THE PEOPLES JOURNAL JNO. S. MANN, A. AVERY; Editors COUDERSPORT; PA.: TT!' T-P kY .MORNING, .APRII,I2, 38.55 61 C. nati a line warm rain last Thursday night, which took away. a large share of the snow. EF the District school in this.Bo rougb will be opened on Monday, the 23d inst., being one week from next Monday. Igo- The . Legislature of this State have agreed to adjotitn on the 24th inst. lf they pass Cumming's Anti- Liquor bill ffrsi, the people will every ivhere hail them as faithful servants. L' CHARACTERISTIC. - While the New York Legislatnre is taking steps to restore the County Superintendent featuire to tier haw, that of Pentisyl , Yania is talking of aholish;tig this very important office. M - Neal Dow, one of the most energetic temperance men in the Ni,• iion, has been elected Mayor of P 4,1 e land, in the face of the most powerful Opposition that money and Whiskey iould make. Cr So many of Our young men, with a sprinkling of older ones, left town the fore part of this week to assist in getting the lumber to market, that it seems quite lonely. They have had pleasant 'weather so far, and *e hope they rill have a pleasant time.. rir We are under obligatimis to a friend in Sharon for a lively notice ofa Literary Society on Horse Run. We hope the members of the Society will persevere in their praiseworthy effort, and that our friend K * will keep up a regular correspondence with us for the benefit of our readers. fai?' The Maine Law has passed both branches of the .Legislature of Neiv York, and is to take effect on the 4th day of July n4.xt. So Gov. Sey- Mour only delayed the day of Justice io the drunkard's; wife and children eight months. The bell tolling, will come frt;iu -the other side next "Inde pendence Day." EF The number of students at the Acadeniy . well • maintained; consid ering file season and ti.e times; and the exercises are as interesting as ever; indeed, the think their interest increases. Our citizens would derive treat - benefit from- frequ - ent Visits to the institution,. and the presence of i:s friends and - patrons would Nery much encourage•the• Teacher and scholars. OP We are very glad .to receive ' ipnther communication from Brother Still Well ;, and we have the pleasure of isturing him- and- all other friends, that the Sons of Temperance in this Cin.iniy are wide awake, re - solved to fight on' till a glorious victory, shall crown their efforts. The presence of intellkent and philanthropic ladies in the DiVision Room, has had a happy. influence on the good cause in this section. rir Wither has retired at last: 5.2 II beautiful- poem on the outside on this subject, and rejoice with all thy heart; that the bright and . beautiful Spring has again come to make the Mowers bloom and• the grass grow. WEDNESDAY NOON. - cr. So we thought yesterday—but khis morning we were reminded that Fall things . sublunary are subject to 'change!' The ground was white at 4 daylifeak,. and snow has fallen con istatuly, to-day,:so far. June has not come by mistake," but December iseenis raying a parting visit. f57"An eiating slave case has oc curred at Cincinnati. A slave girl, , whom her master voluntarily took . from Kentucky to Ohio, was declared free by the Ohio State Court, at Co iumbiA, was arrested under the fugi ‘ive alive law in Cincinnati, but again eet free by a Judge of that city. An 6ther attempt was inade by the U. S. Marshal to arrest the girl. Another 'writ of inibeits corpus was issued, and 'the Marshal refusing to obey the writ by bringing the girl into Court. was himself arrested, and put into jail for contempt. Thus does freedom tri .Ompb, whenever the great principles 1 0 ( the common law are faithfully 'obeyed: SQUATTER SOMtEIGNiR This is not a very favorable time to get the attention of the mass of our . people to other. than . local questions; but we cannot pass over in entire Silence the great fraud by whirl" Slavery has gained.a fresh victory in Kansas. Ait election was held in this Territory on the 30th of March for members of the Territorial Legisla ture. If aoy of our readers are still entertaining the delusive idea that the settlers in Kansas are alloWed to have any influence on the question of Slavery, we ask them to read the fol lowing paragraphs. Says the Even ing Post of April 5: Not very long since we published some exhonatimis addressed by southern journals to the slaveh . olders, instigating them to spend motley taee.y in carrying ihe elections in the terri,ory of Ksnsas. The advice Seems to have been