jile,loepeiAelif a P. READ t IL ff.,‘FE....4 . 2.1EE; EDITORS F. hoiijds: ES ; •ThursdaY. January 7 1 /156.,t pirkit is scgratifyiny fict that, . notwith , Youling the hard times, our subscliption list has for the last three monauknot only Weil its sma, but inMvased—not Much, however, 'ar' me_hcpeci iissou/d,and as probably ttiould hare been•the-pse *it mary had been more pkittifut. .:To occonwnodate -our friend who do not like to be teihout thiir. county paper, but fliid it diftull i to . spare the money to payfor,iii - ire rec i eive grain and al " mas t any kind :of firm prOdure on sibscrip lion, if brought soon:— . Or Our Carrier deaires to express his thanks for the' generou; reception he met with on NewNear's d3y.l Out of the fulness . othia Pocket, his mount - pesketh. He bears • his sudden prosperity Wi li's:urprising moder ation, and continues to lipOk to the other printers just*,ustial t. • Wit fill hi seen b - an article , we ,copy from the Dundee Reepfd that . Dr. G. Z. Dimock., formerly of, thiltplace; has acquiredin his new location the, putation of a skill fullt praaitioner. The , . tor has crowd of friends in this.county; Isla -will be glad to learn that he is prospeng-or e hermer his lot mL-ay be cast. :- f . ', : 7 arWe obierie: that Dir. Me (Alum leas withdrawn fro t . t - e -- editorship of "the Xon k irdie :Otmocral, an. Mr. iferritson - is now its sole editor add proprietor.-. -for we learnthe Peniellvania , State Teachere-A.sso&aiio n will hold its next meeting .at , Scranton; ih Augu`St , next.: At this last, - ‘melsting; Prof,43 - .'r." Stoddard was . • - • elected President off til ci e Assoatqm. Ar. rangemehts will..bemade to, enablh‘rnembers . of the Association.to p over the different riqoads is going to - and from the meeting, at half . 7 the usual usual fare. • as- " VW -The .New to r * Times, instead oT being -Republican japer t.atcd the ifo#6si Democrat, has for .montlis declared" :titsilt Independent of 'all political- pn . rties but some of its owners belong; to the Sham Dentocracy, . and it ja , thought by iiiany to `show a :strong 4:aning towards the support ,f!if the administration. r -‘ , The New litati,of Sysquebenna Co. satj length dmpleted and ready dot deiir: ery loinbscribers: We have examined\ it; and it appears to tis,tc be all that waiunticl pated—a correct and I)e.lintiftil map_ . .of the Colinty.. Commence. deliV,- ering it to suhscrihers; in the , Southern part the-Cow:al We Intend -to notice. it more particularly hereafter. - far The Pennsylvania Legislature -met gliarris.burpen-TueSday tast, thestime fixed by law for its annual meeting; and Gov. Pol.. ' luck. after de4Kering hialast annual niessaae,• makes moth c for his successor, William •I F. Packer. • -'" • riff"':Thi ',Montrose Democrhi. in speaking of the nomination. of Mr. Grow as the .Re-: publican candidate for Speaker of:dieflioi4, gets no nearer dap friath. titan The' • • nomination was tril tenth_ to any one lant Mr. Grow, nor_ wa.s . there •any disposition to do so; and all the Competitors for the nomi nation rnetanoned bY the _Democrat, withdrew' a& candidates, though two .or three orthena' hind tried to, .secure • the nomination. So much, for that point. , _And trheriire state the (ant, disingenuously concealed -by the Delia..., vitt, that the threta Crlour anti-administration men, who Aid not - tote' for Mr. Gros, call themselves Americans rather -than Reptabli. :cans, perhaps, some of. that -paper'i•reade'rs . , consider it no. disparagement of Mr. Wow thatitliey iefuied to sepport•him. 'These are trying timesfor mere pol.' oticasna Douglifacesiee the handwriting the :and trernllle, , Men who - have.no political principles exceft-tn be on the strong side, are in a quandary. For there is war in the earn)) .or thiellilYeMocracy • --I?ouglis battling ugaidst . Bnchanan, , and Buihanan against will conquer!— Answer 'that, and you may know where to; find the ttnprincipled; • office-seeking Portion: • Gram :party. _But the question is hot easily answered. Douglas has the adrantagit ever Buchanan in will , , in intellect, in personal popularity among pemoc s rats, and upon •the melts of the questiillt ; while Buchanan bas _the advantage orholding the - reins . of govern. : went and controlling the public patronage. 'But whichever may prove the ; yrctor, the pentoccatic party is, in ap ..probability,. hopelessly divided. Its . Unrighteous act 'in • ;repealing, the Missouri . Conipromise; will re-, - salt in the dminfull ef • the-party. • And' it is the ultra pigs, laver l 3,- branch of the party who 'hivikproduced, or it. least hastened; this rig • suit, by the mad recklessness with 'which they . hare attempted te Complete 'thol con-' :quest of Kansas. - Thus.good may comeeut : • • • • , .liar• A Better from finks says, ":94 -, - - vetir noticeablefeattire I. woula remark Tick . , . etstrere sent to every precinct ivadirtie that: tt, ,_ . • 4 Detuncratie Tjpket -:i. , ' ! Constitution withiSlasery: . . •iliet their znini t onsin . thd States cover it up as they . will, auch is the tru4 ' Deutoeraey. " : • ..,- „, . - --4--, • I - --E . 1 't ;WS rall L.ADEFILIA S-A'TCRDAT EV I ESING Pear.—We call tlie. iittepti J on of ourreaders 1 :to the Prospeetnsjof this 1,11 -known literary 1 .:areakly, in our tfavertising t:olunin:s.: TIIE-, sale fang nay be': ly aged to enter. the imallyilFele—as it. pleda ti r 4seif to:allow notiAn nrg to eater colix s of's. eorriipting , etuwacter, nither iti its literary mite new* 41e. PgtO ect; - - far',Epes Sargent; well known 'poi a wri ;er, and as the author of a ipopular and excel ; lent, series : of Readers and . SPeaker s for sehol4l4, is thil'editor .a new monthly peri odical entith;3:. "Sargent's School Monthly," the firsknitintr of,which, for Jitnuarti 858, bag beetseui:to Theeditot4deiNrilies it. as ." Magazineifor pupils and teacher?, schools tibia families; containing exercises in reading and 'declamation, original 'articles, 'edudational ;news, Sze., and every niimber .beautifully illustrated." It contains original dialogues and'poetry, and. extracts .of•reeent specimenp. of eloquence, for dectamatiOn, be "iir.l4s 41 variety of interesting reading lessons. The pronunciation of the more difficult 