ie soer« eromtr.
I JCJBS THEE
I mlu thy Tolco when Morn’a tint be«nl
Brood jM-ln bounty jflty-t
X miss thy smile to cheer my heart, _
When l ain ter «tn(y.
X fete* thte—oh, think fee not OWik,
If in • distant hom«i
And for floto scenfe* or other days,
YVbon o’er me there doth coma*
A thoaght of her who blessed mj Ufa
With friendship pure and true.
If t m*p for tho Ux&t paMJ
Away, like the morning dew.
I mta theo—ah, where shall I And
One whose hneolflsh heart,
Like thine, to share my every joy.
And of my griefs to bear a part f
Then wflt watch at ere for my coming feet,
when my dally task is o’et;
Bat by tho altar mod tire hearth
Thera Wilt see toy' CoCc no more.
Far. for from that spot to memory ddar,
My wandering footsteps roam,
And I haro found in otbor lands
*Hid other scebtfc—a home.
Dot though t mist thaa, stQl there comet
One thought to ebeor, my breast:
T U this thought that we shall meet once more
M wWe.the weary act at tort."
/VosoaJ ValUy, inca.
JOHN JACOB ASTOR.
The argument which Parish had made use
of with Mr. Gallatin, for the purpose of pro
curing permissiotf to send out ships in ballast,
to bring back sums of money from abroad
that were due in the United States, had found
favor in the eyes of a man who had distin
guished himself from the inass of German
emigrants by his important successes, his
speculative spirit, and his great wealth, and
had won a certain celebrity. This man was
John Jacob Astor, the founder of the Amer
ican colony of Astoria, on ihe northern coast
of the Pacific ocean which has been so graph
ically and picturesquely described by the pen
of Washington Irving. Astor was born at
Heidelberg, where the original name of his
family is said to have been Aschthor, and had
come to New York as a furrier’s apprentice.
His first savings, (hat is to say, the wages he
got in the peltry warehouse for- beating out
and preparing bear, doe and other skins, he
invested in the purchase of all kinds of pel
try, bear, mink and rabbit skins, which he
got from the Indians, who at the time wan
dered about the streets of New York ; and so
soon as he had collected a certain quantity,
he sent them to Europe, particularly to the
Letpsic fair. There he traded them off for
Nuremberg wares, cheap knives, glass beads,
and other articles adapted to traffic with the
Indians on the Canadian frontiers, and took
them himself to the latter points, where he
again exchanged them for furs of various
kinds. As he often told me, from his own
iips, he carried on the traffic untiringly for
twelve long vears,going in person,alternately,
to the Canadian' frontiers, and ihen to the
Leipsic fair, and living all the while, as he
had over been accustomed to do, humbly and
sparingly
At length he had managed to bring logeth
era considerable Capita I, and gradually be
came a fieighter of ships and filled out expe
ditions lo the northwest coast, lo trade with
me Indians ofNoolka Sound for furs. Anoth
er circumstance contributed -to the increase
o l ' his means. At the peace concluded in
1783 between England and Ihe revolied prov
inces, me thirteen United Stales, many acres j
of (and in the Citv of New York, were voted !
hv Congress to the German Soldiers who had
loughnn the American army. The latter
were chiefly Hesse Uarmsludiers. Most of
me mdied in ihe course of the year, without
having succeded in converting the property
into money ; but the relative and heirs they
left behind them in Germmv did not forget
these little inheritances Upon ihe occasion
ol a visit made by Asior io Heidelberg, in
taler years, most of the parlies last refeired
to, as inheriting Ihe alolinenisof the deceased
Cerman soldiers and residing in Heidelberg, i
unued and made our friend their legally au- 1
thonzed attorney, in order to realize, if pos-1
sibic. from iheir hitherto useless acres. Bu'
the hoped-for increase of the value of this
property was, on Ihe whole, rather slow ini
coming, and the heirs wanted rfioney, quick
and ready money. Aston having been ap-1
plied to on this score, told them that in order 1
to get ready money, they must recoknn up
me real present value of the land, and that,
onu through pretty considerable sacrifices
could they get cash for the same. Thereup
on me parlies advised with each other, and
final! i Asior received peremptory orders to
set., without further delay. Unknown spec
ulators were found ; the proceeds were small,
uui me Petrs got what they wanted —money.
