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E. B. HAWLEY, EDITOR.,
MONTIIOSIE. PENN 9 A I
wErKiEsms.v. FED. 8. 1811.
The Income Tax.
Notwithstanding, as our cotemporary
of the Montrose Republican not long
since quoted in his columns, "-that nearly
every respectable journal of the country
was advocating the repeal of the Income
Tax," which must mean the Democratic
press, as it comprises that class with the
addition of a few out-spoken conservative
Repubhcan papers, yet a Radical House
of Representatives, upon the iecormpen
dation of President Grant, have def,e
the demands of a tax groaning people,
and postponed the realization of a repeal
of this purely Radical inquisitorial meas
nre, during the present session of con-
grass. We are not at all disappointed,
for this manner of "advocating reform,"
and persisting in a course of oppression
and legislative tyrranny, is compatible
with every act and policy of the present
administration, and its predecessors, ever
since it coiled its slimy length about the
vitals of our republican institutions. Al
though the voice of the true Democratic
press, and the unmistakable mutterings of
the storm of indignatio.n of the people at
such partizan usurpation of their liber
ties, by the late expression at the ballot
box, demand reform, yet the same person
al interest, that has been 3vont to govern
legislation, is still uppermost in their
minds.
The status of the case is plain, and
easily presented. This is but one of the
many systems of corruption and bribery by
which Radicalism has maintained its pow
er. Through its patronage, a legion of
fat offices have been created to allay the
grasping dispositions of office-seeking
demagogues, and furnish them power and
means for bribery and corruption, and it
is one of the thousand links in the infa
mous Radical chain, which if broken at
this critical moment, would leave their ig
noininious structure in hopeess ruin.
The basis of the present party in power,
is not the Constitution, the rights of the
people, and the good of the country, but'
it has been reduced by the: Chief Magis
trate, and every equal and . subordinate
power, to a mere money-catching Eitua
tion, and every nerve of the government
has been used for that debasing purpose.
116 long as the progenitors of such vile
schemes as now disgrace the national ar
chives are able to maintain their hold
upon the government, the people of this
nation need not expect anything but a I
hypocritical cry of " retrenchment and
vform," while they, Shylock like, if it was
in their Power, would demand the last
pound of flesh.
General Pleasanton, the present Reve
nue Commissioner, advances the opinion
of Detoocracy, as it has been reiterated
to the pe.ple, times without mention al
m ‘st, when he says, " That the revenues
fr,ut the Incime Tax are all ex
hausted by the payment of the officials
who are engaged in eullectingiL" ;These
ofticials, according to his statemmt,- are
p:cd forty millions annually for collecting
this tax. In view of all these undeniable
facts, there is no hope for an oppressed
people save in a total rout of all the
money changers" that now desecrate the
national temple.
Change of Base,
Marcy of the 'Fa n khan uock ReptMiran,
and Frazier of the Montrose I?cpubliezin,
having exhausted themselves and their
readers by attempting to establish a tem
perance reputation, are now endeavoring
to ascertain whether either or both arc
Democratic or Radical. We as a Dem
ocratic party are willing to forgive and
felldwship almost any Radical sinner, be
ing truly penitent, bat we must ask to
be delivered from any such affliction as
being obliged to consider either of those
journals within the Democratic fold.
Such a calamity would be only com
parable to that ruble of Ziop of the
"Hawk in the dove-zot." We do not
deseive any such punishment and our
earnest desire is that we may be spared
yet a little longer.
C'A bill for a Convention, to form a
new Constitution for North Carolina, has
passed the Legislature of that State. The
election will take place on the 2d of
March, and the Convention will assemble
on the 17th of April. Such a body is
needed to purify the organic law of the
State from tho impurities force into it by
Holden and hill corrupt associates.
nr We deem it justly-due to the off=
icer in charge, to call the attention of our
readers to the report of the County
Treasurer, Benjamin Glidden, as we are
informed that it is- the first clean bal
anced report that has appeared in this
county in s. number of years. "Honor to
whom honor is due. is our motto.
WThe Senate bill to abolish all test
oaths passed the House. One by one the
relics of passion -and bigotry are fading
away. Such an act as that referred to
will do more to reunite the people of the
sections, than all the reconstruction stat
utes which can be crowded upon the law
books of Vic tuition.
a'Another Conservative triumph in
the South. The Radical Speaker of the
Louisiana Legislature has resigned, and a
Conservative was chosen in his place.
Immediately thereafter all the Democrat
ic members-whose seats were coutested
took their pluci.l,. by a decided vote. The
tide is still riming in the right dire&
Jim M. all -parts of the Union.
PERsoxas---Ilepresentative Beards . lee
has our thanks for the 'receipt of the
,Legisktive Journal, and other doct,t.nrli
Tbe of 11406
Most men of middle age remember the
exciting political campaign of 1840, and
the innumerable campaign songs it gave
rise to, the refrain of -one of which was
"Well keep the ball a rolling, .
For 'Tippecanoe'.and Tyler, too," &c.,
but there are doubtless thousands who re
member the refrain, and who have seen
it repeatedly in print, who are not aware
of the reference to the "ball" that was to
be kept constantly revolving for the
benefit of "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too."
