that glory non. lie leaves behind—well carted—it spotless nlnte r lueerilted, anfeJfng, on the rolls of fame: „. ThelPeritlanisrwittmetiestisessraw .,,, . Tbp savage wildness of some ariele Aare ;. - Ne'el watch Callow in her oeaselese roll, • And trees bar courses round the starlit Polo ; No more behold Bootee' nightly tuitt— Nor bright A return* in elfulfteric'e burn-c Or see fair Orlon gleain tittd' boat' hies— Or watch the Pletade as they twinkling rise. "rh — ekrgii , o tb leletin . ' How oft has ha, wheel we Inuit now deplorti Felt all thole horturs oft repeatid Ott beard the tempest's home - and liffel While rotted him monsters tithed theirittinger-growl Or losberp arnablug with the thunder* roar, Wak'd the wild cohere of the rook-honedibers Such were the sound', as with his faithful train, Tiro' stone and drift he sooor'd the wintry plain Or, pillow'd ate° on Its snowy hreatit, Sought the short damitert et arest, AigOstioutinswilgkiii AMA's: And o'er the *raper shribd-ibeir p 414 Om,' • - For Wei, when waking, still that dreary scene— The skies relentless and the hiatus so koes— Yet Hope. undying. still will Fate defy, ALIA in the fare of rigid Nature ! lie cy'd the ear that lights the gigolo Pole— A od exoludod, from the wish'd for goal ! ilia comrades full; they found ao earthly bed— The Cairn was rais`d to guard the booty dead. To him bin lot denied an its-built tomb— /Ile drys wens endsel 'when, the citrons ideoa; 'Mid ftegranee wasted where/ the pilot WWI wave, ilia muse wm nasobeed with the 'thieving bravo. But yet, sustidake, famo bids se haat! And, points agahste thindassetadladr., %cher: gatner'd winds, wttirmellnwhely tone, Like u,,0h1e,1 pirl4, bresihit a plaintive own; Ito' now a ender spirit whhipais peace ! At f,,,r thu womearbbhrtholer seeentS twang ; W ...Len bound by her atonal item, 1,1.30 4 r.tpt ir coldness and ',eyrie" gloom. - tir xorr•ot Luau *um • lally ilvedlo A lady rosy Lytist now, And yat In apinaotall hey %elk, Wei am eg I*** NIIIV sir TREIMOi-;- *". • A Mates witr es ph' A wild yea! lout trlatnan. A tearing, soressin . g, t i liamptor, tramping, Itunping, matins, Iriahatear - MU (ace was i k e no means 'beautiful, ter with detail-poz was marred 1110101111, And the eboaldets of the est, dog ' Ware sloes% donblies Ara .. 0 the limpet enkillusen- 1 The widakeytdevonting Irishmen. 1 .---+Ciiignot he nisei with his woodetfil Wasti— ng fighting, rioting Itiinitat. One of hts up? waslottkorgreers • And the other woe oat my dear.= And the entree of hie Wicked looking leg, Were more than two Net Sport my detr; 4 0 the/post big Mamma— - The Waling, Wiling Irilhalitn, The etanaping, tamping, ewaggoriteg, daggerlag, Bisalinintrwash of an Irishman. U. took so mush of land, pork That he need te•eeert and enagereh, AM in shape and else the fellow's neck Was u hard as the neck or a4suattio. 0, the horrible Irishman, The thundering, blundering Irishman The imnshing, duhhig, eladdeg, era;ddag, Thraahing, hosting Irishman, His na ve {* was a terrible mime Weed, Being Timothy Tiaddy bluUigasy And wherniver he emptied his bowl Opals*, Ue'd not rut till he'd dined It up again. ' 0, the boozing, hßilaini 1 tishmah, The tesieeted Irishman. The AnAhr frisky, rummy, grummy, - No dam* Irishman This wee the lad the lady loved, Like all the 10.1. of quality-1, „, . _ And he Yreka thesi Le ttalleat the lima of - it h, Jamb by the way of jollity. 0, the blathering Irialitri4 Barbarous, savage Irishman. 1:7 TOR T OP TRW COUNTY' BUPRRIN- Th: V 1).4 NT FOR-MULLEAR lIVY DING .JUNE 2. 