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C. F. h' RA 11 'et H. 11. FRAIIER. EDITORS
R.E. LOOMIS. CORRESPOYDLYG EDITOR
MONTROSE, SUSQ. CO., PA. s.
TlitritSDAt, .JUNE 9, 11139.
rgEr On Saturday night and Sunday night
last there was sufficient fnAt to kill the ten
derer kinds of vegetables, in many places in
this county. We•beliese that fruit generally
is uninjured._ - • -
111!==1
• Vr' We have not yet rec .. eived the par
ticulars of the Pioneer Festival at Wilkes-
barre, on the . first inst. We are informed by
one who was theie-friziwthis county, thih the
attend2nce isus not large. ,
• lar At a Republican:meeting held - at La
porte, Sullivan_county, May 24th, C. H.
Wells and C. d. Richardson were appointed
-Senatorial Conferees and 11. Metcalf and B.
L Cheney *Representative s Conferee• ; and
the latter were instructed to. support Wm.
Meylert as the choice of Sullivan fur Repre
sentative. , •
Bradford, Susquehanna, Wyoming, and
Sullivan now 'constitute &Senatorial DistriCts
!ME
_gar A dispatch dated Richiriond, June 4;
' states that the Secretary of the. Comnion.
wealth has official returns from 107 countita
of Yirginia, in which !Atelier's majority over
Goggin for Governor is 414)6. nifty-four
counties were still to be officially heard from.
lt,is now believed that the Demoratid ma
jority. for Governor is 6,000, or more. I
Mr! We have received from T, B. Peter
eon and Protheis, the Philiidelphia publish
ers, three more volumes of their cheap •edi
,tion of the Waverly • novels—The Bride of
irmunerraroor, 771 Antiquary, aid Waver
' fey.
.77ie Critury states the order and time of
the Production and first publication of " these
remarkable works - of genius, as follows;
Waverley, May.. 1314; Guy .Mannering, ,
February, 1815 ; Antiquary. May,. 18166,— .
Black - Dwarf, and Old Mortality, December,
1816 Rob Roy, Deceitiber, 1817; Vcarf
of Mid-Lothian, June, I818;;-Bride of Lam
mermoor, and Legend of Montrose,' June,
1819 ; Ivanhoe, Decentbir. 1819 ; Monas
tery, March, 1820 ; Agibot, Set' tember,lB2o ;
Kesfilworth.,January, 1821; Pirate, Decem
ber, 1821 • '
Fortunes of Nigel,-May, 'IM;
Peveril of the Pak, January, 1823 ; Quen-
tin Durward, June,
1823; St. Ronan's Well,
December, 1823 ; Redgauntlet, June, 1824 ;
Betrothed, and Talisman, June, 1825; Wood
fitock,-June, 18'26 ; Chronicles of the Can
nongate„Novernber, 1n.7; Fair Maid of
Penh, 'April, .1823; Anne of. Geierstein,
May, 1829; Count Robert of Paris, and
Castle Dangerous, Noveinber, 1821.
• tar' Life Illustrated, the well 'known
...'Weekly s published by' Fowler suld- Wells,
New York, will soon commence a series of
articles:under the general[head of The Build
desittned to give the reader the most thor.
ough knowledge, both theoretical and, practi
all, on the. subject of building in all its
branches-- wood, brick, stone, or -concrete—
with details of the different styles of irchi
_tecture and finish. •
For the burepnicfmt RepuUirqx.
IL C. Carey and the Tariff.
' Misses, Enrrbas :—A Philadelphia . paper
_charges Mr. Carey with duplicity, beciuse he
once published a Work in fist or of free trade,
while now be is an ardent advocate 'of the
protectice system. We shall not attempt to
controvert the assertion that Mr. Carey did,
_ nearly a quarter of a century ago, write' a
book in favor of free trade but that he has
been guilty' of duplicity in .advocating a pro
- •tective tariff we - do most emphatically and
unqualifiedly deny.
• - . lf beim become convinced-that the pro
' tredve system fa calculated to benefit the
country, it certainly argues that his motives
in advocating that system, notwithstanding
his former hostility to it, are noble and dis
intirested.
With a change in the population of a
country, comes a change of the wants of that
N population.Measures,which would perhaps
have been advantageo us to the country thirty
- years ago, might at this period be of no ben.
efit whatever.
That the plan of protective tariff is th.
only feasible pieta by , which American indus.
fry and enterprise can compete with foreign
labor, is wract „so .Well established that it
.needs no confirmation at our bands.
Mr. Carey, in, adrocking the protective
system, shows concluaiv . ely that he is the
_ :champion and friend of the laboring man;
and that be is striving to advance the' best
interests of all classeo, especially the hone
. and sines of the country. •E. hi.'•L.'-
rur.de hubpotdent PorpegUivrn.
Teachau
FROST HOLLOW, June 6,1859.
•
MR: Tairassuri:, , Dear Sir :--Whesi
addressee you for the purpose of eliciting in.
mvself end the,public concern
ing the qualificaiicros of teachers, 1 did not
intend to cast•reflectioni upon yourself, nor
to prejudice in .any way the public mind
against the office you hold ; and much less
did liutend to provoke the jibes and jeirti of
The Punipkin Eater." My object
was simple to - draw out the true and exact
•
reason why so. few &steles@ teachers find
'_employertentin Susquehanna County, and al
so to, ascertain the 'reason and nature of the
different grades of certificates. was im
pressed 'with the idea that parents would be
better able to judge of the competency of i
teachers if they could understand what pari
ticular - qualifications entitle a teacher to a l
part icular grade of . certificate. I 'thought,
too, that fewer of the lower grade of teachers
would be employ'ed if the patrons of schools,
• could know for a certainty that such teachers
were not prepared to instruct their children
properly in the branches they design to study.
