The Grasshopper Plague of Minnesota
V letter from Anoka, M. T., fully confirms
the one published about the destruction of the
crops by the grasshopper artuv traveling south
from Red River. The writer hays :
" Their favorite food is tender garden vege
tables, beans, onions, carrots, turnips, Ac. Po
tatoes are ruined bv being divested of all leaves.
Last season they arrived too late to destroy
wheat and com : but considering their im
mense numbers, the ground bciug literally cov
ered with them in many places, farmers con
sidered themselves lucky in getting rid of them
as easily as they did, fur, with the sharp frosts
of Autumn,and the disappearance ot vegetation
they gradually died off. But this was uot the end
thereof. It seems that eating did not occupy
all their time or attention. Careful observers
aaw them busy upon the ground about some
thing, which now proves to have been depos
iting their eggs which naturalists say the females
lay to the number of one hundred and fifty.
We had very severe weather here last Winter,
the mercury several times sinking more than
40 degs. below zero, yet tho.*.e eggs, almost
on the surface of the ground as they were
caine out bright in the Spring. A- .-oou as
the snow was gone, and the ground began to
get warm, the grasshoppers began to come up
some early and others later, according to the
situatiou the eggs had to the sun. They
have been hatching ever since, anil I presume
are not all out yet.
When first hatched they are quite light in
color and but small in size. But there are
two tilings that they can do " right smart"
from the first, viz: hop and eat. They hop
first, and keep hopping till they find .something
that*Buils tlieai to eat, and they are nowise
dainty about either, for they don't stop till
the supply is exhausted Of course the conse
quences arc most disastrous. Whole acres
of wheat are completely eaten and destroyed
in a day. Oats fare 110 better, and corn will
doubtless share the same fate. Some farmers
Incoming discouraged, stopped short in their
planting and sowing, declaring they would not
waste their seed.
Others put iu their whole crop, but with
a faint prospect of ever getting back anything.
Some have hoped that they would leave, which
they, doubtless will do when they get wings
which will not be, I fear, till everything in the
way of crops is destroyed. As yet they don't
eat grass much, but of course when other things
arc goue they will take that, ami then stock
must suffer. Water treatment seems to suit
them, for they are all the smarter after a hard
rain. They come from the West and travel
to the east ; and when they have eaten every
thing in Minnesota, lowa, Wisconsin and Illi
nois, will have to share the same fate, as our
stock is sufficient for all the country below us.
PECULATION* ON THE PUBLIC WORKS.— Sine
it became probable the works should lie sold
the rats have been very busy carrying off pub
lic property. Tons and tons of old iron have
been gathered up and sold ; the proceeds, it
is thought, will never reach the State Trcusu
ry.
The grab game lias been played out boldly,
and every tit lias been milked dry. The toll
collectors have long faces. AH tlie office lad
ders, State agents, key drivers and rail road
loafers are in mourning because the public
works will " have no more work for poor old
Ned." ' •
The wood piles have vanished in a night.
The rogues now begin to tell tales on each
other. The people now begin lo find out how
the State has been cheated. Here is a story
that has been told the other day, as a .-pen
men trick, of the manner in which a person
got pay three times over for his wood.
When the wood is cut and put in rank, the
wood inspector for the State is sent for. lie
measures it and certifies one hundred cords
measured and sold to the State, at four dol
lars a cord. The wood is then hauled to
Dovvnington, corded up, nnd'the wood inspec
tor measures it again, and gives another certi
ficate. The wood is there loaded up on the
State cars, and shipped down to West Phila
delphia, and corded up. The State Inspector
is sent for and iic measures it again, and gives
a third certificate, each time as though it was
not the same wood. Upon each certificate,
pay for the same wood is obtained from the
Treasury. By this cute contrivance one hun
dred cords of wood are paid for three times
over.
The sale of the Main Line lias put. a stop to
all such financiering.— Chester Co Times.
Yocvr, Amkkica.—A conplc of young sprouts
of American blood, made their appearance lie
fore a Detroit Justice the other day, and re
quested to be united in the holy bonds of ma
trimony. Their ages, judging from their ap
pearance were about twelve and fourteen.—
They claimed a right to demand the perform
ance of the ceremony, the young man twirling
a ten-spot around his finger with Hindi non
chalance. The young ladv holding up her hand
swore roundly that she was •' over fourteen,"
when in walked the paternal ancestors of the
two young hopefuls, and a general disconcer
tion of their plans followed. They were about
being led off by their 111 inrna-. v. h n Just'ec
Purdy requested the vonng lady to explain
how she dared to take the oath that she had
just taken which he knew so be false. Noth
ing disconcerted, she stooped down and unla
cing a little shoe drew out. a piece of paper on
which was written the word "fourteen." On
the strenght of this she had sworn that she
was " over fourteen."
