Bradford reporter. (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, November 29, 1860, Image 1
THE BRADFORD REPORTER. DIE DOLLAR PER annum invariably in advance. TOWANDA: Thursday Morning, November 29, 1860. Jsdcttcii Ipottrg. LITTLE CHILDREN LOVE ONE ANOTHER. A LITTLE girl witb a happy look, Sit lovely muling a ponderous look. All bonßd with velvet, and edged with gold ; And it 4 weight Was more thnn the child could bold ; Vet dearly she loved to ponder it o'er. And every day she prized it more. For it said—and she lookec at bet smiling mother- It aid. " Little cfciidrea love one another.*' She thought it was beautiful in the book, And the lessee home to her heart she took : y;, L . talked on her way with a trustin ~ grace And a dove like look In her meek young face, Which said just a< plain asweHoeaa say The holy llitde 1 must always obey So, Mamama, I'll be kiud to my darling brother for " Little children must love each other." I'm sorry he's naughty, and will not play. Cut I'll love him sti.l for 1 think the way To make him gentle and kind to me, ,\ ill be to do what I think is right. And thu- when we kneel in prayer to-night, I will clasp my arms around my brother. And say ' Little children lo\e auother." The little girl did a her Bible taught. And pleasant indeed was the change it wrought. For the boy looked up in glad surprise To meet the light of Her loving eyes ; His'beart was full—he could c t -peak - But lie prosed it.* uu his sister s cac-ek . And God Jo. ked down cn the happy moti.ar tt'hose " Little children love one another." |fl isttllatttoas. Joe Lane and bis Beans, An Or.gr>n corri-pendent vends the f<!- ,v g to the Sucitttiit-i.'to (California) L'n i:n Joe Line is suite on d. |>u! tu.t it of tine arts kt is first witl.- j .it ;;n> second. Doc; Crocket and "SpHi'j ; Og.e" Aitc tot odv t< him. In. ud, ii you took the sni oat of Jo.*, -you would : leave hint like a ballooo with the g.i> out 01. 's bo.lv —a very sir.ail >!n.vci.ed concern Jpe had a uick of knowing everybody, and cwrtbody Jot knew was his mos" iiitun.ite : ! Lie would meet an a qua int.nice as a utt-r would meet a brother. lie eh mgiit bad I ist lit si a. He exu nds both hands,and : nkes h:> countenance as expressive as uatori . ; alio* of affectiouate svuiiwtbv. Coating I n Washington Cgv t > Oregon Jtu >. th a countryman Mr riuiith near v 1 . use lie lia|]M'ued to be traveling lie- . election. Joe rocogniz-d bim at 0:. vllow," suid Joe, " G'hl liless you, •• * ire you and the wife and the children? .-j my eyes. I'm glad to see yon. I havn't with anybody I was so ir'.id to see iJ rve been I hi airing of you and the boys: rf since I have tieeu to Concurs that's the .y Joe spells it. Washington is a dull see hate to stay titers—lively times here * ant to come back ami lire *.rh the boys •| .r 1 can Lire a good time. Old fcliow, I tf.i you I'iQ glad to see you iraii.** A .' r some words, the man, a piaiu farmer, . v'. .i Joe in, saying : ' (leuerai, you iil stay to dinner won't JOB '. Certainly, cf course," an id Joe. ' I come i .r; o-e I want some victuals I can cut. T.itse city victuals don't suit cue. Your wife far t r.'k to suit tne. I told Buchauan I 4 : give a d— n for al! their turrin girn • '-.So A gvd Oregou dinner of park aai : - •> - wonh uil the French restaurant* '. get op :.nd mom too." A v a wliiie dnnerwas put upon the table • sure enough, Joe's favorite dish, pork T.e pork was only toleralile ;• tv s were very tine ; at least, Jo said so ; - . . 'ued Lunseif— talked of the Mexican tics—Joe Line was very attentive Mora ami cbddren—praised the cook some more pork a: I leans—never -- - bans—cooked to <uit bitu exactly— lady of the house to givr hitu s->uk ■ i—wauteil to take tlietn to Washington 'f> an is—wanted to show tbeiu fellows * 4 : ring uis Bo got a jiackage— * '• a • > sa io.e bag —talked some mr<- Mexican war—shookhoads—ltifd * i s—took off his hat to madam—took of ■ llilts J —and left. - '• l ii.e next Ii u-e—was ju>t as elad ' -**. and just as polite to thai wo *' m attentive to tkttn children--took 1 * •' whisky—talked ot the same -• i.oan w 3 r f a:i( j ihrQia same jwiitics, that j y-tr J e Line ; bad thought of this man -srft a jof lta al Washington ; wanted to ' .sick to see them all. Come on purpose " : - o;:e Got Buchanan to give him a ' " r re kind of beans—the €nest he j