BEDFORD INQUIRER.. " "BEDFORD, Pa. Friday Morning 1 . MAT 6, 1859 "FEARLESS AND FREE." D- OVER—Editor and Proprietor. STATE t O\TE\TIOV The citizens of Philadelphia and of the sev eral couuties of this Commonwealth attached to the People's party, and all others who are opposed to the unwise and extravagant meas ures of the National Administration, are re quested to send delegates, equal in number to its representation in the General Assembly, to a Convention to be held at IIARRISBURQ ON WEDNESDAY THE Bth OF JUNE, 1859, to nom inate candidates for Auditor General and Sur veyor General to be voted for at the General Ejection in next October. HENRY M. FULLER, WM. B. MANN, Sec'y. Chairman. PEOPLE S MEETING. Pursuant to notioe, a very respectable meet ing was held in the Court House on Tuesday evening last, for the purpose of appointing del egates to the Bth of June Convention. Owing to the few persons in town, the meeting was Dot so large in numbers as it otheiwise would have been, yet quite a respectable number were in attendance, and the meeting was about the size of the administration ODa of the evening be fore- ADAM KETRIXG of South Wood berry, was appointed President. B. It. Ashcom of Snake Spring, Win. Grif fith of Uoion, Wm. Lysinger, of East Provi dence, M. M. Peebles of '.Vest Providence, and Capt. George Smith of Bedford Township were Appointed Vice Presidents, and John E. Oolvin of Sehellsburg, and Wm. Keeffe of Bedford tp. Secretaries. S. L. Russell, J. M. Barudollar, Geo. S. Mullio,Robert Ralston, an i Philip Evans, were appointed a Committee on Resolutions The meeting was thee addressed by Messrs. King, Filler, Jordan and Russell, who all ac quitted themselves admirably, and were fre quently interrupted by lodd bursts of applause. The Resolutions were read by S. L. Russell, Esq. It will be seen that the delegates are instructed to support Hon. Francis Jordan for Auditor General. The course of our represen tatives, Williams and Walker, is very properly opproved : Resolved , That in tho political history of this nation no administration has ever proved itself so utterly unworthy of confidence and respect BR the present; that its disregard of the wants and sufferings of the people; its failure at the recent session of Congress to modify the Tariff so as to protect our prostrate home iudustry, and to raise revenue necessary to defray the ex penses of the government; its refusal to donate the public lands in small quantities to actual settlers, whilst squandering them in large grants to insolvent corporations and corrupt political favorite?: its persistent efforts to insult and de grade weaKer nations, and under false preten ecs to wrench from them their territories for the palpable object of extending the area of human bondage: its corrupt interference in lo cal elections; its unprecedented extravagance in wasting the public money, and pluugiDg the country over sixty miliious in debt iu the short atpace of two years, and in time of profound (>cace, its disgraceful acts of partisan profligacy and corruption in all its departments, have brought upon it the righteous indignation of a deeply injured people. ResolveJ, That the recent kiudred schemes to clothe ilie executive with an armed protec torate over '.be territories of a sistar republic with whom we are ut peace; aud to place in his hands the thirty million Cuba corruption fund: thus attempting to wrest from the legislature the power of making war and treaties : exhibit in the clearest light the monarchical tendencies of tho present administration; their utter diaro spcct for their constitutional obligations and tempt for the law of nations." Rasolved, that notwithstanding the present gloomy condition of our national affairs, we had in the recent election?, throughout the land the dawn of a bright political future. They proclaim in most emphatic language that the accumulated crimes of the shaui democracy are Leiug attributed to their true sources, and that tho appropriate punishment is being meted out, in no stinted measure, ihey point with unerring certainty to a glorious and beneficent triumph of Freedom in 18G0. The six New England .States in sweeping every tool of the Slave power out of both branches of Congress have fastened upon the delinquents a brand of rep robation that no party can wear and live. Resolved , that the present State administra tion has accomplished more good and less harm than any of its predecessors of the same po litical faith, because less Democratic , —and yet the democratic Senate, true to the instincts of its party, persistently refused to reduce our State taxes by enacting the bill passed unanimously by the House for that purpose, aud which was demonstrated to bo entirely