Weir The Now York State Lunatic Asylum
at Utiea was destroyed by fire on the morning
of the I Ith inst., at S o'clock. The loss is va
riously estimated at. from fifty to a hundred
thousand dollars. The fire did not spread in
to the wing where the sleeping rooms mostly
are, hut the most elegant, and costly part of
the building was destroyed. Some very exci
ting, some very harrowing, and some amusing
scenes oceurcd. The vigilance and activity ex
ercised by the keepers prevented, it seeius, any
hiss of life, and no injury was received by any
one.
A young lad was terribly mutilated at
Iviehesrcr, on the 4th. He carried some gun
powder loose in his pockets, and while firing
off a small cannon, a jiiccc of the burning wad
ding struck and stuck to Iris hand. Unthink
ingly he thurst his hand into hi* pocket, when
the powder exploded, tearing and injuring him
so terribly that he died in a few hours.
Mr. Cot tot KrLUfn.—The Cincinnati En
quirer, which gave currency to the rumor that
the Hon. Mr. Cox had been killed by the Hon.
Mr, Mason, in Kentucky, now announces -that
the story is without foundation, and tiny luivr
i. i i ->1 -•U'lou .li jnjje or cnjiti
Hon. David Wilmot.
We had the pleasure of an introduction a
few days since to this gentleman, iu Philadel
phia. It was a pleasure indeed. The ideal
we had formed of him, before seeing him was
fully realized in his presence. A noble and
commanding exterior, with a dignified bearing,
are well harmonized with a good humored port
liness, which bears testimony to generous
cheer and a good conscience. YOll discover in
him iu a moment, the "Senatorial air," which
pre-eminently belongs to the American Con
gressman, and which shows that though not
titled, lie can "wear his honors with a grace."
As Republicans, we feel proud of our can
didate ; as l'eimsylvanians we are proud of the
name of WlLMOT— justly proud that the man.
whose name has become immortalized as the
re-affiriner of the Jeffersonian doctrine of 1787,
is a son of our Commonwealth ; and though
Pennsylvania has been laggard in supporting
the doctrine which she once espoused, we hope
that the day is not far distant when she will
come tip nobly to the standa. d of her ancient
and long cherished principles. That the doc
trine of the Wilmot Proviso is as deep seated
in the great heart of Pennsylvania, as it was
in 18U>, when the Legislature adopted it by a
unanimous vote, we have never seen any rea
son to doubt, notwithstanding the fulminatious
and anathemas, whisli have been vociferated
agaiust it by office-holding Democrats, both
great and small,ever since the Baltimore Con
vention of 1848. The honest sense of Penn
sylvania upon this question lias never fairly
I een heard since that time ; all efforts toward
its utterance having been choked down by the
absurd threats of pro-slavery bullies to dissolve
the Union.—We have been lacking in that
moral stamina, which makes men truly great.
We have rewarded political tricksters with
high places amongst us, and iu the nation, and
we looked up to them, and deferred to them
because of their success, while men of true
greatness, whose souls could not stoop to the
tricks of the political game, have been east
aside or left in the shade. It is high time
that Pennsylvania had followed the example of
some of the New England States, and select
men for office because of their worth.
In David Wilmot is now presented to tlie
people of this State, the champion of a princi
ple dear to every consistent lover of his State
and the Union ; a man every way fitted to iill
ihe office of Governor of this Commonwealth,
I by his intelligence, learning and experience in
public affairs ; and eminently worthy of the
I station, for his exalt d patriot sm, and past
public services.— Chester Canity Tunes.
NEGRO CITIZENSHIP. —The decision in the
Dred Scott ease, so far as it denies citizen
ship, is limited by its terms to " free negroes
of the African race whose ancestors were
brought to this country and sold as slaves."
A decision just made by Judge McLean, in
the Circuit Court of the United States, sitting
at Chicago, shows that negroes not descended
from African slaves arc not excluded from the
privilege of bringing suits in the United
States Courts. Two years ago a man named
Lamar committed an assault upon a barber
named Mitchell, at Galena. Lamar was ar
rested, tried, convicted and fined a few dol
lars. Subsequently he removed to Wisconsin ;
and Mitchell commenced a suit in the District
Court of the United States, for private dama
ges. The trial was held before McLean,
Circuit Judge, and Drummond, District Judge.
The plea filed by the defendant was that
Mitchell is not a citizen of the United Sates
in nnv sense which entitles him to tiring a suit
before the tribunal in which the ease is pend
ing. The plaintiff demurred, and the court
sustained the demurrer.
