i wg ila. BOAT Ang/WOON, DEC 8, 1887. GISX. eIIANTS TIAITINIONY The Jong looked for testimony of Gen. Grant before the Judiciary Committee, On the proposed impeachment of Presi dent Johnson, has at last come to light —and is printed on our first page. It will be seen that Omit was from the first opposed to punishing rebel officers and soldiers—and lu this was at issue with Praddent Johnson in several notable par. dealers. It is not doubted that Grant's position beds greatdeal to do with modi fying the President's vidws. The Gen eral boldly admits that he signed the ap• Itlications for pardon of the rebel Gener als Lee, Longstreet, French, Stuart, and others, and regent that he did not endorse those of other loading ellicert which were presented to Idm. Tie sustained the President's policy of establishing Provisional Governments in the South, believing that it was necessary for the public security, and entirely in accord with the Constitution. The furthermore Asserts that President Johnson's plan was substantially that inaugurated by Mr. Lincoln. The very paper which he beard twice read while the latter wits President, he thinks, was "the one carried right through." Read the testimony. It is interesting In itself, and proves that Grant is far from the Radical witch the Radical party desire him to be. There is very little said now about making him a candidate for the Presidency. MIN. ■ANCOCY Gen. Hancock has made a good start. .00 taking command of the Fifth Mlta -77 District, iLoulsiana and Texas,) on the Mh tilt., he deelitred in a special or der that henceforward the civil authori ty should be held superior to the milita ry in all eases except armed insurrection or forcible resistance to the laws. He announces that "the groat principles of American liberty still are the lawful in heritance of this people and ever should be. The right of trial by jury, the habe as corpus, the liberty of the press, the freedom of speech, and the natural rights of person, the rights of property, must be preserved. Free Institutions, while they are essential to the prosperity mid happiness of the people, always furnish the strongest inducements to peace and order Crimes and offenses committed in this district must be referred to the comidenitime and judgment of the reg ular civil authorities, and these tribu nals will be supported in their lawful jurisdiction." There is a notable contrast between this commencement •and the despotic rule of Sheridan, elhich must rejoice the heart of every true patriot. It is said that Hancock has sudden ly become vary distasteful to the Radicals at Washington, and they intimate that the House will,shortly pass a resolution expressive of its disapprobation of the •position taken by him in the order above mentioned. Let them go ahead. It will be so much the better for him. Thr, peo ple have again become a power In this country, and will stand by him in any war which a Radical Congress may wage upon him for defending civil rights. OM EWINU O TRUE “IPOLITICAL I= Gen. Thomas Ewing, eon of the old Whig Statesman of that mune, has writ ten a terse and pointed letter to a friend who asked his opinion on the formation of a Grant ('lub. lie says he must know what Gen. Grant's political views are-before he can support him for' the. Presidency—a view which a large ma jority tf the soldiers of the country no doubt concur in. The letter is address ed to Col. 0. A. Bassett, of Lawrence, Kansas, and Is as follows : Washington, November 10,196;. Dear Colonel: 1 have your letter of the 10th Instant, advising me of the formation of Orant 'aloha by many of our comrades In ILanue, and asking my opinion of the movement. I earnestly wish to be in accord with the great party of my KSIINIA and army Mends, and still hope to unite with them In supporting General Grant for President. But I want first to know whether he approves the reconstruction measures; for 1( he does I cannot sup port him. I regard them as mischievous —begot of revenge, misdirected philan thropy, and lust of power. I would as soon expect a house to stand on the crater of a living volcano ma a State, where whites and blacks being nearly equal in num bers, the whites are proscribed , and the blacks made rulers. Such a govern ment cannot long have the heartfelt sympathy of any large body of white men anywhere. Blood is thicker than water, and Northern whites will-sympa thize with Southern whites in their strut& to shake off the incubus of ne gro ode. If there *ere no reJudice of race to affect their action, the Northern people would still refuse to reproduce in the States of the Union Hayti or San Domingo, or any other government and civilization the negro race has fttablieh ed stns the flood. To ish the Southern w theirtr pun eason, the Northern peop hi le tes mig for ht possibly kw a time be willing to afflict their with such governments; but elf - - interest forbids it. It were like the fabled war of the belly and the n3em bars. The North already groans under the punishment now being indicted on the South, and must, besides, pay for the whip. The negro governments, when loaned, must be propped up by Northern bayonets, and the North must pay for the bayonets ; and, however coldly, they can never safely be with drawn. When reconstructed, each one of States will be like a magazine— al( while carefully guarded out last when left unguarded, a chance spa will blow It and all about It to the devil. lentortalning these views, I would not strppert any candidate for the Presiden cy wbo endorses the reconstruction 1111118UTIM, even if they were lawful, still lees as I consider them wholly unconsti tutional, and full of danger as prece dents. I write you thus explicitly, because I valustyour good opinion, and want you to know bow I think and feel and mean to act' on the stupendous questions which Ile around and before ue. Yours, faithfully, Tnoe. Tan IrmEacultrcr.