New Buildings.
MR. EDITOR : —Having several times during
the last year, heard intimations thrown out that
oar \ ill age was at a stand-still, giving no signs
of growth, I have been led to inquire into the
cause of such expressions, and to ascertain if
the facts of the case would justify such obser
vations. Before statinjrihe fact,- t have gath
ered. I will say. that such ideas must have ori
ginated from the fact, that so If tie was doing
iu the centre of the town fore-tor.-the numer
ous buildings destroyed by fire in the eighteen
months previous to 1-5 1. .lie centre <>i
the town did. ami sail does, pr- .-en. a ucsoh it
appearance, compared with what it once d.d.
i; undeniable ; but Im-cause the number of store*
is r.ot multiplied, is it nn\ cnvim sign that bu
siness is at a stand ? Tie present number is.
doubtless below the demand, but 1 think they
arc about being supplied as fast as a health v
progress wiil require.
In the year 1854. the number of buildings
erected, iu our village, amounted to forty-oue;
counting dwellings aud such other buildings as
are of respectable cost and character. Among
the latter I have placed the Collegiate Insti
tute, which I am told cost some $12,000, the
walls of which were up the year before, but it
was mainly built and brought into use iu 1854.
The Presbyterian church was w holly built dur
ing the year, and cost some SB,OO0 —uor have
I counted in ray lift the splendid dwellings of
Hon. JOHN" L.UFORTE, ULYSSES MERCCR, and G .
F. MASON, Esquires, which were finished and
brought into use iu 1854—nor yet the very
large and costly new dwelling of EDWARD OVEF.-
TON" Esq., the walls of which were, however,
raised in the same year. Nor have I counted
the enlargements partaking of the.cbaraeter of
new buildings, such as thorc of J. A. RECORD,
Mrs. H. A. MERCER and ALLEN MCKEAN,
each of which ha 3 cost enough to build a good
sized dweliiug. With these facts before me, I
think our town lias made some progress, no!
very rapid to be sure, but respectable, healthy.
I also know that more mechanics were wanted
all through the season, than could be had—a
fair presumption is, that more would have lieeu
done, had there been more workmen. The
buildings then erected here the last year,
would, if brought together iu gome new spot,
make quite a village, and create quite u sen
sation !
Tho buildings destroyed by fire, iu the same
time, number four dwellings, two small barns,
one otEce, and a part of the bridge, in all. say
eight : a sad loss to be sure, which benefited
no one, but no very killing matter.
I now hear daily enquiries for dwellings and
places of business, which are said to be diffi
cult to find; aud I am told that fifty more
houses would be filled at once if they could 1 e
got, and I look confidently for renewed activi
ty the coming season in our midst, especially
in building. o. D.
Toirand.:, March 15, 1855.
ENGLAND Cor.VTINTT THE COST or THE WAR.
—Mr. Bright. a clear-beaded merchaut of Eng- -
land, and a member of Parliament, has been
figuring up one year's cost of the war. He !
calculates that the British are paying one hun
dred and fifty millions of dollars more for food <
on account of the war, while the government
are spending one hundred millions of dollars j
extra on the same account; and what is there
obtained in return ? Wheat is selling in Eng- •
land for 735. Id. a quarter, or Is. Gd. higher
than the highest price ever known since 1819.
Yet the harvest of 1851 in England was the i
roost productive ever known. He gives it as ;
his solemn belief that if the foreign policy keeps
food up so high, six millions qnarters of corn
being kept out of the country by war. before
two years arc over tho Government wiil shoot j
Englishmen in the streets. Hundreds of sail- i
ing vessels, and sixty or seventy of the largest
steamers, instead of carrying passengers and '
manufactures to all parts of the world, are now j
employed most tin productively in carrying sol- (
dicrs, horses, stores, shot, and shell to the !