The history of the ball is this: Dur
ing the campaign of 1840, an eccentric
but worthy gentleman named William
Johnson, now deceased, but then a resi
dent of the village of Dresden, Ohio,
gave vent to his enthusiasm by the con
struction of a huge ball or globe thirteen
feet in diameter, typical of the original
thirteen States of the Union, and its
derpituity. This immense ball was made
of seasoned poplar boards, which after
being steamed were bent into proper
shape, and the whole covered with muslin
upon which were mapped the various
States of the Union, rivers, .Se. This
was placed in a frame upon axles, and the
whole mounted on a large wagon. It was
only necessary to touch the ball lightly
with the finger to set it in motion, when
all the vari-colored States were presented
to view in regular order.
In the early part of the campaign ofl
1840 it first made its appearance in pub
lic and thought it was only intended for
i a local sensatit xr, and for the purpose of
drawing a crowd to hear the now vener
able Thomas Ewing deliver a Whig speech,
it was destined to achieve a national
reputation. Upon the occasion to which
we have referred it was made to haad a
procession, and was drawn by four black
horses, gaily caparisoned. At an early
i hour the ball, followed by an immense
crowd, left Dresden for Zanesville, sixteen
miles distant—where Ewing was to speak
1 —amid the bard cider songs of the
Whigs, and the jeers of the Democrats.
Crowds of people attracted, by the novelty
of the affair, joined in the procession and
swelled it to immense proportions, to the
discomfiture of the Democracy, who were
wishing it all sorts of mishaps.
Everything went prosperously, however,
until the procession reached the bridge
across the Muskin,,omm river, when it was
found that the "ball" would not pass un
der the roof. The Whigs were nonplussed
and the Democrats were jubilant. But
Mr. Johnson was equal to the occasion,
and extemporizing a ferry, transported
the ball and wagon across the river, from
whence it was hauled to the place of meet
ing amid the applause of the jubilant
Whigs.
After the meeting it was presented to
the Whig . County Committee. The fame
of it haying goua abroad, it was started
on an easteru tour along ahe "National
!load," and was greeted everywhere by
large and enthusiastic crowds. Having
made the circuit of the eastern States,
it was taken to Washington, where for
some 'weeks it attracted universal attention.
It was then taken South through Virginia,
the Carolinas, Georgia, &c., to New
Orleans, and up the 3litsissippi river and i
the Ohio to the State of Kentucky, from .
whence it meandered into Tennessee and
was lost sight of in the vicinity of Knox
ville, shortly after the Presidentiali elec
tion.
' That same ball is in motion once more
in principle, and destined in a very short
time to roll the Radical party out of pow
er and out of existence.—Pittsburg Post.
Optional Bill
Tho f,Jlliu. lig Is a copy of the option
al bill now before the Legislature.:
AN ACT to permit the voters of every Ward,
Borough and Township in this Common
wealth to vote every three years on the ques
tion of granting Licenses to sell intoxicating
liquors.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted Lfc., That at the
j next annual municipal election in every
j ward, borough and township in the Com
' mon wealth, and at the annual municipal
election every third year thereafter, in
every such ward, borough and township,
it shall be the duty of the inspectors and
judges of election in said wards, boroughs
and townships, to receive tickets, either
written or printed, from the legal voters
of said borough and township, labelled
on the outside, "license," and on the in
side, "for license," or "against license,"
and to deposit said tickets in a box pro
vided for that purpose by said inspectors
and judges, as is required by law in case
of other tickets received at said election,
and the tickets so received shall be count
ed and return of the same made to the
clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions of
i the county in which such wards, boroughs
and townships are situated, duly certified
as is required by law, which certificates
shall be laid before the judges of the said
court at the first meetin,g of said court
after such election "shall be held, and
shall be filed with the other records of
said court; and it shall be the duty of the
mayors of cities and of the constables of
boroughs and townships, or of any other
officer whose duty shall be to perform
such service, or give due public notice of
such special election above provided for,
three weeks previous to the time of hold
ing the next annual municipal election in
every- such ward, borough or township,
and also three weeks before the? annual
municipal election every third year there
after.
SEC. 2. That.in reviewing anct count
ing, and in making returns of the votes
cast, the inspectors, judges and clerks of
said election shall be governed by the
laws of this Commonwealth regulating
general elections, and all the penalties of
said election laws are hereby extended to
and shall apply to the voters, inspectors,
judges and clerks voting at and attending
upon the election held under the provi
sions of this act.
Sac. 3. Wherever, by the returns of
election in any ward, borough or town-
I ship aforesaid, it shall appear that there
is a majority against license, it shall not
be lawful for any, license to issue for the
I sale of spirituous, vinous, malt or other
intoxicating liquors in said ward, borough
or township at any time thereafter, until
at an election as above provided a majori
ty shall vote in favor of license.
SEC. 4. Any person` who shall hereafter
be convicted of-selling or offering for sale
in this Commonwealth any intoxicating
liquors, spirituous vinous or malt, with
out a license, shall , be sentenced to pay a'
flue of fifty dollars, and confinement in
work-house or county jail for six months
for the first offence; for the second and
each subsequent offence a fine of one
hundred dollars, and confinement in the
work-house or, count: jail one year:
PROVIDED, that it shalt not be , unlawful
for the owners of vineyards to Ea, ton
their own ircetnisesi'svitte of their, own,
man nfacture, in quantities not less' 03n
one gahu3,-to tuniired*tuld.upt - :slrank•
en the wises"-._:
THE LEGIBLATIII/E.