1854. _ In some respects tha catnip -of edtleation I.as been steadily advaneing in thl - ciiulit:, during the past year. An agency has been put in motion, under the operation of which notwithstanding much friction of machinery. and considerable opposition, the schools have been improving, end ell parts of the system invigorated. All the good result-- expected and diriired from the system eat Superintendeney, have not been attained as yet: but enough has been exhibited to show, 6.11 v ;pitya tendency of the system ; and its favorable working and future success, if boot say persevered in, and faithfully ap ,h I lied. To ow)* who know in how many ilifs'itii _MI de iicieir have "icon attettlpted to I‘ , • t hvi Al l , , not only by those who are °p p°, .1 i t;, t le hole system of common .41)1144 , , tut by those professedly its friends friiiii slut, er motives and designs, will be sie.,ii .1 with the many, good results which are apparent, without grumbling, because all 1 tr • iefortnsthat are necessary and deseis raid. bare nut been , f elected. __ . 'fiti s•lA..mis in 1 -the right!track for int_ provemeut cud success, subject only to the detention occasioned by the Unavoidable friction of the machinery . , and occasional in stances of uhfititlifulfiess in *load who have thalocal management of the system. B N With regard to furnishing the schools with contempt teachers, f r instance, much improsement upon Fontes tine has been MI THE IRISHMAN:- 4.--...-. SY AS 'papilla, BELLEFONTE, made ; yet tlit• soarelty of feaeliers, and .akorintkis .oL the. I;k4eeme , ivhich gebd • taachera are prepared, 1. Malty ittakupetant And defectiie teadlie the sohools,because better cannot be obtain bd to Timmy their places, and the schools cannot be closed. But there is nothing more certain, and no Nl:element inure reliable than this, that teachers are gradually multiplying dad improving,--the good are becoming, bet ter, the middling good, and the intolhiable. ircitber.d3ning the'biAil es The means of improvement, are multiply ing daily. Books on the subject of Nina tion, and the art and science of teachinotre being, - published., continually, and they are' • • • eifteeemitiiveratiratesollwaieves44ore thigight is spent in meditating iijion, roil tra 'rising the bcetmaldca of communicating in ationct ion,and the beat government of schools. Normal schools, teachers' institutes and academics, are also sending - forth an proved class of teachers every year. Yet .Theriiiippty 1 4110 &As - lid, and ffilitriKErtillill'lZ a% It ie tat:enraging that a' otradual improve ment is going on among awn, teachers who bay* taught, and are now teaching, and numbers Ire adding to them each year from city scationfes and schools. ' WIII Mill = During the year I. have exemined 189 tisstchera. One hundred-4nd twenty six ***- oared tempullary inljtho„vitsiouil forffigipima atlyrl3 iiirttuiiitent or 44,44.. w cause twin other counties. whose 6rtitleateta endonied, and these, with the teachers clam fined by me, matte n full supply for Our one hundred and Arty -one-schools. The districts of Walker, Snowahoe,Miles burg and Bellefonte borenba, hare fob re ported one additional schonr beiood the number last year. The kllowin(dlstricts have ruported is the number of schools yet required within thairlitaits:—Yergusou. two: Ortiz, two: Marion 'hoe t Snowshoe, one ; ; Taylor, two ; tt orth. one: sod Union one. All the schools hare been open It reLst four *maths during the year, except those of Taylor - and Worth townships ; the for niernf which was open °milt' about two months and a half; the latter three months and three quarters; almost the required time. Spirelot diffsrunies.—The severity of the winter frequent and deep snows and hitense cold, greatly interfered with. the prosperity albs iiihWarnifigtig - , a .pilitwint in which they are Witlini kept open - . The smaller obildr.n.oosld not possibly attend and in some instances the directors found it neees sary-ro snspend,dpi4ons for a tinie alto gether. - Many schoo‘houses were `inacces sible on amount of 'drifts, for weeks' at a time. For this raison I , hope great iptiul genes wilt be given, by the Department, is the case Of-those gistricts mentioned, which have not boon Stile to keep their school open the proscrilitatim time. And for other reasons besides ; theyare .poor and thinly populated