Crimea. In the trade of the Baltic there is a ;
failing off of 5000 vessels, about 50 per cent. [
in the Euglish, and nearly 90 per cent, in the I
Russian. The vessels of tho ether States have j
also suffered a proportionate diminution. Pros- j
sia has suffered slightly ; Sweden forms the !
only exception. ' j
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I
THE SUFFERING IN THE CRIMEA. —The allied J
soldiers iu the Crimea have been congratulat- j
ing themselves on the termination of winter, j
when their sufferings, they hope, will cease.—
But from all accounts "there will only be a j
change from one form of suffering to another, j
for as soon as tho warm weather and the spring j
rains eommeuce, the animal decomposition from
the multitude of dead bodies of men aud horses 1
laying unbnried, will spread pestilence through
the camp, which will depopulate it faster than i
sickness is now doing. A French officer of:
rank says, since the first landing of the troops
in Turkey, 80,000 men and 40,000 horses have j
perished. Vast numbers of both now lie in !
masses, or scattered over the earth as thev fell, j
it being impossible to inter them in the pres-'
eut state of the weather there, and they pre- j
sent a spectacle that is disgustingly horrid.— '
There they will remain to be consumed by the
cariou-catera or to putrify on the return of mild :
weather.
ANOTHER SCHEME BROKE DOWN. —Senator
Cooper has been appointed President of Col. j
Kinney's Central American Expedition. The ;
project appears to have fizzled out rapidly since !
the suspicion of fillibnsterism has tainted it,
whether justly or not we do not know. There !
is one fact certain, the breaking up of all the j
schemes for the acquisition of territory by j
force, shows that theft has not yet become so j
popular as to be incorporated as a principle in '
onr national ethics. Iu the palmy days of the
Greek Republic, stealing was not considered a
crime, but onr republic rests on better moral
foundations than the Grecian, and gives there- j
fore promise of longer endnrnncc.
S&° Yery large and dangerous fires are rag- ■
ing in the piuc woods between Savannah and
Macon, Ga., and near Columbia, S. C. The :
Southern telegraph wires are destroyed for a i
corwidefcbV distance.
o. Goonniru. EDITOR.
TO AY 4 X D_Yr
oatnibag Hlorniun, HI aid) 17, 1855.
CHASE'S ATTEMPT AT EXCULPATION.
It is an inevitable and natural consequence
of a departure from the path of truth audreoti
: inde, that the erring find themselves speedily
! entangled in an endless maze of falsehood and
luplicitv, plunging deeper and deeper into the
üby.-s oi" dissimulation and deceit, until finally.
: falsehood will auswor no longer, and the wretch
: becomes an object of contempt and scorn, crush
ed beneath a sense of guilt aud infamy; or it
m.iv be, if hardened and scared in evil-doing,
j defiant of the judgment and contumely of a
| discerning ami correctly judging public.
Our quondam lViend CHASE, is experiencing
i this truth, equally applicable in a political as
i well as a moral sense, as the last number of the
I Montrose Dcmcrot abundantly testifies. Con
victed before the world, of altering a private
letter, changing its language aud perverting its
' meaning, he meets the charge by indulging in
! a tirade of billingsgate aud invective, and in
i imputations the most gross, directed against
i tue private aud judicial character of Judge
j WILMOT. Arraigned for the perpetration of a
\ contemptible trick, inexcusable under any eir
' eumstauccb—-charged with a crime affecting his
! character as a man, aud his reputation as an
! editor, which it was in bis power to disprove,
if false, and which blackens his name and fame
, if true; he neither produces the evidence of bis
! innocence, nor vet shows his contrition by plead
ing guilty, but launches out into a strain wor
: thy of a fish-woman, and by inference, in.-iuuates
against Judge WILMOT all the crimes in the
calendar, murder and treason hardly excepted.
N" ow W it'u J udge WILMOT'S private character,
we have uot anything to do. The people of
this district will, perhaps, be astonished to
j learn, that the man they have 80 often aud so
: uobly sustained, and whom they finally elevated
to the responsible position he now occupies, is
both a gambler and a drunkard. lie is com
petent to take such steps to vindicate his own
' reputation as he thinks necessary, aud would
uot thank us, we are certain, for volunteering
l in his defence. Mr. CHASE, however, by his
owu showing, has a heavy reckoning to settle,
for having assisted to place upon the Bench a
Judge whoso character is sullied by such grave
aud infamous practices as he imputes to Judge I
WLLMOT.
With his Judicial career, we have this much
I to do: We do not believe that the election of
; any man as a Judge removes him from the peo
ple. or divests him of the attributes and privi
; leges of a Freeman. We desire to see the pro
j blem fully solved, and we believe it is in a fair
I way of solution, in the case of Judge WILMOT.