TUE SENATE.
JANtrAIIY 30.—Bills passed.—Bills were
called up and passed finally, as follow:
By Mr. Dec he rt, a supplement to an act
to consolidate, revise and amend• the laws
of this commonwealth relating to penal
proceedings and pleadings, approved
March 31, 1860.
By Mr. Evans, and act to protect rab
bits.
By Mr. Brooke, an net to change the
name of Lavinia Saunders and legitima
tize the same. •
REFORMED VOTING.
On motion the senate proceeded to the
consideration of the bill entitled an act to
authorize reformed voting in the election
of dimctorti of common schools. The bill
was taken up on third reading.
On motion of Buckatew the bill was
amended to read as follows:
SEcnoN 1. Be it enacted, etc., That in
future elections of directors of common
schools in this commonwealth, whenever
two or more persons are to be chosen in a
district for the same term or service, each
voter may give all his votes to ono or
more candidates as ho shall think fit, and
the candidates highest in votes shall be
declared elected. Any appointment to
fill a vacancy in a board of directors shall,
whenever practicable, be made from
among the voters of the proper district
who shall have voted for the directors
whose place is to be filled.
SEC. 2. Whenever a voter shall intend
to give more votes than one to any can
didate
for director he shall express his in
tendon distinctly and clearly upon the
face of his ballot, otherwise but one vote
shall be counted and allowed to such
can
didate, but any ballot which shall contain
or express a greater number of votes than
the whole number to which the voter shall
be entitled shall be rejected.
On the tipal passage of the bill the yeas
and nays were required by Mr. Purman
and Mr. Buckalew, and were as follow,
viz:—Teas, 23. NAYS, 4.
The senate then adjourned until to
morrow morning at ten o'clock.
Nothing of any general interest was
done, business being wholly of a local
character.
SENATE.
TrESDAY, January 31, 1870.
Ur. Graham, from the special commit
tee, to whom was referred the petition hi
the Lyndall—Dechert contested election
case, presented a minority report, which
was laid on the table,
APPORTIOIkiItENT OF marr,
Mr. Davis offered the following resolu
tion, which was agreed to:
limo/red, That the committee on appor
tionment be directed to report bills divid
ing the state into senatorial and represen
tative districts, and that us a basis fur
senators and representatives they be di
rected to use the septennial re 115,118 so far
as returns have been received and the se
turns of taxables fur 1869 fur those coun
ties not returned in the census: Provided,
That all returns received before the eighth
day of February neit shall be deemed a
part of said basis.
The first reading of bills en the private
calendar occupied the morning session.
At noon the senate was introduced fur
the purpose of
JOINT CONVENTION
on the subject of state printing, when
Speaker Wallace took the chair and stated
the question to be upon the acceptance of
the lowest hid fur the
.
Senator Olmsted moved to adjourn un
til this day two weeks, at noon.
The motion was agreed to and the eon-
CD lion adjourned.
THE HOUSE.
b •ing again called to order, proceeded
with the private calendar until near the
hour of adjournment.
Mr. Strang presented the report of the
committee un the contested seat of George
S. Putney. The contestant having pre
wilted no evidence in support of his peti
tion, the sitting member of course retains
the seat.
SEA
WEDNESDAY, February 1, 1861.
Mr Bnckalew, on the part of the ma
jority of the committee to whom was re
ferred the petition in the Lyndall-Dee
hert case, pmsented the following supple
mental report:
On motion the report was adopted.
Mr. Billingfelt offered the following res
olution, which was referred to the com
mittee on constitutional reform:
. .
Resolved, That. the committee on con
stitutional reform be, and they are here
by, instructed to embody in their bill to
be framed for the calling of a convention
to amend the constitution, of Pennsylva
nia a provision for equal representation,
consistin of an equal number of dele
gates from each senatorial or congress
ional.district, all to be elected at large,
with the privalege for each elector to vote
for only one-half the number of delegates
to be elected to said convention, so that
said convention may be relieved from all
peril of partizan control.
The house opened with prayer by the
chaplain and the journal was read.
A communication transmitting copies
of the revised civil code was read.
Three thousand copies of the • adjutant
general's report op railroads was ordered
for the house, on motion of Mr. Elliott.
TECOII3IITTED
The supplement to the onesdale law
library was recommitted on motion. of
Mr. Beene.-
21ILITARY lIISTOBY.
Mr. Warner offered a resolution to print
3,000 extra copies of Baths' military his
tory, to be deposited with the auditor
general, to cost no more than $3 per vol
ume, an be sold at first cost—not more
than one copy to be sold to one person at
the same time.
A point of order being raised that it re
quired a joint resolution, the resolution
was so amended, and the bill referred to
the ways and means committee.
The senate bill incorporating the Phil
adelphia republican invmcibles. Passed
Th - C house refused to consider a resolti
tion of air. Smith of Philadelphia on the
subject of Bates' history, and the home
adjourned.
rgirWe notice a call in the Susquehan
na 'Journal" for a public meeting to take
into consideration an additiional term of
court at Susquehanna Depot, and also
the propriety of moving the County &at
to New
Mrs. Partington "says Elie thinks the
most beautiful stop in the Boston organ
is the'" nur 'stunner. We suppose she
means 6cl:co s h IMMO.