ACT IDF. N'T ON TIIE CATTAWISSA AND WLI.MAMS
ror.T RAIUKOAP.— -A young man named Abra
ham Martin, brakesman on the passenger
train of the Cattawissa and Williamsport
Railroad company, was so seriously injured 011
Saturday the 11th iust.. that lie died the fol
lowing Sunday night. It appears lie was
standing on the platform of one of the ears at
tending to his duty, when his nose commenced
bleeding, and to prevent it from getting on
the car, or soiling his clothes, he held his head
from the train, and there is a heavy grade
just where the accident happened, a few miles
above Tamaqua, it is thought the rapid mo
tion of the train shook him from his position
and threw him on the ground, alighting on his
head and fracturing his scull in a most horrid
manner, lie was brought to Tamaqua the
same day, and lingered until about ten o'clock
on Sunday night when death ended his suffer
ings. lie was a single man and we believe
belonged to Williamsport.
KI.K< TIONS IN Al'Gl'ST. —General elections
arc held next month, as follows :
On the lir-t Monday, in Alabama and Tex
as, for State Officers and Members of Congress
in Kentucky, for Members of Congress ; in
Missouri, for Governor and Judge of the Su
preme Conrt ; in lowa, for the new Constitu
tion and County Officers. On the first Thurs
day, in Tennessee, for Goverrn r and Members
of Congress. On the second Thursday, in
North Carolina for Members of Congress.
THE MrnnF.it AT MCKEESFORT, I'A.— A dis
patch from Pittsburgh, July 111 11, states the
Jury on that evening rendered a verdict of
guilty of murder in the first degree, against
Charlotte Jones, Henry Fife and Monroe
Stewart, who were implicated in the murder of
the Wilson family, at McKeesport, IVnii.
The trial lasted eleven days and produced
an intcu.se interest in the community.
COMIT.OMISIM. MATTERS.— The New York pa
pers state that the Rull'alo and State Line
Company now received the coiqions of the Erie
Railroad Company, and have reduced the
freight charges to the old rates. This is in
obedience to the injunction which the Erie
road had obtained, so that the action of the
State Line road should not work in favor
of the New York Central.
GK.vr>IAI.I.v PAYING THEM OFF, — 1. T. C.
Morgan, of Pittsburgh, one of those " intense
Americans" who would not vote for anybody
but Fillmore ; ami who, as a member of the
" Straightout" State Committee, along with
John P. Sanderson, sold the State to Bucliau
at last fall, lias been appointed by Buchanan
to a position as Postmaster in Omaha, Ne
braska, said to be worth S2OOO. This was
his reward.
Bano EACI.K SHOT. — The Berwick Gazette
says, that Mr. Reuben Kisncr, of Salem Tp.,
Luzerne Cyunty, shot a Bald Eagle measuring
7 1-2 feet between the tips of the wings. His
majesty had just diued on Turkey stolcu from
n in igiiiioriim' 1 arm.
ijrabforb ilcporfer.
E. O. GOODRICH, EDITOR.
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FOR nOVFRNOR,
RAVZD WZLZtZOT, of Bradford Co.
KOK CAN Al. COM \IISMOSKit.
WX&. RIXIbI.WiiS.I3, of Philadelphia.
KOK JI'IHUCS OF TIIE StTKEMK COI'KT,
JOSUPXX J. LEWIS, of Chester Co
JATffirS VEECIX, of Payette County.
REPUBLICAN COUNTY
< 'O.V\EXTIOX. At a meeting of
• tin' Republican County Committee
held in Towanda. Monday, July 20, ls.'.T. | resent, ULYS
SES MERCT'IJ, Cli: irman. A. D. Fuss, James M. Peck.
Truman M. Iso.ioli.and E. li. Parsons.
It was Resolved, that ;i Republican County Convention
to Le eein]iosed of two delegates from ene!j eloc tion dis
trict, to Ihi held at t lie Court House, in the li rough of
T nvnnda.on MONDAY evening. Soptonibi r ,"Lh. 15.17,
for the purpo-e of placing in nomination u County Tick
et to he supported Ly the Republican electors of Bradford
Count v. They have nl-o appointed a Vigilance Commit
tee in cnrli election district, a !i t of whom is hereunto
annexed, wlme duly it will he to •• u'l piimarv meetings
i of the Republican electors in each f lection district, for
the nurn > eof electing delegates to .t d ( invention.