'words . that occur in the; lessons is indicated--a very yaltable fenture in, works" .intended for the young, who-often acquire, erro4ous pronuli- . ciation , both frolu parenti'i and teachers. intend i ttquhlish iorne of the articles as a speim i cri of .the work ; but for nine - eentsin postage stamps, the - editor. N'ti 1 1 send to any One a pecitireo number, which ir ill sufficient , ly recommend itlelf. • 1 • _Any person sending one'dollar to the;edi tor and ..proprietor, Epes Sargent, Boston,. Mass. - ,HII - reeeive "Sargent's School Month ly" t!ne yCar ;or„any person sending, at one time, f i liur d‘driirs for four subscribers, will receive. a'fifth -copy gratis. subsetip. ticipsfor York' Weekty Tribune, at hisistOre in Montrose, at cine . dollara year. ,••• A large club ought to be--tnae up, here. 1 1_477 " Merry's MukeuM;" "jWood worth's You.drs Cabinet,"'and "The School Fellow,' are now. United in One publication, forming an exlellCdt;Children's -magazille. The ton solid l ied mitg,t4ipo- is edite d ,by " Robert / 'Merry, - Uncle Frank: - (Mr. iAloodWorth,) and Hiram ,liatehet; names .4ell knowd to the jJvenjle public. = The publishers say they Mateo the the hfuseune_shatl show a decided ha provement in all respects-- 7 inipaper,- embel lisfurtentS, in useful and entertaining informa tion, in . fun, Wit,-good'. humor, &e. J. Stea6e_s & publiSheri, i o. 1 - 16 -Nassau 'St.'New York. - Ode dollara year in ad vance.• ' 7 lar_ At a 'fleeting of the Rough and Ready Engine Company, No. 1, on ISatur4ay, Jan'y. 2d, ,18.55, the fiillowing res6lEtions IVCI;C un4 • - aniniusly • • *Resolvecl; That:the result 4f our Festival at Bloomer Hall, on. •Christmis evening., was highly satisfactory and thal we hereby .re )Urni out: . hearty thanks to those citizens,who soliberally provided for.. the: tables, to the Ladies who assisted in preparing the -suppk and ;in 'decorating ,the 11a 1, and to all alio •eneoUraged ui by their pr Sauce - on thiit ne. easier). - , , • Resolved, That lie (imp itdenta andlthanks of:the Cortipa s ny . art eSpealtilly.Alue 'to Mrs. Stebbins .and Miss Forditanti, for their con plinteniary tokens in_ the for4i 14' two beau,ti ,fhl cakes; tasti.fully enarriented and - triarkelr with the name of our Company. • .Fiesolv4l, That we - ten de our thanks to B. Chandler, for,al ting us thTfiee pse iof - and other . Dims in his build . I • .j esolved, That id the ' ma l ,s o f k 1' • d favor ; ~ :-- ._ -.,? ii?i attention snown us upon t tits as well as up on " o ther occasions , we See tlilreneouraciin ap e., g - . precoition of our fforts as F,iremetr; and we herCwitli unitedly pledkc, burselres to be ? Ifeady."- at At:toes wl'e4 duty calls and 1 V 1 danffer "threatens, and to give all sorts of '• - - jury e 1 etocnt, ", R A sit. !--zr-'----- , per Goy: Boutwell itor of the Ohio State Journal, that tL .. 86 .... _ the subscrip- Il ti tioti l S to the gteat work of -4' Agassiz;' entitled •!CAMtributions- to the Natural tstmy of the. United States; two volumes. at' whle I ;bsVe .. 2 . !lready been Pabiished; amounts .to tip wicas for a - nuilitin and a quaiter of dollars. This probabli- has no parallel in his4ory of scientific literatur. 1 ; - 1 ‘• Por s the inel,TeWclet at Republican. - .A CaiIIiDISCS of SouthOrn Society. gliEssai`EDlTOV.; Dun. Stas:—lt ''would be un just to the coUntryfof which Mn writing, as well, as unjust to your reiders, to pr= sent to Tiew die worst mcii-al,l:eabares, of this coon • ,:and keep back the More redeeming qusdities. • ' . . ... The seat of justice in this (Moty has not only its Peculiar Southern vices, but t*edeething qualities, -some of which are also somcw rat peculiarly-Southern. The town (embracing about ,800 populatitm) and neighborhood bare a, ` goadly number of wealthy •slaVeholders,including iiteriLms,.slaTeholdw r s also. In the Tillage. there are three men .who each pay a tai en over one hundred- thOuirand dollars; two of ; them are supposed to be ire 4 from .two to three hendred thousand dollars. There i are several plant entin the county who pay a tax ,on one hundred thinisand dollars. , f. outheast of this Tillage there ii 1 large streth; of fine Certain ' iand, occupied princi pally by slaveltorders. 01; e.'side there - is here- and there a small slaTeholder, (` ts good liTer,") but nine teen-twentieths of the inlieb tans are the better class of; "poor White folks." He tbey have- schools Prob" ablione session of fire mo the in the year Nine it tenthe-of the children here ttend schonlitut ir• regularly. Thus, the educationtreceivedipthiS sigh borhoocl, would be crituiderMA in lair. emu! :Ai,: mere.pretence ; 'The Mother Makes fit= iweistor 'to ''' sixty dollars a' tztonth-gets about two-third? Of his, - L PT"I .I * ' j• ' cal l . . . AbOnt i five,miles north of ! he ltie, bordering on , 'a ;Utile river, there is a large!iscope of country con silting principally of 4 .! piny hills." ,Pissing from the beautiful, 'wealthy, and refined country below into this region', one naturally- fancies that the clock of __Tune has byes suddenly. turned back ahouliorty cen trines. There is but little more civilization here than there was fifty years ago when it was roamed ores by - the red hnntsfaan of the 'forest, They - hare sto schools a t pt in this pa f the country. Here the the mon do noth ingsbut m • small " ciuP" of corn and hunt, while their " squaws" spin-, and weave nearly all their clothes, and mostly lend the garden (gardens on thole sandy bills -bum ,up ' by "bout the middle. of June.) Then the seasons - earl' to furnish IOW:: tuffident to Make their pork;;: r these "piny-ites" became more or , -. , less troublesoine v tethe'inhabitaiha berow,wliosehogs are fattened matfily:Tqkgre'Corn but are suffe , *•,tin run in the 4 . bcttotn."' `fare lhe-Sett" thisireeinet Polls theltagest totektf-abi 'ln the ,cotitity. Out of. two hundred To theoppohents of the. Demo erecty' , - ket, but from SeTen‘to eleven. TfieHemocracy here Call this the Crinnspmeinetbi'Dentocracy.. Titeop posing paityjiattericatt) ha+e given it the nanie - of 1• i - I the H"lakertf—the Five Points of 8... county De turaCiacy,:r However, in:justice- to the •thaMeter of PeiliecTuVl ftte . sin - Ty-holder* are equally .Demoe.iatie. 