By plating this kind of information fisirly he.
fore the plat, I hoped the trust* would'
see die propriaty - and import:awe; orimploy
ing first-class teacher's in all cask
The Normal School at Moutriiie his-been
crowded, term after term, with scholars 'who,
go there to acquire a knowledge of the pri
mary branches - of an English Education.—
Do you not think h a shim thaiparenta are,
under the necessity of sending their children
away to school, at great trouble and expense,
Where they are cooped np;,three or four td
getber, in a single badly ; ventilated apart
ment,.in which they are obl*ed to cook, and
eat, and wash, and study,ind- sleep, to the
great sacrifice of comfort and health, and
where they are entirely removed from under
the influence of a mother's watchful eye, and
subjected to the contaminating itilluencei of
village society, merely for the purpose of
studying those branches which ought to be
taught in every- wchool district in the county ?
When 1 have attended" the examinations at
.the Normal School, and noticed = that the
great majority of the scholars were studying
the branches of a common English Educa
tion, I have thought how much less - trouble
-and expense it would be to The farent, and
how much better Ste the health and morals
of his child, if good tenches s could be placed
in all-the district schools, and these children
educated at botne.
leqq.
Why is it that we cannot hate better
trict schools Whv cannot More first-class
teachers find emplo - ymeni t Why do not
more young persona make teaching a proke
sion ; and why is it that so many young in
experienced and unqualified teachers are
placed in charri!t of the Schools I 'Nem, are
questions which no one tan answer sO well
as yourself. You havetraveled all over the
county, aistted all the - neighborhoods * and
know the feelings of every district. N o one
can give so much and so valuable Informa
tion as yourself. You can speak advisedly,
and the information you can impart will do
good; and will kave ir tendency to stimulate
the trustees out parents to employ better
teachers and have better schools. It would
save you the painful necessity of reporting
I one hundred and forty teachers "
In regard to the nature and intent of cer.
tificates, I hare heed_ succe.mful in drawing
out a little - Information, but not from you.—
In law, a next friend sometimes acts for one
who is imbecile or who is incompetent to
act for Itself. I hope you do not acknowl
edge to ',lmbecility or incOmpeteitty when
you respond -to my Is ttere thrpugh your next
friend, "Young America."' I presume you
are so occupied with your official duties that
you cannot devote a moment to _extraneous
business.
I bad someway coneelVeil die erroneous
idea that del }tat:a grade of certificate was
given to one who is competent and *bneely
competent to teach a district school, and I
supposed from the lowest grade the certifi•
rates ran up to No. I, which was given to a.
first•class teacher.' I formerly looked up to,
a teacher bearing a certificate marked A No.l
s 1 with a good deal of respect and honor, for
I supposed him to be a successful teacher and
eminent in his prof es sion. Of this sbsutd
notion I was disabused by your last report,
from which I learned that a No. 1 certificate
means simply "qualified?' No. 2 means
" medium" or unqualified; and No. 3 means
"unfit." • At first I ivas at a 10118 .to know
why the unquaktied and the unlit should re
ceive, certificates; but after a little reflection
I could see that the trustees might make , the
unqualified do in severe cissas of entergency,
'and the unfit could have the papers show
that they had been tried read_ found Tenting.
I could see how to get along with these de
scending-grades very well, but when your
friend "Young America" communicated the
astounding - intelligence 'that- theie are two
moresradre, making fire in all, I was coin
pletel,y taken down. The third- grade, a c .
cording to your report, is trrtfiti the fourth
might be set down as,worse than unfit; lint
I cannot conceive what adjective or what
combination of adjectives can - express the
"precise qualifications of the ; fifth
_grade: -1
commend your judgment, Mr. Tewksbury, in
withholding any report of the finirth and
fifth graie teachers.
• lam glad to receive the little information
"Young America"-has given upon
s this sub=
ject. Small favors thankfully received.—
Any other information which he or-anyone
else can communicate will be gratefully • ac ,
ktiowledged. • Yours, Ste, -
PITS'S • PIPt.R.
For the bidependent Brpti,limn
Uniformity of Text Booki.
Enoyoss :—ln the issue of your
paper of June 2d inst., I noticed some ap
propriate remarks on the importance of.a
uniformity of text books in our primary
schools:, and I think it to be high time that
those who have the care of our schools sho'd
attend to,it, and see that a uniformity- of
books-is secured. And I would recornmend
a uniformity, not merely for a towriship, but
for the entire county, it not for - the whole
State,'which would be much better if it could
:be done. Since our ybucth are abundantly
supplied with a great variety of school books
in all of tbe sciences, each possessing intrin
sic merits, I do nut think the kind of 'book
an] by what author to be half as important
as a uniformity is in the use of even the low
er grades. I'i - ow to leave theoproper selec-
tion of books Osour .teschers, however ma
trim theii judgment may be, will hardly do,
since by their honest efforts to .secure good
test books, evert - the best, fur our youth, the
present want of uniformity has been pro
duced. It is very natural for each teacher to
have a partiality for those books from, whidt
he was taught, and to recommend them for,
and introduce them into, his school, The
next teacher in succeasion introduces the au
thor he is partial to, and the next does the
same; and In this way, unconsciously, and
unintentionally, uniformity has been nearly
or wholly destroyed.. "Hence the lawful
agents and officers of our schools should co
operate with the teachers.
Our school terms are too short for the se
curing of a good business education. - Ne.
cessity requires the attendance of academies
and select schools;
aml hence the text books
used in such schools should not be over
looked in making s selection. The books for
our primary and select", schools should be
brought into uniformity as nearly as possibly
they can be ; because, the studying of the
same science by another author necessarily
requires a sacrifice of time to commitment,
which extra ao3uiremesirdoes not-balance.
A uniformity of text books to be effeCted
will require labor,; but /met shall it be done,
and who should do it? Allow me then to
propose that our Superintendent, as soon as
he can,'Confer with the school director; to
some extent, on the subject,—tor him to
eve public and general notice for the direct-
ors of each district to meet on a certain day
in their respective townships to elect or ap
point two persons, one of whist @halite ROW,
or shall have been, a teacher, to meet in
Convention•at an _appointed time,—the teach.
era of academies, of select schools, and liter
dpersons generally being invited toattend
cooperate. .