CONGRESSIONAL SUMMARY.
SENATE, FEB. 31.
The Vide-President announced the re
turn friim the House of the bill to repeal
the inctsne tux, with the suggestion on
the part ofthe House that that body bad
sole potter to originate such measures.
Mr. Scott moved to non-concur in the
reasons assigned for the return of the bill,
and ask for a Committee of Conference.
Mr. Sherman favored the motion. Mr.
Saulsbury thought the Senate should
maintaindts dignity by ignoring the mes
sage of the House altogether. Mr. Scott's
motion ;was then adopted. A resolution
commending the suffering poor of France
to the American people was introduced.
Mr. Edmunds introduced a bill to provide
for a registration of voters throughout
the United States by Federal officers. At
two p. m. the Senate proceeded with the
Georgia Senatorial contest. Speeches
were made by Messrs. Stewart and Bore
man against Mr. Hill's admission. Mr.
Saulsbury spoke on the general subject of
reconstruction, exposing the inconsisten
cy of the Iladical policy. At 3:50 the
Senate went into 'Executive session, and
soon after adjourned.
HousE OP REPRESENTATIVES.
A bill was passed authorizing the
Secretary of War to institute proceedings
at law, or otherwise, to obtain indemnifi
cation for the destruction of the sloop of
war Oneida by the steamer Bombay. A
bill passed authorizing J. H. Schnell, of
California, to enter 640 acres of land, be
having established a Japanese colony,
and being engaged iu making experiments
in the cultivation of tea, raisin , ' silk
i worms, ete. The bill to extend the bounty
land system to soldiers of the late war,
their widows and orphans, was taken up,
and, after debate, was .passed. The re
quest of the Senate for a Committee of
Conference on the disagreement between
the two Houses in regard to the bill re
pealing the Income T., was, after debate.
agreed to. A bill passed to provide for
taking testimony in cases pending in the
District Court. A bill passed appropriat
ing 1515,000 for the expenses of the Corn-1
nuttee of the House to investigate out
rage
alleged to be committed in the South.
The Senate substitute for a bill abolish
ing the offices of Admiral and Vice Ad
miral, was non-concurred in, and a Com
mittee of Conference was asked. The
Senate bill prescribing an oath of office
for those persons who praticipated in the
latC war, hut who are not disqualtied by
the Fourteenth Amendment, was report
ed. Without disposing of the bill the
House at 4:30 p. m. adjourned.
SENATE, FEB. 1.9 t.
A concurrent resolution commending
to the AmerAcan people the suffering poor
of belligerent nations in Europe was
passed. The Georgia Senatorial contest
was taken up, and the resolution admit
ting Mr: Hill passed, and that gentleman
appeared and took the oath of the office.
Mr. Thurman then offered a joint resolu
tion, prescribing an oath of office to be
taken by H. B. Miller, Senator elect from
Georgia, he being unable to take the test
oath, having served as a surgeon in the
Confederate army ; referred to the Judic
iary Committee. The Consular and Dip
lomatic Appropriation bill was taken up
and, after unimportant amendments, pas
sed; also, the West Point Appropriation
bill. Some time was spent in discussing a
motion to take up the first of this Steam
ship Subsidy bills. Without action, the
Senate, at 3:15., went into Executive
Session, and soon after adjourned.
TTn~ en or
Rfrpsyvctc-r
j The House resumed the consideration
of the Senate bill passed on the 22d of
I April last, prescribing an oath of office to
I be taken by persons who. participated in
the late rebellion, but who are not dis
qualified from holding office by the Four
teenth Amendment to the Constitution
of the Unites! States. The bill provides
that such persons shall take the oath
prescribed in the act of 11th July, 1868,
prescribing an oath of office to be taken
by persons from whom legal disabilities
shall have been - removed. Among the
opponents of the bill was Mr. Long, the
negro from Georgia. The debate also
gave rise to a passage at arms between
Messrs. Cox and Porter. Mr. Farnsworth
made a strong speech in favor of the bill.
Mr. Butler closed the debate. lie said
that he reported the bill as the . mouth
piece of the Committee on Reconstraction,
but that he opposed it. A motion to lay
the bill on the table was negatived, and
the bill passed—yeas, 118; nays, 89. A
bill for an additional assistant Attorney-
General passed; also, a bill relating to
the jurisdiction of the Courts in certain
rases; also, a bill to remedy certain de
fects iu the judicial administration of
certain customs and revenue laws. Mr.
Peters, from the Judiciary Committee,
made a report in the rase of William Mc-
Garrahan that he is not entitled to relief.
Mr. Bingham made a minority report.
The house then adjburned.
SENATE, FEB. 2nd
Mr. Saulsbury rising to a question of
privilege, moved to reconsider the vote by
which Mr. Pomeroy's resolution of
sympathy for the suffering people of
' , ranee and Germany was adopted, in
order that it might be axed up in English,
asserting that it was ungrammatical.
The motion was negatived. The House
bill to allow the exportation of brandy
with the same rights of drawback as are
allowed for rum alcohol, was passed. The
House amendment to the bill to divide
Virginia into two JUdicial districts was
concurred in. At 1:30 p. m. the Senate
took tip the bill subsidizing a steamship
line in the Gulf of Dlexieo, and Mr.