cousisteut with the continued credit of the State. Resolved, that we are highly gratified with the faithfulness, integrity and intelligence with which our representatives, Geo. W. Williams Walker, discharged their duties du ring the iost seesioo of the legislature, aDd that tbey are justly entitled to the approbation of their fellow citizens. We commend them to continued confidence and support of their con stituents. Resolved, that we hereby concur tn tho ap pointment of J. Be Well Stewart, Esq., of Hunt ingdon as the Senatorial delegate from this Dis trict to the Stat# Convention to be held at Har riaburg on the Btb of June next, to nominate .candidate.! for Auditor General and Surveyor 1. Resolved, that tho Hon. John R. Edie, of Somerset, and John H. Filler, Esq., of Bedford, are hereby appointed Representative delegates to the said State Convention, and they are hereby earnestly requested and instructed to nso all honorable means to secure the nomina tion of ourfellow citizen, Hon. FRANCIS JOR DAN, for Auditor Genera'. Resolved, that in presenting the noma of the Hon. FRANCIS JORDAN to tho consideration of the Convention at Harrisburg, for the respon sible positiou, we take pleasure in bearing testi mony to the ability, high character and integrity with which he lias discharged all his public and private duties. His nomination would afford intense gratification to tho friends of freedom in this entiro section of the State. PHILADELPHIA ELECTION'. The following dispatch from a friend in Philadelphia, speaks for itself. The People's Party have gained a glorious victory there at the receut uauuincipal election, as they have done in all the Free States and principal cities of the North. Onward ! onward ! is the cry of the gallant hosts of the People, aud they will not stop in their career until they have driven the corrupt rulers of the present cor rupt Locofoco party from powar, and put in their places honest men. PIIILA OELPHIA, M'J 4, 1859. To Inquirer : Tho municipal election held in this ci'y yesterday passed off quietly, the v ote polled being a very small one. The op position elected their city Treasurer and Com missioner by about twenty fivo hundred majori* ty, and a majority of both braohes of council. The Locofoco meeting of Monday night was about as uninteresting, dull and stupid, as the speakers on the cccasion. The only good tiling was the extract from Webster's great speech in reply to Hayne of South Carolina, quoted by one ot the speakers. In bis lifetime, howevor, tbeso lovers cf negro slavery would uot have quoted from this old "■Federal WAtg.'' SEW GOODS! We call attention to the advertisement of Messrs. A. B. Cramer & Co. They have one of the best assortments of goods ever brought to this place. Call aud examine them. ON FIRE. —The mountains about one mile and a half east and west jf Bedford. Much valuable timber is being destroyed. The burn 'ng mountains at night look grand and magnifi cent . Wc call the attention of our readers to the advertisement of Jr.o. B. Oastuer, Esq., Pro prietor of the llopewell House, Hopewell, Pa. j Court, this week, was a very slim affair.— j The Jury were dismissed on Wednesday. The following articles are from that spicy paper, the Globe , the organ of the Locofoco party in Huntingdon : Tltc Oflice-flolders .State Ticket. Wo ueglisctc.l to uotice in our last, that Wright aud Howe, tho nominees of Mr. Bu chanan's office holdets Convention, had ac cepted the Dominations. They did so but two days before the late (Jouvcution, and as the) stand fair and square upon a platform repudia ted by the independent Democracy of the State, they cannot expect to receive the support of that portion of the party that justify Buchanan and his chiefs in power iu proscribing. The day for reconciliation and compromise is past, at least for the present campaign. The Demo crats who could ut <hiuk and act with Mr. Buchanan, were willing to go half way at the first Convention—but how were their propo sitions received ? Crush, out, and whip in, was the command from Washington, and uow that we are out of the most corrupt organization that ever disgraced our party, we shall en deavor to serve faithfully those Democrats who believe honesty can and should exist iu a parry organization. Those who can endorse Mr. Buchanan's treachery to our party, and the best interests of Pennsylvania , will give his nominees, Wright and llowe, a warm support. Their names no longer occupy a place at our mast-head. They are Buchanan's uouiinees— and their success would be endorsement of his corrupt and tyrannical Administration. OyWe bare on file an intcre.-ting letter of Attorney General Black, written shortly after Mr. Buchanan took his scat as President.