r."_r•°- V Ir s PepeOelit itepnbiieqq. C. F. READ .17 . H. If FRAZIER, EDFTORS. F. Z. Looms . . CORRESPOSMAYI XDITOR. tONTItOSE. 81/54.00.,PA. l'hurstlay..Aitly 15, 1839. tL g. Special Notice. Haying made arrangements to purchase a Power Press a Card Press,&T., at an expense' of about we must asi all persons indebted to us to pay up without delay. - Please let - this be considered per sona, and remit,at once, by mail or otherwise. or During the thunder shower on, Sunday" litst, • the lightning struck wane of the telegraph . pops in. Ifontrose, in the neighborhood of the Methialisy auttl, Two of the poles were much s splitt and shattered, and,ou'or two others slightly. The bat . tap in 'the telegraph office Wa3 aho much injured. far lion. P. P. Stanton is . advertis6d in the Iler•. (alel of Fl'ee,...orn to speak daily in the priucipal towns of Kansas.: A.Sams correspondent ofthe Philadel phia Press says he it carrying- the multitude with him a-hcmrri• he goes, and that a Jai:go portion of thote who-have heretofore been administration men will vote against the English Lecompton-Swindle.- .or The notorious Jack facndersxm, Indicted by a Kansas Grand Jut, for stuffing ballotboxes, making false vetoms, and permitting illegal votes to be "east . ; 'has been discharged--fudge Letbmpte before whom Ire was hroughton - tritahrizs corptii, having decided that the law enacted 'by tlttlrTerritorial. Legislature for thc.punishrneut of4theso offences Is inoperative. Tie decizion caused grcat•indlgnetion. , • Mr.*Edwird Everett concluded his 4ib of Ju, ly speech to. the, assembled Peinocmcy of 'Boston with the decimation that he would - lie. content with the folfowihg epitaph: "Through evil and good re port, he loved his country."-.. This sounds very patri otic, no .doubt, but Arid not a truo,patriot labor for a good report of his country, and if he sus her wrong 4nd gciing , to destruction, try to effect her ref ormation, as he would do in the case of...an individu al whom be loves? Must our love of country be a blind impulse,' without,reason or reflec4onl John li. Foley, the Detnecratic congts.ssman vito wrote home - a letter• very aratming for - its bad spelling and s,intax;: and who,' when the letter : was printed and hiswant of scholarship exposed, asstired a brotheri Member that the printers bad "an:el/Wed. ibis lettei l tnest d--nablys,' hag failed to get a re 'nomination. - This-Foley is "no small fool." lie was oneof the Indiana Members who at first voted agaimt Lecompted, and afterwards supported the English bill.. An anti.Lecomptoii Democrat has been nominated - by his party to succeed him. Ur Governor Stewar s t, of Missouri, lately got Whip ped in a fight * with a man by the name of yanditer in a bee -house, in Jefferson City. Vandiver pub lishes a tter detailing the e . e.m -tinee- of the fiht, tr - and adds, "Stewart was very drunk;, apd:l was#my self drinldng." On this the Washington Berl lie remarks that, whatever 'virtues he may posses, Stewart:his the one fault• attributed to a New England clergyman-of the olden time by his pariah . ioneroNropensity*i be a I tie 4tiirreladyne. when elir The esmifination of Gen.. Lane atiLawrenco on a charge of murder, has resulted in his acquittal. lit noticing the fact, the _Leavenworth 'Ledger, a pa. per - unfriendlY to Lane," says: " The - Court were unanimous in their opinion, and we feel fully justified in saying that the evidence adduced for. end against tbe prisorier'warranted, them in-arriving at the.con . elusion they"did.'" Gen. Lane and-Col. Jenkins both Rent a Kansas as Demoerats,-and both became Free Siate men ; and their quirrel was entirely of a pricate.nature; having rict relation to politics. - Senator Dangles arrived at Chicago, July Ith, and made a speech in the evening, before 44 audi ence esthitated at from-IkODO to 20,00 . 6 persons, in ...which he reafErined his adherence to the principles of the K.ansasNebraska bill, Cincinnati platform, and to the. doctrine of poptillk. sovereignty as lie under stands it. He affirmed that Congress Ims not the power to exch& iMayety from the Territories, and that negroes bort in the United Stites arn .not citi sens, but he could not accept the Died Scott deris ion as the law in all respects." Mr. Lincoln," the Re , publican cant:Edam: for the scat in the seriate now held by Mr. .Dingta.s, was prment, and heard him itisroughout; • • - According to a Philadelphia correspOndent of the Yew TA; Trautte, a peace has been patched up among President linchanan, Senator Douglas; and governor Wise. Duchartarthas Consented to miff off his dogs, and give Douglas, fair chance to try mutat -sovereignty against Lecomptonismi in the fall . ..elections; and :San ariii-Lecompton House- is eleet edt Jhelum:lP agrees to cave. in anti come out for pOpular sovereignty again Mitts neat annual message. We give this revelation of the.. Tribune's corres pondent-for what - it i 3 vortil; though we do not see . how these antagonisms tmit be rceOnciled so easily. What is to become of the Dred Scott decision I` Will 'Linehan= darn turn against the Sap:mute Court 'and his masters, the fire-eaten . . ' Ia confirMation of hti allegation of a'change of tactics on the part of the administration ; the Trio. • lanes, correspondent states that large quantities of • I..esempton documents, franked to all parts of Penn :sylvinis, have been sioppeti'at the Phnadelphia Post office, a fact *Welt is confirmed by the Phil. Pratt. Eir The Tribune has it quaint and carious, witty And wise Boston corespondent, cognonthaated ,arho in keen and cutting satire is almost unriraled.-=- 'But in last Satarday's . 2l-itrune one " Swift" fmsish es s - descriptionpf the celebration of ' the "glorious . Fourth" in. the Athens of Aniprica, in latelr:a .141 e 'as kegs neto eonelude•that, if not Byles tihns'elf, he be a airy near relation of hie. Boitaslot the other's styki , exactly. Stie the amusing manner in he takes off. 