Kellogg addressed the Mlle in support
of the measure.. At 3:30 p. m. the Senate
went into Executive sessijn and.soon after
adjourned.
HOUSE OP REPEESISTATIVES.
In the House, a bill yn.ssed in reference
to the United States District and Circuit
Courts in Indiana.. Also, a bill giving
the consent of Congrese to the applica
tion of 500,000 acres of school lands in
Oregon, to the support of the common
schools; also, a bill providing that the act
of June 17, 1862, presiiihing the oath of
grand and petit juro* in the United
States Courts shall apply odly to petit
jurors in cases where the United States is
a party ; alsO ' a bill to provide fur the
collection of debts from Southern rail
roads; also, a bill to provide for the issue
of duplicate bondli, under certain con
ditions, in lieu of bands lost or destroyed;
also, a bill for the letter organization of
the United Stater District Court in
Lonisians‘ The House then took up the
bill extending the, time to. construct a
railroad from St, Croix river to Lake
Superior.. The bill was discussed at
length by Meisrs. Ronteroy, Myers, 'Wilk
inson, 'Kelley, Washburn, and 'Wilson in
favor of the measiak;ana by Messrs, Say,
Stnia,g, Randall, sti# 'enx in opposition'.
The bill was toes on motion of Mr.
Holman, re-committed to the Committee
on Public Land& This is regarded as
equivalent to a rejection of the bill. The
House then took up the bill to establish
a system of national education, but with
out proceeding with its consideration, at
4:15 p. m., adjourned.
EiN
—Garibaldi has asked that his com
mand be included in the armistice.
—The revictnaling of Paris progresses
as rapidly as circumstances permit.
—The English Admiralty have order
ed the construction of ten gun-boats.
—The peace negotiations cause great
consternation among the Imperialists.
—The Germans have agreed to ignore
the holding of elections for Assembly in
Alsace.
—The provisioning of Paris is delayed
through the defectiveness of the railways.
—l.he French Army of the East has
virtually ceased to exist as an organized
body.
—The colors of the German Empire
now float over all the French forts before
Paris.
—Favre refuses to attend the London
Conference, nor will he authorize any one
to act in his place.
—The Prussians have made another
call for troops, and at short notice 300,-
000 adtPtional men will be ready to march
into France.
—The town of Neuenburg, on the Ba
den side of the Rhine, is overerowded
with French fugitiV6 soldiers, many of
whom are sick and wounded.
—Despatches from many parts of
France concur in expressing the determi
nation of the people to continue the war
unless the terms proposed 10 Germany
are greatly ameliorated.
—The French generals commanding
in the north of France have protested
against the Prussian demands relative to
the line of demarcation between the
French and German armies.
—At the meeting of the London Con
ference, yesterday, Russia fully gained her
object, all her pretensions being acknowl
edged, she yielding nothing, and Turkey
obtain.d no new guarrantee.
—At a public, meeting in Bordeaux a
committee of public safety was nominated
for the future government of Franco. It
includes the name of M. M. Gamhetta,
Louis Blanc, Rochefort and Dupontai.
—Twelve opposition journals have pro
tested against the decree issued by the
Bordeaux Government, on Tuesday, pro
viding for the disqualification from the
privilege of election to the Assembly of
members of families reigning over France
since 1789, and other imperialists.
ODDS AND ENDS.
—We are told there is nothing made
in vain. But how about a pretty young
girl? Isn't she maiden vain f
—The observant Josh Billings says,
" Men seem to me now-a-days to be di
vided into slow Christians and wide
a-wake sinners."
—A MichiTin paper published the fol
lowing; "Fellow-citizens! If you are
awake move ! If you are moving walk
If you are running fly to the rescue!"
—A Paris correspondent writes that
since the siege "the surviving cats of Par
is are extremely shy, and no longer court
on the roof." Everything has its advan
tages.
—People about to become novelists
the rtutowing
subject " The Undertaker's Funeral; or,
You Know How It is Yourself." Every
body would read it.
—An unmarried friend declared to us
the other day, with an expression of
countenance most I ugubrious—" I never
cared a farthing about getting married,
until I attended an old bachelor's funer
al."
—Joe Jefferson got a cheek cashed in
a New Yoak Bank, where he was not rec
ognized, by simply remarking, in his ini
mitable style. "If mein little dog
Schneider vas here, he would know me."
—The Kaw Indians, in Kansas, are un
doubtedly highly susceptible of civiliza
tion. They salt the railroad tracks. This
entices cattle in front of the trams; the
cattle are killed, and " Lo" gathers up
the carcases and keeps by him au abund
ance of roasts and soap pieces.
—The liberal hearted proprietor of a
lager beer saloon in Rutland, Vt., recent
ly lost his pocket-book containing 8600, i
It was found and returned by a young
man, and the &ratified Teuton thus gave
vent to his delight: "Bob, you is one be n
est man. I tells you what I'll do;
shake you for the lager."
—Josh Billings sums up his mortal ex
perience thus: "Men, if they ain't too
lazy, live sometimes till they are eighty.
ant destroy the time a good, deal as fol
lows: The lust thirty years they spend
throwing stuns at a mark, the second
thirty they spend examining the mark, to
see where the stun hit, and the remain
der is divided in' cussing the stun throw
ing business and nussing the rumatiz.