taken. An army wept over the. fruit ier of Kane is, d stribitted ;itself in de-. tachinems among the d tfereni (districts, ob tained the vic.ory, e:ec.ed the pro-slavery candida.e.; to the legislature, and cams house again in triumph. A paragraph in another pirt of this sheet destrAtes the returirof a . ponion of the mer cenaries in this service to their own State. They came brick ,ike a conquering army to e:d Rome; .heir return to the town of Inde pendence was a triumphal entry. Here is the paragraph alluded to by the Post. We should like to know what defense those Anti-Nebraska Democrats who still remain in the party can make. The Evening Past headed" the Missouri dispatch as fol lows: • The Advantage of Allowing Territories to Govern Thom elvei—A Commentary upon Master Cot: - rane's Apology !or the Nebraska Bill. - [From the St. Louis Republcan's Dispatch,] INDEPENDLNCE, 314nert 31,9 P. M. Sevcrai hundred rewriting enik!rinits front Kansas have • jiist entered our city. 'They were preeceded by tlie.WestpOrt and Independence Brass Bands. They came iti at the WeSt. side of the public :cpiare, :11111 proceeded entirely aminod it. the bands cheering no With line music, and the emigrants with giaid news.— Immediately following the bands, were about two liendrea lior,cinen, in regular order; fol. ii sing theNe were one 1 - Mildred and fifty Wag ons, carriages, c. They gave repeated cheers fur Kansas and ,Missouri. They report that not au antislavery titan will be in tile leg of Kansas. We h?iee made a cleat. sweep. POWER OF TEACHERS OVER SCHOLARS OUT OF SCHOOL The late Superintendent made what we thought a very unfortunate decision on this suliject, and we are glad Col: Curtin hold: a'contrar) : opinion. We find in the School Journal for April - several decisions of gteat importance, and among othets this one: • The an hority of teachers over pupils out , of the school horn re, is a question- over which the Depar.ment has, under the Jaw, only ad visory, and not absolute, power; and defer ence to former decisions - on the sublec•. has , delayed instructions thus far on tliis •pout. But numerous and increasing complains ' front sing c schoo's and emire disir c , s, of bid condnc. and ;:c - s of insubordinatiori, at the' school house and under the eye of the direct -1/I'S end tember, h ire been received. These cases, so demoralizing, m the r charac er and subversive of the d.scipline of the schools, yet neg ec:ed by paren.s, and not propery cognl z,b c by the Courts, require the statement, here, ilia; in the opinion of .he present Super intendent, the jurkd ct.on and au.hority of the 'fetcher over pupils is .neither limited by the school house walk, nor to the time the • scion. is .ucinaily in session; but thit, as in general ru e, in all matters legitimate y con nected wi h .he schools and the manners and mordis of lie schol.tik, the teacher's jurisdic tion commences at the moment when pupils ' Ie ire the p..rental roar and control to go to schoo!, and continues t.util their return. from school. How do you like the idea ofselling . deacons of churches.in Christian America l-,-Couders part Journal. The " ide t of selling deacons of churches . " is no more revolt ng MAI that of setling. Pa gans, Infide:s, or Miihommedans. We do not believe that when the Man on Calvary said " Inastnuely as ye have done it unto one of these my breihrefi, ye have done it unto me," he referred to his immediate followers. Christ's breihren" . were all mankind. The sab•e Ethiopian, the swarthy Asiatic, and fair skinned Caucasian—who her they worship fleithen Ido.s, the God of the Chris.ians, or prostrate ilietnse.ves before the Mah mutedan altar, and devoutly- exclaim, "Allah ie great; and Mahommed is his Prophet !"—were bre.h ren aake.to him: and literefore he who holds in bond ige the most depraved, most ignorant, in being, no Matter what the comp exion or re igious creed, is ensiaving the spirit or Christ. We are not of those whose sympa thy is on'y drawn nut when a pious deacon, or a whim "an ge of God" is fount] in Slavery, If it be Just to ens aye a sab'e pagan, it is also just to rivet the chains of bondage noon pious deacons.— Free Press. To all which We say Amen. When we penned the paragraph from which the above question was taken, we were simply stating a case that would puzzle eten conservative theology . tO defend, not as we are in the habit of viewing it from our own stand-point . "Give a man power of doing what he pleases with impunity, you extinguish his fear, and consequently - overiurn in him one of the great pil lars of morality. This_ we find con"- firmed by matter of fact. How many. hopeful heirs apparent to grand em pires, when in the possession of them, have become such . monsters of lust and cruelty. as are a reproach to hu man nature."