I jinnies and iltttf, day, month and voar of Hit erection or tho several unities of tlm Commonwealth ul Pennsylvania, ntiJ this territory tVoiq, which" they won formed; tho three (i,t counties which wero formed, to wit - Philadelphia, Uupk and Chester, were established at first settlement of tho Provinetrof Pennsylvania, and formed tho only original comities of all that territory of which tho now groat Mate iH formed, comprised of sixty-six counties, as follow, to wit : Adams, January !, 1800, formed of a part of York. Alleghony,Scptomler24,1788,form e.l of a part of Westmoreland and Washington. Armstmnir. March 12. 1R00. formed of a part of Allegheny, Westmoreland and Lycoming. Beaver, March 12, 1S00, formed of a part of Allegheny and Washington. Bedford, March !, 1771, formed of a pVt of Cumberland. Berks, March 11, 1752, formed of a part of Philadelphia, Chestor and Lan caster. Blair, February 20, 1M0, formed of a part of Huntingdon and Bedford. Bradford, February 21, 1810, form ed of a part of Luzerne and Lycoming Biicks, one of the throo original counties of tho Province, f Butler, March 12, 1800, formed of a part of Alleghony. Cambria, March 20, 1804, formed of a part of Huntingdon, Somerset and Bedford. Cameron, March 20, 1800, formed ot a part of Clinton, Elk, M'Kean and Iii! tor Carbon, March 13, 1843, formed of apart of Northampton ana .Monroe. Centro, February 13, 1800, formed of a part of MitHn, Northumberland, Lycoming and Huntingdon. Chester, one of the original coun ties established at the first settlement of the Province. Clarion, March 11, 183D, formed of a part of Venango and Armstrong. Clearfield, March 20, 104, formed of a part of Lycoming and Northum berland. Clinton, Juno 21, 139, formed of a part of Lycoming and Centre Columbia, March 22, 1813, formed of a part of Northumberland. Crawford, March 12, 1800, formed of a part of Allegheny. Cumberland, January 27, 1750,form- aA rC a nnrr. nfT.iinno.st.er. Dauphin, March 4, 1785, formed of a part ot .Lancaster. Delaware, September 20, 1789,form ed of a part of Chester. Elk, April 18, 1843, formed of a part of Jefferson, Clearfield and M'Kean. Erie, March 12, 1800, formed of a part of Allegheny. Fayctto, September 20, 1783, form ed of a part of Westmoreland. Forest, April 11, 1848, formed from a part of Jefferson and Venango. X Franklin, September 0, 1784, form ed from a part of Cumberland. Fulton, April 19, 1850, formed from a part of Bedford. liroeno, February 0, 1790, formed from a part of Washington. Huntingdon, September 20, 1787, formed from apart of Bedford. Indiana, March 30, 1X03, formed from a part of Westmorelund and Ly coming. Jefferson, March 20, 1804, formed from a part of Lycoming. Juniata, aiarcn s, ioi, iormcu irum a part of Mifflin. Lancaster, May 10, 1729, formed from a part of Chester. Lawrence, March 25, 18.10, formed from a part of Beaver and Mercer. Lebanon, February 10, 1813, formed frnm rmrt of Dannhin and Lancaster. Lehigh, March 0, 1812, formed from a part of Northampton. Luierno, September 25, 1780, form ed from a part of Northumberland. Lycoming, April 13, 1790, formed from a part of Northumberland. M'Kean, March 20, 1804, formed from a part of Lycoming. Mercer, March 12, 1800, formed from a part of Alleghony. Mifflin, September 19, 1789, formed from a part of Cumberland and North umbcrlnnij. Monroe, April 1, 1830, formed from a part of Northampton and Pike. . Montgomery, September 10, 1784, formed from a part of Philadelphia. Montour, May 3, 1850, formodfrom a part of Columbia. Northampton, March 11, 1752, form ed from a part of Bucks. Xnrthnmlwirliind. March 27. 1772. formed from parts of Lancaster, Cum berland, Borks, ueuioru ana ioriii amiiton. Porry, March 22, 1820, formod from a part of Cumberland. Philadelphia, one of the three ori ginal counties established at the first settlement of the Province. Piko, March 20, 1814, formod from a part of Wayno. Potter, March 20, 1804, formod from a part of Lycoming. Sthuykill, March 1, 1811, formed from a part of Berksand Northampton. Snyder, March 2, 1855, formed from a pnrt of Union. Somerset, April 17, 1705, formed from a port of Bedford. Sulliian, March 15, 1847, formed from ft niirt of Lvcominff. Susquehanna, Fobruary 21, 1810, formed lrom a part oi ijiir.erne. Tioga, March 20, 1X04, formed from a part of Lycoming. Cnton,Mareh 22, 1813, formod from a part of Northumberland. Venango, March 13, 1800, formod from a part of Allegheny and Lycom ing. Warren, March 12,1 800, formed from O part of Alleghony and Lycoming. Vayne, March 21, 1790, formed from a part of Northampton. Washington, March 28, 1781, form - cd from a part of Westmoreland. Westmoreland, February 20, 1773, formed from a part of Bedford, and in 17x5 part of tho pur-hase of 17X4 was added thereto. Wyoming, April 4, 1842, formed from a part of Northumberland and Lnr.erne. York, Angnst 19, 17 19, formed from , a part of Lancaster. I'revinni In March 2, IMJ, tlm county we MM Ontario, km Ha name toi changed to Brad. fuH on that day. f Husk county waa one. of lb three original rountiea estahluhed at the lint aettleaient of the Vrotineenf Pennsylvania : the other two being Philadelphia and Chester. On lore mf A es.V, VW. I. J Turt of Venango aided It at approved Oe- CLEARFIELD tHH REPUBLICAN. GEO. B. G00DLANDEE, Proprietor. PRINCIPLESNOT MEN. , TERMS-$2 per annum, in Advance VOL. 38-WHOLE NO. 2001. CLEARFIELD, PA., THURSDAY, JAN. 31, 1807. NEW SERIES-VOL. 7, NO. 28. f Fragmentary History of fin noliriiim. 