At the present day, many of these pieces of
ground are among the most valuable and
most important in the city, and have gradu
ally passed through Astor’s into other hands ;
me unknown speculators, however, have fa
ded from the memory of everybody.
Asior al the moment of the embargo, was
in ine possession of several millions, so that
lie was able to give his son, William B. As
ior, who was educated at Goltingen, the mne
nificient Hotel on Broadway called the “As
ior House,’’ which cost the sum of 8800,000.
The permission, procured by Parish, to
send out ships in ballast, to bring home silver,
had given Asior the idea that ihe same priv
ilege might be extended to vessels despatched
ior the purpose of bringing home the amount
of debts due abroad in goods. With this
' lew he went to Washington, and there, under
me pretences that he had an important depot
o( teas al Canton, obtained the desired per
mission to send a vessel thither in ballast. —
I nis step, however was only ihe forerunner
oi another one. Astor, in reality owned no
aepot of teas al Canton, and hence it simply
came to this, that he would, according to the
usual custom, send money thither to purchase
tne article.
The exceptional favor of sending schoon
ers m ballast to Vera Cruz, which Parish had
up lo this lime enjoyed but which was now
gradually extended lo other vessels, whose
destination was not to bring back gold and
silver values,but goods on American account,
sufficiently showed that under certain circum
stances, there was no indisposition to grant
free exit to ships in ballast for a particular
object. And now arose another point, name-
J y. whether empty vessels, which however,
had silver on board, could be regarded as in
ballast. The precious metals a're, in most
countries, not Idokedupon as wares, although
some they are so classified.
It was not exactly advisable to bring, on a
discussion of the question* whether Ihe e»-'
fbr iM AgStdor.
COBB, STURROCK & CO.,
YOL. 2.
portation of silvfer in otherwise unladen ves
sels should depend upon it or not. The query
was, whether a foreign creditor, who had
come to collect the moneys owed him by
American inarch ants,-would be permitted to
lake the funds really thus received back with
him. In Washington there appeared to be
every disposition to allow this. Now it was
well known, in the northern parts of the Uni
ted Stales, that the leading native merchants
of Canton had never hesitated to accord their
regular correspondents, returning year out
and year in from the United States, certain
credits which amounted to considerable sums.
Upon this Astor based his plan. He hunted
up, among the Chinese sailors or Lascars, on
the ships lately arriving from China, a fellow
suited to his purpose, dressed him aa a Man
dorian, and look him with him to Washing
ton, where he had to play the part of the
Chinese creditor, under the name of Hong-
Rua, or Kina-Holu. No one dreamed of
suspecting the Mandarian’s identity, and As
tor pushed his scheme safely through. The
$200,000 he sent to Canton were expended
there in tea and olherChinesearticles,andwith
in a year afterwards returned in that shape to
Astor’s hands, and were used by him to ex
cellent account. A stroke ol skill had been
achieved whose morality no one in the United
Stales doubted for a moment.
Astor has led a fortune of abont $12,000,
000, chiefly lo his son. His mind was inces
santly busid with ths increase of his resour
ces, and had no other direction. He was
compelled, by a physical infirmity, to repair
lo Paris, where he could avail himself of the
skilful assistances of Baron Dupuytren, The
latter thoroughly restored him, and advised
him lo ride out every day. He frequently
took occasion himself lo accompany his pa
tient on these rides. One day—and this an
ecdote I have from the Baron’s own mouth—
when riding, he appeared by no means dis
posed lo converse ; not a word could be got
out of him ; and at length Dupuytren declared
that be must be suffering from some secret
pain or trouble when he would not speak
pressed him and worried him, until finally
Asior loosed his tongue:—“Look ye! Bar
on,” he said, “how frightful this is! I have
here in the hands of my banker, at Paris
about 2,000,000 francs, and cannot man
age, without great effort, to gel more than 2i
per cent per annum on it. Now, this very
day, I have received a letter from my son in
New York, informing me that there the best
acceptances are from li lo 2 per cent per
month. Is it not enough to enrage a man I"
On board ship, one day, we were slowing
away the hammocks, when one of the boys
came with his hammock on his shoulder, and,
as he passed, the first lieutenant perceived
that ho had a quid of tobacco in his mouth.
