Lancaster 3ntelligenca. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1871 Oar Party. The so-called " passive" polity which has been urged upon the Democratic party by some of its influential members; has not met with our approval, nor with that of the party at large. Its name sufficiently condemns it ; for it is diffi cult to imagine how a political party, which is solely created to act, can be passive and yet live. But the object which the adv'ocates of the passive policy had in view,lis one which every think ing Democrat must wish to see accom plished. This object is the union of our strength with that of those moderate Republicans who are disgusted with the nepotism, corruption, imbecility and lawlessness of the present National Ad ministration, for the purpose of securing Its overthrow. There is in the Repub lican ranks an opposition to the extreme and 'dominant wing of the party, which is shaping itself into formida ble 'proportions; and we are inspired With a new and a plausible hope for the destruction of the Grant Dynasty in 1872, if the Democracy wisely improve the situation. To ensure success we need the strength which such men as. Senators Trumbull, Schurz, Tipton, and others equally sincere and earnest, can give us; and to secure it we will be ready to make such concessions as do not occasion any sacrifice of our principles, or impair the Integrity and efficiency of our organiza tion. It is with us, and should be with all good Democrats, sufficient ground to cause us to invite the co-operation of these men, that they have arrayed them selves against the centralizing tenden cies of the A dministration--agai net its official corruptions—against the nepo tism, bribe-takings, and palpable imbe cilities of the Government head. In so far as they seek to enforce purity and economy in the administration of gov ernmental affitirs, they cannot fail to en list the sympathies of all true Demo crats. The Democratic party desires the over t brow of the present administration, and will zealously labor for its accomplish ment. It can not be asked, however, in order to achieve this end, to surrender either organization, or its participa tion in the choice of a Presidential plat form or candidates. The Democratic party exists to be beaten or to win, but never to surrender. It is the only his torical party Ihat is really perennial in this country,as it is theonly party which, under our institutions, can always We desire to see ( rant's adth i istra lion swept out 9f power ; rut, if in the coming contest, we are to go before the American people on the platform of loaves and fishes only, we do not de serve success. I f the simple triumph of party is paramount to the success of principles, why not go over to the Radicals at once for this is precisely the plank on which they swim. Sue. cess is the one motto WI all their ban ners, and to achieve that the old land marks were taken away, just as expedi ency demanded their removal. Democratic party cannot be asked to follow the destructives over all the other lines they have crossed and are endeavoring to obliterate; nor, in order to success, forget that we have a Written Constitution, and adopt their law of pow der and bayonet. The written funda mental law is our platform. s it has been boldly discarded by the Radical party; and his upon this issue and upon those of ildrenehment and reform,that we would go into the tight. I f the people of this country' are already so debauched try the deluge of lies which has long made the land a stench in the nostrils of truth and honor, as to require all parties to wallow in the same mire, our task may be a ditlieult one. And yet our duty remains the same,—the standard of right knows no compromise; success is nothing; office is nothing; power is nothing without truth and justice. Strong as is our desire for rant's de feat, we are not prepared to accept a simple "availability" as our Presiden t ial candidate in '7'2. We desire a states man and a gentleman of integrity and honor. \\'e want a man of brains, cut. ture.and will. \Ve have long enough endured the shameand confusion of im becility iu high places. 'Pie onward strides of a great empire should be un der the management of her best and wisest men. Thus, alone, can endanger ed liberty be snatched from the grasp of tyranny ; and the Constitutional rights of this vast country be secured and per petuated. To accomplish this, we invite the aid of all who will come on board our flag ship Constitution. We would scorn the onicer or sailor whir refuses to walk her planks, unfurl her sails or defend her bulwarks. We care not what party af filiations they may have held hitherto, it, seeing the danger of the old ship, (hey are willing to help us bring her out of the breakers, and head her prriw frcim a lee-shore ; but we want no vol unteers for prize-money alone. We care but little who shall take command, so that he be worthy of the position, with the far-seeing statemanship which can safely direct her course, the manly firmness which will steadily grasp the helm amid threatened danger, and give to us the blessings which invariably fol low in the wake of a prosperous nation :d voyage. To this end we can safely bide our time, in full reliance that who ever may be selected as our standard bearer, we shall have a leader worthy 1110111'1/Wll and the Nation's choice. More Impeachment on the Tapls The Radical scamp, Bowen, of South Carolina, is likely to get himself into trouble for going back on his friend Grant, after the service he did hint in keeping his carcass out of prison, by a timely and unrighteous pardon. In the South Carolina House of Representa tives, yesterday, the resglutions im peaching Governor Scott and State Treasurer Parker, were discussed.-- Ito wil4i said great pressure had been put upon hint to induce him to withdraw his charges. He asserted that State stock In the Greenville and Columbia Railroad was sold for while $.5 could have been obtained for it front otber parties, and that I lovernor Scott had refused to sign the transfer until his brother-in-law was given $40,000. He also said that the Agricultural Laud scrip was reported sold at 724 cents, but he knew men who paid cents for it. ,Several speakers followed in opposition to Bowen, one of whom charged him With perjury, and read a despatch sent by itdwen, in New York, last summer, begging Governor Scott to revoke the authority given Judge Barrett to pro ceed against Kempton, the financial agent. The trouble of Bowen is not 'likely to end here. It is now said that Scott has secured enough voles to ensure Bowen's expulsion, and that eflbrts will lie made to expel the bigamous impeach er. What a happy family! Cannot Be Deceived The Senators who are tied to Urant and all the shortcomings of hie imbecile administration, having yielded reluct antly to the demand for investigation iu to *official abuses, are now endeavor ing to counteract the impression*pro duced by this reluctance, by pretending great zeal In the work of inquiry. The country will not be deceived by the tricks of these demagogues, and the ex posures they may be compelled to make will be regarded only as evidence of vil lainies they have left unrevealed. A North Carolina Judge. The Committee of the North Carolina House of Representatives, after investi gation, declare Judge Logan, of the Ninth Judicial District of that State, "is utterly disqualified for the position, that he is ignorant of the law, and Inefficient to a degree that amounts to a ,denial of justice In the courts of his district." THE LANCASTER WEEKLY INTELLIGENCER, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1871. A Scrap of lllstory It might exercise a somewhat salu tary influence upon Radical leaders and officials, to occasionally remind them of "a proverb the Arabs have," that "Curses, like young chickens, always come home to roost," of as the Italians have it, that "Curses are like proces sions, they return to where they set out." A little bit of history is recalled by a cotemporary, which is illustrative of the fact that other things beside maledictions take the same course. In the Spring of 1867 the angry Radical Congress of that day enacted what is the "tenure-of-office bill." On March the 2d, of that year, the acting Presi dent, Mr. Johnson, returned the bill to the Senate, whe'reit originated, with his objections, and notwithstanding those reasons, it was re-enacted by a constitu tionalmajority+3s to 11 in theSenate,and 138 to 40 in the House of Representa tives. That forgotten message lies be fore us as we write, and we fiud in it a course of reasoning which has a strange illustration now-a-days. Speaking of au unworthy incumbent of that day, the President said, among other things, that a case might arise when a public officer " might grasp at power for his own ag grandizement and the elevation of his connexions and relatives to office," and hence should be removed. He went on to say that if the power of removal were virtually vested in the Senate, a 9 it would be if their consent were needed, "such a body is more likely to misuse it than the man whore the united voice of America calls to the Presidential chair." This was denounced not merely as heresy, but as the utterance of frantic and distorted intelligence. Less than five years have elapsed:and now we find an accredited Republican organ, such as is eminently the New York Evening Punt, denouncing the tenure-of-office act as the most pernicious of all legislation, and, as Mr. Johnson foretold, tending directly to the demoralization and deg radation of the Senate. The Radical Stay laving Way. The only reliance of the Radical party in the South—the tegroes—are rapidly discovering the shallowness and rascali ties of their professed friends, and are daily denouncing and deserting them. One of the most prominent of the color ed leaders of the Republican party in Alabama, Mr. George W. ('ox, of Mont gomery, has published a card in which he assails in severe terms the abuses which have been perpetrated in that State under the name of Republican ism. Ile says that he loves the princi ples the party assumes to replesent, but that in Alabama the people of his race have elected - men to °nice who would rob their wives and children of the last blanket they have to she]) on, and then be ready to murder every colored man who will not support the party ticket. Mr. Cox says that if Republicanism means robbery, and that a man cannot vote as he wishes unless at the risk of his life, he desires to leave the party.