the Irißepeliatqi ileptibtie4l?.
CIRCULATION, 2176.
C. F r READ dN. H. FRAZIER. EDITORS
F. E. LOOMIS. CORRESPOYDINQ EDITOR
MONTROSE, SUSQ.-CO., PA.
THURSDAY,. MAY 6. 1,19,69.
Rr
Jostices' Dunning tits and War
ngits-*a new supply just printed, and for
sala-atthe independent netiats office.
- Among our ner advertisements will
be foundthat of Hivisrs. 11... H. Hall dr l f Co.,
merchants, of Binghamton.
W'" The communication frcim New Mil
ford which we publish this Week, was intesd
-ed for last week's issue, but arrived a day
too lair.
_ ray' A lispateft from St.' Louis, dated
:April 30th, states that the rinigrants at the
'Pilte's Peak mines, and those along the route,
are enrolling themselves in compaikies for
.Arizonti and Sonora.
j Mr. Rtifus Cush - Man, alto 'has been
: one. of, the Teachers in the Susquehanna
County Normal School, will open a. Select
School in•the Montrose Aridemy
on the 18th inst., to continue twelve imekto
The:price for the term will be, for studen6
cif the common" branches, 83,50; Algebra
$4;
rir A term of the Susquehanna County
Normal School closed on Friday last with an
examination and exhibition. The exhibition
in the, evening,drew together a large assem
blage of people. We understand that the
blest term has been quite successful, the stu
dents having made very satisfactory progress
in their studies. • The next te rm
i of the school
will commence ko the latter part orAugust,
when Professor Stoddard will return to take
charge ci(
Car Poniiozme—Last night a-car, belong. .
in,g to a citizen of our town, got one of the
" buttons" intended for dogs, and Was this
morning found, in the garden dead.—Harris.
burg Telegraph.
ANOTHER. . CATASTROPEIE.—Harrisburg is
not the Only place iisited by such mournful
dispensations: Only a few mornings since, a
lery fine cat belonging to a citizen of our
town wee found. near Posts' store dead. The
cause ot her death is unknown, though it is
attributed to dOgs rather than " buttows."—
Sbe was buried in the garden, and our " local
editor," who attended the obsequies, propos
es to furnish a three-column report next
week. •
. •
lar The Chase Postoffice and the Porter
Ridge Postoffice, in this county, have been
discontinued. The Administration is "econ
omizing" by discontinuing Postoffices in the
Republican North, where the Department
more than pays its way, and increasing the
number at the South, where \they are a heavy
charge to donation. -
Mr• The Record of the Timer, published
at Wilkesbarre, by - Wm. P. Miner, at two
dollars per annum hi advance, is an excellent
paper, as might be 4pected on_the principle
of hereditary transmission, its editor being
the son of . Hon. Charles Miner, whose fame
as ah editor has long been wide-spread. The
parr is prospering, and :his recently been,
entailed to about the size of the Independent
ItepuLlieon, Mid furnished With „new type ,
throughout. •
Ltizerne has several Republican;
newspaperree Record of the Times, The
Pittston Gazette, and 77Le &TIM iOl7
-tail—and there appears to be some strife
among the editors to see who shall publish
the best paper. •
gar Since - perbert and Sickles, each o
whom shot down and killed a man in broad
day and befortieveral witnesses, in Rash.
ington, have been found "not guilts" of the
crime of. murder, acme have - inferred that
the right to kill any obnoxious individual is
among she privileges conferred by the Con
stitution - on Members of Congress. We do
- not God any such privilege-given by that in.
stTainiin ; but probibly Judge Crawford, be-
fore whoa► the above named criminals were
tried, does.• He couldfind it, we think,quite
as easily as the Judges-of the Supreme Court
found what the; professedto as the basis of
their extra-judicial opinions in the Died Scott
case. . _
one thing seems to be evident: a Demo,
cystic Member of Congress is not thought in
Washington to commit a crime in shooting a
hotel waiter or a district-attorney. - Whether
the same rule would apply to a Republican
Congressman, is not so well settled, such a
case not having yet occurred:
E` Governor %rue of Virginia has writ:
ten` a yam; against Mr. Buchanan, in which
Its denounces our venerable President as the
betrayer of his friends, the destroyer of his
party,And the bitter enemy of Southern
_hatreds and Southern rights'. This letter is
the most forMidabli army yet presented by
a Southern politician of Mr. BUCUISEN po.
shut. It accuses him of barring-desert.
ed the true Democratic platform in every .
item, And of hinizn" g dullard the South by
every act of his. Administration. it
nonnees the Nebraska bill, the Lectompton
scheme, the Tariff project, the Thirty Million
billohe enormous growth of Government
eipenditurekthePacifie Railroad, and every
thing 'else which Mr.-Buchanan has supported
or Imputed Since be cunt bat:o'er:ice. And
after' this minute detail. Gov. Wise hurls at
the President the sweeping accusation 'of
lying !resented a Federal policy " which,
in its whole outline sad filling up, yawed, an3r
Federalism in all riots which"Hootiltoo,
or ati - dihrosr e or Any other tafittffotariats,
ever dared to pretteoor propose." -
Or We bite chronicled no recent event
with so grestpleasure u tbe reception of
Henry G carto7,theil ou.BenuP?!..
The world haanlviriya - boinnWfor tbiNeadini
= • -• ••,;i
of her artnies.andihe onities of bee4enatee.
Men of tci4ay.)orii,to, greet with appla►iie
the political idventnrer., whom suctiesilits
only title to notice. For pettifoggers, stump
orators, fillibusters, convention-ienders, and
office-seekers, they are ready to merch out
with their drums and banners. But swell
reception of a private citizen, a man of the
study, aced not of the stump, whose only reo
ommendatiou "is the fidelity with which thro'
a long Mole has. pursuea the investigation
of principles which i1d....n0t bring profit or
popularity, is rare indeed; . and we will ac
cept it u, we hope, significant of a better
day, ishen society-will make some recogni-.