'Or 4 1043 - "piny-hill' ..peopie'l will give you a More :_deut:iled accennt‘in some fniurd letter; in order that, rag; may hare a speeimen of the " gray-back" poptt ; !alien of the South. ': -- i - , 1• _ .4 the Seat of thia couni , Y there hi a tifined and k whit we would eel-there intelligent popnlaticie. Th - 1 1aCe two good actiiien4lt; shale anclzreurale, and most ;of-the children tithe poor bete Attend school as mg ; tthrldy althose ofthe, rich: r This seeesul claw popu jai* iti display * fine eitetiof, and as much ref eziaettt as the Dligareha. •Itta rilli e le in a neigbboiing coun •tri beard it reMerktiti-by aiming clerk from. Maine, ihtit, the most graeefitlir Rorie anciety he r f d, irer FIE lived in was that of the slaveholding classes in this region—that there 'was umln - e.ss and ease attending the .peo the Immorality of the , whole populatio startles the northernmara wlni,locates place long enough to find. them out. ofThe Church to carry pisteds or 130 trivial matter: True 'tis not a.untve bit very few, saint or sinner, but own was proved at the. Ward trial instoui tumary in the SOuth to put these pocket when difficulties are apprehe even of a tritlindnature. In this vil are writing, I know by reliable nut a lay Member, who first Itriricke'd a y while with bis fist, and then hammer bead with his pistol,ln , his own cht , best 'Of my recollection of the' circur was punished by the Church,. tho, 'probably tor* some action,on it. Another example took place in the ing this on the West. A lac mcml a *favorite in his churar (Methodist him•handsomdy. The preacher blfit prosecuted lay member a wealthy longed trialrin tfie Church, was the co lirdsccuteil sent to a neighboring cour i the - servicei of a celebrated rowdies Congressman, and church member, t who, it a-as said, exhausted -th and rhetoric, and eccleSiastical an show that his brother lied client did Than what a citivalrous and spirited - baie done! But as dte preacher! fault, and the prosecnted Would coming spirit, the lattdr was espelk We might raate - the ease-of a an adjoining county who was tune( (Methodist) for drawing a weapon.: s kill a young lady! Owing to his col without any apparent Contrition of witted into the Missionary Baptist on& hoisted into the pulpit, An same town iv-tufthat of a wealthy, 0 a presiding elder in his own chu apprehending diilleulty, armed bin ver. They met in the streets, - of yolvcr was presented to the breast. brother, (Class leader,) accompani, blow him through instantly. A p Church against the two brothers, The•clder' made an acknowledge thought this very marvelous,) but would not, nor comb to any tends " Well then," says tife deacon, " knowledged,bully-ol the vicinage; way you will name.,". The class lari tithe Church, and the elder about to mat ry into a family of oli lie would get eight niggers, down, the latter, he was 4 ermitted to from. the Church. ~..Now- -, it Is quite natural that me road i rs in Susque ' Minna county should ask. whY .1.. hoW it happened• that this class leader was , the ~ rtes bully in the town.. - It'appeaM no doubt like Taney picture, do signed-to make the story as nn.able ass possible.— I conceive that you at some cu if.sity to know why such An account should ppeaile . filtrate and true to a Southern reader, while it is the , .' verse to a North. ernone. There is d\veneration .r and an-import ance attending wealth in slaves t I this country, not . ,attending the same amount of r ties in rioney - or other property in the North, 4 m hire. It is well known that the millionaire, in th . old world, pays sy cophantic devotion to the noble .51. I The slavehold cis are the noblemen in the . If They represent as, both ihthe State Legislature adin eongress,and a them arc ascribed all our laws IsO there are none other whosemames-names•d in. war'are trans mitted to posterity.• If we hint n the teat at the i li injustice of he institution, itt ‘ I ndy Washington, Jackson, Monroe. Taylor:lmA of : .re, 'who were rich ilk," kitchen wool,' are thrown. ri our faces. Not one in a thousand knows that 'asliington -or any I other orthe. great gm:ahempat ever'expressrd a thrown. Idoubt of A° virtuousness of. t • institution. You 'have.here a hint why Power in hi hanls of a few, in this. country, though basely .eartipt, rules in the Church as 'well as state, as It d.O. in , the old world. But then-again, "Is there not it no. enough in the community tl select sour ec..e. iastical diguituies but of the most virtuous of you slaveholdersr, if from them they must come?" My an 4r _is that did the Mississippi river run With tarts . (puede it could not be made to'divrorge ...mat . triess as` la afforded by the moral turpitude among .131 upper-ten class of slaveholdersin e the - Southern S tes of ittierica; It !ss just that a few .exceptions I.e ladmitted; but the `hints' in Scripture why-it is ha 4 for a rich man to be a - Chnstlin, are tenfold more m plicable to the weal- I- thy claesof slaveholders than t. 4 Ete rich of any othet country. Among the non-Slav elders of this Coon -try, from the wisestleads•and hest ;hearts, down to I N the molt ignorant African, th , .- , ,ying is as familiar as hotischold words, that ."if . is not filled with slaveholderis, nobody else nee; ~ e afraid of getting scorched!" . - TtNNEssst. 1 • For the Indip Agricultural Wintet is time of corn' farmer. Its stotintdays andl ti ple time for study and reflec fails to study and reflect, Eta , dg Owelight Times are hard, h cry intelligent farmer will find agricultural licriodiCals and five times their cost. ;pow -a tain the congregated wisdom frJait-growers of the world. Is worth something? sang us adding much to our gains? orthird next spring: Has lie as to the best situation for an ofsthe soil, the best manures, . fruit for his region, and the trees in the earlier and later .9 If be has not, a tea. such 'Garden; "'the liumlAnnua , ttrlim hundreds of dollars; : new harm Has he got it so to be done in it, can be done ,se, planned that all the at. ..shelteis, and the manure lin. • Idlreg Rural Architect," or ongin to be well studied. A f thought, now, may Sate him and vexation And so . of ali the farm 4 thought will assist most won looks ahead -he begins now other Year. Can • you tell tivation of aiy particular fbi. fou propose to put apt* 'lure for a given field lime, ashes, plastei, or when is the best time, ply manure ?:whether -dell on grass 'or grain and we shall need all tl , . Fc4.o.