--Addisott.• The cruelties perpetrated cm the, slaves of the South, are accounted for in the above axiom of a great man. From the Washington Union, April 3.. Tho KnovirNothing Candidate for. Governor of Virginia, an Anti-Slavery *an: I The Rik 'pond Enquirer has of a startling chtrac:er as to the pasitiOn'of the Know-Nothing eandidate'for Goventor of Virg nic. It le,,rns alas cogi•en.ion was he d at Charoae conr-house in 1 . 46 or 1847, on the suh ; ect of in ernal improvements, at which Mr. Tunstail maintain d, in a speech, th . it the comparative degeneracy of Virg.nia, was due 10-a want of &talkies for commercial. inteteourse. Mr. nournoy controvested this position, and ma:manned ;hat the decline of Virginia was due to negro slivery, asserting that no• country c.in be prosperous wi,ll a slave popu lation. These are the sentiments avowed . every day by northern- freesoi:ers and anti-ela very men. A,s Mr. Flournoy is a Know - Nothing, and as we are: satisfied that there is acl s affinity Between Know-Noibings and freesoi:ers,-we'eannot say that we aie greatly surprised by this revelattoti. We :hull be sur prised, however, if it does not awakerithe peop e of Virginia to the angur of encour aging the 6ecrek order. wiihin her borders. What a precious set of prophets these leaders of sham democracy _are. Last week we copied from the Har risburg Union a pijediction that the Virginians•would rush pell-mell into Know-Nothingism, in order to defeat the. party' of freedom( and : here we have its Washington namesake, assert ing that the. KnuriNothings of Vir ginia: are in close affinity with free soilers. Which of these prophets is a true one One of them must be false, as they contradict each other; and we are half inclined to the opinion, they are neither of them entitled to credit, and.that they are fair samples . of the pro-slavery press as a class—incapa ble of telling the truth. "/ualrr ON" Have you enemies? Go straight on, dad mind them no;. If they b ock up your path, wa.k around them, reg.trd.ess of their Etlite• A" nr;.n Who has no. enemies is se.dQm good for anyiting—ne:is made of th.tt kind -of tua terial which is sd easi.y worked that every one h.ts a hand in it. A s cr.ing charac er—one who thinks for h mseT, and spe .ks whit he thinks, is always sure to have enemies.. They arc as necessary.to him as fresh air; they keep hint alive and active. A ce.ebrAted ch,trae.er, who was surrounded by enemies, used to re mark: They are sparks which, if you do not blow will go out of-themsetves." ,Let this be your whi e ende.voring to live down the scandet of those who are bitter agiinst yon. If you sop .to dispu 6, your do Wit as they deSire, and open the way for more obtuse. Let the poor fetiows talc—Hfiere will t' be but reaction, if you perform but your duty, and hundreds who were once mien tied front you, will flock to you and acknow edge their error. .=.l}funehlv jubilee. • The " excrescence" is affectionately invited to study the 'above before writing any more fancy articles. We have already seen several sparks "go out of themselves," and no amount of slander by him or his associates will ever induce us to " blow" him into notice laP Some two or three weeks since . we saw in. Ulysses a new gristmill, in which we took great interest. It is a lute invention, and a great improve ment on anything heretofore discov ered, as it requires less than half the power of the old fashioned mill, and does its work equally well. Our en terprising friend, E. Gridley, of Lew isville, has One of these mills in opera tion, where the credulous can exam ine for themselves. CT "What a pity" it is that Minis ters, lecturers, and all others who labor for the good of mankind, . do not always remember that vulgarity, coarseness, and allusions and appeals to the passions and prejudices of •the public, belong to the other side of each ' great question: If it be the praetice to "steal the livery of heaven to serve the devil in," We hardly need steal the livery of the devil to' o good with. Or The Vermont State Prison is getting into a bad way. Owing to a great decrease of crime in the State, there are not convicts enough to pay current expenses, and. the establish ment, which has hitherto more than support l