“What have you got there?” asked the
lieutenant; “a gum-boil 1 Your cheek is
much swollen.’’
“No, sir," replied the boy, “there’s noth
ing at all the matter.”
“O 1 there must be; perhaps it is a bad
tooth. Open your mouth, and let tne see.”
Very reluctantly the boy opened his mouth,
which contained a large, roll of tobacco leaf,
“i see, 1 see,” said the lieutenant t poor (el
low ! how you must suffer! your teeth need
cleansing, I wish we had a dentist on board ;
but as we have not, I will operate as well as
1 can. Send ihe armorer up here with his
longs.” When the armorer made his ap
pearance with bis big longs, the boy was
compelled to open his mouth, while the tobac
co was extricated wiih this rough instrument.
“There now !” said the lieutenant, “1 am
sure that you must feel belter already; you
never ceuld have any appetite with such stuff
in jour mouth. Now, captain of the after
guard bring a piece of old canvas and some
sand, and clean his teeth nicely.”
The captain of the after guard came for
ward, and grinning from ear to ear, put'the
boy's head between his knees, and scrubbed
his teeth well with sand and canvas for two
or three minutes.
“There, that will do,” said the lieutenant.
“Now, my little fellow, lake some water and
rinse out your mouth, and you will enjoy
your breakfast. It was impossible for you
to have eaten anything with your mouth in
such a filthy condition. When you are
troubled in the same wav again, come to me,
nod I will be your dentist.” The lad was
completely cured, by the ridicule of this oc
currence, of the habit of tobacco chewing,—
Captain Marryat.
How it was Dose. —Jolly bones says that
when he was paying attention lo the girls he
could not raise courage enough to pop the
question, though he tried to do so a dozen
limes, and would have been a lonely, dispir
ited old bach, troubled with the blues and hy
pochondria, had not his adorable come to the
rescue. For (he benefit of throbbing hearts
sighing in the bowers of love, and done up iu
dimity, we give the secret as it was told us.
Mrs. R., invited him to dinner, and of course
to dinner he went. The good things were
all dished up and the patty drew around the
table, Mrs. R,, hastened to do (he agreea
ble, and all went nicely dntil (he last course,
when Jollybones noticed his angel missed
comethiog.
“Pray, dear, what shall I help you to?”
said Jollybones.
“I-really don't know,” then glancing to
wards the bead of the table, she added,
“mother, do you think a little marriage cer
emony would hurl me 1”
But before Jollybones had turned his eyes
towards ‘mother,’ she had arisen and was
going to the kitchen for another pot of tea.—
That night thh ' marridge' ceremony Was
dished up to (he mutual satisfaction of all.
ill
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A.NEW CUBE.
THB AOITATIOR OF THOUGHT 18 THE BEGIRRIRG OP WISDOM.”
HIGH, TIOGA COUNTY, PA./JHUESUAY HOMING* SEPTEMBER §7* 1855.
Sfcctcb.
£HE NICHOLAS MARE.
The “Nicholas Mare," (of Massachusetts,)
was a beast of extraordinary speed and en
durance. Like roost rare animals, whether
human or brute, she was eccentric in her
habits. It matters not who owned, her at the
time of the incident we are about to relate ;
suffice it to say that her owner was a sensible
man, and a thorough horseman ; his predilec
tion for horse-flesh, more than anything else,
having driven him into (he livery business.—
Next to the wife of his bosom he loved (he
Nicholas mare—a fact of which both females
were sensible, without being at all jealous of
each other. For this reason the mare was
hired only to particular customers; and, when
let, the party hiring was always carefully in
structed as to the peculiarities of the animal.