1NCLUDINO SIODKHN RKPUBLICANI8M. Since modern politics aro almost exclusively built upon french. ideas, combining religion, atheism, f'reo thinking, orthodox and hotoortodox notions in a strange mannor, it is not unproutable to turn back occasionally and examine tho difficulties which other nations, especially France and England, underwent when they em braced fanaticism. Franco, before her torriblo revolu tion, bad her philosophers men who let about tearing down established institutions in order to erect better ones upon the ruins of tho old. The French revolution started ou atheism and ended in blood. The English revolution under Cromwell began io religion and endod in fanati cism. The fanaticism common to Crom well's time has beon vory prevalent to our own. Voltaire defines fanaticism to bo the effect ot a fulso conscience, which makes religion subservient to the ca prices of the imagination and tho ex cesses of tho passions. All fanatics are rigorists and are governod by one ruling passion, or idea, which excludes every other idea, just as the United States are exclusively engaged and exercised by the negro, neglecting all thoughts and feelings, and public want, not immediately connected with the African. . Voltaire contended that those who originato fanaticism are impostors. Their disciples are simple dupes, wan dering round tho truth without ever obtaining it. He insists that the world for fifteen centuries was enslaved by fanaticism. Fanatics advocate the slaughter of all who oppose thoir frenzies. llcligion has in all ages beon drawn in to aid the progress of funaticism, except during the French revolution, when a courtezan represented the Deity. Aguin, a fanatic will kill men for the love of God, or the prcntonded love of God. Voltairo assures us that fanaticism is a malady of the mind. Books communicate it much less than meetings and discourses. We seldom got heated while reading in solitude; for our minds are then tranquil and seduto. Hut when an ardent man, of strong imagination, Thud. Stevens, for instance, addresses himself to weak imaginations, his eyes dart fire, and that fire rapidly spreads; his tones, his gostures, absolutely con vulse the nerves of his audience. Tho above is a very lifo-like description of those demagogues, Donton, Robes pierre and Murat, who, years after tho aixive was written, got control oi uie French nation, as leading demagogues in tho liump Congress havo captured tho United States through negro fa naticism. Put all fanatical leaders aro not hot bloods like old John Brown and others of his kidney, though their dupes usually aro. oltaireaskg: Whatcan bo said in answer to a man who says he will rather obey God than man, and who consequently feels certain of moriting heaven by cutting your throalr When one fanaticism has gangrened the brain, tho disease may bo regarded as nearly incurnblo. Airuin ho declares that "fanatics al most alwa)-s aro under the diroclion of knavos who place the duggor in thoir hands." Trocisoly as knaves in Congress propose to furnish daggers to thoir adherents to march onco more airninst tho prostrate South. Cromwell, in England, though ho led fanatics, was himself no fanatic. According to Ludlow, Cromwell said to General Fairfax : "How ran you possibly expect a rabblo of London portent and apprentices to resist a nobility urgod on by the principle, or rather tho phantom of honor; Let us acluato them by a more powerful nhantom fanaticism 1" "Give me a commission, ond I will raiso a reiriment of brother murderers, whom I will pledgo myself soon to mako in vincible fanatics: To return to tho fanaticism so pre valent in our own country, as exhib ited by tho Badical Republican parly: It is a cardinal principle of that party, so long as a disciplo denounces the South and advocates the negro, he is in high standing with his partisan confreret and this regardless of in tegrity and moral condition. How many thousands are now in the en joyment of Republican offices, with all thoir emoluments and honors, who did but little during tho war except to plunder the country North and South. V et these public pilferers are more ap plauded and regardod by Radical Re publicans than those faithful soldiers. Grant and Sherman, who conquered a peace. llow careful, too, is Congress all tho while to avoid