ed itself out of the. labor of the prisoners, will now be a public charge. The Superintendent attrih utes this bad state of things to the Maine Law of Vermont. IZP In ancient days the celebrated precept„was, "Know Thyself;" in modern times this saying is rendered, " Know Nothing." " A Mari who follows the dic tate? of truth and right reason, may, by artifice, bo led into. error, but never can into guilt, Mr The ivater in the Allegany at this place was high enough to float logs on Friday afternoon and Satur day last, and Mr. ENSWORTR made good use of the water. Several thou:. .sand pine and cherry logs were float ed from here on Friday afternoon. It was a pleasant sight, enjoyed by a large number of our citizens. • • - - - -- • For the Journal. A FEW THOUGHTS FOR' THE SONS 017 . TEMPERANVE.. DEAR BROtIIEiS:f The Temperance cnuse moves slowly,. but still it moves. Progress has mat ked its histOry from the first. The work to be accom- plished was tno vast, too deep, too broad to be 'wrought in a brief periq. Evils diehard at best, and contend' for existence to the last. Like man, updn whonithey prey, and curse, and ruih, they only die olnecessity—for live they will, as long as they can. Now; the spirit of reform, develop ing itself in "the Temperance cause) seeks the destruction of the evils o intemperance;' a herculean task s we grant, hut, for this very reason, among others, we should desire its pilot...n-1- ance. 'That which costs but little, as a general thing, is but little prized, while that which costs us most, in our estimation, is the - most valuable. Is. knowledge desirable? And does its possession give' prominence ark in fluence?. Close and continued- oppli,. cation to the study of men and books is necessary; for men leap not into existence . " full grown Solomons, even Solons. Is wealth desirable, and chiefly so, because by, its proper em ployment relief is administered to the needy, and the giver blessed—su premely blessed—in the giving? Self denial and industry, _economy and frugality, are indispensable to wealth. [There are some born to fortunes, and those who obtain wealth without-indus try—by robbing their fellow men; and owe their fancied high position to no superior worth of their own.—En.] Well. what is true of man •as an individual, is equally true of him in. associated capacity. Wouldau or ganization.accomplish anything worthy. of its . existence, -as such, it must be - content to lai;or. and to wait. For tunately for the world, the Order of the Sons of Temperance, with. com paratively few exceptions, has been made up of just such men. By such, I the glorious Temperance teformation has been brought to its' present ad vanced position, from which its advo- - cates are greeted with demonstrations of. victory, multiplying in the East and the West, the North and the South. Be encouraged, then, brothers, for the sun of your hope is in the ascendant, and not in the decline. The dwellers, in the vale and on the mountain are rejoicing to hear the tread of your march on your way to the grand con. , summation of your toils-the univer sal triumph of the cause Remember that you live "when advancement; pro , gression, and reformation, in regal d to everything that can be benefitted . by these; is called for, expected, and I seriously demanded; when, by a free • press and free speech, and cheap postage, and railroads, and_ lightning wires expediting the transmission of ! intelligence, great facilities are en- Joyed fin- doing good. Yours, in truth, is a very desirable position; desirable because you have toiled up to it, and because you have reached it by dint of.,,perseverance in . the free use of heavy, hard• arguttients; desirable, be cause you are the stronger . for the labor; and the many you. have blessed on your way: It is desirable for an other reason, and that is this: you can maintain it, and you Mean to do it. Does any one doubt \ it We say, you will believe it. Does any one fear it? We assure you it will not-harm you, but do you good, and only good, for ever. Do any laugh at our indulging the hope of success? We say to such, that we are in sober earnest, and that we honestly . mean to have victory or death—and that we plate victory first,. because we seriously believe it nearest. We tell the public—we tell the world—that we have looked at intem perance as regards the use of alcoholic drinks, in every light of which the subject is capable, and that our own deep, profound, and constant con viction is, that it perils the best, the highest, and