< firogiOsunts 'The Snspiehahna• dation- met hi the New Milford, Dec. ed to order by the; PA ! An exereiseln Rem W. Prturot... The: tilrioffered.4-16.. `salved, That the tnir, in our common nth. ince` in adding' interest in the sehool=roOm a, duty of teachirsto?.av niipurtnnity for improl -Remarks oil - the [sax Camp, .Vi FauroVO.,' P. H. Hart. The Association ad past six, P. 14. at viii i .s i ' mechanical .. peculiar nat -1 here. But 71;at most, kimself in, on e o y lmembers . I. , , kuivia is a daily habit, c ! •1 .• • 1 m, and, as v le, it is cus: apons in the d d, and those of which-we o ity, a case of 1. g preacher a him over the i. .. From the 1 . . tees, neither ) the Church il j 4 , Ou l nty adjoin tb jumped upon ii) nd fisticulfed I i+r, and the I ilrch, a pro , c nonce. The y.a id obtained awyer, on ex .l plead. his case, ipowers of logic biblical law, to l t p more oarless hr istian should Iknowledged his Olt do so in a be? 7/1 , ng preacher in ' ut of his chuich threatening to atding pienb cart, he was atk Choral, and at to ease in the igiirch attacking t, and the elder, i elf_with a revel. I I village, thb re f the belligerent with a threat to ; secution by <the 'as , the result.— i nt, , (the_ people hejclass .leader, f cJanprouiiie.- 0 you are. he ac 'Will fight von anv Fader being a pd. a yOung preacher I rehs, (by 'which y,proposition of ithdraw honorably rrnt a tispubtican. • 11/Tppers., tive leisure to the g nights furnish em and tke farmer that .stry much in his 11 verily believe ev. Invested in good ,atutuilly, worth a'ituch works con ; ethe best farthers and nig their, experience fiord many losses and uis going to plane an Irinformed himself bird, the best state .'e best varieties, of t-proper care tor fruit ges of their growth ? as "Barry'a Fruit t &4., would be worth is g oing to .build a !rinCd that all the work e ill; the least labor? i be in warm,- dry cover? Ifnot, 4 !AI- R ething, of the kind, months of .careful much loss, expense, iip , eretions : sillily and I rfully. The wise men (If plan the'work of an rltetlei' the soil and da bs adapted to the crop '- the best ma ter barnyard, Can you tell anner, kto ap ir,turried time 'tb learn, get. AGR/COl,l epublicati. aistiori. :hers' Ago- Church, in .vas conducted by, resolution mil "Re. Vucal music , i• 4reat iinport- i f ' t-Ite outer exercises : that ifshostd be the i thlnselves,orevery 6 ent in thih science." lei;tvere ..iinde'l?Y•iir. W..Nnslott,4NE* A reell.ixiieteksihalf time filielesembhA and after music by the : choir, the -Red. Mr. Stott was introduced, and' delivered an biter ting and instructive address to a large. and - *rum, • W—Faurot then tonducted an exer -5 ise in Orthography on the Doctitionary Chart: Prof. Stoddard thett addressed tht Association on the " Influence of Education,, in an able and highly instructive Manner. After:musk by tho choir and prayer by the- Rev: Mr, Abbey,the Association adjourn ed to meet Saturday at'9 A.' M. ',- SECOim DAY.—The resolution which Was. brought before the Association the preceding= day. was called no and eloquently discussed, by B: F. Tewksbury,lind - was adopted. Prof: Stoddard lecture 4 to- the teachers on " Eie mentary Instructihni" or'the best manner of giving instruction to, the yoting. A. B. Kent., then - exhibited a set of Holbrook's School' Apparatus, 'and explained the use ofthe snap ..... -. in the common schoolC. . After a song by the choir, the Associatio' adjourned to Intuit arl, o'clock P. M. • 'On _reassembling, Prof. Stoddard - made. some remarks on PhYsiolOgy, and , exhibited &pair of lungs, explainingtheir strubture and uses. The place for.holding the next meet ing of the Association, was then considered ; and it WAS decided that it be held at Susqu'u Depot, on ;the second-- Friday and Saturday of February, 1858.: The fulloWing named persons were then appointed .to / present Re ports and Essays at the next Ineeting of the Association,—F. Hall, of Jackson, to report on the subject of introducing Physiology into our con coon schools; A'. B. Johnson, of ,Bridge.waler;to r'eport on Object. Lessons ; F. Bryant, of Jackson, W. Faurot, bf : New Milford, William Miller, of Lenox, Jane M. Baker,..of N M d;M. J. Hart, of Jes slip, 0. W. Notton,tof Ararat, to•lnysent Es says. A. B. Kent wai appOinted• to deliver a valedictory address. Prof. Stoddard then addressed the citizens and teachers, in his usual 'leasing-manner. The meeting adjourned to meet at GI o'- clock ,in the evening ? . in conjunction. with the New Milford Township Teacher& .Assonia lion. Met agreeably to. tho above adjournment. At the close of the evenino "session,. the fol lowing resolution was adop t ed : "Resolved, That te thanks of this Association be tender ed -Prof. J. F. Stoddard for the interest man, Vested by him in attending 'the meetings of this Assoctatiop, and for the able instructions which he has *parted to.the teachers of this county at various times." The thanks of the Association are due to the m,gregation, al Society, of New- Milford, for the use of their Church—to the choir for their music— and to the people of New Milford for their hospitality,. and, the sympathy,'interest, and zeal shown by them in aiding the cause_ of Facnor, Seery:' I=l State Teachers' Association. We-find-in 'the Indiana (Indiana Co.) Ade. pendent a report of the proceedings of • the Meeting t,f the Pennsylvania State Teachers' Association, held ` at that place on the. `29th ult., which report we condense aslbllows: C - onvention met Tuesday. Dee.29th, Mr. Roberts of Philadelphia presiding. A report by Mr. Bunt off Pittsburgh, on -" method in teaching," was read and discussed at length, •and many serious' Objections were urged againsti t. Professor Stoddard, and Mr. Findley of Allegheny mane some rerearkS on the importance, of Normal.,Schools. -In the afternoon, in accordance -with the programme, Prof. Stoddard 'delivered an el oquent address on "Eletnentary instrnetion." Several reports were read and discussed dur mg the