— The KU-Klux Congressional ( ‘'onimittee would find a fruitful lield for the exer cise of their energies in an honest in vestigation of the widespread system of intimidation practised iu the South on colored voters by the secret negro socie ties which exist throughout the reconi stringed States. Let the Tax-Pajers Remember It When charges of fraud were , made against prominent Democratic officials of New York City, the leading Demo crats of the City and State, and all the prominent journals of the party at once demanded the most prompt and thor ough investigation. Such Democrats as Charles O'Conor and Samuel .1. Til den took the lead in the matter, and were the most earnest and persistent in the work of ferreting out the frauds and punishing the offenders. But how is it with Radicals? While everybody ad mits that fraud and corruption abound to an unparalleled extent in rational af fairs, a proposition made in the Senate to investigate and expose them with a view both to correct the evil and punish the guilty, is strenuously opposed and voted down by the supporters of Grant. Let the people—the tax-payers who stif fer by these frauds, think of this. Let them mark the difference between the two parties in this respect. Death of Postmaster Hager The community were pained to hear of the death, on Friday morning last, of Henry W. Hager, the Postmaster of this City, and the junior member of the dry-goods firm of Hager Bros. Mr. Hager had been confined to his room for some two or three weeks past, his symptoms being thoSe of typhoid fever. It was not until Thursday, however that any serious apprehension was felt of a fatal termination of his illness.— Then ulceration of the bowels set in, and Ids case became desperate. Mr Hager was a very courteous and efficient officer and was held in high esteem by thenleople of this City, aniong whom his entire life has been passed. He had many warm friends, and we think few enemies. His age was about 38 years. He has died in the flower of his life, and has left a fragrant memory behind him. Record of a'Democratic Uovcrnor Governor Haight, the retiring Execu tive of California, cent his last message to the Legislature the other day. It is an able and satisfactory official paper. The Governor calls attention to the fact, that during his administration the State debt has been reduced from $5,16-1,000 to ;3,46_,000; that the schools are in a most flourishing condition ; and that prosper ity and economy have distinguished the four years of Democratic rule. He rec ommends a change in the land laws of the State, on the ground that they now facilitate the acquisition of large tracts of land by corporations; and advises that a Constitutional Convention be held to remodel the judicial system and the system of taxation. A Home-Thrust Some of the severest blows which the Radicals are now justly receiving are dealt by the members of that party.— The I termantown Telegraph does it in truthful style, when it asserts that "no less than three treasurers of Philadel phitchave been defaulters in office, and not one of them was a Democrat. This, is a fact that some of our Republican friends would do well to ponder over.— The party claims to be moral and up right, and to have an especial horror of dishonesty in office. And yet here stands this ugly fact." Death of P. Martin ileltler P. Martin Heltler died at his resi dence at Ephrata, this county, at 2 o'clock Thursday morning last. He had been in ill health for some time. He was a graduate of Yale College and a member of the bar and was well known throughout the county, having partici pated actively iu its politics on the Democratic side. The proceedings of the meeting of 'Ole Lancaster bar rel ative to his detith il kill be found in an other column. A Significant Suggestion An exchange says that iu view of the sudden accession of popularity and loyal devotion tothe Prince of Wales, Admin istration journals are wondering if it would not be advisable fol. Grant to somehow take the enteric. fever. He takes so many things, and, takes things so easy, that we think the thing might be managed very well. An Insult to the State An exchange says : " It is an insult to the people of Mississippi that Ames should register his name at Washington as ' a Mississippi Senator.' He doesn't own a foot of land in" the State nor pay a single gollar of taxes. lie once resid ed a few months at Vicksburg as an army officer, but on return there he even refused to pay his poll-tax." The Financial Condition of Philadelphia. The independent press of Philadel phia seems to be alive to the perilous condtion to which Radicalism has brought the interests of the city. The Philadelphia Ledger thus rehearses the exposures of the last two months : " It is now two months sing the defalca tion which showed that the cash account of the ally was short 8300,000; that the loan account was short $145,000, and that the Sinking Fund account had suffered to the extent of s33,ooo—making a total deficit of $178,000. Of this total, the aunt of $lOO,OOO has since been recovered. Spon after the defalcation became known, discoveries were made which confirmed suspicions that have prevailed among. Well-informed people for many years. Amongst the de velopments were these: The public mo neys had been loaned in large amounts to a private person, or persons, for spec ulative purposes. This was contrary to right, contrary to official obligation, and contrary to law, even if the loans had been guarded as all prudent business men pro tect transactions of that kind. But it is among the developments that these large amounts were loaned, without security or protection to the city of any kind. These large sums of city moneys were also loaned without compensation to the city in the form of interest to be paid into the Treas ury. It also became apparent that the city moneys could be checked out, and handed over to private persons, by a subordinate in the City Treasury, with no check upon that subordinate but his own will or pleasure. It further became known that the periodical "verifications of the cash account " by a Committee of Councils, were so managed in the City Treasury that all this loose handling and unlawful and wrongful use of the pub lic moneys was covered up. Similar de velopments came to light concerning the handling of the city loans in the City Treas ury. Large amounts of these securities were placed at the disposal of a private person to sell at discretion, and for which there was a sort of ' matter of form' settle- ment at the close of each month, which settlement might be, and sometimes unsettled the next day after the 'verifica tion.' No security for the return of either the loans or the proceeds was exacted in this case either. The public moneys in this case also were used for private purposeswitb out compewation to the city, and at great risk, as events finally proved. There were other developments, but the recital of the foregoing will suitice for the present pur pose. In addition there is reason to believe that, with a view to private profit, the loans sold on account of the city were sold at a high price and accounted for at a low one; and that loans bought on account of the city were bought at a low rate and ac counted for at a higher one; and it is cer tain, that whilst luaus may have been sold early in the month, and carried interest against the city from the day of sale, the proceeds of such sale did not get into the Treasury until the last day of the month, and not always then." While the elections of last fall were going on the Radical politicians of Phil adelphia, who constituted an organized band of plunderers, were loud in their denunciations of the Tammany frauds. They professed to lie virtuously indig nant at the doings of Tweed tk.; Co. while they were engaged in rascali ties of a character equally as reprehensible, and Republican voters were foolish and dolt ish enough to put into office men of notoriously bail reputatiotc , . The elec tion was scarcely over until the rotten ness of municipal affairs under Radical inanagement began to be uncovered, and one exposure has followed fast upon he heels of another, until no Philadel- phia Republican dare point a linger at a Tammany thief. The Yankee city is int a bit better than C;otham Democracy of New York repudiated Tammany Ring--the Radieal Ring still rules and plunders Philath A Pure Administration In the Senate debate on Mr. Trum bull's resolution, the defenders of (Irani asserted that this administration is the purest that ever existed, in reply to which Mr. Trumbull said: Well, if there is anyivhere iu the world a worse civil service than that of the United States, I pray to lied to deliver that people from it. (Laughter.) 