the holiest interests of humanity; and that, as lovers of our country and our race, our uncompro mising warfare is and shall be against it "till the death." By all , the better affections of your nature, by the pre ceptive teachings of an immaculate Jesus, we beseech you, brothers, to regard yourselvOs bound to stand in . the Temperance ranks as long as you can stand anywhere, and to .stand there for the express purpose of fight ing to Conquer. Surely, it were in -glorious to fartes even in the nightly struggle at this, point, when as -,an Order you are' ; receiving and !Cora manding the respect which has never been • given any other Temperance organization. %lee' victory, piiied on - easy wing, only Waits-your bidd i ng to. sit in graceful attitude upon yOur banners; and when the clement of this reform. has been felt in our town, and county, 'and State elections,. and has actually Crossed the threshold of almost every State Capitol, to chal lenge the scrutiny of the legislafor, and to dare the, veto of the Executive, and when one Governor, swayed iby the rum power; denied its legitimacy, was elected, the-very first oppiirtunity, •to never fill the Chair of State. agiin. At such a time—at: such a pointt--You will not falter, I knoW you 'll not, but ba-content to labor and to wait:. Yours in L., P., and F., • . STILWELL. • East Smithfield, Bradford Co., SitattoN, March 28th, 1555, Editors of the Journal: You doubt less, have plenty of Literary commu, nications friim. rustics, (of which 1 claim to he a fine specimen.) But as your, or rather our paper, is a Pee pie's .Journal,• you have no right to complain if now and then one reaches you from 80111 C remote corner. So much- by way of apology. Well, in• the. northwest corner of the northwest town in Potter county, is a sub-School-District,. known:as "Horse Run," and a quiet:, out-of-the way kind of place it is "too; though not so far out of - the 'pay but what the most of us take and read the Trihnnc and People's Journal. Early . last win ter we formed a Lyceurn•or Debating Club, under rather unfavorable cir cumstances. But our Lyceum las", .met regularly, and. weekly since its organiaation,.. and the interest felt has increased at each succeeding meeting, till we have concluded to dignify it with the- name of " The House Atm Literary Aisociation." The Associ ation will meet once in two weeks till SePtember next, and then weekly again, through the fall. and winter. Now allowing your humble correspOnd e4 to be a proper judge of the Mat terc this Lyceum has done much giind, in Waking up the ideas -of those who have become rusty by disuse,and stim ulating the younger part of comnni nity to reading and reflection.. And we do not expect the advantages. to stop here. Last Saturday evening we listened to. an able and eloquelit lecture froin F. A. Jones, a young ' gointleman born and reared in this town, but now a successful teacher in the Waterford Academy, Eric Co., P. His subject was "Max" and he adOpted the old text, " The Proper, study of mankind is man." He spoke intelligently of the laws of our being, our phisical,• Moral,- and intellectual training, and in a masterly. manner •piinted out the duties of those whose province -it is to mould the-iminOrtal mind of the young.. When speaking of man's capacities, capabilities and duties, old fogyism, intemperance and dough-faceism were severely handled, 'and I believe all who heard it went away benefited and instructed. You shall hear from us occasionally, if it is not asking too much. . • Yours truly; K * THE LETTERS' COMPLAINT As the Journal has benevolently published the - complaints of those much-abused set Tants of the peeple, the Words, I hope you will not turn a deaf ear to an accint of the greater hardships of a smaller - family, who are the servants of these servants ; and who are much abused, rnis-placed, transposed and overworked; especial ly the'sisters, and most of all myself, the first on the list. Not that I should complain of double duty, as-that is the lot of most eldest sisters; but mine is qu'adruple at least. A gentleman cannot get hat, cane or segar, without calling for me, and; as if that were not enough, 1 am often compelled to do duty for my second or third sister: For instance, Jenna instead of Jennie or Jenny. but this abuse : is more general iu pronuncia tion than in spelling, and is often bard on little sis, as-she is wrongfully made my deputy; as in Sareo, Elizee, &c. And worse than that, and more to be deplored, • sheis compelled, in