—The Washing ton correspondent of the the Near York .apreas writes: "There is such • change of heart going on Mang the Radical sinners in Con gress, that several of them, who have been bounding the President for a year, are Mrw ready to follow any motion to lay MI the reports and resolutions upon the table, and thus to stop all further agitation and debate. There le ti tornado of ramotatnumes coming in from the Republican business men of the country, and the most of them are from New England, which is suffering in trade just now." THE Cincinnati Enquirer says the vote of /IBMs shows that the huge Re publican autority of the past has been limpe d out. The Destionstic Tapers of \ ibis Eftse elenm confidently that they tinlli hive carried the State if the:. lttl~. been any general election. From i gagginenneees Mean may be maraud tt for the Dementia candidate tbr tat i gi*kat nest "ell. IT Is *him* settaiti that the Noven a* to &Wort South CsTolima. I, .I,d t)•, The Annual Message of President Johnson was sent to both Houses of Con- Kress on Tuesday. It la a State paper of extraordinary power and directness, and we much regret that its length and the want of timete put it in type prevent us from giving it entire. A very full and satisfactory abstract, however, is sub joined—covering all the points stated by the President, as well as the arguments used in a successful defence of them. At the very threshold, the President enter* upon that question of reconstruc tion which is uppt rmost in men's minds. He declares that the duty, at the close of a civil war, to repair its injuries and se ' cure-, as fully and se speedily ae possible, the tenefits of its lessons, was promptly accepted at the termination of hostilities, i not only by the executive department, but by the insurrectionary State:tem selves ; but the expectations of • ra tion, which it was hoped would follow, have been disappointed by legislation, 1 from which the President felt constrain ed, by his obligations to the constitution, to withhold his assent. "Candor," says the President, "compels me to declare that, at Mho time, there is no Union as our tethers understood the term, and as they meant it to be understood by us."— Whilst the views of the Preside/It "upon this branch of the subject are, in the main, the same which he has expressed on this subject on former occasions, they are expressed in a tone of even greater emphasis nd earnestness. He shows that the States lately in re bellion are still members of the national Union, and thatyf we admit now that the "ordinances of secession" were valid and effectual for the purpose intended by their authors, weaweep from under our feet the whole grouud upon which thewar weld us- Norwere those States afterwards ex pelled from the Union by the war, the di rect contrary of which was averred by the government to be its purpose, and it can not be that a successful war, waged for the preservaticht of the Union, had the legal effect of dissolving it. To dissolve the Union is to repeal the constitution which holds It together, and that this is a power which does net belong to any de partment of this government, or all of them united, has been acknowledged not only by the executive In its action upon the subject, but by Congress, in submit ting as amendment to the coustitution• to be ratified by the Southern States, and accepting their arts of ratification; and by the , judiciary, where judges have included the Southern States in their circuits, and are constantly exercising jurisdiction which does not belong to them unless these States are in the Union. The declaration of Congress, by an al most unanimous vote, on July, 1861, is quoted, that the war was solely for the prescrvatiou of the Union, and is pro , nounced by the President a solemn pub' lie official pledge of the national honor, and which was made not to rebels ouly, but drew thousands of loyal men in the South, and hundreds of thousands iu the North, to give their lives in the belief that the pledge would be tweed out, and the violation of which would make the war not only a failure but a fraud. The President, therefore, recommends the re peal of the acts of Congress which place ten of the Southern States under the domination of military masters, and very courteously, though pointedly, says to Congress, Alf calm reflection shall satis fy a majority of your honorable attics that the acts referred to are not only a violation of the national faith, but in di rect conflict with the constitution, I dare not permit myself to doubt that you will humediately strike them from the statute The President then proceeds