flj£ DJLLAR PER ANNUM iNVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. TOWANUA: Thursday Morning, October 25, 1860. (Original s)ocfrn. "THERE'S REST IN HEAVEN." When wand'ring on life's ocean drear. When waves are rolling far and near, In trials dark, 0. never lear, Remember still, " There's rest in Heaven." When foes are thick on every hand, When sorrows deep around yon stand, When wand'ring in a dreary land. Remember still, " There's rest in Heaven." When fierce diseases on von prey. When friends within the grave you lay, When peaceful comfort tlees away, Remember still, " There's rest in Heaven." When age is creeping o'er your frame. When weary, sick, halt, blind or lame, When slanderers your name defame. Remember still," There's rest in Heaven " ROME, ISOO. O. 11. TAYLOR. [At a Republican meeting in Georgetown, Mass.. the following song, entitled," The Quakers are Out," written I bv John G- Whittier. was read : Xot vainly we waited and counted the hours, The buds of our hope have burst out into flowers. So room for misgiving—no loop-hole of doubt— We've heart from the Keystone ! The Q lakers are out Tiie plot has exploded—we've found out the trick ; The bribe goes a begging ; the lusion won't stick. When the Wide-Awake laterns are shining about. The rogues stay ut home, and the true men come out I The good State has broken the cords for her spun ; Her oil springs an,! water won't fuse into one ; The Dutchman has seasoned with Freedom his kroutl H And slow, late, but ceitain, the Quakers arc out! I c.ive the flags t > the winds set the hills all a flame : I Ihko v.i v for the man with the patriarch's name ! B \wai with misgivings away with ail d-miit, ■ '.,>[• Rim 01.s goes in when the Quakers come out 1 [From theGcrtrantown Telegraph.] Historical Epitomes. TITK ATTACKS ON FORTS MIFFLIN AM) MERCER. The battle of Brandywine, wit*i its many disastrous incidents was over, and that of Ger mantown.almost roually uiifortiinate, liad ueen ' -milurlv drawn to a close ; \\ ashington fore | -aw that means must be immediately resorted j ti lor embarrassing and rend Ting I* dec ded (l.e nfreadv too tenacious foothold < 1 Sir i I William If owe ; and in order f..,' the nccom I ■ nenf of such design,he resolve*'upon ereo I • • r fortifica! ions along the I tela ware river and i ■ ,ii-o uhsiriu tietr its channel, for the purpose of i p;eli(* 15 any British vessels,a< might attempt nmaiatiieate v\ i 11 the enemy's army, then V Vl.'iadelphhi. The fleet which hd anchor ; I . . b .'.sapcake Bay, previous to the Aineri- 1 ■i. in defeat at Brandy wine,had already depart- H vf from its mooritus, and was in lull sail for id Howe's headquarters at the city,when ■huii llST of tlie various redoubts comuieu- V ed ; to prevent the advance of these during H progress of their works, the Americans 1 >!er the direction of Captain Duples-is— a ■ iniff French engineer of great talent and ■ c.iitnry skill.—constructed large frames of ■ ' avy timber, anii"d and -n*t lined by ..oden ■ • k pointed '.villi iron, which stood directly I ;-rpeiHlieular when in their required post ions. I T use massive stockades if I hey may lx SO I brined—were sunk directly in the riviiehaiinel I ii"r tic mmth of the Schuylkill, and their , 1 arid dangerous proportions presented an I i.i jhsiucle of considerable magnitude to the j I I ii. ahe low lied Bank similar defences v. ere I -abwerged, ai d the cktravz dr. Jrise at this I ,out, defended l>v a garrison of Americans, ■ • uipied a redoubt afoitg the r.ver shore, H welso s lusted, as to be able, if necessary to H reep the stream with their cannon, if the libit venture to disregard the barriers, and B fenny a pa-sage in another portion. , I'wa> tins fortification which especially de- I icd the Briti.-h Admiral's attention, as it ■ r -M the first serious impediment to his -•' nt Captain Hammond, of the Royal ■ Mm, a comma nd of a small vessel felt the 7 " 'nice of this garrison's redaction, atid lie ■More represented to General Howe, the I "fCcSsity for ils removal, at the same time ■'ig to guarantee the destruction of any ' *: d' fri-f. as might obstruct, their path- I * a J er delay their advance. In accordance *ih tins officer's suggestions,two British regi- , I: Tits were instantly dispatched to the Jersey | 'to aril orders given them to attack the re- I ' y'b a; Ih.hngsport. The American out ■ ' ks were unfinished, and totally inadequate ■ n the violent assault made upon them I : ois majesty's troops ; unsuspecting a land I - I'vthe inmates were of course without any I : ,oration to resist ; they therefore, after ■ A.ng their cannon and firing their barracks, P r t*cipitately,leaving the fort in theencmys I Ihe Briii-h couipan'es destroyed each 'j<fit, levelling them to the ground and de ■ '.