the for mation of one of the most powerful words of the English language, to stand flanked on the left by three and on the right by four brothers. • Egotists abuse the third, and tier• vous•or timid re:ipl e the fourth sister, while the' brothers, though thrice e et • number and boastful of their r eatou. flue strength, can do nothing withoutus. A. P. S. Apropos — to abuses of lee. guage. Have the boys much cause to thank your advertiser for offitin them all a coati It might not fit them all ; if he gave each boy a coat, th ey Might' than k. hi m. [CommuNicATED.) : READING THE BIBLE IN SCHOOL, Mn. ELM :—ln compliance with your request, I give you through medium my views upon the subject above named. As it "can hardly b e imagined that any friend of education or of good morals, would object to have the Bible read•in our Schuoli,l will not stn) to - defend the' practice, but simply advert to the time and manner in which it may most apiira priately be done. The plan, then, which I should pro poSe, under the circumstances, isms:. Let the teacher• read a suitaliki pot. tion, not' too long, both morning and afternoon, just after recess. The- ex. et cise will -thus be elevated aboVe the routine of ordinary school tasks,. and exempted from the•awkwardi,ess and merriment so often arising in the teaching of blundering pupils. The time proposed is better than the open. ing hour in the 11101 fling, from the fact that many scholars in our large and• scattered districts are tardy mid irreg. ular in their attendance. The time is better than the close of school, as the scholars are then impatient to get nut. At no time of thJ day can their at• tention be bolter fixed, than after a littie healthful bodily . exercLe. It will readily i,ccur to teachers that after reading the Scriptures would be a very suitable time fbr any general ream: ks, advice, or admonition. - plan proposr;d is that whichl deem hest calculated, in mixed :c.,11,,,,;3 like ours, to ye the end to he sought 6,1., in having the tend, (Riley,ni the proinothiu of gond mot al influences. A different plan would Le in a i-chind consibting er• tiroly• of-large scholars. If tlu Dire tore- . would place, the Bible in each ho u , e, they would do a good work; and 1 ,11 ,uld. be happy at • any 1.1171 C, if rfe,ired, to recoinmend sel C . ion of chapters ino.t :•tritable to he tend. lour.; truly. B. Paws, Cu. Su i •criute:Kiertt Coudersport, April stii, THE WAY TO H.3ALTIL Which is the way I. Health? the Hydro-pzith,lhe \.I --„Lith, or the lio meo•path ? \Vim e there are so rawly paths it is hard t > kilow which to fol low.—Elmira 'rho Syracuse Journal makes the d lowin ate-wer_ to our queries: The only true "path" to He filth is that which comm in sense a t its to man. Live within the bomal• of rea son. Eat modPrat-lv—drink temper ittely—leep regniarly—avoid excess iu anythiog—mti pre: Serve a con science "void . of ofike.." Some men eat them=elves to death—some drink themselves to death—some ‘ear out their lives by indolence, and .some by over exertion—others are killed by the_ doctors, while not a few sink prema turely into the grieve under the effects of vicion:rold bea-tly practices. NJue of the Pathies are worth a Eirthing to a man who is constantly and in/bitually violating the laws of his own nature. All the medical science iu the world cannot save him from a ,premature grave. We kluiw scores of young men who are thus ritinim,z, .them=elves. It i= sad _ to see the :Army , frame of manhood en ervated and effemioated in the prime of life—to set. the cheek become pale, the eye dim, the nerves nustrung_and the mind enfbebled at the very time when strength is needed and- health mist desirable. Yet such cases are numerous in this age of excessive in dulgence and youthful depravity. — The remedy must he .s .ught in some thing beside the apothecary's :410p, or the doctor's knaPsuck. Mural culture, temper:lnce, 'and a di-creel economy of the natural resources of body and mind, constitute the true "waY ° - Health," • The Hydropath, the Allopath, and / the Homeopath may all be very see( ViCCAIC to those who axe wive enough. ' to take care of thern,:elve.:. But they might as. well "throw physic to the dogs" as to presc r ibeit to finds, bran -. 4 -drinkers and debauchees." - "Which is the way to health'?" Con sult your own good sense—avoid grog shops and evil associations, and pre serve unimpaired the functions of your being. Why is u, , dead duck like a dea' doctor? lieCaij se th e y have bath ceased to quack. •