mountainous dia -1 tricts ' paying a Tench higher nlB.Ol school tan than rich and populous districts in our most prOductive valleys. How manifestly tiequil the "see, when *orth pays schoortita of twelve, mills on the dollar, and Taylor of ulna, and Potter-of three milla,for both school and heading purposes ; Peimof one and a hall Mitts, Haines of two and a quarter mills, And Hregg the same :.and yet them favored townships glociplain grievously 'of their burdens. In this dottnoction may I not be perniittiul to Suggest the inquiry, Whether their cannot' be 80030 modification of the school law, by which the burthens of the poorer dittricti may be lightened without j dmiinishing their school advantagui 7 The poorer the district, lot the State appraprie.- tiou be the larger. But even if their bo no,nvailtible,remedy, tbs school system i 5 s gone,* bleeping to the StstO, as well os to individual.; Land lot tdo begrervitlie - xvicine - y titaiti d for education. The man of property, who has not a scholar to send-to school, reaps so msny advantages, that it is' a question wheCher his poor neighbors, whose Children he helps to educate, or ho. have most reahon tk rejoiLe hi the school system. In regard to the statis.ics of Ile several school tind 'school houses, 1 am unable' to g, ive es precise and extensive information as may be desirable, on account of the failure on the part of teachers to report to me sc• cording to the schedule furnished by a t e Department. I had a sufficient number of copies of the schedule printed and pdt into . the possession of each teacher, whh verbal instructions how to report : but out•hf the whole number of teachers, have received written reports tom only seven. 'Depending upon thesefoi: minute particulars, I ; myself wok only general notes. Besides, owing to the incleruncy of the winter, tliette were selww4c-whieh-I una Lla and..to these houses and their state of. repair, the report mast depend on notes and obserra• tions of the former year. Sohool Houses.—All the school houses in the country may be arriinge‘i under three classes : 1. Those which are aullidiently well adapted to the designed purpose. 'Chop which are susceptible of alteration and improSement, pc, a l to adapt thetp toihe purposiod. Ali - V3 7- TfrorWiihTeli - eircT unfit for school purposes, and whicit are tgt capable and unworthy of any attempts at .improvement, and which can only be iin• proved by taring them down• and erecting new ones in their stead. TheS , are 150 eoattend throughout the ceant.Y•, Of these twenty-two come tinder MI tomes necessary to mention those that have. 'rho following is the list rich I have noted: mo t ion, Spring, Walker, Patton, Ferguson, Boggs, liaines,-Marris, Howard, Liberty, Miles, Rush, Snowshno,ad L'nion. The number of- school houses of the first clam ere constintiyincreising, as new henri es are., being built, and models ere taken from the book of &heel Arthitecttfro, lately published by the Department. Marion, Hoirard and Liberty have o rtach erected a school hOtalle within the last year, whleb ate mofialcor-thuar Idai—aud-oopccielar—thgaw. in Howard distriet.;• And there will be little; 'need of oompulsion in this matter in the majority of the districts, jur the spirit of ini provement and riralship ham been greatly an:Mewl. A considerable Lumber of new and itemred. school hauler will be built during theivieSeld fear. are none &repletely furnish 4fl so to all the apparatus desirable and neceliary for school purposes. Globes -end app.