We have no intention now to discuss the mat- 1
; j
j ter; but we cannot refrain from saying, that j
the very bitterness with which Judge WILMOT
; has been assailed by CHASE aud other members
of the bar, is sufficient evidence, that they have
| 110 fears of disturbing the even tenor of the
Judge's impartiality by their warfare, and that
j their professions of lear that his political pre
! judices may sway him, are at once stamped as !
hypocritical aud false, by their own conduct.
I If there be the slightest swerving from the
| strictest line of impartiality, forgetting that hu
man nature is weak, and judgment liable to er
ror, publish his short-comings to the world.—
1 Specify the offence, aud produce the proof.—
But until that is done, we protest against these
: vague fears, these undcfinable apprehensions. '
; We have all of us, enough of errors, both of
'commission and omission, to answer for, without j
; being held responsible for undefined crimes and !
• errors which exist only in the imaginations of
i those who would be rejoiced to see U3 stumble
; and fall. There are jealous eyes watching cve
; rv step of Judge WILMOT'S judicial career, and
I we assure the public that they will have timely
j and ample notice of any error or partiality he
; may be guilty of upon the Bench.
| The charge agaiust Mr. CHASE was a plain
: one. It was an offence which if not disproved,
: was calculated to do his reputation great inju
' ry. To every right-minded maD, the wilful al
i tering of the contents of a letter to misrepre
j sont the views of the author, is but little short
of positive forgery. The alteration of a letter
| from Judge WILMOT to SIMON CAMERON* is the
| charge against Mr. CHASE. HOW does he meet
!it ? We will give his own language, to show
! how obtuse the moral perception of the man
' is :
We published the letter from wlnt we believed to be a
correct copy. We have uot now the original, and there
fore cannot compare them, but we are entirely willing to
take Mr. V." ILMOT'S word that the original does read as be
i claims, for we cannot see that his version makes any dif
-1 ferenee in the sentiment and point of the letter. The ver
j eion which we published made him say that lie preferred
Cameron over all his rivals, naming them, Buchanan, Daw
! son, Ac.. Ac., and those rivals nanxtf, everybody knows
| do belong " to the old line Democracy,'' as lie terms them,
; We therefore can see no difference in" the version as pub
; iished, and the version which he gives himself; nor have
i we found any impartial mind that can discover the differ
j ence. * * * * We pnbiished what wc had no reason
I to believe was not a true copy of the letter, and what his
! own correction shows to have been a correct copv in all
| the essentials of correctness, viz : substance, meaning and
j etnsf - h* possible that among the several copies taken,
unintentionally a word or two might have been passed
i over, and not discovered, for the reason that it did not mar
| the sense.
j For cool impndenec and for unblushing effron
' tery, these extracts bear off the palm ! Does
| Mr. CHASE consider his readers so dull of ap
prehension, that they will swallow his assertions
; mid professions without perceiving their want
;of truth and candor ? The dullest reader of
Mr. W ILMOT'S letter will see that he is writing
| with reference to the past, while Mr. CHASE'S
mutilations make him refer to the present. Mr.
WILMOT has been on terras of personal friend
ship with Gen. CAMERON. Towards him he had
not " expressed words of disparagement or un
kindness." His election was preferred, under
certain circumstances, to an " old liuc Demo- j
crat." This is what Mr. WILMOT expresses, j
while CHASE garbles the letter to make hirn
express a preference for CAMERON* over the thir
ty odd candidates named to the Convention !
Yet the acute and legal mind of Mr. CHASE,
cannot " see any difference in the point and sen
timent," and lie proclaims that his publication
is "a correct copy in nil the essentials of cor
rectness, \ i,*.: swbstnv.re, meruit'!* aitd'sevte? If
Mr. CHASE can find n single reader of common
judgment to sustain him in such an uuteaable
position, or who will accept such a lame apolo
gy for his duplicity and meanness, we are de
ceived in the intelligence of the people of Sus
quehanna. A more pitiful attempt at ]>etty
fogging we never saw—evasive, contradictory,
and improbable. We trust, in all sincerity,
that-Mr. CHASE is able to satisfy his own con
science—though moral perception must be ve
ry weak, that can be satisfied with such excu
ses. The ostrich, we are told, when pursued,
buries its head in the sand, and foolishly ima
gines that it is concealed from view. It is so
with our eotemporary of the Democrat. He is
a lawyer ; aud he would hardly insult the in
telligence of a jury by asking them to render a
verdict for a client upon as weak a defence as
he makes for himself.