—lt was at the dinner of an Irish asso
ciation that the following toast was given:
"Here's to the President of the Society—
Patrick O'Rafferty ; an' may he live to eat
the chicken that scratches over his
grave."
—lt was a wise negro who, in speak
ing of the happiness of married people,
said: "Dat'ar 'ponds altogedder on how
dey 'joy deyselves."
—.Josh Billings says that the mosquito
wats born of poor, but honest parents, who
bad in their veins some of the best blood
in the country.
—Brown's little Weakness is this: When
he and Mrs. Brown go to a dinner party,
they do it in style; and he natutally likes
his entertainer's flunkeys to think that
the equipage he has hired for the occasion
is his own:—Brown (in a loud voice :)" 0
—a—Come for us at eleven, John." The
coachman (in a louder voice :) " Hall
right, Sir l What name shall I bask
for ?"
—A toper in Albany recovered from a
recent debauch tofind that his wife, had
died in the same house and been buried,
he having been too drunk to know of it
or attend the funeral.
-A veteran observer once del:diked
that no one kneW what envy and jealousy
were until he had served in the army. The
observer probably never belonged to a
church choir.
—The Ohio Slate Journallays down
the following proposition : "The springs
of action in the human mind are various.
It won't do to say that what's-its-name
will alWays produce thingirmy in any giv
en instance." Anything plainer than this
is simply impossible.
tins Our forrOpondin6.
Letter From Minnesota.
Mn: EDrront—After another somewhat
lengthy illence, I again resume the correspond ;
ence beetling where I left off, as it regards the
Season: y I think I said in my last communication
that there were indications of a Minnesota fall.'
The indications did not flatter us to disappoint,
but we were permitted to fully realize its' ful
fillment, in having indeed an autumn with its
soft and gentle zephyrs, and its mellow golden
days, "melancholly days," when all nature seems
hushed to repose, when field and forest are
ablaze with the gorgeous tints of autumn leaves.
Tne seasowgrows more beautiful as the end ap
proaches, and still later the hazy mellow air
of "Indian Sammer",softens the outlines, of the
shorn forestS, and =Companies the waning year
far into Old December's barrenness. Then
succeeds the keen usurpation and gay scenes of
bright "King Winter," when the thoughts
turn Inward, and the zest of social life reawak
ens.
The winter thus tar, with the exception of a
few days, in which the thermometer went down
to 24 deg., has been very mild. The changes
here ate not sudden as in the Eastern States
where two or three kinds of weather arc ex
perienced in a single day, as I have known in
New York. You marthink perhaps when I
say the thermometer goes down to 32 deg. that
it must be severe, but*eAo not teel It as much
on account of its belig*firy,atmosphere, and
at such times it is clirt.sill.,Varid: ,- **ruk;y
blight sunshine. On - ii'llelf. : iitcinti*-',17.10,1
the sun rises, the brillieno - Migeliga• , ..
is called "Sun-days," I nekt;;Peliel4.:lftiff* .;..
came here } and not only that, titt#ter;c4OSE!,ali''
above t sun, a similar appci*C4lit*agit in
the a very tall chur.t4l.*pinetimes
to be s a great part of th - U - ; .:4
Et- - It4'yet In
*
creasing in brietness, very intaAcri.i,,'"Aenome
na, will continue day after day itifillilAte cold
lasts. We do not fe t eie •,,e0 f at the
East, when you get
4,.. 4:!lR.litheittids from
, the Atlantic coast tv - . prone, to be,fieW
-...- •
1 ing broadcast the se•• 's e at terrible (14.1nase,
consumption. The 's.,:!e an almost total !
absence of mists an •..lt is said by - some
that the brilliency of the sunlight ol Minn,t 1
the pleasing succession of the seasons, all con
spire to give it an unrivalled beauty and salubrity
of climate, and to make it . a home of a joyous, ,
healthy and prosperous people strong in physic
al, intellectual and moral capnbiliti,:. It is i
sail that if any one has the consumption here
the cause is to be sought for else where than in !
this climate. fly the census of 1839, Minnesota '
exhibired the smallest number of deaths in
proportion to its Inhabitants of any state in the
union excepting Oregon. A certain class (XI
patients afflicted with pulmonary disease should
not come here, those who cannot ewlure or
flaw of phlegmatic temperament. We have
very little wet weather here, fall ur spring. I
do not dread the change of seasons as I al in
New York. The mud dries up very quick when
we have any. We have had but halo this Lll,
for we have had no rain since November and
very little snow, and that within the last two or
three weeks. We are about two dem - etst north
of New York and one would think that we
would get more snow but we do not get as much.
Perhaps one reason may be that we are
situated about midway between the th. Tans.
It is estimated that Minne.,ota has 4.70,0XX1 in
habitants, 200,000 of American descent, and the
remainder from almost all parts of the world.
It is claimed that on these vast prairies
and among the dense forests, the Celt,
Teuton and Goth meet with ;the Amer
ican and produce a race strung and
vigorous in mind. Nu other commonwealth
has such opportunity to make a state larger by
one third than all New Easiand, and doub4-g
its population once in fire years.