Lion of those wbo are working best and most
faithfully for it. =
Mr. thireyhas long enjoyed
. s reputation
in Europe, greater than at bOtni. Ills books
have commanded the attention of the ablest
students of Political Economy in England
and France, where alone that science has
made much general progress. They have
been adopted as text bOoks even in the uni
versities of Sweden and Norway. His pa
aition in the science is that of a great creat-
F ice thinker: Surely, tio man' since , Adam
except perhaps Mr. Buckle, from
whom much may be expected, can be brn't
into comparison with him. To see the work
which he has accoriplished, - we need only
look at the contradictions of the science when
he began to devote himself to it. Malthus
`NIA" teaching thit population tended to in
crease more rapidly than food, and, that all
efforts were useless to keep the former with
in the bounds of the !stir. So, a diminu
timcof population was the only alternative
to famine, and in this light a war might be
benefit ; and so, too, the leaders of society
were no longer responsible for the poverty
and misery by which they might be suf.-
;rounded. Ricardo was teaching's theory of
rents, balled upon the idea that the best land
was first occupied, and when resort was nee
emery to the poorer, that' ent was paid- for
the formeraccording to the difference between
the two. So, the increase of wealth tended
to, the bringing into cultivation constantly of
poorer soils, and diminishing returns of labor,
and so; too, rent is paid to those who have
gained a prior possession by mere power,
and not to possessors who have done any.
thing to merit it. McCulloch was 'contend.
ing that exchange and transportation were
more profitable than production. And Cob
den was advising the lower class to go to
Olonies where they could buy rich lands
cheap ; rather than stay at home where they
were-compelled to pay high rents for poor
ones.
The great chartges in the science, have
been mainly the result of Mr. Carefs work.
He has done more than any other to lift it
from the contempt into which it was falling,
and establish it upon its present basis.—
Against all these fallacies, which did violence
to nature, and were in defiance of the con
victions of the world, and made the promis
es which Christianity gives of s corning social
.order appear but as a dreain, Mr.. Carey op
posed himself,His book ladled "The Past,
the Present, and the Future," which is per
haps the best resume of his system, contains
the completest refutation of them. The
originators of them were mere theorists, but
be wakpratical.. They began with the as
sertion of a law; and facts were *et aside or
square cut to suit it. But he has worked in
the method of the Baconian philosophy, and
his lairs are but the expression;of the widest
induction of facts.. To one whohas a love
of seeing mere speculators exploded, there is
little pleasanter reading than his refutation
of Malthus and Ricardo in that work. With
the -most compreLensive generalization of
facts, be shows bat they were' not Simply
mistaken, but d&ctly wrong. They were
not only without the truth, but right in the
face of it. -But we shall be -.content if we
have led . one more reader to that remarkable
book. 'As an exposition of some of the un
derlying principles of civil and social - econo
my, it-hag not yet been surpassed; It is per
haps the best contribution our country has
made to. Sociology, which Compte, calla the
last in the series of the sciences. Indeed, its
author has done much to show that the lime
of society, as well as the laws which regulate
the planets in their courses, are , the expres
sion of the divine love and wisdom. •
But the lesson Which we have need .now
most to learn from him is that of - the unity
of the nation, and that thii true ba-is of its
material prosperity is a "developed, diversi
fied,, self-centred industry," and the true
spring of its moral life is the realization - of
its calling, and its obligations of national
justice and national right. '
We are losing even the idea 'of a nation.
ExpanaiOn is called_growth, and vastness we
mistike for strength. The party which ad.
vocates national stealing in a raid upon Cuba,
and has the impodence to call for thirty mill
ions to carry it ont, - sets aside such a great
unifying national work as - the Pacific Rail
road would be. Her policy is in favor .of
going abroad, rather than forging into a har.
motions power that which we have. She
seelui not a unit s but a anlomerate t . In in
difference 0 history, it is forgotten that the
Dutch Republic, which we have imitated,
was so limited; or that Attica was the small
est of the_Greek 'States. We may do well
to remember, that tbe decline of Rome dated
from the time when abe ceased to be a mitiott
and became an empire; and most of all May
we learn a lesson from , Wit great political
'text-bock the Old Team:Dent, and avoid that
- scheme or system of -society against whiji
Judea as a nation irks a witness, and which
is there called Babel, or Babyloilian,lor it is
to that, that this party is hturying
rafr Ws; anti Bicknell's Bank'Note
porter for May 2d, is out, and ibis I capita
number, which every poison b tuskless sbo'd
bsve, as a mere measure Of security apinst
ha/ miaow. Thera are daseriptions oral:pout
forty recent counterfeits, with full accounts
of all irevioils ones. The editorial, me is
welLfilled;al4 Os prices - awful •14 stocks
and all other article are fill 9d =Mt.
or the lobbsville Cowrie denounces
the dnetriste attionlnterference by Congress
tn.:Ake P h *
be4 9 3',"iri
The newest Denineratit:!doetrir.e - le
,
thiteterslities are cerviedinto ToritptY,
and "the right slatertiAkist - 41"40 is <AO- -
firmed by the Supreme Court of - thetnited
States, (u of course it would be in - every
cues on the yrinciples of .the Dred Scott de
cision,) if the Terriurial Gegislature fails to
protect it, it must be protected by .Ael of
emigre:l. This destroys the doctrine of
Popular Sovereignty entirely. _ The Phila
delphia Press gays:
•-
u Mr. Buchanan; his Cabinet; and his de
pendant* in office, have resolved to employ
the whole machinery of Government in the
destruction of the popular will in all the Ter
ritories of this Cohn). Net only are the
-pie of the Territories to be deprived of
any control whatsoever over the subject of
'ivory, but every branch of the public set
vice,—the judiciary. Congress, the executive,
and, of course, thenrmy arid . the nary,-In
to be enlisted intim enforcement -of a code
by which slaVery is to be held in the Terri
tories in defiance of the public will. There
is no concealing of this purpose of the Ad-
ministration. Its new ofgati, The
lion, takes -tare to make It so plain that ' he
who runs may read.' " -
• For to hdepentien4, .Repsoliean.