day. • On Wednesday, the Association proceeded to the election of otWers for the ensuing year, with the following resalt :—President,l,J. F. Stoddard `;; IV ice Presidents, Messrs. Boil in an, CAldwell„tamborn, and. Ingrain ; Ree. Sec curies Messrs. Sutzmati and. Porter; Cor responding Secretary, Pierce of • Lancaster ; Treasurer, Rowe s of Lancaster; Ex. Com., Herr, Pindlsy, Richardson, Roberts, and_ Valentine. Scranton. Luzerne Co.; was' unanimously agreed upon as the place for the next meeting. A resolution, fixing the time for holding the an'ttual meetings in the month of August, was adopted. After the reading and-discussion of a paper on " - the -relation between common schools and higher seminaries of learning," —the appointment of a committee, namely; Messrs. Kerr, MeCuimick, Wickersham, Stoddard, and Bollman, to attend the next session of the New York State Teachers' seciation,—and the adoption of a series of resolutions in favor of the Co. Superintett dency,—the meeting adjourned till evening, wizen it was severally addressed by Prof. Stoddard, Mr. Kerr, and Dr. Burrowes.— Resolutions were than, adopted thanking the Pet 4 Railroad _CoMpany for the reduction of fire to the members, thanking the friends of education in Indiana for their efforts to nutke,the meeting pleasant and profitable, and recommending Teachers to subscribe for the " Pa. School Journal," and the Associa-, lion adjourned. Ovariotomy. Last Thursday, 17th inxt. Miss Martha Jane Wright, of this subnittted to 'thislormidible operition and had an Ovarian Tumor extirpated, which. measured twenty three inches ii3 . .one direction and twenty-siX in the other, and weighing nine pounds. The operation was performed by Dr. Q. Z. Dan. ock assisted by the 'Doctors Spence, of Star key, Chapman; of "Weston, .and Shaw, of WarsaW. Drs. Noble, of Dundee, and -De- Wolf, Ofllath, were also present. As goon as the patient wax_ brought fully under ;'the influence of Chlorofoim, Dr. Dint ock cOMmenced the'operation by laying open - the cavity 411 e iihdomeu-by. one long In cision commencing , just. below .the lower ex tremity of the breast bone and extending, down the entire length of the abdomen.— After breaking up several, small adhesions he raised the, tumor out of its bed and then severed it from its internal connections., It was. attached to •the right. side by a broad pedielc inVolving the ovary and' uterine ap• pendages. • The time occupied was about twenty minutes. The _patient was not con scious of the least pain and did not lose two ounces of `blood. • I if the operation proves - successful it now promisee - to be, it will be a fortunate onefor the patient, for; upcin examining the tumor it was evident at i was tending rapidly to afatal/errninition, and must•have caused her death in a short time: • 1 . The case now preseets it very favOrable appearance -and- giv:t4 the most flattering as surances that the Patient will vapidly recov er, The -coprage relitisite on the part of the patient, for such ittnC operation ,will be -better understZed.wilicnit,is known, that not more than one to three operations of this kind are eve! successful.. ?Mei - Wright knowing ;this' ' deserves 'great praise for her. courage both before and since the Operation, . We are indebted to:Dr. Dimock • for the facts -in the case, who is said to have per formed the operation very skilfully.—Dundee (Yates Co.).Reroni.. , tar The Jersey city Telegraph;(l3lark Detngspit) - which for a. year - past- has carried the Aisne of Stephen A. aftigiss at its head, SlPjt, c:andidate" for President in . 1860, has hauled 'down its AS&stid dOoinieei4int Little Gituit4ilinut stint. ' . KANSAS NEWS:. Sr. Louis, Dec,3o, Kansnadvices to the 24th inst.; eefved by the Democrat, say that ei is raging 'in Bout-EH:in County: Sevt flicts have taken % place betweeri Fi and Pro:Shivery parties,-and a MI prisoners have been taken qn both The United' ;Status Marshal, with ' a eighty men, demanded' the surreho Free,Stab party, and the 'demand !swered by a volley of -musket ba, lire-was returned, and. the fight fi hour, whin the ProS!avery men _with -the' 10074 one. man killed, mortally wounded. The United S shall was dangerously 'wounded. General 'Lane was entrenched Mound, and determined to fight the if they - attieked biro. A battle_ wa ed as inevitable. . An e dehatc,necurred in he _ rente oven m. The Com:lithe on 11l lutions presented three reports:, ema ity report disapproved of voting for State liters. The first minority report reoammi the nomination of a full State ticket, and second, signed by Mr. Redpatii, rec mends aoparticipation in the election for purpose of destroying : the Lecompton Co ) tution • that no man be nominated who not pldge himself. to crush that instrr that the Topeka Constitution be submitt the people, and loyalty to that instrutnel made the test of fealty to the FieeStato ty ; also. that the Legislature should •the present code of laws. Messrs..P.obi Phillips, .Conway, Schuyler and - Vat _spoke in favor of voting. The most ri revolutionary , speeches were tuade;p Johnson County, Kansas - g ives 2,00( ority for Slavery. Thirteen hundred' votes were cast' t 0: Wyandut givea 14 majority against SI Gov. Denver had refused to ive• t i J ;territorial s arm,,to the Militia.' The Frauds on the 21st. We receive by every mail, says-the adelphia Press, evidences of the fraud• petrated in Kansas at the elect* on . tt. of December, when the Slavetlause was presented to the popular vote ; do not doubt that. the Demo untie pa thlti - Territory, who are to a man agaii Lecompton Constitution, have prepare will lay before Congress, a detailed stn of these frauds. Nor do we doubt th. Buchanan will recommend the rejec , the returns of that election, in aeco with the spin of .his annual message: have already called attention to the .11 at two Precincts in the County ofJohs viz, at Shawnee and ON ford—a mar 2,000 Votes was thrown for the clause; and this in the face of thettet by Gov. Walker, that the whole noun not contain_more than frOin three hundred votes ! • A. Kansas correspondent:ill the Gin Enquirer—Cite Enquirer being, one journals in favor of the Lecomptod C , tion=viting under date of the fast cembeiohe day of the election, empl