any investigation into tho thousand million dollars filched from tho Government during tho war. But how fearful is that body that if the South was in 1'ongress all these frauds migjit be looked up and ex posed f -Vic York l-lrprcu. An old minister enforced tho noces sitv of difference of opinion by argu ment: "Now, if everybody had beon of my opinion, they would all have wanted my old woman. One of tho deacons, who sat just behind him. responded : "Yes; and if everybody was of my opinion, nobody would have her. In a saloon in Syracuse, N. Y'., some sixty odil dollars had disappeared in a very mysterious manner, being takon from the money-till when porsons were in tho room. At last a portion of the oountcr was removed, when a rat was discovered fnst asleep on a bed made of greenbacks and postal rnrreinv. i The Supreme Court. ITS 11KARINO ON ENFHANCIII8EMKNT. As the compass to the marinor, so is thoSupromoCourtof thoUnited States tho sure guide to tho people upon car dinal questions of right. Three weeks ago that tribunal pronounced a deci sion which has been well character ized as a new declaration of rights. By it that palladium of porsonul lib erty, trial by jury, was roscucd frqm its enemies and restored to its proper place in tho temple of justice. Here after tho citizen will bo secure in bis lifo, liberty and property from tho arbitrary power of military commis sions. Martial law, with its attendant horrors, can find uo shelter or protec tion under the Constitution of the United States. But a still more odious tyranny than that of military com missions bad been imposed upon the people of the United States by tho Congressional test oath of July, 1802, and upon the people of Maryland and of Missouri by their respective State Constitutions. These cunningly do vised provisions excluded men from holding offices of honor, profit, or trust, or from practicing as attorneys at law, from exercising the office of preacher or teacher, and from tne right of voting unless they purged themselves by most searching oaths, not only in regard to acts previously denounced by the laws of the land as criminal, but for tho utterance of their opinions and sympathies, making no distinction between tho spontaneous affections of the heart and those de liberate acts of malignity and opposi tion to the known law which are alone rccoirnizcd by civilized nations as proper subjects for punishment. Had the validity of such provisions been recognized by tho Supreme Court, there would practically have lecn little relief to the public by tho declara tion that tho citizen was entitled to a trial by jury. Tho decision pronounced on tho 14th instant uKin the validity ot tost- oaths is a complete, and searching ex position of their enormity. They are shown to be sweeping bills of pains and penalties, bills of attainder ir. tlioir most comprehensive lorm, ex post jacio laws wiinin me piam pruviviun of the Constitution of tuo United States, and hnd imitations of most cruel penal laws enacted in England in tho reign of Henry VIII, William III and Georgo III. No well-informed man could doubt, what the court so explicitly asserts, that uny law which, whether through the subter fuge of an cxpurgatory oath or the more open lonu oi trial and convic tion and sentonco, disqualifies or dO' prives a man of rights for past con duct, is a punishment, and cannot bo otherwise defined; and as such, comes expressly within tho prohibi tion of tho Constitution against any State passing any bill of attainder or ex post facto law. There can bo no evasion of tho Constitution by the way in which tho power is exercised. No matter whether it bo in tho form of a provision in a Stato constitution' disqualifying a party from holding office or in an act of the .Legislature, whother efTectod by an cxpurgatory oath or by sentence of a court, the consequence is tho same, the violation of justice equally flagrant, tho inva sion of tho civil right of a citizen equally palpable and indefensible Morcovor, any expurgatory oath which operates substantially as a means of punishmont is a violation of tho Constitutional provision securing to every man tho right of triul by i ii rv. X Ins decision oi tho Miprome i.ouri happens most opportunely. It covers precisely tho disqualifying cluuses of tho constitution oi our own Mate, which havo operated so oppressively and unjustly uKn ourpoople. It would be a strange spectacle if, aftor this adjudication, any ono should seriously undcrtako to defend the policy or the legality of provisions which were adopted by men in the haste of passion, amid the excitements of war, and which now, after two ex haustive argnmonts by the most emi nent counsel in tho land, and after a whole year of anxious deliberation, with the full consciousness of thoir responsibility, tho Supreme Court lias so emphatically condemned, and con demned alike in the States and in the Federal