-...ug the works ; thoy then retnrued to I ti bieir commander hastened to Gen. I C'a * * < i" artej ' s *'Hh tidings of his success. — ■ . a !' !a,n Hammond now immediately began I sub * ° ! °P enin S through the invulnerable _ r barricades, and after great difficul m 1,1 Isucceeded in effecting a breach of tur..V eri,l / Pet width, through which aper an.' e sai ' e d with twelve vessels, aiul come to hn-n° r ,' s ' ,u, d,about a mile and a half . and within the same distance frm the tide re doubts at Ilea Bank,in the Jersev po-t n ,. Mfcrcer was situated at this latter ! latiH " -'-eg*!y opposite, upon a low reedv p eiirV,t! Cma L few ,lu "brc4 yiyrds from the elv no, It & ! hore ' stoo(i Fort Mifflih; a rud • citaUc1 ' ? et bcilj, v/ith great re- ! ? r sßof n', ai 'd durability. The pro. attai-J' 1 " ! 'V, rallv ® ' ea d s wto first consider fevprit 011 ° rt erccr . w 'th its accompay to C ai P , reV,O " S . 10 80 account of that Which gUI d 116 S allaill L v dcfetidwl comaauded the garisoa at Fort $ Mercer, which consisted of about four hundred strong, fortified with but fourteen pieces of ordnance ; with this small detachment he pre ferred to resist any assault that might be at tempted. His position was a most important one, and this he resolved to maintain,whatever danger might ensue ; a brave officer, be was | assisted by one equally valiant, Captain Mau divit Duplessis,architect of tlie tfitvaux de frisc and a gentleman of distinguished merit. Un der their combined superintendence the feeble | earthworks were made stronger,and the placed in an admirable state of defence ; but their labor was by no- means completed, when on the morning of October J, a large body of ! Hessians were descried, issuing from behind a j woodland, and marching directly towards the redoubts. It afterwards appeared that these j eon-panics had been sent down by General Howe on the morning previous, but having met with obstruction, their arrival was delay ied until the period ol which we speak. The ! detachment consisted of two thousand picked | men, and were commanded by Count J)onop, a j foreign officer of well-known bravery. The garrison had received no intimation of i their approach, until apprised of the fact by I the enemy's presence. Although astonished ; at the unexpected sight, they were in no wise . intimidated, and prepared immediate means for defence The great superiority in discipline and numbers prossessed by the Hessians, ap peared rather as an incentive than otherwise j to the gallant Americans, and on an officer, accompanied by a drummer, riding towards the fort a fl ig demanding instant surrender, ' coupled with the threat of no quarter being given in the event of a refusal, Col. Green ' proudly responded, " We ask no quarter, nor J will we give any.'' The Hessian returned to I his commander, and acquainted him with the I reply, when orders were is-ued for the eree i tiou of u battery within half cannon shot of the American tort ; this was completed in the | afternoon, aul a heavy and continued fire i opened upon the unfinished works,under whose cover the Hessians advanced for attack .Meanwhile great exertions had been made I>v G reene and 1 tuples-is to render their own works as invincible as circumstances would permit ; the troops were marshalled and orders given tlienj in regard to the muuoiuvers necessary on the emmy's approach. It was resolved to mainly rely on the inner redoubt, within which : they hoped to check the force of the attack ; the outwork- being as yet unfinished, were of course precarious situations for the little gar : risou ; their si/c was also an objection.as tend ing too much to disperse the little army, i About four o'clock in the afternoon, the as -unit wis commenced by the Hessians advanc ing under cover of a gulling fire from their 1 battery : arrived at tlie outer defences they ! were astounded on observing no signs of life,or preparation- for resisting attack. S ippo-ing that their overpowering numbers hid friglit . ened the Americans into sudden retreat, they | ha-tcncd towards the redoubt, inspired by the cheering tantara of a drum. Rushing forward they sprang up the parapets, and were about affixing their standard of victory between two embrasures, when from a half tnu-ked battery on the left, and two embrasures in front, a ; fearful volley of grape and inu-ketry