The Commit tecs of Vigilance in each ele-tion district,
are requested to confer together, and call the primary
! meetings on Saturday. September nth. between the hours
of t arid 7.!'. M.. or at such other hour a- may be deem-
I ed convenient, and at the usual place for holding such
elections (unless some other phu-e shall le deemed more
; appropriate.) They are further earnestly enjoined to sei
that such notice of the place nod time of said meeting he
1 given, that all the electors of their respective districts
may he informed.
The County Committee would also suggest that some
member of the Vigilance Coin nittee iu each district, at
the proper hour, call said meetings to order, and that the
' elections for delegates be by ballot, tiie poll- being kept
, open for the time specified, or at least until every one
who desires has an opportunity to vote.
They would also urge upon the elect r- the importance
of attending the primary meetings. A full turn out to
the delegate elections is cahuilatcd to do away with many
of the evils which neeessnrily appertain to the system—
Attend your delegate elections -elect good, honest relia
ble men. who will properly reprc-e it your v.i-hes. look
ing to the advancement of principle, rather than the ele
v. t in of persons.
The following preamble and resolution were considered
and adopted :
Whereas, It is believed by many that a change of the
time of holding our Annual Conventions, to the afternoon
of some day prior to September Court, would operate
beneficially'to the people of the County, but inasmuch as
wo deem the change of time too important to lie effected
by our a tion as n Committee, therefore we derm if ad
visable to make this suggestion to the Republican elec
tors of the County, in order that they tnav express their
vie s through their delegates to the next County Con
vention, to whirl. Convention we respectfully submit for
their consideration the following Resolution, to wit:
Eesolvel. That the annual Republican County Conven
tions shall hereafter bo held at one o'clock in tl(6 after
noon of the iir.-t preceding the September Term of
Court.
ULYSSES MEROL'R, STURGKS SQUIRES,
A. 0. FUSS, W. S. RAKER,
T. M. BR\CH. H. W. TRACY.
A. G. MATHEWS. M. 15. PARSONS,
JAMES M. I'E' K.
July 20, 1557. County (Jummiltee.
committees of vifiti. vscn.
Albany -James W.ieox, M.H. Codding. John Sterigerc.
Armenia—Alba Rurnbnm. Alfred Ripley. John .Mason.
A-vbun Edmund Hortnn. John M. Wilson. H. H.C'nrbin.
Athens tp---David Gardner. S. W. l*nrk, John Griffin.
Athcnsboro'—F. N. Page, h. W.Kurchard, A.ll.Spalding.
Burlington Josephus Campbell. 1). M. Alexander, Mor
ris J. Smith.
Burlington boro'—N.T. Dickinson, John Hiil.C. T. Merry.
Burlington West—John Ballard, jr., li. L. Adams, Perry
B. Pratt.
Canton—J. A. Rogers. Enoch Sellard. Voiney M. Wilson.
Columbia—.las. C. M'Kean, Isaac Be-ly, Lyman B. Slade.
Darell—Ulysses Moody, Robt. Bull. John V. Benjamin.
Fr.mkiiu—Nelson Gilbert. Robt. Meteor. Jos. Spalding.
Gr uville—Win. Bunyon. Stephen Tidd, B. F. Taylor.
Derrick—Geo. W. Elliott, Ezokiel Carr, Grellana Stevens.
I/ i!or -J. (5. It iiuuioud, Reuben Stone, Jay Chaapel.
Litchfield- Daniel Moore, S. B. Conner. Nathan Baldwin.
Mmiroe tp—M. M. Coolbaugh, Lewis Keliogg, Henry C.
Ingham.
Monroe boro'—ll. C. Tracy, W. G. White, Emmons Hunt
ley.
Orwell—Wm. P. Payson. Josiah Newell. A. \V. Alger.
Overtoil—Win. Waltman, Jos. Heverly. Geo. Ilottenstinc.
Pike—l>. M. Bailey. Eugene Keeler, Wm. 15. Stevens.
Rome—-Jits. 15. Deniony. Orson Rickey, D. Strope.
Ridgbery— Chas. French, Jesse Hammond, A. L.Smith.
Shi'shequin—Vbijah Mead, Heury Patterson,Chas. Chaf
fee.
Smithfield- O. K. Bird, Eons Califf. Orrin P. King-lev.
S >uth Creek -John 1". Gilii-, Jos. Dunham, Samuel H.
Coleman.
Springfield—Joel Adams, Joel McAfee, Luke N. Pitts.
Standing Stone—lliruin Gordon, Win. Grifiis, Geo. A.
Steplions.
Sylvania boro'—N. 11. McColtiun, L. N.Tinlshain, Darwin
Alexander.