1 feel less disposed than ever to submit my Republicanism to the test of the Senates' from Indiana, for his declaration that we have the best civil service in the world. My Republican iem is not partisan, I istre nothing for it ex cept as a party of great principles, and if it ever enures to be used as a me r e for r, vul Wail iiti4jUdieN, the honest people Of the country will overwhelm us, as they ought to. It is notorious that the Rafircal party has become but a cover for fraud and corruption. It originated in fraud; it was born in sin and iniquity, and has been growing more wicked and corrupt since the day of its birth. Even in its first years of rule, some of its most in fluential leaders declared that dishonest officials stole more than half of the rev enue of the government ; and these thieves and robbers, under the protec tion afforded them, have multiplied iu number and increased in boldness, dex terity and wickedness to such a degree that fraud and thieving have become the rule of officials, and honesty a rare exception. The great aim arid end of Radical labor is to cover up, defend and whitewash the knaveries and corrup tion which so alarmingly abound. It is literally true that the Radical party has become a cover for frauds and iniquities and there is now a determination on the part of the honest men of all political opinions, to unite for its overthrow. This the leaders of the party see, and are making the insist desperate shifts to avert the threatened blow. Begin at the Capital Democratic papers th mug hou t the country are urging the Democratic and Conservative members o f Congress to have a committee appointed of efficient, honest men to examine the condition of the Federal (Mvernment at Washington City, and report the same to the country. It is no use to disguise the fact that there is something " rotten in Denmark." The defalcations that come to light, the gen eral uneasiness and idarm, and the ner vousness of certain Federal officials, point unmistakably to corruption. Let there be a thorough examination, a gen eral overhauling of accounts, and there will be exhibited to the world, as we be lieve, the most wholesale and wicked corruption and robbery that ever were known in the annals of history. By the aide of these public crimes, the corrup tion of Tammany Hall would pale into insignifidunre. A Specimen Ratilen' Reformer Senator Stewart is a member of the packed committee of the Senate to show the country how not to investigate frauds, and it may, therefore, be iuter eating to expose a piece of sharp practice on his part, in connection with the Em ma mine. It seems that Stewart's com pany made a show of negotiating with other claimants to the mine, and created the impression that they would submit it by argument to the Secretary of the Interior. In the meantime Stewart managed quietly to get a patent to the tract in question, and had been in Eu rope with it a month before the oppos ingclaimant knew of thissharp practice. This is probably an ewidenceof Stewart's fitness for a committee man. One of Grant's Reformers Grant's Senatorial retainers con stitute a class of as inconsistent and hypocritical advocates of reform, as could well be hunted up. The Omaha Tribune, a full supporter of the Grant Administration says: "Senator Har lan, we regret to say, seems placed by certain facts which have recently come to light iu a very unpleasant position in connection with the Wright Indian frauds. The government is very reti cent touching the facts of the case, and maintains a steady reserve. God save the country when U. S. Senators become partners iu filching from the Govern ment and wronging the people." Janus-faced Policy of Grant In alluding to the efforts of the ad ministration friends of Grant to stifle investigation into the alleged frauds of the government, the Age says, " when Huget wished to be made a Colonel and Noble at the same time, Richelieu's re ply to Joseph was, " we'll promise it; and see tife King withholds." That is the Grant policy at the present time.— The people demand investigation, re form in all departments of the public !service. General Grant promises it in his message, but sees that the Senate withholds, His message was a cheat, a fraud. The action of the Senate proves it." Callender and Corbin The ;New York Tribune, like Ban quo's ghost, will not be down at the bid ding of all the guilty Macbeths of the Grant stamp, but will, even when least looked for put in an appearance against their guilty deeds. There is, says the Washington Patriot, a little New Jer sey locality, of which Newark may be said to be the centre, which is fertile of others than Frelingbuysens. A neigh borhood which is limited by a right line of about four miles, has at its outer edges Corbin at one end and Callender at the other: Elizabeth claims Corbin, and in Newark nestles Callender. It is needless to say a word about the un punished hero of " Black Friday." He is still dose in the confidence of the Executive ; his carriage 'companion ; his cherished chum. The Newark friend figures in another part ; and lest, our motives may be misconstrued, we choose to let indignant Republicanism tell the tale. The Tribune thus de scribes the doings of East Jersey: Mr. Callender held a very responsible and honorable public trust. Teo thousand competent and trustwofithy men would gladly have accepted it. The fortunes of thousands depended on his fidelity. Yet, instead of vigilantly guarding the import• ant interests whereof he was the custodian, he basely betrayed them for private gain. The shepherd's dog conspired with the wolves to make a joint raid on the dock. The bank examiner scrutinized several banks, found them in a precarious condi tion, and practised on the tears and the need of trembling presidents and cashiers to make them minister to his avarice. In ef fect, if not in so many words, he said to them : " I ought to report you in a had way, and so break you; but give me $3,000 to $75,000 each out of your !Wan ty means, without security or interest, and I will tell the world that you tire solvent, when I know you are not." If this is not a crime by stat ute, it certainly should be. How many Calleuders still remain in office? We want this point settled by a searching investigation, not controlled by Callenders nor by their backers. The same paper adds on a kindred theme : A prominent Government official, whose opinions on the late doings in the Senate are quoted in our Washington despatch, hits the nail on the head. It is very true that the over-zealous Administration Sena tors have injured the cause which they were in such haste to serve • they wounded the Administration while they were insiat iug upon their special call to defend it. But it is also true that this suicidal action has had the effect to injure the party while it drags down the Executive. The President may well pray liar deliverence from such dangerous friends. In alluding to this matter, the Phila delphia Evening Bull, lin says : It is probable that a collapse of the F, of National Bank or this city would not h,Vf• occurred but for Ilie (.01.11.1a of the Bank. Examiner, Callender. By his advice and with his sanction, a system of false pre tences was carried on ; notes of hand were treated as cash, and among them notes of his own for money borrowed from the bank! He had carried on the samu system iu the banks that lately failed in New York, and this was made the subject of a formal complaint by the Clearing-I louse, which requested the Comptroller of the Currency to removehim. Ifa proper person had held the office of Examiner, he would not have used his office to procure accomodations at the bank, um- would he have consented to cover up the drregularities that are now known to have existed in its nettle of doing business. There ought to be some punish ment for offenders like Callender, noire se vere than mere removal from office. Not Smooth Sailing. The idea so jubilantly entertained l Grant, a short time since, that he had nothing to'do but walk over the course for a second Presidential term unop posed, is rapidly giving way to plau,i ble dread and doubt. The Washington correspondent of the New York 'Pt I lame says: "There seems to be an undercurrent of feeling, not yet publicly expressed, yet ad mitted in the private conversation cd many of the supporters of tile Administration, and advocates of Gen. rants renomina tion, that they may not have as clear sail ing as they have anticipated for their can didate through the National Convention nest Spring. Many of these men coining fresh from constituencies are forced to ad mit thar, while as yet there lots 1;cell 110 very outspoken opposition to ; len. Grant's renomination, among the masses, there is discovered in private (4,llversation, a wide spread feeling that he is not the very bust man in the country to he President for an other term." That "undercurrent" is finding ex pression more freely and publicly every day, and the discussion in the Senate on the frauds and corruption of the Grant administration is increasing the already " wide-spread feeling" referred to. A Bitter Pill Another of the bitter pills the Radi cals are compelled to swallow recently, is that, after the exciting debate in the Senate upon Mr. Trumbull's resolution for retrenchment and reform, they find that it is almost an exact copy or the resolution organizing the Retrenchment Committee auttarized during the ad ministration of Andrew Johnson, and that there was no previous understand ing upon the subjeot between Senator Trumbull and any other Senator. I t ap pears that on the evening Congress re assembled the idea of re-organizing the Retrenchment Committee occurred to Senator Trumbull, and he, without con sultation with any other Senator, drew up the resolution, which, as before stated, varies but little front the former as pub lished in the (ilobc. tie disclaimed any such significance as attached to it by Senators Con k ling, Morton, and Sher man, as an anti-Administration meas ure. Truly, "the wicked dee when 110 man pursueth." Albert E. Carpenter We copy from the Lanca,f, r Bar the following obituary notice of our de ceased friend, as ft just tribute to his worth : Mr. Carpenter was horn in 1 , 10. A Ber passing through the Iligh School of Lan ,,aster he entered the Sophomore ('la,, in Franklin and Marshall College, in the Fall ,if 1657, and graduated in good standing in his class is 1001. Ile Was admitted to the Bar, (January 2.1!.,1, 1007. Ile was married soon after, but after a few Java of wedde happiness his wife and ,11i1,1 died vic tims of that fell-destrover, consumption, which finally claimed hint as another.