was liulr etl directly in their faces. The effect of this i fatal charge was decisive and drove theenemv back several paces in great confusion. A ; second division c< until a tided by the gallant Count I'onop in the person, attacked the fort in another portion at the MI ME moment, lii men passing the surrounding possee and a ceudiug the ramparts, before even being aware ,of the enemy's presence. l.'pon these the lire of the Americans fell with fearful vio i lence ; their officer and his second in com maud fell mortally wounded, and -orne three , or four hundred privates were instantly killed; . the accuracy ofaiin and continued tempests of bull- proceeding from a comparatively inv'si- ! bie enemy, were deadly in their effect, arid the entire as well as frequent arid most galling fires from several gaileys in the river. Tin ir loss was great, and though so brief and hur- I ried a conflict, yet its results were sanguinary ; in the extreme ; two thousand of the flower of the Hessian troops thus defeated by but four hundred Americans, whose loss amounted to eight killed and thirty wounded, all privates and not an officer even scathed. Among those ; left upon the field was Donop, the brave lead er of the Hessian expedition, a gentleman of education and refinement, and much extolled ! for his abilities ;he fell at the first fire. An incident connected with his premature end, ' though no long. r novel, may yet possess inter i ) est for my readers, sufficient to warrant its. 1 reuroduction. The purple tints of sunset were mellowing the atumnal sky,and casting long lines of soft ened light over the broad river, which heaved in gentle surges responsive to evening breeze. The mantling draperies of snowy, golden-tip ped clouds hovered above the brilliant west, and caught in their gorgeous folds the last de parting sunshine ; the early moon was already visible, and though as yet emitting but feeble radiance, poured in slanting beams across the heaps of dead upon the bloody battlefield.— Capt. Duplessis strolled mournfully across the fatal plain, over the carnage-stained redoubt, j and along the crimson-dyed abatis, when sud denly a voice from among a pile of dead broke upon his startled ears, as it choakingly articu lated. " Whoever you are, draw me hence.'"— Repairing hastily to the spot, he perceived Count Donop, almost covered by his slaughter ed soldiers, ami apparently gasping for that life which was on the eve of departure. The kind hearted Frenchman was much affected, and ordered liirn to be conveyed to a dwelling near by ; where every comfort was bestowed upon the unfortunate man, Duplessis himself remaining at the bedside and endeavoring to soothe bis last fleeting hours. On the third day the battle,turning to Duplessis, the Count remarked,in tones of m>st profound melancholy, " This is finishing a noble career too early be paused and gazed fixedly at his ! companion ; perhaps the reflection of their different situations passed sadiy across his mind—he aiding to sopress the spirit of freedom Duplessis oDiy laboring in it 3 exultation —for PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY x\T TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. ! he resumed with bitter emotion, " I die the victim of my ambition, and of the avarice of my sovereign." Thus perished the bravest of those foreign mercenaries which the British King had allied to his standard and thus fell one who in the cause of ilberty would have risen to the highest tank of honor and fame ; I his remains were buried upon the spot ; but i now, alas I hear it, Americans, and blush for : Jour countrymen, they have been all disinter- I red, and the bones occupy promiuent places in the cabinet of some antiquarian, whose hands ] should have withered ere they had touched the j sacred ielic. The attack on Fort Mifflin now demands our attention, and with the reeountal of its , stirring incidents we shall close our present i chapter. General history is silent as to many ol its occurrences, but wo have delved into less superficial mines, and trust to display all their depths, thus hidden from universal ac cess. Scarcely had the echosof the first lies siau gun af. Fort Mercer awakened its wild j responses from the Pennsylvania hills, tliau the British vessels which had passed the cht \ vuux de f/inc at Biiliugsport, advanced and opened their fire upon Fort Mifilin. This for tification was defended by about fonr hundred { men, under the command of Lieut. Col. Sam'l Smith, a distinguished officer of the Maryland line. As we before stated, its