to demon strate, from the genteel provisions of the acts referred to, that they are not only objectionable for their assumption of un, granted power, but many of them am in conflict with - the direct prohibitions of the constitntion.. In addition to their , unconstitutionality, the President re ! garde them as the most unreasonable mode of punishment that could be in vented, inasmuch as they confound the innocent and the guilty in on common and indiscriminate doom. Although the military governments are to be only pro visional, yet if the guarantees of the constitution can be broken provisionally to serve a temporary purpose, and in a part only of the country, they can be de stroyed everywhere, and for all time. In regard to negro euffrage, the Presi dent expresses himself explicitly and earnestly. Whilst holding that the blacks of the Fonth are entitled to have the protection of just laws for all their rights of person and property, he says that it is not proposed merely that they shall govern themselves, but rule the, white race, make and administer State law% elect Presidents and mem bers of Congress, and shape, to a greater or lees extent, the future destiny of the whole country. Such a trust and power, he contends, would not be safe in the hands of a race in whose hands no inde pendent form of government has ever been succesful, and who, in this oountry, are ignorant of the nature of govern ment, from their former condition of ser vitude. The influence of the elective franchise for good is dependent on the intelligence and virtue of those in whose hands it is placed. In the ease of those intelligent foreigners who emigrate here we require a residence of five years, and, in addition, proof of good moral charac ter, thus giving reasonable grounds for the belief that they will be faithful to the obligations which they assume as citizens of the republic. There is a limit wisely observed hitherto which makes the ballot a privilege and a trust; but to give it indiscriminately to a new class, wholly unprepared by previous habits and opportunities to perform the trust which it demands, is to degrade it and dually to destroy its power. The dinar- , dered condition of society, ind,ustry and credit, render this a peculiarly unpropi tious time for the introduction of such an experiment. The great. difference be tween the races renders it impossible to fuse them in a homogeneous mass. In the opinion of the President it will re quire a strong standing army, and probe bly more than two hundred millions of dollars per annum, to maiutain the su premacy of negro governments after they are established, a sum which, if properly used, would form a sinking fund large enough to pay-the whole national debt in less thauptfteen years. The whole commentary of the Presi dent upon reconstruction effected through negro suffrage is • philosophi cal and dispassionate picture of the utter incompleteness of any such process to reach reconstruction, demonstrating that a structure raised in that way gill only have the form and exterior lines of a building, but has hollow and unsubstan tial - semblance, destitute of cement or solidity. The injurious effect of the,congreadon al spas of eseuares apes the public credit la set forth, and it L obeekved that Stare TOPlllbabe the easattatios we will not be espeetst to Mee =Mb , fee mere Malden; ohilliatiale. Bellossaaa Ia made to the malls% et flesthent trade. twat which thillorth would doff* so pea* • peon stein the measles* of law; and, as another reason why Con gress shall retrace its stem it is remind ed, that, from the day on which It fairly and formally presented the proposition to govern the Southern States by mili tary force, with a view to the ultimate establishment of negro su premaev, every expression of the general sentiment has been moos or less adverse to It. In regard to the duty of the President to defend the constitution, the President says it is a serious question how far that duty requires him to go in opposing an unconstitutional act of Congress, but that ewes may occur in which the Ex ecutive would be compelled to stand on hie own rights, and maintain them, re gardless of all consequence's, if Congress should pass an act which is not only palpable conflict with the txmatitutio but will certainly, if carried out, pro duce immediate and irreparable Injury to the organic structure of the govern ment; and It there be neither ju dicial remedy for the wrongs It Inflicts, nor power In the people to protect them• selves without the official aid of their elected defender; if for instance, the legislative department should pass au act, even through all the the forms of law, to abolish a 00-ordinte department of the government, in such a case the President must take the high responsi bilities of his oak* and save the life of the nation at all hazards. The 80-sailed reconstruction acts, though as plainly unconstitutional as any that can be imag ined, are not•believed by him to he with in the class last mentioned. The people were not wholly disarmed of the power of self-defense. In all the Northern States they still held in their hands the sacred right of the ballot, and it was safe to believe that in due time they would come to the rescue of their oleo constitu