These hasty - thoughts are offered fm con
sideration; and if anyone can offer 'anything
better, let it come at once, that something
may be done to relieve the depressed condi
tion of our schools. If the school directors
of the county at large mum be called out,
let the Directors of Bridgewater, Brooklyn,
and of lather central towns lave a Convention
is soon as may be; onset more of the
director* of some township giving due notice
for the sine. 8. A. N.
Brooklyn; Jnue 4th, 1859. - •
Por'rAt bulepeoPat Rini Weals.
AO " CV—llltore Queries-
Mmes. &Tr mut : : —Though hot slaimlng
tete very literary,l withk :roue leave.
give my opinlortyn the questions proposed
by 'ltg," Itt a late number of the Republican.
In the example, "He returned after a while,”.
I would write "a" ands- " while" as two
words. "Awhile" ix an adverb "while" is
a noun; in the above senteliZe, "while" is in
the objective rase, governed by the preposi.
tion "after.' I would therefore' use the noun
instead of the adverb. Let vs, add an ed.
jective—" Hi returned after a hide white."
Here, of course you must erpatale the "a"
and "while." But It may he said that prep.
ositions sometimes ghvera id yeti*. as; " I
will wait-till then. ; hut this is
an exceptlott to a general rule, and
. it is not
best to multiply exceptions unnecessarily, as
we should do in writing "after awhile" for
" after a. while."
• -
"The boys and girls played all together,"
has a different meening ftBtn " the
,boys„ and
girls played altogether," and either may be
correct, according to the meaning intended to
be conveyed. The first example means. that
they all phiyed together; and the second.
that they played, and did nothing else.
To the third example ,- -" In the itletib time,
we will sittear—tht aittitt.reasoning will apply
as the first; but with this additional cir
cumstance, that the article "the" shows that
a noun follows, and "meantime" is not a
noun; therefore "mean" and "time" should
be written as two words.
Are expresslons like the following -(which
are frequent among writers in England at the
present day) correct 1--" Directly our horses
were fed, we proceeded."—" This is a very
different article to what I expected:" -
Ar Me Inkomtent)tottatica.
itteiaeht in Herrick.
was. nrrons :—At a Hogging bee" on
the fallow of Mr. Abel Kent, in Herrick,
Susquehanna county, May 17th,' : while Mr.
George Tuttle and others *rim tiling s
large 'log to the tnp of a heap, otie or the
skicla on which the Ing Malta slipped back,
lettitig the log ; and in falling it caught
lir. Tuttle, rolled upon him, and broke both
bone. of his kg. The fracture was reduced
by Dr. Olmstead. L. M. h.
Herrick. May 90. Olt
Tent Onto Movemzuz.- 7 The recent anti-
Fagitiie Slate Ls* meeting at Cleveland,
demonstrated the shades of difference between
the ultra radicals and the more prudent men
on the subject. Mr. Giddings represented
the former and Governor Chase the latter
type of thought Mr. Giddings . defined his
position thus :—"..My position has been, now
is, and probably. will% be while I live, that
when the lAw shall sh4eaceful resources
are ethstlsied, I world 'maintain the liberties
of our own citizens against the Fugitive act
by,firce." • t
Governor Chase concludes his very able
speech as follows t'-" Let Us go peaceably to
work. Let 119 go to our Courts for redress.
Let us not4ise undue pressure to influence
their decisions;
and, whatever that decision
may be, let us do our duty, For the pOwer,
after all, rests with' the !mph). They can,
through-the ballot box,.regulate all things.
Lei us see that *a ekecute that power prop
erly. See that right and Willful men are
sent to Congress. Be eurejhat a President.
is sent to Washington who will truly repro!,
sent the wishes of the people, end who will
see that the Constitution he the security and
guarantee or 1i berty,oot the prop of Slavery."
The position taken by Governor Chase is
one that every reasonable and prudent man
in the anti-Democratic ranks must endorse.
With the peoplerests the power,and through
the ballot-box they can regulate all things fo?
the best, Let the conservative mop of the.
North, who make up the great - party of free
dom, act wisely and trsrrxot+, and the Pres
idential election oflB6o will witness the to
tal overthrow of the Slave Power, and the
crushing out the weak-kneed " dough•faces"
who worship at its 'brine.
Horace Greeley writes from Kansas
that, " The twin curses of Kansas, now that
Border Ruffians have stopped ravaging her,
are Land Speculation and One-Horse Politi
cians. The controlling idea of the One-
Horse politician is that the Republicans . m ust
cot let their adverseries have a chance to
raise the cry of Nigger' against them—
that hence they must be tut haSh. and. cruel,
and tyrannical toward the unfortunate blacks
as possible, in order to prove themselves the
White Man's Party,' or•else all the mean,
row, ignorant, drunken, brutish whites will
go against them from horror of '-Negro
Equality.' To which I reply that this sort
or cattle are against the Republicans .any
how, and never can - be permanently other
wise. The virus of Sham Democracy is in
their blood, and must come out. The De
mocracy, from long practice and experience
that it pays, can dive deeper, stay under
longer, and come up nastier, in this business
of negro-hating, than any other party. that
ever was or ever can be invented. "
Mr" The Republican party of Kansas . for
mally organized on the 18th and 19th at Os.
sawatamie. Horace Greeley of New York,
was present and assisted. The platform de
clares that the-Constitution does not carry
slavery into the territories; -that the people
of the territories have the right to select their
own laws and elect their own officers ;
,that
further legislation by Congress is necessary
for the suppression of the slave trade ; that
the passage of a liberal Homestead act is ex
pedient—that the President has bees guilty
ohm act of gross injustice is ordain, the
public lands in Kansas to be sold during a
period of universal depressioti—that an ex.
tension of the-political disakilities of natural
ized, voters is unwise—and at the improve
ment of rivers and harbors is a measure of
essential importance.