following language : "Kansas has ngUin been invaded numbers of Missourians—they hay here and elsewhere; the result haq h questionably, to give a large nomin to the 4 Constitution with -Slavery. such has been the case none can den . correspondent found', in pasiing In. I through,Missouri, the county papers ly advising the people df Mssouri and, the people talking of doing so. eon, I have sedn the Itrissouriars cot in large numbers, have heard them that they voted, have heard' others : they have been solicited to, do so fre and that organization had been effec reference to doing so," Tne ASTRAY AT FORT SCOTTs—Pr vices enelose us The following mem. the exciting collision at' Fort Scott, territory, i>.t.....n 'the free State Slavery men : " The smouldering hostility: so I up, is at. last , breaking out in the t and . theproiSlavery men seem determ precipitate it on the- people without 1 consequences. Port Scott is the see the tragedy' has opened. During' court held at that point, twenty-a State inen were indioted for b rebellir the,statutes of the bogus Legislatur: which make the crime punishable 1; Frien& of the victims ,to this od bloody-code, wished to have turthe gation' of the ease, which was denle' They then requiested to see the ceiur and were refused. Determined n treated with such arrant injustice, ... ed their right, and a squabble - ensui were set upon by the pro-Slavery a the court and a mob of their parti turn; the free State men rallied to th Of their friends, mid compelled the to surrender. • The captives were the ted to leave uninjured. Since that I have crossed Abe line into Missou they have raised a, force, and now ti wreak vengeance when they get- to tory: The voitiliteqs in this new principally gone. fr4n Little Osage i Title and Nevada, but the general of the communities do not: endori road'. You may expect to hear o 1 so soon as' their futurn`procee i known.'\'—St. Louis Dem. ... TIM LIFETIME OF The Governors of Kansas tiru‘a .1 race—real political .ephetuela. No. 1, A. H. Reeder, reached Ka ber.G, 1854; removed July 31, 1 of service ten - months. Govern Wilson Shannon; reached Kansas i 1, 1854 ; removed , August - 21, 1 i of service thirteen months., Gov ' 3, John W. Geary, readied Kan . her 11, 18561 reiurned in Mar term of service about seven.nionth nor No. 4, Robed J. Walker, roe sal May 24, 1857; resigned D, 1857—Orni‘`of service 4 little months. TUE LEC9IIPTON SCII EKE IN EMCBTLVA NIA.-PAILLADELPUIA, Jan. 1, , 'l:sB.—You may rest ass'bred that Mr. -Ruch. nun's - hay ing yielded biinselt so corepletely, to South ern dictation, is not only seen by be Demo& racy of Penntylvanja, but is wor Aug - poter. fully. Their new Governor, Pacer, sustains Mr. Douglas, and one of the . i ernoeratie inelnbers of the' }louse of Rep esentatives Irom this city has declared withi a day or two that he will. not vote for th'e Lecompton swinge, and that there' are - no , over. four Democratic Members from PennsAvaniaviihO will. This is doing well for, ti but .better thlar,s will happen wh reassembles.', Col. Forney's Pre grievance to the straighVout Bee. in this State. L They are becOmin ed,,and find the ;ame is nearly u pondence of The .N.'r: Tribune.' The Charlpston .Mercury Mr. Douglas repudiates the pan Icansas-Nebraska Act, because worked as he .had eimtemplate., Kansasta free State, and it says : the g . tutsis-Nebraska-Act w duet from the begtnning, curt honorable author and , h)n ' liortliWes_tern Dentocraoyel. EMEMMI \Fitton uwanisiguitti 185'7 just vil ral co ee-St bur. The Approaching Session of the Lerithtture. . .HAnaisainfo, Jan. 4.—The Legislature will \xi - amble to-MO - Crow, and large niimber;of members tiavitig , already - arrived, do doubt,' be a quorum present bf both Hous es. The first business , in -Order will be the election of Speakera; and therDarnocrats will hold their caucuses this , evening. or'to-mor roiv morniag before the\ hour of meeting, The applicants for the Various offices in the gift of the two houses are• t very nnmerOus,- and boring . is progressing extensively. there • are Democratic majorities in both brunches, these operation's are, confined to that party. - • The candidatee.for - Speaker of the Senate are as. follows:--Messrs. Welsh, of York; Cresswelt; of Blalef Brewer, of Franklin ; Schell, of Bedgird;and "Wright, Of Philadel phia. For Speaker of the House thelirominent candidates are : Messrs., G. N. Smith, of Cambria J. V.. Smith, of Wyoming; of Fra4lin • • Longaker, of Montgomery,and Jenk ins„ ofColumbia. ' UM force ;or o was the l an ted is..o sled nd etrea iates t Sul dragol regi IN MI E3l of tinds I tho The. candidates for Clerk of the Senate are : Thos. C. McDowell, of. Blair ; Wm. H. Miller, of Harrisburg; and Thomas W. Duf field, of Philadelphia. _ Geo. W. 4amersll, the present incum bent, will be supported by. the Republicans.. Capt. J. Ziegler, the' present. Cleric of , the House,-bas no opposition. The• candidates for the other offices are legibn. . The Grivernor's Message w ill be ready for delivery on Wednesday at noffn.. C1B:1 Ithe mi. will entl/4; al to It be par e-peat 11S011, ghan Wastivat,rroa, Dee. 30. 0357.- - --Although the Treasury Department lilts taken unusual precautions to guard the new issues of notes against counterfeiting, the Se'Zretary : is still apprehensive that, with the advanceS - rna4 in photographic art, the security. in this re, spect will be ithperfect. Neither skill nor ingenuity has thus Tar succeeded in 'pridecting engraving from being replAluced in the mi. nutest details, for the pkcess by which the bolder features are seized applies with'equal and instantaneous success to the lines, which can only. be detected by the Magniger„— Great temptation to fraud is thus offeNd, and it is feared Will be employed with injuli. ous effect to the public. A loan in th - e usual' form would have avoided these contingencies. The new notes are expected at the' beginning of next:week, and the advertisement for the fourteen talons wilt be issued without de- . lay.— Correipondence of N. Y. Tribune. - maj ford. very. the Phil per .e2l,t alonq id' we ty •in ••••t the and Fement Mr. ion of -dance :t. that 'son— ) ity of :lavery j t forth !:y does, four Congressional Proceedings. • • WAkIINGTON, Jan. 4,4858. SENATL.