"Raillin&VON. us - paps:wink is pulAislusi every Thum. d a y gOrlllafro brit. 0. Cleosclaaii, st ti pis Annulli r iII .• , ADVERTISEMENT% excleedieg fifteen fines are iPaerta44 7 iiii 46306:110. for: first in sertion, awl nn eclisir pellicle Col s nbsequent heirettosia figeotaincidees tar . ; sorted before literdages and Deaths, gill be charged :armor coons per lam tee esolt insertion. All resolutions of Associations co mmunications of HUMS or- inatiriAtao intorest,and notices of Ilarriagee at. Deathi exceeding Ave lines, are charged Tot catrre par line. _ 1 Year. 8 mo. rack; One Column, $lO0 0 60 x6 340 alt ti 60 35 25 o.le Square, ' 15 ' .74 estray,Caution, Lost and Found, andother advertisements, not exceeding 10 Ulm.- - three weeks, or less, - al 50 Administrator's & Executor's Netieee..2 00 Auditor's Notices 2 50 Business Cards, Ave lines, (per yeer)..s 00 Merchants and othertn, advertising their business, will be charged $25. - Thor.* be entitled to j column, confined excliske ly to their business, with privilege of'quar' ter ly changes. - Advernamg in all oases exclusive of .subscription to the paper. JOB PRINTING of every kind, in Main and Fancy oolors,.done with neatness and di s patch. Handbills, Blanks, Cards, Pam phlets, to., of every variety and style, prin ted at the shortest notice. - The Ritrowni , °rims has juit been re-fitted with Power / Presses, and every thing in the Printing . line can be executed in the most artistic manner and at the lowest rates.. VOWS INVARIABLY GASH. ' 'garbs. (LEORGE D. MONTANYE, AT ,4•ORNEY AT LA W—Office corner of Main and Pine streets. - opposite Porttr's Drag Store. DOCTOR EDWARD S. PERKINS, Offers his professional services to the citi zens of Freachtown and 'vicinity. Calls prompt ly attended to. May 28.1967.-1 y W T. DAVIES, Attorney at Law, V V • irowanaa, Pa. Office with Wm. , Watt kips, Esq. Particular attention Raid to Or. plans' Court business and settlement of demi ; le n.,3 estates. •Af t ERCUR d MORROW, Attorneys /IL of Law, Towanda, Penn's, The undersigned having associated themselves together isthe practice of Law, offer their pro. e,sional services to the public. ULYSSES MERCUR P. 0.„ MORROW. March 4.1865. DATRICK & PECK, ATTORNKTEI LAw.;o3ticea :—ln Patton Bleck:Miranda, Patrickke block, Athena, Pa. They may be asulted at either place. El. W. PATRICK, apll3 HB. McKEAN, ATTORNEY S. . COUNSELLOR AT• LAW, Towan da, Pa. Particular attention paid to business in the Orphans' Court. July 20, MC HENRY PEET, Atthrney at Laic, lowan la, Pa. jnnl7, 66« DR. H. WESTONi j/ENTLST.- OfficeAn Pattaa'a Block, over Gore's Drag and Chemlaill Store. 1,1=66 EDWARD OVERTON Jr., .Attor ney at r Towanda, Pa. Office in the court House. July 13, 1885. • • DR. R. DAVIES, Laßsysvmr.E . , PA. bas permanently located it the office ormerly occupied by Dr. B. DeWitt. for the practice of tie prole:lomi. Kay 9,186 T. JOHN N. CALIFF, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Towanda, Pa. Also, Govern. meat Agent for the collection of Penalona,Back Pay and Bounty. wNo charge unless successful. Office over he Post Office and Nora Room. Dec. 1,1884. HP. KIMBALL, Licensed Atm tioneer, Potteriwille, ,Bradlord Co. Pa. tender; his services - tetihe Satiate:lo,Jan guaranteed,or no pay required; AU orders uy mail, addressed as above, will receive prompt attention. Oct. 2,1867.-6 m JOHN W . ATMBNEY, AT LA iv, Towanda, Bradford Co. Pa. General insurance and Bill Estate Awent.A-- Bounties Rai Pensions collected. N. L-4.11 tabiners in the Orphan' , Court attended to . promptly and with Me. Office first block south of Ward . House ,np stairs. 0ct.24. '67. DOCTOR B. DEWITT, PnysictAx - AND SITROZON.---Milly be found during the day—unless otherwise engaged--on Haintst-, • few doors below Codding & Russell's. 'Real dence corner of William and Division-sta., late )3' occupied by E.A. Parsons. Towanda, April2B. 1867.-1 y" PARSONS & CARNOCHAN, AT TORNEYB AT LAW, Troy, Bradford Co. ?make In all the Courts of the county. Col lections made and proioptly remitted . a. B. PARSONS, dl2 tr. n. oisaocusa, DR: PRATT hae 'removed, to State street, (first above W. S. Russel! k - Co's Rank). Persons from a distance desirous of con -inning him, will be most likely to find him on Saturday af each week. Especial attention will be given to surgical cases. and the extraction of teeth, 'liar or Ether administered when desired. July 18.1866. D. B. PRATT, U. D. h OCTOR CHAS. F. PAINED-Of Ace In Goaa'a Drag Store,,Towanda, Pa. Calls prozptly attended to at all boars. - Towanda, November 28, 1888. EI DW'D MEEKS-AUCTIONEER. All letters addressed to him at Sugar Run, Bradfoid Co. Pa., will receive prompt attention. PRANCIS E. POST, Painter, Tow anda, Pa, with 10 yew] experience, le con• ient he can give the beat satieffaction in Paint g,-Graining, Staining, GLishig, Papering, ic. airParticalar attention paid to Jobbing in the t.lintry. April 9, 1868. K. 'VAUGHAN —Architect and U • Builder.—AU kinds of Architectural de signs furnished. Ornamental work in Stone, Iran .and Wood. Office on Main street, over Russell & _Co.'s Bank. Attention given to Ru ral Architecture, such as laying out of grounds, &c. April 1,1867.-Iy. 91 J. NEWEL-fa. T . BOUNTY SURVEYOR, ..)rwell, Bradford Co.. Pa„ will promptly attend all business in his line. Parileadar Westin. . 