merit consisted in its strength, us the works had not been con structed with much attention to symmetry or regularity. By sinking these numerous che rau.c de /rise in the river, the channel had been so altered, that although the lower line of barricades was passed, yet the two largest : of the British ships, Augusta and Merlin, ran aground and remained perfectly immovable in the tenacious mud. The American galleys did such execution upon these and the remain- ! ing vessels, liiut a decisive attack was po>t poni-d until the following day, when Fort Mifflin was expected to capitulate, after a few well directed shots ; profoundly were the ene my mistaken in the courage and perseverance j of their gallant foes. Early next morning the j battle was renewed, and a sharp action main- I rained with the American gunboats and gal leys at the same time that a heavy cannonade I poured its terrors into tlie little fort. The j British commander used every endeavor to | circumvent Lieut. Colonel Smith by introduc ing floating batteries into the narrow chan nels which separated Fort Mifil.n from the Pennsylvania shore ; but* these attempts, the l itter's intrepidity alike rendered abortive ai d ; lii> brave resistance materially aided the flo tilia in their gallant and suceis-ful efforts at ; r 'pu'sing the enemy. Such was the deadly fire incessantly main- ! taincd, that the British ships wi re obliged to , give way, and floated slowly down the river ; Toe Au_;u-ta and Merlin were -.till aground, every hope of their being set afloat by the in- Hux ot the tide, having passed away. The ' former of the two was finally struck by a led hot shot, and set on fire : in an instant all on | board was fearful confusion. The flames j spread vvith great rapidity, arid were graduallv approaching the ship's magazine. A majority of the erew flscaped from the devouring ele ment, but a few still remained, among whom was tiio chaplain and several officers and sail -1 ors ; before they could leave, the vessel blew ; up with a tremendous explosion, and all on i board perished with her. The Merlin met with a somewhat similar fate ; having been aban loned by her crew, she was set on lire, and finally blew up. The vtsseis remaining retreated down the river, passed the eh raiu de f, is? at Biliiugsport, and for a lime Fort Mifflin was safe and the Delaware a friendly ; -tieam. But her waters were not destined to remain long undisturbed ; a conflict more gal- . lautly heroic than that which distinguished the succeeding campaign against Fort M ill n, it is not recorded in the annnis of the Revolution. ' Gen. Llowe immediately commenced the con- 1 struction of works on Province Island, a point J ; between Fort Mifflin and the mainland, by means of which lie expected to finally and ef- ; 1 fccuiaily reduce thecliivalric citadel, thus reu- ' dering himself master of the river and its nav- 1 igation. Smith, the American officer in com- ' maud, was harrassed beyond measure by the ' constant fire to which his comparatively un- 1 protected fortrc-s was exposed ; from the first ' until the sixteenth of November, an almost ' incessant cannonade was sustained by the de- j ' voted garrison. Washiugton used every en- ' ' deavor in his power to procure relief and rein- 1 foreements for the gallant defenders on the 1 Delaware, but all attempts were in vain ; an ; order forwarded to Gen. Gates for the pur- •' pose of effecting this object, was disregarded by the latter in the sublimated intensity of his presumption, and tlie commander in-efiief ! < was obliged to await tBo progress of eycuts ; I with anxious and painful solicitude. General 1 Varnum was, however, diqmteked to Red : Bank, in order to render any assistance that j' exigencies might require. j 5 The tenth of November was ushered in by 1 a simultaneous attack upon Fort Mifflin, from j' the entire range of batteries erected on Pro- | ' vincc Island, as also from British ship-, in the ! ! river. The fortifications on the land side were ; five in number, and mounted respectively, 1 eighteen, twenty-two, and thirty four pound i ers ; those on the water consisted of a large ' floating battery, containing twenty-two tweu- ! < ty-fonr pounders ; this latter approached with- j s in forty yards of the tort, and opened a dead- . 