— Mr. Carpenter was a young man of quiet retiring manners, and yet in the "MOMI eij•.le he was a general favorite on account of his winning ways, and genial, cheerful disposition. As 50,,, dutiful and devoted, he was a 1111.101, as it [Maher, illit'fait'llate and kind, he was referred 1,, as an ',ale pie too seldom follow 401. Fngaged with his father in a large scrivening and survey ing business, in addition to a growing legal practice, he VMS characterized by a strict adherence to his word, and unswerving honesty. le was, indeed, a tnode) character---wiih out bigotry, fanaticism, or proscription or opinion's sake, he was an exemplary and unpretending ehristian gentleman. 110 was as pure-hearted as a W./1111111, slut as clean-tongued ns ho iyas pure hearted—he was a type of young men, too rare in the community to be spared without. keen re gret, and society has lost one to whom peo ple instinctively look up, and the profession a gentleman of - high honor, whose virtues and sterling worth time would have crown ed with rich rewards. Missouri Liberal Republicans The Liberal Republicans of A[iseouri have issued an addresssetting forth their views of the present aspect of party pol itics, and calling a flaws Convention to meet on the 9-011 of January, at the State Capital. The add ress,is signed by all the members of the liberal Republi can State Committee, and is indorsed by Governor Gratz, Brown, all the State officers, and the most prominent mew hers of the State Legislature. This is a movement in the interest of the passive policy and is a very formidable one, so far as regards its anti-Grant tendencies. Amnesty lit the Senate It is now thought probable that upon the re-assembling of Congress, that the amnesty question will occupy at least a week in the Senate, notwithstanding the time already spent upon the Aject. Senator Schurz will offer an amend ment to the pending bill, striking out all after the first clause, which will make amnesty general. Senator Sum ner is also confident that his equal rights proposition will be adopted as all amendment, and intimates that enough Republican Senators have already pledged themselves to vote for it to en sure Its passage. Hard Run for Time The Washington Patriot well asks, why it is that our President is always in a hurry on every occasion? In his an nual he told us he had "hastily submit ted his views," and now in his civil ser vice message he tells Congress he has "not had time to mature any opinion on the subject." All he wants is as much "strength" as Congress can give him. Louisiana To Be Scourged. President Grant is determined that he will not succumb to the Warmouth faction, and equally determined not to permit the negro Li,eutenant-Governor to enjoy his triumph over him and brother-in-law Casey. He is revenge ful, and will wreak his spite without stint or mercy, although thousands of innocent victims be added to the al ready teeming list. The Picayunesays : The President has despatched a military force to this Stale. For what purpose is this being done? Our forts and arsenals are adequately garrisoned, and profound peace prevails throughout the State. Is it designed, tinier the pretence of Ku-Klux outrages, to foist upon the State a reign of martial law ? or is it the prelude of military aggressions in the election, and to advance the interests of a party or a faction? One or the other of these purposes is in view. Did it merely affect the interests of either of the two factions that are now contend ing for rule in the State, little heed would be given it. But the vicious influences of such a policy reach over and beyond this petty dispute. It affects the planting in terest, paralyzes commercial enterprise, I and drives capital from our doors. The State is just recovering from the prostration of war. The evil effects of it she has borne for years. Now when the dawn of returning prosperity is about dis pelling the gloom of the past, we are called upon to sustain anew the bitter fruits of licentious power, misrule and oppres sion. And for what purpose? Disguise the reason as we may, the object is to give the Electoral vote of Louisiana to Gen. Grant for President. In the accomplishment of this result, the peace-prosperity and well being of our people are seemingly as noth ing. There has been no public detnonstra tion to call for such a measure. It is not even alleged that there is a secret league hostile to the peace and good order of so ciety either in the city or the parishes. For what purpose then have these soldiers been sent among us, while the Texas frontier is crying aloud for delenceagainst the inroads of savages. But a few weeks ago the Secre tary of \Var was petitioned to send even a battalion to assist in guarding the frontiers from the marauding Indians. To this ap peal the reply was returned that not a sol dier could be spared. Not a bayonet could be sent to protect the helpless frontiers- Mall from the horntrs of savage warfare; but any number of soldiers cau be spared fir military aggression in Louisiana. This is the was we are to have peace. A Bomh-Shell In the Radical Camp The resolution of Garrett Davis, of Ky., in the IT4inute, directing the Com mittee on Retrenchment and Investiga tion to look into the conduct of the President in receiving gifts and being connected with Government contracts, fell into the Radical camp with the ter rible etrect of some death-dealing mis sile. " The new-born zeal for investiga tion to which Mr. Trumbull alluded, seems to have passed off; and the Iror(d's correspondent says : "It is not so ardent to extend to an in quiry into the conduct of the President. senator Morton attempted to bluff Davis by expressing an assumed satisfac tion that the resolution had been offered ; but Edmunds, of Vermont, who is more cool and perhaps knows a great deal about the allegations set forth iu the resolution, was not quite so sanguine as to the result of such an investigation as it proposes.— Senator Morton knows as much, perhaps, about the jobs in which the administration is interestf,l not to speak of its nepotism and present-taking—as any other man. The debate on Trumbull's resolution has undoubtedly taught Min the mistake prop posing investigation, and he deems it bet ter policy to accept all suggestions that may he presented on the subject. Mr. Davis offered his resolution in good faith and he will endeavor to call it up to-morrow and pros it to a vote. There is no branch of inquiry referred to the investigating com mittee which will prove so interesting as this. Even though the resolution may be adopted it is doubtful if the committee will obey its commands. The country has been so bill of charges such as Mr. Davis 'ten uous in his resolution that it would be well if the Republicans, who seem to have so ninon faith in Grant, should give Mtn a chance to vindicate himself. Relative Value of Lauds Governor Walker, of Virginia, in his very able message, alludes to the great need of the Slate in the development of her vast resources, and in the most ur gent and at tractive terms, invites immi gration. Following up these timely suggestions of the Executive,the papers of the state are bringing all their ener gies to hear upon the accomplishment of the ends proposed, and are almost daily urging the advantages and induce ments offered to the introduction of capital and labor. The Fredericksburg Hrruld. in an article upon the subject, says: Corn is selling in Illinois and lowa at twenty cents a bushel, and in Minnesota, Kansas, and Nebraska at lower rates.