A particular friend, unacquainted with the
animal or her habits, and troubled with an
impediment in his speech, as well aa with a
native infirmity of temper, which prevented
him exercising any charity for living crea
tures of slow and lardy motion, once applied
to our livery nian for a horse, for a journey
of a dozen miles or so, taken for the purpose
of bringing his wife home from her father’s
house, whither she had been on a visit. The
contract ran thus :
“I w-w-want a horse—a good ’un—one
(hat’ll s-s.s-start the minute you s-s-sa-say
Pw-Pwh-Pwhist! a-an and’ll go like thunder.”
“Suit you I guess,” was the reply.
“We-we-well, out with her, then.”
The mare was put between the thills of a
nice light buggy, her harness thoroughly ad
justed by the owner, the reins carefully laid
over the dash board, and the usual chapter
of advice opened concerning her manage
ment.
O, g-g-git out with your directions, I can
drive, I guess,’ interrupted the lessee, and
picking up the reins he sprang for the seat,
but landed heels up upon the buggy bottom.
The mare was off! but the driver being game
had the command as he thought, through re
covery of the lines, upon which he pulled ns
though resolved ‘to do or die.’ A slight
smile was visible upon the demure face of the
lessor os the vehicle receded from sight at a
killing pace, and nothing more was heard of
him until the next day, when our friend with
the impediment made his appearance wiih
the mare, but without his wife. Ashe drove
up, a cloud overspread his face as he saw the
lessor at the stable door.
“VV-w-what k-kindof an incarnate b-brule
d’ye-c-c-call Ibis T”
“Best horse in the stable.”
“W-w-well ? I started for D
“Yes, I know it.”
“VV-well, before I could stop, went to
[]—, (33 miles) drove back this morning.—
You k-kn-know father’s door yard—half n
mile wide ?”
“Yes, well?”
“W-w-well—old man—me —b-br-hrother
J*m, hired man, and visitor besides, t-ir-tried
Lr two hours to gel my w-wi-wife into the
wagon, and couldn’t do it; devilish critter
danced college hornpipes all r-r-round ; and
over s-s-some of us—but not a- passenger
could we gel in.”
“How did you get in ?”
“T-t-tell you. Old man’s as foxy as a
lawyer. Told me to take her out. 1 did.—
Told me to g-g-get in. I did; and after I
got in they hitched the mare, and he-he-here
I be. VV w-wo-wouldn’t give a Spanish
dollar for the mare, though she did come the
twelve miles in f-oriy-eight minutes.”
“Why ?”
“Look at my hands.”
They were one blister. The lessor
smiled.
“If you had listened to me all this would
have been a'oided ; allow the lines to,remain
untouched until you are sealed, and she nev
er starts till you tell her. Drive her with a
slack rein, she will go as slow as you de
sire.”
The truth of this statement was at once
tested by (rial, and resulted .as was assserted
precisely; but the driver was punished for
his impatience, and ever from that day insists
upon having a horse that won’t “s-st-alart
the minute you say P : p-ph-phwisl Land—go
like thunder.”
Neobo Wit.—“ How much do you charge
massa Magistrate, to marry me and Miss Di
noh?”
“Well Clem, I’ll marry you for two dol-
lars.”
“Two dollars ? What you charge to mar
ry white folks, massa ?”
“Wo generally charge five dollars Clem.”
“Well you marry us as white folks, and
I’ll give you five dollars, loo.”
“Why,.Clem that’s a curious notion, but
ss you desire it I’ll marry you like white
folks for five dollars.”
The ceremony being performed, and Clem
and Dinah being one, the magistrate asked
for his fee.
“0, no, massa 1 your no come up to de
’greeraent.”
“How so, Clem ; what’s a.lacking ?”
“Why, you no kiss.the bride.”
“Get out of my office you black rascal.”
“Pap, has Mr. Jones’ eyes got feet?”
“Why, my boy
“Because I beard mother say to Mr. Doo
little that at a party the other evening Mr.
Joqes ? s eyes followed her all over Ihe room.”
"Is it veiy sickly here?” skid a son of the
Emerald Isle ihe other day to another,—
replied his companion, “a great many
have died this year, who never have died be
fore',” •
tin a
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OBTAININGIREYENGE.
Mr. Snarl resides'in Forsyth street'. Mr.