Mr. CHASE takes uo notice of the alteration
j of the word disparagement to " discouragement,"
i because it serves him for a half column of frothy
i verbiage, in attempting to twist and torture the
j expression to mean " no word of discern mgrmmt 1 '
: at the election of CAMERON*. He prolmbly could
see " 110 difference in the seutimcut and point"
I of the words; though cue referred to private
| character, and the other is made to refer to
j the electiou !
While he can sec no infamy in the alteration
, of the letter, Mr. CHASE, evidently feels that
it is necessary to explain how he came in pos
session of the original. He blunders out a lame
! excuse in the following words:—
The first W heard of WILMOT'S letter was after the Re
publican ia this place, which was regarded at ilarrisburg
as WILUOT'S peculiar organ, recently baptised as.-ucli, had
' made an attack upon CAMERON. Then it was that we
! heard from some of CAMERON'S friends about this letter
I from WILMOT. Mr. L ATUHOE also informed us that he had
heard such a letter was iu being. Soon afterwards an in
cident occurred by which we were enabled to get it in our
possession—and honorably too. We read the letter to
gether. expressed our opinions upon it freely, and there
j it ended.
* * * Mr. LATHKor will not say that we read it to
I him for the purpose of influencing his vote for CAMERON,
] aud no other person at llarrisburg will say that they ever
J saw it in our possession. Soon after this, Mr. WILMOT'S
| organ Towaada assailed us, representing that we were
j at ilarrisburg for the purpose of aiding CAMERON'S elec
| tinn, (a charge most infamously false,) and then it was
that we procured through a friend a copy of the letter to
jbe used in self-defence against the wicii ,, d charges of Mr.
j WILMOT and his friends. Mr. WILMOT may therefore blame
! his over-zealous friends, not his enemies for the publica
j tion of the letter.
It will be observed, that "an incident" for
; tuuately occurs by which he was enabled to get
I it iu his possession—"and honorably too !"
Perfectly satisfactory to us, particularly after
| the last declaration; though we fear that in
quisitive people will have some curiosity to know
what that "incident" was.
Mr. CHASE admits that he had the original
letter in his possession; that he read it to Mr.
LATHROI\ and expressed his opinion freely upon
it; and that afterwards for certain reasons he
he procured through a frieud a copy. Iu a
former quotation, he says, "we published the
letter from what we believed to be a true copy."
Now, it is somewhat singular that Mr. CHASE,
(if lie speaks truly) should not have noticed
the omission of the words, "of the old line de
mocracy." We venture to say, that of all the
men to whom the letter was shown, there was
not one, who would not have detected such an
omission. Certain it is, that when the garbled
letter made its appearance, the attempted im
position was instantly discovered by every one
who had seen or heard the letter read: and
Mr. LAI'ORTE immediately exposed the cheat
through the columns of the Herald, at Harris
burg. It is this plain and convincing evidence
which Mr. CHASE attempts to shuffle off, by
claiming that his omission was not material to
the " sentiment and point of the letter." lie
knows better than this : he understands per
fectly well the state of popular sentiment iu the
North, and that while under the state of par
ties of which Mr. WILMOT speaks, the election
of SIMON CAMERON would be " acquiesced" in,
the people of this section have been expecting
since the result of the last election, the selec
tion of a sound friend of Freedom. Such an
ouo is not CAMERON, and hence CHASE'S anxiety
to make Mr WILMOT appear as if willing and
anxious now for his success. . "j
In our charity for Mr. CHASE we had hoped
that lie had never seen the original of the let
ter to Mr. CAMERON. He might then have plead
in excuse that " he published what lie believed j
to be a true copy." But by his own showing
he has had the letter in his possession—has i
read it to Mr. L.vrnr.or—expressed " his opin-!
ions freely about," He cannot plead that he j
was so indifferent to its meaning, that a garbled ;
and mutilated copy was imposed upon him.— ;
His explanation has made the whole transac- j
tion look darker and more inexplicable for him.!