Tua "Two YNARS Auxamutsx."—Those
Democratic organs that are rolling up their
eyes in holy horror because the " Two Years
Amendment" was adopted-in Massachusetts,
at which their party connived, had better,be:
fore further attempting to manuhicture po.
Mica! (Aphid from such fragile material, at
tend to the washing of the foul linen that may
be found within their own doom. The god
Democratic State of South Carolina passed
law through her Legislature. during the sea
sion of 55-543 which exactly Wiles with the
new amendment of the Massachusetts Consti
tution and' the law continues in force to this
day. It seems to make a great difference
whoa ox it gored.
MAZINO THZ Tauto ElriNe.-BeDIHOr
. VOOl.ll
in his speech at the Southern Convention, at
Vicksburg, called Wm. H.-Seward "an ac
cursed monster." , Welt, mays the Norwich,
Conn. Courier, Senator Foote is a gentleman ;
and there is as much truth in that statement
as these is in his.
Since bather, the Democratic can
didate, haa been elected Skimmer:. of Vireo
ia, the Democratic leaders it Washington
have begun to talk of Senator Fitzpatrick. of
Mato= ss the nominee of ihe Charleaton
Contention. The South demands the candi
date. r
- Mr. William B. Astor has
ly founded at Red Hdok, ott the - aeon, a
Female Orphan Ssylam.
.t.etter bolt 04tuiIt Clay to the Alltisin
itleve Ikea Law uonvention at Cleve
land Ohio. lay 24, 1859.'
Glicrtistav: Your favor of the 16th is re.
ceived toe late to accept it on my part. 1
deeply sympathise with you in yoUr move.
meat against the advances of "Slavery and
despotism." The acmes which are now be.
ing enacted in Cleveland, where men are
fined and imprisoned for the exercise of the
highest instincts of Heathen Philanthrophy
and Christian Morality in eiolatiou.of the as.
creel' principles of Mir Government and the
utter overthtne otthe initeti vaunted ' Con
firi
slitulinn, shit well'imiculated to arouse a
sluggish pent+ itt action, and awake the
sleepiest from 'er fatal slumbers I I al
ways hated and denounced the Fugitive Sieve
law—not only because it violated the United
States. Constitution—the return of fugitives
from labor being e t ditty 9 1 44 M upon the
States only, aileoroing to the unbought dicta
of the " Expounder of the Constitution," flan
iel Webster, and denied to Congress—hut
because it violated all the safeguard. of free
doni—jeoparded the life, libertyy, and happi
ness, not only of the hmnble anti hated Afri
can, but ot 60. y pfella Saxon in the Wind,
and made jtlntiCe a mockery in all its fhriret.
hut because it humiliated and degraded Our
manhood, and fitted us to heourselvea slaves,
which our masters long since designed.
Gentlemen, allow me to be a little egotist
ical. In a letter to tite ittetillfiiis of the
Newyork I4igl'aliiie, dated Jan. 9,;1,646,
more than thirteen years ago, I used these
words; "This is,tto longer a question, about
Africans--whether they he beasts or men—
a debate about maudlin philanthrophy !—but
whether we, the eighteeh thilllths of white
men of these States shut tie freemen or
slaves! „
These sentiments and utterances were de.
nounced• at the most atrocious and 'fanatical
all over the North; and what little reputa
tion 1 had for common sense was for long
years lost! What ray you hli*, Men of
Ohio? What thinii you of the expulsion of
the itepresentatires of Massachusetts seek
ing legal redress of wrongs in the Courts of
the United States front Charleston and New
Orleans? What think you of the army and
navy present in Boetot; to elliorce un uncon
stitutional law? What think you of the tri
al of American citizen, (of their lives for
" constructire treason ?" What think you of
the selling of Northern citizens into Southern
Slavery ? What think you of the Govern
mental murders in Kenna I What think
vou orthe Military dictatorship there?
What think you of the armed overthrow of
the ballet by the national bayonets ? What
think , yen of the *tibial attempts to vote a
minority Constitution ovei the heads of the
freetr(en of Kansas, and:to drive it down with
sword and hall What think you of the de
cision of the Supreme Court that the black
man has no rights which the white. man is
bound to respect? What think you of their
dicta that eititens of the free Buttes are not
citizens of the
. United States? What • think
you of the Dred Scott decision in its real
purpose—that Slavery is the'only sovereign.
ty in those Statis—in the language of the
Kentucky and Kansils la*s—a tnah's right to
his slave "is highel; alien all lag's and Con.
in ion lens?" What Think you of that sort of a
"Higher Law 1"; What think you of the
embryo political movement under "Demo
cratic"(!) auspices *lnch will' in 1860 cidl up
on you to invest Congress with the power to
pat it into ptactice kall. the Territories, and
then in all the States? You can't see specu
lative opinions—you know nothing of the
logic of principles- I: you ignore cause and of
feet by induction, making' the past, future
history ! But you see your .gtx - xl , and true
men now lying in prison? You begin.. to un
derstand that thing! You call a Convention
on the 24th inst. )on invoke the counte
nance and aid of "every true patriot and
friend of Freedom !" Very good ! You in-
I tend to "resolve," to "protest," to, " de-
I nounce." Is that all ! Then go home and
wear your thains ! I say, are-you ready to
fight I Not to light the poor judge at Cleve
land—not to right the Marshal—noi to fight
the miserable peeked Jury = not to fight the
tools of the despots, but the despots them
selvesi—not to violate the leas—not to
produce anarchpfrbut to maintain constitu
tianal liberty—pkaceably if we ean—forcibly
if me mast! Are you ready fur that If
not, give it up now ! Don't go into a Na- 1
tional Convention to select a standard-bearer
who is a "Submiseionist 1" Don't put up a
"Compromiser!" Don't look out for a
"Conservative!" They'll all betray you, es
they hay* done ! They' all do that, which
you expected and desired them to do!—
They'll all sell os'out as we have been
ling to he sold ! - "The Union will again be
in danger!" I played 'prophet thirteen years
ago—l'll play the same part again.