Government. Thero can bo no qualification or restriction npon rights which lie at the foundation of thoso liberties and privileges which woro vindicated once for all by the American revolution, and only proclaimed for g-cntor certainly in iho original Stnto constitutions and in tho Federal bond of Union. If this is and ought to be indissoluble, the rights it was meant to socure should bo sacred from every stain. Nor should so fhgrant an invasion of the privileges of citizens bo suffered to remain uncondemned by thoir repre sentatives ono hour after tho Supremo Court has pronounced against its va lidity. Baltimore Sun. Important to Postmasters. Post masters throughout tho country will save trouhlo by obeying tho laws in regard to newspapers, &c. hen a paper remains dead in xne nines ior four consecutive weeks, it is the duty of tho Postmaster or his deputy to send the publisher a trnlti n notice of tho fact staling, ifpossibln, tho ren son whv the papor is not lifted. The sending to tho publishers pf a paper marked "not hived, "refused or "un called for," is not a legnl notice. Post masters who fail to comply witn the law in this respect aro liable for th subscription for the time said pa per remains dead in thoir offices. Jenkins at a ball speaks of "olfacto ries feted with perfume and languid ConfiHtnHitn. UNPEhWOOD AND CNIZKHANDED PHO OEKIUNOS. Tho Alexandria, Virginia, Cftwite publishes a court decision of Judgo Thomas, which reveals somo extraord inary proceedings on tho part of the altogether too-well known Judge Un derwood, and of Messrs. John B. Al loy, Oakes Amesrand Samuel Hooper, members of tho "moral ideas" party, and representatives from moral Mas sachusetts in tho present Congress. It appears thnt tho property of Mr. Wm. N. McVeigh was seized, first by the United States Marshal and confisca ted, and afterwards by the sheriff un der an attachment by ecrtttin credi tors, and was sold In -iuth fnslttnees. By agroemcnt of tho parlies to the suit it was slated before Judge Thom as that a portion of the proMirty was levied upon prior to its seizure under tho act of confiscation. Rut without going particularly into this part of tho case, it is also dated that Judgo Underwood, of tho United States Cir cuit Court, a shining light among the two dozen Radicals in Virginia, and a self-elected "Southern Loyulist," af ter passing judgment of confiscation (in his own court) against the fee sim ple of Mr. MoVeioh's handsome resi dence, ho, the Judge, shortly came into possession of that identical piece of property, the local journal says, "for a song." But discrediting his own decree, be attempted to strength en bis title by buying up certain judg ments under the attachment process. Judge Thomas' decision sets aside these proceedings as invalid, and, only last week, the J udiciary Committee of the House of Representatives declared that the confiscation law does not for fait tho fee simple of condemned prop erty, which collupscs Judgo Under wood's court docree as completely as Judgo Thomas' docision nullifies bis subsequent private transactions to secure tho property. Icaving Judge tnderwood at this point, we pass to the connection with this transaction of Alley k Company from Massachusetts. In addition to the "handsome residence" which Un derwood wanted, there was a valuuble wharf property whioh eager would-be purchasers "saw" Alley about, were advised to buy, and Alley said ho "could rent the proiicrty to the gov ernment" so that they could realize upon their interest. Tho testimony of Mr. John ('. llalderson, a Baltimore merchant, tells the story as follows : "We sold our judgments to Mr. Al ley for their full amount, less seven hundred dollars, that bping the esti mated proportions of a prior attach ment resting on tho property. On the evening of May 10, 1804, tho day on which the salo under our attach ments was advertised to take place at Mr. Beach's office, we executed as signments of our judgments to John IJ. Alley, Oakes Ames, f amuel Hoop er and Villiam A. Duncan. Tho sale did not tako place until about two o'clock p. in. We went from the office of Mr. Beach to the market houso, whore tho sale was made. Pre vious to the sale Mr. Alloy intimated that we should not bid against hi in. Tho property was mostly bid in by Mr. Alley. Imado tome bids at his suggestion, and ho would bid over mo. I think Mr. Duncan made ono or two bids. Mr. Alley managed the bidding; in the settlement of ono salo to Mr. Alley and others, wo received Mr. Ames' note for S4.000 at sixty days; Mr. Alley's draft on his house in Boston for the balanco of the sum due, less Mr. Duncan's payment to him of l,f)lt which Mr. Alley paid over to us. I overheard Mr. Alley and Mr. Duncan agree to proportionally share tho risk of a note to be given by Judge Underwood for hit proportion of the purchaw. ln the conversation with Mr. Alley, in which he insisted mat wo