- ratite are universiliy - *audit. Thefeare, properly speaking. no highrichoels among the common 15chootil of isioneitr?. Par: lint - attempts at ersdintaalsCiolis he kmeti atear,- Jai 411410401111ria Mileobue Out-line maW Aim about be ing introduced into'all the solhaels of all the districts by the directors, . With respect to the hitetne arangement nf . setta and desks, the number and division of such school houses woolit be about the same as given under the stem head. Almost the whole bedyetschool hokum throughout the county, areicoutute of ex ternal acoommodatiens ; suOttle wood house and , priiy. At lestit there trim few which have these accommodations Ai country dis tricts; that the number it Isee worth thes tioning ; and even a majorithlL e own school houses are destitute of the p • essary me oomnxxiatiois. Thodeempivot the one,and the ecouomy.of the Whar f we, think, should command instant attentioe elf Swim matters of accommodation. ' • ' , ls - Al] the schoolk arc of as id character. with three partial exceptibrie v n fiellefotite there were two of the orlusivply composed of &mule scholar* , other two deilgnelt euelusively for j ahough five the Mora edflaadiftl 'DMA (key 'lo9i &intik] motives. eln'the borough of Diilcs burg two 'school rooms under the same roof were thrust's into one, and lipth make-and females were taught together by a male and female teacher. Tkele was a third school, composed altogether Of children, male and female, taught in the pima building, though. in different apirtniente. These schools-were not graded, as children In all stages of pro gress were admitted but the were not mixed. Teachers.—As to ths,teachers of the coun ty, I am unable to classify,thein ecoording to their ages, or to give the places d their birth,.lbr- the ivesen- already nested.-- 'l%e requisite - laftwmation on these points was expected to be obtained from the reports of the teacher* themselves t and thereihre, no notes wore taken in reference to them,except in it very few instance& - --- With regard to the general satisfaction given as to the " misnomer teaching," and ( "general ability to teach And govern," the teachers may be arranged under de else. a" , !ins Gocd , lethidlihg. and,theoa who at present . sboctld be considered wholly unfit for the business. .The number of each class is as follows:- Good, or niaisfictory, forty two; medium - teachels, flit -three.; the un fit and those whose services may be dispen sed with, twenty-isevon. ted l / 4 tho number of good teaohirs i s increas ing, as the demand for such itilbecoming meth o wnitunalti_cieteiytt..And I have found Ortnighout the cogs ty.that there hay been a willingness on the part . of directors and the people to advance teachers' wages as alit qualifications advihoo, with tho ex eel:44-er two or three districts, and these cannot hold out much longer. , While greater inducement .ois hot di out to good teachers, than comedy, to continuo% the profession, because of the Increased cow• pensit yet amnion% ore abandoning the profession each year for sore steady and lu crative employments. The proper remedy for this state of things is Set etilY the evil of , adiquate compensation for, the time taught—the time in which theteacher is em ployed —but extending the time of employ ment. What if the teacher does got an ad equate and living salary fop' four months of the year, irhe is compelled to resort to one other employment for the reamiteug eight months. No wondet that every year, num bers of good teachers are abandoning the profeseied--to-the- great 4terimovit.-oi-the schools so that while there is au annual increase of the number oT good , telatirs, the increase is in great measure coon. SE balanood by' the 'illniftteer letrd int' U 1 0.r.0-: =I Misollaneous e —Under this head I will &Omit . -some entractp from tho teaellers! r e. porta received— only 4eien out of the whole whither have reported ; or this number only_ aye come into my . pospession. 1 iarCiila of them, fortunately, aro from!, as rushy dillar out diatiltifa; and may bo . considered a fair specmen &the wholo,,aa far as the sub jects otribraesed in,them are concerned. To these mamas I will add some remarks of oqt own.* 1 ' - t net teacher reports under the- bead of though they visited mo frequently, did not visit me as regularly as they might have done.' However, in this respect, great praise is duo the parents. Their visits were fre quent, and not confined to one sex alone.