— This letter denounces Democrats who favored the sale of the sinking public works ns iu league with the "Kuow Nothings aud Aboli tionists," to rob the State—and gave them to understand that. Mr. Buchanan bad determined to come down aud proscribe sucb, for daring to think that the State would be better off if relieved of the management of the works.— Some Democrats may think it impossible for a President to stoop so tow— yet it is, neverthe less true, that James Buchanan did turo Demo crats out of office, and kept others out, beeause they favored a sale, and appointed men to office who had no other recommendation than that they were opposed to the sale of the ditch, upon which such honest men as old Jlrnotd Plumer made fortuues in a year or two. The letter will be published. TYLERIBiN<3. —John Tyicr, when President, deserted the platform of principles of the parly that elected hirn-—the party then deserted bitu. James Buchanan, like Tyicr, spits upon tLe platform that placed him in the Presidential chair, and has selected Bob Tyler, son of John Tyler, as Chairman of the Office-holders' State Committee, to do the Tylerising of the Democratic party in this State. Buchanan's first and most ardeut friends have nearly all desened him, and in their place, high in the confidence of the President, may be found men who have either been kicked or starved out of the opposition party. Josiah ltandall, but lately from the opposition ranks, now leads the Buchanan Democracy in Philadelphia—and Bob 'lyler, though he failed <o secure a secoud nomination for his father, is expected to persuade or drive the Democracy of this State into a secoud nomination of King James.— With such loaders, and Arnold Plumer, J. Porter Brawley & Co ,as chief assistants, a full and complete endorsement of Buchanan' political sins, by the Dcmooracy at the nexs i lection , is almost a certainty. BBBFOm® IWGUIRBR. From the Somerset Herald IIO!t FRAUK JORDAN. Speaking of tho coming "People's Nomi nating State Convention," in Hsrrisburg, on the Bth of June next, the (Jhanrbersburg Re pository says : "The question uaturally arises, who sb&il be our candidates for these important posi tions ?—who will be our staudard-bearers in the conflict ? Our cause is a noble one— The People vs Oppression or Freedom vs Slave ry —and our leaders should be worthy of the cause. The difficulty that will bo experienced will be to make the best selection from the many good and true men that have been named for those positions, either of whom would make a leader fitted for the position for which he has been designated. While we do not object to others, we will take the liberty of suggesting the name of Hon. F. Jordan, of Bedford, as a gentleman in every way worthy of the nomination as the People's candidate for the office of Auditor General. His career as a State Senator, his location in the State, his unswervering devotion to the principles of the People's cause, all point him out as the man for the occasion nud for the position. Give us Jordan for Auditior General; his name would be hailed with loud acclaim, which would reverbrate through the mountains and valjies of Western and Southern Pennsylvania, and inspire with still greater ardor the hosts of Freedom." Mr. Jordan is our personal as well as our political frieud, and wo have so often spoke our sentiments in regard to him through these ooluiurs, that we could add nothing thereto except fulsome eulogy, which wouid be as distasteful to him as it would bo repulsive to us. Should ha be nominated, which we siucerely trust he may, the voters of tbi* county will show at the polls their appreciation of one who so faithfully and ably represented them in the Senate, and whose modest merit and un tiring devotion to their interests as well as the iuterests of our cotumou party, won an effectual place in their esteem. Mr. Jordau's spotless integrity and undoubted fitness and ability for the position for which the Trunscript names him, will nowhere he questiood, and we hearti ly join that Journal in urging his nomination as one eminently fit to be made. From the Fulton Republican. AUDITOR GENERAL. The time is rapidly approaching when the People's Party of Pennsylvania will assemble for the purpose of nominating a State ticket, and already several uamca have been mentioned in connexion with one or other of the offices for which candidates will have to be chosen.