i : Brought tiiem all the aay out es ■ ' He mill's w.fe to plant and grow - thw took them out of his i - the identical beans he had got at se ; the landlady was rejiiced ; '.. a —.he." dr,n a . nnj Irfr. , 'by. Mrs. Smith came over to •- Joaes the nejt dnv ; talked of the . General Lane j frad of beaos ; great ! '■- r husband ; got some of tlieir V .'j to< ' *""' m a '* a . v ' fo g.ve to Buchanan \ f~" 0 kr rale aliout Lane; good Ptt* I P* Xe her beaus froui ' , '. s: '°* f d tlie package. It was • 4 - - n J-oe's hand wr tn.g, ' ii ss v vani ® iff* Smith had put uu \ i-. ", , *' a lae LTgi-.at Lrei au j T( s te^ 04--j.0 4 --j. Line. A c ' ere ' s f Pkin)t or her children, ira- •• i * f '° ws< hghtrr colored than the * -brf CGuW lhtt ar ' br L kase to easy PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY AT TOWANDA, BRADFORD COUNTY, PA., BY E. O'MEARA GOODRICH. Donation Parties. The following is from the Frotestaut Epis copal Parish Visitor: Llonation parlies and surprise visits are the ways and means of giving material aid to clergymen, who either need it, or do not. If they do not need this aid, then the proceed ings are simply a stultification of nil concern ed ; if they do need such aid, it shows the great inconsideration, if not actual injustice of those to whom the minister preaches ; it clear ly indicates the fact that he is not properly sustained, and that his parishioners kuo.v it. The practical workings of those rnnchiue i ries are always deceptive, always degrading, and lead to unmixed harm. They are a pe cuniary loss to the people of his charge. It is the nature of gifts to degrade, to ' cause a feeling ol dependency, of inferiority. i and of obligation. A minister's palm should be as guiltless of bribe as that of a judge No foreign minister of our government is al lowed to receive a present of any description in his official capacity, or even privately, by virtue of his •stat on ; not even the President of the United States can receive a gift or present from any nation. This is wise, and ts based on a tree knowledge of human na ture ; and neither ought u minister of the j Gospel, who is, by virtue of his office, a min ister from the court of the K.ng of tings, an : embassador from the sk es. j To the disgrace of the Araeiicin people, ; three fourths ot the clergy,who should live by i ill:* Gospel, who should be amply supported, are not adequately paid, are compelled if they have no private means, to the most pinching economies—live in circumstances distressingly straightened and endured, too, in multitudes iof cases, with an uncomplaining!.e>s and a j heroic courage which is beyond praise. MORAL —If you have anything te give to i your minister, give it to him in money, and it will be worth to him at least double its v .ik ue in any anything else, in three cases ost of four. A BLTTrn MORAL Stili. —lf the minister | has not an "adequate support," be honest,and raise his salary until iie has. If there are to be any presents, let them be on the same foot j ing as those which a pa-tor might also make not '.o eke out u ,-uppo-t ; not charity. It i- mean beyond measure to withhold an ade quate salary and then bestow gifts. THK PRINCF. OK WALES RECEIVES A SPANK ING A gentleman of Rochester prof.-.sses to have been an eye witness to the following scene : Some 12 or 14 years ago. her liaiestv, : a xuflipMietl by the prince consort, and the • royal children, visited Set lifted in the roywl I yacht, and calied at Aberdeen, a. d of course the loyal itriabitants of that citv turned oui ia large numbers. A guard of honor formed, ami in all the g'o *y of bin. k brouh loili anu ; wliite kids, parao-d ou the edge of the d>ck, while thousand- *.iTe assembled u little further back, to (ftSft on ttie spectacle of an anointed ' queen Her -M de-ty good uaturedtj remainefi on deck to gratify the curiosity of the bonne Sou its, accompanied by the Prince of Wu es, then a child of five or six years old. The Prince, like other boys of his age, being of a destructive turn, began to pull the tus- -I of a splendid sofa on tße deck, ia a mnaner chat threatened to detach it. II s raotii-r observ ed tiie act, and ordered the boy to desist. II did so, but as soon as her back wi> turned, seized the ta->ei again and give it another i p-rk In nn instant the queen turned, and se:zb;g the In-k!e-- heir apparent