—Mr., Davis introduced a joint resolution to define the authority of the Pres dent under the act to amend'the act to pro mote the efficiency of the Navy, in respect to dropped and retired Naval officer; and gave notice that he would call it up. • Mr. Pcsstmden gave notice of his intention to introduce a French Spoliation bill. Mr. Pugh asked and obtained leave to in troduce a bill' to provide fur the admission of Kansas into the Union. The bill was re. fer Fed to the committee on Territories. ' innati of the nstitu of De ;)%s the iarcre t 2,3 I. ,noted. en, no t vote That Mr. Pugh stated that he_offered the bill as a compromise, and explained its proviskins as follows : It, provides for the admission of Kansas into the Union under the Lecompion Constitution, with the Aloe boundaries as were,defined - bythe bill of the last CUngress,; it slso require* that the seventh article of th.st Constitution relative tqSlavery shall be submitted to the direct vote of the qualified electors on the 7th of April next and" that the returns of this election shall, be made to the _Governor . of the Territory, instead of the President of the Convention ; states that the election shall be - conducted in,.obedience to the laws in,force on the 7th of NoveMber last ; also provides that the Colistitnilon shall not be so construed _as to limit or im pair the right of' the people at any time -to call a Convention for the purpose of altering, amending or abolishing their form of govern tnent, subject to the Constitution of the Uni ted-States. j. Your 't week irtuni- 14, volt', In addi‘- re corer eonfes% av that lqu'entio., led with sate ad randa of IKansas nd pro- lug rent rritory, lined to. l egard'to to where• !the last ee free Mr. Pugh stated that he would avail him. self of an early opportunity to .explain the provisions of the bill-more in detail_ Mr. Benjarnip submitted a rolation, which was referred to the. Covrimitteel on Printing, providing for printintr , for the use of the Senate 20.000 copies oe . -the opiti ons of the Judges of the Supreme Court ii the Dred Scott case. • . I'" der of 1856, y - death. ous and Mr. Brown commenced a speech in adro csacsy of the admission of Kansas under the ALecompton Constitution. ,He had not pro ceeded far when he Was seized with vertigo, and yieldad the floor, expressing the hope that he would be able to proceed with hit remarks tomorrow. Adjourned. Housz.—The President submitted a lettei from the Hon. N. P. Banks to the effect that 1,1 has forwarded to the Governor of Maysa c,husetts his resignation as a Member. from `the 7th Congressionalifistriet of that State. Mr: Clioginan, from the Committee on Foreign Affairs, reported a resolution- ,that the President be requested—if, in hit :,pin ion, not ineomitatible with -public'intereits— to communicate - 011 inforMation in postOsion in .relation to the seizure of Gen. 'Walker and his followers in Nicarligna, together with such instructions as have bAn given to naval offi. cers and other officers. investi them.— , records, kg..b) be Ley claim t they chea of ans.. In support Isai !ants permit: ime they i, where reaten-to he terri- 71rav have - I' Pepin etitiment the in- TEE= Mr. Jones* (Derr:) should like' the -gentle man to Imodify his resolUtion so as to call for information respecting the fittirg out of the .expedition by Walker in this country, ' Mr. Cliegman replied that he would modi fy the resolution if he had the power, but be ing a report of a. 4 , , committee, he could not do so. le 11. yin The resolutiontiCas received—uoder a sus. pension of the rule, by 137 iigainsi; The resolution, atter debate and amend-1 ment; wss passed— - apvi are 0 hort-lived Governor sas Octo 55—term it No. 2, leptember. 54,.—term :rnor No.' 1 s Septem h 18,7 SENATOR SUMNER WILL 'NOT REItICIN. ---is .Boston correspondimt of the ]venin4 Post says Yest erday',l. had th%pleasure of learning Senator Sumnerliown lips that he, has no intention of resigning his seat in the -Sen: ate. Th&e is not .a$ man in Massachusetts with heart and head - enough to fill Mr. Sum ner's place,, who does not earnestly. wish- that he may retain it, though he should not speak another word in it. They would as soon level- Bunker Hill because that is silent: His history talki. He received tenet* fram South Carolina warning him that the" honor' of that chivalrio,Statc would-require her sons to shedinore'orhis-blOod if, he took his seat • . . at this sesSion." ' • 1. dover. i cheo Kan [ember 7, ver seven MRS. SIEN4TOR OVJG1.118:-;-1t is stated, on that Which - Oerna, to us reliable authority, that this lady takes a most lively interest in her huslasq's Pelitical fortunes, and that m addition to influencing him to' oft down.his drinking and tObiteco-using to short allowance, and to dress in goodlaste; she has rendered him `important,service in augmenting him pluck and. strengthening his back-for the at titude of hostility taward, the Administration in which he is now - placed. She is said to be exceedingly ambitious, and to be . a thor: ough social diplomatist ; exercising a eonside. rable degree of talent and, force in furthering her finsband's 'schemes, in -the - parlor of the 'Splendid new house over which 'she presides. The Washington :letter:vrriterti tell us that when Doughui nutking - hitt great speech in the illegateohe looked on frorn.the.gallery. holiday s, a 15 a sore nanmen bewilder- asserts that iples of the . it has not in making " The truth an. intended part of its ; istes of: the From Washington. A COlpEnili'll,OF " The only thing that has astonished me in thie' whole miter te the forbearance of the people ofaanaas. If they had taken ther Idelezates.to,the Lecotnpton Convention and flogged them, or cut their ears off,and driven them out of theecountry, would have ap• plauded them f or the act." The above is an extract from the speech of Senator Stroderick,, of California, and it ex presses a corlect sentiment in very appropi; 'ate and easily understood language. , ,In cut ting the ears off of these disturbers of the peace - of Kansas, however, the safest plan would.be to ent ~.their heads o$ '".just behind their ears.