Soar), is an old bachelor with an Irish girl (br
a housekeeper. Snarl lives in good style,
but has some queer notions. He dislikes dogs
above all things, beggars and organ grinders
not excepted. 1
Snarl’s next-door neighbor is Horry Samp
son. Now, Harry is the opposite of old Mr.
Snarl. He sets a high value on a dog, and
there is only one article equal to a New
Foundland, and that’s a woman. Harry, has
several specimens of the canine race. The
other evening they, got up a howling match
because the moon became eclipsed. They
commenced about ten o’clock, and kept it. up.
till the sun got an inch and a half above
Williamsburg,
This so annoyed Mr. Snarl that he had
Harry‘jerked up for a nuisance," and fined
ten dollars, Harry paid the money, and re
solved on revenge. The next morning the
following advertisement appeared in the Her
ald:
h WANTED—At Forsyth street, two Ball Dogs
and four Spaniel Pups. For full-blpodcd dogs the
highest price will be paid. Call between 4 and 6,
P. M. JAMES SNARL."
We need-not say that, the advertisement
was inserted by Harry. His reason for ma
king the calls between 4 and 0, P.’M,', was
because Mr. Snarl was always out at the
hour, taking an airing around the Battery.
At the hour specified, dogs and pups might
have been seen going up the Bowery to Grand,
out Grand lb Forsyth, to ihe mansion occu
pied by Mr. Snarl.
The first person that pulled the door bell
was a butcher boy from Centre Market, with
a pair of bull-dogs that would make mince
meat of a tiger; Maggie answered the bell,
when Ihe following colloquy took place :
“Does Mr. Snarl live here?'’
“He does. Why do ye ax V’
“I have got some dogs for him.”
“Dogs for Mr. Snari I Mother of Moses,
did you ever! You’ve mistook the dure I”
“Devil a bit—read that 1”
Here Syksie took out the Morning Herald,
and showed Maggie the advertisement, Mag
gie was thunderstruck. There was no deny
i ig the advertisement—she accordingly told
Syksie to go into the back yard with (he dogs,
and await the return of Mr. Snarl. Syksie
did so. |
In about two minutes Maggie was again
summoned .to the door bell.
“What do ye wont?”
“Mr. S_parl—l’ve got t hem dogs he wanted.”
“Ye. hjUra—well, thin go into the back
;orj, whHTTe Other blackguard.”
No. 2 followed No. 1; No. 2 was soon
followed by No. 3, who was succeeded by
lots 4, 5 and 6, By half-past five the back
yard contained 21 bull-dogs and 14 spaniels.
Tho former got up a misunderstanding, and
by the time Mr. Snarl arrived, seven spaniels
had been placed hors du combat while a
brindle bull-dog, from Fulton Market was
going through his third fight with a “yaller
farrier,” from Mott street. '
Mr. Snarl reached home a few moments
before six, Maggie opened the door, and
burst out as follows ;
“For the love of the blissed Virgin, go
back and slop ’em. They’re atin’ each other
up, and if not choked off will devour the cis
lliarns. Since the days of Crummel, I hav
en’t seen sich a hullabaloo inlirely.”
Snarl went back—Snarl looked into the
back yard, and would have sworn, but he
could not find oaths sufficiently powerful to
do justice to his feelings. When we left, Mr.
Snarl was emptying the back yard with an
axe helve. The next morning Harry Samp
son complained of him for having a “dog
fight” on his premises. Snarl was fined
twenty-five dollars—fifteen dollars for being
an “old hypocrite.” It is unnecessary for us
to say that Harry Sampson slept better for
that night than any night since the war with
Mexico.— New York Dutchman .