Close of the /lonia BahooL
Miasma. Eurmna:—For the benefit of
your numerous readers throughout the coun
ty, I would ask to report the closing' exercis
es of the ; ormal School, which has been in
such successful operation in this Borough for
the past year and a half,—Which took place
on Friday evening last. I em aware that
the reports of school proceedings now-B.days
are Hemming considerable of a bore, and for
she simple reason that the reports are too
minute, and consequently lose interest for
the public- But the Normal School is a pub.
lie institution, and, as l- suppose, the public
feel an Intereit in all matters connected with
it.
The school - has been; from its establish
ment, unexpectedly well sustained, by the
pub* in the bestowment of a large shire of
patfonage which the.echool deserved, and by
the young men and ladles of Susquehanna
and adjoining counties, by the spirit I with
which they have taken hold of The matter,
aid aided the teachers in pushing forward the
enterprise.
The school, the past term, has numbered
one hundred and fifty students—and during
the year over two hundred and, fifty have
been'in attendance. - I do not spppose that
all of them were fitting thetnselyes for teach
ers ; but the grater proportion of them were,
a number 'sufficiently large to change the
whole character of the profession in the coun
ty, if it was as in years past.
The closing address was delivered
. on
Wednesday afternoon previous to the exam.
'nation and exhibition, by Rev. B. B. Emory,
subject, Mental and Moral Culture, as view
ed in relation to man's moral obligations and
accountability, with some general practiesd
thoughts upon the subject of Education.
01 the examination on Friday se cannot
speak personally, as we were prevented by
other engagements from being present- But
from what we know of Prof. Stoddard, we
venture there was less superficiality about it
than there is about many, schools of greater
pretensions.
The exercises "Friday evening were of a
very pleasant and isgreeahle character.—
Singing, music by Smith & Co.'s Band, and
declamation, - with two laughable colloquies,
made up the programme for the occasion.—
The singing of a large company of little girls,
all dressed alike, and looking like little fair
ies, was one of the moat interesting features
of the exhibition. The dramatic part of , the
exercises was exceedingly well executed, and
gave evidence of mere 'than ordinary talent ;
_bat were we writing a criticism upon this
part of the performances, we might take
some Strong exceptions to the general effect
of such exhibitions, especially upon the minds
of the young.
Though the exercises - were lenkthy, the
audience gave no signs of weariness, except
a portion that were . obliged to stand—that,
in connection with the crowded state of the
room, was the only cause of complaint; and
the creed dispersed at a late hour in a very
agreeable frame of mind. •
• We see that Piot. Stoddard has given en. ,
coursgement that-be wißretum next Fall, in
August or September, and reopen the school
—the advantages of which we trust there
will be many anxious to improve. •
For fbe bidepeltdrad Republican.
The Anademy Dedication at New Milford.
NEW MILFORD, April-25, 1859:.
ITESSRIL EDITORS noticed in your pa
per of list week a letter signed " New Mil
fordite," giving a brief account of the dedits.
tory services in our new Academy, on:Jhe
eve of the 14th inst. was also - present on,
that occasion, and was myself highly grafi.
fled with the performances; and particularly
With the address of Prof. Stoddard, which
waselevating and ennobling in its character,
and well calculated to stimulate his hearers
to increased exertion in the true faith ; being
in fact a happy representation of our nation.
al,motto. Presenting a lofty standard, the
Professor urged us to press towards it with
energy and determination, assuring us that
itwas not ideal, neither impossible, but ac
t4ally.attainable„ And that his sentiments
could fail to be appreciated and admired,
did not believe.' Ifence, - 1 was surprised that .
your correspondent, if aiming, tn. communi.
cate through - your columns an intelligent do.
scriptiou of the proceedings , of the meeting,
should have been unable to give a more ex
plicit relation of this interesting portion ; es
pecially as his Scope for methoranda must,
cadge, have been nearly as extensive as the
original manuscript .
I The music, also, as far as I ant capable of
judging, was evenmore then "tolerably well"
executed , : though Ido not pretend to be a
Rossini or a Melberg.
Now I am itorryJo say, there appear to
me evident' ymptoms; in the tone of the
aforesidd epistle, of a morbid state of the
"mind. Was this caused by trhysiCal de.
nurgement l. would advise a trial of the "Ox
ygenated Bittere." Or, if it proceeded from
temporary causes incidental to the eve in
question; I would respectfully suggest as , a
caution on future similar occasions, some
light exercise, - for instance taking a 'small
part in the-exercises.
'• Respectfully yours,
A
RZSIDEST
Par as buldpestdent A/publican
tiering Aecident. • •
Jicitsox, April 25, 1859.
Moms. Enrroas :—On ' the • 20th inst.,
Mr. Joel II; Lainb, of Jackson, while lifting
a large atoms, behind.his cattle; was kicked
by one of the cattle, 'sad both bones of: his
leg broken. The fracture was reduced by
Dr, Wheaton, and Rose's Patent Splint - - sp
'plied ; and the patient is doing. well.
"
•_. Mr. Lamb - was crippled in the other leg
by: os o. kick of E bOrso l 416 w years alic - a.
B.
- jibi. the helPiindevet Rgitiblieten
- 3 Timbers.
4otii Hom.our, Aftil•Sltt, 1561).'
