| ; - *-• . „•. 'JK- .-V £ '•' V . „-.V\ M ££ -•- * £* _ . >?.- * : ' ... BY DAYID OVER. Mr. Russell's Letters. We copy tbe following from Mr. Russell's letters to the London Times, one of which is dated at Washington, September Ctb, and the other September 10th: FREMONT'S PROCLAMATION Major General Fremont's proclamation ba9 driven a wedge not only into the fine piece of Cabinet work at Washington, but into the whole substance of tbe Union party. It did not need any such appliance to cause fissures in either, for there were, and are, deep rents and cracks in these fabrics, built up, as they are, of bits of different platforms, which all tbe Union glues and tbe varnishes of tbe poli ticians could neither eventually cement nor conceal. A system of ostracism and the lib eral use of Lafayette once introduced, it is hatd to say where the result may end, or when those who eDjoy tho power will become phil osophers enough to deny themselves the equis ita pleasure of sending off an opponent at an election or a possible rival to tbe seclusion of the strict retreats, where he may refleet on the errors of his way, and repent bim of tho evil be has dene. RUSSELL'S VIEW OF OUR PRESIDENT AND CABINET I do Dot attach any importance whatever to rumors, but it is within uiy own persona! knowl edge that ferioßs personal dislikes i x sts between tbo members of the Cabinet. The President in tbe main cultivates the intimacy, and peri, j haps approves tbe councils of Mr. Seward, bat be is exhibiting a rude vigor of his own—rude because it ia displayed opecly—which proves that ho oan reduce his Cabmet to what it really is acoordjng to the American theor\ a mere j board of heads of departments, who may be j put on one 6ide if he pleases. Mr. Seward,: wie in bis generation, confiues his atteutioo | to the cterrus business of his own depart"! ment, but others of his oolleagues distinguish • themselves by an unlucky assiduity in tormen ting themselves with the affairs ot department* wbioh do not belong to tbem, and "everytbiuo by turns and nothing long" are iLe teredos ot every pi&uk in the ship of state. Mr. Lincoln, who has a right to go everywhere, (and do , anything ho likes apparently.) evinoes a so. lieitude n Aural enough iu all that is going on j in the army, the navy:aad the otherjbraucljes of, the public service, aud has latterly turned bis I attention to the subject of big gun 3 ami ord ( nance. It would surprise an Englishman whose 1 oetion of the functions of a President, found- ' rd on the popular idea that they were those of a milder sort of chief magistracy than that ; which we have tho happiness to possess, proha. bly restricted bis powers to that of veto or approval by signature of acts of Parliament and tho sending of messages, to be tobl that Mr. Lincoln is not only bead of the eruiy and navy, bnt that in such questions as the propri ety of relieving Fort Sumter by a military and naval expedition tbe Illinois lawyer studied books, beard arguments on both sides, aod fi nally determined on the couise to be pursued. Fray observe with wba* subtlety tho somber,, ners have acted, iu the language ihi-y have used in familiar correspondence and in the press, when speaking of the United States.— | They never mention tbe name ot the ex-Gicat Republic. The United States army is to them "Lincoln's mercenaries," the United States' • navy is "Lincoln's war ships, ' and so ou j through all the varietics[of Lincoln's "hordes" '•barbarians," Yankees," "savages," &■, tbev ! endeavor to fix on the President the direct j personal responsibility of the whole conflict, to restrict the agents he uses in waging it to the Yankees of the New England States. LINCOLN, BLAIR AND CHASE. The mass of the South arc fighting for a Union of their own, to which they have insen sibly transferred their loyaiity and their na tional feeling, which unquestionably is great, in the old fl tg, and believe they are fighting against an alien enemy—one Abraham Lincoln who is aided and abetted by the powers ot darkness and tbeir Yankee co-tffioient. And yet 1 have reason to believe Mr. Lincoln is ooe of the most moderate men in the section of his own cabinet which looks to internal poli 1 * tics, and that in the present distracting discus sions he generally inclines to the view that the North is not making a war against slavery, and that the result of her success need not to be the liberation of the negro. Mr. Blair who is a downright covepanter of