tions. It gives him pleasure to add that the appeal to common constituencies was not taken in vain, and that his con fidence in their wisdom and virtue seems not to have been misplaced. The President next calls attention to the enormous frauds which have been perpetrated on the treasury. The sys tem of collecting and disbursing the vast sums required by the public expenses has been much disorganized by the ten ure of office bill, which has almost de stroyed official accountability. The Pres ident next refers at length to the finances and the currency, and advocates a re storation of the currency to the standard established by the constitution. He al ludes to the report of the Secretary of the Treasury, as setting forth ably and instructively the condition of our fi nances and the operations of our revenue system. A thorough revision of our reve nue system is earnest! y reeom men d ed,and such an adjustment of the internal reve nue laws and import system as to bear most heavily on articles of luxury, leaving the necessaries of life as free from taxation as may be consistent with the real wants of the government. The President next makes reference to the reports of the War,. Interior, Navy- and Pirdoffice Departments, and the remain der of the message is devoted to foreign affairs and territorial extension, includ ing the acquisition from Russia, and a treaty which has been concluded with Denmark, and will be submitted to the Renato for consideration, for the cession of the islands of Eit. Thorns. and St. Jahns. The President concludes by a suggestion whether the African slave trade from Americana ports having ceased, a propo sition should not be made to the British government for a discontinuance of the stipulations for maintaining &joint nav al force for the suppression of that trade. FORTIETH VONOSNIX.-1 1 11ECOND SM. I=2 On Monday last, the Senate assembled at eleven o'clock, and the House at half past ten. Both houses formally adjourn ed the first or "additional" session of the Fortieth. Congress at noon, and there upon the roll was called and thesseeond session was formally opened. A joint committee was appointed to wait on the President, and they subsequently report ed that be would send in his annual mes sage on Tuesday In the Senate a memorial was presented from the Tennessee Legislature in favor of the repeal of the tax on cotton and tobacco, and from the Alabama conven tion asking for the repeal of the cotton tax. A bill was also introduced to pro vide for the issue of gold notes in place of legal-tenders, and to facilitate a return to specie payments—referred to the com mittee on finance. In the House a large number Of bills and resolutions were introduced and re ferred. The committee on banking and currency was directed to Inquire Into the expediency of so changing the law in respect to the taxation of national bank stock as to permit ad stock owned in the State where the bank Is located to be assessed and paid in the city or town where the stockholders testi°. The com mittee on ways and means were Instruct ed to inquire into the expediency of pro viding for a new loan, payable after ten years, and redeemable after thirty years in coin, by the issue of bonds bearing five per cent. interest in coin, payable semi annually and taxable at the rate of one per cent., to be deducted from the Inter est when paid. Among the bills intro duced and referred were the following: Providing for the annexation of British Columbia to the United States; to pre vent further contraction of the Currency; granting increased pensions to widows and orphans of deceased soldiers, and giving pensions to the officers and eol diers of the war of 1512, and the wars with Mexico and the Indians down to the Black Hawk war. —ln the House, on Tuesday, Mr.,l Schenck, from the Committee of Ways and Means, reported a bill to repeal the internal tax on cotton—which will doubt less pass. It is understood that the Com mittee will shortly take up the whiskey tax question. The impression prevails that the proposition to tax according to the capacity of the respective distilleries, will be adopted. Thaddeus Stevens, though very feeble, managed to get to the House, to propuse joint resolution to make two States out of Texas. Mr. Eldridge objected, and the resolution was not read. AMIVIIMMI 1101611141CSATIC VICTIM"' 1 The election for Mayor in the city of New York, on Tuesday last, resulted in the reelection of John T. noffinan, Democrat, by a majority of 40,099 over Wood, irregular Democrat,and 44.408 over Darling, Radical—or 21,034 over both. The Tammany party carried nearly all the minor offices. The combined Democratic majority over Darling le 67,302, a Democratic gain since November of 7,0= Trts white people of South Carolina almost unanimously refused to vote at the satrap's election. In North Carolina there was almost the same unanimity in Maytag away boot the "Wis." /A &Mb Coolies the election tetanal Lae add* ammetboeies 41/11W aft eleven whit* vetee ewe, to tine tbaueesd wan bemire % sea lbetr eve sere votes. 8o thr a baud Ikon, net stink vote bee been east OWNSs ConvelMon. !sod ItisattlEnd TOWN, COUNTY kNO SWIMMING COUNTIES. S'notr.—Wo bad two Inches of snow yesterday morning. Haven't now. Writers of communications must give us their names, to insure the publication of their articles. The names are kept private, of course. Wood.—The scarcity of wood with us compels another call for the article.— Bring it along without delay, and oblige "yours respectfully." Quick- Work.—Mr. Isaac Sell, of Lit tiestowu, last week made al: horse-shoes •'m the bar, with the aasistanoe of a riker, iu nine minutes. Firc.—We learn that the new bank barn of Mr. Marshall, in Franklin town ship, south of Munshower's, was destroy ed by tire on Wednesday night. His crops of grain, hay, &c., were consumed with it. 'No further particulars. Dead —We learn that Mr. S. Keller, drover, of Somerset county, who was so severely Injured on the Railroad, near Hanover. home weeks ago, died in that place on Wednesday last. Noon Mott —An additional mail has been ordered from this place to Balti more, to leave with the noon train. A mail will be made up in the morning as usual, and another at 12 M. This ar rangement will prove convenient to busi ness people and others. Leg Broken.—Mr. George liasehoar, of Union township, met with a very pain NI and somewhat singular accident, one day last week. His son, with a team of horses, was dragging a lug through the woods, the old gentleman walking along side of It; the log, coming In contact with a tree, was suddenly thrown against Ur. B. with such force as to break one of his legs. He received surgical attention, and is doing well. Aims Howe Appoinfmente.—The three. tors of the Poor, on Monday last, made the following re-appointments : Steward, Jonas Johns. Treasurer, Jacob Benner. Physician, Dr. J. W. C. O'Neal. Council, Wm. McClean, Esq. Clerk, H. G. Wolf. Life insutanes.—An advertisement of the John Hancock Mutuel Life insurance Company, of Boston, Mass., will be found in a subsequent column. Mr. John Mar shall, (lately of thin county, , one of the Managers of the Philadelphia Branch Office, expects to be in Gettysburg dur ing the early part of next week, when he will be happy to explain the merits of the Company and take insurances. Jurors.—Judge Fisher and Messrs. Henry J. Kuhn and Cornelius Lott, com posing the board of Jury Commissioners, are now engaged In filling the wheel for the corning year. As the Juries of this county have uniformly been made up of honest and intelligent citizens, we don't see how there can be any improvement under the new-tangled system. The law can work no change here—hot it has created two n,u, offices. Building Aseoc/ation.—A Building As sociation ha, been organized at Chain bersburg, modeled after the one In such successful operation here. Our friends across the mountain will find the Associ ation a good thing in two ways : it n ill secure comfortable homes for many who could not otherwise obtain them, and will add to and improve the town. Such has been the effect in Gettysburg, and with. the same careful management, we do not see why a like result should not follow in rhambersburg. Wulree.—The Chem hersburg stares that a young female wolf was caught In a trap, in the upper part of that county, week before inst. Some eighteen or twenty are believed to inhabit the neighboring mountain. Our friend the Junior of the Spirit 1' "some" in the pursuit and capture of trout in the summer. Row would e•otree do, "for a change," in the winter? Properly Calm—Nicholas Codorl hey sold 111 acres, with the buildings, on the Emmittcburg road, to Jacob" Riley, for $5,000. Mr. Samuel Herbst has disposed of two mountain lots above Arendtsville, one to George flex and the other to William Showers, for $75 each. Wm. A. Elden has sold his dwelling, in Bendersville, to James J. Wills, for $1,V.5 cash, and his store room and shop to Mr. Peters, of York Springs, for $6OO cub. Sueceseful Hunt.—Ex-Sheriff Wolf, of this place, Joseph Wolf, of Butler town ship, and Jonas B. Orner, of Menallen township, returned on Wednesday even ing from a week's hunt In Elk county, with no less than five Deer, (ail bucks,) weighing respectively 30, 11g, 137, 155 and 157 pounds. They also shot a Bear, which was sold at Harrisburg. A sixth Deer was secured, but having hung 11 upon a tree In the woods, It was nearly devoured by bears in the absence of the hunters. They say that deer are quite plenty in that region, as may be inferred from the very handsome result they ex hibited of their own work on Wednes day evening. They may well feel proud of IL Reepipt for Curie° Meat. —To ono gal lon of water, take Ike. of salt, .1; lb. of sugar, oz. of saltpetre, oz. potash. In this ratio the pickle to be increased to any quantity desired. Let the. be boil ed together, until all the dirt from the sugar rises to the top and is skimmed off. Then throw it into a , tub to cool, and when cold, pour hover your beef or park, to remain the usual time, say four or live weeks. The meat must be well covered with pickle, and should not be put down for at least two days after killing, during which time it should be slightly sprink led with powdered saltpetre, which re moves all the surface blood, &c., leaving the meat fresh and clean. Some omit boiling the pickle, and find it to answer; though the operation of boiling purifies the pickle by throwing off the dirt al ways to be found in salt and sugar. —We have, upon the recurrence of the "butchering" season, published the above several times—and do so again— because we know it to be a first-rate re ceipt. In addition, we would say, that the smoking should be done slowly, and with corn cobs or hickory wood, or both. The flavor of the meat largely depends on the "flavor" of the smoke. Winter.