Towanda boro'—Valentine Geigcr, J.ewis Bull, George
Itiitton.
Towanda tp—Harry Decker, Asa \V. Dimrnick. Jolm H.
Scoville.
Towanda North—Ezra Rutty, Daniel Kennedy, Wm. 11.
Foster.
Troy boro'- Geo. P. Newberry, G. D. Long, N. M. Pome
roy.
Troy tp -Geo. Shattork, Jacob Liuderman, Darwin N.
Allen.
Tu-carora K. C. Wells, Ferris Ackloy. If. F. Kecney.
Ulster- -John B. f'onklin, Russell M 'Kinney, Unv Tracy.
Warren— Miranda Chaffee. Miles Prince, .las. Cooper.
Welb - Newell Leonard. Lyman French, L. W. Knapp
Wiud'nam—Win. Wheelhousc, W. p. Krnyon, Henry
Boyce.
Wilmot —J. L. Jones, J. H. Tyrrell. Jonathan Buttles.
Wyalusing—Chas. W. II dlen'hack, Jacob Biles, Jas. Fee.
Wysox—John Tuttle, Julius Brown. G. T. Granger.
Tlic Plattsmouth (Nebraska) Jejf'erso
nian gives a rich account of the return of a
large number of Mormons from l'tali to the
States. They expressed themselves very much
disgusted with " Zion,"' as the " Saints" blas
phemously term the licentious City of Salt
Lake. They further report that a company of
four or live hundred men purposed leaving
Utah Territory this Spring, and were proba
bly cv route for civilization by this time. Jt
would seem that without the aid of United
States dragoons, the days of Baton AM YOUNG'S
power are drawing to a close.
The Coroner's Jury irtf the rase of those
who perished by the burning of the steamer
M ntrcul, on the St. Lawrence River, have re
turned a verdict of manslaughter against WIL
SON*, the owner, RUDOLF, the Captain, Ro-
RKHGK, the mate, and DRKVAL, the pilot.—
These persons will be tried at the present ses
sion of the Court of Queen's bench.
£©" An affray happened in t ßidgbury town
ship on Saturday night, 10th just., between
Patrick Jla ran and a man named M Kite, dur
ing which Jnmcs White who was a spectator,
and armed with a gun, shot 17"ran throuirh
* ? • > • • . •
'ii'' i;'ihl.x-iing a daug< r*u w*oud.
IMPORTANT FROM KANSAS.
Bv a telegraphic despatch which wc copy
from the New York papers, wc learn that
trouble has again broken out in Kansas, and
that fJov. Wai.kf.r was employing the Fuitcd
States troops to force upon the people of Kan
sas the execution of the bogus laws. The ac
count is meagre and unsatisfactory, and we
await with much anxiety further accounts.
We have felt confident for some time, that
i the fair words and pretty speeches of WALKER
were meant not to give the people of Kansas
I their rights, but as a cover for some hidden
design which in the end should eventuate to
' the benefit of the Pro-Slavery party. That
WALKER was sent to Kansas to give the Free
I State men an opportunity to secure their rights,
l or that he has any desire, except to advance
the cause of Slavery we do not belieyc. But
it was necessary to quiet the feeling aroused
in the country from the appointment of a Pro
| Slavery man, by fair words and specious pre
tensions. The work of subjugating Kansas,
I has never for a moment ceased. What other
Governors have been unwilling to attempt
WALKER lias now undertaken, at the point of
the bayonet. The cause of Freedom in Kan
sas, to-day, is in greater peril than it ever has
been, because the chains have been gradually
. but surely tightening, which delivered the
Free State party powerless to the tender mer
cies of the Border Ruffians. The have now
i no resource except such as their forefathers
had when oppression and tyranny sought to'
enslave them. We trust the issue will be
peaceful, but we have no expectation that the
Freemen of Kansas will quietly submit to the
oppressions prepared for them by the Bor
der Ruffians of Missouri.
good people of the pleasant town
of Athens are favored with a series of inci
dents which keep tip a continued excitement.
The commotion about the great "snaik ' had
hardly subsided, before two persons traveling
through the woods, about a mile from that
village, came across a man, armed with a pis
tol in each hand, who defied them to capture
him. As those nieu were after other game,
they got rid of his society as as soon as possi
ble. Stories are also told of the same person
visiting the houses in the neighborhood to pro
cure food. The description from those who
had seen this strange apparition was supposed
to answer to that of Ruu.oi f, lately escaped
from Ithaca jail, under sentence of death for
the murder of his wife and child. The Sheriff
of Tompkins County was telegraphed, and
Saturday last, a party set out in search of the
persons, armed with swords, pistols, guns,
muskets, blunderbusses, and all sorts of offeu-
I sive and defensive weapons.