1 ly lire upon the stockadoJ and ramparts ; be- s sides these—sufficient, it might reasonably lie ' supposed, to utterly annihilate the garrison at Mifflin —there were six other vessels farther I out in the stream, so situated as to bombard ' the interior and level the parapets. Although ' great losses were suffered on this first day by J the Americans, in the death of Captain Treat ' a brave young officer, and the partial downfall £ cf the barracks, still, such was their comman- ' der's energy and skdi, that he was enabled to | respond with great effect to the destructive 1 shots discharged against them. On the follow- I ing day, the enemy somewhat varied their fire, the result of which burst with fearful force upon dismounted gnus and ruptured palisades; total destrnction appeared the inevitable set n leuce, but sti!! Ccf. Smith fought with ua- : " REGARDLESS Of DENUNCIATION FROM ANY QUARTER." flinching valor, aided in his noble exertions by Major Fleurr, one of the French allies, who distinguished himself by untiring efforts in re pairing the constantly reopening breaches.— During the contest of this day, an unfortunate occurrence deprived the garrison of their commander's presence ; he had entered the barracks, and was preparing to write for as sistance to General Varnum, at Red Dank, when a shot struck the chimney, shattering brickwork, and covering him with stones and rubbish. Such was the violence of the con j cussicn, as for a time to leave him insensible, and ils effects rendered it necessary to convey him across the river, where surgical attendance ! could be administered. The command now devolved upon Lieut. Col. Russell, who re placed the former, and continued the attack ; exhaustion and ill health finally prevailed over this officer, and Lis place was occupied by Ma jor Thayer of the Rhode Island line, by whose courage and ability the daily warfare was pro tracted, and a faint hope of ultimate success invoked. This latter gentleman was a person ;of the most desperate bravery ; he would ■ rather die within his fortress then surrender ! while a drop of life blood remained. Reinforcements for the enemy in the shape of numerous armed boats, now arrived, and j their firing added to the constantly increasing j tumult. On the morning of the fourth duy, ; a terrific cannonade burst upon the fort from ! a huge floating battery ; bat fearful as must have been its powers, yet that heroic garrison were enabled to silence it guns before the ap proach of evening indicated the happening of renewed horrors. The enemy became dis- j cuuraged ; unaware of the small number with which they had been so unequally contending, i it was supposed that some preponderating force occupied the little citadel ; and they were on the point of again relinquishing the contest, when a scoundrel, who had deserted iroin the Americans, arrived, and inspired i them with hope, from his accounts of the gar rison's inferiority in strength and total inabili ty to withstand, for a much longer period, the perils of the fight. On the 15th a combined attack from the shipping and land batteries was meditated, and . accordingly every arrangement f r the perfect ing of this design was immediately set in mo tion. AH the ships and gunboats in the liv er were drawn up round the fort, leaving a space free for the missiles from Province Is land to hurl their iron storm against it< para pets Early in the morning of the day we iiave men'ioned, a sudden silence pervaded the besieging forces, but it was that ominous calm which precedes a temp -t, when the thunder is for a moment hnsheo and the lightning with holds its power Ten o'clock approached, when a solitary bugle note rang over the wa ters, in wild vet mellow harmony ; in an in stant the air was filled with fiery mi.-.-ili-s, and the hiss of bombs mingled with the crash of ramparts or the bursting roar of cannon. The I day pnsed on with no interruption to the dreadful din, and night hung her dark canopy over the awful scene, only to increase the ter ror of the hour. Flush or. flash illumined the . surrounding gloom, peal on peal reverberated in loudest echoes from the distuut hills ; while the whizzing of cannon balls from the batter ies on shore, and the continued rattling of musketry from yard arms which actually over hung the barracks, made " night hideous " by their frightful dis inance. Major Thayer, the American officer in com mand, forseeing tiiat it would be idle longer to ' maintain the disproportioned co:ite<t, resolved upon leaving the fort, ami retreating to Red Bank. Accordingly, when the uproar had i somewhat subsided, he dispatched over a ma jority of the troops, retaining only forty men with whom he intended to cover their flight.