4irCII to running and establiablng old or dllspa. lines. Also to- surveying of all nntiattented nds as coon as warrants are obtained. myl7 THERSEY WATKINS, • Public is prepared to ;take Depa one, Acknowledge the Exernattonof Deeds, ortgages , Poway of Attorney, sad all other inistraments. Affidavits and other papers may be sworn to before me. Office opposite the Banking House of B, 8. Russell & Co., a few doors north of the Ward House. Towanda, Pa., lan, 14, 1867. 1 1 B. FORD—Licensed Auctioneer,, .1: • TOWANDA, PA., Will attend promptly to all business entrusted to him. Charges moderate. Feb. 13,1668. TWIN MORAY, ?,) ARTIST AND PBOTOGRAPHICIL Will promptly attend,lti all business in his line. Y , Pecial attention given to L44ioapeSad Illersk -I,3coplc Photography. Views of Tamil/ Heed iences,Stores, Public Handing, Akilullaat 1111 " chines, eta., taken in the beat Manner, ' • Particular attention 'given to the novel and ikautlful sterescople representation of objects. Orders received at Wood & Harding's Photo graphic Art Galles - 1 2 Towards. Towanda, April xs,, WATCHMAKERS, JEWELLERS HUGNENIN BROTHERS, fieheatip from ramp% w hh a large m4°4E11610. of Clocks and Watchm from the best moo feta.' tory in Switzerland. h ave located themselves; temporarily, st the Nude, Booms of Dell'itt* Dittrich. where they will be pleased to show' their wales to the public. A thattqlb el= once le Earapein establiabmentsenabl es 1.1 offer mac mace of complete satisfaction to their department. Pmtkulat attention -given to repairing clocks. watches and jewelry.. • • Towanda. Oct. 24 4 . 12137 -se • CHINESE FANS. FOR SALE AT the ,NZWB ROM' TRH PLAUE TO BUY TRAVEL ING Baskets and Baskets of every des riptlan, is at Frost's Famitare Store. f. • M 00.61-0 1 VOLUME XOlll. • L._ rr 0. OF OS.-BRADFORD.LDGE. i f -Le No. 167, I. 0. of 0. P., meets at . d Fel lows Hall, every Monday ev iym . . flee Monday in Aril to the Ant on In i ctobe At qp. m., from October to lap at 61 ~ m. April 33,1867. i . .ARD.ROUSE, T •WAND Oa Pilo meet; N": toll Witt' Oct. 8, 1868. AMERICAN T.E Having purchased this welt _blown: . 7-11 Bridge Street, I have reftrathed and it with every convenience Or the Lion of all who may_paironisome. be_ivesed to mike pleallatted • 1103; 3. - 13;Ph =so ELWELL HOUSE ; i f rOWAND/ ' JOHN O. WI ON. • 1 Having leased Ods Ho ati:ia no* rea it oommodate the Travelling.Nl nor expense will be spared-4 give salt to those w o may glva him it pall: wr North aide id the- priblin square, liercar's new blindi buthilistl• NEW A .RAN:OR M E AT VIII NEWS ROOM AND BOOK .S'.L The underlined having pn i hnsed the STORE AND - NEWS BOO M' f J. J. respectfully invite the old pstrons of th Ushment and the public generally, tonsil amine our stock. ALVORD BA. s. W. -ALVORD. T. R IL F ASHIONABLE' TArtiCda.. A. T. DAVIDSON, Respectiully announces to to public • be. opened a Tailor Shap in ißurlingto.' and will cut and make Men and Boys Oa, in the m ,at substantial and pashionabl • ner. CUTTING done on abort notice I reasonable term a. Particular attention givelj to Clean' Repairing Clo th es of all kin d Burlington. Sept. 3, 1867 . T. I. ?ZCL FASHIONABLE- TiAILORI LEWIS lIEHION 7 tpcllnr the citizens of T , olityatteftioog . . - 1 In Pilinneifs Building opposite the Means House i lls and utilleitswalsswe•of.Pollo PatrQolll o, - • lie is prepuedlo-ent and Maker gar Mitt the most fashionable style, yid the mos dum b* ion will guar manner. Perfect satisfacti on anteed. -Cutting and Itepalring done; to order on shor notice. • Itiept. 10, 867. , TIRE UNDERSIGI4ED It t AVK owmed a Banking Mne t ' 'in Towanda, un der the name ci G. P. MAS ON & CO. They are prepared to draw Bills of Ex change, and make collections in New York, PhilidelPhla , 'and all- Verticals of the Unkted States,- as also' England, Gerniany, and Aimee. To Loan money, receive deposits , ando doa general Banking business. G. F. Mason was one of the late rm ,of Laporte, le son & Co., of Towanda, P., and knowli p of the businessi men of Bradford and adjoining Countiea,and liming been in the bilking bushiera for about 11 teat yesnk; Make L house a desirable one, brough w ich to make collections. . P. Nic,g Towanda, Oct. 186 IL .G. • ILA JEWELRY STORE Worms the citizens of Burns , county has opened a Jewelry Store, in; the build polite Welles & Ackley's store, Dushore he will keep on hand= assortatent of JEWELRY, WATCHES, AND CLO• Which will be sold 113 low as as any othe in the country. _ Particular attention Watch and Clock Repairing. sir Give me a call, al many -Yelrs' e 'mice will enable me to give satiafactioo, Dushore, Oct. 0 9, 1867. _ "LARDING & SM - 4AL Y, ' Haying entered into a coin nership f.r the transaction of the PHOTOGRAPHIC b . • ess, at the rooms formerly occupied by W. and Harding, would respectfully call the attention of the public to several styles - Of Pictures which we make specialties, as : Solar Photographs, Plain, Penciled and tiered, Opaltypee IPorce lain Pictures, Ac., which s we claim for cra and brilliancy of tone and Artistic tin , can ta l not be excelled. We invite all examine them as well asihe more common kin ds of P to which we make, knowing f well t they will bear the closed Inspec . This au ,claimethe highest reputation fig good ark of any in this section of eountry,ll and , we - de= termined by a strict attention IttO business and the superior quality of Our weak, to no only retain but increase its very enetabie rep . We keep constantly'on hand , the best' ariety of Frames and at lower prices than at an other establishment in town. A Pasa touts Card frames, Card Easels, H olmes 'tereo. scopesiStereoscopic Vies, and cverythi g else of importance pertaining to the business Give us an early call, N. B.—Solar Printing for the trade n the most reasonable terms. - D. HARD 0, ' Aug. 29.'67. F. SRA t EY. THE FIRST NATIONAL I .L The First National Blacksmith 8 Caniptown, Pa.. has this day declared dead on Horse Shoeing of 25 per cent. equally divided among-customers, owing favorable patronahe received hi the p We are prepared to shoe your horses • made from the bad of N. Y. lion, on • tire, and we guarrantee to your'• entire lion. as we warrant all work `rat this Farmers and others from a distance will to their advantage to call at this shop, ;they will find on Neck lc Street, bet Avery's store and the Academ,fßuilding JOSEPH P. Camptown, Nov. 20, 1807.--3 m. - AUCTION AND COMM! ' • ..X:CtE PetinattenUy, locitot In the ailith . ,ind Wad! NOM& GOO l lO add on commission vanCill Made on consignments.i Regale . 1 Mondays, Wednesdays and Batatdays,t aide .ilea promptly attended to y A. B. 310$, Audio. Address Towanda or Monroetim. - Jan. 13,,186/1.-3m4d. A OARD.-Dr. ti blued- a - License, Goodyear IfoUlnae Co) :Bobber as $ base for AY ,now a good - selection of ) Block Teeth, and a sui :English Rubber, which ply ail those in *ant :thole unsurpisied for b penance.' ularitles, Extracting , sr longing to the Su rgi cal' 'performed. Choi° orm 'extraction of Teeth w being used for the pt perfect confidence, hart the most pleasing ream fourteen years. Being reryat room grateful Wps herea that by IdtUt *tient' patients, he would cant thence and approbation Block, opposite the ' pa. ~..W x. • • -1441liesilier . `aut. ct 1111/IVI3III 1112104 i Pi• 4 6011 . 1 1 eort•tiredar. Feb. 5. 1848.-3 m. ear* =2 TAILOR SHOP, CI A. YOUNG, 1 1 :110/ 1 i • :;,;..,, fr- 5 , .%7Z..-,14.1. OM Iffilr alisheT• fottg. Tule' NAID/CNT AND snipe ' Tule " ;imam Br J. Q. NOLLAXD. .Chip it la ailwver That which we Call tha fal:Wst, • . And priact;or its sciperwhig wo* ' ' pralwayi • Ell I= is honed nn mountain And gluts the laggard tn,rdes ; And gold-Ridges gleam In dim defiles And kin* gcagett• Theenctitynuable fleets the land With heaped end rounded ledges. Bet ditunondiliide beneath the sand Thels starry edges. , le ,p;-- [EA The Anny males clog the twine . That sweeps the lazy 'river, But pearls coma sliglylkom thi — brhie, With the pale diver. I ' al "' i. action pains God gives no value unto men Unmatched by need of labor ; And cost of worth has ever been ' The closest neighbor. • least of Eig •4 ( : 1: 110 ORE BOOK Iffitha, - esmb. .d ex A TERILLIMI-EPD3ODE. A small party' of Meiictin traders— myself among the number—had , push.- ed forward ahead of the 'Caravan, Our object was to arrive , at Santa . Fe a day or 'two before the wagons, in or der to hOe everything arranged with the Goiernor for , their entrance into that capital. .We . took , the route by the Oimmarou.. Our road for--a_ hindred milea. or, so; lay *dutch a barren desert, with: out game, and almost without water. The buffalo had-already disappeared, and deer wore equally scarca. We has to Content ourselves on the dried meat which we had brought from the settleMents.' We were in the deserts of Artemisia. Now and then . ire could see a stray antelope bounding: 0 the Boro' ments man• land on rem IT !wands away before us. but keeping far out of range. They, too, seemed to be unusually shy. On the third day after` lenving the caravan, as we were riding near Cie]. maron,.l thought I observed prong ed head disappeariog• behind a swell, of, the prairie. My companions were skeptical, and would none of them go with me ; so, wheeling out of ' the trail, I started alone. One'of the men kept charge of my dog, as Find not choose to take him with me, least ho might alarm the antelopes. Myhorse was fresh and willing ; and whether successful or • not, I knew thatl could easily overtake the party by camping time. - - - I struck directly toward the spot where .I. had seen the object. It ap peared 'to be only 'half -a mile or so from the trail It proved More dis tant—a common illusion in the crys- tal atmpsphere -of 'these upland' re-; gions.! A curiously -formed • ridge—i con , team,* pratiriea on a small- scale,- travetied the plain from east to west. A thiaket of cactus covered part of its summit; Toward this thicket I direct ed myself. , • • . I dismounted at the bottom of the. slope, and leading my horse silently up among the cacti-planta, tied him to one of \ teir branches. I then crept ' cautiously 'through the thorny leaves toward the point where I fancied I had seen the game. To my joy not one antelope,: but a brace of those beautiful animals, was grazing be yond,; but alas 1 too far off for the carry of - tnY rifle. They were filly three handled yards, distant ; upon a• smooth; grassy slope. - Thefts was not even a Sage-bush to covelme,ehotild I attempt to 'a roach them. . What was to be done I lay for Several minutes, thinking over the different tritke known -1* hunter-craft for taking the antelope: Should I imitate their call ? Should I hoist my hankerehief and try to lure them up? li , paw that they were tee shy, for,! at phort intervala,they threw up theit graceful heads, and looked inquiringly red them. - I remem bered the red blanket on, my saddle. I could display this upon the cactus bushes, perhaps iit would attract them. 4016 alterna ive• ' and was turn ing t,o go backfortheblanket; when all at once ; 'my eye rested upon a claY colored line running across the prairie be3iondVrhere the animals were feed ing. At wale a break in the surface of the plainl-a .bnffaluw-road, or the channel - of in wive— in eitherceee the very ceVer I wanted---ior the nnt mile were-tot a Wilfred"yards froui it, and Ater getthwitill nearer_ as they fed. , • Oreeping back out of the thicket, I ran along the side of the slope toward a point where I had - noticed that the ridge was depreesed to' the prairie levet - ' Here, teeuprise I roiled myself on the banks of a brokatoyo, Whose water, clear and. afiallow;lan 61°11,4 over a bed of sand and typ • - The binki were low, not over three feet above the , surfaCe xirthe water, except:where the ridge impinged up on the istreetn. Here :`there wits= a high MOT harrying around its base I entered the channel audi cote- Men Ced upward. - As I had anticipated; ,I soon"camo to a bend,where the etreeni se fter Tin ning Parallel _to the, sidge, swept around and ictirgmed ;throug h -. t. 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NMI - toast h shoed alarm the was theerid my 'exel prospect Of fresh venison pet. , • ,After a - weaty drag of iseveral hun dred yards I testae opposite to a small clump of mutt wood ;bushes growing' out of the.' bank ray be high enough," thought I ; Will serve for cover." I raised 'any body graddally until .I could see through the leaves I was in the right spot.' I lirotight my rifle to a level.siglited the heart of the bucle. - and fired. The animal leaped from the grmnd and fell beck lifeless. . ' Ilvaxabout to .=rusk fozward and *aim nik Prize when I observed the doe, instead of running off as I had expected, 'go up to her fallen partner and press her tapering nose to his body.- She was not More than twenty yards from me, and,l:could plainly see that her look was of inquiry and be wildennent. All at ,once she seemed to comptehend • the fatal truth, and *towing back her head, commenced uttering the most pitfons cries, at the same time running in circles around the body.' " - I stood- wavering between two minds. My fist impulse had been to reload and kill the doe ; but her plaintive :140e entered my heart, die armed me of all hostile intentions.— Had I dreamed. of j witnessing this painful spectacle I ehoild. •not have left - the trail.. ,But the mischief was now done. "I have worse thankilled her," thought I, be better to dispatch her at once." Actuated -by these principlewof a common, but to her fatal, humanity, 'I rested the butt ofmy rile aid. reloaded. With a fal te:iing hand I again leveled the_ piece and fired. • My nerves were steady enough to do the work. When the smoke float ed aside '_l could see the little creature bleeding upon the gra - se, her lied, resting against th 4 body of her mur r dered mate. , • • I shouldered my rifle, and was about to move forward, when, to my gatonishinenk I found that 'I was caught by the feet. I was held firm ly, as if my legs had beenscrewed;in a vice. I made an effort to extricate my self—another more violent and equal ly unsuccessful—and, with a third,•l lost my balance and fell back into the water, Half suffocated, I regained my up right position, but only to find that I was held as fast as ever. Again I struggled to free my limbs. I could neither move then= backward nor forward—to'tbe right • nor the left ; • and I became sensible that I was gradually going down. Then the fearful' truth flashed anon me--I tote sinkisj in a quicksand 1. A feeling of ',horror came over me. I renewed my efforts with the energy of desperation I leaned - to one side, then to -the other, almost wrenchil i g ray knees from their sockets. feet remained as fast as ever. .1 could not move them - an inch. . The soft clingy sand already over topped my horse-akin boots, wedging them around my ankles so that I was *unable to draw them off, and I could feel' that I was still oinking; slowly but surely, as though. some subter raneous monster was leisurely drag. ging me down. This very thought caused Inc a heal' thrill of • horror ; and I called aloud for help. To whom? There was no one within Innen of me —no living thing. Yes 1 the neigh of . my horse answered me from the hill,, mocking my despair. - I bent forward as well as my con strained position: (Would permit, and, with. frenzied fingers commenced tearing up the sand .. I could barely_ reach the surface,andthe little hollow 1 was able to make • filled up almost as soon as it hid been fortruld. • A. ,thought -occurred to ,me. My rifle might support me; placed hon ;zontally: I looked iiround for it ;it ,was.' not to be seen." It had sunk 'beneath the sand; Could I throw my body flat and 'Kevent myself fram singing deeper ? .No. The water Was two feet in depth. I should drawn at once t This last hope left me as soon as formed. I could think of no plan. to Sa t e myself. . I could make no farth rer effort. ~'A strange stator seized upon me. -My very thoughts became :paralyzed. I knew that I was going mad For-a moment I was mad After an' interval my senses' re. turned. I'made an e ff ert' rouse my mind from its paralysis, in order that might meet death—which I 'now believed to be certain—as a Man shoal I stood erect. My eyes had punk to the prairie level and rested .upon tlizqioll bleeding v ictims of my cruel tyy. My heart smote me it the sight. Was .1 suffering .:a retribution of g i With humble and penitent thoughts I turned my,flice to heaven, almost dreading that some sign of =nip- tat anger would scowl upon me from above; But no.l. The sun was shin ing as bright as eier, and the blue canopy of,,the world w'hs without a cloud. < Fazed ;upward, and prayed with an tarnestness .i known only ' ; to the hearts of men,: positions of peril like mine. : - Ab Lcontinue -to look tip, an ob ject attracted my attention. Against the iiiky I diatinoished outlinei of a large dark - bilit I knewit to be the obscene birdrof the plains-...the buzzard yulture. l , Whence had At come 1, Who knows ? Far beyoial the reach of. human eye it had ; seen, or scented, the slaughtered antelopes ; Bad m en broad silent ;wing,. was , now descending to the Put of death, l'keeently"other, mid another and 11111rotherk Aottled.the blue field of the , heave* euribig - and wheeling silently -earthward; most: swooped' do**, ulajitilta and, after gazing'. around mo . went, flapped off toward its ,prey: r_ seam& the prairie - was 'black with'filthy Midi, who climbs* , 'ed over the dead aifirlopes, and best 'their wings against each bthrw,while the 'tore out the eYeiOffthe quarry With their fetid bealm._ - 7 And now came 'genii Wolves, 'sneaking, and hungry, stealing Out of the °sites thicket, and loping, coward like;'. over the green : swells of the prawie. These, afters battle i l drove. away the , vultures; And torelup the prexall the While growling and snap., ping vengefully at each Other.l ' ~ 'Thank heaven I I shall 'at leiit be laced from this I" . I' was soon relievedlrom the sight. My eyes had sunk below the level of the biek: • I hid looked 'my last'on the fair green earth, I could now see only the clayey :walls that con , tained the river, and the water that ran unheeding pastime. Once more I fixed my gaze upbn the sky, and, with prayerful heart, endeavored' to resign myself to my fate. ' • me, ;- but one by 'the for eitp. 'ln 'spite of my endeavors to be calm, the memories of earthly pleas• res, and friends, and home, I came over me—teasing me at intervals to. break into wild parcilysins,and Make' fresh.thongh fruitless, strugglee.- Again I wis attracted bythe neigh.l - , ing of my helve. A thought entered my mind, filling , me with fresh hopes. - "Perhaps my horie—v, I lost not a moment. I raised my yoke to its highest 'pitch and called the; animal by name. 1 . -knew that he would come at my call." I had - tied' Elm but slightly.. - The cactus limb would. snap off. I called' again, re peating words that were well knoini to him. I listened with a bounding heart. For a niement there was lence then I heard the-quick sounds of his hoof, as though the animal was rearing and plunging to free himself. Then I could distinguish the egoke of his heels in a measured and gu lar gallop. Nearer came the soundq--nearer and' nearer, until the gallant brute bounded out on the bank above me. There he halted, 'and flinging back his tossed mane,uttered a shrill neigh. He was bewildered, and looked npen every side, snorting loudly. I knew that, havinennce seen me he would not stop until he had pressj his nose against my cheek—for this was his' usual custom. Holding out my hands "I again uttered the magic words. Now looking downward he per ceived me ; and stretching himself, epring out into the channel. The next moment I held him by the bri dle. There• was no time to be lost. I was still going down, and my arm= pits weje fast nearing the surface of the quicksand.' I caught the lariat; and, passing it under the saddle-girths,lastened it in a tight, firm - hot. I then looped the trailing end,makipg it secure around my body. I hid left enough - of the rope between the bit-ring and the girths to enable me to check and guide the animal, in case the drag upon my body should be too painful. Al} this while the dumb brute seemed to comprehend what L was about. He kneW, too, the nature of the ground on which he stood, for, during the operation, be kept lifting , his feet alternately to prevent hiniself from sinking. .• - My arrangements were it length completed ; and, with a feeling of terrible anxiety, I gave my horse the signal to move forward. Instead of going off with a start, the intelligent animal - stepped; away slowly, as though he understood my situation The lariat tightened—l felt my body moving, and, the next moment, expe rienced a wild - delight—a feeling I cannot describe--as I felt myself dragged ontef the bind I sprang to My feet with a shout of joy'. I rushed up to my steed, and, throwing my arms arc and his neck, kissed lum with as much delight as I would have kissed a beautiful girl.— He answered myy - embrace with a low whimper, that told me I was under stood. f looked for my rifle. Fort;anately it, had not sunk deeply, and I soon found it. My boots were behinn me, but I staid not to look for them—be. ing smitten with a wholesome; dread_ of the place where I had left them. I was not long in retreating from the arroyo, and, mowiting,l galloped back. to the trail. - • It was sundown before I reached cathp, where, I was met by the in quines'of my wonderifig 'oompanions. -"Did'yeci cOmelicross the goats ?" "Where's'your boots,?" "Where have yob been, hunting'or fishing ?" I answered all these questions by• relating my adventures ; and for that night I was 'again the hero of the came fire. "Don't write there," saidone lad to another who. was Writing _with a diamond pin on - a pane of glass in the window of a hotel. • "Whys" said he. ."Because you can't rub it out." Theriot* other things which should not be done, - because: they can't be rubbed out: k heart, ht aching - for sympathy, and a • cold, perhaps a. heartless word is spoken,. The im pression! may-be more • durable thou that of a diamond ,upon the- glass.;— The inscription on the glass may be destroyed by the fracture of the g,- -but the impression on the heart may last forever. • - On many a miutt awl many heart, sad inscriptions are deeply engraven, which no effort can erase. , We. should be careful what we write on the minds of others.--Jfavy's: Ku- AN editor states -dist during a re cent honiosee, the iditar a jaae, ha ecedd diadae sakaida" and seipois palling Um ' Ma Mr at, iia Immo I f liiilght. ' Ife pro ly bared Gra* a eau at whiskey. I= caralEri scoots. lieportof Committeeiconsisting of 13.7. Cors,lll - ,1. Cinnnrcg, IL Guns an 4 TITOMPIION, substantially ai read before' the County Teachers' .Associatiou, at Tosranda. -- February. 14. . 'Publication requested by unsui• mono rote. • Graded* Schools, ere no , more nor leen than schools so constituted - as to derive 'the full benefit of the system nib - division of labor. To the appli citiounf principleilti - the arts, are in • more thdebted for' the pp , rens made, 'thin any other. We canictirceltimigine to what , condi:- tin' we s (lola lbe reduced, 'were ; each-- _of., us under' "the necessity of ininufaCturing from the raw materi 'al, every article or implement used. Yet froth such condition of need has it iaised wt. • The first step in the application of this principle in the' work of educar ting children, is that of employin a leacher possessing the requisite s kill, in4b b e The second step, is, . perhaps, that of bringing together, the children of saber' „ families ; thus saving ex pense with no loss of efficiency, but rather a gain derived from associated action and emulation. This is not all. The temporary re rnbval from the family to the associa tion of others,under proper restraints; influences and instructions, becomes ei useful preparation to the child for stepping out into the arena of life. The power of self-control, resist ance to temptations, and the evil in iluencee of others is strengthed by the of actual resistance.— Thai a rounding out of . character, * ad a practical knowledge of human *tare is obtained under supervision n thiaminiature world, the school. A child kept from the association of others than his own family - until he attains his majority, and ' then . thrown r, suddenly upon the world; finds h imself poorly fitted for its tivo duties and responsibilities. A third step is tie classification of pupils according to their several de grees of advance rent and capacity in the several branches of study and recitation. • By this- means the in struction of ten classes, of, say; ten pupils each, may with nearly equal 'facility and-profit be attended to, as ten recitations of one pupil 'each.— Thus the usefulness of one person Imlay be increased in a ten fold ratio, ,With no additional expense. A fourth step may be described to be a division of classes, or an assign ;meat of them' to , different depart- Meats and individuals for inatruction. Ina school of fifty pupils, there mby, ' counting all grades, very properly be twenty or' more classes, a portion of which ahnuld recite twice daily. Al lowing twenty-five" recitations per day, time for recess, 'calling the roll, and incidental interruptions, not more than ten or fifteen minutes can be de- Toted to each recitation ;-a time al together too short, for few recitations, Should occupy leas than half en hotiv 'lt will at once lie seen, that where from sixtyto three hundred or more Pupils can be brought together, the range of scholarship being the same,- the, number of classes need =_ not ne cessarily be increased. Thii,classes being larger, one teacher 'can in struct a much larger number of pu pils with 'equal facility and gretter efficiency, because more time can be devoted to each recitation. - If there •ate pupils enough to require the l aer , •vices of three teachers, one can take` the primary classes, another the in termediate, and a third the higher. This insures a saving of expense, flint, because so great a number of teachers .is not required to teach the same number of pupils.: Second, be cense competent teachers for the prithary and intermediate grades may be ,employed at smaller salaries than for the higher grades, whereas, if the schools ware not graded, , some of the pupils -of the higher graft' Would be found in each school, making it necessary that all the teachers employed be equal in qualifications to those re qnired for the highest grade. Third, because leas amount of apparatus is needed. No 'more apparatus for il lustre-gond is need? in a graded school, of three hun red pupils, than for one Of fifty , wh y re the range of scholarship and branches studied' are the same. Fourth, becariee only the number of teachers required by the actual number of pupils attending, need be employed, while by the sep arate Ungraded Oaten', a teacher must be employed for each school, ir reapeetive of the • number of pupils. Fifth, because the cost of building and fuel is leers. • No' one will deny the fact that the same number of pu pils can be . provided for and accom modated in one large building at less clog than in several separate smaller , !Graded Schools are arose efficient : I F ' t, because as, hair already been • mashed, more time.can be devoted' ueach class.: Second,,because : teachers may be, "goad to that class of work to 1 'eh they . are esprviilly adapted, range of the branches in which gives instruction, being narrow- , greater thoroughness may be W cered. It is well: nigh an impasai• , bility for one teacher to give proper d thorough instruction ; :rn,srll the-, b ~ , [ required to. •be taught in ~ any of our larger ungraded 0041:Mia , • work must be too:much buried-' I' come it is a wonder that any pro. .• at all is made.- - -- .• ~ • Third. The riding ouschocail,sf ,rds art additional indueeMent to PP p 1 to advance.- It • &rev." _visible ••• tangible recognition Of iregreas •‘. merit: The fact lbstpopilsmoy, reaching certa4 , :degtvree of. pro; ~;pass to . 6 higher : &Psi* t''e Meat, a .pimerful incentive ta-,6 fort. • • . 041,1),3r Annum, in A.dvance. Fourth_ oh schools are more easily govenied, and a' good system of discipline may be more readily mforced and " maintained, becanse pupils of morii nearly ,'the same de grees of advancement and ages oc cupy the same rooms. - Fifth.. They are placed under one responsible head, the 'Principal, who has general oversight and control of all departments. . The number of grades, divisions and subdivisions of such schools, must necessarily depend upon the numlier of pupils, degrees of ad vancement and circumn s tancea tinder which they exist. They are of two kinds, or classes. Union- Graded Schools are those schools where all the rapils,attendin the rooms of one building or buildings in the same vi cinity. Those schools where 'pupils Of different grades attend in diffek eat loCalities, are called Separate Graded Schools.. , The q uestion of ptioticsal and vital importance to us and the people of this county, is, to what 'exte it under existing- circumstances, can our schools be prAtably g raded ? - Can they be so graded as to increase. their efficiency' If so, upon whom does the duty of grading them devolve? That 'the law contemplates the grading of schools, is clear, for it speaks of "different , classes .apil grades of schools." -It says, " Direc tors 'till have' power to establish schools of different grades, and to determine into which school each pu-) pil shall be admitted." It' further says, "They shall establish a suffici ent number_ of common schools for the education of every individual above the age of six and undertwen. ty-one years in their respective dis tricts who may apply for admission and instruction." It does not limit the " ethication ", to be ,provided, to that absolutely required to be taught in every district, lint provides that -ati*r , branches may be taught. It is the duty of directors to establish schools of ectich grade as are needed. It has been so held by the legal ex pounders of the law ever since it was enacted. The parent who pays tax for the support of the common schools should not, and cannot upon any principle of justice or equity, have his children, betNieen the ages of six and twenty-one years, excluded there from, simply because they have made, better improvement of their' time than others. Yet they are virtually so excluded.. If such parents were to follow np their rights; it would teem that directors have no alterna tive bat to either employ competent teachers for such advanced pupils in the ungraded schools,. or establish schools of higher grade where they may attend and receive instruction in the branches they are qualified to pursue. - Gov. Geary, in his late sannal message to the Legislature, says : " The system established by the &die was designed" not only to fur nish-instruction to the youth in' the elements of knowledge, but wherev er practicable; to 'art to them, an education in the hi er branches of learning. ,The multiplication of grammar and' high, schools Should, therefore, receive every encourage m'ent,- for they are necessary to per fect the system and enable the State _to avail itself of that talOnt which is born in the cottages of ttyie poor quite as frequently as in. the palaces of the rich. Good scholars can not exist without good teachers', and good teachers can only be obtained by using tha proper means to prepare them." • . These remarks and the' ezVacts froin the law, show that its getter and . spirit require the establishment of such schools. But the important truth expressed in the last sentence quoted from the Governer's Message, is one which _should rest upon our minds at this time with more than ordinary weight. it derives -peculiar force from, the fact that fully threelourths' of the teachers employed in the .ommon schools of this county are incompe tent to give thorough instruetion to pupils: advanced in the 'a(1102011 branches alone. During the'preval ence of high prices, there his been an increased drain from `the ranks of teachers by offers of more desirable and lucrative employment. The sources of supply have-Wen 'affected by similar causes, and by t parents keeping their larger children from school that they micht have the bon• efit of their -labor,-, so that now, for the first time in the history'of this county, the number of- applicants for certificates at the regular examina tions, was barely sufficient to supply the schools. It is possible that the late act of the Leesslature requiring I that teacheri shall possess a- fairl lrnowledge of the History of the Uni ted States and Theory of Teaching., /UMI •1111 influeioe" in lessening the number 'of applicants, tint beithat It may, it is-an undeniable fact that the supply of well qualified teachers is so amall,that the County Superin tendent has no alternative but to li cense those very poorly qualified or close a portion of the .schools, -He has no power over the supply only . as he may induce the people to offer the necessary encouragement and means to effect an increase. A live sup- AY is necessary, because a consider able" portion of those who possess the - . requisite knowledge of 'the branches to be tersest, lack other qualifications necessary to successful thanking.-- Tour committee can see no other way Of meeting this pressing ,want 110" readily as by establishing graded schools. If, we deperid Upon our common ungraded schools for the; full pieParatictref teachers; the standard 'et qtuslificstioni must sink ` sill lowl sr..l( re delend:*ion. te*ete St ting themselverrat otheplithools and institutions;: 'salaries' - sufficient mast be offeredlo induce them to do'so.-- One thing seems certain, that if the 4 DER 43. „ „ a rgel increased InUet-be- Offeir4,ot .the aap - Ty — wilk,becoine gretTed-scheola - afford- the best' 'Meaner ereciinatnisiiitiliw.libeini'ar our present corps.of teachere,and in. Crailing: th eir- eirl*uq. in the pre paration creasing_; : - wile are soon to take theirplacee. "-- It is true our rural districts do not offer the' meet faverahlercerulitiolts for deriving the full 'benefit Of 'the” system, but these do not preclude- the possibility of great improvement in that direction There are central points in most of the townships 'of this county, 'where schools of a high er grade might profitably and enc. cessfulry i he sustained. All thiit'ja.., needed, s, that directors make necessary preparation and arrange ments, and that their efforts be prop erly sustained by-the pox*. ble rooms-.being provided, and com petent teachers employed, let notice be given that pupils of it certain grade or grades, or as many of the more advanced pupils from all' parts of the district as can be accommo dated, will be admitted, free of charge and many now virtually excluded from the ungraded school, because of the number of classes - and incompe tency of teachers, would be induced to attend. In most of the boroughs Arrange- ' meats Wight be niAde' for the admis sion of advanced :pupils; on district or private. account-, These borough schools should be as [thoroughly grad ed as circumstances will permit, then with such accessions to their num bers, their characterwoild be eleva ted. In all these ;schools, regular examinations -of all •their - classes should-be 'made by a committee of competent persons, and admissions to the separate Graded Schools in the rural districts, and transfers to higher grades . in the Union borough schools, should be made-to depend wholly upon real ;writ. Such course world" prove almost magical in its . effects, And its quickening and ener. fixing influence, would soon be felt in every depar tment and ; grade, by every teacher and pupil. I In establishing such- schools, direc tors butperform a plain duty under the law s and meet the demand of the dales. No• other course it is believed will so . soon supply qual ified teachers, or meet the just demands of those parents whose children are now ,vir-_ tnally excluded from the common schools. The objection may be raised that - injustice-will be done in establishing such schools in rural districts, inas much as those residing near _them, , and paying only the' same rates oft tax for their support, - will enjoy greater. advantages than those in dis tant , portions -of the district. We reply they would enjoy no greater advantages than those arising from locality only. Neither -the law nor - itatflicers are responsible for the dis advantages arising from such causes, Such objections. if valid would pre- ' vent the location of any institution for Abe' public good, or the erection a. of buildings for public use. The few residing iu distant portions pf the districts would only be subjected to the necessity for providing board for -such advanced pupils in the more inediate vicinity of the sehtiol, in stead of at home. Such-pupils could • be at home on Saturday and Sabbath. This certainly would be preferable to sending them away to boarding . schools. Another objection that may be . raised, is that only advanced pupils will be benefitted while all will have to aid in paying for their instruction'. The proper grading of schools will prove even more beneficial to those belonging to the lower departments than to thdse 'of the higher, ' for the formei deed more attention than the latter, and are much mote likely to be negle:ted in the mixed or ungrad ed schools. What is sought, is, that - those belonging to each department, shall receive that attention and aid they require. . Now no suitable provision is made 1• for those who have advanced beyond an intermediate grade, while those { belonging to lower departments, are, in too many instances, neglected, and I - insufficient motives 'aro presented to induce them to put forth the efforts necessary to proper advancement.- But may. not those who have _raised families, and educated them without the aid. of a school system, and who are now taxed for the support of schools, reasonably complain ? We think not. No citizen - has a right to complain of a law wisely calculated to perpetuate free institutions and government, simply because much. law was not enacted or put in force before he arrived:at a certain age.— Stich a principle - in force would put upon human improvement in govern ment a dead lock, and atop forever the wheel's of progress. It may be asked, How will such schools affect select\scheoler acade. mies and higher - institutione of learn-. ing ? Would they not ruin them ? Directly the reverse. It is quite likely that very feW select schoole would be kept open during the terms of such public schools. Teachers possessing, merit would. find ready employment in