— The matrons would conic, oftentimes bring ing with them some employment—suet as knitting, Bees-being busily enegod, and yet pay attention to the exercises, for three hours at a,timP!. ,„; This report is from Spring district, a very esemplaOltivtrict; both as it rpgards its di rectors 'aud,peoplot and thetsrc)terls smoug the beat An th. *bo know how make tlio ,Mi'ciBes • opo toMi n . and.nho gave himself wholly to the &ides of his school. • One (Other extract bona the same report. ..The prevailing sentiment in regard to edu cation is very good. AIL see the necessity sod .re-deilmn latco-atie4nite—a-numbewo* ere opposed to the common school system The mum plainly is, the almighty ttup - settobt - , - ttrett hitt - - I append to the aboVe an extract flroin &Tahoe teacher of. the same district. Ile says—" The number of elide:ha 'diming the winter was twelve. I hire frequent .tottt no ex t lsibitioos. Directors' lOW ,Tbe major ity of the visits paid to the school were by parents. The prevalent public sentiment in the neigborlfoed with regard to education *4 the school system is rather favorable then otherwise." The following extract is from k teaallei of Mlles diatrict, which embrace most part of 1301 of the richest vallcyl in our coon% and also the most beattiful. fie writos—qcan not give in saturate account of visitors, but there were a good many ; but directors only visited am twice. In regard, td educition tad the Schnol system, they • are . unfavora ble. • They have no education themselves, and think that their children can do as well u-ithout it as they did." It may he proper and important to say with reference to the above extract, that the prevailing sentiment-is regard to the system of common ochooli may be very mifivent ,We in the immediate neighborhood of a par ticular school, and a very different sentiment prevail in other parts of the district. This I knew to be the case in some parts el _the - - iteekekily:Leem 'Which we offer the ft iirmiets : A teacher of Marion district reports :- 4Frequant calls by strangers during the term . but visits by parents were "few and flu. be tween.," Mr."..fohn Harter, director of sub. district, - iblieharged his duty cfeditably by . paying niongdy visits at the sthool mar; prodticimatultesi_faromble influence theie.' Again—" The gederat public sentiment in regard to the late act authorising tho office of County Superintendency is unfavorable. flaring so disposition to enumeiste all ; the following objection is 'frequently heard from Wiens:. "Formerly teachers could be hired foe cssissi of sotentecil or twenty dollar% but ;ince grantmar, geography are introduced theitame teachers cannot be employed, and others have•to take their place who bonnet be obtained An less than thirty dottlis per; month." . . The fo•lowing extracts are irom•the report of a teacher of Harris district :—"Visitors— about twelve during the flat three months. Directors' visits--whole board one and the director to charge of the school three* titres. Visits by parents and guardlahs very irreg ular, and not exceeding six in number.— Public sentiment Coronado to the County Superintendency ; to the common school aye: tem, and to education in general." - The iellowink extractsare from a tomhdr • of Union district :—"'Directors' visits—The directors have 410 regular time for visiting the schools, but tall M. when they happen :Piling that we Titre tont, who live some distance from the School house, have . not visited-the school once.