— other cereals command no Letter prices in proportion to their value, as wheat sells at tram fifty cents to a dollar in the States en umerated,above. Wheat and corn are the staples of the West anti North West as well as they are of Maryland and Virginia, and vet they are worth not half as much in the Western States in which they are raised as they are in this State find Maryland. Why then should hmnigrants go West and struggle against low prices, when better markets are afforded nearer the Atlantic coast, with lands equally- as fertile, and a ttlimate far superior in every respect?" The Georgia Election The election for Governor to till the unexpired term of the absquatulated carr-t- bagger Bullock, came off 'Phut s day. Janice M. Smith was elected with out opposition, the Republicans taking no part in the election About iinooo votes were polled in the Stale, out of some 200,0110. The acting Governor, Conley, takes the ground that he is entitled to continue Governor, and that the bill authorizing the election is ille gal. This is the same trick resorted to in Louisiana in the Presidential elec tion of I'IGS. The Republicans were ordered not to vote that it might appear they wereso intimidated a giat they could not. The programme 70 Georgia is that Conley is to resist the inauguration of Gov. Smith, proclaim any attempt thereat as " domestic Niiolence," and then call on President Grant for troops, which will, of course, be instantly forth cutning, as they are already on hand l'or this emergency. The New Hampshire Fight That the Radicals of New Hampshire are scared at the coming election in that state is certain. The Exeter Xi ws Let t, r. Radical, says, if our Conventions are conducted fairly, there is a'elianta , for victory, " hut," :olds the. editor, "iin the tither hand, if they are to be managed hy men hired and idedged to particular aspirants; ifpublicopinion is to be man ufactured by political emissaries and manipulators; if independent Republi can voters are to be called upon to cast a tick+ containing the names of men whom they despise or of whom they know nothing, and who misrepresent the preferences and views tit' the party, th,n we shall fail, and ought to fail, to carry the election." It looks as though you would experience what you say you ought to. A Radical Witness The Chicago Trihm - o', one of the lead ing and ablest journals of the Radical school, in speaking of Grant's bestowal of ollices in consideration of presents, is "constrained to say that the acceptance of presents and the appointment of cer tain of the donors to office, and the ap pointment of relatives and family con nections to office, are breeches of public decorum, and constitute a pernicious example to the President's subordinate officers in all ',ranches of the public service." Southern Fighting lien for Juarez The New York Sun learns from a gentleman recently from Southern Texas, that President Juarez has en listed fifteen hundred fighting men in that country and in Arkansas ; that the men have crossed the Rio Grande, and are now in active service. Their officers were formerly in the Confederate army, and the men are said to be armed with Winchester rifles. Such a force will be able to make short work of tLe Mexican rebels. Schenck's Explanation Minister Schenck explains to the State Department his connection with the Emma mine, and informs the same that he has dissolved connection with it, and will continue disconnected with it during the remainder of his Minister ship. Does his repentance at this late day save the honor of the country? Will Grant permit him to remain in a position he has disgraced because he has repented ? The Tribune on Conkling Alluding to the trickey by which the friends of the Administration attempt to stifle investigation into alleged frauds of Grant's officials, the N. Y. Tribune say's: The saddest thing about the Reform movement, which began so magnificently in this city is the attitude assumed by men whom we believed to be with us, the mo ment the reform reaches the confines of the National Government. in an instant they change parts, adopt the tactics and employ the very language of the members of the Ring. First, like Hall and Tweed, they resist investigation. Next, like Hall and Tweed, they propose to have a little private investigation under their own aus pices—an appeal to the Chamber of Com merce. or to a Joiut Committee of Citizens and Aldermen. And all the while as they note the groving indignation of the press and people, they say: "Never mind; it's merely those snarling newspapers that are disappointed about something or another. It will soon blow over." But it does not blow over Mr. Conkling! You are learning, sir; but it is as slowly and reluctantly as Tweed and Hall. You have found that opposing all investigation won't do. You have found that investiga tion, by a committee opposed to it, won't do. You perhaps found out yesterday that the pbtty pretense of setting the non-inves tigating committee to work on the Custom House deceives nobody. Be assured that now, as before, the people are in earnest. Evasions. half-way concessions, quibbler. and equivocation will not answer the im perative demand of the hour. This thing will not blow over. Triumph of Phonograph) It is claimed that an expert phouo• grapher can write foreign words by sound, of which he does not know the meaning, and the following seems to furnish a test example: Alexis was quite overcome at the Bos ton Committee's invitation. The roil Bulletin says: The lirand Duke was so much affected, that he replied in his native Russian as follows: "Ord ritold bustah yuken sormi leg,orf butti tells ile bloski hi fur Boston. I itvur rumanwiski anlotzer eitti lainierzredi, avian olekata kazy wilbi downonye lyken neskeino on a tallak audio." lie then glanced at Catacazy, and closed with what seemed to be a line of Russian poetry, the last word of which seemed to be the author's name— " Asyot antunyotsa Asionl--lb•rzherrin." Iku•Klux: Oursprightly neighbor of Di, Interne has a neat little poem on Ku-kluxery, with point enough to induce his Black Republican exchanges to assert that— er. Muss of WCIS in at r Laterne hubt'n— a roundabout way of charging him with tipsiness. We give the first and most important verse, with a translation : err Grant, der mist inn Land' hrrurn— linklitx ! schon,ten Ittalrn hal! Cr 'AU 111111, K ilk ill I 'nil knnnnt rr tlann natal W. ilillooll. rrViol:111111.11 la,1: Lai 111 Klll,lll‘ rreSidellt 1/leVeS rtaillti the 1/111.1 KiIkIIIX .01%1,1,1, I:nklux; And then he cntnt, \Va,hingum Fits prnctionat inn to hring ant Rultinx ! Kultlkix ! tililitx ' A 16,11110,0 a) Ring The I 'apital has its ring, and a nicre corrupt no even than that of New York or Philadelphia. The develop ments at Washington show that the Territorial government of the District of Columbia is run by the Crant Seneca Sandstone Ring, and that in the man agement of the allhir they have adopted the marhinely "Boss" Tweed. It has in about one year run up IL debt of $18,0n0,11011, and i'fllllllll,-S its ,perations on the Tammany scale. The " ring "is Wade Of of Republic:llc , , ;old the of course praises it, coil holds it up as a ...E.. hint.. He11..9 (!ub met lust Friday, 1111 , l'urn The scarlet fever . 1:110 rat i throughout the State. In the town ot• Money they have a square vaned old Mald's The Munt•' Creek Railroad will be completed to Hughesville during this week. Turkeys are selling for ten cents per pound in Lebanon. Bricklayers are still at work un houses in Lebanon. Cases of meamleS Il!lillermis in Beaver county. The Bellefonte glass works have re sinned operations. A mad dog was shot. at Plio•nixville last week. The new bridge over the Clarion at Ridgway, has been completed. Erie's wealthiest man, (;eneral Chas. M. Read, was hurled last week. About twenty eases cf small-pox are reported from Lock Haven. The re-union of the Ninety-Ninth regiment, P. V., has been abandoned. A public school for colored children is to be established in Mechanicsburg,. The lateral roads being built in Cen tre county are progressing finely. Pottsville has constant trouble with her water pipes, which will goon a bust. Wayne I\ I'Veigh, of Harrisburg, will address the 'reacher,' Institute of Leb anon, this week. Greenville, Mercer county, has built a new jail and lined the cells with boiler iron. The Doylestown Presbyterian church is now holding a fair and festival in the Masonic Hall. People along the Shamokin railroad complain of the poor ears which are run thereon. All the weekly newspapers in the rural districts will suspend publication next week. Scranton had a lirst-clas,s row on Sun ,lay, iu a saloon where Sunday beer selling is indulged in. A Harve de Grace reporter announces that the Susquehanna river is frozen over solid. Over-doses of morphine seem to be a common cause of death in some parts of' this State. A service for deaf Unites is to be held in the Episcopal church, at York, on tiunday next. A chain-gang is about to he intro duced at Erie for the punishment of in veterate vagrants. lierks county has several active as sociatiotcl for the detection nod prose cution of horse-thieves. At Bainbridge, in this Male, recent ly, a single blast in a iiiiarry threw 111 Idluu tons or limestone. An immense new turn-table for the Northern Central Railroad, is tieing constructed at Wrightsville. Three cars are being turned out daily be the Middletown ear works for the Pennsylvania Railroad Company, flit U. Bradderson, of Solebury, who was stricken with paralysis on the tub died hist Thursday, aged 7'; years. A calf was brought forth in (lremn wich township, Berk , : con recently,nty, which, at two hour. old, weighed 11. - 1 pounds. Altoona police arrest young Well for congregating about church-dons, slid her Mayor tines them front to to each. \I r. Elias icle, rcsid i lig near Chest Springs, ( 'ain hi in county, lost five children in live wcelis Iruw i lip theria. Mrs. Van Bent:irk, of Williamsport, proposes to distribute one hundred loaves of bread 10 the poor ou t'hrist- Inao day. In one of our neighboring