should not bid against him, his lancuntre was 'we having purchased your judgments yon cannot (or will not) bid against us. Other witnesses cave nearly tho same testimony, and Judgo Thomas in summing up concludes as follows: "The petitioner, Jtlcioigh, has in troduced much evidence tending to prove that the purchasers of his prop erty, under tho judgment upon tho attachment, had entered into a fraud ulent combination, in pursuance of which his properly wos ruinously sacrificed, ho thereupon maintains are notcntitlod to the benefits belonging to bona fide purchasers at judicial sales." Nothinir more neod be said unless nn mention that Mr. Aller. who was a member of this "fraudulent combi nation" is succeeded in his district in the Fortieth Congress by Ir. Butler, and that possibly moral Massachusetts may consider Alley and Butler her representative men. .V. Y. World. Jipoe Taney's Moniment. Tho movement initiated by Judgo Mar shall and Hugh McAleer, Esq , of this cit)', w ith a view to tho erection of a suilablo monument over the remains of Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, which reposo by the sido of his mother in the old Catholic cemetery of this city, will, it is hoped, meet with that en couragement it so eminently deserves. Subscription lists have been sent by those gentlemen to members of the l.ar in all the count v towns in the Slate, and tho city of llalt.imoro, with tho view of giving every section of the State an opportunity of joining in the good work and it is hoped a lively interest will bo taken in all tho coun ties towards tho completion of the monument in a manner worthy the eminent Chief Justice, (whose high judicial integrity and virtues shed a lustre on his elcvatod position,) and sorve as a beacon light to his succes sors for ages, and ever reflect honor on his native Stnto of Maryland lYed nick Cit 'i sen. Heynlone Mediocrity. It is useless to disguise tho fact that Pcnnsylvnnia.vost as aro her resources and materially rich and prosperous as she is, does not possess the political Influence that is wielded by portions of tho country comparative!' insig nificant in wealth. She is sid, indeed, to decide tho contest for tho Presi dency, but aftor a President is elected, the "Jve3,stono"and Iierpooplo4jocome shadows dimly soon in tho atmosphere of tho capital and the mist is not dis pelled until the banners of party con flict are aguin in the field. It neods no ghost from tho grave to tell us the why and wherefore of the contempt into which Pennsylvania has c 1 1 . i' i ; . I : I . I . iwiuil hv n anmiipiuii. u uim 11.1101- Statos cherish their foremost mon and secure a vigorous and devoted repre sentation in Congress, wo aro driving into obscurity our highest and strong est intellects and elevating to posi tions of gravest responsibility men who are as feeble as Curtin, as illiter ate and corrupt as Cameron, or as self- willed, cvil-heartod and overbearing as Stevens. If, in short, Pennsylvania is remark able, politically, for any one thing, it is her persevering attention to her mediocrity. All superiority is ignored with iron-heaccd indifference. While she has at her bur and in the walks of literature some of the finest intellects of the country jurists and scholars, and writers, and statesmen like Jere miah s. Black, Judges oodward and Sharswood, Wm. M. Meredith, Wm. IJ Reed, and others she persists in send ing to Washington a delegation emi nent only for want of ability and which allows the great interests of the Slate to co a-begging for a little charitable consideration from tho national gov ernment. If, by the application of unseen spurs, a member of this delect able band is compelled to get upon his feet, ten to one he rises to propose a scheme to advance tho interests of some other Stato or ol a city rivaling the metrojxiln of Ins own. i hue Philadelphia or Pittsburgh may de mand in vain such legislation by Con gress as they have a right to ask in behalf of their peoiilo, we find men, supposed to have been elected to rep resent our welfare, acting ns agents, as far as in them lies, for New York speculators or New England capital ists and maniitucturers.topusii through projects for robbing the Federal treus nrv or oiiiiressiii!r the people of all the country besides, and thus displaying themselves to tho eyes or tho nation either as egregious blockheads or min ions of the lobby. If, as now, a Sono- tor is to be chosen, instead of sending to tho Capital a hrst-rato statesman, qualified to copo in debate with the best talent in tho upper branch of Congress, the chances aro in lavor ol tho eloction of somo dirty politician of littlo brains, less knowledgo, and no virtuo of the kind required in the Federal Sinato. There havo been honors bio exceptions to this rulo, in both Houses, but tho rulo is as we havo stated. The rural districts are not altogeth er to blame in this matter. Our cities