'Rufus Chitate'S Fourth-of• July I -. • - oration " a Mr. Choate% oration before the WlSC•rabled Deal - mitts and theirlioot,bia4 the Old-Line Whigs, was "a:wonderful production. -The rery first, pant graph contained two hundred and sixty-41s: Words, ut tered by Mr. Choate without poising iltr breath.— Atother sentence coutahts over five, hundred words, is twelveinches long in print, and is decorated With about two hundred and_ fifty adjeCtives. If alit be . 'tuttwittiiiry, i should like to know "whafts? There • waii-n sentence containing ifireetioits to unithers for -the patriotic-cultureof intents. sofireciseaiiii explic jt that noxeceipe for candle or for gruel was :ever Mr. Choate thought that infants iti..the cis abankl be :first tau it to say "Wailiington," aria inippoie ". mamma.' - There were ,directions for - Placing alundtbe neck of tbe chid upon Its tpr' th &rot Monet Vernon medal, and fortaking him-up on thoreenctirsituntio: the, graves of revolutionary patrlotH and forswmix4 laza, et nine Tears ?id, to -support* Constitution- Ilia .art - „or b. - Ali:pug up babies is cuie'in irhich we feelan interest ; and Mi. Choate wgi Ox*e,litte Godfrefe sting to parenta: - His directions, kupeTer.; , need 'Abridgement. '3 boy tillght-i4roarenOteit kilts likitioltltiefereads mothercon Id 'Weil reedit Shan. Clitate shottlit abridge them Cot titt..,pse of the nursery:llnd the - prinutry school," , 1=1:=1 , - a movimilt the rate of five miles an hour, in its majestic might, to join tinme of the St. La*renee.— The eastern bank of the river extendingi fur a .long distance is quite abrupt, being some sixty or seventy feet in height; and what added more beauty to the scene' and surprised os , much was, as we glided swift ly and gently round a curve in the river, by the Did of. current and oars, to come, soddenly upon a huge mass of water pouring directly over the bank and seeming to fOrtn a part of it. We 'rowed. very near, quite in the spray, and thus . obtained an unward view of the falls. They resemble very much the American tails of the Niagnra. These falls are dirid -edirrto two, nearly equal in width, by a jutting spur of the bank, probably two bundrell feet, long. One half, however, w nearly hid . from our view, as we descended the river by a saw mill and piles of boards and lumber, tha seemed to stand' quite out in the river. , From this point, striking across,the river, we For the ludepen'dent Republican : shot up into one of those charming little bays, the ' The Bible in Schools. banks of w.hicli, Nairrre in her kindliest mood has Mr es.. EDITORS :—ln a former communieation on decorated with all imaginable beauty, and loveliness. the ab re subject, I gated that I might give some My friend thinks this bay is just suited for moonlight farthe reasons for not using the Bible in schools ai a salls,,with Music, or-better still for pic-nic parries on future hue. , I Will now proceed to do so briefly. Summer afternoons, with plenty of ice cream, sweet NV 'tie the object to be gained by our common g, , • • - • school. " - that p, or may be patronized by everybody? Away re wewent up the river into the rapids formed 2 Princi ally, to plant and mature, as fr as ma y be,cor by the Chaudiere Falls, and, landing, saw the" cribs" rest s ientific knowledge: In the schools of this. go through the " shoots formed to convey the tin]. State, e following, branches are to be taught, viz: her around the falls. These " cribs" when ' they get " orth graphy, reading, writing, English - grammar, into moderately still water, afe formed into . rafts of grog hi, and arithmetic, and such other branches enormon.ssixe, and proceed down the river to Que. b as the board of directors may - require."' The - Other lice for shipment to ainrcall parts of the world. . brans es referred to must be branches of science and The Rideau Canal forms its tiorthemFerminus here. ' liters re, and not of theology: , orsectarianism, other- This 'canal, costing the English Government nearly wise t e great principles of our institations are nab fire millions ot• dollars; extends from Itingston to this verte into a religious; sectarian engine. The teach place, a distance of one kindred and twenty-six ors ,or should be, educated in all_ branches by miles,—the difference of level (458 'feet) between them tght, and as Our schools have not a theologi- Lake Ontario arid the Ottawa being overcome by for- cal de artment, and; as mar officials are not required tr-seven locks, each one hundred and thirty-four feet , to ex Inc in that ! branch, it is evident the text book long and thirly-thiee feet wide, eight of which; rising of all lions should not be used in district schools. one trbOie the other, lie within thirty or forty ions of I beli :ve I am not alone in' this opinion, as. recent Ottawa river. ' The masonry ef these locks is very move. ents show in New Fork and elsewhere, Fn massive and beautiful, these being no work of the and same I* the New Ragland States, it is discarded also. kind equal to it in the States, s o f aras I know,; rind -,, 11;or do the requirements of• our law, as to the arrangement for emptying and filling the Jocks is ,But bmnr: as taught, compare with the views_ of your certainly very fine: Boats traverse , ibis canal by con- . 1 ondent "N.," wiro insists that the teachers steam, and not by horsepower. • . • shall `urge therm(scholars) to Remcmbei now their Barrack Rill, In the center' of the city, afford •a Creat•r &m," and "teach them that, they that seek magnificent view.. This hill rises . to•a great height trim , c.".and " assure therethatJesus said, Rxcept !above the surface of the river, which it immediately , ye be converted" Sc., &c. The same writer would overhangs. 