He lias involved himself in a labyrinth of con-!
tradictions and improbabilities, which only !
make his conduct appear the more despicable j
and inexcusable. He may attempt to bespat-!
ter Judge WILMOT with foul abuse—he may as-;
sail him with
" Secret whispers, dark surmise,
Or open and malicious lice,"
but he cannot divert public attention from the ;
imputation under which he lies. A half utter- !
Ed, negative, slander, will not convince the pub- j
lie of the correctness of his conduct, nor of the :
purity of Lis motives.
Mr. CHASE pronounces the assertion that lie
has been "ut Ilarrisbnrg for the purpose of
aiding CAMERON'S election, a charge most infa
mously false." If Mr. CHASE, being at Harris
bnrg, did not endeavor to promote the electiou
of Mr. CAMERON, then we are deceived, and be
grossly misrepresented. We heard, through!
those certainly not unfriendly to him, that at
the time of the first attempt to elect, he was
at Hnmsburg, frieudly to, and secretly endea
voring to aid CAMERON. At the next meeting
of the Convention, we were " on hand" ourself,
and whenever anything was said about him, it
seemed to be the general understanding that he
would, if lie could, help The remarks
that we heard made iu public conversations,
conveyed anything but a favorable opinion of
his importance, and were not particularly flat
tering to him generally. That he was in the
employ of CAMERON*, we can ouly say that we
firmly believe, and we know that such was the
belief of every anti-CAwrnoN- man with whom
we conversed st Uarrisourg; and we made it a
point to "post ourself up" on the subject. He
has certainly been very careful throughout the
contest not to " express Rtiy word of discourage
ment or uukindness" of Mr. CAMERON* through
the columns of his paper, notwithstanding his
intimate personal relations with "the great
Statesman and man of spotless private charac
ter, JAMES BUCHANAN*." What means this omi
uous silence, when Mr. BUCHANAN'S body-guard
have been on the alert ?
It is more in sorrow than in anger we have
followed Mr. CHASE through his t wis tings and
subterfuges—that we have exposed his flimsy
pretexts. We have confined ourselves simply
to the letter. We do not seek to retort back
the uugentlemanly language he employs. It is
not such as our readers are accustomed to find
iu our coiumns. We awaited the appearance
of the Democrat with much anxiety that Mr.
CHASE would be able to explain with credit to
himself a transaction so nefarious on its face.
We felt that a mis-step of this kind was fatal
to the reputation and fortunes of a young man.
Mr. CHASE apparently glories in its iniquity.—
The consequences are his own. Like the ghost
of the murdered Banquo this mutilated letter
will rise up against him — a SCARLET LETTER —
to proclaim his guilt, aud cover him with re
morse and confusion. An error in judgment
he might outlive and overcome—but the part
he has had iu this disreputable transaction will
cling to him as the poisoned shirt of Xessus,
destroying public confidence in his integrity,
and weakening the influence he should wield as
an editor.
FOREIGN NEWS. —The steamer rod fie arriv
ed at New-York on Wednesday morning last.
She brings ten days later intelligence, which is
quite interesting. The Palmerston ministry,
within ten days from its formation, had fallen
to pieces—the Chancellor of the Exchequer,
the Home Secretary, and the chief Lord of the
Admiralty having resigned. The ostensible
cause of their resignation was the success of
Mr. Roebuck's motiou for a Committee to in
quire into the mismanagement of the war. It
! was well understood that, besides the cause spe
! cilied, there were points of private disagreement
j wich rendered it impossible for the members of
the Cabinet to act together.
It is noticeable that in the Parliamentary
; explanations the members of the Government
j express hopes, confident hopes, that the pend
' iug negotiations will lead to an honorable peace.
Nevertheless, none of the nations relax in their
war activity.
The Emperor of the French seems determin
ed to proceed to the Crimea, to see, in person,
what is going on, and uo doubt would, if he
i could time his visit so as to be present at the
: fall of Sevastopol. England and Austria have
advised him to stay at home. Ilis absence, it
is said, would not, in any case, exceed thirty
days.
Russia has declared war on Sardinia. It is
slated, but on the faith of obscure correspon
dence—that Tuscany has joined the Western
Alliance. Naples has not.