— The ether directors have visited it five times, two of them twice each, and the other once. No visits from parents or guardians. The people are strongly in favor of education,, and I believe generally iu favor of the pros• cut school system. - • The statements which follow arc taken from the report of at excellent feMaje teacher of Liberty district :—"L du not often pUblic examinationi, - but invittparents to attend on the last day of school, and ex awing the pupils in their pr,;sence." "Qi rectors' visits have boon neither as regular, nor as &I:quenelle was desirable. Parents seldom visited tberselliiiiil. Number of visi tor* during the'terni, twenty five." ''Pub lic sentiment in regard to the school system ti unfavorable, on account. it is said, Of . tin blgh taies." — lfivnithezn3llpeetutentir pretty Matte inference may be drawn in . regard to all the others. And in review of thei whole coun- ~ I would state as a fact, that directors generally have perfbrrned the duty dt• eleit iog the schools, with moss fidelity and fre quency than in any former year. When teich i er reports that her school has been vit. itedfivetoriar during four months, onti or mort directorii L it indicates a tery common 4LN fidelily on iktel port cirdiric - TortiTicnifir it i 3 by any means Oilers] throughout the districts, is cerntinly an improvement' on former years. In ilniost every district, the duty of visiting the schools is devolved OR one or Oro members of the board, who may happeirto.hare most leisure, or Moat_geal iu behalf of education. The euggestion lately Ilio. • ..' '' '' . ; 1857.- ite a number of made by the Departnient to the ieveral officer competent under the school law to re. ccivo any salary) in the visitation cram) schools of the district, and allowing hint a obitable, compensation therefor, is a good suggestion, of which the several boards would do well to avail thetnFaives, rather than the regular v = isitation of , the schools should be vriHly neglected: As to the geography of the punt' yin gdn seal, it consists wholly of alternate moan taino, or ridges and volleys. The valleys, are as to soil, rich and productive—as much seas Whops any county to tlia.Stati• thq d wither oxim• TIWW amount of their lumber and satanic:A. Iron ore abonode, and MOEN plains aoeL ' Perth of the dArictiof Liberty, Alward, Boggs, tinaton, Worth, Taylor, and the glade of Ruab and Snowshoe, 4.. Akiedy Ipmbsriek regions. The balance of the - (Satiates • m wan are nc agricultural 'districts The population of Huston, Worth, Tar lor, Ruth and *towhee is sparse when com pared with the other districts. and conse quently much Scattered: and these 'Nitride ire - much poorer. 'fitercibre-wtstirtiley come to levy taxes for school pmposei they anon bry Ibewittt a much higher rite than the rich and popuktusi districts. But it is a notorious,fact, that there is leas complaint in these iistrielts against the- coustnowsehool system, thati in the richel diatricts. The districts which lay is tax 'of o; is ht and twelve mills, and Mom which have occasion to lay a tax of only one And a half and two and a half mills, are wonderful contrasts to t neh other fifth's particular. • Text-beeks and Attendance.—l may not conclude this report without briefly direst- ' lug the attention of the Department, end all , to the fact that in a majority of the w 'ate uniformity of hooka in the aelsbols of tech district is alniostallo'• gather overlooked in practice. The impor tance of Chid uniformity to both teachers and sehoiars need not now be urged. The substantial reasons for enforcing the 'rule are so obvious that they cannot but be rec. oipaised: From year to yetr it his been tie- Alec:m.l by directors, on views of economy, but it has proved I moat mistaken piece -of political economy. If tho law on this soh. • & kr • - _ally Told have been all over now, and Melba end a rut, amount saved to the parents of the pupils ; for the pogrom of the system requires that tho• law of uniformity shall be complied with sometime. Another common complaint among teach ers is the irregularity of attendance on the' part of afholion. • There is always a' - great. *digerenwbetween the,nuthher on tigi /id the nultiher in act attctulance--upon the school. In looking' over the rcpints of the several districts, it will ho seen the aver age