—PittsSu Gazette. - _Ai . is stated that the lasi Survivor of . the Wyoming massacre is Jere miah Siieneer, now of Tortingford, Conn., eighty.eight years old, and in full possession of all hisfeculties; mental and., physical: The, massacre took place seighiy 'yearit ago, but Mr,Spencer re members his passage , dnw,n,, the ladder fron t the chainber whore he slept, in his mother's... arms, and their flight into the wildernesk .'The Springfield .Register.elaitos all the Democrats in : . Cotigros• from go with Douglas on the Kansas question. It says "It is „Sufficient to simpy say, that Messrs. Harris, Morris, Marshall; Shaw, and , Smith, of the House, will sustainthe pOsition. of Senatoi Douglas. Governor Matteson entertains the same views; as do ninety-nine nut of every hundred of the Democracy oc Illinois." _ Hon. Galusha A.. Gruff of Pena.. was the Republican candidate for, Speaker of the House, dad received eighty-f our Mr. GroW is' worthy to be the standard-bear er of theßepu,tlicsits. • He. is :gas. and fearless. , ChsOtavque Demacial.• • ..4.. A dispatch from Wasbiligtortstates that acting Govermir-Denver, of Kansas, de• dares openiy that: Walker. and Stanton pur sued tee tight twurse, and that the President. is mtieh Mistaken if he supposes he (Denver) will not follow tt:eir example. Off with the fellow's head ! ' • It is positively stated that Commo dore Paulding is' . o:he ,prd'ered 'home . and tried for arresting Genes Walker after he had landed. Command'ei - - Cbaturd has -al ready been ordered honte for' not arresting him. ..., Great differences_ or opinion exist among all parties, on the currency question. While it is proposed, as a remedy for exist- . ing evils in this country,' to prohibit the issue of paper money of a less denomination than t2o,—in England, where the issue of piper money of small denominations has been for some years prohibited, it is proposed to•re: move the prohibition, for the same - purpose .that it is here proposed to eathlish it. The . Richmond Sough says that Sen ator Douglas " was a politician considertp hi. promise, and that association wish South ern gentlemen had smoothed dovn tie rdig ged'vulgarilies of his, early education, and he had come tO be quite? decentand wedbeleaved person." • The great* excitement exists in the Southern cities in reference,to the arrest:of Walker and his men by the Oiiited States naval force, and the movement seems to have given an impetus in flivor of the • L'icaraguan , enterprise which cannot be eaSily overcome; Enlistments are now going on:. in New • Or leans.at the rate of one hundred and upwards per day, and there are ;stated to. be in that' city and Mobile, awaiting shipment, not less than fourteen .hundredimen.• The,Texas con tingent, eight hundred-in number, is said to have sailed on the 'Ail) lust: Charles Mackay writes to his paper; the Lund:on News, th!it,the• crinoli4e of the fashionable ladies of fioriston and New 'York is twice the circui - oference,of the s iilode Wont An Paris. . The other . day,,as Charq.,r'and Eng, the Siamese twins, were going to Charleston, the conductor made a gss because they did not each have a ticket.'s'The gentleman vihró had charge of them said that they had always been carried, on the ticket of a ,single passfrn ger.- The conductor replied that they were , two persons and s>ecupied tAVI. , seats ; the.y must, therefore,pay as two passengers. "very :Welt,'" said the gentlenlan, "I the ticket to Chang . and you can put Eng off the cars." This brought rthe conductor to his senses; and' he "knocked under." President Buchanan is said to ap prove strongly of Commodore Ptuldin. s let ter, an to condemn the morality of the Mi. bustersenterprise, while on thb other band the Souiliern majority in the Qibinct proves of the Coramodore's.aet. * . - I , . ~:.. To the of etor belong the spoils as• well in war as in Ipolitics.' • 'A :soldier, writes FrotrzhDe hi, india, that probably every mein,- her *of the Guara4 will be worth £l,OOO ,when he 'reaches England. '4n equal division of the*spoils is / to be !nape, and they exceed in richness anything ever before dreamed of. _ It is Mated tat Mr. Buehanan wilt not' send to the Senat Northern,Vostmastern An confirmation until the Douglas insurrec tion is over;- in other vrt;rdS, nut until Nprz them M. C's. sustain.the : Lecompton Conven tion. • '.. It is stated that during the serge of Delhi the Sepoys took, all:the wounded roper's they could catch find burned theta. alive. The charred bodie.4, tied to itakes, were found by Me strainers with ihe.Qucen's buttons still reconnizabfe. • • . A maticed Change has been inaugu. rated in the foreign policy of the Japanese. *cad of the jealous exclusiveness !thas Com - "Ntryirdlti , thority now declares that the. Japanese invite political and Comperciallrelatious with the leading nations of the . world. . We bare-rali-adY stated titat .Lola Moan was about CO marry a Rtissian Count, bearing a erns/tint; load of titles. It is now said that an Imperative conditiori - of the mar. riage is, that whenever Lula assails her hus.. band with ker tongue, she is to give him bis full name and titleS: " You are a brute; you Prince SoloWakt, Prince 'of Bletz, Count of' Schonmi, Count of Kobelin, and, Count of LOssa„ of Austrian: Bilesta, so you are !"—.. If the recapitulation 'of , the or and titles does not break her temper or her jaw then the distinguished spouse agrees' to ." tale without giurabliug. , , . Awyet. s . loirr.—By the late foreign ar riyal'we hate the following item : Accourtts from Cronsta ‘ dt state that English divers had , been,,senttlowu',.bs litissian t government to examine the liva of battfe which recently sunk in the. Pubic. Anglirn !lleum niass of human bodiei were foul] the-. low, The effect prciducolon . one of thcidiv ; ers by the sad sight was such that reitort olitild he oktaineti from him, and he refused to descend it scoop& time. • The vessel, ; it 'will be retnembered, dowil. with ono thousand simlit on board,. every one of.whom perished.: , .. \ .; Bill er and. Dauglais• • .. , .. Says _Sister, "I'm BUChUIeS dogt - -- . =Boehm= speaks chrquktt. my. bOw•wes , . 4 - - 1' But Dinka Its his claw Or, - . . API ors, "Wttwe Oppy WV you novri”‘ ME
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