the American sort, and with whom the southern slaveholders are sons of Belial—"a sword of the Lord and Gideon" man, who could smite the Philistines hip and tbigh from the using to the going down of the sun—and several hours after— with a grim satisfaction in being a chosen in strument —I speak, of course, metaphorically, and not physically—has a great infiuetite, de rived from the clearness of his hood, his per sistency, and the rigidity of his principles, among his party; but his doctrines would most likely end iu confining the Uuited States to the original New KogUnd settlements or in establishing a dictatorship resting on bayonets. What prefscy, Popery and monarchy were to the men of the first Covenant, "ou'kern rights, slavcholdiDg included, aro to Mr. Blair. Nor are tbey less so to Mr Chaso, who possesses, after all, the largest and most solid brain in the Cabinet, but who bad qo objection at ooe time to let the South go il it liked, believing that the system on which it was founded must be in the end, and that not distantly, the rneaus of iufliotiog a punishment and ven geance on the seceding states far more terrible then any either the army or uavy of the North eould execute. 7HEMONT AND HI? PROCLAMATION. It may readily, thcD, be imagined how Gen. Fremont's proclamation increases the difficulty and augments the animosities which exist in the sections of the Cabinet. Lest it aught be supposed that the law confiscating slaves who had been employed by their masters against A Weekly Paper, Devoted to Literature, Politics, the Arts, Sciences, Agriculture, &o„ &e~Terms: One Dollar ,nd Fifty Cents in Advance. the United States in any way, wbioh Congress ■ passed at the last moment, and which the President signed so reluctantly, has beeu ta ken by Geo. Fremont as bis authority for the edict be has put forth, it may be as well to poiot out that he goes so far beyond the terms of the statute as to liberate the slaves ot mas ters who are in rebellion against tbe govern moot, and so far as his district extends, there fore, he would, if successful, liberate nearly all the slaves, because there can be but little doubt that a vast number of tbe masters in the South are in rebellion against the govern-, ment of the United States. To tuo democrats of the North, who are at this instant talking of "guaranties" for the Sonth, and tbo revi* SIOD of the Constitution in the same breath in which they speak of the vigorous prosecution of the war for the Union and denounce.seces sion as revolution, tbe doctrine, founded *s it is on the undefined powers of martial law, must be particularly objectionable. It may be a bold stroke ot General Fremont to attach to himself a coherent mass of th < Republicans, or it may bo a simple act of war without auy nriere pensee. At all events, it is embarrass ing. The Commander of the forces in the West is au ambitious, bold and cuterprisiDg man, bnt will surprise me to find he proves a very great man. Lie is profuse in expenditure, energetic in action and speculative in plans, but still 1 doubt whether he can effect ali that isexpeted of him wiih the materials at Lis disposal. OUH OBSTACLES AND ENCOURAGEMENTS. It will require success iu war and g<eat dex'cri'y to make Kentucky safe lor the Un ion; greater still to recover Missouri, in spite of *be extreme wcakne-s, feebleness and ignorance of the Confederate leaders, and their iuabihty to turn their advantages to account The war of the colonies with Great Brttain must have been conducted very much iu the satue fashion on bo'h sides. The vast size of the slates and t'ie enormous districts to be traversed render it impossible for mere fighters to do anything except bill and wound each other iu j a guerdla war, till a loader, some soldier who | knows something about the A 31 Cof hi* ; profession rises up and reduces the efforts of | his followers to a systematic mode of warfure. j It is pitiable to see the Union di-trae'ed as i: is, but I fear the condition ot things will be come worse instead of belter. * • * * # * *. The gleam nfUSiUs# from Ualtera* "%tsi thrown a dark few across the south. It has : revived tho bupes of the north, and gilded the weatber-eocks of the Navy Department, net forgetting the mueh-abused anil hard-working Secretary, Mr. Gideon Welles. lu his letter of September 10th, Mr. Russell writes as follows respec'iag. THE HETIHKJIENT OP THE KKB EL LINES. All that can be seen er beard leads to the belief that the