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-
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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.
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