'Standing on It, '*e have, in front,. the have-, .. first believe, if we can, that he is opposed broad expanie of the noble river bearing.on its be to s tarian.m . in school, Is it possible! Let us sotn huge rafts, like floating islands; across the riv. , cr, the richly icooded land„ with here and there Bopp ,se i teacher begins to teach his papas as "N."l -fields Of waving grain, backed by, a chain of huge desk... Do they underitnnd the term" converted?" mountains from which Pennsylvania gets her' best iron Ore; On the right bank the lower; and on the If Wy do, the instruction is needless ; if not, then be m it expiam — and demonstrate, must he 1"- And' yet rid be sectarian? Is such instruction any part left the upPer city is spread out before us, stretching oksc ence belonging to school! Such instruction • away in straggling fashion ` ,' to the' left, farther up may . : e very becoming a Sabbath School or Church, the rirer,,on either ride, " cribi" from a hund;ed . to but i . out of place in common schools,' and must not - two hundred feet hi length and about forty feet in he ~t en to my ohi th roo. there. width darting out from the "shoots" into the sound- ' A other.reason why. the Bible should not be thus ir.g rapids, and hurtling down the river, the rafts. imen working with all- possible diligence to direct taug tor used in Schools as." N." claims, is the gen eral mrance of - teachers in regard to the :doctrines [Acre out of the rapids into smoother water where of t c Bible, and who said certain, things Supposed 1 they can be-joined together; and still farther up, the to needful to men. >A - teacher,' that, nianitbsted suspension bridge, the mist and spray of the ' great as m ch ignoiance, in, this respect as has "N. 4" in his cataract ;. and still .flkrAer beyond the broad expanse corn unication, would be unfit, to teach the „great for the river studded' with its many green and wooded tru aof the Bible to young, uninformed minds, for islets. : ' ~. - The city of (Wawa has been desigriated as the fu- h -tore capital of tanada, by the - Queen, and the Parlia; ed e went buildings are to be erected on Barrack JJlI1.• e . Qvailse, July 2d..--At in s ults future time I will en- Bi dearer to give you a brief account of our trip down - wi the `rapids of, the St. Lawrence; of our visit at Mon- 13: , treat; the largest city in Canada, "eontrdning from six ty toievsnty thousand' inhabitants; of Quebec, the ibraltsi of lanirics tof the Fella of h!lontmoreney, of ,tr aimuctwis hundred and ftfly feet hi height, 'Upwards of sixty feet 'higher than the Magma Fals,;,ke., tt } The leiter on the Normal &heels of Canada and el- er j ementary instruction will be included in the second' - 01 4y./ie." • • - I have s jiast hien down to the riser to see some ' sr four or fire bundred . soldiers of the "100th " regi tl - nientraised'in Canada; go on hoard die steam ship h Bova ScoYan, Which - will sail for Ehgtantilosnorrow h I morning, about the time ire lease by the steamship , 11 Lay grad fo r.Xova Scatia. These soldiers are a hard appearing set ,--the Provipee, I presume, will `deem theta no iciss;—=manY of them were so drunk whal they ;rept, tOok two .othera to .441 nom of thena; - opi , ottle army Here are men and 'be "lidless AM00;4140oz to the otiieloemi7 of England,--a - nags, crooked setr--ta For the, independen t Repulotican: ,- . • Letter from Prot Stoddard. , - . , - OrrawacJune 22d;1858. -Di wa Yobs'° Fluasins . :;--Froni Kingston,: a ride ;, ,- I byVailwayPf!thout'sixtqi Miles, twOught ualto Pres cott;and fromiliescotia ride of fifty ml es:brought 1 us to Ottawa Cit,y. Thit portion - Of Call awhich is i drained by the rivet:Ottawa and Its nu us tribu.- , d taries, Las been littlevisited by people o the United , States or other countries, and, indeed, by ; Canadians I themselves. - I ~ • The great valley or basin of the Ott ca lies in the very center of . canada, the Hier itself 'dividing Up rper from- Lower Canada, and including, nearly one fouith of its. teritorial extent. That part of the Ot ''taws river called the. Chaudieri Lake, it about thirty miles in length widening southward towards its upper end and is from oue to two miles in: breadth; gradm lally narrowing, the Ottawa begins to close in and the 1 stream to become flpid and turbulent. ' 'rho inter ; ruption of the navigsal O n continues for upwards of five miles, in which lire find three Short, but distinct rapids, thP-Du‘Ch4ne, the Itemmoks, ands the Little Chandiere. These - rapids, together, fall a distance of about sixty feet over abed of dark limestone, until, 1 tit length, the mighty -strcatn pours In thunder over the rocks which-arrest its progress, (perhaps I sho'd say hasten instead of (wreak) at the city of Ottawa, forming-the welltnoin Chandiere falls. To one ,who has seen the Niagara, theie appear but second ary, and yet they are distinct and different,---of smaller cofnpass and depth, yet magnificent in vol ume, power, and 'variety 'of the different cascades, forming one roaring, tumbling.e and seething mass. • Our view was taken mainly from the:suspension bridge, Which cryses a few feet below the falls, and itsupported by eight wire'cables about three inches Adiameter each. From the bridge, and its surround ing pointsof obserfation, we could see the seething mass and rising spray from the " Pot,".an enormous hole, formed from wearing the ants into that shape, and where, they say, the water falls but to pass off in some underground passa g e to 'some distant and ..unknown outlet. The shape of the fall is very near that of the letter S., and the fiat limestone orer Which the water passes, has been worn ' it.lo - .almost every conceivable shape, forming as many different varie ties of waterfalls and cascades as can be imagined, each in itself worth a journey to see. The river at the present time is very 'high, and consequently the , view of the faits the &eat. It is.asserted• that dur ing the Spring, when the Ottawa is at its highest; such is the volume of water passing over the Chau diere Falls