oonfeierates are preparing for seme tire-it iff rt, and that they hi vo retired their force from before W*:?long!on, eiwPr a*; a device to biind their antagonist while making it, on to co operate with the rest of the army by a serious demonstration above and below the cttj. If the confederates have moved, they wean to do somo mischief. They can scarcely retire and hope to make a letter leap by doing so. In inactivity on both sides, coupled with prodigious expenditure, are the | best if not the only cbanoe of compromise and peace. Success on either side revives the ; hopes of complete ultimate triumph of the one, ' | and stimulates the animosity 3nU the display • of the resources of the other.* There is one thing to be taken into consideration as au element of peace. During the winter the j armies must go into quarters. Eveu so far j south as Virginia the weather is frequently very severe, snow lies many feet deep on the ground for weeks at a time. The Potomac is occasionally ; frozen over completely. The roads, always indiffer"ut, become rivers of mu l and slush, through which it would be nearly impossible to move men or guns or baggage.— When the armies are in winter qmrtrs, will the politicians work for peaoo or war? Or will the readers of divieions be permitted to carry ou operations in the ice and snow, remembering the great success of Washington after the treject, which is so often represented in bad engravings all over North America? It is obviously the interest of Beauregard to s'rike. a great blow before winter sets iu, and thus strengthen the base for negotiations? but Geo. MoClellan, I atu satisfied, will not move a mau if he can help it until the very end of this month or the beginning of October. About that time there will be kind inquiries about th second fifty millions of the loan, and no doubt increased vigor on the part of those opposed to the war. But if General McGlellan obtains any very considerable victory, and is. ablo to break tbruug.il (he shell with whtch the Con federates have covered their soft parts in the interior of the states, some measure ebort ot secession and iudepeudeuce may satisfy them; and when they are menaced with destruction, they may put up with au offer to live ou iair terms wt'h their conqoerers. It is to be seei. whether the Utter will ibeu offer them what they might have easily obtaiued at au eailiet stage of hostility. The Richmond Enquirer annouoses the ar rival ib Richmond, of Sir James Ferguson Knight, M. P., England, adding that 'Sir James brings letters to President Davis from Hon. A. Dudley >l.nn, now in Europe.' The | slight objection to this 'lasbiouabie intelli geuce' is that there is only one person niue<i Kuigt.t in the British P trliaaacot (warm ly Mr Frederick Winn Knight, who represents West Worcestershire,) and that the only Knigbt in Great Briiian with a title is Sir Arnold Jutnes Kuight, of Nottingham; who is M. D., but not M. P. The Richmond Enquirer will please try again.— P hil*delpkia Prest. BEDFORD. PA., FRIDAY. OCT. 25, 1861. I RON MISSOURI. THE REASONS FOR PRICK'S RETRO GRADE MOVEMENT. LEXINGTON, MO., Oct. 10.—(Correspon dence of tbo St. Lonta Republican.) — The plan of General Price, after bo captured Lex ington, was to rCuiain for a time aotl operate on the north side of the river, and for this purpose, on Saturday, the 28tb September, he erosed the river at Lexington with four thou sand mounted tnon, and this forco took up their line of mtreh for the railroad, with the view of its total destruction, and then sad havoc was to be made among all tho Governs rnent forces ia Northwest Missouri. But iate in tho evening a rebel named Al Ired Jones, who had been released as prisoner at the arsenal, whero he had taken the oath of allegiance to the United States Government, returned from St. Louis to Lexington and re ported that the whole country below was with troops; that Fremont was after Price, and that Price might prepare for a big fight in a few days. This seemed to raise the courage of Price's men, ami they said let Fremont ! conte, they were teady tor hiut. When Jones announced that General Fr<- \ rannt had 30.000 uten, his only fear was that Price would not make a stand, the luttir eouutcr'nuDded bis order for sending troops to the railroad, and a messenger was immediate ly despatched after tbo.