Men do not lay down power voluntarily ;
our masters, the Slaveocraey, are not going,
"to go out like a snuff." The" Democracy"
intend to rule the Union, or ruin As Union!
1 don't intend, so far as I can . cuntrbl or in
fluence
the Republicem party, that they shall
be allowed to do either. I want a man at
the head of the party, who will be the plat
form of the party. I want now no cornstalk
general, but a real general. I . want a man
whose banners bear no uncertain sign.— I
When I see Slave Propagandism on the ban
ners of the Democracy,l want to see, in leg
ible colors, Liherly Progagandiim on the
flag c it the Republicans. When I read
"'Slavery is higher than all laws and all Con
stitutions," I want a scribe who will write
under it, and on it, in letters like those of
John Hancock, that is a lie! When the
alaveholdert say " if you elect ra Republican
•President, we will dissolve the Union," I I
donlt want any one to , put off the evil der.]
which would follow euch an event by saying, I
"let it slide!" but acme one who would
stand by the tomb of Andrew Jackson, and I
become infused to such an extent with the
spirit of that old patriot and Hero—that he
would be ready to cry 'out in the fullness of
inspiration: "By the Etenial, the Union
shall be preserved!" I would have no man
to be precipitate—bandy no hard words—be
by no means " fussy"—but, standieg upon
the great rocks of State Sovereignty and Na
tional Supremacy, I would defy the canting
traitors to Liberty, Law, Civilization,. and'
Humanity ! That's what I mean by asking
you, are you ready to fight! If you have
got your sentiments-up to that manly pitch,
lam with you through to the end !. But if
not; I'll have none of your Conventions—no
more farcical campaigns; no more humbugs,
no more Fourth-of-July orations—no more
Declarations of Independeace—mo more plat
itudes—no more glittering generalities—no
'more rights of - nuatttto more liberty, equal.
ity, and fraternity! li obscure places—in
silence and humility, 1 will crush out the as
pirations of earlier and better days—and at
tempt the dutiful but hitrd task of forgetting
that l was horn free!
Your obedient servant, • C. M. u.a.v.
Messrs. S. 0. Griswold, dec.,' Com., Am,
aevelsod, Ohio. •
tar n, edit* of the Lebantin H erald
perpetrate. the following:..".WhY are the
:ming ladle* of Laboooo, *ben
..they - try , to
nobs a coreneat Of gentleause; like a band
of untamed Indiana about, to engage in mor
tal ournbat In o Dye give it up I" "Become
they enter2uPon the taints* with a (w) hoop !"
He deserves to be ph* sed - to death by old
togas. - •
LATEST FROM EUROPE
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A Battle. in !hay.
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DEFEAT. OYTHEAMITRIANS.
Movement to Revolutionize Lombardy.
The screw steamship City or Washington.
froml.iverpool on Wednesday, the 25th of
May,. via Queenstown 28th, passed Cape Race
st 9 o'clock on Thursday, en route for New
York. •
The news was obtained by the news yacht
of the Aiwtclated Press, but could not be for-
warded until Sunday, owing to the con;work
ing of the'Vritett:
The War fa Italy.
The first battle has been fought' at Monte
bello.
The bitttle of Montebello took place on the
21st ult. The French *Mints say that the
Austrians, i5,&►J strong, under Gen. Stadi•
on, attacked the advanced posts of Marshal
Ilereeuay d'Hillieni, and wore driven back
by Gen, Foray's division after a fierce corn
-hat of four hours' duration. The Allies, in•
eluding some Piedmontese cavalry,. carried
Montebello, bl,tt @lhl Hot piiisue tie Austri•
at*.
. The lotus of the latter, is stated by the
French at 1,500 to• 2,000, and that of the
French at 600 to 700, of whom many seer?
officers! Two hundred Austrians, including
a Colonel, were taken ptisonsfs. •
The Atistiiiin liCeotint ;limply states that
Gen.Stadion pushed forward i reconnoisance
by a forced ntarch toward Liglts and Monte
bello, but after a hot fight with a French
force of superior strength, retreated 'behind
the Po in perfect order.
The' actual strength of the Ffendt is not
stated. nettorls say they numbered from
8,000 to /,000 beside a regiment of Sardini
an cavalry.
A Sardinian bulletin also announces 'that
the extreme left of the Sardinian army, un
der Gen. Chialdini, forced a passage over the
Sesiis, puttine,the Austrians to flight.
Other trifling engagements are reported.
Gen Garibaldi had entered Gravellona, on
the Piedniontese side of Isake Maggiore, with
with 6.000 men, his object being- revolcition-
His purpose Is to push into totphar
dy.
Prince Napoleon and a small Prencit %ice
had arrived at Leghorn, for the purpose,
tirobahly, of supporting the Sardinian author
ity in Tuszaily.
•It was rumored that sit nglish menof-war
had entered the Adriatic.
Tunis, - May 24, 1899.—Gen. Gyulai has
removed his headquarters to Garlascxi, and
has everywhere ordered the people to 'give
up their arms, under penalty of being shot
for disobedienCe.
Glen. Garibaldi has made 47 more, prisott
era. • _
ALESSANDRTA, May 24,185..—The wound
-ed at Montebello have been brought here.
MARSEILLES, May 23 . , I&s9.—Some Aus
trian pritciners Hate arrived here.
Besse, May 0, 18:9.—Revolutionary
movements are reported in Lombardy. ' 1
NAPLEA.—Ferdinand, King of Naples was
dead, and Francis the II.; has assumed , the
reins of Government. :England and Fraee
are about to send representatives to Naples.
- GREAT BRlTlAL—Political differences have
arisen between Lord Palmerston and Lord
John Russell.
The defeat of the Derby Ministry is antic
ipated on the meeting of Perliment.