An Item fob the. Ladies.—Lady read
ers, will the following hints be useful ? Bri
tannia should be first rubbed gently with a
woolen cloth and sweet oil, then washed in
warm suds, and rubbed with soft leather and
whi'ing., Thus treated, it will retain its beau
ty to the last, i New iron should bo gradu
ally heated at first ; after it has become in
ured with the heal it is not likely to crack.—
It is a good plan to put new earthen-ware
into the water, and let it heat gradually until
it boils —then cool again. Brown earthen
ware, particularly, may be toughened in this
way. A handful of wheat or rye grain,
thrown in while boiling, will preserve the
glazing so that it will not be destroyed by
acid or salt—Clean a brass kettle, before us
ing it for cooking, with salt and vinegar.—
The oftener carpets are shaken, the longer
they will wear. The dirt that collects under
them grinds out tho threads. —If you wish
to preserve fine teeth, always clean them
thoroughly after you have eaten your last
meal at night. Woolen should bn washed in
very hot suds, and not rinsed. Lukewarm
water shrinks woolen goods. Never allow
ashes to be taken up in wood, or put into
wood. Always have your malches and lamp
ready for use in case of sudden alarm. Have'
important papers all together, where you can
lay your hands dn them at 6hce in case of
fire. Do not wtep knfves and forks in wool
ens. Wrap thern in good strong poper,Steel
is injuredby laying in woolens. Old bread
may be almost as good as' new by 'dipping
the loaf in cold water, then pulling it in the
oven after the,bread is drawn, or in a stove,,
and let it heat through; Isinglass is n most
delicate starch' for fine' muslins. When boil
ing common starch Sprinkle in it a little fine
salt; it will prevent its slicking. Some use
sugar.
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| PUBLISHERS & PROPRIETORS. I
I*. -v
We have staled that the funds for the sup.
port of the Common School? ore derived from
two sources, the state appropriations distribu
ted to each district according to the number
of laxables in each, and the local district tax,
levied each year according to the director’s
judgment of the wants of the district. A lu
ition bill, or subscription school is unknown
to the school system of Pa, Some of our
best educators think it would be an improve
ment upon our system to authorize our direct
ors', if they think best, to raise a part of their
funds by o general tuition lee upon each
scholar, of not exceeding twenty five cents
per month ; or n bill ol fifiy cents per month
upon each scholar studying any branches
other than! those specified as essential in the
law. This would be a Utile departure from
the glory of our present school system, viz:
free schools. The policy of such, or any
departure from our present course is very
doubtful. Though we see many advantages'
accruing from it, we dare not recommend It.
The slate appropriation for the last .year to
each of the twenty-nine districts of this coun
ty ;has varied from 15 dollars to Ward, to
135 dollars to Sullivan. The whole amount
will be given, and other statistics as soon as
they shall all be received. The local tax is
the trouble. Our great objection to its prac
lical workings, is its inequality.
Speaking of this unfairness, oar friend the
Sup’l, of Schools in Bradford Co., says in his
last report, “Our present mode of imposing
I school tax is wrong in principle and worse in
i practice ; it taxes the poor more than the
rich. He justly complains that “the citizens
of Bradford Co. have to pay a much higher
tax in their poverty than the rich men of
Lancaster.” And what is this tax, the bur
dens and inequality of which ho so feelingly
deplores; a fraction over four mills upoh the
dollar of ad the property of the cottnly.
Lancaster comes down to less than three
mills, and many counties even less than that.
Look here O ye rich men and old counties
and cities. Tioga pays more than twice as
much tax ns the best of you. Though we
have not gathered all the statistics, yet we
estimate the average school lax of all the
districts in this county at ten mills upon the
dollar. We believe that Tioga has some rea
son to boast that she is the banner county in
her devotiosfto schools, if not the school sys
tem. Self-moved for the education of the
cinKlict, vf il/ta evumy, me Directors have!
marched up to the work like men. We are|
not surprised that the people have sometimes |
complained bitterly about this lax. But they ;
pay, and pay as freely as the men of older |
and richer counties, whose lax rales are not |
half or quarter as much as iheirs. More than |
one third of the districts of this county have)
raised their school* tax this year up to the i
highest notch, thirteen mills upon the dollar. I
We have heard of none who have put it low- i
er than six mills. We have regretted the ne- ■
cessity of this enormous tax. But that nc-1
cessity is so great with many of the towns, |
still without school houses, that we should be |
false to every feeling of philanthropy not to (
admire the noble sacrifice the people have
made and are still making to educate their
children. Many of them yet live in their
primitive dwellings of logs; they are yet
deeply in debt for their farms ; their fare is
rough and hard; but blessed with health and
children, they can not suffer them to grow up
in ignorance. That they may eke out the
schools as long as possible, they use none of
the money to board the leachor, but lake him
or her to their own homes and charge noth
ing for it. Farther to save the public money,
when it becomes necessary to build a school
house, in very many cases the people of the
locality voluntarily subscribe half or a third
of the cost of the house in labor or material.