Affairs before Sevastopol arc unchanged. A
battle has been fought at Eupatoria. On the
17th Gen. Liprandi, with a force about equal
to, or perhaps a few thousand superior to the
Turks, attacked them, and after four hours' tir
ing retired beyond the range of the shells from
the English ships, the Turks not pursuing. Omer
Pasha commanded.
There is uothing whatever new from the I
Danube.
Lord Raglan is said to have resigned, to '
avoid recall. The Earl of Luean and other of
ficers have been invited to resign.
Joseph Hume is dead—much respected and
.regretted.
Very inclement weather had caused suffer
ing among the poor in England, and riots had
occurred at Liverpool and Loudon. A change
for the better was apparent within the past few
days.
NEW HAMPSHIRE ELECTION. —The election in
this State, on Tuesday last, has resulted in over
whelming defeat of the Administration. RALPH
METCALF, Know Nothing, is chosen Governor
by the people. The three members of Congress j
elect, are thorough-going anti-Nebraska men. I
The Legislature will be strongly auti-Adminis- j
tration. Partial returns make Knt^v-Nothings
123; Democrats 29; Whigs 3. The Legisla
ture will have the election of two U. S. Sena
tors.
A painful accident happened at Mere
dith, N. 11., Tuesday, during the election. A j
floor gave way iu the Town llall, pitching some
three hundred men into a heap eighteen feet
below. Five or six are probably dead, and a
great number are severely injured.
Nr.w JERSEY . LEGISLATION.— They have a
" bribery and corruption" ease, in the New
Jersey Legislature. A member of the House
was offered SIOOO to vote for the several bank
bills before that body. The House has since
killed these bank bills. It wilTbe good for
New Jersey if the same effect will follow the
cause in the same proportion.
Amendments to the Constitution.
The resolutions proving certain important
amendments to the constitution, passed the
Senate on Thursday by a large majority. The
first proposition relates to the public debts of
the Commonwealth, and provides that the ag- j
grogatc amount of debts hereafter contracted
by the Commonwealth shall never exceed the
sum of five hundred thousand dollars, oiccept
in case of war to repel invasion, suppress in
surrection, or to redeem the public debts of thfi
Commonwealth ; and the money so raised shall
be applied to the purpose for which tin; debt
may be contracted, or to pay such debts, and
to no other purpose.
It is further provided, that to pay the pub
lic debt of the Commonwealth, and debts
which may hereafter be contracted in case of
war, to repel invasion, to suppress insurrec
tion, and to redeem the public debt, the Legis
lature shall at their next session, after the
adoption of this section of the Constitution,
provide by law for the creation of a sinking
fund which shall not be abolished tiil the said
public debt be wholly paid, to consist of all the
nett annual income from the public works and
stocks owned by the Commonwealth, or any
other funds arising under any revenue law now
existing, or that may lie hereafter enacted, so
far as the same may be required to pay the in
terest of said debts, semi-annually, to reduce
the principal thereof by a sum not less than
five hundred thousand dollars, increased year
ly by compounding at the rate of not less than
live per centum per annum ; the said sinking
fund shall be invested in the loans of the Com
monwealth, which shall be cancelled from time
to time in a manner to be provided by law.—
No portion of the sinking fund shall ever be
applied to the payment of the debt of five
hundred thusand dollars, mentioned in the first
j section of this article, but the said sinking fund
shall be applied only to the purpose herein spe
cified. •
The credit of the Commonwealth shall not
in any way, be given or loaned to or in aid of
| any individual company, corporation or asso
, ciation, not shall the Commonwealth hereafter
' become a joint owner or stockholder in any
; any company, association or corporation, in
this Commonwealth, or elsewhere, formed for
any purpose. The Commonwealth shall never
assume the debts of any county, city, borough
or township, or of any corporation or associa
tion, unless such debts shall have been contract
ed to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, or
|to defend the State in war. The second propo
sition relates to municipal subscriptions, and
; provides that the legislature shall never autho
rise any county, city, borough or township, by
| vote of its citizens or otherwise, to become a
| stockholder in any joint stock company, asso
ciation or corporation, or to raise money for or
loan its credit to or in aid of such company or
corporation.