A general meeting of 'the Atlantic Tele.
Graph Company has been called to sanction the
heads of agreement with the Government and
issue of preference shares of .£660,000 new
capital.
Itt.tNcs.—The illontieur 'announces that
Fradce adheres to the-abolition of pri6ateer
ing, and the principal that a neutral flag cov
ers enemies' goods.
"There is one totislderation which
should enter, as it appears to us, into the
commercial forecast of. the present period.—
The war in Europe, if it take upon itself any
thing like the dimensions which statesmen
and diplomatists augur for it, will greatly
change the relative financial strength and re
sources of the United States with respect to
the other markets of the world. England,
though not involved in it, mast maintain a
vast armament, and bold herself at a cost
hardly beneath that of a state of actual war.
It is not worth while to estimate the finan.
cial weakness of the European States as
compared with our strength., The United
States alone, of the great powers of the
world, will be producing instead of expend
ing—creating instead of .destroying. She
alone will have her commercial marine in
full, unimpaired efficiency. Her ships, not
yet wanted for the export of "grain, are al
teady being hired to France for the carriage
of men and supplies to the seat of war.—=
These factsmake our position financially im
pregnable, if folly, conceit, and ignorance do
not goveni in our councils. It is very im
portant that our merchants should be made
to feel that there Is sixtter wisdom at the
head of , our finahcial Airs than there was
in 1857. Wd are sorry to say that they
have not the most satisfactory assurances on
this point.
For a time, the exigencies of the war will
draw gold from us, by the force of that gen
eral uncertainty and alarm which 'unite na
tions, as well as individual; hoard the pre
cious metals, as the only available property
and warts of sustenance. But when it is
, found that we are moving on with regularity
and success, undisturbed by the commotion
of Europe, capital will begin agaid to flow in
upon us. Protracted war, or the• long pros.
tration of industry in other countries, will'
bring emigrants to our shores with all their
savings, and- we• shall then, if not before, soon
regain what gold we may have, lost.—Cen.
fury.
A PAstc.—Late last evening, the dispatch
es by the steamer Vigo were recieved, fedi
oting a-heavy decline in breadstuff.. The
news caused a frightful panic among the hold.
era-of wheat, and ltrge quantities were im
mediately thrown on the market, which de
dined rapidly 8 tor 10 cents on the closing
prices on 'Ciangc—No. 1 Red Wheat selling
as low as $1,155. and Standard Spring at $l,-
15-12 decline of 15 to 18 cents per bushel
sines yesterday noon.—Clikago Trib. May IS.
The speculative fever which raged all over
the country •during the past fortnight, met
with a very sudden-check. And it should,
for there was really nothing substantial upon
which toltsse it. There is no deficiency here
and no sign of deficiency. There is s good
supply' every where, sad, prospect of"s more
abundant crop than we have had . for many
years. Not an item of bad netts comes to
us from any quarter. Frem Maine to "ire
the farmers are cbeerfal, and the indications
- are full of encouragement. 'Tbe sung Is true
of the supply and the crops abroad, so far as
we have seen. There is neither famine nor the
approach to famine. And the only excuse firtr
a rise was the war —restricted'to - s spot not
larger thin cOnnetticut, sod which if eoguiplt
ad, :would not bevels Ina& uprit
the Oslo supi•ly ofthe world,as the :waste of
a bushel of wheat In the State of Michigan:
No; there was no emus for thistpesalattve
fiver sad icht Airman) for all heads that it
has received so early s cbscir4.4tbsmy
. Changing **labile:44h.
Evening li re last, just beratiV 8:30
m. St. ILonis tntitt lett . the the
Miss
*lßA Depot,6 a well-dressed an&
honest looking man, , ,m'conspanyt*ldi a fair
haired women; Billie& at this station. and
wished his biggage,chielted Abe Mound
City. While the bigg*.masterl was pick
ing out the stranger's trunks, another Couple,
masculine and feminine, the latter dirk
haired and black-eyeti, went up far the same
purpose, and were waiting Patiently, when
the brunette stared at the twain and said :
+‘ Why, you are my husband ; what are you
doing here, rind with this hussy, too 1" apply
ing terms to the blonde more remarkable
fin- intensity than then. politeness.' So round
ly did she abuse tier that 'itie blonde could
not withhold . a - very prOvoking reply., where
upon the brunette leaped at her throat like a
tiger, and would have strangled her, perhaps,
had not her adversary protected herself res
olotely. . • '
Then followed a giah& scene.. • The two
females fought after their peculiar fashiotten
ergetically, tearing'each other's clothes and
hair, and scratching each other's fiices most
industriously. _ Their protectors made no et
fort to separatethem, seeming rather to en
joy the sport i • but at last, two or three of
the railway attabhet interfered and caused a
cessation of hostilities.
The brunette by this time Was crying vio
lently, and began to upbraid her busband'for
deserting her,, proving the truth of what
Montaigne says of the sex. The husband re
marked that he *as atilt * MI more than she
—that he Was running off with another man's
wifebind she with another woman's husband,
and wished to know the difference in ; their
Moral - depravity.
This was a puzzle to the dark-eyed' -.Xan
tippe, who, by way of answer, said she had
always hated'hel: liege iota, and always wo'd
hate him.
.The_blonde then spoke to her buiband, the
brunette's companion, of ,his faithlessness,
but excused im in consequent* of
. her own,
assuring him he need not endeavor to change
her purpose, for she would never live with
him again.
When the party became cool,_ they ap
peared well satisfied with the exchange 'of
wives, and were in favor of continuing the
arrangement, although at a loss for some
time to determine how they had met ,at the
depot. t
The couples were neighbors, and the men
bad for months been enamored of each oth
.er's spousea r disliking.their own accordingly.
The consequence was an elopement on a cer•
taro night, when both happened to choose,
norant of the intention vf the other until
they had metal *e have related.
Singular as it.iney appear, it ks actually
true, and AM's the strangeness of coinci:
deuces in many cases in which it seems pre
determined.