of England by the * scruff of the i eck." elevated one of ' her feet n;oti the sofa, h -ted the youngster over her knee, adj .si- I h.ni in tlie position fa in far to parents, and children generally.when such ceremonies are to be perioriaed, and gave ' him a sound spanking. It is an interesting tut that the ilia-trious suC rer kick-d and bell vwed under the offlctive disp usatit n, quite aslus'ly r.s children of lower birth. Tlie amaztd silence with which the spectators witnessed the example of royal dinripbtt, wa ' suddenly broken by a tremendous roa; of laughter, which could not he nopprrnftrd by | any thought of liecorom. rc-{x*ctior the queen, or sympathy for the victim of hir rii.-ple-sun- The explosion recalled the royal mother to a s-misc of her pcsition, and having turned to war, i tl>e crowd for a moment.lter ia -e suff . d with crim-on. she ha-ti!y descended into the cabin, and was seeu uo more by the expectant population. THE ELOQCENCE or SILENCE. —Cicrro, one of the woild ? grcute-t orators, -ays that "there is not on y an art Lot aii eloquence iu it." Z tnmerman, whose very name is sugges tive of deep rfleection in umbrageous groves, writes : ">ilence is the sidt-t response for all the contradiction that ari?e?froui tuipertiuence, vulgarity, or envy " The Tattler, whose name in this instance is scarcely in keeping with I.is precepts, affirms : " T!ie deej>esl waters are the most silent ; I empty ve—-Is make the greatest sound, ntid lus ,g cvm'iel- the worst mu-;c. TLIEJ who think lea.-t commonly sjeak must " l>r. Biair saxs,—"the modes of speech are scarcely more variable '.bau the modes of si lence." Shakespeare absolntely teems ith illustra tions of the same ideas. "Paiabras, neigiibor Yeages," p mous:r*tes Dogberry. " Words, wonis, word-, sighs liatnlel ; apd even the -wag ller. Foien Uj, is m i le to'declare that " Brevity is the soul of wu." The African —most garulous of race?— ; finds a certain wisdom in the monkey, who. Kiev say, u .a talk, but retrain least the white man should make them work Incapable of taciturnity the negro is th.s illustration ap p>ear> to confess that men become the slaves j o{ others in proportion to their inability to hold tbetr toogoes. Unqoestionablr ihe"gift of gab," is ofieutitoes prolific of evil rattier than of good to iu possessor. The late Senator Broderick occnrj to the writer as a case in point. Of humble origin ' and defective education, b owed much of b?J " R.EGARDLE33 OF DENUNCIATION FROM ANT QUARTER." ' success in life to the faculty, which he pos sessed in a high degree, of great sententious ntss ; and he owed his untimely deuth to being j induced in au unguarded moment to trauscend j his practice and say 100 much. Playgoers bave realized in Sheridan's Critic tlie effect of Lord Burleigh's shake of the head, the very absurdity which silence scatters pow der over the orchestra, invists bin lordship with a ccrta : n responsibility. It is ev dent that, like the owl, lie " keeps up a devil of a 1 thinking."— Cuttricr Sr Enqniter. THE GROWTH OF THE NORTHWEST. —Our national development within the past few years lias been extraordinary ; but that particular i phase of it, which has been going on in the northwestern range of States, is something really inurvelious II story will scarcelv credit the rapidity of growth and the solid stability ol power which bus accompanied their wonder | ful ex; ansion. The seven States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin. lowa, and Minnesota hold, to-day. nearly one third of the country's entire population. The cen>us g.ves them between eight and nine millions,and tiieir inert-i.-e is so fast and certaiu us to soon render tren that liberal computation below the actual murk. This greut Northwest is the producing re gion—tlie granary of the land—from whence we draw the chief necessaries of out own sup poit, besides receiving a constant surplus for the use of foreign countries, which give us in return their spare capita! to help us on to further enterprise and progress. This year's statistics of tiie port of Chicago alone seem almost incredible. Since January last the re ceipts there amount to hirtv-iwo million?, two hundred and eleven thousand bushels of vari ous kinds of g-ain, an increase over last year of more than twenty tn iho-.is. They will foat up forty millions b-. fore the year is through.