from the lakes above, that the mass al; most, if not quite, equals that passing over the great Nianra The 6,11 c of the Rideau, on the eastern boundary of the city, are well worth a visit. The ricer Rideau is about one hundred and sixteen miles long, is deep, rapid, and not very aisle. and. empties itself in to tho Ottawa n Short distance below the city, falling in two heavy sheets Over a snioqth'afid quite perpen dicular bed of blue lintel:Mine, from a height of fifty feet. We were very fortunate in our view of these falls and many other of the beauties of Ottawa, thro the kindness of Mr. John Dude, a injtuninent mer chant and an old settler here. Taking his beautiful light row-boat, my friend, Mr. Durie, and myself started down the Hier.' It was a charming trip ; aboVe us-the high•hanks of the river covered with a velvet of green, and trees of moderate growth, with. here and there fine residences; around us rafts innu: merable, composed' of square pine timber from thirty to eighty feet long, freighted with jolly raftsmen ; below us the smooth dark brown waters of the,Otta,, all appearan es, no tone Dally ititelligeht, energetic f i man among em. Tho kriejority of the boy-officers are from six e on tetwenty- three of age, and :appear late alitigs that have bet* bretight . up on' %forger:pia ts,tuid seem to poSseas about enough energy and t alent to direct the 'energies of a rcgis meet of sicitly calves. - . '.• . While-pitting thiyughitanal haveoceasienally been iuestiona ha relation to the "religious awak ening" in tie States. Many‘seem to feel deeply in. !crested in he work, and cam ' a desire that it may . serve to -. bu dup the cause of hrist and „to hasten i , the day wh n that religion whi hr wells up from'. the heart,'prol ling as to - live in ce with and good will. toirard all men, and to eerily out God, shalibe come the g verning i rnie. of action of all instead of t the few. I Canada, as yet,' there have been no un usually -gee t numbers forsaking their tins and re solving by he help of God toles.. him with a pore heart and t 'serve him with a .Willing mind. Still, it is.confident y believed that a higher moral sentiment "and a deeper religious feeling are beginning to per vade the minds of the people, as one of the religious denominations, the Methodist conference, (be it said to its erdit,) acting upon the generally received opinion that drunkennesi and gambling cannot well .be carried bn, at least, to any great extent, without -the,ald of .I‘ll use of tobago, has gone so far as to forbid, xir Ett least to strongly condemn, the use of this pernicious weed by its ministers. As ye; there is no - -verylpereeptible improvement, owing,probebly, to the factlthat the stock of the charming narcotic they had on hand at the,tithe of the passage of the condemnatory resolution referred to, has not yet been concerted .ntiO smoke, or dissolved in saliva, and of course it - ould be a pity to waste -it. Th e Amen cars do n t compare favorably with the people of Canada imthe filthy use of this filthy narcotic. I. think, ho 'A-Cr, our people are not as well instructed in their y uth, in this department. Still, I must bear testi levy favorable .to the commendable zeal manifests by very many of the able Principids,Pres ideas, an Professors of out Academies and Colleges i t in this pa tieular. Their efforts, I believe, as a gen eral rule, j re crowned with admirable success, as but very hie- young men bare been !Mown to 'attend, for any great length of time; any of the Institutions that ;ive favoraide attention to this important subjeetbut . who on ilieirs return- home have not been able to smoke or chew (and perhaps both) tolerably well, and in ni ity instances have become well skilled in i their ustrily Cy.endatit acesimplisliments _of a still ' higher eortier: Ido not wish to convey the idea that 1 the class (of our worti , : ,,,,, mentors to whom reference 1 has been made are wilfu , derelict in imparting to their stn ents a practical knowledge of these denten tciry dita l ppliahmentr. They,feeling the force of the sentiment, " Men must be taught as though you , taught thign not,'' &c., and believing that it applies with quill force to_boys-and young men, hare, in this demo (merit, adopted the genet ally approved- and more - LlEomm method of instruction,—nnmely;more .i i by exam Ile and less by precept . Hence, if they fail to comp to successfully with the most noted of our , tnnadia brethren, it must be attributed to an° error of the hi‘rel, and not of the heart. - I will Mentimrfor the benefit of some who, per haps, ark desiring information on this s-.ubjecr, that in found the "'model" institution in this de It is supported by Government, the en Quebec, partmen being sufficient to preserve all the requisite is for carrying,on this :department withciut , )g the students with exposure. Three times fin their long black gowns and college caps, inselves on the steps and benches outside of lding, each with a good,la!ge • oldlashioned lte)td or a ci,gar, and then ; by the aid of a dowmeni apparatti burdetill a das th school,) seat the! the built pipe, it her of students seated around find similarly ESEM; equippe , the exercise begins. They soon manufac ture a dense smoke, in the midst of which they 'jab ber Fre ) rit. Terhapi,hoayser, these are conversa tional lectures on the specific gravity of air and smoke, l ttnd the comparative effects and advantages of the se of tobabco and rum. Stijl, fam not able. to say i regard to these points" as I do not under. e French language. One thing, lurerer, is they were all th lighted with the lesson, peaks well fur the Professors. e assure you, I hare met with . .schoolftery from this, of Which I will write soon: In haste, yours respectfully,. 7J. F. S. MET EEC which Let &fibre he' light would thus prove to be, darkness. Twice e a nitres certain sayings to those who never encl., d t em. The Bible is an asset book, and thegreat st . re should be used in teaching _ its doctrines.