8. F. Mtn*, Supip.iiitend•
eat :14 took the liberty, two•weeka ego, - to
arlaftlia a letter to you asking for some in.
forMetion4k, ward to the examination of
teaebent.''.s `ft bas been generally supposed
that the examination to which all who pro-
pose to becometeachers are subjected, is for
the purpose of ascertaining their qualilina
time; to teach, and, if they pass throng i n- the
examination at tisfactotily and. receive certifi
cates front the examiner, they 'have always
been regarded as fully qualified to discharge
all the duties and responsibilities they pro
goal; to take upon themselves. It has been
so generally understocid that a person bear
ing a certificate from the Minty Muperin-
tendent ins ,competent V) teach all the
branches of a good English education which
are Usually taught in out ccinonon schools,
,that Trustees have taken such tertilicate as a
guide in the Refection ortFacher.. But in
your last report you communicated the as
tounding intelligence that of the two hundred
and seventy persons to *horn you hive giv
ien licenses to teach school only "fifty" were
"qualified; and you also communicaltd the
still more astounding intelligence that of the
two hundred and twenty teachers who were
"unqualified," one hundred and forty were
"unfit" to teach. This fact is en entirely at
variance with all of our preconceived notions
of the value and purpose of a certifiCate that
have thought it would be conducive to my
own interest at least to gain some informa
tion concerning the object of the examine.
tion. My neighbors manifest more. interest
in the matter, if possible, thin) myself. At
their request l have addressed you publicly,
so that allinterested may be satisfied as to
the true nature and Intent nf'a certificate.
In asking for inforMation, I took occasion to
say that yintr certificate, according to ynnr
repott, is more an evidence that a teacher is
"unfit" than that
,he "qualified." If a
teacher presents himself before n board of
trustees, and asks employment on the
strength of one of your certificates ( there •is
only one chance in seven, according to, the"
figures of your report, that he is " qualified,"
and against this poor little one' chance in
seven that he is qualified, there arc three
'chances that he is " unfit" to teach the school.
This, certainly, is a strange piece
_of intelli
gence for a Superintendent to communiente
to the trustees and patrons of district schools.
The direct effect of this intelligence is to ins
troy all confidencesin the value of a certifi
cate. Indirectly it tends to destroy the pub
lic confidence in the abilities and qualifies-
tions of the examiner.
Your report, Sir, has created the impres
sion that there is something wrong in -the
man:lgen - fent of our Common Schools. I
have at all times maintained that the thing
was capable of a reasonable - explanation,—
that the enigma was capable of a rational so
lution, and that no blame would attach to the .
Superintendent. Nevertheless lam convinc
ed that there is wrong somewhere ; for I can
not induce Myself to believe. that it is right
that two hundred and twenty teachers who
are tenqualifirti fur their business should find
ready employment in Susquehanna County.
Why, it is njibel on-Jhe intelligence of our
citizens. One hundred and forty teachers
who . are " unfit " to tench, hired in our
schools ! It is a disgrace upon every truiree
in the county. Out 14 two hundred and se
venty teachers who have received certificates
only fifty qualified"! ! It is a burning shame.
Parents, where are you that you do not re
pel the libel upon your intelligence Trus
tees, where ere you that you do not wipe out
the disgrace restin s g upon you Teacher!,
where are you ,that you do not respond to
the imputation upon your reputations 'l' Sa• -
yers , nkndent, where are you that you suffer
such a shame, when it can be so • readily re
moved by an easy explanatiou.
Sir, -I am your friend and would
. eter
F Meld -you from unjust censure. I write you
full in the faith that there is n wrong some,
where which you can expose, to the great
benefit of common school education and with
much credit to yourself.
Yours, tiuly,
•
-
For the Indryuntkat Reptgliedvi.
MR. PETER PIPER: Dear Sir:—As Mr
Tewksbury does not seem inclined to notice
your communication in the Republican of the
21st ult. (probably thinking his time can be
better employed than in the apparently hope-
less task of your illumination,) perhaps it may
not be much out of the way for me to try to
enlighten you on the subject which seems to
,exercise you so much, and which "may be
all right, only you cannot understand it." It
may de a thankless. effort, as y - our object
seems to be, not so much to gain information,
as covertly to foster a feeling unfavorable to
Mr. Tewksbury among the people of the
county. Every true friend of our common
schools will meet all causeless attacks upon
the County Superintendent with their merit
ed contempt. Such attacks will, in most
eases, be found' to come from an enemy to
our Common School System. 1
As you assure that the "Trustees," as you
dill them, will not knowingly employ " unfit"
teachers, and that they "fire in the habit of
thinking that any persmi who can exhibit a
certificate from the County Superintendent is
qualified to teach a common district schoial,"
allow me, (as a Yankee answer,) to ask a
few questions:
Ist. Have you, Peter Piper, ever teen a
Teacher's Certificate?
2d. If you have, do you consider a No. 5
certificate an assurance of the bearer's com
petency ?
3d. Do you mean to insinuate that the
"Trustees" of this comity inppose the. hold
ers.of No. 1 and No. 5 certificates to be alike
" qualified ?" and do you require any other
" mark" to distinguish between teachers'
quilifasit!ons--if so what ?
4th. Haveyou examined the reports of
other Sullertotendents Are •not most or
all of them open to the objection .you urge.
against Mr. - Tewksburi's of reporting a por
tion of the teachers unqualified Why dop't
you make yoUr remarks general f '
sth. Are you, Peter Piper, any relation to
that wise namesake of yours, of traditional
memory, yclept " pumpkin eater ?"
Now, friend Peter, let -me exhort you,
while blowing your trumpet (I, beg your
pardon, I meant pipe) -and Jousting furiously
with the club end of a " sharp Stick" at any
thing and everything which you 1 0 Cannot un
deratand," to remember that you may turd
out a Don Quixote and your steed a Rosi
nante.