towns they have a female barber who will now re tire from business on account of the ar rival of a "little shaver." Hon. F. Watts has been confirmed Commissioner of Agriculture. Let bin, now resign his position as President of the Cumberland Valley Railroad. George Gates, the individual arrested for the murder of Edenboro Smith, iu Cambria county, has been held to an swer iruthe sum of $3,000. The Lehigh Valley Railroad Compa ny have reduced the toll on their road from Mauch Chunk to New York twenty-six cents on the ton, The attempts to get up a panic by cir culating stories of a strike in the coal-- regions is in the interest of the specula tors who want to keep up prices. The firm of Seyfert, McManus & Co., of Reading, have just finished two cranks, each weighing seven tons, and two connecting rods, each weighing three tons. An old German vagrant named 'Cool,' well known in Centre county, hung himself in the Bellefonte jail, last week. " Over the stones, bury his bones ; he's only a pauper," Sc. For leaving a switch open, the Read ing Railroad Company gives its careless employee two weeks' leave of absence for the first offence, and discharge pa pers for the second. I Mr. Martin Nixon, the eminent paper maker, who has large and successful mills at Manayunk, has purchased the property formerly occupied by Mr. Jc seph Duckett, deceased. The deaths in Philadelphia, last week, numbered 539, an increase of 42 compared with the number for the pre vious week: The small-pox deaths numbered 228-1. children, and 100 adults. Those who have United States bonds of the first aeries, issued under the act of February 25, 1362, should present them for payment at any of our banks, as the interest has been stopped. The Philadelphia and Reading Rail. road Company have bought of Messrs. Kendrick, Dovey & Co., their three col lieries,the Indian Ridgeat Shenandoah, the Keystone, at Ashland, and the St. Clair shaft. In opening a water course in the Hire nix Iron Company's mines, at Boyer town, a few days ago, a vein of ore was struck, about 16 feet in thickness, which bids fair to be valuable. The ore is magnetic and very rich. Samuel Heffey has been elected Rep resentative delegate from the Nllttlin and Juniata District, to the next Repub lican State Convention, and instructed to support Hon. John B. Packer for Gov ernor. At ; Kane, Pa., on Thursday morning, the wife and child of Patrick Burns were found murdered, in a barn] near their house. An examination proved that the wife had been strangled, and the child's skull fractured. Burns has been arrested on suspicion. Au organization for social reform has been formed in Williatusport, the ob ject of which is tr, improve the condi tioyof all classes. Williamsport is pe culiar for vigilance in looking to meet necessities, and in this instance acts with judgment. Taylor's M. E. Church, situated on the rational road, a mile east of Centre ville, Washington co.,was destroyed by fire: on Sunday last. The tire originated in the roof, from lit is supposed) sparks from the chimney. The loss is about 53,1)15). A movement is on foot at Pittsburgh to slack water the Youghiogheny river from its mouth at McKeesport to Con nellsville. A large amount of money has already been raised. It is said that the coal-king,William If. Brown, heads the subscription paper with SlOO,OOO. Doylestown had a small-pox panic last Sunday, originating front ti corpse arriving there front Philadelphia, and being hurriedly ,buried. The ex ci trident quickly subsided when it was ascertain ed that it was a case of typhoid pneumo nia, and not the first-named disease. Friday evening last, while ..)Irs. Pe nina Farabee, wife of Samuel Far.abee, of Washington county, was getting on her horse, her foot slipped from the stir rup, throwing her backward and her head coming violently in con tact with stone, the skull was so badly broken that she died the next morning. In the case of Father Stack against Bishop O'Harra, to restrain the Bishop from removing Stack from his pastor ate, Judge Gamble has continued the injunction. This is the first case of the kind under Catholic canons in America and limits the power of the l'.ishop over his priests. East Wednesday night the dwelling of Mr. ( ;eorge, in Latrobe, was broken into and robbed ol some $,lO in money, silver-ware and other valuables. A party who pursued the burglars was dreadfully beaten by the but others who took up the chase , captured and brought them back. The Beaver ..-Ir,m/s says a farmer sold a fat steer alive to a butcher by the pounil, agreeing to buy beef from him at the current retail price for his faint ly's use. He bought one.quarter at re tail of the "critter," which he had sold at wholesale, and discoverd that he owed the butcher a small balance. No better evidence of the fact or the intensely cold weather of Wednesday night can be given, than the well au thenticated information received, that the water in the boiler of a locomotive on the Pennsylvania Railroad, near Lewistown, froze up and the wheels ceased to revolve, slopping the train uitil as,istauce could be rendered Three brakesmen on a freight train on the Western Division of the Penn sylvania Ilailroad, beyond Altoona, were frozen to death on Wednesday night. They were found clinging to the brakes, their arms through the wheels. This is one of the most terri ble eases of suffering and death, as well as striking devotion to duty, we have ever had occasion to chronicle. Howard Borer, about 1G years of age, son of Edward Borer,living near Doyles town, was severely injured by being gored by a bull, a few days ago. He was struck on the buck of the head by the animal, and fell to the ground. cutting a gash in his head. While on the ground the bull gored his face, the point of the horn rutting open his lip, and tearing the roof of his mouth terribly. John Henry Denig, of York, alias " Jack Shepherd," who edited and pub lished a small paper, entitled look Sh,p herd's Trump( was arrested ,m Monday last, on complaints of several citizens Mr libel, and ennainitted to jail in de fault of the required security. ".Jack," it appears, is withal as merry as a crick et, and is so well-pleased with his new quarters, that he now spurns the very idea of leaving them upon ball. A new counterfeit ..0-cent note has appehred in Newark, N. ,1. The Potomac river is again open to navigation as far as Acquia creek, and travel to the South is uninterrupted. An Imperial ukase of the Russian Government makes the use of the Rus sian language in the schools of Poland compulsory. Wm. F. Purcell, formerly Judge of the Orphans' Court of the District of Columbia, died in Washington on Fri day night. Hon. E. G. Bradford, newly appoint ed I. S. District Judge for Delaware, has received his coinini,sion and been sworn into office. A locomotive exploded last Saturday, on the Hartford and Fishkill Railroad, killing M. 12 Collins, engineer, and a fireman named Voight. The report of the librarian of Con gress, shows an aggregate of '..;:1n,5•113 vol umes and 40,00) pamphlets in the libra ry, on December 1, 1571. Thestearner Phil Allen was sunk !war Memphis during a severe gale On Fri day night. It is thought she cau be raised. A Washington despatch announces the receipt by a recent mail from Lon don, of the news that Minister Schenck has withdrawn from the Directorship of the Emma Mining Company. Snow " ten feet deep on a level" is re ported in the Cottonwood M ining•Dis [Het, " and_it is still snowing." There have been severe floods in Ne vada, as well as in California. At Watsonlown, about Is miles from Will imnsport, Richard Unlly and wife were rilli ot•er by the cuts on 'l • htt rsday evening. I ;all'y was 111,1lltly anti MN. lialry arriously injured. A resolution has been introduced in the City Council of r-lt. Louis, providing for a Committee of three well-known citi zens, to examine the qualifications of the Mayor's - appointees, in the, i Merest of civil service reform. A freight train was thrown down an embank 'bent, a distance of forty feet, by the breaking of a rail, near Youngs town, Ohio, on Friday. .1 olin Realty, hrakesman, was instantly killed, and the conductor anti several others were injured. At Brooklyn, N. Y , the Health Of ficers report the small-pox "now Wider colitfOL" Despatches trot say the disease is decreasing there. The deaths from sinalbpox in Cincinnati last week numbered while for sev eral weeks previous they numbered from 0 1 to The Grand Duke Alexis arrived at ButUo on Saturday. He was given a reception at the Donlo Club Rooms, ex-President Fillmore making an ad dress of welcome. Yesterday he attend ed a grand chloral festival at the, North Presbyterian Church, in which live hundred school children participated. Mr. Catacazy left the Brand Ducal party at lin HIM, and proceeded to Washington to joi u his family. Smiling Colfax Schuyler Colfax is one of the '•devilish sly" gentry. A year or so ago he caused it to be announced that under, no circum stances would he he a candidate for re-elec tion to the Vice•l'residency. The other day he was interviewed and in answer to a question what he would do if the conven tion were to renominate him in spite of himself, the wily Colfax said that that would be something to be "taken into'con sideratlon." Evidently Schuyler, whis pering he'll ne'er consent means to 'sent. liarkis is An Old-Time Impeachment When Martin Van Buren was President there was an extraordinary agitation and threats of impeachment, over the report that somebody in