— And this is the credit account cf but a single port. It is true Chicago is the chief of our great depots ; but not by any means in-igniti ccut places are C.evelaud, M i waukce.W auke can, Racine, Detroit, Toledo, Fremont, Milan, cLind.i-kv, and a dozen others that ia the ag gregate do an immense business. The incalculable resources of the Northwest; lier magnified.! lakes ; her long navigable 11vers ; her fertile fields of boundless acres— a!! these inu-t elevate her to a pitch of wealth and power that will eveutually control the destinies-of the L nion. In a short time no city but New \ ork will be able to compete with iid splendid capitals ; and our superiority will t. iu re social.y iuctro|>oi;tau than politically influential So 'et it be. An agricultural popu lation is, of all others, the m -t virtuous and patrioth ; and, if our Star cf Lmpire must Jon •- the sun, w c worn a not wi-n L to r-cst HI belter iianiS than t!.o>e of our fellow country men, who own end t.ll the soiith&t gives u tooJ and brings the nations of the Old World to our do:rs us needy customers. A ROMANTIC LOVE STOHY. —During the late : war in tiie Crimea, the Count de tit. Croix, belonging to one of the noblest families in Fr iuce, became engaged to a lady, bis equal i in position and fortune. aaJ famous for her beauty. Shortly after the marriage day was appointed, the Count was ordered to the S-*ige of Sebastopoi lie girded on L.s sabre, and at the Leap of Lis regiment tuarciud to the Li.'J. During his absence it happened that ins beautiful Ji incr coutraeted the small pox, and after hovering between life aud death re cor. red, to find her beauty lost. Tiie disease ! had a-fumcd ihe mo?t virulent character, aud ( left Ler not only disfigured, but seamed and > arrtd to -ucli au extent that she became iiidtous to herself, and resolved to pass the re raaindcrof her days in the strictest >tciu>ion. A year pu-.-cd away, when one day the Count immediately upon his return to France, cc coiiipanicd by his ralet, }>reefUed Lim-elf at the resi Jetice of bis betrothed and solicited an interview. This was refused, lie however, WHO tiie per-i-ten -e of a lover pressed his suit and fina.ij tae iuuy made Ler appearance, m-.i11.d in a double veil. At the sound of uer | voice the Count rushed forward to embrace • her ; but stepping aside she tremblingly toid him the story of her sorrows, and burst into tears. A sueie broke over the Count's hand . -ome features, as. raising Lis hands almve he : exclaimed. "It is God's work— l am blind'' - It wa< even so ; when gal'antiv leading bis j regiment to tlie attack, a cannon bail had ! ! i-sed so closeiy to h:s eyes, that while it left tbe.r expression unchanged,aud bis conteqance unmarked, it lias rotibed L ai fort-vtr of sight. It is almost nnnecces-ary to add that their ; marriage was si ortly afterwards so!emiz-d. ; It is said that to this day may often be seen at tlie E n|eror\s receptions, an officer leaning ; iq>oii the am of a lady closely tailed — L*iter • frvn Paris. FORCE or VOLCANOES. —Cotopaxi, in 1833, threw its fiery rtckt-ts 3.0'J0 feet above its creator, vrbiie in 1744 the biaz.ng mass strug ghng fur au outlet, roared so that .is awful voice was beard a d;-tanee of n; >re than six hundred miles. In IT'-'" tiie crater of Tangu ragu.i, one of th 2 great ;>eaks of the Andes, flung out torrents of mud, which damned up rivers, opened new iakes, and in vaiievs of a thousand feet wide made deposits six hundred feet deep. The s'reatn from Vesuvius, which in 173" passed through Torre del Greco, con tained 33,bt>0,000 cubic feet of solid matter. I m 1795, w lieu Terre del Greco wis destroyed a recoiid time, tbg mass of lava amounted to i ■ 45.Q00.000 cubic feet. Iu 1G79 Etna poured ! forth a flood which covered S4 square raiies of surtace.aiid mta<ured nearly 10-O.UQQ.QOUcubic feet. Oz this occasioo the sand and scorias formed the Monto near Nichoiosi, a come two miles in c rcumferenee and 4.000 j feet high. The stream thrown oat by Etna, i ; in 1810. was in motion, at the rate of a yard ler day, for nine mouths after the eroptioa ; I and it is on record tnat the lavas of the same mountain, after a terrible eruption, were cot thoroughly cooled aod consolidated ten years : after He veM. in the eruption of Vesuvius, j A D 79. th? sccrie acd ashes enacted fortb 1 far exceeded the entire bulk of the mountain, while iu 1660 Etna disgorged more than twenty times its own mass. Vesuvius has thrown its ashes as far as Constantinople, Syria and Egypt ; it hurled stones, eight pounds in weight, to Potnpei, a distance of six mile® j while similar masses were tossed up 2,000 feet ! above its summit. Cotopaxi has projected a block of 109 cubic feet yards in volume a dis tance of nine miles, and Sumbawa, iu 1815, during the most terrible eruption on record, sent its ashe3 as far as Java, a distance of 300 miles of iurface, and out of a population of 12,000 souisouiy twenty-six escaped.