This party, after scouring the wilderness,
finally succeeded in discovering and capturing
the fugitive and brought him to Athens, where
he proved not to lie RCLLOFK but some poor
devil who had broken jail in the State of New
York, where he had been imprisoned for shear
ing a horse's tail, and who had not a sign of a
deadly weapon upon his person. The excite
ment, we learn, abated somewhat suddenly.
TIIK SI/SQT EIIAX.WI COLLEGIATE I N*STJTITE AT
TOWANDA, PA.— The friends and Patrons of
i this school will be gratified to learn that the
i Committee appointed by the Trustees to pro
cure teachers, have secured the services of the
REV. JAMES MCWILLIAU, A. M , as Principal ;
j (formerly Professor of ancient languages and
Relies lettres,) and that with the aid of an effi
cient corps of assistants, the high reputation
i which the school has enjoyed for scholarship
and good order, will be sustained.
Arrangements are made by which all schol
ars from a distance may hoard with the Princi
pal in the Institute, and be under his special
jcharge.
The next term will commence Wednesday,
August 2tith.
r
Sko" The Grand Jury at Washington have
found bills of indictment against various per
-1 sons for alleged participation in the late elec
tion riot, and bench warrants were issued for
| their arrest.
Indictments have been found against GIB
SON, late State Treasurer of Ohio, and RHES
US, the previous Treasurer—two against the
| former and one against the latter—for embez
zlement.
THE FIJOEIDA WAR. —from latest accounts it
; appears that the Seminoles and the volunteers
I are fighting mosquitos, in which t hey are more
successful than when fighting each other. The
regular troops have been taken from the
swamps, and sent to the prairies of the West.
Col. LOOMINO, the officer in command of the
Florida regulars and volunteers, lias ordered
a detachment of the artillery stationed at Kev
West, to the number of forty men, to proceed
to Fort flyers, and bold themselves in readi
ness to operate against the Seminoles. Lieut.
TCKNKK had charge of this detachment.
Ax .EROS-ACT "GONE TV."—M. Goddnrd,
an experienced seronaut. ascended from Phila
delphia on the 4th. Towards night he de
scended near Wilmington, left his assistant,
and with one passenger immediately re-ascend
ed, since which time nothing has been seen or
heard Of him.
It will be recollected that about a year ago
an unfortunate balloonist ascended from same
point in Ohio aud has never been heard of
since.
' „ r
MAII. ROBBERY. —AIfred 0. Bennett, the
Deputy Mail Agent on the Syracuse and P>ing
hamlon Railroad, was yesterday arrested on
the oath Win. Burnet Postmaster, at Preble,
| with having on or about the £th of July, sto
len and embezzled several letters from the.
mail. One of the letters enclosed a silk scarf,
and the writer observed in it that she hoped it
i would not be mistaken for a 101 l of biip and
, robbed oji ihe wav. . .
Communication from the Co. Superint'nd't.
MR. EDITOR J —Having just completed my
first lour aroand the county, (except two
townships in which the teachers were provided
with certificates by my predecess or)for the pur
pose of inspecting the teachers engaged in the
summer schools, it may not be out of place, to
give your readers the result of my observation.
The schools in most of the towns had com
menced before my duties as Superintendent lie
gan, and a great majority of the teachers were
without legal license ; this rendered it necessary
for oie to visit the towns for the purpose of
granting such licenses after examinations. 1
hope this will be borne in mind, by those who
have been disappointed that I have not visited
schools in their townships. Owing to the un
popularity of the law creating the office, in
some portions of the county, and the unwilling
ness of the people to pay taxes to support the
schools, that I was led to believe was felt in
others, I felt many misgivings when making
arrangements fur my first official visit, but 1
have been happily disappointed, having been
most cordially welcomed to every town where
I met the teachers and directors. In one or
two instances the notice failed to reach the
proper officer in time to give the information
to the teachers, but even in those cases, the
directors took great trouble in getting the
teachers together, and the examinations were,
with but one exception, well attended, not by
the teachers only, but by directors and the peo
ple, all appearing anxious to know for them
selves, what kind of teachers had been em
ployed to instruct their children. In every
town but one, the directors, or several of them,
were in attendance, and evinced a readiness to
co-operate in any measures that appeared prac
ticable, for the elevation of the schools of the
County.