rannot boast of the brilliancy of their delegations in Congress. They havo not made use of their available mate rial. We point to that of Philadelphia at this time for illustration. Mr. Ran dall is an active, hard-working, faith ful Representative of his District ; but Kcllcy, O'Neill and Myers nro only small party puppets, nfllicted with negropliolism, and represetitNcw Eng land cupidity and arrogance, much more than the truo sentiment and sub stantial interests of Philadelphia and Pennsylvania. This, however, is tho result of tho general policy of parties in tho Slate, which, by excluding our ablest and purest men from the higher positions of Governors and Senators, and pre ferring tho most common plueo speci mens of mediocrity, has caused genu ine merit to turn away from political life with a sneer of contempt. When Pennsylvania, like somo other Slates, elevates her intellect and learning, and proudly points to her brilliant sons as her cherished jewels, and when citizens, w ith tho brains and culture of statesmen, vo tho road to useful ness clear and open before them, and not till then, Pennsylvania may hope to exercise Iter legitimate influence and secure attention to her interests in W ashington. Sunday Mercury. Tho Rump House lins passed the Senate bill admitting Nebraska and Colorado as States with negro suf frage as a condition attached. So the white people of Colorado will be com pelled to come into tho I'nion against their will, and tho two hundred dar kies of tho Territory havo triumphed. Such is RadiVal Rumpery. God help tho rascals of the ittimp, hereafter I A Tertinent yi'r.sTioN. Tho Wash ington Chronicle says : "Does it pay England to hold freland, merely py aid of bayonets and artillery ?" A much more pertinent question lor American editors in discuss is, Will it pay tho t inted Mates io hold me South by the same tenure? Roseau savs : Men will argue more forcibly about the human heart, but , women will read the hcBrt much bet ter. Women have most wit ; men have most genius. Women observe ; men reason. The world is tho book of women. "A traveler" wishes ns to explain what senso there is in just now in the term "railroad securities," seeing there is no security on any of the railroads. Onward Opposition-to-Prosliyterisn-ism Hendrickson is the name of the son of a Hardshell Raptist preacher in West Ely, Marion county, Missouri. School IHrerlor' Contention. According to previous uolico a Coun ty Convention of Directors met in the Court room, at Clearfield, on Tuesday evening, January l.rith, at 7j o'clock two-thirds of the Districts being lepro scnted. Tho Convention was called to order by the Superintendent, who said ho rejoiced in seeing so many of tho Directors present. Thero is u ro- vival nil over tho Stato in School af fairs ; and utiles we mako a progress ive move soon, we will bo left still further behind our sister counties than what wo aro at present. Ho had call ed ibis Convention, in order that be might receive the opinion of Directors and citizens, upon certain changes, which ho considered must bo made in our schools. In order to accomplish this, Directors, Citizens and Supcrin tendent must co-operato together. On motion, Mr. Edward McGarvcy, of Knrthaus, was elected President; Mr. Andrew Hunter, of Morris, Vice President, and Dr. D. R. Good, of Osceola, Secretary. Jicsulved, That a committee of three be appointed, by tho Chair, to whom all resolutions be referred. 1 he Chair appointed Mr. Parks, of Clearfield, Mr. Sloan, of Boggs, and Mr. Read, of Law rence. The Superintendent then read the following subjects w hich he desired the Convention to consider. 1st. Uniformity of Tcxt-boohthrough- out the cuuntij. 2d. What size should a black-board bo for a sHiool-room f 3d. How to induce more young la dies and gentlemen to qualify them selves for teachers. 4th. Whether the time had not now arrived w hen there should bo a move made towards tho establishment of a Normal School in this,the8th District. Tho abovo topics wero ably discuss ed by the Convention, and much in terest manifested. The following resolutions were then read and unanimously adopted : tt.iolrrd, Tbt two dcli'CHtei from tch nohoul aifttrict in the mmnlT lie a. pointed I'T Ut9 Ilim't orfl, at ttii'ir next rcfrulM- lutvtinsr, with iuiitrue tintiPto Miwt tl Cleat-Avid, time dciruatrd !v u- vmnti'Diirnl, to a.i.M.t Krief uf text-hoolu tlirnuffhiiut the eiiontv. Itwlvrd, That it iv the duty of Pireetiirf to have in each arboul-niiim a blaoklmard in length the winio in me riHun, ana i leet wide. femrcij. That thne who hare taurTit. and thoae who intend tachinr in the future, fthould eniniiiler it thi-ir dutr to attend the Ideal Numial N-hiiol, held hy our ruMTiiitendenl : and that every teacher attending said aehmil etanld reepive at leaat tlrree dollar per month more, for Iheiame franc ol oertitioalo, ttiaa thuae who do not attend. llrwlrrd. Tliat