One of the best village districts, after impo
sing upon themselves a tax of thirteen mills
to the dollar, voluntarily pay more than that
sum over again in the form of tuition bills,
and with all this sacrifice they are yet not
able to own the house they occupy for school
purposes. We seem to ourselves to be ex
aggerating in going over this story of the de
votion of our people to Common Schools.
But we know and the people feel deeply that
it is the sober truth, although all of them
may not have known that this great dispro
portion existed between their own and their
neighbors taxes. And the worst of it all is
that after our people have.sacrificed so much
Tor schools, their children can have schools
only half as long, and half as good, as his rich
er neighbor, who pays only one quarter ns
much tax. Our presr nt reports from directors
show, that with all t|iis economy and gene
rosity they could barely keep their schools
going four months in the year —the minimum
required by law. Thus-the upshot of the
whole system as now executed, is that the
poorer the county and township, the kighefi
the tax and the poorer the schools ; and thS
richer the county and district, the lower the
tax and the belter the schools... Philadelphia,
tho city of Lancaster, and other rich and pop
ulous counties'undcrstand this, and by special
legislation are setting up separate school es
tablishments, because it enables them to have
good schools at a very light lax. This thing
must be checked ; our taxes equalized, or we
must slop talking about the glory of our free
schools, and the properly of Ihe stale educa
ting' the people. We Supt’s of tho varions
. counties feel this wrong deeply, because the
people often get tho impression that their of
fice is the cause of these great local school
taxes, whereas.not one mill they pay in the
forirytf school taxes ever goes tq the Sup’l-
The remedy of all this inequality is simple
©pmmtinctatfom
COMMON SCHOOLS.
Wo. 6.
TAXES.
and practicabte. Increase Tour fold (bo ap.
propriationa of the state. This money comes
from alfjhe property;of> (he etate'ia equal
ia^atipn ( and is the only legitimate waito
educate the children of ihir Commonwealth.;
.^I?vPAOJNS > .Cp,.S«P'fc
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Ami-Slavery
Pa., Aufr *O.
I have not seen itr Tho .TpiStuw. any nc*
count of the late meeting held in Kentucky
by Cassius M Clay and oihers to enforce the
freedom of speech. The following tacts in
relation to them,, obtained frpro one who was
preseat, al allthq meetings, yCu can. rely up
on. After, several inflammatory articles in;
The Louisville Courier, (inspired' no doubt
by a general movement -of the Slaveholders
of all the South,) calling for mob-lawagalhst
“AboliitaqiBro,”(for that is the word .for all
want of subservience to the Oligarchy- of the
South,) the Rev. George G. Fee, while preach*
ing at the private house of Mr. Tbos. Gum
roings, on the line of Lincoln and Garrard
Counties, was set upon by a mob called for
mally in the crab-orchard by the slavehold
ers of Lincoln County. At that meeting a>
Commitee of Execution numbering thirty
five men, armed with bowie-knives and- re
volvers, proceeded, notwithstanding the pro
test of the owner of the private house, who)
was a slaveholder himself! Hewas told to
be silent, and he refusing, they seized him*
put him on his horse, and led him off in: the
midst of abuse and drawn weapons.. Mr. Fee
heroically refused obedience or a premise not
to return. He is a native Kentuckian, and
preaches a “fjee salvation” to oil men, and
refuses to. rcceiveMa veholders intathe Church.'
The attack on seemed noi .tp be so
much directed against him.as against the
“great ngiinlor,”.Cassius M. Clay! They
even sent him word they would treat him,
(Clay) in the same way. The cowards of
the North and the President, and the barba
rian-conquest uf Kansas (lightened the dan
ger of Mr. Clay and the friends of Freedom
in Kentucky. They appealed for redress to
the Courts—proved fully their case—and
were refused justice, as slated by the foreman
of the Grand-Jury, “for fear of excitement.”
for their master said No I Nothing daunted,
that noble son of Kentucky, Cassius U. Clay,,
determined to assert the right of free speech.