Europe propos( d to make him a present. Had the present been made there is no doubt he would have been im peached. Since that day we have had sev eral years of Republican rule, and now the President actually receives presents of houses, farms, bonds, and pups, and any person who suggests that there is anything wrong is called disloyal. Surely we have made great progress under Radical rule. (For the Intettlgeneer.] Mcisrs. Editors:—lt is my intention be fore I drop the subject, to point out a plan of re organizing the practical working of the school system of our City ; but, further criticism of the present arrangements seems necessary as a preparatory step. And, first, let me say that In order to have good schools, there must be good teachers; and, making every allowance for exceptions, a hotly of good teachers cannot be obtained without paying them good salaries. The salaries Lancaster pays her teachers are shamefully low. The same, narrow, short-sighted policy that has forced her children into poor school-houses, has kept down the salaries of her teachers, as a lib eral Director once said, "to a bread-and butter standard." This kind of mistaken economy takes all the life out of a school system and withers it up. If good teach ers continue to labor in the schools, half paid, it is because local circumstances pre vent them from getting away. The following table will show how Lan caster compares with the other principal towns in the State, in the matter of teach ers' salaries. The City and Borough Su perintendents are counted as teachers, and their salaries included in the estimates.— The number of teachers is also given ; and it should be observed that where there is a large number of male teachers in pro portion to the size of the place, as in I far ri-Murg, and Easton, inasmuch Its Motil e them miNt be employed in lower grade schools, it red tilt's vvry materially the ac e rage salaries. I,uunnor . 11N JAI /Mt 'Mt %SU 12 111 r,I Ltl: Ni 04. S :At :1 . 1 3, Illi );1 11X1 IXi 4. 2i 211 NI II I. 31 11 12,2 .21 9'. :Ai 41 :Al I :0 00 21' -1.1 ..I p 220 72 pi, .11.tii 11 101 0. .1 Vb 1 - 1; 54 1,1.20 I. 1.11 2.: P.l l I, 120 3..1 .1 02 1.01 0:1 7 i. :0 22 0 it Pi liarrisbon4 Mem.lvltio New Niorristown.. Philadelphia 1'011,o:111e • \ e York As the table shows, the average salary of male teachers in Lancaster iff lower than it is in any other town in the list, /Mil Head ing is the only one that doles out a poorer pittance to her female teachers. I write these words with a blush of shame. llow much they mean ! Will we ever be just, to say nothing of being generous, to the teachers 44f our 4•llll4lreti 7 Can broad, lib eral, high.loned citizens grow tip under the operation of a policy so contracted 7 With leachers so molly paid, ono could hardly lied: fir good teaching, especially in the Primary Schools, whore it is most needed. It is very much more easy to Mich Algebra or Latin tlranintar than it is to teach elementary reading or the first steps in Arithmetic. A boy of sixteen in the It igh School can itu some 1110101111 - 0 take care of himself, his hardy system does tint readily yield to the influences or solved room quaokery ; it is the trustful hearts and budding intellects of the little people in the Primary Schoch that heel I the watch MI eye, the Wilder care and the skill ful 111111,11 A. the nia.ster. i , llr Priuutry SCIIOOI,I in I,all4,lStf'r 11.4 i a emilidele remodelling in studio's, in methods and in The mac himetteuthing, the routine of simply hearing lessons, that too generally °hare, torizes Doom should be superseded by methods that will expand the intellect, form the character and cultivate the taste. 'those who 1110:0 not carefully observed the matter I.as form no adecitiate conception of the amount of knowledge a child, six or eight years 4.1.1, can acquire with positive benefit to its health, if it 1w taught in a natural way. WO are starving our chil dren intellectually, and stultifying them by cur absent methods of cram ming, instead of teaching them. t sir Pri mary Sehools need reform: first, in the salaries of teachers ; next, in the teachers themselves ; and, then, will follow the im provements needed in stud ies and methods. Said one, whose name has been mentioned mistakenly, /Of approving the present con dition of our sclewl-houses, of certain Pri mary Scleeils, to which his own children were going at the time, "They are mental rot-heaps." 'this is strung language -is it justified by the facts? And here, as I understand, the Superin tending Committee of the Board of direc tors have the matter of amending the course of study under consideration, let me snug gest that provision be made for leaching vocal music in all the selloff's. Many towns have special teaehers for the purpose. Lan. caster scarcely teaches it ill bur schools at all. Let all our children learn to sing„ and the whale fawn will be the better for It. Drawing, too, should be taught—begun in the Primary Seheols and continued in the higher 0110 s. It is a beautiful us well as useful art, and ean lie taught in connection with writing, in the same time writing can be taught by itself, And, perhaps, more pressingly needed than either, is a eys tent of Object Lessonn fur the Printery Selneds. All learning is simple in its be ginnings, and the foundation Mr it, laid in the Primary Schools, should be at broad tine. 141joet. Lessons such as I 4•untemplate need 104 text-book. They are given front the full mind of the teacher, aided by ob jects, experiments, pictures and rtrawingS, They are fruits plucked from a thousand trees by lovinglAnde and brought to feed the appetites (if - little lines, hungry for knowledge. No efluef.ttion can bit well be gun without them. Smoothing in another article on a plan for the re-organization of our schools, and I have done. .1. I'. Wick Last Thursday, lath Inst., John Market aged about Mee ty•tw,. years, was ac-. eidoutly shot and 1,1111,1 tuner Wilcox, this county, by U. P. while they were out in the woods Minting. The: farts fur nished us are as follows: On the evening prior to the accident, Market had been out hunting and hail wounded a deer. In the morning both men started to secure the prior, and as they wore going through the WI/Ml,l single tile, Market behind, White's gun accidentally discharged, striking Market in the breast, killing him instantly. White was afraid that folks would think he had ni nrdered Market, and so to prevent this he invented the story thst larket shut himself, home and told it. Pol. A. I. Wilcoxr.,l hearing the facts in the rase, proceeded with Or. nartif,y, of thin plant., who happened to be in W 111,1( nt he time, t,) the scene 14 . 0111 aceident. A 1,04 morl ••,, examivatinu was held by Pr. 1 'limey, when the ball was !Mind lodged near deceased's back-bone, :and the bull discovered WILY hntud to correspond with the one cHed in 'White's gum Justice .1. li. Parsons 1,11111/41111e11,1 a j ury and he'll an immcst. The Surd i'l 01 the jury was that John Market rain., to his death by the hand of P. P. White. The men were on good icons, and \larket Int.s been in White's employ for nearly a year past.•- t 7/.. 'buoy .1 acecatc, The New Governor of Georglo lion, James M. Smith, elected titiverinir of e morgia on Tuesil.iy last, without op position. to rill out the unexpired term of R. I:. Itolloek, fugitive Rom lustier., IS a native of the Stale, of about middle age, a lawyer by profession, and a lifetime Dem ocrat. At the outbreak of tllll War he op posed secession, but upon the actual clash of arms " went with his State," served 21.4 a Col(1110 of the 'f'svelftli tieorgia infantry until disabled at the head of his regiment, and was then elected to the Conlederate Congress, holding his seat therein until the close of the war. Lie then resumed the praetive of his profession, and has not ap peared in polities until now. At the time of his election lie was Speaker of the IiMISO of Representatives, having been returned to the Legislature at the election of last \'inter, when I leorgia was declared linally reonistrueted. la the Way of the Slur The true reason why Akerman bad to go out of the Cabinet is now given. He was in the way of the PILO tie Railroad Ring. They wanted a tool that would serve them without limit, and so they Look a man from one of the Pacific States. Some time ago A k ertnan gave a decision that was contrary to the interests of the Pacific Railroad Hung, and from that time he has been marked as a victim. Rumors of his resignation have been floating about ever since that event, and his removal has now been accomplish ed. Grant has offered a salve for A kerman's wound, in the shape of a South American mission, or a Judgeship In Florida or Texas. Tina was doubtless done to keep A kernialA from making an exposure of the circum stances attending his retirement. All the Work for Wheel Horses. The gutting elf two Democratic Senators at the heel of the Committee of Investiga tion, soya an old teamster to us, reminds one of the folly of pullirg a heavy load for several horses, with those in front all balky and falling back on the wheel-horses. He suggests that if the load is to be drawn the wheel-horses must do it, and the balky ones, or the lame, halt, and blind be turned over to the shambles, where they belong. Our Poor House and liloilpital EDITORS OF INTELLIOENCER.