tiiere ahould be aouie moavure iminedinlely taken toward the ereetion of a Normal tvhool in thi iJittrict. ifeMeed, That the forea-mar reaolntions tie uH- i joeti for diM-UMioB at the uc-xt County Convention ; at wtiieh lime they an, to tie amended, rejected, or adopted. Awnini, That ft rommittee of Sve be appointed by the Chair, to examine the different aeriea ol w'honl btM.ka, ton-port their merits and dement at the next Convention of Pireetora. The Chair ap pointed Thomaj J. MrCullonzh. EiH., Jlireetor (if Clearfield boroujfhi Rev. A. II. rv'tntiower, pireetor of t'urwenpvillf borough: Mr. A II red Shaw, Jlireet or of Oaeeola borough : MiftpKwan, of Clearfield, and Mii Keturah Leonard, of l.awrene. MtmUtrd, That we luvile the attention of Pireet or. teaeher and ritixens of the eounty to an in eetigation of the different aerie of aehoo! book. Jirtolrtd, That aeommitteeof three lie appointed, to anil the Superintendent in procuring a room to hold hie Normal S hoo! ; atid tlmt ianl committee e nitof Mr. II. H. Mormw. of liixhcn. Sir. I'otter Head, of Lawrence, and Mr. John Smith, of Hlooin. HrtalxT'L, Thut a printed circular lie iiut-d hy the I'renident and Sii-retary of thi meeting, and the County Superintendent be authoriced to cireu- late the aame to Pireetor of the Pirtrtets, to bold and organise a Pireetor' Aociation. Hemittrfd, That a ubription paper lie prepared end circulated in each Hehoa Pilrict in Clearfield proposing to build ft Normal School within the noumUol said county, to be circulated by the ek-hisd Pireetor and traetin-i renerallr, to solicit tul- -ription for that purHiee; hare to be twenty Ave il'illar each. Ilfnlrtd. That we thank the Commissioners for the free use of the court room. Iirdrd, That we extend our thank to the e-litor of our county papers for pnnliaing. gratis, educational statistic, and that they are requested to publish the proceeding ul this t onventlon. Corrections. The Superintendent asked permission toeurrect some false reports which had lieen circulated during tho past nine months. He statej, first, that bo bad mndo appli cation for the Town Hall, last spring. to hold his Normal School, ami, that a majority of tho Directors refused to grant him tho use of said Hall; second, that ho intends holding a Normal School, tho coming summer, twenty weeks, to open about tho first of May next, and would procure the very best teacher ho could get in tho Stato to assist him ; third, that it was not bis place to make out last years' report ; and asked tho Convention to take somo action upon tho hist subject, when the fi'llowirtg uan unnnimoualjr adopted : I'eeofeeflt, That It was n4 Ihe duly of tleorgr W. Snyder, present County Superintendent, to make oni last year' report. Adjourned. Oliver Wendell Holmes sent two poetical letters to tho "post office" of i an Episcopal fairat Piltsfield, In one' of them the first stanr.a was: "Fair lady, whos-ie'er tboa art. Turn tliis poor leaf with tenderest care. And hush, oh. huh thy heating heart The one thou Invest will be (here !". On turning tho "j)00r leaf," there was fin nil a line-dollar bill with some verses, beginning : Fair Isdy, 1i ft thine eyes and tell If this is not a truthful letter: Thi is Ihe one ( I ) thnn lni-et well, And naught S) can make thee lore it better (ln.) A ccntlcmnn just returned ft'om the North, and who is quite a critic in ms,,ion, ,, of ,oioli describing to a lady friend the latest i bonnet sported by Iho New York I belles. Ho concluded bis minute and I hnppy artistic sketeh, to which the i young lady listened wilh deep ntten-! tion, ns follows : "I nsure you Mis! , the New York belles wear noth-1 ing else." JVir Orlcan ricayune. j In Washington county, Tennessee,1 twenty miles northeast of Joncshoro', ' is an ancient birch tree, on the bark j of which is still legible the following inscription: "1771 D. Roon killed ai bar." t '!T Of the Lmlty Hi ten in fill nn. A Dreapii i.TsAonii Tor m"Mh past regular bands of nentcs, living in Mound City and it inity, have been in the habit ! 'making freipiciit thiev. ing excursions among the farmer im mediately across in Kentucky. Their principal object of attack seemed to de hugs, which they wi re in tho habit of killing, dressirg and bringing Ihem either here or taking them to Mound City to sell. Thoso' piratical excur sions becamo so frequent thut tho far mers finally determined to orgunizo for self protection. A company was formed and measures taken to catch tho scoundrels. A few nights ago tho company wero out on the qui vive, when two of tho fanner who wero in advnnco of tho company overhauled eight black rascals, nil loaded down heavily with freshly-killed pork, with which they woio making their way as fust us they could lo t ards tho riv er, just abovo Cash Island. Tho two men called out to the negroes to halt, and tho darkeys emboldened by their superior numbers, answered