- 7 -' tgti; es, we have Sunday schools and , Bible champ k are quite enough without urging it upon com ma school pupils. • . •' • . 0 e word,a6Ont prayer, which ".N." thinks is so , c i ll . ej tionable to me. Let me say lam not, opposed )p ye, particularly, that kindreferrmi to, " with i at 'ingi7 . nor the. place, "every vrbere." It is Le. pie and fortalhat I dislike., ,The prayers here. t a.s )11 plated are those, offered up in the' do set of , to' "own heart, that no air hears but God's. Such ra era, and no other, are -iiiefatirig. the . coMmon' i hed more.:. I have.nothing to . say : sr pment t 9 1 le purprise of yotir,forrespondent at the course I 1 xv , tekeh, nor to hitwactiptipt) of depravity tamp th ' . and i ; lr ;: d ub d t s n 4fe" ot it- sv ihilt ill t berservl car e: f to uli tt 7j ito lf . ttt i hav e n soprie sooo oth i z; hi reasolis ch 1 n : y h g y lv l d o i b t le 4 c i t u ito we , p4 tim yer e • .• Respectfully; Teem .. X. T.T.. MU, Ituttalo, IS*. I , - • • ' • • • I The British Sterner stiz: liter on to 1:41*. Fbr.tAe..Wependet►e Republican Thek Bible _ , Masses. EDlTtatif :••••Aiajr.l ray y . few: words on. reading the.ftfirla hi our schools, of I .have had much experiencetheichit _That those ' Who objedt its use to schools are sin cere and 'mein :vregi . , :" . A 6 not doubt; but really , '" cannot see any real -g ro unds for the fear of sectarian- tnfinences'froM the mere read.: ing of the Teistainent. tiring the whole emirs° of my education, andof more than twenty years as a teacher, school was invariably closed by reading the New Testament, without note or comment; and I never was able to see the slightest shade of anything sectarirm: The parents were of the then various and contending denominations, (for they were then con tentious,) but one objected or complained., The Testatuent was readily and unhesitatinglY fit:mashed by each and all, with the undendandlngthat nil com ment and explanation "should be withhehli That teacher who goes about to teach his or, her ()adieu: kr notions of doctrine, faith, or erect, transeedds duty, and should be immediately discharged. The Testaments are Gays- revealed will for the benefit of us all, of wliatever age, sex, or condition; and I cannot believe what lie gave for the benefit of all, can, whensoever or wheresoever read by our youth, do them any-harm, or imbue their minds with sectarian notions, unless pertinacious meddlers in faith will. wantonly. "'lure the grace of God - into las. civiousness," or to what is equivalent, by improper i and meddlesome explanations. It was enjoined 'upon the Isralites--eee Dent. vi, —Oka, they should teach their children diligently` what the Lord had done for them. And I do not see why it is not as incumbent on us to teach our children the New Testament,•at least, as .it was on them. - "Suffer little children to come unto toe;"— but how can they or shall they come without reading his Word? Even. the gospels are the last that chil dren care to read, merely because of the gravity' of their style. Every proper noel honorable inducement should, therefore, be offered to their being rend and irismy honest opinion, drawn Tom experience, that at school, and in the same class, is one of the most befitting places fOt. the New Testament to be read-- I say properi,y - read, as other books are, and not ex plained. - The Bible is not a volume of tenets as many sup pose., Tenets are mere hierences•which the differ ent sectaries hare deduced from the itacred record, and nothing more. If, then, the Bible is. objection able, many or our best School Readers are much more so, as they do contain extracts from.pulpit elo quence, decidedfy dogmatical and sectarian. - And if our schools are to he purged of those honks from which doctrine and faith may be taught to the child, with all such books irthe place to'brgin.. I am no advocate, for forcing the Bible upon any one : I would leave the reading of It entirely to the parents: It would be unfair and unmanly in me to say all the scholars should read the Bible because I wanted mine to do,so ; rind wherein is it less unfair for , others to object to the reading of Grid's Word in schools, if I wished Mine there to read it? Now I see no difficulty In the way, and there need be none, e'vett if the teacher wishes to pray With his scholars. Let hint attend to the reading of the sa cred word, and-prajer if he please, at the close of tile day, allowing every child to stay or go,' as it or the parents may feel xlispos s ed, and neither the Bible or the prayer will harm the absent. If Mr. Jones wishes his children to be benefitted by the influence of the word of God,and - prayer : by the teacher at the close of each day, would it be Ilea for Mr. Smith to say the Bible kW' not be read, and the teacher shall not pray in the house ? These indivi4ual rights come up; and in all such cases time rule.. is, Do as yoU would be done unto. As you would not have your rights infringed, infringe not those of thy neighbor, but take French leave whemthe tiLor of freedom is open. In conclusion let me say, if . the time should ever Tonle in my day,, when. the Bible shall be rejected from our schools, I 'shall much deplore - thC event,aud feel much anxious tofescape to some Christian com munity; because I should -seriously apprehend the near approach ofsall the horrors of infidel Prove, or a doom similar to thatsof Sodom and of Gomorrah. BroOklyn, July In, '5B. - S. A. lifwros. For the Irokrendent Aepublisan. Lettei frank Kansas. LtIr ' RENCE, ' KANS . A.B S June 30, 1355 EDITORS ELPUDLICAN : 7 •Your paper comes to me again as it formerly did, and I have sent you the Herald of Freedom again in exchange. After my connection with the Herald office ceased, their num ber of subscribers having materially diminished, they were compelled to cut down the list of exchanges, and the Republican was stricken off through mistake. • Jim LaUe's examination on the charge of murder ing Col. Jenkins closes to-day. I hardly think he will be committed for trial. Like the " swill- milk" case in New York City, the investigation has been a very one-sided affair. For instance : A question by the prosecution is likely to elicit unfavorable . testi mony. Fome- technical "-objection" is urged by counsel for defense. Magistrate looks at his watch, and adjourns- court for dinner. In the mean time some irresponsible bloat is found to "swear" what witness told him of the affray before going into court. Cdurt again in-session. Defense now being able to prove (?) contradictory statements—to invalidate the testimony—withdraw their objection, and witness is allowed to proceed. Or if the objection is still urg ed, however trifling, it is sustained, while Legal ob jections raised by prosecution are not Anfrequently overruled. - Thus the investigation has progressed (?) for two weeks, eliciting but very little of the evidence that might otherwise have been adduced against this notorious scoundrel. To account for this course of procedure, you must know that we have a large class of rowdyish, fighting characters in this community, and that Lane could not commit so gross an outrage as not to be defencledby them, and that the court does not possess sufficient moral courage to face such op position. But whatever. be the result of this investi gation, or of the-trial, should there be one, Lane's politicarcareefin Kansas is ended. AU Summer the Weather harbeen excessively wet and hot, making it impossible to cultivate planted fields„so that we ate likely to have two weeds to one, corn— Spring wheat is bedfy rusted, and Winter wheat isapmuting in the• •shock. As for potatoes, in of the tobacco worm that proved so destruc tive to the crop last year, an insect resembling tie Spanish fly has already trimmed up completely...the tops in many fields in this locidity-I.whethei they wilfdestroy the crop or even injure it we hate yet to know. ' Very favorable news has just been received from the gold mines In the western part of this territory, ) ehd hundreds are t . _ ng their eyes in that direction. There hno Wave* doubt Of Abe - existence of an abundance of gold i titat 'region; : • ours,: &c.; '. D. 11. Hammon.' . ' For the Inikpendeneßeptiliean She Fourth o • Our Nation al Anniveraary was eelebrited at . Brook lyn; P.a.; Saturday, ad, very appropriately, as &Bois The procession was formed at the Brooklyn Rotel, under the direction of Stephen Breedi:Esq., Marshal of the day, asalatet by L 0: Mile, Esq.; end march. ad `upon the greeted Selected fir the omMalon, pro titled by. the liarford Bandi iihererthe large ussem." Mtge was' called to order'. by the the President,- O. G. listrrsrasu, - Eeq., anlippreisdre prayer was then of fend byMar. "M - DOolltde,lbllowed by Hail ColUmbla, km, by the Choir. Several other ,pieces , Were sung beautifully - by the Choir, to erspersed with musky' the' Merferd Band, - .who . added "much to the iiitet:est elan: Then conie the reading (lithe p g ila r ititin of . Independence, by B.:, A. Weston, Esq.;:felltnied ati Oration dklirered In his 'best and most eloquent tuanner,,bY R. B. Ltrms, Eej., of Montrosei:/after • which +ihfbe Red. Mate...and "Mimi'. by thii 'arid adhAtrMiteht of the large e,oneourseto the trell:sPread tables; ituutptotady tiecked With ail the Otreris' arid !Uxorial approPrititefforlie " After partaking of the refreiteneriti : penmen:- binge was again called to o er by the elixir, who read the following regular toasts; which wens receiv cd witii,deafening cheers: -I. -lie day frortlebraie. • • - C 2. :174 a f the•lisSitedPitsie4. 8. The Grovetrio; of she'll:4llone: 4. The Paftwits of the Reeetution;": : 6. The Solgisisto catinires . _ '' - ' Response by S. A: Newton: 8. The Stars and Stsipea.—Focal Music. • 7. The Father of his Country. . • 8. The Arts of Peace. Rev. N. Doolittle•sras called on to:respond, but was found to he absent. 9. Labor, its INynity awl Value. Responded to by E: A. Weston, Esq., in an able manner. . 10. Oraloy' opfie•Dity . Responded, to bp . It. B. Little, Esti., who closed hla remarks with several amusing aneedoteS.'' • 11, The Army and Km: 12. Our Common Sr /wok Responded to by_B. F. Teldrabery,..Egti.; to ttn hi to eating and creditable Style. 12. he Freedom of the Seas. • • Responded - to by S. A. Newton The following volunteer toasts were then 'read: . . . The Ameriean Eagle emblarnetieallx . and all the other birds ol our Coin'Wry literally--May the fond er soar high toward.the Sun in all her excellence and glory; Mid may the latter live unmolested to cheer us all, and aid the husbindmitn. The ,TVorld—the whole World,—May - Peace and truth, light! and knowledge; justice and freedom, health and contentment, and every, virtue, spread over it. The -Committee of A rrantlemenPB, justice and gen eroailq combined—itay there always be a few of the same kind la. The frothing people of Brooklyn—Tigorous in the cornfield and valorous in the battle field. The Young Ladies of Bi'ooklyn—For the future we thick that the crop of sensible ohi.baehelors will be very small. Bolivar, Lafayette , and Ilraithingion—The. three qrent lights in the political horizon. ES. Saunders. Our OUCltid—Am - ong whom is our old friend and Wow townsman, Dr. L. A. Smith. . [l,l. W. IL ..4 in e rie n trthute money—Neither gold, nor siWer, nor hank paper, - but such as it is our enemies re ceive it at par and always retire satisfied. [S. A. N. Buchanan'a 411hainista . taion..--Remembered and re gretted. [L. IL reek. The Putriutx r f f the Reao/tztion,--Immortal, wise, and prudent men—pectre to their ashes. [R. 0. M. . , The Ladies of Braoklun—Our pride in prosperity, our comfort hi distress—the help meets de'signed by our Cieatur for man. [R. 0. Miles. The Marshals of the day—Energetic and active, men well worthy of the station they fill. IR. 0. \ M. Our ,llosts,` Moors. Ampsteed and Bullard— Whose gentlematil• manners and superior entertain ment entitle them our warmest thanks ; May their 1 / 4, exertions - be duly al predated. [R. 0. Miles. Here's to the Lady who furnished us with this pleasant retreat—May site be abundantly rewarded for this day's occupancy of this beautiful grove, [M. The Constitution, the palladium of our free Insti tutions—The strict observance of the one, and an unalterable devotion to the other, has placed us an the first rank of nations: - [R. 0. Miles. Hay ae,rer claim the right and duty under the Federal Constitution, to determine for (*metres, the fundamental principles upomwhich our local- and do mestic institutions shall rest. [R. 0. Miles. The people of Kansas—Oppressed and downtrod den, but not conquered.-They will reject and spurn the mess of pottage that has been offered them, and carry out the spirirof the declaration Which aticiares that all men are created equal and endowed with the inalienable right of Liberty. - The two great re.liti.eal parties of our Country— Play they be etnulous upon the arch tower of liberty, in guarding the ,Sfagiot ( 1 / 4 arta of this Republic. (Dr. L. A. Smith. • The Inventors of ilineriett—lfechnnic fliokes in the ear-iyheels of the'Natit.n's Progress. [ILLMaelc. The institution Tr'Slavery—A foe to Liberty and a curse to utan. -flay it have a speedy dissolution. AmPrien'a illitstrions dead—Ever sacred to the ‘A ine ican heart. [F. E. Loomis. Responded to by F. E. Loomis The larieAverublage 1/011" broke up, and marched from the ground in the order of the morning, all pissed no doubt with the festivity. of the day; and thus ended the glorious Fourth in Brooklyn. _ Om PRESIDE:I:T.-11e entered the White House with a promise of Freedom to,'Kan sas, on his lips—and a scheme for enslaving it, in his pocket. He declared war against Circeluting Notes—and in six weeks Was is suing them, himself. Before the ink was dry With which he pledged "economy," he had drained the Treasury of its last ilollari Bey fore the printer's were dome stere,jtypine his hillext ble determination never to borrow—he was in Wall street solieiting a Loan He congratulated the Country' on the final end•of Slavery agitation- - --and he has been agitating it eversiuee. lie ordered Paulding to stop the .F'illibusters—and then recalled him for doing it. Walker, of Nicaragua, he `pronounced an outlaw—and tenderedtbith the hospitalities of the White House.. Walker, of Kansas, he furnished with written instruc tions—and fumed hint out for obeying them: - In 1857 he took off the heads 0t..a1l Postmas ters who could not hurrah for Popular Sov ereignty. In 'lB5B, he takes off the heads_ of all who.repeat the cry of 1857 ! lle withhidd troops from Utah, where he' proclaimed there Was war— r in order to keep , them in Kens:is where he insisted all was peace. He sells Forts at the West fora tithe of their cost, in order to buy,sites for Forts at the East at ten per cent. above their value -'-his subordinates, in both cases, pocketing the difference. He is continually asking for ew Steam Frigates—but' he will not use th • he has, either on the coast of Africa, or in the Gulf of Mexico. He sends out ti Steamer, ostensibly• td catch the Styx—but, with'priKate orders in the Captain's desk, to do nothing of the Nct. Claiming to be Ihe most frugal cif-Presidents- 7 6e has spent more than any of his - mdecessors. Assuming to be above party pr6tidices, he makes parti sanship the basis, even --of-his invitations to .. dinner.—Ere. Journal. . • " THE WAY THE MONEY GOES.—Tiolir. Wil son, in the course .of 43 speech on thdextrav; agent sums spent by the Administration 'in cc:Meeting the national revenue, stated that there are at Niagara nineteen men employed at an expense of $12,000 to collect $8,000: at Oswego twenty-three Men at $4OOO- to collect $6,000; at Buffalo ,twenty men_ at $17,000 to,- collect $10,000'; at Plattsbure 'twenty-six men - at $14,000 to calk& $18,090; at Burlington thirty-eight, men at $lO,OOO to collect $8,300; at Wisca.sset eight men • at $7,000 to collect. $130; at Portsmouth twen ty-one men at $ll,OOO to collect 555,500 ; 'at 'Neil/bury port, thirteen men 'at $O - .200 to col. lect $9,900; at. Marblehead nine men at $2,-T= 200 to collect .$250.; - at New Bedfcird four teen men at $7,500 to collect $4 1 ,800; at Perth Amboy thitteeirmeaht $4,590 to ,c 01,51,000 ,$1,000 ; NOrfellt twentyAbree men at $49,000,. to collcci,s6ooo; at Toledo seven men at $4,400 to; collect, $667:;. - at Detroit Jed men at $3,000 "to ;collect $495; ,at,San Frantisco one hiindredLand'Airlyifour men i i t ,546 , 4;000, collect cia thre% men at $4400 to c2ollecqoo6';: at StoektOk one Man at s3.loo'.ea $143; at Sacramento one :man at $3,600 , collect 4402'; .at San . ,Diea r4i F m en at $7, 600 ~to ,cotlecp $3O; Monterey three Men at ,$7,- 050 to 61leet'$45; -. oPedro men at $4,200 to 'collect $304: _ Sr Martin,: .the confidential clerk and agent of thageoretary of the Interior, ..tiho was sent to*anasi last full, and - who :.supeti. intended the fintnouvers whieh gaVe.tn the lecrititpton Constitution:its-final shape, , has heen affain dispatched to the 'sante -quarter. ,114.)ied..been ahient,. some two not expected Amick; utifil:'aller,:the August vote is Kansas." ..Qf .'cofirse,. the National Tretiin rx will ' respond both • Co!' his expenies and` bie expeisititenit-Z4VashimAit The . African Matte Trade;.' . A Washington-airrespondent of_the,pr,.. Y. Times closes a long letter on the sat/Viet, as follows; • tibildgemOT. oCiiiEcud memo siranda dii,trelops the hiitolt of Ap s e 4friciti •:shive tra4 fot tfte facts presented{'-we ralsalety „assume the - iialleifr fag conclusions';:' 1. That the slaici trade is not increasing, but is rapidly declining.' • 2. That this decline is the result, of the per. sabering hostility of the BritisliGovernment to tha - eentinuanceOf the trade: 3. That the remnant of the once.prosper oua commerce in the 'native' Inhabitants of Africa, still subsisting, exists only through the protection and ihefaeiljties derived tram the use of the American flag.__ " . • 4. That the usefulness. of the - prevebtice squadriin maintained by the United States is materially diminished, if not wholly nullified, by the temper and policy of our Governinent, Which gives to the treaty of 164 Only a sulky • and reluctant support. 5. 'That though our cruisers siimetiines seize and oftener drive off the coast slavers under the• American flag,. yet their vigilant turveillance aver the British fleet, and, .the trouble which our. commanders - occasion to 'British officers in dealing with justly BO pecad vessels, practically operate to the en couragement of American vessels engaged in the slave trade. "- 6. The risks of slavPrs are far greater than they have ever been bef and their profits are much less,' insomuch_ thatprobably no' more than one cargo in - threesnlely reaches a marker; 7. *That if the Government of din United States would promptly signify tiOts own people and to the European Governments in terested in the question, its resolute- purpose to assist in /he extinction of the traffic, that object would be almost instantly effected, 8. The new French project's substantially the slave trade revived, as shown in Corn mander Malair's reports and indicated in Mason's dispatches. And that scheme was undertaken by the French Government in the ii,ssurance that it would receive the sympathy and support of the American Government ; and that impression was derived frOm the representations of Mr. Mason. •CIIEAP HunA:4 LABOR.—Upofi the ques tion of cheap human laboi depends. the contest for supremacy between . the .North,• and ,the. South. A correspondent' from Missouri, writing to another paper, speaks of this con-. test : • "The German clement in thelb.o pulatiOn of Missouri is becoming now a most important one in determining the de,stiniei of-the State.- The German 'shipkeeper, mechanic, and mer chant are crowding one part ofSt. Louis, slid already form a population of nearly 75,000. The German peasant vine-dressers and fac ers are settling all Over •the hill-sides .atid beautiful valleys .of the interior, ..whiCh the American pioneer had neglected for the rich river bottoms. • Villages spring: up where one hears no language, day after day, but the language of old Fatherland; German Jus tices" of the penee are - appointed . iti some of the counties, newspapers are publisted, laws printed, notices posted, and - school hooks is sued—all in this foreign tongue. The . bat agriculture orthe country is falling into the hands of-this busy, thorough people. Slavery melts away-before the tree Teutonic indusstrv., The•slace:holders find themselves • competed with in the marker, end'ersold and l!utstrip ped in the yield of arable lands. , They sell their worn-out fields to th , se" intrusive for eigners, and emigrate with their negroes in disgust to Texas. I.lesidek as a - German welt explained to me, the slave is. becoming too 'expensive an-instrument of labor. A healthy ni.gro man costs now it? Mi,souri .some sl'.- '2OO. Capital is worth here at ka.t ten per cent., so that his cost to the owner, withdut reckoning all the expenses„of his food, cloth ing, inedieine, and shelter,. is $l2O per an•. num. Then there must be added to this the cost-of his absent or sick days, his ness,". (which is von know, a disea;e in the medical books,) his tendency . tothe "drapeto mania," (to run away,) and his general dis position to shjrk or do badly, work in which he has no interest. Now, againgt all these expenses and'annoyances, the - Sum of $lOO will , procure the services for the year- to the new settler of a free, intelligent, .efficient, careful German laborer, who • takes care- .of himself and has no sulks. • In the British-Parliament there has been. a calm debaie on the excitement of this country about the right of visit. The • calm ness evinced \ contrasted strongly with the swagger and fury exhibited in our Senate.— . if Seward and Toombs did not'blush when they read the report of the debate - it was be= ['pause. they had lost all sense of shame. The 'ileading men in Parliarnent . took the ground 'That in order-to preserve peace.the ;visitations 'should be stopped, as friendly relations, be-. tween.the two powers way of greater import mice than the suppression of, thisr.SlAVe trade. At the same time it Was conceded that visit ation was not sanctioned by the law - of ra tious. Of course it was not, just as the ar: rest of an innocent perion on land, . s by the .police, is, not warranted by law. Still the. police . do frequently arrest innocent ividuals when - they have reasonable grounds for suspecting them to be criminal; and'no fuss is made concerning it. If a po- Haman should only step persona whom hei had the clearest evidence of guilt aettinst, few rogues would be caught: ‘No doubt all the rascals in this country Would bettad to have the pollee'ainnpelled to practice -- on the prin;. ciple at the tiottorry4the elatticir against - the right ofrvisit to vessel's' at 'sea. - - It would 'be the next thingto giving - them -unbounded just as the - diseobtinumicefof the right of visit will, give the ' African - slave-trader3 perfect impunitylronesdkle W'_We ftlisere,-.bv a , teleg,raphie dis. patch in the:St. Louis liepublienn of the 18th ult.., that Mr.. Winston, Marshal .Ot Kansas T. has been removed,:after it - sefyiee of sixty days only, and nanie, in 18:50, was a synonim of. la ickednes!,' tuts been appointed in' hivplace. -, • , . : When Mi."Bilehapari removed' Fred Erna:- Ctirkson;and othe e rs, , of that ilk, and ed. theit!.plgices with honcifable: men,' • we • be; gat) to ;have; hopes .that -