—Rtcrta lice Sceina. THE MOORS. — In the eariiest times the peo ple on the European and African sides of the i Straits of Gibraltar were the same, and the in tercourse between them over the uarrow chan i r.els frequent. Iu the subsequent movements of warlike tribes and people.Spuiu and Barbary were successively, whole or in part, overrun by the Carthageuiaus,Romans,Goths,Vandals, and Saracens or Arabs, leaving both Spain and Barbary, in the early part cf the eighth century, under the dominion of the latter.— Both became provinces of the Caliphs of Bag dud, aud were ruled by their governors. The Moors, as the Arabs of Spain and Morocco were calied, mingled their blood with the in habitants of the country,"and for eight hundred years—much of the time as the predominant power the Spanish Peninsula, notwithstanding the invasions and civil wars, instigated by re ligious bigotry, to which they were subjected —maintained themselves iu Spain, and under tteir swav the country became powerful and great At the end of this period they were subdued by the Christian States which had arbeu among them, and tlie establishment of the Inquisition placed their lives and every thing they possessed at the mercy of theircon querors. A Ct-ntury of persecution succeeded ; when, what remained of them, ia the begin ning of the sevemeentb centurj.whom ut ther lire nor fn_'got could convert, were expelled from Strain and driven into Africa, This,and the expulsion of the Jews which followed, i destroyed the greatness of Spain—her com merce, her revenues, and her powet—leading her crippled, lying helpless at the mouth of the grave she had dug ; frcui which condition after a lapse of two centuries, she is oniv now beginning to recover. The Spaniards, like ail the central and southern nations of Europe,are of n.ixed blood, and made up of tlie several peoples who have overrun their land ; but in many of the provinces, t-pev.a!ly at the South and East, the Moorish biood still predomina tes. MICROSCOPIC PHENOMENA. —Grains of sand appear of the same form to the naked eyes but seen through a miscro-cope, exhibit different shapes and sizes, globular, square ani conical, and mostly irregular; and what is more snrpriv it:g in their cavities have been found, I y the •microscope, insects of various kinds. The mouidy substance on damp bodies exhibits a region of minute plantv Sometimes it appears u forest of trees, w hose branches, leaves.flower? ar.d fruits, are clearly distinguished. Some of the flowers have long.white, transparent stalks and the buds.before they open, are little green balls which become white. The particles of Ju e t on the w ings of butterflies, prove by the uiiscroscope to be beautiful aud weii arranged little feathers By the same instrument the surface ot' our skin has scales resembling thoe jof fish, but so minute that a single irrain would cover two hundred and fiity and a single -eaie covers five hundred pores, whence i.-sues the insensible perspiration necessary to health: con-equeutiy, a grain of sand can cover one hundred and tweuty-fire thousand pores of thz huu.au body. HEAT FROM THE STARS —It is a start'ir.g fact, that if the eart.i were dependent alone upon the San for heat, it would not keep ex is.euce iu animal and vegetable life upon its surface. It results from the reseaiches of ' Poniliet that the stars furnish heat enough Ia the course of a year to melt a crust of ire seventy feet thick—almost a- much as is sup plied by the sun. This may appear strange when we consider how imineasureabiy smaii must be the amount of heat received from any of tho-e distant bodies. But tiie surprise vanishes when we remember '.hat the whole firmament is thickly gemmed with stars. THE MAN WHO PARES TO no RIGHT. — That man who can ,-tand in the breath of univer sal public censure, with aii the fashions of opin.on disgracing him in the thoughts of lookers-on—with the tide of obloquy beating against Lis br.