In 187.5 we may expect at least a Million in
habitants. It is estimated that about 35,000,
foreign and native, have settled in the State dur
ing the last year. Long driving storms are sel
dom experienced hem, as the oldest settlers will
testify. To day, the twenty-fourth, the sun is
shinning brillicntly, perfectly clear, a mild win
ter day, and so we have it continue day after
day for a long time. C. 13. L.
gurat " •
Business Matters.
—Corrected Time Table on the Lehigh V. IL
Road.
—Tiffany & Cramer give notice of a supply of
Cayuga Plaster at Montrose Depot.
—Dr. J. D. Vail offers his medical services to
the public. Read his card.
—W. W. Watsuo Anaitor In the estate of W.
K. Grecnwood gives notice of distribution,
Thursday, March 9.
—P. Lines has again opened a taylor shop ov
er Burns 6: Nichols store. Read advertisement
—llostetter & Smith, Stomach Bitters.
—Perry Davis & Son, Bain Killer.
—Wm. IL Boyd & CO. give notices of disolu
tion. New Firm, Boyd S.: Corwin.
"Cutting up" again.
The patrons of the 3lontrose &pub:lean were
startled last week by the information that the
editor has commenced " cutting up" his paper,
and, unless some intervention takes place at
once, according to his former notion of things,
he will entirely destroy it. We were greatly
surprised at some of his politicall evolutions
lately, but we are completely confounded to see
him, at this time, commence " cutting up" so.
- .02 , - -- --
Then and Now.
One of our solid limners, of Springville, called
upon us the other day to renew his subscription I
and in course of conversation, made the follow
ing comparison between his condition in boy
hood and the present fastidiousness of . the
"Bays of the Period;" He said: "When I
was a boy, I remember tying up a little cheese
in a copperas-colored pocket-handkerchief, and
almost bare footed, coining to Montrose, selling
It at the old brick store, on the corner, for three
cents per pound, to buy a spelling book, and
returning home to lie upon my t oily and then
upon m3back, before an old-fashioned fireplace,
for want of other light, to get my lessons. Now
if a boy is coming to Montrose to attend school,
be must have a horse and critter, and if he is so
unfortunate as to have but two buffalo robes. he
is obliged to borrow another, and on arriving
must bit proportionately situated in other
spects I"
Wo think the above can be read and ponder
ed upon with advantage by our modern "gen
try."
Accident.
A son of Israel Lewis had a Ell in his father's
barn a few days since, which caused a severe
fracture of the thigh bone. He is now rapidly
recovering, .11e was attended by ny. Cobb of
this boro.
Dedication.
The M. E. Chant at Rush ()enter, Pa., Pro,
videnee permitting; trill be dedicated to 'the
service of AlmigitiY.Ood on 'flintaday, February
23, 1971. Rev, D.. 0, Olmstead, Presiding
Elder of Wyithising DisMict, preach at 11
a. no., aril Roy. B. F. Brown of Tuntchannoe4, at
7 p. m.' The 'irienda - of rcllglon,inerapti and
order are coidially Invited to attend, ecjo iu
the servlici nntitelpliniadatertheAcht. '
I': GiTia, Noon
• 'Testehtirfs Institute. •
rIIJX:EItDINGB OF AN ENSTTTIITE
. ILELD AT CITY
acuooL noun, CL39121)
Institute commenced on Friday, January 20,
1&i 1, at 10 chock, it. E., with remarks by Super.
.Intendent W. C. Tilden, to the teachers present,
briefly stating the object of the meeting, and
calling attention to the Importance of the du
ties of teachers, followed by a brief Illustrative
crease In reading and pronunciation of words,
with their relation to good reading, by Suprin
tendent Tilden.
Ex-Superintendent. Allred W..Larmbee, Prin.
cipal of Great Bend Graded School, was then
introduced, and presented excellent Mustmtions
and - advice on the manner of Instructing chil
dren, in drat reading lessons; also, conducted a
class exercise in Mental Arithmetic.
Miss Mary E. Jenkins was chosen Secretary,
and Miss M. Annie Pitcher, Critic, for afternoon
session. Adjourned to 1,14 o'clock, P. 3L
.AFTErmoox Sesstox.—First work—an exer
cise in spelling, conducted by Miss Ettie E. El
lison and the Superietendent. An exercise In
Grammar by Messrs. Larrebee and Tilden. Mr.
J. S. Gitlin, Principal of Rarford Graded School,
was introduced to the Institute, who called the
attention of the members, to the correctness and
clearouS in the teaching of Practical Arithme
tic. Words were placed upon the black board
by the Superintendent, introducing composition;
also, introducing Geography. A discussion fol
lowed on the grading of Common Schools. An
earnest appeal to the teachers by Superintend
ent Tilden, to attend to the work of a class, dur
ing time of recitation. AdjoUrned at 434 o'clock
, topeet at G o'clock r. at.
SEl , elON.—Questions for discussion,
.IMlled for. "Should Premiums be Awarded to
.Eeholars?" was discussed at some length, for and
against. Mr. Larrahee read an Essay, to which
ho had not given a name, (we would suggest
that he call It The Work.) The report of the
Critic olbs next read, in which several words in
common use were mentioned as mispronounced
or misused. Miss Annie Ledysrd was chosen
Critic for remainder of the session.