tho de mand with a volley from thoir rifles and shot-guns, with which each ono was armed. Tho whitos escaped un injured and returned tho firo. At this juncture, tho entire company of whites arrived upon the spot, and firod upon tlto thieves, killing every ono of Ilium,.. Tho dead hogs wero idontiflod as bo longing to somo of tho farmers pres ent, and tho dead thieves wero recog nized as belonging to Mound City and vicinity. Their friends wero notified and went over and bunod the unfortunates. Cairo (111.) Democrat. John Rhown's Soul MARCiujiu On. We cac scarcely tako up a paper that has not somo startling criuio to divulge Murder, rape, arson, burg lary, robbery, are of daily occurrence. We have on a single day an account of "A highway robbory and murdorin Minnesota," "A terriblo outrage, cars thrown off the track down an em bankment forty feet, and the passen gers robbed by a masked band of rob bers, in Kentucky," "Rody of a miss ing man found in North River sup posed murder," "Burglary at Olcan, N. Y., and :J5,000 stolen from a bank ing house," "Arrest of three burglars in Cincinnati, and escape of ote," "Vi olation of a gravo in Buffalo, tho body of a young lady stolen," "Seven thous and dollars worth of goods stolen in Cincinnati, the thieves arrested," "Ed ward Mauley arrested in Philadelphia, implicated with shooting Cyrus Park er, "A row among the negroes of Philadelphia, fivo .captured," "The trial of McGuirc, in Philadelphia, for murder, ic." These are gleanings of a day. Knongh to show the a ivant ago of having a horse thief for a saint, a theater for the gate of Heaven, and play actors for angels. An awful tragedy was enacted in Auburn, Maine, last week. Two old ladies, named Kinsley and Caswell, respectively sixty and seventy years of age, wero found murderod iu their own bouse, about two miles from town, at a place called Young's Cor ner. It is supposed that tho deed was committed either on Wednesday or Thursday night, during tho storm. The two ladies lived alone iu the house. A man by the namo of Johnson bus been arrested on suspicion, and is now in Auburn jail. Miss Christrino Kilt, of Dayton, Ohio, aeed ubout eighteen years, liv ing on Oak street, was brutally mur dered on the 11th iust., duriug the temporary absence of her mother, by somo unknown person. Bloody tracks wero found in tho snow out sido of tho house, and marks of blood wero also upon tho fence. No duo to tho perpetrator of this boiri.1 deed has yet been obtained. A check for 5o,lMtii, purporting to have been drawn bv Jay Cooke & Co., was presented to the Fourth National Bank in New York on Monday, but was immediately pronounced a for gery, and tho person who presented it, an Irish boy, but recently arrived in this country, was detained. Jlo saj-s it was handed to him by a mi to tako to the bank, nnj l,,..fiui .? believed. Arthur Williams, his wife and two daughters, were murdered noarl.oiuo, Georgia, by two frecdinen, who havo beeu arrcslod. Ono of them confess es that after wounding Mrs. Williams, he ravished her. His accomplice killed the father and daughter with axes. Their object was money, but the)' found none. An extraordinary elopjinent lowk place from tho r.cighhorhood of Dan ville, a., a day or two sineo. A gay and festive youth, of tho tender age of sixty summers, ran otT with a dul cinea of twmty. Tho man left be hind him a wife and a largo number of children. The sheriff of Texas county, Miss ouri, on the 0th, tried to arrest a par ty of six, for whom beheld warrants. They resisted his posse, killing two and wounding throe of them. One of the roxistanta was the raxlioatl candi date for assessor. Owing to the slate of tho markets, most of tho mills in Lawrence, Mass., will reduce operations from ten to twenty-five per tent, on February 1st, which w ill bo tho moans of throwing several hundred operatives out ol em ployment. Five negroes wero taken from the (ireen county jail, in North Carolina, on Tuesday last, by a body of armed men, and lynched. They were charg ed with outraging the person of a Mrs. Miller. Tho negro burglar, Aleck Jerome, who shot a Mrs. Ward, at Newark, N cw Jersey, lately, while engaged in robbing her bouse, bus been arrested in New York city. Ho confessed his crime. A 1'tiea paper' says that during the fitful fever of her life, now ended, a woman in that city bad been mar ried three times, and earh successive husband was named Tomkins. A woman in l.onisyille lately gave birth to twins, and shortly afterwards sold them to two neighbors the hoy for two dollars, and the girl for two pairs of children's shoes. A Mrs. Woolworth has been din missed from tho Congregational Church in W instead, Conn., lor ob taining a divorce from her husband, "without Bible cause." A merchant was robbed in St. Tmi i on Thursday night of fPVtMMi. The robber escaped. tibet Jl, ll. j.
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