" Kate Ay'esford, a story of the Refugees. 1 "
By CHARLES J. PETERSON*, author of "Cruising
in the Last War," Ac., publisher of Peterson's
Ladies National Magazine;
This work is now in Press, and will be issued
on the last of this month It is said not only
to be a true tale of the times that " tried men's
souls," not only a faithful picture of the man
ners of '7O, but one of the most thrilling, pow
erful, and absorbing stories ever penned. The
Philadelphia Ledger says : It is on all hands
pronounced the ablest original novel published
lor many years." The Philadelphia Mercury
says it is "a novel of thrilling interest. Mr.
PETERSON* is deservedly a popular writer, and
tins story will arid new lustre to his name.."—
Address J. B. Peterson, No. 102, Chestnut
Street, Philadelphia.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE IN BATH, N. Y.—A fire
broke out at Bath, about 4 o'clock on Tuesday
evening last in the Clinton House, totally de
stroying tiiat building with Cayress Hall, and
about a dozen stores and numerous offices,
shops, &e. The following are among the hea
viest losers :
A. Hess, Clothing Store ; Potter A Secley,
I Clothing Store ; Hart, Hat and Cap Store ;
| 11. \\ . Church, Hardware Store ; L. V. Church
i & Co., Hardware Store; Paine A Co., Dry
Good Store ; Woods A Robie, Dry Good Store;
G. A. Rogers, Dry Good Store ; E. lless,
Drug Store ; L. C. Whiting, Dry Good Store;
Ferris Baker ; It. Campbell. Total loss from
$75,000 to SIOO,OOO.
THE MONEY MARKET. —Money is very abun
dant in > T ew York as will be seen by the fol
lowing paragraph, which we cut from the mo
ney article of the livening Post: —The money
market is amply supplied for all wants, wheth
er speculative or otherwise, without any cor
responding disposition to use the means avail
able. Money rates continue to decline. The
value of money is from four to six per cent, on
the market, where there is no supposed risk.
Call loans 4a 6, discounts of prime paper 5a 0,
of gooil paper G a 7.
GEN. SHIELDS' SUCCESSOR.— The Chicago
Tribune says that Governor Matteson will not
give Judge Trumbull a certificate of his elec
tion to the United States Senate. He bases
his refusal on the ground that the Judge is not
eligible, under the clause of the Constitution
which prohibits any Judge of the Supreme Court
from holdin gany other office during the term for
which he was elected Judge, nor for one vear
afifrr the expiration of such terra. Judge Trum
ball resigned the office'of Judge, but the term
for which he was elected has not yet expired.
U. S. SENATOR.— A joint resolution has been
introduced into the Senate, for the election of
U. S. Senator on the 20th inst., and which was
taken up on Monday last, debated on second
reading, an<l postpoued.
LOCAL XE\\ s.
BRAIM-ORD COUNTY TEACHER'S ASSOCUT K,N
—This Association held its second n.eetin? in
'the Hull of the Sons of Temperance, at tl*
pleasant little village of Smithfield, on the 2:;,;
and 24th ult.
The session commenced upon Friday, tie
23d, at 10 o'clock A. V.; Itev. J. llExruucg in
the chair. After the usual preliminary
nes, the Committee appointed at the previa
meeting to prepare business, reported a sirk.
of resolutions, upon subjects intimately connect
ed with the cause of education, and mere es
pecially with the system of common schools
which report was accepted. The unfinished
j business Of tfie last meeting, being the first to
j occupy the attention of the Association; tj, 6
resolution relative to prohibiting ail communi
cation between scholars, during the hours of
study, except such as shall be allowed hy the
teacher, at specified times, was called up, and
elicited an animated discussion, which was par
ticipated in by many of the members. Theu<>-
batc continued till lutein the afternoon, and
the question was very thoroughly investigated
upon both sides. After a fruitless attempt to
introduce amendments, the resolution finally
j assed unanimously.
This was considered an important question
by those most conversant with the schools of
the County, and it is believed that the discus
sion, carried on as it was in a spirit of kindues
and with an anxiety to arrive at truth, wi ; ,
have a salutary influence.
DR. ANDRES, of Smithfield, offered the fol
lowing ;
ReselvcJ, That the study of any of the
branches of an English education, ought to be
encouraged in our Common Schools.