-ast and the fingers of the mighty, combined many, poiuting him to scorn —nay, with the fury of the drunken rabble threatening him with instant death—and, worse than all, having present friend to whis per a word of defence or palliate in his be half to the revilers—but bravely giving his naked head to the storm, because he knows bitnseif to be virtnons in his purpose : that man shall come forth from the fiery ordeal like tried gold. Philosophy shaii embalm his I name in her richest unction. History shall g : ve him a place on her brightest pages, and old, yea. hoary far-off posterity shall remem ber him as or yesterday Beautiful things are suggestive of purer ; and higher lite, and fiils us with a mingled lore and fear. They baTe a graciousness that wins us, an excellence to which we I involuntarily do rererence. If voa are poor.yet pure and modestly aspiring, keep a vase of dowers on your table, aud tbey will help to maintain your dizmty, and secure for you coo- J sideratiou aud delicacy of behavior. m Phillips, the Irish orator, speaks thus 'eeiingly of bis birth-place : " There were the scenes of my childhood which reminded tee i'now innocent I was, and the grave of my fath er to adsojlsh ma kow pure I ebca'd coo ling#" (Educational Jjfpartmtnt. i teiP" Will the Educational papers to whom 1 this number of the Reporter is seut please to s exchange or return the paper. t C. R. COBCRS, | „ ; O.S.DKA.V, I" Editors. ' liar A young friend, formerly a teacher in > this county sends the following. Will some of 1 our teachers reply to his question through the j educational column of the Reporter: " Him, Tuba: named, the I'uleun of oidt-n times, The sword and fare Lion their inventor claim. Mr. Brown intends that the three nouns printed iu itaiies should be parsed as in appo , sition. Question. What is the noun Tubal j I put by apposition with 1 C. A. • >) B&- The annual examinations of teachers ' • for the fall of lb6o, has just closed,and it may i not be inappropriate to state some facts con- ■ c. rning these inspections of the instructors of the \ i | youth of our county. t ! The examinations were conducted upon some : - what of a different plan from those of former - j years; they were, it is supposed, a little mpre ; j rigid, and better calculated to draw out the ) knowledge of the candidates, if it were in thetn ■ , and at the same time, they were free from 1 embarasiment. Still, after all is done that can . t j be, it is impossible for the examining officer to : arrive at a just conclusion, in all cases, us to 1 - the acquired qualifications of those who come 1 | forward to be inspected ; some are timid and ' " easily embarrassed and unable to do what, ' 1 under other circumstances would be perfectly ? ea-y for them to accomplish, others are lodb, i forward and stif confident, and can tell, or f write all they know about a thing, all the bet - ter from being in a situation where others would be frightened; some do not teach Lut about j ; three mouths in the year and ate ru-tv, there- ! ■ fore, and are not able to call to min i readily j ■ j w hat they actually know,others teach, or study ' most of the time, their knowledge consequently ! i is fresh and ready to come forth at their bid- j . ding. Some are slow to catch an idea end still slower to appreciate or unierstand.others I ' can see and understand aii they ever k:.uw of ] 1 a subject a? soon a- it is presented. ' Making allowences for a!! these, and other I untoward urcumstaro, it is due to the teach- I ers to say, that, with oue or two exceptions, i ' the teachers of the several townships have sns i mined themselves much better iu the iuspec-' i tunc than they have heretofore. This ia espe- i i cially true in regard to the oilier teachers, and ■ fewer young persons, young girls and boys, have presented themselves Rr examination this : , fail than any former occasion. Last year I felt i it to be my duty to .