Hoping you will continue your ioveitiga
tionsinto public affairs ' and feor the public
with'any " astounding disclosures" - whit.* a
person of your inquiring disposition may
have in his power to inaPart,,permit me, Mr.
Piper,lo subscribe myself;
Yours, decidedly, Yontro Awinica.
R EPortrtil
Ilrff" A novel proceeding dye the Lancas. I
ter (Pa.) Etpiess—novel at least in this 1
State—took place in the Court of Common
Pleas, on Saturday'. Catharine Zellers, a
German woman made forimil 'application.
and was sworn and admitted as a citizen of
the United States— Some think she Is one of
the "strcmg4ninded,* : and is getting eady to
vote in "the good 'tinier. coming;"but die
snore probable supposition is that she wants
to sell "red-eye:t and has taken this
oary step towards applying for a
jar The-1108mM contaltut an ettiolb bh
the TaVOrltiantist the federal government to
wards the , South, as shown l among other
tinny, in - the:orectiaa-in')hst stction of_ cut
:tern - booties coatinglaani tl f*s
,thette in town of that same size at thei lsnith,
- the commerce of the 'Netithern
towns is much greater. than thaCiftf . the 4010. ,
ern. We extract the 6:41owl4:
" We might extend indefinitely the tan"-
parisons suggested by these tables in csanfiee•
tion with cognate data obtained from like
sources. We will give only a ?en% Maine
has Custom-Houses costing in the aggregate
*710,790, and has 765,110 tuns of registered
and licensed shipping. Virginia's Custom-
Houses (hot all ctunpleted - yet.) will 'cost
*993,222, and her 'shipping measures 79,145
tuna. Massachusetts, with $1,257,991 in fin.
ished Customliouses, and 517,009 tuns of
shippihg, May be placed shouldet tta. shunt- -
der (see Webstetsun Mayne,) with South
Carolina, with *2,053,000 in Custom-Houses,
(and the work still progresslbg,) and 57;530
tuns of shipping. New York has Custmn-
Houses costing *1,452,405, and her !hipping
counts 1 569 525 _inns. inaht.
. .
moth Custoht-nollse has already cost *2,-
912:5,!..58, and is going on,- and we may soy
going down, at the rate of hnlf a million an
nually; while her shipping dwindles away to
176,491 tans.
From these facts, it appears that for
- Bach
tun of. registered and licensed shipping (a
fair test of business at a Custom-flonse,) in
thoihree leading commercial States of the
North, the Government expends just about
one dollar in ,Custom-Houi-e buildings; but
in the three principal - commercial States of
the South, it expends more t,han nineteen dol
lars in like buildings for each tun of their
shipping. This disparity between buildings
and tunnage at the South, must- be accounted
for on the gromid that Custom-Houses don't
cost the slaveholders anything, but ships do.
In delving a little deeper into the mass of
facts before us, we find that Waldoborough,
in Maine, with a Custom-House costing
$25,324, owns 183,932 tuns of shipping, and
built 41 large vessels in 1857, measuring 22,-
748 tuns; while Pensacola, with a Custom-
House costing $43,004 owns only 5,433 tuns,
and built in that year three *hole schooners
of an aggregate burden of 242. tuns. Little
Kennehunk, with a Custom-lrouse costing ex
actly $1,600, built ships in 1857 measuring
5,996 tuns; and Charleston, with its two
'million Custom House (and scarcely half
done at that,) and eanet to dissolve the Un•
ion and meet the whole marine of the North
in open sea-fight on the shortest notice, built,
during the fiscal year ending on thu 30th of
June, 1857, two schooners, two sloops, and
two sail-boats, whose total measurement
swells to the gigantic figure of 260nne,---or,
to give the precise aggregate, its obtained
from official sources, 20 tuns and 70-95ths
of a tun."
Rsyrisa Ilior.—There was a meeting iri
Philadelphia, on Monday evening, to read
such life-long Dernocrats as Col. Forney and
those-who act with him, out of the Demo•
erotic party ! The Lebanon Courigr well
says that this meeting was presided over by
that old and consistent Democrat, Josiah
Randall, and was conducted by men with
like Democratic antecedents. Now there is
no one who has the least knowledge of the
political history of our State, who does not
know that Josiah Randall, up to a late date,
was what WAR called a parlor Philadelphia
Whig, whose aristocratic notions and
_actions
did the Whig party a great deal of harm.—
:For such a man, then,-to undertake to read
old Democrats out of the Democratic party,
is one of the most refreshingly , cool transac
tions that has. lately come under our ,notice..
But the fact - is, such men as Randall-,- Wm.
B. Reed, and their like, are at the head of
the Democratic party, controling Its policy
and reaping its harvest of patronage and
honors. That the indignation of old Demo
crats gets up to the boiling hent, when they
see such men assume the leadership
_of their
ptirty, can well'be imagined. But it is with
such that Mr. Buchanan -.sympathizes. Ile
was an old Federalist himself, and the aristo ,
erotic principles of the party of his youth
still cling to hint. The Democratic org,anb
salon having got into the possession of the
Federalists, the question may well be asked,
have we a Democratic party among ust If
so, is it the party now headed 'by- Ronda;
Reed, Buchanan, Toombs, Stephens, Cobb,
•
and Company ?
PETER PIPER.
A COMPETENT WITNESI 2 .- - - No man in the
country is more thoroughly acquainted with
all the qualities of Locofocoism than John
W. Forney. Ile is perfectly familiar with
all its elements, tendencies, practices, and
purposes, and is a competent and credible
witness against the party of which he was
one of the high priests and most active and
useful members. Here is his'testomeny:
"The organization of the Democratic , par
ty, in most of the free States, especially in
New . York, New England, Pennsylvania and
New Jersey, usurped by the. dependents of
tbe-Federal •Administration, and perverted
to the maintenance of doctrines at variance
with the well-settled Democratic creed, Jabs.
become a mere organization for defeat, , zind,
must continue so, unleas arrested by a
prompt; vigorous, and thorough counter
movement. It has ceased to be a Denzocialic
organization. The officers of the General
Government use it and abuse it for their own
ends, obeying the orders of their masters in
the declaration of new dogmas of political
bath, nominating for &nee those only who
substitute these dogmas for the well-settled
creed of the party itself, and shielding their ,
crimes with the name of such an organza.