—This is the flat week of Win ter. Soon we may expect :mows and winds and chilly weather. Be careful of exposure, and provide yourselves with Coe's Cough Balsam, for Croup, Coughs, Colds and Bore Throat. It ls an excel lent remedy. bon in the Bleed—Whew the blood le well 'applied wait Ma leu efaaseat, we hal ripsaw and tall of aubliktical. it la ea limailllekikey of sbl. vitaiAmanak ikat sakes ea leek weak and laWaybei aid; all mak bj Atklag the Piaawitlaa Byway, (a presuide at lrs) eau adpply this dellslaier, sad will be weadertalls invigorated. National MCMUMCIa. —D. Wills, Esq., President of the Soldiers' National Ceme try, Informs the Philadelphia Press, in reply to Inquiries. that the granite work for the base and shaft of tke monument, now being cut at Westerly, Rhode Is land, will be ready for shipment in the spring. The statues are being prepared in Italy, under the supervision of the eminent' American sculptor, Regent.— The best workmen are engaged upon it— the same who were intrusted with the 'subhead statute of Columbus at Gammas, and the famous equestrian statute of Frederick the Great at Perlin. Great difficulty has been experienced In procuring sound blocks of marble of the size and quality required for the sta tues. The block for the statue which crowns the monument, and the blocks for two of the lower statues have been secured, and these pieces will be finished and ready for shipment from Rome by the last of next April or first of May.— ut in regard to the other two, all de pends on the success of getting the mar ble whether they can be done in that time. Inferior qualities of marble can be readily obtained, but a uniform color, and of the best quality, have been stipu lated for, and It require , t Much search aid labor before such can be had. The work was to be completed by the first of next July, but this unavoidable d I,ty may ,require a postpont went of the con templated dedication of the monument on the next anniversary of the battle et Gettysburg. A bronze statue of General Bryn& a will be placed in the Cemetery next sum mer. It will be a standing figure, in the best style of the art. Its height will be about eight feet, and the pedestal, of granite, the same. Mr. Wills tuts been active and atten tive in everything pertaining to the Cemetery, and he no doubt will continue so until all the improvementkin contem plation shall have been made. .A Sabbath School Association for Adams county has been organized, with the fol lowing officers : President—Rev. E. Breidenbaugh. Secretary—R. G. McCreary, Esq. Treasurer—J. L. Schick. Executive Committee—Rev. M. Valen tine, D. D., Rev. G. IV. Rouse, Rev. W. R. H. Deattich, John Rupp and A. M. Hunter. Tribute of Reaped.—At a meeting of the members of the Adams County Nor mal School, on the 29th ult., the follow ing, preambleand resolution were unani mously adopted : WHEREAS H. has pleased Almighty God to remove from this world, FRANCIA Invfx, a member of the f;ettysburg Nor mal School. of which we were metn bers, therefore, RcJefecti, That in the death of our classmate we have lost one who, during our brief sojourn together at the Normal, gained the confidence and esteem of all, by his uniform kindness and good con duct. TotNnAv.—Morning Seeeion.—After prayer by Pr. Brown, and the singing, by the Teachers' Glee liar, of that soul stirring piece, "A Hundred Years to Come," a number of teachers formed themselves into a Class and were drilled, for a short time, in Mental Arithmetic, by the County Superintendent. The ex ercise was pronounced highly creditable to all concerned. The discu ss ion which ensued elicited many facts and ideas, as well as methods of teaching this branch, of importance to young teachers. Miss Chronister next, read an interest ing and valuable report on "s 4 chool Prizes'and Rewards,""after which the subject was pretty fully discussed. The preponderance of the arguments seemed to be against the giving of Prizes in school. 'On motion, discussion closed, when John M. Wolf read a report on "Graded Schools." Afternoon Session.—lnstitute met and was called to order at 2 o'clock. After prayer and music, MLss. Emily Wright read as essay on Methods of Teaching Reading, which reflected much crediton the writer. This was followed by a Class Drill in Reading, conducted, at the request of a number of teachers, byy. Sheely. Mr. S. remarked that the rill was given, not as an ostentatious display, but merely to show how reading should be taught. This Was followed by, a lively Large Opossum.—Mr. Author Turner, i discussion, which was rather abruptly of Jefferson township, killed on opossum "terminated by a motion, to make room which weighed twenty fire pounds and' for Prof. S. G. Boyd. of York, who treat able °env,. This is the largest animal eil the Institute to a4O minutes' talk on of the kind we have ever heard of. Fie em i . i i iin t„ of Study in Arithmetic." must have been an -old settler," and no I.:e