-eject a great number of . applicants who were in ro way qualified to! : take charge of schools, and some who bore &j tolerable examination-iu oue or two of the i branches, but were entirety deficient in the I • others. The consequence was, that but four of that clav presented themselves for iuspec- ! , , tion this fall. It is not my intention to over- i ; estimate the importance of Teachers Institutes ! . but I think that ar.y person who Las been 1 present at the examinations most come to the i . conclusion, that as a general thing, the teach ers who have attended the Institute and tried to improve the advantages to be enjoyed at ! them, hare borne the best examinations, not ' that attending a teacher's dr.il, three or four ! times will qualify a person for teaching, or j that stayiuc away will disqualify him,but those' who have attended regularly nud sought for in.'ormatiou have improved, while others, who have given no attention to teaching, or the branches, to be taught, only while they were ! actually engaged iu the business, and who think that any thing spent in preparation for teaching, is money thrown away, bare falleu behind iu their comparative qualifications. In all the townships except three, some of the directors have been present at the examina tons, and in many places the whole board has attended the whole day. This is as it should be in all cases. Directors can much better judge of the qualifications of their teachers by being at the examinations and seeing how they appear at them, than tLey can be merely see ing bow the certificates are evaded, j About five hundred and fifty persons have received certificates.at different grades varying lrom the first to the third, aid iu a very few cases, in oue or two of the branches as low as the four'a. Tics number being nearly two hundred more than there are schools in the county, these can be noneces-ity for private examinations upon the grounds that there are not teachers enongb, and it is hoped that directors will not encourage persons to cake application for such examiuatiors unless it be j absolute!? unavoidable. C. R. COBCBV — Bar From the official department of the School Journal: QVESTIOX : What is the duty of the County Superintendent, when he knows that Teachers take pains not to be examined in the District iu which they really intend to apply for schools but manage to be examined in some other ? i County Snprinlendent. ANSWER : He should at. once inform the j Board of the avoided district, of the fact, iu writing, that they may be prepared to deal with such Teachers as they deserve, whenthev 1 come before them for schools ; and, if required j , and bis othir engagements permit, he should re-examine, and that thoroughly,ail such teach ers in the presence of the proper Board. QCESTIOK : If a Teacher change the figures ' or the dates of his certificate,or permit another • to do so,what is the duty of the County Super- i intecdert— County Superintendent. ANSWER ; If the term for which the certi l ficate was issued has not expired, the County Superintendent should aonol the certificate ; i and if it ha*, be shoold refuse to re-examine scch Teacher, or renew bis certificate ; and the same should be done if the change was made by another with consent of the bolder of the certificate ; for in both cases it is a fraud and a forgery, and socb persoo shoold not afterwards be admitted into the profession ; except perhaps !a the CMS of a youttg VOL. XXI. —NO. 26. and thoughtless person, who really did uot realize the enormity of the aet, and who mani fests sincere sorrow, and a reliable determina tion to avoid such acts in the future. INTERESTING TO WIVES. —As a general rule it is most economical to buy the best articles. The price is, of course, always a little higher j but good articles spend best. It is a sacrifico j of money to buy poor cheese, lard, etc., to say j nothing of the injurious effect upon health. , Of the West India sugar and molasses the S'ar,taCrutz and Porto ltico are considered the best. The Havana is seldom clean. White sugar from Brazil is sometimes very good. K-Gucd sugar usually coutaius most of the ' saccharine substance ; there is probably mora economy in using loaf, crushed and grauulat ed sugars, than we should first suppose. Butter made in September and October is the be.t for wiuter use. Lard should be j hard and white ; and that which is taken from a hog not over a year old is best. Rich chee.