The women liked their lovers, but *bhor
.red. their husbands, and therefore concluded
—not unusually. It may.be—that they, would
take what was agreeable to them,rand lease
the unpleasant part behind. •
The husbands were satisfied and the wives
were delighted, and the quartet agreed to go
on to St. Louis, And live there in the new re
lation they had assumed'. They had found
their "affinity," and were Inclined to adhere
thereto, iu spite of their husbands, law and
fate,
The two couples got on two'different can.
The locomotive whistled, -the train started,/
and the droll party passed through the shod:
owe of the night beyond the reach of vision.
—Cincinnati Enquirer, May.. 29.
Exciting Eam—States 2275400
From L. •D. Rucker, • Superintendent of
the Cleveland and Toledo Railroad, The
Cleveland Leader obtains the following par
ticulars of an exciting race in which the
steeds were iron horses and the stakes great
er than have ever been known on any track.
Mr. Rucker had the facts from' John D.
Campbell; Eq., Superintendent of the Mich
igan Southern and Northern Indiana. Rail
road. One day last week, as the eastward
bound Express train reached Laporte, Ind., a
passenger stepped off while the engine leas
being replenished with wood and water, and
Walked back and forth on the:platform, and
continued to walk 'until the whistle sounded.
The, other passengers got on board and;he
train passeA off, but the gentleman still
walked on. -A few minutes after the train
bad gOne, d station man saw• the pedestrian,
and going up to him, asked in a surprised
tone—
lENI
" What the are you doing here?"
The man started, opened hit( ceyes, and
looked around bewildered. Tice fact was, he
had been fatigued, and dropped to sleep
while walking. Rousing himself, be asked—
" Why ! Where am 11"
Where are you ?...:At Laporte."
"Where's the train I omit on?" •
"That. left, ten minutes ago."
"Ten minutes ago-and left me ! I must
go on thattmin. It is a question of life and
death with me. Can you get me to- it?—
Have you,got an engine here ? , Where is
the Superintendent'"
The section.mester had an office, near by,
and the two went to find that o ffi cial and to
prOcure an engine. • The traveler stated • his
case—he must go on—could not delay—and
offered the officer $250 if he would put him
on board the train.. 'This strange demand
and strange offer caused thestatiori-master to
hasten to do what he could. The• fire was
not out in the engine that had drawn the,
train to that point ; the bargain was settled ;
a draft given on New York, for the $250, and
in ten minutes the traveler started with an
engine to overtake the flying Express. After
rushing on for thirty or forty miles, some
connection gave way about the engine. The
engine was stopped—the engineer found the
difficulty, and in a very feiv minutes had a
wooden pia whittled out and 'fitted to supply
the deficiency. With tide . , on they flew.—
Tbe train had of course many miles the start
of them, and despite the wooden pin the en
gineer crowded on steam and tore through
the country at a fearful rate. Thirty miles
of the distance passed was run in twenipsev.
'en minutes, but the engagement - was that'
they should overtake the train, and do it they
must, and do it they did, but not until more
than one hundred miles had been run, and
they were approaching Toledo. Having at
Length overtaken and stopped the train and
hurried, on board,' the traveler went eagerly'•
to a berth in thessleeping.car, and took there
from a carpetbag contain t i a tit27s,ooo. His
treasure was safe—noun molested and,
dismissing his faithful courier, he went on his
way rejoicing at the suctWas of his, perilous,
and exciting adventure. i , ,
gair The trial of. Captain Townsend, the
master of the slave brig Echo, or Putman,
which wuCtiptured by Um:tenant lifoirst off
tbe coed of Cobs, with soms three hundred
Africans on board, took place at Key West,
on the 19th ult. 'All the tbe
. facts respecting the
taptuye were Clearly prived,but the evidence_
lamented as to the Ownership of the vessel
was declared to be defective and without sr
gument.of coubsel f or summing up,thelndge
directed th e jury to . andtbe prieonerriot
ty co the ground that th ere was, isci 'proof.'
that the brig wu owned in whole or is-part,
by a Clasen Mlle United Staaes, Or naviga
ted in behalf of* titian or the United gnus,
which wee bb pedyo in cider tir
inetaidi the indicliteutg" ' ' ' ' •
Doti* "ettn( * Win "let . Wes
L05t4 8 0. 0 90.774P. tenakve Ore cried', in
: WhyWintesbirre 31,16 , Which `ahnohf the
entire block of building* on the north fide of
the square were destroyed.''
The fire originated In the store of Sera
Wagon, - and -the fittriteurtipr,ead lo Piitifl,l7;
thit in a short time all the' beildfnistween
S. Cahoon's more l and Steel's hotel, fourteen
in number, were horned. I
The fire is snoosed to hive been thh work
of an Incendiary:' ' Ilia lose is esiiinated at a
bout *80.000; • •
The following persons are among the
los
era : J. B. Ward,4l,ooo,lltstiraec . mihnewn ;
Robert Wilson.• merchant; -logs in
sured for : 0,000, 1 in the Lycoming and. York
Pa.'Companies ; !me Giterhont,merchant,
store and 'dwelling burned, loss $4,000, in
sured by the Franklin Insurance Co.; to the
amount of *0,0041; Dickerline, clothing, in
sured by. the Girard Insurance Company ;
gods saved. 'Or. Streathers, druggist, loss
*800; insured by .the Delaware Company -
fi3rsl,ooo. J. Everett, tailor; loss small;
insured by the Lycoming Company,,Mrs.
Mayer, milliner; goods saved; Insultd by
the Girard Company.
Mr. Elsner, dwelling house , Was fully cov
ered by - insurance. • I. sparks, two -t."1"
Insured by the Lycoming and Se' Co.
Companies for sl,o9 o .2 l saved Mr s .