After a short discussion upon the principles
embodied in the resolution, Mr. GCYER propos
: ed, as explanatory, and as calculated to correct
a false impression made by the action of the
Association, at its last meeting, upon a rc-solc
: tion relative to the introduction of the higher
• branches into our Common .Schools-, the follow
ing resolutions,which he wished to have consid
ered as a substitute for the one previously of
fered by Dr. A SPECS :
Resolved, That this Association, deprecates
; the practice of studying the higher branches
i iu the Common Schools, before a thorough ac
quaintance is formed with Orthography, Gram
mar. Arithmetic and Geography; and a? teach
ers of tiie Common Schools of Bradford Coun
ty, we w ill discountenance the practice, believ
it to be inimical to the true interest of the
cause of education.
Resolved, That we are in favor of gradri
schools, w herein the higher branches follow th
primary ones, and thoroughness is the first and
best consideration.
Resolved, That we believe the welfare of
! society, requires that our Common School*
should be so arranged, as to place within the
reach of all the children of the Commonwealth
the blessings of a full and ample schooling it
, any department, and we believe that anytuic"
: short of this will not meet the wants, or satis
i fy the expectation of community.
The amendment prevailed, and on motion,
the resolutions wore taken up and considc-rcd
: seriatem. After a full discussion, in which
| Messrs. GI VER, ANDRES, COLT, MORROW, and
; others participated, the resolutions were sever
ally adopted.
During the evening session, tho Association
listened to an address from 11. N". CHAMTUX,
upon the duty and respoiisi bill lies of parent-,
i pertaining to teachers and scholars. The ad
dress was eminently practical, and well c-alcn
j la-tcd to direct the attention of parcjs to the
: cause oi education. Miss C. A. STOCKWELL
! a.so reau a well written essay upon thenecesii-
Ity of educating the masses. This article evinc
j cd much thought and a fine taste, in the a*-
rangement of its several parts— both produc
tions were listened to with marked attention
A vote ofjthatrks was presented to Mr. CHAD
PLI.v and Miss STOCKWELL.
On Saturday, the 24th, the Association Br.
| at 9 A. sr., aud entered upon the discussion o:
the following resolution :
.
Resolved, That it is the imperative dutycf
every teacher, to maintain good order in scho;!.
and adopt such measures as shall secure that
important end, even if it becomes necessary to
resort to corporeal punishment.
This question being one of vital import nr.?", •
and a practical one withal, called out a spirt
ed debate, in which 11. N". CHAMPLIN*, S. 1'
COLT, Dr. Buss, Misses CHCDBCCK, PHELPS
TRACY and COBCRV, participated. Mr. COL:
proposed the following amendment:
Resolved, I hat order is essential to the Re
cess of a school. In maintaining this, corpo
real punishment should be a last resort;
its infbetion may be the imperative duty oft
teacher.
The whole matter was finally laid upon it
table to be called up as unfinished business at j
the next meeting.
Rev. S. F. COLT offered the following, which J
was adopted without discussion :
Resolved, That we believe it to be the only j
effectual method of clcvutinpr the Corona
Schools, to provide schools in which trnche*
van be prepared for their arduous duties; at" ;
tluit it would be the means of great I v iirpf' 7
ing the schools of this section of the Coinr: c ' i
wealth, if the Legislature would appropriate' s
sufficient sum, to enable the Normal 1
nu-nt of the Susquehanna Collegiate l:istiuij ( 1
to impart instruction gratuitously to thoM 1 "'-
will pledge themselves to teach iu the Co®"
mouwealth a specified time.
On motion of C. R. COBCRN*, 0. .T. CHf [
BUCK, GIBSON* BABCOCK, Mrs. MARTHA A. [•
TOX, Miss F. E. IIKNDRICK, were appointed 4 |
Committee, to report upon a series ot t li '" j
books to be used in the schools of the Count? \
Mr. O. J. CHUBBUCK and Miss FANNY 0. ^ v
DRUB were appointed essayists for the;
meeting—also Dr. C. T. Buss, K. GUVER#®! fh
I'. D. MORROW, a Committee to prepare hir
ness for the next meeting.
On motion of S. F. COLT, Reached, |
Essays be solicited from members, iVqirc:4r v |
females) of the Association, embracing f' r -'