-e feels softer untfer the pressure jof the finger. That which is very strong is neither very good nor healthy. To keep out that is cut, tie it upon in a bag that will not admit flies, and hang it in a cool, dry piace. If mould appears uu it wipe it off with a dry j cloth. t'k.ur and meal of all kinds should be kept • in a cool, dry place. The l>esi rice is large, and has a clear, fresh j look. Old rice sometimes has little black in . sects insiJe the kernels. The small while sago, called the pearl sago, 'is the bei-t. The large brown kind Las an 5 earthy taste. The article,aud tapioca,ground rice, etc., should be kept covered. To select nutmegs, pick them with a pin.— If they are good, the oil will instantly spread around the puncture. Keep coffee by itself, as the odor effects | other articles. Keep tea in a close chest or canister. Oranges and lemons keep best wrapped \ close in soft paper,and laid in a drawer of linen. I Suft soap should be kept in a dry place ia the cellar, and not Le used until three months ] old. To thaw frozen potatoes, put them in hot | water. To thaw frozen apples, put them in cold water. Neither will keep after being frozen. ' —lfousfkuptf'i Friend. | THE QUANTITY OF REPTILES IN SUN.—A recent traveier says ; " If the reader wishes to study natural his j tory of tie reptiles to perfection "I recommend i im to lire for a month or tv, o at Bang Kok, .n 6;:i'D. lie will have the satisfaction, when ! he wakes in tLe morning, to see a snake peep ing out of a iiole in eat o corner of the room, and two or three little ones amusing them selves at hide ar.d -eek ou the floor. It he looks up at the ceiiing be wiii see a specimen of the lizard tribe, called the Trqicay, from its peculiar cry, a lizard that looks as if it was I affected w:th the leprosy and which has the i astonishing faculty of throwing itself ten yards j across from or.e upright wall to another. If he j carry his inclination for study still farther, he can investigate the mysteries of a Siamese stew | and find alligator the chief ingredient. Ha I wiil find an opportunity of collecting out of bis i soup plate, tea-cup, wine glass, or the hair of his head, or from off the back of Lis hand i specimens of the musquito fly, ant, green bug, | grasshopper-bug, vulgus, earwig, flea, io ali the clivers;ued branches of each genus. Nor when the fatizaesof the day are ail over, and he dons Lis slippers for ease aci comfort,need he be surprised to find a scorpion in one, ana a centipede in the other, while a colony of i white ants are investigating the merits of liter -1 uture in his Look-case. tnf A little ftilow.eight years old,who wea without a relative in the whole world, was asked by a iaay if be aid not have fears as to whether he would get along iu life. The child looked up with preplexed and inquiring eye.as if uncertain of her meaning, and troubled with a r.ew doubt. " Why," said he, "don't jow think God will take care of a feller, if he puts his trust in Him, and does the best he can V A r.c nf tourist in central France was complaining, before retiring to rest, of having ben greatly di-turbed the night before by some dreadful cries and bowlines, which he hoped would not be repeated. "No fear for that," said the mailrtd' hold ; "no fear of that, for they w>re the cries of that fine lem cit yoa bad for dinner to day !" ftarße-pect is always due to persons of peculiar merit ; or those who fill elevated sta tions, but civility is due to every one iu life, whose base conduct has not forfeited it. A a easy, kind and pleasing address, without sac rifice of dignity, i arnooz the most valuable acquirements, and is witbin the reach of every person. It is a kind of current coin ; that will pass universale even among savages, and will gain you friends with those who cannot understand our lauguage. A goose that sees another drink will do the same, though he ia uot thirsty. The custom of drinking for company, when drink ing is dispensable a;.d prejudicial, seems to be a case of ihe same kind, and to put a man, feathers only excepted, cpon a footing with a goose. *taP* When yoa forgive the man who has pierced ycur heart, he stands to TOQ ia the re lation of the sea-worm that perforates the shell of the muscle, which straightway closes the wound with a pearl. A crust of bread, a pitcher of water and a thatched roof, and love—there hap piness for you, whether the day be rainy or sunny. It is the heart that makes the home whether the jests upoc a potato patch 1 a Sower gtrdfcr.