—About ten days ago, or more, two communica tions appeared In the columns of-the-..fi <miner and the Daily EtyrcsB;in refer ence to our Poor House and rather I should say, in reference to .. t4e chief Superintendency of those establlsh':` ments; anti which, it seemed to me, oon tained somesuggestions that exhibit a pro gressive step in the right direction. What ever may be the character and quality of the chief garments, worn by those benevo lent institutions ?lOW, there is nothing more apparent to disinterested, intelligent, and thinking anon, than the feet that those gar ments are growing too small, and there fore they need larger ones. Under any cireninstanees. Immanity, as well as economy, at this time, demands that the admMistrative authorities should not attain pt to force upon our Hospital ut lea.st,'ll Salt t!ler and inure contracted gar ment than it is wearing now. 1 4 mean nothing iu disparagement of the present incumbent, who, experience has MIIIINVII, to be a most worthy, competent, anti intelli gent officer, but I am apprehensive that in the exercise of that morbid rotation policy which mere political fuctionisin suggests, that some hungry aspirant will be placed in that office in January next, who may not possess a shadow of the ability which characterises the present Incumbent. And if he even ahJ , which is hardly point tilti-- 'wenn:, he must math rally lack the expel envy -the time, It seems to ine, and not only to 1110, 1111 t to many others, has cone., when a '• progressi,el•hange" ought to made in the official prograunne of Our asy lums Mr the poor, afflicted, and Insane.•- Nothing seems clearer than two plain pro positions, and these are based upon the practice of scum of the most successful establishments of this kind, in the entire christian world. ~Yirst, the Chief Super intendent ought to be an experienced Pliysiciati of great administrative auil hu manitarian abilities ; and secondly, politi cal partiz.3iiimiii not • lair IL liniment b. considered as n tillatilit•11110I1 or fitness ter the office. This 'hive, with a wide and far •ritoli mg V iz.lloll, ought to he looking tint for a properly yialitied 1,1,111,1111 d not disqualified men coveting and sifekifig liar the fq/ice, as an inherent political right - There nosy be men who covet it, who are as well qualified m till It, as the present of.. ricer; lint that does not matimly the wattle of the institution, nor the roamsti hit , nano its and chat ity. But even it ouch a itrogressivo doing° an has been suggested, nhould not be praotic(ll at the present moment; how ono any prop • erly qualitled either devote his whole mind, sold and strength, to the (it his 011iro, cool 110. with the illtil.plUllietlet• and t•llicieney that such it position require,4 so 11011 11. is ell the limo ,111,11 . 10114 that, no matter with \Vital, ability Int may his ditties, he in at any time subject to re moval, to satisfy the demands tt c 501110 hun gry aspirant to the place, as a reward for his political services 111 his lonely. forty has nothing tic tia with such 101 ought not fiir a 1114111101 a. 110 (•411Initit , r0 , 1 in 1•0111111, Lit/II Willi. It ought neither to he a tpuiliti• cation, nor a disqualification. There are many reasons why an inexpert • towed and liiinuine physician, with the highest professional qualitivittions, should be the inciinibent of an office which has et, much to do with lininan siillering; and when such a person is found, he ought to be kept there, al, long ,LS 110 is Willing to re main; provided, ho latithfnlly ion' °Mails., ly discharges the duties of his (dike, (me of the greatest errors in the poliUral and economical policies of this ...dry, is the idea that all offices are creatisl for the special occupation of ;illy than who t t .., sufficient iffilteattat, !tarty turf, hr taw.- niary 1111,11.1 (I/ hut about. 'l'be•ro IOUs!. always be mart, or less inefficiency or defalcation - i foot actual fraud - tinder SII,II a rule. What man, 4,1' moral fisding, due, not consider the great frauds and defalca tions which have lately 'won brought to light in NOW York, l'hiladelphinand Wash ington city, as greater ealithiltit, thatt that ,vitielt overwhelmed Chtrago lu October last ? Stich iniquities in [Ugh places produce it moral 11/11sOlION9 ill till orilinato positions throughout an entire etuintry, and especially SO, when 01110i111 incumbents are conscious Or file t 111111111.4 tenure by ‘vltit•lt they hold their offices, As a general thing there+ iv teat much bartering, for olliee, and this begins Ilrvt with thee pisepte., whatever the "isinsideralion uu - either side way be. If thee people will sell their virtue, thane for whom tinny vol. will sell their offices: if the partizan will buy then., the leepiratils to idllue will bey the partisan. Thin is un .I..tract view of OW vu hjnrt, and whether it has a spieled nip' eat.). in, anything that lets transpired inn the policies "r this county, or is likaly to traidepiro in Llio near future+, those both is endow of must joulgo fler theIIISMVPS, JUNTICI's. Situ ll4tullll 4l in it MI I•S% Shtspe A rempoithible gentleman, or Nett• Jersey, who lea Sao Domingo on the Iml, %N.M. lit the Nov.' York Nun ILK l'ollows: "'rile previous evening I Was informed by 111 cordo ('oriel, Dominican Secretary of War, that President. !taw/. Wl.n especially sanguine of annexation, having received it letter from e;client' Italie...lt, saying that by the steamer leaving Now York about Christmas time, the President would din pat , l, a Tow Envoy In the person id Com mander Joseph Bailey, of the I' lilted States Navy, with power to negotiate now propo sals I . ol' annexation." Thisitissiuntelor the absence of all allusion to Sari limningu in the lute message 01 . I; moral ti rant. lie Is about running the machine ono new track, and until the change is made, no of the matter is iterated politic or desirable. When 'now proposads for annexation" are submitted and accepted by Baez, under the guns of an American man-of-war, then ti rant can send an extra message to Cori gross in relation to the matter. 'fluid Is the game. There is too nitwit money In the seleime to be abandoned by the " Iting" which emitrols General timid, and it Will be pushed in some shape during the pres ent sescion.—Phitude/phiii dye. Ohio possesses a rising financier, funned Bettell, when WOlll4l !Mee beer] a valuable man for Taininnuy in its days of prosperi ty, and whose reinark able abilltiem would now doubtless receive a better appreciation in Wwiliington than they have obtained in his own Static. This young man was an engineer in charge of the ()hie canal, and lice expenditure of tt:f,l)00 appropriated by the Legislature tor re-building a lock iea Tuscarawas county was placed 16 his hairdo. Willi great promptness he used the anon of fs,:S:i in patching up the dilapida loek—the odd $2,96:7, he quietly put Inc his own pock el, 'rice Ohio Board of Pub lic NVorks have dispenseu with the servicea of this gilled yowl,. t :ram's Board of lA'iorlia nr 111tslcington shoe Id ,11,111.. Mere at one., rw he is evidently just. the man to alloril them practical miggeratiefoa i cr the furtherance tit their purpose. In his fortlivoining of the l'otintry," Mr. lie Bow Ii xe•n tile nuut6e•r Or foreigners and their descend ants in this country at 1,119,662, 111111 of w Into A InftrieanS,lll.4VOlted from residents in the eiiiititry in 17)1), at 'cabin NO, of the I,olPlihtl.nal tahlttS of 1110 ninth census gives In S91!,111.1 ELM the number of inhabitants having lain Ilr both parents of foreign birth, while thu nun her of nireigto horn is but I'. 1111111- hr,r, thnligh Maeh nearer than taller natl. Matt's, IS Ina Ilitni.ta`thi, uccu rate. The New York Tribu , joilbllStlel.l or two 111111111,.1 gambling dens in the rut ol New York, giving the street and 1111111 h,•r of each, which il.mays areas well known to the police as they are to Its reporters.- - These places are the resort or twenty-five hundred prolu,donal gamblers, uppers, ruliers• in, pals, thieves and 1.11,1111111.0 clller actors who subsist upon the proceeds car ried on in these hells r It is the 1/11S1- 110,18 Of this army of scoundrels to prowl about and lead vielims to their 111.11,114 in famy, M be robbed and fleeced by the arts and tricks of the profeasiim. The Tribune having done all that ought to be required of the press, now calls upon the authori ties to tailor,. the Imre and break up those I aunts uf Three liliithir“l 111.11 Sixty Heads OM The Commissioner of Internal Raven lie has given orders for the revocation of the appointment "rail surveyors of distilleries, to take effect from and after the list in stant. Their duties will hereafter be per formed by Assistant Assessors._ There are throe hundred and sixty of these officers now in the service, slid their dismissal will be a large saving in the expenses of the KW:01111H Bureau. Senatiir Nye says, there is harmony miming Republicans, except here and there is" Otto who W(.111,1 be greater than bin lita,t CT." bat is an elegant phrase. and very expressive too. Alr. Nye ought to have a nice little steel collar about his neck, with the name of hls waster stamped upon it. There is, we believe a Grant paper-oil lar just introduces!. Perhaps that would do. Effi=X!2l hpeculatillll3l.l Mound The English journals, while expressing lie opinion as to the merits of the case, re gret the dilliculty into which American Minister Schenck has fallen, and cite as precedents cases of other ambassadors, no tably that of the Duke of Saldanha, who, while Minister of Portugal to a foreign power, was permitted to engage in private speculations.
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