Fryman, Milliner : lowy s itnall
. '1:44115 and
Brother, ClPthiersi„ gfrds saved: - It(4 1 . Buck
ley, store; insured I:IV Lycoming County Co.
for $l,500: W. 8. Wells, store, 108..44500 ;
I • -
no insurance: - •
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Rit"' The Niw York Sun is the. paper
which got up the "Moan Hoax ." I t ; has re.
cently tried quite a thrilling canard about, a
rag - picker : - • I
" Having by long practice in Paris become
acquainted with the sewers of that city, Leo.
paid Meyer, a German* by' birth. came to
New York, and "conceived the brillbint pro
ject. of exploring the - Metropolitansewers
for valuables. He entered the Houston ,
street sewer, Fast River,. and was nearly
scalded to death by. an exhaust 4 steam
from the factory of Hoe Az C.0.,' corner
Broome and Sheriff streets, the_ first
His trousers and under clothing were Indian
rubber, Indian rubber Aiwa; a wire rack on
his shoulder, * hOok in hand, 'usual mining
lamp, dtc. He designed to makei for. the
Fifth avenue, bOt after five dayslei I became
bewildered ; pissinghis nights in the melon ;
ry cletta,adjoining the street culverts. On
Thursday he killed a dog who refused to let ,
him pass„and at the Junction oftart i al street
captured. killed and kookeilli ;terrapin thit
had evidently escaped from seine eating
house, and taken to the-sewer. frithe Fifth
avenue' sewer he found * op° dolbirs worth
of articles. He was four weeks getting (.11t,
imeonsequence bf higb,tidea.
THE STRONGEST MAN..4)r.,13. Win
ship of Roxbury . a*oungphysician,l2s years •
old is believed, ,by many persons, who have
examined-into the question, to be this strong
est man alive. He can raise a barrel of flour
from the floor Ito his shoulder ; can . raise
himself with either little finger till Ills chin is
half a foot abode it; can raise 200 lbs. with
either little finger; can put lip a dumb bell
-
of 141 pounds;l exercises daily with dumb
bells weighing 1100 pounds each. Which he
can rajse alternately , : above his head, can
lift with his hands 02d pounds, dead weight, -
without the aid i of straps or belts of nny kind.
Tophate, the strong man of England, could
only raise 800 pounds in the same *ay ; and
the celebrated Belgian giant .could: poly. lift
800. With straps it is- supposed i perms
Could lift nearly four times as much as by
his hands alone. Itthis is 'so, -Dr. l W. can
rik at least ,1,500 pounds.' Dr. W. -is a
tEorough.gymnast; and when he graduated
at Cambridge, five years ago, he mei without
a competitor.---Satent Observer. ,
. .
Ijr The great trial of speed betWeen the
trotting horse Ethan Allen and Flora Temp.
le took Waco on the Fashion 'course, Long
Island, May Met. . The contest aft's• for a
purse of s2,,ooo.'mile heats, best three in five,
to wagons. Flora won in three I straight
heats. First heat, Flora NOR by ; about s
length; time 2:25. Second heat. l'iors won
by more than'a length; time, 2.27,4. Third
heat like the second in time and fresult.—
The first heat was the fastest time trotting to
wagon, on .record. About 12,000 persons
were present. £finen.hir victory over Ethan
Allen, twommtches have been madfi between.
Flora. Temple and the mare Prince's, 'for.
merly owned in Chisago,'and subSequently
in California, where she was quite successful.
tar Al the steamer Jefferson was passing
Erie, Pa.,slew days ago, Captain S. 'toad
discovered, some five miles from (shore, a
balloon three miles in the air, rapidly de
scendingto thO , Lake. The ca taint ordered
the propeller to be changed in her Course, so
as to bear toward the desmaingl balloon.
The small boat was sent out •and made fast
to the balloon, when a tug came Out from
Erie and took - it ashore. There were two
persons in the balloon, .one of them being
Mr. Lynn. editor of the Erie liPi'qiatela.—
When the ballotou struck the waterlthe bas
ket sunk so as "to almost submerge its of
cdpants. '
,
Igrßishrip Potter, of Pennsylvania, writes
home from Pau, Lower Pyreneett Franc*,
that he has mot made much progress in re
gaining his health' since he left tha, United
States; bat still he does, not 111.; much
acute pain, and is in hopes of beingLiestored
e '
to health. According' to the OA if his
l
physicians, he leads life almost en tirely ; in
idleness, which he'deeply regretsi4refeering
the stimulus and gentle excitementottending
the discharge of his various duties At home.
The tour abroad will probably extend anoth
er year, as his medical advisers do not think
fie will be fully restored to health before
that tithe. - -
DEATH TROLL, THE STING OT A FuM.—ln
Princess Annie county, Va., a short title
since, a valuable stave, owned by James S.
Garrison, while hauling a seine, was stung
byiz ; fisb called The "ajngray ," and died in
thr ,or four hours after from the effect.
we at this point-that one of the companions
of ihe immortal Capt. John Smith died from
the same cause, and the place was named by
hint "Stingiay , point?!
•
. 1 k Jury of St. Louis, before whom
a'case of breach or, promise . of,marriage. has
been trying, hairenderetra.verdiet for - the
plaintiff, and assessed the dstnages at $lOO,-
000, the full asnouat:thateshe claimed. The
elyfendient, who
. 4 said ,twbe ,very wealthy, is
60 years °lige. The plaintiff, who *num.
tiered only 30 winters, at painted in rose col.
ors by the Western journal. •
Mr" No perion• is admitted in Boston in
see Paul Murphy without a ticket. This is
very ridiculous. and Mr. Morpby wall have
to be cameo! that the Bostonians do not turn
his bead.—Pres4i . -
Ni"" The Richmtal Naquirsr forautli•Y
repudiatei Thomas defrerioa as a political
teacher. Tha Jrciptirsrounitit stand his I'll
- motormen*, and hiednetAies !shim
teach the equallt,y ot.men.
The New Ampstare •Legbilatore
glinitaatloll. let,ty the choice of Repub
lH
fit 4.
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