He began by speaking io Jessamine County,
remote from the scene of outrage, and suc
ceeded in carrying strong and unanimous res
olutions on the abstract question of liberty of
speech in Fee’s case, without indorsing his
views. He spoke and read the same resolu
tions at the Glade, in Madison County, which
were published in the Whig and Democratic
papers. He spoke also at* the Scaiile Cane
Meeting-House, and Brush Creek in Rock
castle County, and read the same resolutions,
which avowed self-defense as necessary and
determined upon, at both places! as the case
of action.. Meantime both parlies were
arming. Mr. Clay and his friends selected
their ground in the border of Lincoln County,
ala place where the cannon of the enemv
could not be-brought to bear upon them, and
in such a place as gave them the advanlago
of position. They proposed to go with rifles,
&,-> The slaveholders finding them able to
Tfti-e a larger force than they anticipated, as
1 the day approached the more moderate etti-
I zens of Lincoln County called another pieel
i ing, to which all the previous mob was invi
-1 ted, and appointing a late Mexican officer
I their leader, they rent a committee to wait
I upon Mr. Clay and learn his designs. After
I ail explanations a peace was agreed upon—
11hat the Rev. Mr. Fee was to speak upon
i the same ground—ihe Dripping Springs—
' where ho was mobbed, and not to be disturb
-Icd I each party coming to the ground tin
' armed.
no. m
The mob parly, mortified at (he public
contempt of men who flourished knives over
the head of a poor non-resistant preacher,
but quailed before manly resistance, were
goaded on to refuse to stand by the action of
the Committee, more especially as the slave
holders of Rockcastle County had met in pub
lic in Mount Vernon and passed resolutions
to aid" them at the Crab Orchard, and also
forbidding Mr. Clay or Fee from speaking in
Rockcastle County. The last resolution and
letter to the former onlt were published in
all the Kentucky papers, in which Mr. Clay
was denounced as projecting insurrection !
A meeting of five counties was also called at
the Crab Orchard, which met. Mr. Clay
published a handbill stating his true position,
and also that he and Mr. Fee would speak in
Rockcastle County, at Scaflle Cane, on the
2lst of July or suffer death. The issue now
was fairly made up ! Families fled from their
homes I and negroes were thrown into jail in
Mount Vernon and the Crab Orchard to in
crease the terror of the slaveholders !
atorssent for to make “inflammatory'’speechi
es 1 All this time the Press never denounced
the mob, but spoke ojerNonst#- of bloodshed
—thus invoking it; Messrs. Clay and Fee
went like freemen to their appointment, and
spoke. The mob is said to have feebly ral
lied in the neighborhood, sent in a couple of
spies, and precipitately retreated ! Their tri
umph was complete! on the event of which
Messrs. Fee and Davis went on preaching,
Mr. Clay spoke again in Maditon County,
in the slave region, on Friday, the 3J inst.,
to a larger audience than ever before under,
similar circumstances. He did not spare the
“Propaganda I” The cause of Freedom is
deepening and widening. It is evident that
nbn-slaveholders are becoming detalched from
being longer the tools of their masters; still
the fire of hatred and revenge is hurtling.—
.Mr Clay and that noble band of patriots may
at any time be the victims of iheir vengeance.
If the North gives away on the Kansas con
quest, he and his parly may be destroyed,—
If the North stands firm' end keeps up a man
ly opposition, victory will crown their efforts,
and our couniry ma'y ytt be free.
A dandv, while being measured for a pair
of bools, observed, “Make them cover tbti
whole'calf.” “Heavens!” exclaimed the
astonished artist, surveying his customer
from head (6 Toot, “I have not leather en
ough !”
A man sent a note to a witty friend,' re
questing the loan of his newspaper, and re
ceived in return his friend's marriage certifi
cate.
> ib.
Vindrs.