Lion.,'
Ti G ROUNDS or Acurrrrat.—.
The Washington correspondent of the New
York, Times rays:
- "After the trial Chad the pleasure of meet
ing teh of.the gentlemen who composed the
Jury, and I am specially instructed by them
to state, and they wish it distinctly under
stood, that they gave their-, verdict on the
principle' that, in the absence•of any adequate
punishment; by law for adultery, the man
who violates the honor and desolates the
-home of his neighbor, does to at die peril of
his lifii,.and if be falls by the outraged hus
band's bands, be , deserves his doom. This
principle, they informed me, they agreed up
on unanimously six days since.
tar Forney's Preu does not mince mat•
ten with regard to thii nornineeirof the late
Buchananite State Convention. It says: -
" Messrs. Rowe and Wright are the notori
ous and accepted representatives of_ the
treacheries inid betrayals ofdthe Federal Ad
minlitmtion, and of that cohupt annbinatiou.
in this . State which is toiling to commit the
Demoonitie party to• the. ductiirie that the
people shall not control the Territories, .aid,
that slavery. iii to be protected by all the
power of the ,Govemment. And for thii
they ought to hi, and we hope they will be;`
overwhelmingly defeated.°
.12r- Bayard Taylor is about , to, erect 'an,
elegant,. resideriee on the' Brand ywie, -in
Chester county In this State,. near the scene
of his early - boyhoodi - where his parents still
reside.
'Ur The New York Triount, of which
the fiat rounhei woe F 11411444 in April;
18411, *ion' circubAlpa Of 211,750 cop
Sidles 00e.
Daniel E.;pieilles has been teklultted: . The
case Was sukiiitted to the 4urini, ten min:
t4 - #1 hiefitritt-t'Wo orr Ztestfor afternoon, and
etitoe 011 pregsetti they signifled.that
on venSiet.Vlintie l ji a t e ly.
On tint atilWeelieinetifienby)he'fareman—
"ll4.4oloPhe etOwtrin tlfe, e!pnitt
biiifie out: iSio slioas baii,andihand.„
kerchiefs were' waved, the peoldeouttido re- ,
sponded; and' neither ' !gambol nor Judge
could prevent the wildest cries of exultation.
It was evident that the verdict was in full ac,
Corditace with popular opinion.'
The c1.0‘41.1 ptessed around :;\ fr. Sic:ldes,
manifesting their congratuhition% by extrava
gant signs and exclamations.- Ills hand was
no longer that or a murderer, , of an
avenger.of society. wti4's seised and Av rung
with delirious joy. the cheering was kept
up continuously.
. . • .
So far there vas nothine unexPecled in all
this; The friends of a man who has stood
in a criminal dock for nineteen days; with ft
sword suspended over his head, tnii3r ha ex
cused for some extra dettatustrations of sat
isfaction at his escape—but the scene was
soon changed from one of-natural exultation
into the most ridieulOus and disgusting farce.
Captain Wiley printed an extatie kiss on the
cheek of the unfortunate Sickles, as he now
was ; thejury Were so eager to grasp his
hand that he was obliged to climb over the
forms to permit them that honor. With
great difficulty and dvlax he, emerged from
the Court House to find a thousand more
greetings outside, and his friends blifely- pre
vented the horses from being loosed, and his
•carringe drawn to the hotel by the delighted.
populace.- The procession of canines and
the•shotitiog multitude might well have-been
mistaken for the inauguration scene-of a new
President. - • •
Tlic jurors called on Mr, thinly at his ho
. .
el, and one of them (Mr. McDermott) re•
vested him to tell the 'citizens of New York
that the '• people of 3Vashington are not be
hind those of any other part of the country
in devotion to the family altar!" Whether
he meant this as a delieate satire on sthe
character of Mr. Sickles we are not .intorm
.ed. Another juror brought his fiddle to tea
tify his devotion to the family altar. Mr.
Arnold, the foreman, had been oppressed by
the fear that his health would give out Before
the end of the trial ; but it had not, and 'he
now "hoped that. his latest posterity would
honor his memory fur having served on the
jury."
There were many other exhibitions of " af
feetion" and regard, which included all the
counsel - for - the defence,.some of whom acted
a _
- leading pars in the comedy.'
From the beginning of the trial, no othc
result than acquittal has been. looked.
We believe the verdict is entirely in 'accord.
ante with the popular feeling.—Century.
A Woman's Views.
• The North lowa Timex cofitains a letterl
from a lady, - commenting upon an edi
torial in relation to the killing of Key.—
The Colonel had said that " Sickles could not
have lived had he not eakeyvengeance on the
wily scoundrel who had robbed him of his
position and disgraced hi name." His fair
corrcspondent'had supposed that a man's vir
tue was inherent, a part of his nature, and
'not simply a reflection of the virtue of his
wife. But she infers from the editorial al.
laded to, that "when Mr. Sickles went • to-
Congress,- his position,
,his honor, depended
upon the chaste behaviour of Mrs. Stckles,
his wife, and she an - Italien at that ! The
beautiful woman, captivated by the graces of
a ban somer man than her husband, sins,, , is
discovered, and exposed-Ind Mr. S., ,the
Only innocent person in the affair, Shoots.Alr.