I do not say that there is no opposition felt
in the office of Superintendent, because I be
lieve that there is much, but it lias not been
exhibited ns 1 expected—neither that all are in
favor of the school law, because I have no
doubt, that there are many in the county, who
honestly believe the system to be a bad one,
and the policy of supporting the schools by
taxation to be wrong in principle, still, so far
as I have yet seen, even those persons, seem
disposed to nequiesce in the decision of the
majority. All the teachers are not qualified
by any means, to teach as they should, per
haps it will not be saying too much to add,
that very few if any, are as thoroughly educat
ed, as could be desired, or that they, do not
understand as fully their duties and responsi
bilities as it might be wished they should ; this
may be the ease with all, or nearly all that
have presented themselves for examination.—
Still a very large majority of them are anxious
to qualify themselves better, and are willing to
lo all they can to prepare themselves for the
business in which they are engaged. They are,
on the whole, to be highly commended for their
desire to do the best they can at present, and
their willingness to qualify themselves to do
still better.
Whatever my subsequent success may be, 1
shall ever feel grateful to directors, inhabitants
and teachers, for their kindness and valua
| hie assistance, during my first visit among
them.
If I had not been thoroughly convinced be
fore, of the importance of holding Teacher's
Tnsilu/rs in different port'Ons of the county,
my experience for the past six weeks, would
have demonstrated the necessity of such drills,
for the improvement of those who are faithful
ly endeavoring to fit themselves for the ardu
ous duties, that devolve upon them. The peo
ple, the teachers and the school officers, seem
alike anxious that some measures be taken to
improve those who are to educate the child
ren in the county. With these facts before
ine, I have concluded, after looking over the
field of labor, as many Institutes, of
about ton days"each, as will lie possil le for mo
to attend during the fall, commencing not far
from the first of September,
In order to carry out this plan with ant
prospect of success, or with any hopes of use
fulness, 1 most earnestly solicit the aid of all
clashes in community ; all are interested inhav
hg good schools, and without good, efficient,
faithful teachers, good schools are out of the
question. Teachers heed encouragement, they
need to feel that all exneet, and demand an
advance in qualifications, and are prepared to
appreciate their efforts to make that advance.
Let therefore each individual exert himself,
to induce the teachers in Ids town, of immedi
ate neighborhood to attend these meetings.—
I am not now prepared to give a detailed plan,
to be pursued, but will do so in due time, but,
let all be thinking and talking abont this sub
ject, so that when the proper time comes each
one will prepared to net efficiently and nrnler
standingly. C. R. COBYRW
A FRF.E FIOIIT IN A CHURCH, —A free fight
came off in the Baptist Church, Lansingburg
X. \ on Saturday. A quarrel started be
tween a Baptist and Presbyterian, words led
to blows, and finally a regular knock-down oc
curred, in which some very dangerous weapons
were used, ana blood was spilled on both sides.
Two of the parties engaged were severely in
jured, while the three others ware more or less
bruised and scratched. They brought up at
the end, in the Police Court, showing the effect
of the light most unmistakably in their appear
ance.
GRASSHOEPERS IN MAINE.— The Lewistnn
(Me.) Advertiser states that the grasshop
pers are committing terrible devastation in
that region, and the crops of several farmers
in the south pastern part of Durham are in
danger of being utterly ruined. On tbe farm
of Joshna Lambert they have eaten all his
growing corn, aodattaoJtcd his wheat ami Oats,
-x) that uc"lus lcen obliged to mow th-.* for
Mtitfj . • ... ..
Important from Kansas.
WASHINGTON', JULY 17, 18f>".
The President received a telegraph despatch
this morning, dated at Leavenworth yesterday,
from Governor W T alker, stating that a serious
Insurrection had broken out at Lawrence, aud
that he had called out the United State troops
to suppress it. The Governor had started
immediately for Lawrence.
The cause of the outbreak is unknown, but
it is supposed to have originated from opposi
tion to some of the Territorial laws—probably
the Tax law
The receipt of this news has caused some
little excitement in certain quarters.
I The cabinet were in session until a late hour
this evening, aud 1 doubt not this subject wag
before them.
ST. Loci 3, July 17, 18-77.
The Democrat lias advices from Kansas sta
ting that Governor Walker has issued a pro
clamation declaring his intention to put do B
all opposition to the Territorial laws by force
and censuring the citizens of Lawrence, and
warning them not to organize under the Tope
ka charter.
Rumor says that seven hundred troops ar n
summoned to march against Lawrence, and
that it is the design of Walker to retain the
army in Kansas and to break np the Utah ex
pedition.