attendance, when an arc;iage has been made, is in most instances only a little more than half the number of the scholars. CouneytertitMe...,Bering the past-winter the county era' inetittitli held a meer ing ofthra dais in Bellefonte. The citi. sens very generously extended their hcapi bailie, to the teachers and othersatten dame.. We had the presence most of the Limo_ ttl_ the .SuPerintetldeiit _Of—Allegbeny county, to wheat aid the institute wan much indebted,and also of Prof. Sweet, well known and of great experience in educational mat ter., whose very interesting lectures, and other services, were highly appreciated. We have had no formal Normal school during t 1 y6i, tut instead of it, arrange ments were made with the principals of Aa ronsburg and Pine Grove 'academies—cape °jelly witllT4gf. Burrell of the former—to pen Norinl4_lpart w laid] th4Tinre done, and a gelidly numser of teachers ai c in attendance. 30. Oran 17,600 persons rioted the patent office, at Waxidngton, from the 4cb to the eroding of the (lih Mat. ]4l remain,: pf r. Kane arnved at Lou. !grille, on Fridly, Othint•, and ac re ro• etiycd by An..imporsing proerksion of ma sons, firemen and. eitirons. A irinow lady, naneed Walters, ti siding in Birmingham, Pa.. committed bnioide by hanging hcmelf a lltott time nine°. Tuenta will Lo a gitXt 'agricultural dill: bit ion at WaterGehl, Ireland, in August next, the managere of whieli huh° contributions from the United States, through the Hon. Geo. Id. Dallas. Tux journey - twin ship ,carprotart at Cl+ cago, are on a strike for higher wager.— They demand p2,5p per day, and the ern . plOyeraare ,tra,ling-to-sir4i7,but ANOTHEA SBAUCH 1 , 0:8&LVJNO. The British Whig bpi's that prepluitions 11141 being made in Canada for an expediti.. to go in search of Sir John Franklin. For this purpoeti Di‘ Red is building, in the Kingston dockyirti, ari Arctio schooner. to lio ietkApin May next, to go to Quebec, and thence to the Arctic regions: &W. y iviim - Smlther School, addressed his mother as follows • "Mamma!" "well my dear.'' "Minima, the teacher says.pecade are all made of duet.' "Yes my dear, so the Milo soya.' "Well 'matturi ti ' are whip) Ncople made of duet V" "Yea: l s Well, then; t sXkoso doCored pctpls ore node of COW dot, or:ot't tliey it" City of Penn ' /Table of the 11/diiireas 41sied Itacsiets t6a licloor'd dust of thy bravitin, Now bona to tLeo f,r 1,0.1eg sera/tare, The wilily EA r. f.tr-inartad 1e2.1,r Of a gallant ham The graitt v - olorer • Who, in the ardor or gen'row , lll,6;l,, timid Iful oaf h rr,solt; hay parli'd, life: Nay, 'atria-rd f.rr uthrgg,g4 Roper hi., mew',. —hi, te4.,1 hencrotando--, Too active ter, for train.. 4, Call on pint ;ono to emulatN hit Aid on four daughters-, tot i ! /. aalata lama Chair s • To laabla ‘1 II uti 1,4,13 upon 1.4 . grave. All 1111011 S honi,ed ttlean Oleg Whit urt'mal,' end. will rt 0 12141111:0111C , Will mournfor him—tto ydudj nit 011144 Ci.iii. WI so '441 d vast dangers had privations dlr., Fore'd his brigt I way, to toisita oe'er reaelea hawse, 11; other voyager. Pokto upon whieh Be prond:y faseod the:ttrites ahJ a aroma" el—tee'd For this his country . . Amuag the people of thom , dim. hot 0,-- Is name aloloi et *leen. At hfir rti - MU , A _tear e ill eaten 'there le ninny an eye—, - silent tribute to libs }limners The subject of education Is one we bask long hail ,it_ in our 'nimbi to—iity a word • aboot. Lying au it, ilorn V. the ihundittioti of all tiOrin I happiness, and national selfetr and distine:loti, k is one worthy to engage, • the !mention of crory man and WM/4k to the eofinntinity rt in essentially a flame Subject, anti to our thinking Wirth of the ecniifoe't of home is interftrini with .hy the clumsy and bungling • niannerin whiob Vs* general pnleen.: of (audition is 1/0W on nmt;fignt us. 