Key, not for betraying his wife, but for dis
honoring him t" This she *flounces " egre
' gious selfisbness, and continues as follows
"It is strange =how differently - our sexes
are constituted.. , Women survive these dis
agreeable developments every day. 'lf Mr..
Sickles had hired this assignation house and
met Mrs. Swizzlekdo you think - Mrs. Sick
les would have gone out to shoot the faith
less crinoline who had stolen her husband"?
No, Sir I. Women do no such foolish thing's ;
and why I Because; if we are 'virtuous we
have confidence in our virtue,,,and we feel
that no ;dereliction of the husband can or
ought to effect the virtue: of the 'wife. But
suppose on same fine Sabbath nicirning all
Om women in Washington wha suspect their
.truant lords, should sally nut, swords and
.pistols by'their sides,' to chastise the dear
creatures who had stolen their .affections—
would not this Mark an interesting epoch in
,history r - - . .
The following shows what 4t woman thinks
of a man's courage • •
. ..
" And yet, this man; echo could. not meet
the hollow shells of, humanity that formed
his society-at Washington until he had iindi-,
'sated his honor, must cow meet the muiti
-1
Ludes at his trial—bear the course jeerit gs of
unprincipled libertinesconfrOnt this 'wife'
whom ho magnanimously promised "not to
injure"—hear again and again with exaggera
tion and minutia:,
,the whole history 'of his
misery reyived—,meet' the 'wondering looks
of his little one: turning froth' father to moth
er ftir an eiplanalon of this mystery, and in
after years be-tortured by
- her recurrence to
;the first chapter oiler life'sreality ! If he
can & s ail this and dare'to' Meet his Maker
at last with , the brand of a murderer -on 'bis
.
'344 and yet 'could not meet-the tallow-faced,
moustachio'ed.puppies of hie elub•room, tell
me, in God's name; in what Oansists the-Su
-perior courage of Manhood 'P - . , -
, •
A: Fuxicr FiLisiwAy Itaren.—Tlie : Albliny
iSianifitrd publishes the following ; : =l*iiettaity,
a man named A. Wendover Martin' - arrived
:in this city from Pompey; Wayne county;
accompanied - by his wife . and two' children,
and put Up at a-faihionable boardin,;•• - helix ,
kept by a widow lady. Beth Martin. an d .
the, widow are gay in appearance. tie went
out to take ii - walk, arid as'he did , not askliis
wife to aceoMpanY him 'atter
,he . bad gone
oat, she, dressed, the children and ;also. went
oat. Martin returned very soon, founil that
his wife had wane, and iheredpon fell into
cony rsatiorr.with the widow. Cesaverration
,
grew into warm intimacy; and the Widow re
1-gretted that he was married. Martin-Wes
completely captiVated, sud the 'last seee• - ol
the pair they were leaving the hiiuse together.
It is presumed that they took, the-7 o'clock
boat for New York: Now the wife of Mar
tin had lost
- her way, and did not return to
the hoUse.until B..eclock. She - was, greatly
surptiSed on learning What had - transpired ;
but she readily Concluded that ifshe had lost
a husband, She had possession - of a finely fur
nished Warding' house '‘!itti ti.-se of: ' good
boarders, : which she yisely sleterilnined .to
conduct for her own benefit, at least
-until the
.
1 runtiwaykreturii. .
„.„
SALAilra 06.OTATE „
erai Appropriation as pawed
Legislature, provides' the following wile 4
for the different:officers of the State govern.
mint :=—Ociveroor, $4,000; Seeretery of the ,
CommotTesitb;sl,7oo; Deputy -Secretory
qaf the' CorrimonWealth, $1,500.; Auditor
General, $1,700; SurVeyor General, $1,600;
,Attoiney General,.s3,ooo ;' Adjutant Gener
al; $000; State fluperintenilent of: Common.
iSehoolic. sl,soo;:State Libmian, ssqo ;
tete,Treasurer, $1,700. These Warlea-ara
• ,
14 - quarerly, at tha offica of rho State
Getterel
d'l ‘ -
v me from te l ie t
previons 'statements of a•teet:
Pike's Peak for a desatut
Agents of this iiiovenient atel
and other pninrs, urging foe
tion . .to-the pia regionob 0'
Pike's Peak sti ent rnateri
poet.. The letui ire base the(
7 1
cieipated develo emetics in t
and the probab a ells:tattersall
bars with their-prospects at
plan of the leaders is not yet
but it embraces, it is•said,-fi
on - Sonora, and afterward,
Durango and Chihuahua. Te
grants hate already left di ?
the Missouti for 'Pike's Peale
, ... The Coward (N. IL)
thatthnt on ,Thursday, the 14t
brisk snow_storm, a vivid
lighted up the leaden atom
after, a tonsiderable jittery
heavy rattling thunder. Ti
wires leading to the telegra
cord, and came upon the
unceremonious flush and ref
and with a heat which mel
of the magnets. - - -
.. Mr. William W.
editor of The Washington
member of one of the most
farnilies of lteland, and a
education and genial talent
in the United States some
has been connected e ith
Commerce for two or three
:has contributed to that pape
-foreign politics. At the an
taken great interest, ift the,c
ward in Tammany Hall be
forces otWood and Peale
ut, to personal friend of
NV rth, his sympathies ha
W . h the Fowler faction, to
sions, he has rendered i
and it is probably on thei
that he has been engaged
assistant in conducting th
We'may be sure that, in t e ll
least.be distinguished for
good 'manners, virtues it h,
bilked hitherto.— Tribune
.
