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Napoleon's ambition and guilt-in ..._,-- „.....---- . . , our Synipatity with him. in this - critical mo ' 1' The Use of rlotiveri. • meat of hitii. life. The intense anxiety with 5 ,..,,,,i b anis h . ti .weri. of passing loYeliness 'whi4h he Wntehed the advance of that eblumn ~ . 131.45 ti on life's pathway wno itilestintsplettelor: and !the terrible suspense he' suffered when God bade themrw, the pi Igriiii%i snid to bliss.: • Use them not rouglilythey are trail;and tett- the smoke 'Of bat tle wrapped it from sight, and : der! : .... : , „.0 the utter despair of his great heart when the ‘,. . • . ice, surroutt-,citrtilin lified l over a fugitive army, and,the• Vbnulptuekest one, An wear' Mien thy IP . r•-•.st : .....ed yet faithful follow- despiirinil shriek rung on every: side, t' La, T.ll:iff the fragrance it i. evy . r . hrt.4thing4 .....eo with airier for the fine of . garcie. recqe," "La .aarde recute" inaltesns for FYI - the ish lovingly thy hOsinn's guest, . , . ~ ' ... e. e—iii n . Ow last remaining hope. But the a Moment 'nmost wish be had gained the day. 1 . i ts. gr - 4„•fili tendr•lti round thy heart.strings vere•thigl •.•• "' . ' \ marshal; with. only three .thousand mete, had : Neyi felt • the immense' responsibility resting . . * .- • : 'still a Wilderness' between lihn and his carper- upon hiin.iif He felt the. pressure of an empire . Twill flovirislf 17 'l'v in the:light of •dniiles;, ,- or, and that wilderness was -filled' with C o s- . on his braie hcart, and 'resolved not to prove' And ffolll,owit sit steive iii.:llllifiilligor It( !ToW 1. ..-..,. , sixty . • ~ , , .. t .„ . 0. ... _ .. 11 . P• 1 sacks. pi ,ror 111.1,/eO. 1 . 10 s ru,„,git.d ont wall unwortliviot tne gnat trust committed to his To senthe in turn with . oft en-chaining wil s his an ThY mind, when darken i. by a .vilviud o son. . ~ - . - • • - ..Nothing Ile wild warnors. 'At ono 'time they got hi ad- the Moventeuf or, that grand column to the 1 • \ • • ,vance'rifium, and fell unexpectedly upon his. assault. -That guard had never yet . remiled , . 1 Let not the cold il•tj.i. of ,iinkindivsliies _advanced posts, which were iminedih tely before a hUinan foe, and the -allied forces be , Od I its warm beauty, list it droop an, but v ' ' l in' and ail was givn up as.hist. I But- hall withltiweltS firm and terrible advance tzni;:ir. . 1- - i---_l_._ - Ney ordered - the'trintipet4i-t-o-s!nind the ell :age' to the- final charge. For a moment ' the bat- And th""igh 711 "" w ad' . ! : It with-! '"" lnirit! P ‘.. e4 ; and with the cheeritio• words,. "Comrade4,now torieS stoqed playing and , the firing ceased • - No life returtf\to Cheer thee in thine ant 'nisi': : .. k is the tboment forW:rd they are ours," rallied. ...dung the ~ 3 titisit. lines. . Without ihe . beat , , .. • . ' sh\ow ring the sweets of true and constant love • 'their etiurage to the,assmilt, and the eos.4acks ing of as drum or the blast of a bugle to cheer ! , On 1.1 ii„, „hi,. 4 „,„, mi k i . fit . , ~..v 4 .r v o r .al ;- 'fled. Thinking their generd . Saw whatithev their steady couraf.re, they moved on indead Until ranspianted thl•y. shall liiiioni s i,iiv,.. 'did not. and that-the enemy were cut off, silenlce ovlr the plaM. .The nest moment the . With brighter lines, itiirntiing nnd eterini ! .v. -the soldieri•(' 'pressed forw:trd .wftere o . hemise artillery opened. and the he ad Of that gallant [ . - , , . they Would li:ive yielded and fled..At length, cOlumnsermed to sink into the . ecth. Rank .. . .. ~, , , _,. -.! with optyitclecn 'lptisd ri.d pep otif!cif the for-- , after' ranli went down; vet they neither stop t' ' i ls i it - % -. 1% . t 5 or tt - c,....it.til •. _ t' thoilsand with which !he had- Morel, he iped• nor -fithered. Dissolving squadrons and • • ..• ''...- arrived; near! Orcha,:ind hctir•thyl • Frcncti ar- whole columns disappearin.. - one after - anotli , - - • I_____:L- .2. " , , in' . . • 1., ', TIARSHALL 11i.L17. :. - ed, "I hire time .huttidred, • millions 7 col. ,ste.,, l , cotinige. - The column closed up as , . -...._. , • • fers in ‘lhe Tuileries, fl, .w'oulki willingly ;have !before; and each treading his fallen cow-. . • . t - ~ -nv J. T. IIEADLY. ; . given theM• to cat. Marshal Nev:' ' ‘l'9l he - lrlidelpres4d .14114 on. The - horse which • -• ' 1 -••••WItis empire with it, for tk . ith- , Xev Irode!'ell under him, .and he-had searce-. .., ......, .- [\ . ; • . . ,_ . also sunk The'blazing towers of Mose, ~ , o neror. dy ,mount‘ anetner, before it ! under COf Napoleon ' s •iilvas; ltim..l,' Agpin and -amain- did that - unflinching .• , . z• scarcely - crumtlP . • :man 'feel ts steed sink-down, till five \had • , , army turn t' !:•k - t bil.en!slioti i nder him. -Then with his uniform. Id like te ' -Triddled'-wilth bullets, and his face singed and eiti ; riblackenecii with, powder, he, tnarelled on foot oar i:\ . , ti Oval' lurawn sabre at Abe head of • his cOlunin. Elsa I lii, vain dill the artillery 'hurl its s'Orm of tire . 'FI . , ! AM] leailipto that living\ mass. Up . to the ' at . „ I 'yklr \ 'i• inwales they , pre.& , ed, and driving the tb .mot yet. I artillervnten from their own pieces;, pushed on wl ...in front thrOglir llie ,EngliMi lines. But the sudden . .ist. Thong.,ClitingNf that hitherto unseen rank-into their ink,. , away rig:iiii. amid '.`yerY,fa esi,i. pouting .a stied of flame into their . the ..4, •he - still rendwed. 10QS0111S, 'N 4 tIS ttrkmucli.,.for - humait courage. 4Te . il d f -ed , the . satrue th.q.etntitied 'Nev. was &tome bliek in the retbient tide and • icti !::A.t the awful Passaire of liiiritd rii.:Or tiu. fiord.- Doc An. the crowd of tier ' again between the,:ar-• fugitives that forcea him back, he,would 'have J : f•., At . length, the - scattier- su od! alone rind fallen in big footsteps. As it A t 'nch Leg i ons re.44...iied. w:k,isd4mitig to fly; though the Whole army,! 'try of the. Italy-shin Yviis flytnfol lie tormed his nr:..n. into immense Q, -"II - out 'estitute of troops— elitari!s and entieavored to stein the. terrific ur niched au; . tide; imil ! Would I ate done so, had it not beeu • le' , 'ltir,ed men,l'hont for the tifi V thoUsa (I fresh Prusians that press .llf - la) he plthlted rd oh hislxhatste . ranks.. For al long time n - bOULS.,atitliept. '. theY titoo d bud let tit ' rtillcry plough through In the and.fi-Yvas. teem: Ott Ale fate- f l'apoleon:•was writ, Is n me._colitiMifi'd ilia though we helieve\Ne did what no oth . • i ‘, 7 their coin- l er (num iiiL Europe' could` lave done, the decree e -ds Fritnee,-1 ec.)tild nou . lse revers(4l. lie -star that- had ,-, Itti . '•ijna• -, , i blazed sothaleftilly ov e r the wi4lifovent down A ;Ilin;)q iiti!lilCod, , !, 4i.1 the "'bravest ( ' the- brave" had . radioed i fotio.'t lli4ilast battle. It W. ti worthy of his , el • 'so of - I great ; nan i i•, and the charge o l the Old Guard 1 -Nioc . 1 ht Wriaterl KO, • with. himat their heard, will be and' 1 Tvoiti6!il toltiv remotest generatiis with a , - i itu 1 :Itudiler. 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Theblazing towers of Nfoscow, l ; the t urn i ng pointlof Napoleon's -invasion and hi; - ; forttine, have s.careely - crumbled to . ashes before the fated Only turn their ces- homeward. W shoal() like to be made ac(ipviiitted With the! iv convettio , ' of NaPoleon and: Ney they sat Jogether in -the K retul i stud - -talked over . I the disastrous issue they had met, and the on- iv •way of escapeirom total annihilation. The fiery and impetuous harangues of-de formed and the blunt charaetcrestte teplies.of the lat ter, while the crackling of the flames and the fal~in4 4: ;( co lu n s a nil walls . without were borne to their ear - , must, haVe. been in. 'the highest dezre4 drannitic.. From:the heap of : ruins, I aP from the solitude which was more prO pbetie than the uproar of the storm, Nev was ] appointed to cover-the -retreat; • and this. net of NaPoleon niters more distinctly his _opinion of that marlail's generalship' than language can do. - The whole history Of Ney's conduct-1, durin(i . that Memorable retreat - seems to be long .r ether. to some hero of romance than an !- actual man. The - . iii rvelous 'details appear incredible, and-would not be believed. if the :evidee was, not inconte.stible: mere ;hal'ndittl of men h' placed hinrielfhetWeen the ,Itt - 414 I;,ussi'an, annies,:atal, by ins in. I credible exertions, desperate valor, and ex-1 laaustls ingenuity, saved. a s -portion • of that host Which would otherwise have been totally annihilated.' That retreat alone would make, him immortal. R ith. all the fault. found with his gtiticraiship, 'dere was not a s corninander among either the French or allied filmes du , -, I ring the whole:war,. that ever did or ever could accoinplish what Neype.rfointed in that memorable- flight. Bad he fallen ,we believe Bonaparte would. h i are fallen also, and the former really saved .the army, which the lat-. 1 ter never -could have done. :With - Out provis ions, almost without arms; lie battled the w e ll- I tried and countless- legions of Russia . ...hack from his beloved emperor--,and -over theleiWin ten- filAds of snow, and amid the driving s l torm . nifty heart untamed.and unsuhdtred, - , he hovered like ('protecting spirit arOund the, divided, and flying - ranks . of his countrymen. The soldiers, exhausted:and despairing, threw their muskets from them into the snowlrir.s, and tat- doWn by thou:4lmA to die. Cold; lie , numed, l and famine-struck:, this ghost of : an at._ ruy..str i aggied on through.the deep snow, w:th , nothing hitt the tall - pine dowaying ittid rear ing mourufully_in the blast for laudmat& t o . the glazing eye, while an enratied avid well-.. discipline; army- was pressi Mr- in the Tar.— Clouds Of raven's, whose,dosk4 - - forms glanced - like spirits through - the snow-tilled air,ieroak :ed orer the falling coluninii; While troops of doga, that had followed - the army from Mos-, cow :fell on the'prostrate forms before life was wholY- - extinct:: _The smith how d by as the -sOkliers sunk at night in the ow to reg., 111=r:to 'nse . no'more, the, ni , )rninft-stin •I4' at all, looked' colt.l l - .11 if it shone at a., 001. and 411 3 - thr - ougt the flying. clouds iaf a - northern Sky. Ther were lung *lntervals when not. it,druin or t ruin pet I;"4te broke the muffled tread of. the gethicr I.ffious. On , the rear ofsuch an army, .ad ••3 - • - e , • lb sight of such horrors, did Nev comliat. Nothing - but a 'spirit unconquerable as. to e itself c Auld have sustained or kept alive the flagging courage: of his troops.. - z.;;inth hug every moment over' the -dead bodies of therr - emnrades who had°, marched but a few. hours in advance - of) theta, thousands -threw away their arms in "'despair, and wandered Off. into the will erneFi fo - die - with cold, .or. be slain lie the Cossacks. Yet Nev kept up a firm li"and iround him, that all the power of Russia could not CO:rapier. Now ordering► . his march with the .skilKof a general,. and. 11011i.MIth a musket in' haikr,fighting like a omtiontoldier, thelnoral fcircC-of his.exam aCcomplished what authority . alone nev er col ld have done.... At len g th, the. "braves i . and.heraic, d erred to Intie reach:. (4.1 thq eiW 's fa. , and there was noes, cape froin the doom. that hung &wet\ hini.- r The Russians had. finally. placed • thernielYe4 between the Frettch:may and that rear guard now dwindled ton few' thousand. ll gnorant .of his danger.- Ney was leading . his eoltimas I through a .dense fog to the banks 'of Luc:l f•lllitt,, on which- were sire-Wed the dead hod- ies of his'eountrynien,• whemit battery 4 fork .ciauntt suddenly p4.atred a destructive storm 1 olgrtfpe-stint into the very heart of his Tanks. . The next moutent,.the heights beferZt him on either side appeared lined-aciii?densecolumns of it4tutr).,..atid artillery. Nev hadndOne all that luau could do, and here is career seethed I about to close. Ile was ordered to capitulate. I .11ereplied, A marshal of Fratwe neve l t. ren erN, and closing his columns . ..marched upon - batteries. , Yain valor. fits nOble and - 4:ilevottKl followers .proved themselves wor e. :oftheir -heroic leader, but ler a loss of half, their inumber they *ere. compebed to retire. Find:Ott - the army gradually extendin;; it -elf oneverytside to hem ,hitnin, he returned back_ towards Smolensk° for, arrhour,..theu t fortni . ng • a 1 - xady of four thousand meti,-. bitted, ltorth . toilantia.the Dnieper, - -Having -leached - the, et*** ii*ety r ie arranged hie.liagmint of 1, army so as -to march over. the_ice at a 'MO. ,- "ZP.t` . » 4 , 4 E w rning,. and then .waited . thyof h7it'rs' , be 'ore crossing to allow. the. weak and ivouti dc Stritgglers to - coins in. Pressed IY the m st appaling daiigers he still Yielded tau the di caters Of Mercy. !There oil the banks of the frozen ri`yer, and during' this time of intense., itrixiety,ldiCl this strange indoinitable rriarrlie down With. Lits Martial cloak around, - hint :and sleep:Bonaparte,firr in advance ; struggling for Ward on foot, with a birch stick in hi -baud I to keep hirit . front falling, on the ice, sMiroun ded b' his few exhausted Yet faithful 'follow er -ft, was pressed with anxiety for the fate of Ney—his now last remaining hope. Pitit the . Inarshal;with. only three .thousand in'eti, had : 'still a wilderness' between him and his . ' emper or, and that wildcriiess wits :•filled with; sacks.ii: , ;Foi••'Sixty miles he struggled onlwitli his we l aitt•-, columns atnid:six thousand of!these wild warriors . . ' ,At ono time they got ht ad -•. 