-e who had already started across tho river. Uu that night Price ma le his preparations for a tDoveui< ul south ward, *rd General Rains, it is euld, went twenty miles that night on his south, rn route. It is also believed that Governor Johnson availed hiruself of this comuuud as au escort to get himself out of danger. Price and all his forces left on Monday, the 30tb alt but lii< train of baggige w.gons, about 1,200 in number, did not g. t off before Wednesday. If Price had desired a fight with Fremont he . would hsve taken the Geoigetown Road, or \ possibly tbc Wnrreiiburg road; but instead of : this, he has gone on the road leading down j the western bouudary of this State and the ; southwest. I have given a plain narrative of facts as they have transpired bere, and if Price dots make a stand cud give battle, all who aro cog ■ nizaot of his mcveuieur# will bo disappointed. : His most intelligent friends consider this coarse .couplet* hack,down, wbtlo the more verdant are sou cod with tbe idea that be has gone to meet McCullccb, whp, from the most reliable information, is somewhere iu Ar kiitSHS. The forces of Price were <*erv large at Lexington, hut many of the men were otr.y for the occasion, and have gone home. His force was 15,UU0 to 18.000 when he left Lex ington, aud as me fact becoai s certain that h;s destination is Aiktr.s-js, it will still further decrease. interesting Fnm Ww H xico. Sr Louis, Oct 12th.— The correspondent of the St. Jj xii- Republican, under date of Santa Fe, N. M , Sept. 220 d, writ s as fol lows: New Jlexico is still free from invasion by the T>xans. Ou the 23 li mst. at Fort Foun tleroy, 4'JO Nave joes uiade an attack on that post and were repulsed with a loss of 20 killed aui 4+ wounded at;d prisoners. The troops in '.be Fort had but one man wounded. Col. St. Vrain has resigned and it is under stood that Ivit Carson will sueceeu biui iu command. Tbe Governor's call for tbe enrollment of all males between 18 and 45 dots not seem to : diet touch attention from the people. 1 have yet to hear of the first man complying with its I requirements. MOVEMENTS OF GENERAL CAMERON. ST. LoctS, Oct- 12. Gen. Cameron leaves St. Loais to-day to visit Gen. Fremont at Cauip j LiUie, Tipton. A large dept.. .ion of Missourians have i wasted ou General Cameron, urging thocontin umoo of General Fremont in command of this department. From Washington. WASHINGTON, Oct. 12th.—Everything a long the lines of the Federal army, s well *9 on those cil the rebels, is teported quiet to diy. Tbe opinion gain 9 ground thai General Me- Clellan's plan tor organiziug his army into three grand divisious, which has heretofore been objected to by General Scott, will be adopted. Generals IPeiu z.-man, Franklin j and McDowell are spoken qf as the respec tive commanders. Several large transports came up the Poto mac this mot tling, running close to the Virgiu ia shore. They were unmolested. Mr. tleury May, M. 0. trout Baltimore, ha.- boeu released from Fort M>.'lLary. The friends of several other Bahtuioreans, now under arrest, are working actively lor their re lease. _ -'JESSIE" AND THE ELDER BLAIR. A gentlemen from Washington reports a good thing as hiving been said by Jessie Benton Fre mont, wiiile ou her recent visit to the Capital to ferret out the origin ol the hostility which baa manifested itself toward her husband. At one ol her interviews with the Presi lent, Mr. Bl tir, Sr., father of the Postmaster •General ..knit Frank P Biair, was present. After some preliminary con versation, Mr. Blair turned to Mrs. Fremont and commenced toe dialogue which follows : Blair—Mrs. Fremont, allow me to say to you that in my judgment, Madam, your proper place is at the head ot your husband's household ut St. Louie, and this inteimeddbng with affairs of State to, to say the least of it, in verw bad taste on your part. And, in conclusion, I wisn you to understand that here is where we make men and unmake them." Jessie—><Slr. Blair, permit mo to say to you that) I have acuii fame meu of yuur making, and if they are toe best you can do, I advise you to quit the business. j A HISTORICAL PARALLEL. j In one respect there is a perfect analogy between I the advance of the Federil mnay into the revolted States and that of Bonaparte into Rnsdi—w- mean the terrible servile alliance, in each case, offered.— Says Hazihtt, in bis "Life of Napoleon:" "tine great fear of the Russians was that their slaves would riso up and throw off their bondage ; and it was, therefore, an object to prevent their having ! any communication with the French. They made ; use of the-most improbable and disgusting tables to excite their terror and hatred, and of their ig ; norance and degradation to perpetuate that igno rance and degradation." "Those serfs," as Mon (hoion says, -who inhibited the little- towns, were well disposed to head au insurrection against the j noblesse. This was the reason why the Russians 1 resolved to set Are to ail the towns on the route ot the army. i Such is tiie perfectly analogous situation in the two c uses. We believe that our true policy is pre cisely that which commended itself to the greatest ! practical publicist of his age. Bonaparte refused j to avail himself of the disposition of the serfs tu rise against their masters. And why 1 For prec'se ly tiie identical reasons tiiat force themselves upon us. "The serfs." said he, "are unfit to bo trusted with the liberty they desire. If I encourage the subjects f / the Czar to rise against him, I Cannot hope tha the wiil ever again become my friend."— He subsequently made use of this language to the Senate of France: 'By proclaiming the emancipa tion of the slaves, I could have armed the greater portion of the Russian population against himself. In S'-verd villages this enfranchisement was de uianded Of me. But the war I made upon Ru-si* was loli'icitl; and, liesides, the nrutdity of this j numerous el is* of the Russian people is such that this measure woul I d-vote many families to the m rtt h-utid birbiriti- s." 1. Well, we are engaged in just such a political war, in spite ft our own will, against an adversary ih.t ins t een and wh uu it is of great consequence i should g in he. our "friend." In neather case } was mbjugaJion tiie purpose, hut simply the resto ration of ailUirs to the stains quo ante belluin- That being the object of Bonaparte, as he himself de clared. ire ltd not doubt that his true policy was to prevent bis • -political war" from being the oc ! can ion of a social arid servile war. He held to tills | policy to tiie la>t, even up to the time he left Mos • cow. As is said by Sir Robert Wilson, an English writer, wiio was present during most of the cam - ; paign : --There is no question that a civii war j could bicve been fomented in Kussii; and it wis Bonaparte who rejected the offers of insurrection j which were made to him duiing the time he was in Moscow." j "Now, if Bonaparte was impelled, by the impor tance ot not permanently alienating the Czar, and i also In considerations of humanity, to avoid all in j citement to servile war, the same policy is most ! assuredly incumbent upon ns. The recovered friendship of the Czar was necessary to him simp-y that an external aily might he won ; but the regain i d frii rrdtihip ot the Southern people is necessarv to us t.yat our internal oneness may be saved. Tiie iiuinane'hm.uceeiieats in bis reXauvot only to distant foreigners, of uien Wood, strange religion, and barharioua language; in our case, tney tvfer to our own kith and kin, speakers of the same moth er-tongue, Worabippirs at the 8-me altar, una !1- loiVL-eit'zcns uod.-r the s inio fr* e rule. The re isons which pr- sset! so powertnlly upon the great French Emperor press with far tnore force upon us.—A. ■Y. World. SUNDAY AND WAR-FOUR GREAT BAT TLES. If is a curtotis fact that more great battles have been fought on Suu lay tha i on any other day ot the week ; and, H* our troops commenced rh fight at Bull's Run on Sunday, many who are inclined to he superstitious have pursuaded themselves our had luck wis owing to our violation of the d iy. It Gen. Patttrson, however, had advanced with his forces, as he should have done, the result would have been very different. The British att icked Gen. Jackson at New Or lens, on Snnday in the yeai 1815. They were re pulsed with the loss of some three thousand men. OHT loss wis trifling. Our victory was owing to the fact that we had cotton hales for a breastwork, and had the liest riflemen in the world. The French, under Napoleon Boneparfe, attacked the Duke of Wellington at Waterloo, on Snnday, in 1815. The French were about seventy thousand strong; the British and their allies about eighty thousand. The contest was between veterans, and was one of the most terrific on record. Napoleon would have gained the day, bad his Marshal who hud been appointed to watch the Pi ussiarts, come to his rescue, or had not Blucher come to the aid of Wellington. The great battle of Blenheim was fought on Sun. day, in 1701 - The Duke of Marlborough, at the head of the British army, and his brive and power ful ally, "our good Prince Eugene." commenced the attack on the immense forces of the French.— The struggle was bloody and dreadful. The French were defeated with a loss of from thirty to forty thousand nun. The battle of Blenheim decided the fate of Eu rope, and placed the Protestant religion in power. The battle of Waterloo, more than a hundred years alterward, decided the fate ot Europe a second time, and sent Napoleon to St. Helena. The bat tle of New Orleans decided the fate of America.— Will not the superstitious imagine that the battle of Bull's Kurt decided our fate a second time? It will be seen fiom the above that on Sunday, as well as on other days, Providence takes the side of the heaviest bodies of infantry, cavuliy and artillery. THE TONE or BULLETS —A soldier writing from one of t'n camp* on the Potomac thus ududesto the peculiar music made by bullets passing through the air: It is a very good place to exercise tbe mind with tbe enemy's pickets rattling close at band. A musical car can study the different tones of the bullets as they skint through the air. I caught the pitch of a l ug- sized ntinie yesterday—it was a swell from E fl tt to F,nnd as it passed into the dis tance and lost its velocity, receded to D— a very pretty change One of the most startling sounds is that produced by the Hntchkis*' shell. It comes like the shriek ot a demon, and the bravest old soldiers feel like ducking when they hear it. It is rio more destructive than some other missiles, hut there is a great deal in mere sound to work upon men's fears. The tremendous scream is caused by a ragged edge of lead, which is left on the shell.— In favorable positions of light, the phenomena can sometimes be seen, as you stand directly behind a gun. of the cltngiug of the air to the ball. The ball seems to gather up the atmosphere and carry it along, as the earth carries its atmosphere through space. Men are frequently killed by the wind of a cannon shot. There is a law which causes the atmosphere to cling to tbe earth, or which presses upon it with a force, at the surface, of fifteen poun Is to the squire inch ; does the same law, or a modification, perta'n t > cannon balls in flight 1 I do not tenm tuber of meeting with a discussion of the subject in any published work. It is certainly ap interesting philosophic question. Governor Cur tin hitt determined to atop a]] enlistments in this State for ether State tegi. maris, and will issue a proclamation to that effect. tfbnrntonnl. EDITED BY C. W. GREENE. CP"AII communications for this department may fx- addressed to the Editor, at Bedford, Bedford county, Fa | What is Education and what has it done. Mow many times bis this question been ask .ed during the Jat twenty years 1 It was once i thought to be—"instruction, nurture, training, discipline, tuition." Modern educators have ' been analyzing the word, and-tearing it to pie ! ces, until they have oome to the same conclu >ion that to educate is to instruct and train all the fuoultics of the mind and the body What has ed ucatiou done for mankind l It . was wont to he said by (be uneducated ID times past, that learning is good for notbiog; that it makes its possessors proud. Kzy, &e. But it is now known, that educatioo b9 done some thing—.nd sotia thing good, too. But, we also know, that it ha* not done all that was expected from it, and which ought 10 bavo been done by it. Why? Because education has bt en defect it c, or bas not been of ylie riglit kind. Too youth have not beeu trained "in the way they i-houid go." But, our qu<B>mn is—uot whar Ins educa tion no! dune, hut, what has it done? W>ar> much healthier Lao our ancestors. Is not that something? We think that it is. And this has bet u accomplished by our being better in stiuctad in the laws of health. We remem ber the time, when in this en/i'/ilened coun try, the doctor shut up his p.to-nt burning with fever, iu a close room during weeks of sum mer boat, \viibuut a bre&'b of pure air, or a drop of cool waicr for bis parched tongue.— Have w* Itaruod nothing in hygienic educa tion? Tlie in it .toy from dise .-e has dimin ished more than twenty per cent, during th last half eeutury. 'J'rue, m.-iiy of our ouec hardy race of young men and women of ihc farming districts, by iutitatiaK the silly fash ions of the city, have degenerated from the health and strength of their fathers ai d moth ers; but, as know-ledge increases, these evil will be cured. Siuee the laws of he Itb firs' begin to he understood, abuu 1 two centuries ago, the average duration of human life iti o;vi.!z J countries, Ins increased roui eigh teen years to fcity five; and w tiave no doubt but that by strict observance of the laws of health, mankind luignt be brounbt back to its priuiev.il age. Tone is uo doubt, but that as man was ut first created, "naked in body and iu mind," and the wants of both supplied by his owu iutelligeneo and industry, so man's own follies and vices firve enfeebled both. In the increasing of our wealth, too, win' his uot been ace mpii.-heu by education? The earth yields her fruits in fourfold abundance; nt by the -kill ol the mere firmer, but Ly ihe aid of science A Lancaster county far in r, a tow years since, remarked, (hat it cos' him four limes as much to support bis family, as it bad cost his father. "Fine clothes, fine furniture, fiue equipage, and —"FINE BABNS," interrupted bis neighbor. "Yes, and fine houses," continued the far mer, apparently not noticing the point of the remark. "V\hy," ho continued' "mv son h.sii t less than two hundred dollars worth of fmpk.s, and my father's whole library consist ed of not more than a half dozen books, and we scarcely ever saw irore than one news;.a- P "And,'' siid the other, "do you approve of your father's course? Or rather, would you think It rjirbt for you to follow iu your father's course? F< r, this brings us to another point: are you not four times as able to support your family, as your father was? Does not every acre of this farui yield four times as much as when it was in the possession of your father?" "You're right," was the re-poose, "It does." " 1 hen," continued tha other, "your son's 'ibrary is but a just tribute to that soieuce, which has enabled you (or rather necessitated you) to build your large and beautiful barn, and to (ill it with the increased produce of your soil." lo all of which, the farmer accented. Eduoation, then, bas given ue au increase of health and wealth. Are these nothing?— And they are tbe indirect results of an intel lectual education, although no t 0 f tbe right kind: for, but little direct education in phys ics, morals or religion, has yet beeo given in the schools We say, bat a mora] ami religious rduea* tion has no* been giveu in tie schools: an i reltginu is but seldom hcurd of by our youtb, exeep> in sectarian pulpits. thn-d -ring forth its en >theu>3 up,,n all whose religious faith is tlissiinil ir to its o*o. Hence, morals and re ligioo (we rneau ihe "pure and undeuied re ligion, sp ikeu of between eighteen and nine' teeu centuries ago) have not kept p<ce wi'h in tellectual education. And physical education, ur.ti! the last notwithstanding all this, religion and morals wo I elieve to be on the increase,- the result, us we believe of our intellectual culture, inferior as it is acknowledged to be; although not proportionally with it. Then, let us discard the heresy, that eouie have dared to maintain, that an intellectual education alone, is worse thaD none. An intellectual cultivation, not oonoeobid with moral and re ligious culture, bad as it is, is still better than a want of morals and religion connected with heathenish ignorance of every thing elso.— V\ c will continue this subject another time- Lancaster Union. EET REIDY. Success is seldom govercned by chance. If it were, ibere wcuid be no honor attending our 1 successful enterprise, and po dishonor connect ed with the unsuccessful opts. VOL. 34. NO. 4-3. ! We caD, in nearly every instance, insure •nceess by making tie proper preparation for it An enterprise entered upon by those who have matured the plans and taken the necdfol pre i caution*, can scarcely fail. Tbe important I thing is to get ready School director* of Clinton eouc'y, are you ; getting ready for tho opening of the fall and winter schools? The school house may need repairing—the black board to be enlarged, the desks and seats made more comfortable, a | good Teacher to be employed and a hundred other things to attend to. Are you getting ; ready now to insure success the corning term? Teaehers, are you getting ready? Are you preparing for the examination? Are yon read ing on the subject of teaching? Are you lay ing in a deep and broad foundation as a teach er, thpt will give you success? And parents, are you getting ready? Will you see that the field and other work is fin isbed in time to permit your children to at tend school at the opening of tbo session? Will yr>u get tbe proper books for your children , and then prepare to assist them in their les sons during the I r.g eveoings iht will SQOB be here? It will not be long bi-fore several thousand children in this county nth meet in the school room for instruction. Are we all netting ready to meet them there—to instruct tbem properly? I' will be ro.i lite t > get rmdy after tbe sohools open.- -Lock Hupen Free Press "THE ARMV FRAUDS." WP have received from Hhrrisbnrtj the Res port of the Commission appointed by Gov. Cur tin in reference to the frauds alleged to have been committed against the State in the furn ishing of supplies for the army. As might very well have been expected, it entirely exculpates the Governor and all of the members of the Administration from any complicity whatever iL frauds against, or over charges to the State. The only paragraph in the Report which at all bears upon any per* son connected with the Administration, is the following. Referring to the purchase of infe rior bl-nkets, for which, it is alleged, that too high a price was paid, the Commissioners say: • The platikets were, perhaps, worth the price, hut the price, one dollar aud a p iir, was obviously too low to procure a sultan ble article, even had each soldier received a pair, which was Dot the case, eaoh soldier re ceiving only one blanket at a cost to the Stata of only seventy five cents. No blame can be Itached to the manufacturer, and it is, there fore, divided between Adjutant General Biddle, by whose order the purchases were made, and the Quartermaster's Department, to whtoh alone such purchases belong.-' It will fhns be seen that so far as the blan kets are concerned, the great difficult; was that au inferior article was furnished, aud that the State paid no more for them tLaa they were worth. Wo have examined this Report carefully and critically, and after having done 80, we arrive j at the conclusion that sueb complaintti as may be made must be attributed entirely to the peculiar circumstances under which the Ad ministration was called upon to act. It i ( j without doubt, true that in some cases the : Government of the Stdfe paid a larger prico j for artioles which were required thaD, under ' other circumstances, they conld have been ob- I Nined for: but when the extraordinary circum : stances of the case are considered, this fact is | not surprising. The Report shows that the State has paid [ out from seven to ten thousand dollars, which might have been saved under other eireura ; stances, but if we consider the fact that those who had charge of the furnishing of these ma terials were without experience, in reference to their purchase, there cn be no biamo attached to them. The Governor, so soon as his atten tion was called to the fact that money was be ing made out of the State in an undue manner i directed his atteutiou to the evils which was | sid to exist, aud the Report of this Commis sion shows clearly and conolu? vely that be was successful io bis efforts.— Daily Aews. A RichmonJ Union Mae. A lady who recently returned front Rich mond, Virginia, relates this incident: 001. Payne,. Hutted States Army, and for many long years a friend of General Scott, bad excited a reluct mt admiration thereon aocouut of bis ps vc i< g aod immovable de termination not 10 desert ttte Stars and S-fipes, No bribes, or threats, or flrtteries could shake* bim; he hai iba Napoleouio temperauiout, dike a block of marble, over which the thun der shaft glided aloug, leaving no impression.' JtfiVrsou Davis and all the distinguished meu ••t bis kingdom visited the old utu and sought to rrasou bim out of his fealty, but in vain: -od even a lady to whom he was once engaged was commissioned to weep over him, but the old man's heart replied, if his lip, did not, I could r.otjlove th e. ("ear. so much, Loved I not honor more.' Finally, the dog showed his tecb. properly belonging to bim, to the amount of $50,000 or so, wi.s threatened. ♦De' it go,' said the aged soldier. At latest observation this plans et, overawing the night of Secession, was not iu obscuration. Dr. Hayes' polar txpedition has raached Halifax, on its way home. Dress plaii Jy—the tbinegt soap bobbles wear the gaudiest colors. The inoat difficult punctuation—putting a stop to a woman's tongue. The christian duty of military blunderer*— Hesiguattoo
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