Discussion followed on questions proposed :
vii., " Should Teachers receive Salary in pro
portion to Grade of Certificate?" Have Teach
ers the Hight to attend Yanks, during School
Terns?" Answered satisfactorily by Superin
tendent; answer, in spirit, this: That hey
have no right to gD where, or do that which
shall binder efficiency in the schoolroom, or In
flac::ec scholars to do wrung. The teachers
were asked, by Clifford Directors, whether they
generally presented their certificates to Direct
ors, for examination. The majority had seldom
been desired to do so, and some who had taught
many terms, had outer been asked for a certifi
cate. To the question, " Has a Teacher, present,
taught in Clifford two rears, without the Direct
() ra having seen the certificate held ? Answer:
No. " Should Teachers work by a Programme 4"
Dixvw.l. On call, all agreed it would be bet:.
ter to do so.
Superintendent Tilden then addrmsed the In
sthlite. Subject: - The Tcnclier, bis Prepara
tion, Work, an:l the Results or Fruits of Labor."
The whims.; was listened te with marked atten
tion. Adjourned to 9 o'clock, nt, to-morrow
morning.
MOILW:G SC.9SlON.—Opened with an exercise
upon the Solar Chart, by Superiiitehdent. Mr.
Larrnbee followed with History. Mr. Gillin
presented valuable instructions on the manner
of teaching Geography. Reading of composi
tions, from the words placed upon the black
board yesterday; the rasult very satisfactory,
followed with encouraging words from Mr.
Larrabee. A Committee on Resolutions was
appointed, consisting of Ella Rood, M. Annie
Pitcher and Ettie E. Ellison. Class exercises
continued ; in Grammar, by Mr. Lambe° tiread
ing, by 3lessus.7 Larrabee and Tilden: the Prob
lems of Interest, by Mr. Galin. Committee on
Resolutions presented the fallowinz, which were
adopted:
Reao:refL-Ist, That, we as Teachers, and
members of this Institute, appreciate the bcne
fits of the la'aors of this Associaton.
21. That we tender - our warmest thanks to
our worthy Superintendent, for his untiring, labor
and zeal, manifested In the cause of education.
3d. That we tender our thanks to our worthy
and able Instructors, and feel that we have lis
tened to such hints and suggestions, as will
prove of practical use to us in our present field
of labor.
4th. That we tender our thanks to the Direct
ors fur their presence and ala iu making, the In-
slitute iotemstiva
sth. That we tender to the people of Clifford
City, our heart-telt thanks, for their kind hospi
tality. '
6th. That a copy of these
the proceeding of this meeting, be tent to each
of the county papers for pupliattion.
The propriety of opening schools with reading
of scriptures and prayer, was urged by several.
An interesting discussion on pronunciation of
words follolied. Roll cell showed the attend
unc'e of six Directors; four from Clifford, and
two from Merrick; and twenty-eight teachers;
names and post-offices as follows: Milne Cud_
debacle, Nettie G. Chamberlin, Emma J. Coon,
Anna Brownell, Adelphine C. Miller, Susie Mil
ler, Andrew Miller, Clifford.
HattieSafford, Brooklyndlannah Crandall,Net
tieCrandall,EttieE.Eliison,MaryCrandall, M.An
nie Piteber,3lyraWells,Susan Davimt, itelen Bur
ritt,blaStovens.Lizzie Coleman,Dundaff. Alt W.
Larrabee, Great Itctid ; B. F. Gibson
May R Jenkins, Annie J. Jenkins, South Gib
son ; James S. Gillin, Ilarford; Annie Let;yard,
Herrick Center; Ella R. Rood, Eunice Van
Etten, Lenoxdile; Louis Gardner, Franklo
Burdick, Uniondale. •
Institute closed with earnest advice and
prayer by Superintendent Tilden.
11.tirr E. JENILLNS, Secretary
Importance to Soldters.
The House Military Committee, authorized
Mr, Stoughton to report a bill relieving from the
charge of desertion all soldiers who left they
commands without leave after the 10th day . a
April, 1665, and who were not subacquently otin
eieted of desertion by sentence of court martial:
Many soldiers lett their regiments after the sur
render of Lee and Johnson, without waiting to
be mustered out, and were in consequenull
marked on the rolls as deserters, and deprlvett
of the pay and bounty dee them: The hill ta
designed to place them on the same footing
with men who remained with their cernmandA
until regularly discharged,
An Advance on Te!egraphi.
A letter written us by Charles- Decker et
Forest Lake, January 270, and mailed Jan, 28th.
requcating handbills and publication of a notita
for a donation visit on the 7th of Feb, was re,
eciv'ed Feb, eh. This la,wts any thno yet 941
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record.
tnir Our ohligntions are due to Superintend
ent Tilden fare copy of:the school report of - the
State of Penntvivanla,
Vnlieruallat Contbrence.
,'•
At, the school house •in Elk' Lek°, Din:weir
township, oh TbUri,day nuil Friday,: February
10 and 17. • • • • t • - •
Doniu
Tho Mends - pi .Itert: .11;,4/ruy,' will, make
him a donfition visit arthalldeting iodea near
Auburn * 4 cur:rura l Erb* Feb. It P'"4ll.iiii
InQited
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