— Ail his defences had been shot away, and not the slightest protection now remained ; some broken remnants of the barracks still lingered, and to these he set fire, by the lurid light of whose conflagration, he escaped across the river, and resigned the ruined, dilapidated for tress to the enemy's power. .V dearly won treasure, acquired at an enormous sacrifice of human life and human resources. This battle 1 was distinguished by acts of most extraordi nary valor, the entire garrison vicing with each other in the bravery with which every outpost j was defended, each embrasure manned, proving ■ how men can combat, when freedom is to be their reward. Congress testified its approba tion and regard for the gallantry displayed on . ; this bloody field, by presenting a sword 'o Col. Smith, at the same time awarding a well de- < served promotion to Major Fleury. General Howe, now in possession of Fort ; Mifflin, determined upon exerting all his pow rr in the reduction of its compeer on the op posite shore, and therefore ordered Lord Corn- . wallis to make a descent upon Fort Mercer, and tlins remove from the British fleet a very j dangerous incumbrance. General Green was j sent by Washington to intercept this move- I uient, but on arriving near to the former's troops, the great majority of their numbers , rendered him unwilling to hazard so unequal I an engagement. The commandant at Fort i Mercer, Col. Christopher Greene, learning of Cornwall's approach, and aware how dispro portioned would be the contending armies, re solved upon leaving Red Rank, and seeking only to protect the lives of his few exhausted soldiers ; in the hurried retreat, many cannon 1 balls, besides military stores, etc., were neces sarily left behind, and of consequence became ' the enemy's property. Valley Forge now received these toil worn 1 patriots, and amid its snows, they could glance ! back upon their noble achievements, and re- 1 fleet that although defeat and death constant- ' ly followed in their footsteps, yet with Wash- 1 ington as a general and liberty as a recompense, ! all perils and misfortunes were but as fleecy ' vapors which vanish with the sunshine. Hap- 1 py the leader who commauded, thrice happy : the men who served, for their requital was freedom, their chieftain Washington. HISTOP.TA. S£g" Always look at those whom yon are talking to. never to those whom you are talk ing of, Fatten Hogs Early. We have used this this caption, or its equi valent, on former occasions. It has been brought to mind by reading an article from a correspondent of the Ohio Farmer. He first " hogged down " (in western parlance) forty acres of corn, between the 10th of Sepember and the i!3d of October. By the hogs being weighed when they were turned in and when they were taken out.it was found that they paid f orty cents a bushel for the corn,estimat ing the pork at four ceuts per lb., and corn at forty bushels per acre. Ilis next course was to take one hundred hog*, averaging 200 lbs. each, which were placed in nine covered pens and fed all they could eat of corn and cobs ground togtther, steamed, and given in allowances five times a Jay. In a week they were again weighed, when, reckoning 70 lbs. of corn and cob as equal to a bushel of corn, and the pork as be fore, the hogs paid 80 cents a bushel for the corn. The weather was warm for the season The same experiment was tried again the i I week in November, when the corn brought 62 : cents, the weather being—colder. The third week in November the corn brought only 40 : cents, and the fourth week the corn brought i 26 cents, the weather continuing to grow coi- ! der. Another lot of hogs was fed through j December, which gave only 26 cents a bushel j for the corn. A part of the time the tempera , lure was at zero, and then the hogs only gain ed enough to pay five ceuts a bushel for the : I corn, and afterward, when the mercury went 1 down to ten degrees below zero, the hogs only held their oicn. The inference from these trials is, that in j general it is not profitable to feed corn to hogs ; after the middle of November. The difference in gain is certainly surprising, and whether j caused altogether by the difference in temper- , : ature or not, no person of observation can ' do'ubt that hogs gain ranch more in proportion 1 to the food consumed, in mild than in cold ! weather It seems that the hogs gained much ' less by helping themselves to corn in the field j than when the corn was ground and cooked and fed to the animals in pens, under equal advantages of weather.— Boston Cultivator. Setting Fence Posts. EDS GENESEE FARMER : —lt has been as serted by correspondents of the Farmer, and j , others, that wooden posts will last longer with the top, than with the butt, end in the ground I have often heard a similar opinion expressed iu regard to fencing stakes. Now if this is so, there is undoubtedly a cause fur it. What is ' it tliat cause ? In connection with this subject, the follow ing ideas have been suggested, which, if er rontons, cau be refuted ; ii correct, can do no harm. Premised—that moisture continues to follow in a certain degree, 'he same course through the pores of wood after death ns when alive. ! Those who assume to know, inform us the j sap of a living tree passes from the roots up- j ward thro* the wood of the trunk to the leaves j there to undergo certain chemical changes,and j then flows downward principally between the j, bark and wood to the roots again—thus form- , ing a current of sap or moisture, whose course is always upward through the pores of the wood, and downward between the bark and wo< d. Therefore, if wood after death be placed in its original position—the butt end iu the ground i —this upward movement of moisture through the pores of the wood may still continue, 1 although to a sum!! extent, yet still enough to j keep the lower.end of the wood partly saturat- j ed with water—thus facilitating its decay. Again : it the wood be.inverted, whatever influence is exerted in the former case to cause i the moisture to rise or flow upward, the same ' influence will be exerted in the same degree to oppose its entrance into the pores of the wood. If, as had been asserted, the decay of wood is prevented to n certain extent by placing in an opposite position from that while alive, it deserves to tie geiier-lly known. It is a subject of much importance, and nil facts tending to prove, or disprove, should be elicited. IMtast, Me.. Sept. 7. 1 MJO. G. E. BRACKET!. A BFACTIFIE EXTRACT. — Beautiful is old ; age, beautiful as the slow drooping mellow Autumn of a rich, glorious Summer. In the old man, nature has fulfilled her work ; she loads him with fruits of a well speut life ; and surrounded by his children, she rocks him away softly to the grave, to which be is fol lowed by blessings. God forbid that we should not call it beautiful. There is another life, hard, rough, and thorny, trodden with bleeding feet and aching brow, and a battle which no peace follows this aide of the grave ; which the grave gapes to finish before the vic tory is won ; and strange that it should be so —this is the highest life of a man. Look back along the great names of history, there is none whose life is other than this.— "West minster Review. BEACH FIT. PARAGRAPH. —Sir Humphrey Davy writes :—" I envy no quality of the mind and intellect in others,be it genius.power wit or fancy ; but if I could choose what would be most beautiful, and I believe most useful to me, I should prefer a firm religious belief to other blessing ; for it makes life a discipline of goodness ; varnishes and throws over the decay—the destruction—of existence,the most gorgeous of all light ; awakens new life, even death ; makes an instrument of torture and shame the ladder of ascent to Paradise ; and far above all combinations of earthly homes, call up the most beautiful visions of the palms and amaranths, in the gardens of the blest, j and the security of everlasting joys, where the sensualist views only gloom, decay, aunihila- j tion, and despair." Koine malicious persons asserts that the letters M. D., which are placed after pbyei J c.ans' uauies, eiSuify " Money Down ' ' VOL. XX I. —NO. Cbutaiional TBtprtincut. fiisy The ancual examinations for Teacher* | for 1800, will be holden at the following timfß and places, vit: ! October the Milan School House, in Ulster. Oct. 2a, at house, Athens. Oct. 20, at the center house, Litchfield, Oct. 27, at the Kuykeadall hoose, Windham Oct. 29, at the Bowen Hollow hou3, War ; ren. Oct. 30, at the Orwell Hill house. Oct. 31, at. the Academy, Leßaysrlile. Nov. 1, at the Black house, Tuscarora Nov. 2, at the Merryftll house. Nov. 3, at the Ingham house, Wilinot. Nov. 5, at the .McOoyre house, Terry ; also at the Frenclitown house, Asylum. Nov. 6, at the Brown school house, for Al - and Overton ; also at the Stevens house, Standing Stone, (at which Inst named plaro the examination will commence at 11 o'clock, : a. m. Nov. 7, at the borough house, Monroe ; al so at the Herrickville school bouse Nov. 8, at the borough house, for the To wnndas ; also at the Academy at Rome Nov. 9, at the Qore house for Sheshequin. Nov. 10, at the Myersburg hoose, Wysox Nov. 12, at the Varney house, Frankliu ; i also at the borough house for Burlingtons. Nov. 13, at the Taylor house, Granville ; aNo at the center house, Sprinnfie'.d. Nov. 14, at the center house, Leßoy ; also at the Burnham house, Bidgbury. Nov 15, at the Corners house, for Canton | and Armenia ; also at the Gillett house, South I Creek Nov. 10, at the borough house, Troy ; also i at the Rowley house, Wells. Nov. 17, at the Academy, Sraithfield ; also ' at the Morgan Hollow house, Columbia. The examinations will commence precisely ! at 10 o'clock, A. M. No candidates will be examined who do not come in before 11, un less the tardiness be unavoidable. No person will be inspected who does notintend to teach in the couuiy during the year, neither will any be examined that have attended inspections in other townships. Private examinations will in no case be granted, except in accordance with the provisions of the school law, as found |on page 51 Each teacher will bring a Read' or, one sheet of Foolscap Paper, pen and ink Directors and parents are earnestly invited to be present nt the examinations in their re' spective townships. C. K COBURN, Co. Sup't. To war,da, September 4, 18G0. Bw-The fourth ni nual scrsion of Teachers Institute for the Western ai:d South western townships of this county wrs holdui at Alba, during the week commencing Oct Ist. A. T. Lilley was appointed secretary. There were , 102 members in attendance most of the week, this was more than was expected, considering that the N. Y. state fair was the same week, \ there was also u political meeting at Troy, at which place sewral speakers of eminence more ; exptcted. <■ Notwithstanding these inducements to leave the teachers were regular in their attendace and prompt in the performance of their duties. The day sessiots were spent as usnal in drilling upon the branches taught in our com mon schools, cccasicnahly spending an hour or more upon some of the more advanced sceinces. t Special attention was giving to composition ! writing and instruction given as to the man ner of conducting the exercise so as to make it pleading to children. In conducting these I dr lis the Superintendent was a.-s sled by Mr .Johns Superintendent of T:ogn and W. W. Rogers teacher of Canton. During the evenings several questions per taining to educational matters were discussed iby members of the Institute and cthera . in attendance. Several declamations were also had. On Tuesday evening a lecture was de livered by Mr. Johns upon the general subject of Education. On Wednesday evening by G. Corey of Monroe upon Geography, and on lh r -day evening by Dr. C. T. Bliss of Leßoy upon penmanship, and by Mr. liurdic teacher in Leßoy, who repeated an original poem. Fiiday evening was wholly taken up by an old fashioned spelling school. A portion of Friday afternoon was spent by the teachers and Super intendent together with many of the citizens of the place in the grove of Esq . Palmer in which they engaged in such amusements as the titno uuil place appeared to suggest os pleasant aud profitable. The following resolutions were unanimously adopted after having first report ed by a committee composed of W. W Rogers, M. B Mudge, Mary Adauis,aud E.-,ther Case. Resolvid, That we recommend to the Direc tors of the several township represented in this Institute that they take measures to have in troduced into their schools Citbograpliic copies for the use of their scholars ; and that they require the teachers to give instruction in ac cordance with the principles they adopt. Resolved, That wo consider that Teachers' Institute are doing much to promote the cause of Education and that we will nse our influence to sustain these. Resolved, That we as members of this Ipsti tute tender our thanks to Prof. C. R Cobnrn, for his untiring exertions in our behalf. Resolved, That, the thanks of this Institute are due to the inhabitants of this place for the kindness they have shown us dnring our stay with them and for the interest they have tnani | fested in onr behalf. Resolved, That onr thanks are due to the j chovr for their excellent music, to Miss Emma Wilson for the nse of her Melodeon, and to , the trustees of the Disciples Church fof the use of their building I Resolved, That for the kindness of P. Palmer Esq , in permitting to enjoy ourselves in his j plcusant grove and feast upon the products of ' his orchard, we are under lastiug obligations. 8©- He is a wise man who lear;B from [ every one. he is powerful who governs hie rations, aud he is rich who is ccuteated 4 r •
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