'We are not about to pro.: poise a synteui. We lent e that to older and wiser head., 7. to men. RIO there ire many thousands of inont entithable ones tlttouslu• out the lenifth and bnnith of the leekedbeee ' lives hate Shen devoted 54 the purpose of Illuratien, and risotto exturience has placed them kt a potation to lose improvement sod . , alteration iiinm an experimental kuourledga. of the wants of the community. 'We pro' lost; men ly to say what we have bags and know of our owiikoontAge ;. to state whal hare Ileen our on n troubles slid experiegoeft • in the premises. The idea ore school, we believe, is the saute in all civilized lauds; and that we do it no in : or:lice in definincit a 5 n Alive n lid • jitklikait.4A ' Wu 941, er ato say that in nine eases ono or ten in tho United Statea, especially in sehooli of the luotter, or it would' perhaps be in ire just to say, the mire pretonunns clasi, moth Ing is taught. We do not MOM say that the scholar; froriel.En4 Abase schoohi do not laarn anything, but we 414 Mean 'o -ay. that what they learn they are not taught in-thc said school or schools.— Examine for a moment the system tinker , telly persded, end judge whether the allege. • hoe iglest.,,sweerang id its nature. Bch* hours are usually from Moe A. M. to aims P. M. Six hours, the six beat and meat wholesome hours of the day. During these 16x hours what do the boys of any of our city schools do =study l Not a bit a . You n could perhaps imagine that being in school, the plsee of study, the place where learning is to be acquired, they would study. You aro laboring under a most serious sin. fake. Boys 'Jo not study in schools it= our system. What do they do then Y recite. Of course that is A Material pith of school exercise. A very piontable Thep troche six hours a day. What extra.' ordinary little f,lloss! Philanthropleint* It up their hands in holy horror: Moo hare hout«l rapitalists,inanufacturora,mtall: to met:Jinn/ca. and so : forth, attempt to set morn than ten lion's work a 47110 of their op rehires, they go pear to se'llifirleteaa down as fiends in 11111(1111 shape, Irma *barb greed, the selesh lust of pain his doprivtai of all natural inajnot and feeling, desmik WM. .1. I ;1 MON =M==M:= A very conatueodible thing 11 lien bile goes mid these kind of„ acalatimt oter tllit ill whicit pi- Iliet the lilairotts p00r... 'Bat it never seetirt to occur to iihillmtkirtiv py that chit - limn are proper 0Lj0r.44 .4 its sympathy or exertions. They--are- welrirr -- easily iiiipo.vtll on, enxily overlasked, Tl#:f. i t Muscles are nialeveloned. their illifilielayl ' mental emik,lo,ryutil) in}; nice ear° and.;n '- moil to en/Wyatt- br o .-ether, ao that the ewe, - may nut outrun the olio, or HIS belle Jaw.. tasked beyond the power of the body teinti?.. fain it. We know all this. We smile 1 t Dickens' picture of the Rev. Doctor Ilassof bees forcing-house ?or youth ; smile •idal l o :! of triumphant pity, and in a slight IthittiW cal spirit,thatili Cod We did not send oureltil: dren to such schools, nor tylattise over tinge weakness, nor overload their minds, MA* the spring time of their child Weijai them thiwKand.pil.c.hot-manti _ I AftervinTneed - trtstmughtitsrittirtnolol3 - 7 'up, and never grow tie all. Ot couple me . are sensibfe people, and do nothlnlrliat iali:. But then the fact stares usin thti that these same . boys who are uot,nse4 a:ci - all in this Way, are after all confined . iii school six hours. out of the twenty•fm!fr.. ! ..: , , .1 hat during those six bowl they donlii 'study, that is they do not go throligh thee °flit.. ... oration properly colic& tondy, aoranikowil - Ifitill.couto6 rat mory,lte7l , -. ';,... recite , .ft follows neemsutily 1.1 t , rocito the.w.naust ,know So)aw •?.1 0- v :I ,7: w4lst they' limn', they newt Ai;,,,,.', WI Where irei they to toy Irllr 'OW helms al hOloa; to be sitre:st4leitikk_ school in the relishes Moly : to tistke'ololoW or Awe then., nrul Ejvc their EMI EMI MI ElZi El - T __..._~►-~.-.._ \+l O/ 14 F•vx: ski Daily Pti;7llS Mi Fran Me Democratic RD INA TIO_Yr , OM OD is