1 . • \ .vance Inf Lim, and fell unexpectedly trp i on his. advaneed posts, which ;were immediately 2-- dri-v:orderet in , and all was givn hp as.lcist. I But- Ney ot - the'timnpetti-to-F4nifid the charge and wili - the cheerjiig words, "COntradeS,now is the ttionk..tit ; forward they are ours," rallied. 'their etiurage to the,assanit, and tlie Cos Sacks 'fled. Thinking their general .. "saw what:Alto diil not - see,! and that-the enemy were eat oil; -the soldie(; pressed forward .whent whetwise they -Would Irliave, yielded and tfed. , 'At length, With otily.fi.ftern •Ituadri.dOen out cif the for-, ty thutisatat with which he had.. Stared, he arrived; near. Orclia,and near- tin/ 'French ar my, When I3onapar4e heard; ofit, lie\.xcrtinl ed, "I hat-e three. undredmillions its' 4.r : cof fen in ;Alie taileries, 4 - would willinoiN ;have c, •• given theta to save Marshal Nev.. ,7 • ‘1 ,, 91 he . tintr,littitid half-liis 4Mtpire with it, .for With out hiM he had been a throneless einpt44T--" the n - i-elingl of-Bonaparte and his brave Mar, stud steno's the profound itnplrion the tact of-the latter had made on•liiin. A!s.hi eve fellOn the worn 'yet. still proud tureon lpierablelverern. he •eXelainied, '' What a Man, what a ! - Rldier l" 13ittWords failed to eXPress lii:yuliniration: and he chispoi the stern war rior to' , llis bosom and embraced hint with all the rap l ttire one hero embraces another. i •.. Tilt •Ney's exhaust - ing eprts were not yet . over. 13onaparte dated not relleYe hint from his dangerous , and iniportant post. Thengi the .rear-guard bad meltt. , il away again. and again antler his 'command, • he - still renewed its ranks,' and 'preseated 'tile 'same deter Mined front to the enemy. :.At the awful passage of the 1.L.-rt4ian,-I - lie stood again between the : ar-• my aaddestraction. " At length, the -scatter ed: retraiimws of the French Legions rett4ied thie-Ntdnien, the boundary of the. Ithiss an territory: Ney arrived destitute of troops-- r :,-.. •d the rean'uar had again melted away.-- 7 - 1 Colleating . in haste a few hundred men, Whom he found , in the towh AWilna,) he planted twenty-four cannon oh the rearbouts,aird - kept - back' the enemy all day . , while the antryi, Was, retirii g., The nest ~inurning, •he.voirtintied his (1 ..fehee, but the soldiers, seeing their orri ratles- benditii. their footstepstowards France,- and I:wiiv i froni, the bullets, of', the Ito: ions, began to folloW after: till he waS kfr.,alia) . .4 :dune. Still true` to Lis duty, he . continued . to cover the retreat of the army-he had so of ten saved. All hattnot yet passed the INie,- men,aad - Ly dint.perSuasion and threats; and -promiseS, lie;collec:ed thirty ,tuen• arotindi him and .with -musket in - hand defended with this handful the &e of- Wilna: -At length, Wl.ea the last soldier, w.:.: over; he \slowly - retired throligh the -Streets :With his face---to the!cne mv, and,' crossing the river, "'Mi.'? Me. last ql the Gran;-t, army wito; : tit the Rtz,xiaa ter:F.4lo - - • • : \ • llis-last charge at 1 , Waterlob, -- IMwed i that the firmness and brityery of the man weli -- .: un- AiminiShed. It is. tine, the; Old Guard was not what it had beeti. \ It rialuited the expt...,: 1 rienee and training of the Ye :emirs that fell in the snow-gifts of RYssia. -but still ic was I "the Old. Ouarti,"which . hail ever -regarded itself the .prop and pride (if 136uaparte, It was' the, some ilitit - -had „ gained- lint' so litany battles—the same that at, Krasnoi, in the rt..- treat froto , }fns-id, When teaueed. to :t lit,le band, clo:kl round-.their emPerur andni4ict.-' i. ell past the. Itassian 631t:eriei, • playing in the !, hottest tifctlie tire the: popular popular air, "Ua p;:ut 7 on e 1 tre m4a.r Ta'au-iOn dt:lamilb 1' .- it was . 1 4e ."uuLtditilarahle 4ttartl."i . I •: . Prom, eleven in thc , moinitig till four i i ir the itf.ettioon.A , r he battle had raed;wtrilevietor%- perctied on • neither I s aukt:tr4.l. • Tile heav%' , •It'retiel: elaralvv= had charged- the E4glisit 'quotes it4iv:lii. ; JerOnie..l3ouaparte luau left fourteen hnudiecl men around liougoutnont. 'lire - .Lanitt'e of thfs Eugli, II - lines had not! yie'. 7 tied ;in ilii11; yet,•exliairsied and worn, ;:they .stood lessl thinly in their ,tlaces . ...• Tire" Ofd • . . Guard had %remained ,pas iVe.,spe.g.:taturs Cif the scene ~ leritig the whole day, being teii....r_ri*l - thc LitS: ni,,nent to - euniplete luelvie:oq. 4..i . tf•thi:-,in'tietnie,. tlic;j-head ,of . tie P,Ussiaii _columns appeared on. the . itierd. FitV thou ittudireshitroops added to tlie•Euglish, army, would mitke the oddS, too Brea . lusteo.oi rearing ii'll.Grouehy-could come up aud re .store tue balance, Bonaparte took, the rash and despiiittte'.l CS i ,I U. • 71 in I of bring,iii zs •r bis euttre , reserve - into the field,? and ;with- one - 4WE'llt •C13:31-g . e.4.);l3ukt:firougii; the centre,andinevent the via 4.l;cued juric,inn of the two armies.— For this .puipose he 41Ied up theOld-Gtiard, and placing itiin44.lf 'at their head thareited down t lierstopt..y. and, halting, in .a. lioll4ty, ad dressed them in hiS tire, veliethent ni:Muer. Ile ~told them l l,everYthitur Jested , on: theti : yal= or-.-Thevl l . an(:wered ;'Nvith the shout, "IlTeee I'4'mpercar,"firat . was heard all along :he thiash litres. 1 1.1. e thdia placed - them .under Ntr, ..+016 ordered-.4e;, charge. Bona pane ha's been blamed fur 140, , heading thiS charge himself ; btu he knetOliat lie, equlti,tot -ha r: y tliat g,uto 4 isSO fisr,,noi.„ hold them_ SO lung ht.: - tin e.tire•nr,ti Ilerv, as Ney.. the Moral power :Vey carried witll. him,: from the reputa - jou he had gained of be i ng 34e "bravest of the br n al , -,e," was, w nit Ir . a Nt . hole Vatalliori. Whene Yet a column, Save him at theii • bead, they haeiv that it-Wass to be.vie . trik: or 1 I . lltiiltilatii.a. With the' excerption oft:Macdonald- we dtz not knOWALlgeueral in 11.u4 vivo tirtnies . Who could `h o ld. his soldiers so lotigiu the very face of destruction As s lie.the -1, - lioletOntiriental sting -gle eihibited no :tiblituer spectaclertliati this last . 'effort of .Napoleou to save hiA•sinkin#, em pire. '-Europe laud b!ett pitt tipou the platiss of Wateribo to be for c The:greatest:mil:- MI - 31 e s rtergy and skill the Wiptidlxes:wi , eii had I - , r beeti „ tasked to the uttnciit-,dtiring - thi d4y .4 - ThiOei sr re tottering s on the enia, nghltieil field, tinst tla; ihadevv.4 -of fugitive bilge .flit- teid through the imokii of battle, Bonaparte's -Mar trembled in this!zaith, • now blazing-out ~ .. n . its ancient aPlendo4•noif 'aucicierdy paling before hit , iiithOUS; 4)ye4t. At itelfthi - wheit the `Prussians appeirea of the- - fitild t - --he:restph‘d to put Europe. l ;on one Wd t.hrOvv. lEfe "co-- t J-1 it `. a, J `-'t ' . o' . 'TePi:Tl6,t, - -- - '_l' 7, "'"TEl). TO POETICSCIFEsrE TiTORALIT I - f. JrJ , 4.4 44. •.) 41ontrose, .c.%ii.sqatztuita quabzini !iranitarg 12, 1854. . . 1!19w Jcep )zir Regain illealtti f , -NI P. is, who was siipposkid, eighteen. months ago,. to be far gone in Consumption, and , who ilia_ since :din° -t entirely I, ,recover .l ed . his health,' ,acribtites the -beneficial change priruipA to fresh air, careful diet,' - and eXe/ - oSej, .014 the. 'point apparently of dying, he reinoived 10 - the; ; llighlands, 2110 Vegan to ride daili on horseback - and 'work in the open air. Thef resul t - was' a - yerceptible improvement. ii. vliitili • hi I continued- for more than a year, ancUwhieli has lefthim now ; robust in appear aile(i and ;nearly altogether. free from disease. For dart !;,f this,time.lie lived in a rude fart:a l/0U • "- whs/1 ; his - ..oti'4 ,,, e was, bein.. erected, and. 14., , .1.. IL . ithougli the cold rooms, full of rdrau g hts; .-irritiectl - its lungs while in-doors, lie obtained relicjf the inuineut he fo.uud.hinasell on horse baidt„ or ‘iforking with his axe in the open air: i - ,ceit:sividly, al,er par.icipating in pas:ries,or iichigrav+, he Was w o rse ;.but a 'et= to a Care)ul.diet.„ accompanied -with exercise, at On!iti restated , liim. l)iiring a l:c'e visit to Ilu+..run, a 'ietitting - north-east wind brought ' back - bleeding at the lungs,. and "others of his old INuipaans.: Since.iits-tettini to his cot ta;ici;howciver, and his sesuinpiionUf his (it ; cf-dbur life in the Courery, behas entirely 7,ii; Hti."()Vklitttl, :141 . ellti - , iataS hill 1411: ili hett(2.l health i that! he li+ enjoyed for years. - - 3r. Widis lays particular stress on hor s e - . I,:iel ' exerelse. We have 'ourselves known phy4icians to, adviseit in what weroppareat i ly, the last it:4es of-con-tlip; i0n...... :pi er o u r 1 Ownl-persorpl übserv4 ua al • 0,-we have found itexceedinikly benei.cial to snappy pets• - n , . es- 1 . 1 - i pecuilly the of - a nervous organization, or I Utla4-s to N4ivin the exelei.f•se of walking wins I('?f.e' ilt injurUus. Mr. Willi' -notices the-fact, , also'.l that the be.. 4. English physicians recom inetid'it tvil ilore ; con - Jueive , to health ; than I :MY qpther Mode of exc.' eise. , lu truth; riding 1 on lioiseback calls into. Oily nearly all the J intistles of .the, body, besides stitit;tilating a torpid liver, and teiteving the strain . ou the Spinc: constAu...!nt in walk.ug. It-unites,4nore - Over; recr-qaion with eXereise, a n e x - f ,essary . I}ii\xt!ilic if lie eXercise is tu.be niadeptea-ing; andlexerci.ei.which is not pleasing, runs great risk of not Veing persisted i n, and nut doiii,i . . • as iueli - g. - d.as it should.; But, if 'possible, -the ride su tild be in the open air. , • Mr. Wil- 1. ' lis rides !I: 10 . V, from eight to ten miles, whets-' ler itiis de af or. rains. • All persons_ cannot i . tiringthenives to - do this. Many invalids, (;4spci;ially ladies, consequently ride tinder cot:- qr, ail' riding 1 school, or in rings . kept up by 1 ~:üba,riptiob.l But thoughexerciseis thus Sl; 7 (3111 Q, the NA: air is-lost ie . a great measure, Ond'i,he freo airis half the'.battle. i ' -. J.:: Ii deed, tick a . little Of the 'prevailing ill-. - . Ilealo, es.Lksially-in - great 'pities and, among, Ikers4us.oftilentary employments, should' be. attritmted. to a neglect of fresh 'air. • People Wbci:tire slim up, during th 4 suinnier mouth*, in' elOse and I illy-04itilated 1 ri)outs,,er tionfin . - /eidoluringl4i,nter,' in apaitinenta where the thertnometeii ranges 'from Oveuty to eighty, and, 'where eirery_aperature is carefully closed against the' access of fresh -air, cannot weaken" ex.: Iteetil if they i,have; common , sesnst4 to weaken . tlieir[systia*, if not-to - siriOUEly:itkair thitik . iiiili;b. . 114 fOiod .of, the litnga t5 . ,04,. ,l,f that sjr". ii inhaled -i' iiilts ,xiiitilisi oonditiott iti ; it . es the roper i SiLiniiiiibs to the !dugs ;' bit if li is mixed with deleterious stibstszeis,the lungs stfttler.:J . .-Or, - to put the cafe in still . anOthei as petit, good i'blood can'ouly be Made out. of good air. If, therefore,ihe air imbibed is tt:tiiedi'l,With . carbonic tte.id gas, the blued! im-' Mediately becomes more or i ir impure'i Er erfiperson Who has stiffemd vertigo,, even klieadache, - while sittingin a crowded ' .bitdly ventilated ; church, has'." exPe.rieneed i these syMptoms - frem having been poisoned,; as it Were, by impure air.. l '.'Anvbody wholhaS felt the!, e4hiliratiott of a bre ezy hilkidti in the country, can bear testimony to the i4ivigora ting ,elects :of - fresh air.] , The human !lungs wefe 'lever !Made to-be< shut up, day 41 . day, in close tip:tempi...Bj They witherthere as effeetnally as plants deluded from liehl l .' the e onls' 'difference - being Ithat they , do . iV.slewer, been*. haVing• Moue - vitality. •i - •. ., ':- Wediave, no doubt.tha , t a ..large prOppition of tote `delicate fentalek with which alliotar cit-• his aretilied, owe their,ill-heatth to a l a4glect of lixereise and fresh , air..l Take the ditughter of 4 family good circumqances. • FtoM her yery infancy she, is guarded as if• the' least breatk . ofairwotild iniurOter, never piing out Withotit beino-wripped uP to the chin,a; . tal of,- ~- , .. g tettOoe senten to seW)oll.ei•en in a ciirriage. Her:, natural instinct to exercise is restrained as n:vnle.iiritY ; sl.e is called, a tomboy, iiornp, and a dozen other contemptuous naniesi; and thuS, at heit, she is drilled into a mere ,',Social Mac' hine; 'malty losing even the SPiritsltO!wiSh ter , take, aq:ive exercise, i Her. days 44 :pent, in learning enormous les4ms, or in prtitistri!! ,- i - otelni, , t, work or .embroidery, varied with an occasional 'Children's party, where she ; i.s al ldwed- )whatever she .ple4Ses, 'and to • dance hersOflitto . a fever. yVlfen she leavei 40°0 her existence beeomesceven moremonOtbuous. Perhao=, if it is winter and the farnilY ;keep no earrtage, she is week 4 without, hehig .out of the house ; and in the 'house she doislnoth inn.,but dawdle over af neve!, stitch unlit of P i 1 • 1 -1 , 1 taiicv work; or sit over, the register of 'tli, fur nace.