A DEVOTED LOVP.H.—A young man walked
from a neighboring town, ten miles distant, to
this city, this morning, to get a "team" tit to
bring his girl to the circus. He arrived at
one of our stables at half-past five o'clock, and
patiently waited till the "head man" could be
called up. lie took the team, went after his
girl, and returned in season to see the circus '
come into the city. They speut the day here,
seeing the sights—elephants, ponies, zebra, and
several or more curiosities not specified in the
(laming bills, and after the performance he to
return with the horse, and walk back. Talk
about swimming the Hellespont, and add the
witchery of song to make it more romantic!
The fellow who swam that small sheet of water
was no lover at all beside the youth that
walks twenty miles this hot July day to give
the idol of his heart a chance to go in citv
style to sec the circus.— Manchester (X. JI
Mirror.
TERRIBLE RAILROAD ACCIDENT IN ENGLAND.
—The London correspondent of X. V. C<
mera d Advmtisrr says of the accident mea*
tioned in the news by the last arrival :
The scene of disaster was the Lewisham
station, near Blacklieath. A train full of pas
sengers was waiting at the platform, when
another ran into it, at the rate of twenty milt
an hour, killing 11 persons and friglitfuilv
wounding 30 others. It must have been a
consequence of gross neglect of sigiials, and
the engine drivers and others are in custodv
The hour of the accident was a little before
eleven, at night-. The tender of the incoming
train rushed completely over the carriage con
taining the principal sufferers, and two hours
1 and a half elapsed before the whole of them
j could be extricated. An officer in one of the r
j carriages, w ho had been present at lukerman.
described the present sight as much the worst I
I of the two.
I? 1 ??* Hon. G. A GROW has been spending!
: portion of the Summer shooting buffalo in the
i wilderness north of Minnesota. The following
notice of his movements is taken from the cur.
; rcspoudence of the X. Y. Herald :
" HOLE IX THF. MOUNTAIN'."
DACOTAH TERRITORY, July 5, 18-OT.
esterday was passed in an appropriate
, manner by the sous of "TO, and in a style that
■ must have n-tonished the Indians who surround
'ed ii-. Mr Grow, member of Congress from
Pennsylvania, gave us an indepedencc speech
| and tiie usual toasts were drank in pure cold
f water.
Mr. Crow has just returned from the Big
j S'onx river, where he had been buffalo hunting
j and is now on his way home. ITe has been in
i onr camp off and on for nearly a month, and
his departure will be regretted by all. lbs
j kindness of heart and agreeable manner lu*
j won the esteem of all.
I ILLINOIS DEMOCRACY — According to the P.-
i froit Free Press, the Democracy in Mr. Dong
las' State are not in a situation to boast of
i the purity of their ,-kirts. The leader of the
I JJuchanau forces has been arrested iu Chicago
| for some unvirtuous deed, ami is now breaking
stone in the Bridewell, together with other
Democratic officials. The Council has bcea
| deprived of its Democratic representation br
| arrest and imprisonment of one of its mem
i hers ; the board of supervisors ditto, and a
Democratic county or Congressional Con-
I vention could not now be called unless a no
tice should emanate from the Bridewells
i where its chairman is serving out a six mouths
j sentence 1
I FIRE CRACKERS RENDERED USEFUL. —Tiiesc
| Chinese explosives, for which no useful service
; greater than producing noise 011 the celebra
tion ot the 4th of July has heretofore been d : -
j covered have at last been applied to practical
I account. In some of the New England States
1 caterpillars are destroyed with then:. The way
is to place one 011 the end of a split pole, thrne
| it into the nest and knock thcin all to Hinder*
It will take some times two or three cracker*
j to destroy a large nest, though for small cot- ,
j lections a single explosion is sufficient. T •
boys don't, consider tfiis work, but go at it
; with a gusto.
A DECISIVE TEST.— The Providence Jatirn
! says:
'We bad a better test of spiritualism tli vii
j any Boston experiments could afford. When *
the son of Henry Clay took the stump for
James Buchanan, ami the spirit of his great
lather did not rise from the grave, we made
up our mind that there was no passing buck
from the next world to this."
j
THE XATIONAI HOTEL KPHIKMIC.— The re
port of the Academy of Medicine 011 the sin
gular and disastrous endemic which prevailed
at the Xationai Hotel at Washington la-'
spring, is emphatic in tracing the source of th<t
disorder to malarial influences. The opinio" .
of the members seemed to be very generally i" t
i favor of the report, and it was adopted Iff *
large majority.
WHAT BECOMES OK THK . SPANISH QUARTER*
--The Albany Evfniug. Jur>ul says there •> 1
a systematic game being played j.ust now with \
Spanish qna'rtcrs. They arc picked up in NY*
York at twenty ceMttf r -and then sent into-d* ■ 1
•wintry, where they it re still lioT-J t twe iff** |
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