— Among others who have thus been mentioned we uotice the name of Hon. FRANCIS JORDAN, of Bedford, imd we therefore, take occasion of saying a word with regard to that gentleman. We have as our readers kuow, r, n several former occasions, spoken favorably of Mr. JORDAN, in connexion with important official stations, and we now reiterate what wo have already sai l, and pronounce him the best man in the field for the office of Auditor General. As a candidate, if nominated, he will be in vincible, aud os an officer, if elected, be could have no superior in the State. We speak this not from motives of partizan favoriteism nor of particular personal friendship, but kecalise we know the man, and know him to be the pos sessor of a high moral character, distinguished amourr those who know him for bis unswerving integrity and uniform honorable conduct. Such a man we want in the comiDg election and sujh an one we have iu the person or Mr. Jordan. Let him head the ticket and the People's majority will be increased fully ten thousand. • From the Ltw'sburg [Union Co.) Chronicle. ANOTHER GOOD NAME.— Francis Jordan, EM]., of Bedford, is proposal for Auditor General. His experience, legal and otherwise, bis tried iutegrity, and bis keen appreciation of legislation and of men, it strikes us place him in tbe front rank of candidates for tbat office. If nominated, the Piiilad. gentleman would "find JORDAN a hard road to travel" against. His election would give emire satisfaction to all parties as far a3 he is known. A COMMERCIAL COLLEGE OF THREE HUN DRED AND FIFTT-SEVEN STUDENTS.—Promi ueot among toe reasons why the Iron College has four times as many students as any other Commercial School in tbe United State.", are the following: Lt is lire only College in Pitts burg that gives three daily lectures on Book- Keeping ; three daily recitations and an ex amination in Commercial Calculations ; the only one which requires weekly exercises in Composition and Commercial Correspondence of all its students ; tbo only one which employs teachers whose qualifications arc recognized bv literary men, or are experienced educators, and the only one that grants Diplomas to those only of its students who are competcut and skillful accouatauts.— Pittsburg True Press. iOLl) CONSOLATION. The Richmond South has no cotifidcnce in the proffered friendship of the "Nationals" who reside in the North, and for a most excel lent reason. That journal very pertiueutly says : "We have no confidence in any man north of Mason's & i ixon's line. They eaunot be our friends and be houest. The interests of the two sections are antagonistic. The north ern man who goes for our interests nooesfarily goes agaiust the interests of the North—his country; aDd we can have no confidence in a traitor, no matter how high his price." Thi Jg what we would call "cold consolation" for the Northern doughfaces who betray the in terests of their own section to conciliate the Southern Slavery Propagandists. They are bought, and used, and then kicked aside as worthless—rejected at home, and despised at the South as traitors not to he trusted ! The Slave Trade Re-opciied. The South Carolina jury has acquitted the persons implicated in the importation of the slaves in the Echo. At Savannah, 0. A. L. Lamar, the owner of the Wanderer , defies all the government officers, and has actually pro cured the arrest of the U. States Marshal and all who assisted him to bring the Wanderer in to port. This vessel was declared to be confiscated and sold; but her owner kuocked down the only man who dared hid against him wbeu sho was sold, and openly boasts of his violation of the act of Congress, and dares tbe Federal autbor it; sto try him. Practically, then, flu laws against the slave trade area dead letter- the South don It care a buttou for them.— Pitts. Jour. From Forney's Press. THE STATE'S RIGHTS DEMOC RA€Y. Since Mr. President BUCHANAN has quar reled with the gentlemen employed to conduct tko Washington Union , who preferred retiring from the paper rather than remain as the echoes of the New York Herald , he has adopted the luxury of securing a court jester, in the person of Brigadier General GEORGE W. BOWMAN, after the fashion of the feudal ages. Fearlul of offending the memory of Por.K and RtlCllt*, under whose auspices the Washington Union received its name, the President, while adopt ing a uew editor, has given his organ a new title, viz : the Constitution. And though he eacaot say, since ha has engaged a jester near his person, as was said some hundreds of years ago : ••But though his court a jester lack, To laugh the monarch to liis luce, All mankind, lehind his back, Supply the honest jester's pi ce." for, wbilo the world is laughing at the Pre sident, the President is determined to have a newspaper that shall be laughed at, too. The new Court Clown, General BOWMAN, is best judged in bis own neighborhood, where, du ring many years, he toiled for and secured the doubtful reputation of being a reckless partisan, and an abusive, illiterate editor. His normal condition is to make himself ridiculous, and we predict that unless ho is restrained, he will perform more antics than the celebrated JOHN JONES, of the Mndisonian , or (not to attack the sex) Madatue ANNK ROYAI. herself. The Constitution, the uew alias of the uew Ad ministration organ, gives a daily supply of characteristic nonsense. The object to which the court A I has been instructed to apply bimself is to bring into disrepute the character and the proceedings of the Democratic State Convention which met at Harrisbnrg on the 13th instant —an t sample which will be fol lowed, of course, by such pipers as continue to be paid for their praise of the F deral Ad ministration. It is natural that our m iters at Washington should grow indignant at the audacity of the movement of "The State-Rights Democracy;" but they should beware of rushing iuto falsehoods. Let us refer the harlequin of the Constitution to the names o( the State Central Ooutui ttee, announced in THE PRESS of to lay, composed, as it is not only of some of the best men iu the States but of influential and well-tried Democrats. We commend to the Constilulion the consideration of this list of independent men, taken from all parts of the State. Does this list look as if the movement of the "State-Rights Democracy" was cither a feeble or a faint-hearted one ' — Ret Brigadier BOWMAN look at the nun-rial that composed the Convention itself—at the crowds that participated iu the proceedings of that great body, and remained until the final hours of its session He will not find atuoug this uurnber mercenaries and officc-hol Jer-, and men who came there to sanction the decrees of despotic power, but he will find a representation of an honest public sentiment, such as never before assembled at our State capital. The writer of litis article has attended Democratic State Conventions for nearly twen ty-two years, aud he has never witnessed such a unanimity of sentiment and of action as that which marked the proceedings of the Harri-burg Convention on Wednesday last. There wis not a dissen'icnt in the whole body of delegates, coming forward voluntarily, as tbey did, from nearly every couuty. Nor was this harmony purchased by concession to expediency or to fear. The most practical measures were adopt ed and recommended. The court fool of the VYasuiugtou organ labors uuder the disease common to such fools when he imputes to his master, the King, uot only infallibility, but the control of the Democratic organization; and when, because he worships that kiug, he expects others to bow, or to be forever ostracised.— Of cour-o we deny these impertinent and pompous assumptions. Mr. BUCHANAN has Ceased to have any claims upon the party which he has betrayed. Any endorsement of his policy is death to those who attempt i f . His practices have ignored aud violated ail his professions, and ue has become as odious 10 the masses of the people as ever JotlN TYLER was iu by-gone days. Even his offices begin to fail to tempt the mercenary, and those who aecept them do so in secret, as men do who take bribes. To cut loose from such an iucubus is uot only the prompting of an honest impulse, but of self-preservation. We refuse to be crushed by its weight. The past is full of admonitions. Let the dipendants of power tako what oourse tbey choose, there is a compact and sinewy body of Democrats iu this State who will cuuteud against the proscriptions and treacheries of the Administration, without ceasing, to the end. If the court jester of the Washington Constitution is iu doubt, we com mend him to patience, foPhe will be convinced in a very short time. A MOUNTAIN OP HOOKS.—The State of Ohio annually appropriates about $82,000 to the purchase of school apparatus and books for her school libraries. This largo ainouut is raised by tax of onc-teoth of a mill on the dollar of tho entire property valuation of the Siato. Under this law the Hon. Anson Smith, State Commissioner of Schools, concluded a contract last September, with the Messrs. Ap pleton, of this city, to supply the State with her library books for 1859. Accordingly all the free space on the floor of the immense sale room at Appleton's is now occupied® great masses of these books, piled solidly like bricks ready for packing and shipmcut. In bulk they measure over 25 solid cords, and they weigh 78 tons. Piled on end, on a shelf, iu the usual manner, and us close together as possible, they would ixtcnd from the City Hall to Union Square, cr a distance of two miles.—.V. Y. Tribune, GETTING ALONG.—The Pro-Slavery party some four years since entered upon the business of making a slave state out of a territory covered by tho Missouri Compromise. The Albany Evening Journal thus justly and forcibly states the not result o far, of this experiment: "The effort to enslave Kansas has demor alized two administrations. It has driven three Kansas Governors into tho Republican party. It has given the seats of Jif'teen Demo cratic United States Senators to as many "Black Republicans ." It has spread the Republican banuer in triumph over nearly every Free state. And it will if like the Houtbons the Democracy ueither "learn" wisdom nor "forget" folly, give a Republican President in 1860. Sec advertisement of Sanford's Liver Jnvig orsfor. I Republican Tendencies of the Antl* ■iuclianar llemocials Our contemporary of the New York Courier and Enquirer goes into a lengthy review of the speeches ami resolutions of the late anti-Ad miuistratiou State Cwnvenßou held hero, and i thinks there is no room for doubt tint the mpture iu the party bus become absolute end irretiitvablc. Lie takes the grouud that no Republican assemblage anywhere, wiiLin the last year, has denounced the general conduct and policy of the Administration with moie directness and emphasis. Iu fact all the say ings and doings of the body were prevaded with a vehemence of iudignation, and a glow of disdainful defiance, quite peculiar. There was not only the g<-ncial opposition naturally pro eeeding from difference in principals, lut the sharp personal hostility engendered by the sense of persona 1 injury. The contumely visited upon their branch of the party by the Conven tion of the lGih of March was well remember ed, and good earn was taken that it should he repaid with double it.tensity. The Chairman pro iem, in his opening speech, characterized the Adiuinistiation SH "the vilest bnd most ipckless that God las ever inflicted upon a suffering people"—and this was the key note to all that followed. The icsolutions were of the boldest chart cter, and tl.e last ot iLe series went fjuher in its own specific direction ihun any which has been passed by any Republican Convention within our knowledge, tor it virtu ally arrays itself m advance against any de cision that may be made 1 y the Supreme Court ihe Republicans thus fur have been content with reprobating and refusing to recognize the extra judicial action of the Supreme Court, in connection! with the dicta irrelevant and un warrantable put forward in the Died Scott case. They have d' claired Unit they would not accept these outgivings as authoritative adjudications; but they have uevor ccuimittod thems-lvcs in advance, after the fashion of this resolution, to a disregard of what "the Supreme Court may hercatter deci-le."' Thev have avoided taking position ID reference to ccn'ingf ncies that may never happen, being pretty well pctitrated with the couvieti' u that sufficient uuto the day is the evil thereof. When the Supreme Court shall, on a cac directly involving that regularly pronounce judgment that a i'eriito rial B.'gi-laiure Las no constitutional right to enact any law forbiddiug or discouraging slave ry, which is a corollary to the doctrine that Congress itscif, which creates the Territory, has no such right, there will be quite time enough for the party to determine how to treat that decision. We adveifc to this simply t>s sn illustration <>r the zeal with wiiich the uuti- Adiuiutstratioii Democrats of Peuosylvauia are hastening forth to meet Southern encroach ments. They still consider themselves us a portion of the Democratic party, and profess perfect allegiance to the Cincinnati platform, yet their wh tie spint and temper -how infallibly that they o -nuoi and will not net with the great buik of the prty wi icb takes i's inspiration from iho propagandists of slavery. It is to be observed that they refrained, both in their re solutions and in their speeches, i'<ora ;.ll ccnstiie of the Republican party. They made no un friendly reflections, ami by their very silence showed that they kept ci ii-tautiy in mind the j possibility, if not probability, that they might tie called upon to march again siuj by s'de ■ with the Republicans against a common foe.— ! It is certain that whatever name they may wear and wiiatever bygone platform they nj.y 1 cling to, tlu-so ten? of thousands of Pennsyl vania Democrats are much nearer the Republi can party in spirit aui policy thio they are to their old confederates ; and it tiny be fairly presumed that a:l their future tendencies will ; be towards the o;ie and a .soy from the otbe.— Htrrhburg Telegraph. Exposi rio.ss.—Tire Washingtoncorrespond ent of rbe Philadelphia Press writes : Ex posuies wul be nude at the next session of Congress of a character to de nia l the im peachment of high i ffieers of the Govern.aent. It would seem that in uur.y departments there is not ouly .. deliberate disregard of the i uv. but, more shameful fact still, tent t'nero has been authorized violations of tha sanctity of private correspondence. To relieve our insti tutions from tiie infamy that the present Ad- j ministration h is put upon theui, and to save us < from tinr dire calamity, in which tiie finger of! scorn would point at us from every quarter of : ihe civilized world, it is a bounded duty of every man, whether a representative ot the people, journalist, or otherwise, to so make the iQgts appear that they wiil call down at once : crushing denunciations upon the heads of the guilty. Here is one : A gentleman, in oue of 1 the great cities of the great west, holds himself responsible, with another, on oath to prove that I not only were documents ordered not to be j distributed when sent by a certain Senator, but ! that letters were :iEo violated. An investiga- j ting committee wiil, I understand, be called j upon tnis matter as well as upon the mal practices of the Post Office Department, at an early diy of the session. So insecure lias the 1 transmission of private correspondence become, that one might well thiuk there was here, as i in ihe palmy days of Austrian despotism, a censor of the mails—oue who, with diabolical | ingenuity, got inside of letters aid allowed all to pass that were unexceptionable to its require ments and withheld all that ware calculated to ' defeat or embarrass the purposes of the "powers that are." Again hive sealing wax aud deep cut seals come into almost general use. Com plaints arise on all sides that letters are lost, j Then again, the strangest rumors iloat about : of votes purchased by money raised from per- i ceutages upon contracts. I ieuru that a Phil a delphian, who comes here occasionally, hesitates ■ not to tell that he was ordered to pay a per- i ceutage on what he received for printing the post office blauks, to a high officer of the departments. Ail these things, aud others, must ccmo out. The result, the consternation of good men, cuu only be imagined. A PisTiNGUisiltD CHAIRMAN. —Dob Ty ler, the s 1 n of that John Tyler whose nauie seems so naturally to flow witti that of Bene dict Ai nold bus been appoiuted Chairman of the Buehauau Committee of this State. There is a fitness in the Tylers aud Buchanans joining hands, for their respective administrations are about on a par. Bob Tyler is tut a few years from Virginia but he is well fitted for the busi ness of managing the slave democracy of Pennsylvania. A German naturalist has described six hun dred species of flies, which he has collected within a district of ten miles. Thirty thou sand different k o.'.s of insects which jrey upon wheat have been collected. OUR COMMOAR M IIOOI>—SO, :{I Htnroßo TOWNSHIP.— In tbw towmddp ,| 1& schools, eleven in number, wore conducted with a commendable zeal during the past winter.— : Never before, upon the whole, di<l they do as well. They were all .supplied with active teach ers—and uj o* tof the in were well nullified for j their respective ] laces. The directors spared I DO P a ' T:R 10 su{ ply good teachers and to carty j forward the wtnrle interest in an exemplary niau i tier. 'lhejr had regular meetings once a month at which'they looked to the interests of the schools and transacted such business us reenter] necet i saiy. In this,heir example i worthy of imi tation. Every board of school directors should ( have a meeting once a month, at least during j the school term. Every good citizen, worthy of teiug elected to tha responsible cfticetif school director, should be willing to spenJ five j or six days of bis time, each year whilo he holds I the office, for the public g.iud. At these meet ings they should reeit ve and examine the mooth iv reports of the teachers, and if right, h su <J j checks on the treasury for their pay, they should hear compl tints if any, give orders and do what- J ever other business may seem necessary. As j an evidence of the utility of the schools in this township duiir.g the past season, it is only ncc j essary to say that there tv:rc fifty-one children n ore in attendance lian iter before. The : late secte ary of the boarl, Mr. John Brown, >r , Kpoits as follows. l I fel a ple&- , sure in i i ii g able to inform ycu that there is a J decided improvement in the majority of iho schools of this distnc! over former year.-. The | upils appear to be progressing rapidly; the con duct and or'er has improved very much, and corporal rnni.-btiunt have been few when com i pared with other year®. Our teachers appear to be waking up io a sense cf their duty; but in a number ot the schools they labour under greai disadvantage from want ot uniformity in ; text books and convenience of furnituic." Most iof the school louses are tolerably good, but most of the furniture is very poor. It is Loped for iiie good of tiie children, that the newly or ganized board will eurry forward this great in terest with the same commendable zeal rhou by their predecessors. X.II'IKK i OWXSIIIP. — riiFs township hasdene coidy during the list term; the difference Lc tween it and ttie one pievious, is very great.— | 1 here seemed to be some energy and decision in ine board of director.®, -who both thought and acteti rightly in tho ui-charge of their re sponsible duties. Tiiey assessed such a tax as en bled theiu to offer reasonable wages for com petent teachers. They suecreded iu obtaining such as proved to tie good and active in the dis charge t-i their outies and tendered general ®ati.-laciion. with nuly-ire or two exception*. I vis.tcd ;!l the schools in th'a township except ing the Bockiick ami two others that hid no school <he day I Called. Croat improvciiirut was found, over the last }<>r:r, not only in teach ' ers ami the spirit of the schools, but also in benches, iosks and in the general comfort of the cbibiren; the I'treclots i. viug repaired the houses and placed new iurniture tn nearly cverv one. It the sclit ois in tL:s towsehip should . continue to improve tor a few years more as they tlni during tiie !J.? year, some of theui at least will be equal to our leading seminaries ;ui academies, tofwi hatau ling tbc opposition they mot with A few more energetic boards ■ like that of list winter will place Old Napier very soon in one of the foremost ranks, —lt would be pleasant if the ®.iiii ■ could he siid cf this borough that is said of the country around it. There are only two schools here, a primary and a' higher one; both were supplied wni competent teachers during thc pi>t winter, but excepting this, they were lurried un'Wird with die torce of their own mo mentum only, and wi h but little supervision of tie oitector®. if t!u directors do not look to iiteres's o; tiie people iu this place, iu regtr-J to the ®:!i . i i;..use, the peojdo should take the nntier iu hand themselves; for if the present work of destruction bo continued a lit tle further the will he subjected to the heavy expense of buii ring a new school house or two. "G'PEiUNTENDENT. i'UE PROJECTED CUBAN REVOLUTION. —.\*. Orleans,. Ipr il 11).—The accounts from N. York respecting ihe departure from that city of su expedition of native Cubans, for the purpose of raising revolt in the Island, aie fully credi tel in well informed quarters here. fine object w ;S orginijed iu this oily several month s -ince, iy a deputat eu of the Cubans in X. iork and the leaders in N. Orleans; hut the failure ot Slidoll'j 'thirty million bill' put a stop to the expedition for the time being, much to the disgust f tiie Cuban patriots here. The expedition, however, is now fully revived ; the pirty Iro.u N. York will land in an' out of the way plica <>n the is!and,aud their landing will be ;he sign d for a rising. Arms in abuudauco were seat to the island long since." FORNEY* os TUB CHARLESTON CONVENTION. flte Washington States reviews at length the schism in Pennsylvania, and concludes with certain interrogatories to tha State's rights Democracy of Pennsylvania. Col. Forney devotes some two mhmius to a reply. lie maintains tint the settled purpose of the pres ent. Adiuiui.tration, through its patronage and office hoi iers, is "fo compel the Democracy io ngret to the employment of the Federal Ciowr/t --mint for the propagation oj Slavery Col, Forney concludes by declaring that the couise his friends have marked out, ia the only one to save this souutry from inevitable sectionalism, and a certain dissolution of this Repbbiic. To the States' interrogatories, ho answora, that the Slate's rights Democracy do not con template joiuing the Republicans—thoy bolievo in the Democratic party, hut not in J. B's. administration—aud that if the nominees of the Charleston Convention represent tho genuine principles of the Democratic party, they will support them—but not, if they tnako a plat form including that the duty of tho general government is to propagate slavery. We fear the eigan of ti>e four B's cannot allow so large a latitude to the Pennsylvania rebels as Coi. Forney claims. Their heads must be cut off. Pitts. Journal. # Gen. Eustis, Member of Congress from Louisiana, aud Miss Corcoran, ouly heir of the rich Washington banker, were married at Washington, on Monday. This is the same lady that oue of the Spanish legaiion wanted to kill the old gentlvman about, after bavbg been discovered uuder the piano in the young lady's parlor, where it seems he had been Lid to avoid the wrath of tho "cruel parient." Prisideut Bucbauan was 68 yesr# of on Saturday last.
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