- t . . her father ke4s a carriage, siltii may rideoui-oecasionallv ' , 14 she is alwa'y.i' fair il eil ii . , the throat ; a and:So thiturs are ud toetter. , , , .{ ' In. word she is a hot-house plant, ; forced, likelit, ;to a prentatur . , oeyelopment ; rin'd like'' 1 • .4 hied , • . 1: , - 14 tf 111 consequenee, to 11 premlu.ure . and ;;unnatural decay. , ', I, • - 1 • ,'Slirtily, if, there is a reform in s°ol life i . needed, in one particular more than aui)ther, i iti,isl:reiuired in the-.4dueatilm of our Aiugh -1 tcr",n/10. it& the lift; li r . ,t!if.: them -to le pa ar -1 ~ i terWards.. Theydre dying by litindriAs, for 1 %yak of, fresh air; and;,)°et-we take altinit no 1 ndte',ofithe fact. Whewthe english prisoners i ptiri4ted, in the Blackliele in Calcutta'; froth the - Sul' atmosphere they Were compAlOd •to I breathe; the whole cit•ili4ed world:o.W out with: indignation at die [perpetrator:l'4;f the. 1 d60.t o hd.thou g h-nearlv i a century h :is !.:sin: . 1 elapsed,: the „story is 'still 'never toid Without • 1-eXeitin.o hoer Or. But we penun our d. ngli ! tem,' •!atri.l to a.certain extiMt our wives ali.o, to 1 ae, I I}y !How ~,•dezrees,ci,m4lly for want pti pure air. in faet.,.where the. Mack Hole of cip e ut,.. - : tals_tilled it, hundreds the close ro,ausinhab itiLll4.; Atnerican . fiMullt..slay their! Loa-. 1 ~ t ,. , 1 1.."/ ,• the no inork - ,'; wide-spre:id evllttluin general- neglect of fresh air and. elKerciSe. 1 esPegtally among women in Cho'. richer plits. i It is to s; uo. purpose that we live. urdt;ss Nye sttiv,i to grow wiser ; !at:( it is useless:i ft) get wlsd r eirn unless •we al4o • practiee it, itO all . pirsOns Of st - 4dentary - hvel "but partieulatily to • letnalesi: we say; "take, fresh air and Oercise. , if .IyOn Would - keep or i . regain your - heal th.- 7 —' 1 E - • 47, i r Bollet'n - i I . ,i I .I\'' .Ilemark6 of Gen. Cass in theU.S. Senate . upon the announcement of the Death of Was. R. KING, late, Vice President,of the United - States..• i• - ' ' Mr.PRESInEi;;T : 7 -Again has death invaded the\ high places of Our land,;; and-bas tafi l en . froin us a Citizen distinguished by his talenti, his worth and Lis. service.', . and enjoying . the.. confidence and' affection of his country inn s .' . In. Providence. of God, these visitations come to warn. us that none are'exemp - in ‘. 4 fro the decree that, in " life we are in the idst of death," and that "beye also ready,l* is a solemn admonition announced.to us'froin the cradle to the grave, by the mighty and the lOwly„as they successiyelyfall before the great 1...3 destroyer: i The lesson is the more snip • , ive, the .higher` is the position, and the mo im; pressive,-the more eminent the character of him, whose'departure we may be called upon to mourn, hrd when one who occupied the second station in our country; is summoned :from the duties of this. life; to the mponsibil-- ities of that which is to come as the loss isa national - One, - the Manifestation . of publie t sympathy ;and- the _acknowledgement of the 1 public grief should be national:also. our la mented rriend, the late Vice President,'.has been taken from us, full 'of years indeed and . Qt' honors, but in the midst of his usefulness; aral iv hen [jiist prepared to enter upon the.. high , career to which he 'bad been called by the Aineri4an •pe.ople. ' Upon this oecasion;l desire to de little more than to oxpresi those sentimentslof affectionate regard with which . an acquaintance of many years hadinspired me, leaving to others who have this: day well fulfilled the task, to present' those features Of his charaet.et and services, . which endeared. him. to his countrymen in life, and.will endear to them hi,inenaory, 'now' that the scenes of life are forever-closed tipon•him. his career was eminently useful and fortunate, and ii:i . 1 the whole Lange of Amerieanstatesinen.there I are feW'indeed to whom ouryonth can better I . lea- when reeking models of imitation and en -I.couragethent, than to William R. Kingvi s 1 Firm but - tourteous,frank and fearless;of high .1 honer and irreproachable morals, , he brought la vigorous !intellect and : varied and extensive information to the nubile counsels; and the ripe fruit o' his experience, joined to theseen doWments, igaye'convictiOn t 6 his opinions and authority to his .c.vample We always heard 'him, with attention, fur he elucidiitZ•d ! 'every subjeet,he investigated, and brought to Lour discussions-the stores of his knowledge I and experience. with a.inanner as unassuntin c o; I as it was Captivating.. While 1 , 4-ing the Statein Which he so long .; resided, an ,which had given :him so many !•-Proofs of confidence and affection, liedovedi also our cernmon country, and at hoine and' abroad proi-ed himself tie. true. ..patriot,. the' i able, and faithfill citizen.:.. In all the relations of private life he: was loved and honored, as !',well from the amenity of his. manneras from the kindneSS of his heart; and in the social ; circle he .4 .he very model r'l S' halfmo .d)f ' the accom-: j plinked gentleman. i' o a tcentu ry a he Was in the public service; and was inti mately conneeted _with many of the' great events Whieli marked that long and stirring i iperiod,. and; he proved himself equal to 'an the eircumstanees in whichle -was placed, sus [, ._. taming himself With 'signal ability among , . ..s. . ,_ , inen whoselrenowir is written in imperishable Leharactersnpon the history of Our.country.-- . i But better, than all- this, he' . iwas a . Sincere: cliristianadding another to the long list of. 1. 1 eminent men who -. have searched the gospel 1 . Diiiiies of.Ediiraied'WomenJ 1 'of Je su s , 11114 have found it the will. and the i I t. t \ ' ' 4 i: - . .11#.t edueatien of women, like thatrOf 'iien .-. t w hichdurino."l .- 1. -- t word of (ioi.. In should tend toprepaie them for their dirtieS; when the world and the thin of 'the world the difference - . of their cimploYmentS Zvi 1 . o f i wore 'fast . , POI ng before hini, ,he found'. h o p e • studies Jiff t • ;,-, 1 • r . sol•ition - in . the Promise4of the S_avieur court render their , Went.) . . s . ant • um - . the dut3 2 V woman to edticate her *children, ', and . calmly !surveying the approach of 'de:it'll, hedooked • behind its power to AIM glorious the -I`.)'.V. , s- Until a 'certain age, and the ~i rff u - :lin - mortality - promised to the true believer.-H tit thevi are niiirried.....How much wiAdein is _,- 4, ,' . The places that know him , will knows no requii.itti to nuinage the .thiud anddiSPOsition li cets - , i nu'ire, but thoiqlr dead, his Memory is em or ciiCh l .Child,-so 4.t0 l elide their jute . he hearts of his countrymen, , and minuit.4 - their liumOrsto tanticipate th4effeets I. bellied in ih e i r , I there it Will lire, honored and 4herished, long ottlieir!growing passions; and to reetifv rafter all th.l'ese •who are now .taking patt in ertort. Iron much prifilence should d. irloth this tributelto his worth ' slialthave followed ordiaie!in order to•maiii7iiii her contlid.',over i th'eut; W_i them twin(' iiielt'irielidship and their I , in the journey, where for a bri4f space Inc has through the dark. valleylof the ecitilidenile. sA inorhr of a - family knight • to . i Pr.eeeded 11, I p( i . ,. s.e - i s fi r oi t,, ,i„ fis, mature, fi rm. m i m p , f i c _i,sliadow of.death. qt.lai !he'd with the huinani heart. • St..Pati I - 1 taeli. 4tichiinportanil7'p to the education Of , children, that lie say.s! .; it as by "inotlieri the I onWotTehildreirare-ived.• I'-shall hot - at- I teMpt . t specify all that Islie'ought tti iitx6w . inkirdetr. to educate their ;'children well. I: To ":dci this,* would be necessary ti.;' enterlinto 1 an entire detail' of their studies; but 'wk.. niust , nut omit the subject , J'of.iceonomy: : Wuinien I iirgetieral are apt to . 11e. 1 1e(!t. ,it, and think it: prOpcir Oily for the Idivt.74lclas..! , es ; thom) iota ere; esyeei ally who.ate!-lit•oo , ,tiit up in nililduelss -, and indolence, disdain the detailOf dOmestie life. Iris infverthela'‘s frkim ignorance Itliiit tlie.sience of econoniy is!despised..: Tlielpol-' isliedlGreeks and Romans lbw* care to instruct thimiir(aiis at: Vita mitred is of lour cirder, .which eau only Speakl well, and '.cannot l i e act will often meet with! women who tter, wiSetiniXiins; yet, nevertheless, are rely ;frit lons itoll:ir eoalact'J . I - 4 , 1 , ', • ' : . ' 1 ' - - It ib Emerson, I think i lwho has said ha one need he ht all troubled leSt the public tifili not. placer tight estimate" nPOu his eharaerland abilitieq but that all'pen are sooner tlr later, found oat. • • . st ;. 'el, truer Sayings - havd-perhaps, ever been utierejl wir these. ton needn't think- t lyet:ani4eyou are. giving•Pittrelf airs, iin4ing. foOh':fahe . pretensiono,, thlse show, and false lights 4 that you are theri.by not a bit.of it. ; I the public-- -, biet its. Aim' e',-,res not so great a fool aslythi uldy take it, to be. You Mav talk londly"and learneali—you May,'atidet beneVolen4e,;lid known . World4-Tou may put. &rill . a sp,cioWii show of weaith and. importa . lieel, or don algii - it:s of ketning atrability and, bonde , seerisiOnbut. unleis'S) - ou have ail tit* thi - 1:0; it is of no sort of lis6 That ulot4ter grihi...POlie.. Opinion; ha -1 .3 seen ,you thropgit and_ through—and Weigh l pd you in the intl !nee and found you wanting, and hett4e4ith it is day" with Yowl lit • _ . , !,1 ii Gailtp, or not ; gt4lty r 44 1 Dutch jusLteo. C... 44.111:a .Y4-,guilty." , i ,‘Diioiwbut you da heft 1", Go about your bizuels.'! , trokts.—Vlll bo ,solt hori Moutavi e., veek, 'You diver 51 1401 4 . v0k and ' tit _ J. Bautzvl4, I William .11. king. AL Leaf of 71eirnroii Lost. • An old „niau's - is a queer place.— Indeed, it r(*nitilbs igi„.•old-fasbioned . ,garret; full of reliei and souvenirs of ;the past ; the rubbish of io-da2e, but the riches of ;yester day.. -,1 : • . \ • .conVeration yesterday with an old man, who pafsed a long and aseful life, and with''whom! now it is: ludtaii sunurir, 'we were impri.-slsed..with-a remark •he incidentally made. • lle!had seen the opening of near sev enty spring 4; at first; : the winters 'carne and went, but UV and by,' nnmelt4l snow' filikei lingered in his •hair, and he saw them:drif ting over the graVes 'Of one' 'after a l pother, ‘Lose feet With' his, had brushed the morn ing dews together, At' last, they . whitened over his old; wife's resting have-over . her Who knew him when the shillews . fell t•ti .the westward and '"the day was liefore them both never thought him Old;' though all the world pronOuneed hit:also; EverybOdy said when she died, "it is'aterribli bloW 'to- the old man," . 4nd a few done all, they eoiild. to make.him forget, but there • 'was no iiiX-93.0f that, ".for," Said he; • "they: didn't seem -to know Where the. blow f4ll, they so Aleplored 14 -:L --1 didn't'f i think how, much :I inissecfsom.c. Lod y fo'helit ?ac. retnimkor . - Thoie lot words, indeed,' contain a world of theaning.i • lle.elict miss•thenther leaf from memory's tablet.' Two pair of eyes kid but rainbow ;'but one . pair beheld:it noW.---• Two' hearts had lived ovefligain • the past; one Meinhed imperfectly Whomwould! ha re ve life's little thread'extended, too,:iiliould he compelled to. take 'up tire - .words and Say„." I miss.sotnebody to help 'inc re.inembk.". . ißriOant :Young talks to the- Indians of Utah in a 4ay that is More forcible than ele gant : "I say to , the Wiens, as have often sa tl to thel mob, 'go y4ur length. You say you ere ping to kill us! all off. You!ay you are going to obliterate the Latter Day Saints, and Nil* theta , from the earth. Why don't y a dolt, you poor \ Initirable 'curses r - , , urespeet to b• 3 grea without ImMag ea - ea, is to 4peet ?zoo to shed-'their friit withotit'beieg pelted. To bring oat a roita'A ia . lea there is clothing like s, w holesome II . . - Wiiheitit the Simbiner Resiktf; B. f te Would ta ve z,ever*et above spedi(?critv: School House Dedication. ET REV. H. D. MOORE. Let, others wake the hoastful strain • To lactilptured temples rarer ' And bow before the gorgeous rune; • To pay. their:Worship there 4 • Hut we will raise a nobler song, The song of Freedom's band; And *lore—, while joy the strains prolong,— The School House of the land! •Letmyriad serfs in ether lands, Adore Ole 'conqueror's name; And rear aloft with slavish hands, • The mUnumentalfine:— But we w II rear with honest toil, - From in and to theesinst, • . , = ',The &Pim I.House,—fruit of Freedom's soil. Out Cotintry's vide and boast , ..- 1 •Go., ask of kings tell yon o'er, ' • The story of 1.1 it fame! -"- With all .the nois of hattle.roar . - Has died away heir name. - - But ask, Cheops! whose fathe - rs, bled The tr4hies o their bandit - 'Their shades, ,wit majesty will lead, - To' Where the School House stands!. " • Hail ! School tionse; Temple- of The free; The shrine where Freemen bend r The - bulwark - Of our Liberty,—.; . • :,. • • Do tlion onr homes .defend, And Awhile on rivers Slow along; And Mlle adorn the land :—, - Let every (heart awake the song. - -:: •= 4 Nov I l et the School HouSe•stand i ." ' notional, Susquehanna County Teaeher? I. • •' • • 1 sociatton. ' I I _ Pursuant to , n otice a large n u mber of Teach ers. clav,ened 4 the CoUrtHouse in Montrose, Dec:3l, 1853; foi• . the purpose of effecting. the pqmanent i l organization of society 'to be known by t 4 title of the "Susquehanna County Teachers' Association2r • The meetino- was, called , to order I,Y S. T. rho: R - S. Scott of . 13 . ridVewater, whii,.:•on motion o) G. Barkei, wits unanimously chosen Chair-. Man. • On; motion of E. McKenzie, B. - F: TeWksbu . rY, of; BrOoklyn.was-chosen Secretary. ri50.,..,. ! ,.t'..i.ry „haring: Wie his seat,. - ,tbe. . n meeting proceeded to select a committee to draft and present a Constitution: , . • On motionOf S. G. 13iirker,:Messrs. C. W. ; Deans, .Ei McKenzie J. Jameson, and Geo. l l McKenzie we . selected, as such. • cominittee'' mid retired. 1. During the absence of the corn inittee the 'meeting was addressed ,bv the ,- . 'chairman ' and several otters . in an able and ;- - • .•satisfactory mariner, and Much good. nature, 'interest, and 'enthusiasm, were exhibited b,,,;" lboth spe:il;...rsund..andienee. The coramittec now gavi;:nOtie.e . that they' were ready tdre-.. ; i port through, their chairman, C. W. Deans..: The Constitution was' then read, as drafted by *the 'eoinnuttee, and, the meeting proceededto c:Onsiderit.l - After a short session ordelib eration, durifir , - which, .some. amendments s, were made to'Alie original draft. •.- - - , • The following Preamble-and Constitution . . . 1• . , . . • were unanimously adopted-- ...-. .. . ---... .- - • ' .. - Preamble:H-1N: hereas,. The proper ediica- . tion of youth is, and ought to be an "objeet.of paramount interest and importance with-eve ry true philaiithroPist a as furnishing the-surest. safeguard against the_ disseinination of I the seeds of Vice, and the premature, growth of vicious practices, and as givin . g t.nsuceeeding generations inen,and women that. shall be.or nainents to the domestic circle, - lights in the path of virtue; and a blessing, to the world: •And W . hcrea.s,.Tlie common school Teach- . •er the proper medium through which this' education. iSitebe transmitted, is' .(in this i county at least) n a - condition, Mentally, '. tar . below what lifs calling imperatively - demands, performing, in, many cases, what . he .terin - s . .the drudgery of the school room, as'heswould :ac- .1 quit IhriselfOf, the raost - Ineniallask ureiely for the curisideration.: • . . _ , 1 . • And Whereas, From want of , encourage nient from ihok.. who ought to appreciatobe -benefits that w i puld,acerue to individuals, and'. community from a proper p°o`rforinance of the .' • responsihle citifies of the Teacher, many lire now hindred from, making; that .effort, to. ihn- prove themselves in that .art,. which . they vv otherwise oulfir ;make, and which the inter , I, m , , est of the common SchoolS.seriouslv demand. ' And Whereas, Experience has - aemonStia- 1 ted that the sulrest way to remove obstaeles I in the way cif any enterprize is by a. iinited;ae tion of its' friends,. therefore, . .- '.. , , . Reset red . i. That we, Teachers of ,Suscine haulm County .form . ourselves -into an Asseci ation-to effect the great object of our improve... meat in teaklliing the young idea.- . i . - • ' . CessrirrooNl ! . Art; I.—This...§.ociety shall be called, the Susquehanna County Teachers' .• - .. 1: Association. '.. ~, - , •;1 . • Art. 2. IS: -officers of thia...AssociatiOn shall consist of. a President, Vice President, 4ecording Secretary, _Corresponding Secreta ry, a Treasu er, and an Executive ,Committee •of five, all t be elected . annually and. to hold. their :Office br one year. . 1,. • • .. :, . ' Ail. 3. t shall be the duty of the. Pres ident to call lie,Association :to order, to pre side during its ;deliberations, to put all - lUe tioias duly add and seconded and in case of f an equal - di% sion on any .question togive ;the , casting Vote - The- President may alsohaiie the pnvileg, of addressingthe meeting. at any , time. - • ; - • Art. - 4..:,..'n the abience 'of the 'President the Vice - ti. esident shall perform his dud* : - • Art. 5.—.. t shall be -the duty of the , if- 1 e ‘.. cording Secretary to.iiote down:the_ pros ings of eac '.meeting, and-if ordered by. t , e AsSoCiation, td. present than for publican . 'rk. Art, 43... , -- . Ar t shall be the. duty. of the- li e jr respondingcnitary. to carryon all Co ' . loudence of\ the! Association,: and to read all etters : he mh.Y , receive„- at the :first : . statO meeting of tie Association after their ,recep- don.: • .. . ..•.... -, _ , ''.Art, 7....74u the‘Atbsene,e of. einferof ti 4e i Secretariesthe other shall perform his du* , Art.'ll.• t shill be the duty of thel, - iireriti. hold'n.lundi - of the'Assaciati°a - thi t, ~,, mitt comp to hielutudt &eta the -'. .. tion op:sl.7o*.i4;ond,with it .to: bear the: ~ eidentaVaipenti od. the Association 0 ! ' .` l ' it in inipti'laniAerits.the Association !Pflr*r! .tui3t : fleiltitU'adid - be'leiltdied'io"repcnrt:iitt ItEt'ach stated . thaeeting the receipts alid'eatetithi tines of thq Association, and also drliv.ernp - 1•_ I, 'i - elumt 11, *nib Itel his'duly elected successo i r allAasociatiota ',funds that may be in his hinds ai ihe expirs.' tionOf his term. of office. I . . ,Art. 9.—lt Shall be the duty; 4ttthe Exec.; utive Committee to havgenemok oversight; - of the affairs, of .the A - iatioro, to call, all ; • meetings ' and procu re lecturers , to lecturele-' the- - 1 ! , 4 - . • fore Assoclation. , 1 .l ' They are further requir.W. to ,giye it i lesiat three weeks notice in each county paper of ' . all meetings of the A.sseeildion.' :c.. ..• • -.. Art. 10.—A businss eOrninlttee snail be api4nted by, the, Preside t ayes4l meeting: to prepare Isasiness for the succeeding meet • -. lag., This committee shall cilia* of.-three meuibers, and they are required' to give it i least three weeks notice nteachgounty parr: of What such proposed .:business , may -consist; 'frt. 11.—The mectingl of the Association shall be at least quarterly and as , much often. , -, . er as the Association may direct. f,. ,:. . Art. 12.—Any person May begoM a e mem. 1 ber of this Association by laffizingAis or hei name to the Constitution. [,' I, - , ...: Art. 13.—The constitution Mailbe at any tifue,amended by 'a majority ortbe la:mm*s- . present at two successive eetiiigs„ .. ,-,•-. After the adoptiOU of elConatitutian, on motion of Mr. Barker, W . W.: Haywood, 3., - Jameson, and •E.: - '3leKe" - . were chases . a ,' committee to draft . and to 1 t resolutions ei,- 1, piessive of the sentiments f , Ineeting. `' . During the absence ,of ( the praOttea tilt - ) - 1 i - Association proceeded to elect offi cers for the , 1 . ensuing year as pro v ide d - for by! the Omit:dui tionl; and- the following officers were duly '• chosen: . . i , - -. . ! • . Sarnuel T. Scott, , President; Jamesoir, Vice Presitlent ;B. F Tey4sbury Recording Secretary, C. W.,Deans, corresponding Sem rtari, E. McKenzie Treastirer. Mans. Wait; 4113,400 d. Geo. MeKen - zie J. .Tameson, Johnson-and . 0, E. Mist li, Executive Cori- mittee. The President' tlietl up! . , Committee consisting of j members,: E. McKenzie, . 1 Johnston. - After the `transaction o some incidetitOr, - business 6 the 'Cominitte ve notice throtkgh their chairman ( that their were ready . -to re-- port, and the'v- .en prented'''' the following .. , ii resolutions which were unanimously adopted. 11CsoLvrioNs. Where. s, Tv, agh in which .. e we livem deands that we not tuunindful of the intelleettil and physical improvement of our race. ; and believing that united and Pe rsevering efforts in the right direction'tnay ef-' feet sotne salutarV measure in its be.half: . . And Wt hereas:oin citizens - have bess.n too little interested in the canse of edicciOen in their ceaseless z i eal iri"othr pursuits, causing- the symtem fa_ suffer by thiS injudicious course, - . therefore, 'l' :1 ' - . Resolved, That in;the opinion of this Aqio- - elation,the ineans.of effeeinng a thorough.re;-- form are Teachers Associations'andlistitiffes. .Resolved, That we reeprnmend Direotms and others having charge bf Common Sehooli to classify .their teachers land-pay them ac. , cording to qualifications. i . - Resolved, That a coup '' Surintendent is greatly , needed, whoSe du y it -shall be to-ex- . amine Teachers, deliver I cture.s and visit, the - 'schools. -- . 1 1 ResolVeil,lhat 'the deplorable state of Dia- - trict. sehoorhouses in this county. is a g-Aat 'barrier to the promOtion - f Coninunci Schools. Resolved; That,in the o imon of thislA.ssik- , eintion, if soiree Of .the fort ring ;care tattoived ion sthools termed ‘4lligh ..:...'elesele." and " A readmies,r, Wert. given to the interest of the Comnion Schools they w Uld be in a Mulch; better, condition. '-r 1 ..- , Resolved, That the prefeision of . teaching is second - .to noother calling, in its important raations to the welfare of 'mankind.,. • Resolved, That we, will tisnniirbest, endear.; _ ors to elevate - the stand - of our profeasion; 'Resolved, That we kin ly tiigo.t*, 'atten- - 1 1 tion . and co-operation of 'l'eacherk_ And el i friends of educatiot6u t.hi county, and 'eltle- , . . _ i where. . 1 — i ' ' - - ' Rcsoleed, That we believe our . Common it School system glotiousolioini and=. an aims ; and only fails `of its desired effects when not fully carrned ottt,nr thoroughli'or- Iganiz.ed. ' '' ' 1.1 ' • --- ' `.. And on motion of Mr. g.NicKeuzie,•the As-- 11 , Sneiation further ' .1 ' •,. ', IResolved, That the' 'proceecling,s - &Ads' 1 , Imeetine be published in eaelf . ; eounty - paper land itirthe ".Penasylvania ISChOoI Journal." t ,t. 1 -• On motion the meetinklthen !adjourned, to 1 - meet on the evening of Slytday, January 28,,' 1854. , , ' S. iT.t SCOTT, Pros. 1 B. F. rw TKSHCRY L N 'lee zec'y ' . .' p r - 'X'houghts tor tit !Wow*. - , -•-, The posc*ersion of.high estfinible principle* - , h signifies but little unless y are employed.,-; -I for the advantage.lof isocie y , , In :Aruba htiVe :, 1 the, young been taught o discipline their minds, in any way, if they relax, heneefo ,r-. ward, in pursuit'of knowled e. '. IL A•ain WO, :- a fonndation been laid for th > future eminence and usefulness of, the yow l , 4 if no generntlit i 1 ambitioiLprompt them to eir • t„the superstruc t tire. It wnot sufficient to ossesSgood,inin7. i 7 - cipleta, or merely refrain frn the perpetratiort of ignoble deeds. ; No don mitt quality : Cant 7 . constitute an .Elenient of li 024 greatne 2st'' Man is or .ought tp boactv . Ile ~14 not. On- ",, ly an individual 'bid. a me ..her of society:— ~ Ile was not '.formed to:d i; :away his life, re i a however 'pure or nocent i May in be, • but (01 ; devote the energle*Of his mi id, and the Alines 'of his heart, to the cliscov•' • !and the a4vanie-, ment - of the public good. he - wbolo;nistitn- , . tion isf civil society is but a system ;Mr . meal dependenCies; . 1-, -,- , • Individuali delind upo - i , setie_tY.,.‘o,pri);:, teetion 'awl seeiiiity ; anal ,?iejetiy, ) :49eTta'!"l upon its component parts, to ine6wri OM: -tY and l'NelfiAre• very J4! 1 " 40 31 7?1 1 / 4 4 : . 41 ; dtities to perform ; and' pre - V.:.tA : Abe ".e't., tent to which he toes peg' ' rule*: iis' le: (. _Virtuous and commendahle ; ; ti p, -it man, and useffil and patribti'as a i • lc. lilt the tame of these duties, mo ver; and: the cow , eequent oligatiou tiaAise it e them, is inti matelTentmeted 'tvith -the *lrk arglelitth. •and the. geirMl nonAtioti the_ gousgq Aar ,- 41 . :e whiet(tve live., , I'•I - : c .1- t; - ., ,- --- ' 614 kickeiyatir tint Dit4Toli'vo gar swi *lliaU out of clod - m. 4! "Well, Mr. Ty t itk; th e many, footcil this any day:" . r . . , 11 ..inted a Business the threelollowing r '. G. Barker, A. B.
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