. The' remarkable et is stated in
Hall's Journal of Health that of the file
thousand persons tried las year before th,
New York our ofiSeest ns, only timely.
four were sober when arr sted ! •
... A gentleman of E gland of large for.
tune—worth £4o,ooo—w s indignant tin
I- his daughter, an only c ild, foe marryirs
against his wishes, lie q arreled with her
disifiberitedi her, and left t to whole proper.,"
to his attorney and oche gentlemen. 11 ,
attorney hie, Warren, aut or of "Ten Thou
sand a Year'," went to his co" legatees, go:
them to sign their elaiins over to_birn,' and
_then paid the whole .£40,000 to the daughter
.. The Ohio Legisla ure - has petted a
law making it a misdern nor to carry a pis
tol, bowie knife, dirk, or ny other concealed
weapon, under the permit of a fine not en.
ceeding s2ooi and impri onment not moil
than thirty days: , for the first offence; and
$5OO finis and imprisonm nt for three month
or
. both, itt the discretion f the court, fur th.
second offence., A.
.... W align Hopkin resides in Guild
hall, Vermont. A echo 1 teacher pumshe
the daughter of William opkins, by male
ing her occupy a lower s at in the school.
William Ilopkins invited himeto his house
and there beat him with n - oaken whipstock
Hopkins then went befo e - the grand jury
complained of himself, leaded guilty, an,
was fined one dollar.e teacher being 3s
satisfied, brought a civil snit for damage
and recovered seven bun red dollar:.
:. An improvemen in envelopes .
been made by Mr. N bift, of Newjor'
.1
which is a desideratum ,itb Such as are a
eustomed to write on ruled paper. This it
proved envelope -has foil the superscriptic
of the letter,. lines on t e idside, which d
not show, When the lette is Inefosed.
.....11oward Malcola has refused an
i
fer 0f,3,000 dollars from a Southern public
ing house, to strike out o his Bible Diction
ry some allusion to' the difference betwee
Hebrew servitude and A eriean slavery.
.... Sufferets from S mtula :led Scroi
lons affections, clean up! Why wear yo
Pimples, Blotches, Cie rs, Sores' Wli
have the life twisted out of you by Tfy•pe•
sia, 'Rheumatism, and out? Why sell.
Syphilitic and Mercurial diseases to rot th
bonesf in your body,- o the flesh off y
bonen'? Why let your ..: uggisli blood dra
e
and scatter its -discernrs through )t;
veins] -Avne's COMP, i ' T of S9napail l
1 .
cures these complaints, and 'cleanses the
out of the system. Use it faithfully; and y
bring to society a healthier, cleanlier, and f
more acceptable rnembe.—Dentocrat, Bat
more l lild. 1 - - , I
.. The New. York East Annual Code
ence of the M. E. Church, now in session
New Ihven, Ct„, Bishbp Jatries presidir
has passed a resolution. i Jr:l:most unanimitusl
de•chiring that slareholding is a sin, and tr
the yolord " alaveholdingl should be. insert.
in the "general rul," as one of the thin
forbidden by them. •'1 .
, Tliaisavend "Anti.Rent' case', •
volving the Van Rensselaer claims to re
from lands conveyed in fee in Albany count
N. Y., have' been decided by the Court
Appeals. The decision its adverse to the t
nnts. . All the Judges concur in the opurr
that the rent in arrears bust be paid. '1
action of the Court of la t resort ts'netxrisa
ly final.
.... Washington Iry tog attained his S
enty•sieth year on thn 3d of April. 1
neighbors indicated their, remembrance
offerings of flowers, and by visits and gr
ings.- Although during the past e4inter
has suffered from eleeplssnes and asthma,
IN on the . whole, improving in health.
.... A Washington " correspondent of
Tribune, speakinglif the acquittal ofSickl
!aye, "it mey now be _regarded. as sett'
that while Mr. Crewtord is Judge, no iv
ber of Congress can tie convicted of a cr
nal of ' •I ‘ -
.. . Wives are cheap in: Delaware. •
.
cording to the Georgetown Messenger.
was sold in that State, the other day, fer
and a dog. . 1
.. 2. The Tribune
-states that - there
now published in the Unite_d.Statea not I
than four thou And newspapers, at least t'
hundred of which are daily, and five bun
-seeni.weekly. Their' aeerage circulation l. ,
istadiated at two thousand each for the ,1
lies, twenty•five hundred'for the sen''''`,
lies,. end fifteen hundred for the wee"
'Making a total circulation in this country
more than four hundred mil li ons of
no"
per sheets per.rillitum. I .
..__
. James C. Watson writes Ito'
rrhorl ,-
, Mich. to the Altair Adrerliar, t
he has discs:tiered a new comet near ale
n the constellation Lynx. It is as isrlie
-a 'star of thia•eleventh'inagnitude.
.... t
... a Giant Mijan,,the French C° l
14u1
New Orleans has been arrested for assi'
in the, e.seepe of a fugitive slave. Th,t b
Spanish, Prussia Belgian u tb ,
have issued a
rest a* an infritigentent of the rights el
anis. „Count Idijan was discharged a t
.
Ourt arOrnance. • ; - ,
vigorousi protest against
,-,
•'-
RUE
WL
,
ortli Confirm
t movement at
lupin Meths).
• Leavenworth
•erd the tnign i
et' Ito live at
1 l'br their
put.
hopes on an..
o gold country,
n o 1 great ttlitn•
• he mines. The
fully !developed,
•t a descent up.
.robably, upon
thousand eta
• rent points on
heinocrat gates
ult., during_ a
ah of lightning
b
p ere, followed
I I-17 a peal of
fluid tool: the
lh office in Con.
, perator.'with an
.rt as of a pistol,
the wire in one
rowne; the new
onstflulion, 13 3
preinlnent noble
ntletitan of fin
lie has been
five years, and
ihe Journal •vf
years 'put, an d
• r the article s
e time, he has
conflicts; going to!.
i ween the hosti:,
;.- Being an inn
r. D." litter.
/e naturally been
which, on various
i portant service.: ;
recommendation
Mr. Buchanan'i
official organ.—
is !mnds, it will at
ood English-and
's not always en: