[ From tht Tribune] TO THE WORKI Bnte Northern hearts, shall It bo said Toor brethren find upory bed . On pis lbs to freedom consecrate, Nor yon atenge thefr gall tlaw fete t ghsll Donates* rule ttbOfi freemen die ( Shall brutal Brooks jonrjxjwer defy? Shall Kwniwfl (HU irllncmli ob© stroke To shield her from the tyrant yokel Metblnks I bear the North reply* The East the West, in one long cry, Doan, tyrants, down, yottr itojgn is o’er, When fuvon comes jon no more. Douglass apd hWotowWtfll their poew. The pirate erew.of Buccaneer*. AaluSk before the txoplVshate, Aad ooaa blit sttr M»* jimAfOhmHov on buobajzah. PERSECUTION OF COL. FREMONT. Attempt te Defame his Character. la (he Senate, on the 11th, when the Reso lution introduced by Mr. Bigler, of Pennsyl vania, culling upon the Treasury Department for copies of the papers concerning the ac count of John 6. Fremont with the Govern ment, came up for consideration, Hon. Henry Wilson, of Massachusetts, rose and said ; Mr. President: The days of this session ere rapidly passing. Business of (he highest importance presses upon bur consideration. Chairmen of leading Committees, charged with measures of great public concern, crowd forward to obtain the ear of the Senate. While the Senate is thus. engaged in the performance of its -high duties to the country, the Senator from Pennsylvania (Mr. Bigler) thrusts before us this little, petty proposition —a proposition unworthy a moment’s atten tion of honorable men, in or out of the Sen ate. The Senator from Pennsylvania, not content with launching Into the Senate this scheme—which must have originated with some 1 mousing politician, engaged in the pur suit of petty ends by petty means—but he presses its consideration now, in spite of the earnest remonstrances of the Chairman of the Committee on Finance, (Mr. Hunter,) who is charged with the care of the Civil and Diplomatic bill, and the Chairman of the Committee on the Pacific Railroad, (Mr. Wel ler,) who wishes to call the Senate to the con sideration of the great measure, to unite the Atlantic and Pacific shores of the Republic. But the civil and Diplomatic bill, and the Pa cific Railroad bill, must be thrust aside, other measures must be thrust aside, by the Sena tor from Pennsylvania, that the Senate may consider this proposition by which certain po litical schemers hope to elicit something out of which they can manufacture slanders against a brave man who has served his country with eminent ability in peace and in wat. The-Senator from Pennsylvania can not suppose that this proposition will pass this body without at least a passing notice. He takes the responsibility, he chooses to press it, and I shall take at least a few momenta of the lime of the Senate to characterize the proposition as I think it deserves. Does the Senator from Pennsylvania expect to win laurels by thrusting this proposition into the Senate? .Does he think the generous people of this country will applaud this at tempt to wound the sensibilities and defame the character of one who has won a brilliant name in the history of the Republic—one whose explorations and scientific labors have conferred upon our country honor and ‘ re nown among all civilized nations? Does he expect to win support for his favorite candi date for the Presidency by thrusting into the Senate this wretched proposition ? This is small game. If that Senator hopes to win popular confidence and applause, if be hopea to turn back the tide of popular favor that is bearing John C. Fremont to the Executive Chair, by this resolution, which I here pro nounce, which honorable men in and out of the Senate will pronounce, and which the country will pronounce, small and mean, he will find himself sadly mistaken. Wherever this proposition goes, high-minded men will treat it with derision, scorn and contempt; and no little of derision, scorn and contempt, will be visited upon the men who resort to such devices la effect such political results. I would not sloop to such a warfare as this. If it was aimed at James Buchanan 1 would spurn it from m*. This is not the first time, Mr. President, that the shafis of political malignity have been hurled at men who have served the Re public, and it is noi the first lima that the Senate has been called upon to grope among (he archives of the Government, to discover some account, or the records of some account between the Government and men who have been intrusted with public funds—out of which something would be distorted for par tisan endu In 1852, Andrew Jackson was assailed for his military deeds. The people unmindful of these assaults, bore him proudly to the Presi dential Chair over one of the purest, ablest and most uncorruptible patriots that ever graced the councils of the Republic. In 1840, Gen Harrison was assailed by the envenomed tongue of slander, branded a coward and denounced as a corrupt man, and the people took him in their arms and bore him to the Executive Chair over his experi enced and accomplished competitor. In 1848, Zachary Taylor, and the venera ble Senator from Michigan, (Gen. Cass,) were both denounced in the same manner—their accounts with the Government through long years of public service, overhauled and au dited over again by the political accountants and auditors. In 1852, Gen. Scot!, a soldier who has r Mrve d the Republic for more than forty yearS 'm peace and war, with unsurpassed ability, wa ® a 'raigned in toe same manner and for a similar object. What was gained by these assault upon Jackson, Harrison, Taylor, Cass, Scott? I venture to say here to-day, that all those assaults upon these distinguish ed men, concerning their monetary transac ttoos with the Government, never lost them' the confidence or support of any portion of the American people. Let the American people believe these assaults to be unjust, mean, contemptible. Pass (hi* resolution, drag out of the departments the bills, vouch ers, letters and papers between Col. Fremont and the Government, garble them, scatter them over the land, blast their contents into the unwilling ear of the country, and the people, with that sense of justice, that practi cal judgment which distinguishes them, will pronounce it all political persecution. Yes, sir, this partisan scheme will bring upon us authors—upon the men engaged in □pit m I H Mi BtOotrO to t&e &vttn»ion of ttye of jFmitom a#* tfce. S»mft of Beattibs ttefotm ''COBB, BTDRRQCK & CO;, VOL. 8. its exception—pot pub|ic . confidence end re gard, h>ut public, ceusurp and coptempt, and it will . give to,Col, Ffempqt. (the sympathy which hone,at men ever giyp totbe persecuted. Col. Fremont was intrusted by his Govern ment with high and responsible duties. Those duties were far distant from the seat of-Gov ernment—beyond the borders of the States —in the Territories beyond the Father of Waters—in the Rocky Mountains—in Cali fornia. Those high and responsible duties were performed in a manner that won the com mendation of the Government, the approval of honorable Senators upon this floor-—and the applause and admiration of a grateful people. His name is forever associated with the pathways to the golden shores of the Pacific, through the gorges of the Rocky Mountains —with the conquest and acquisition of Cali ofrnia. i Money was intrusted in his hands. In the performance of duties assigned him, men, property, money, were all for months— years intrusted to his keeping. The people will demand why John C. Fremont is arraign ed now—eight or ten years alter his duties to his Government were performed. If bis accounts were unsettled—if he bad failed to account for money placed in his hands, if he was in any sense a. defaulter, why, the peo ple will demand, was be not reported as the laws require, by the ' proper officers 7 Why was his name left out of the list of public officers whose accounts were reported as un settled 7 On the I6th of January, 1854, Hon. Elisha Whittlesey, Comptroller of the Treasury, made a report to the House of Representa tives, in which he says •' “ In conformity with the provisions of the act of Congress, approved March 3, 1809, entitled “ an act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War, and Navy Departments,” and ofthe act passed March 3,1817, enti tled “ an act to provide for the prompt settle ment of the public accounts,” 1 transmit, herewith, statements of the accounts which remained due more than three years prior to the Ist day of July 1853, on the books of the Register of the Treasury, and on the books of the second, Third and Fourth Audi tors of the Treasury.” This report, Mr. President, contains ninety six (96) pages of names, reported in obedi ence to the requirements of the laws, by Mr. Bigger, Register of the Treasury, Mr. Clay ton, Second Auditor, Mr. Burt, Third Audi tor, and Mr. Dayton, Fourth Auditor. These reports of the Auditors of the Treasury De partment contain the names of persons whose “ accounts have remained unsettled or on which balances appear to nave bo®- Juo mom than three yean prior to July 1,1853, fur nished in pursuance of tha 3d section of the act of Congress approved March 3,1809, en titled 1 ‘ an act further to amend the several acts for the establishment and regulation of the Treasury, War and Navy Departments,” and “ the names of officers whose accounts for advances made, or balances uncounted for, one year prior to July 1,1853, have not been settled within the year; prepared in pur suance of the 13th section of the act of March 3, 1817.” In this long list of names, I find the names of some of the noblest sons of the Republic. The names of Generals Gaines, Worth, Har ney, are in this list, but the name of John C. Fremont is not among them. If his accounts were unsettled—if a balance were against him, why was not his name reported 7 This name is not in the list of persons whose ac counts were unsettled during the year pre ceding the Ist day of July, 1853, or in the years preceding that date. On the Ist day of July, 1853, no moneys were in his hands unaccounted for. He owed the Government nothing. At that very time be had a claim for supplies furnished the Gov ernment as early as July, 1851. That claim was examined and reported upon by a Com mittee of the House of Representatives, at the head of which Col. Orr, one of the leaders of the Administration in the House. That Committee reported a bill allowing Col. Fremont $183,825, and that bill received the unanimous vote of the House and Senate, and the approval of President Pierce, on the 29th of July, 1854. If his accounts were: unsettled, if money was in his hands unac counted for —if the Government had any balance against him, why. Sir, why did not your Administration compel a settlement and secure any claims of the Government when it held $183,825 of John C. Fremont’s in its coffers? Will the Senator from Pennsylva nia, will any Senator answer this question ? Some mousing politician in the depart ments, or who has access to the departments, some little soulless creature, ever ready to blast the reputation of Honorable men, has doubtless found papers bearing upon Col. Fremont’s connections with the Government out of which he thinks extracts can be quol, ed, if published, by which venal politicians can blacken the reputation of one (hey fear and hate, and the Senator from Pennsylva nia comes into .this Chamber, with resolution, to carry out this small game of political ma lignity. I 'shall vote, Sir, for this inquiry, but I wash my bands of its meanness—its abject bitterness. If it applied to anybody’s candi date but the one which I support, I would vole against it. I would never consent to re sort to such petty warfare. The Senator from Pennsylvania - assumes to be Mr. Bn channn’s fugleman here. I have sometimes thought the Senator, in his deep anxiety, felt that he carried Mr. Buchanan on hisshoul ders. I bold James Buchanan responsible for an WELLBBOKOUGH, TIOGA COtSTY. PA., TTOHSDAY MORHNG.SETTEMKEK i, 1866. attempted, blow at his ,riyal— struck by the hand ofthe Senator from Pennsylvania—who professes 'to be his particular friend, who is ever watchful of his interest and fame. So prompt is the Senator from Pennsylvania to rush to- the defence of Mr. Buchanao, that I have come to regard him as that gentleman’s “ premonitory symptom” here. Nothing but that Senator’s extreme desire to better the waning fortunes of bis Chief could have in duced him to engage in this political device. Mr, President: The people will regard this as persecution. It will bring odium— not upon Col. Fremont, but upon the men who originated it and move in it. I It wilt rather redound, and alljsuch attacks against candidates for the Presidency have done, to his advantage. The issues are made up. They are the gravest and most trans cendent issues ever presented to the people of (he United States. All that the Senator from Pennsylvania and his candidate-can make out of his inqui ry will not weigh a feather in the coming contest, which is to decide whether Freedom or Slavery shall sway the policy of the Re public Wa—young lowa—has uttered her voice for Jojiii C. Fremont by a majority of thous- Maine will respond to lowa for the East ra a few weeks in a voice not to be mis taken. The Senator cannot break the mighty current that is bearing the friends of free Kansas on to assured triumph by this petty political manoeuver which gentlemen should not stop to engage in. Pennsylvania, on the 14th of October, may teach her Senator that she is not to be won by atiy attempt to defame the Chieftain, around whose banner the liberal, progressive, Democratic masses of the country are rallying for (he coming fight. I have not spoken, Mr. President, of the motives that have actuated the Senator from Pennsylvania in introducing this, inquiry. I hitve nothing to do with motives. I have spoken of the act, and I have spokert of it as I think it deserves. Perchance the Senator feels that he has the good name and fame of Col. Fremont, as well as Mr. Bubhanan, in his keeping. Perhaps we ought to feel grate ful to him for his zeal for the reputation of our Candidate, but I cannot but feol (hat what ever the effects of this inqury may be upon Col. Fremont, (he Senator will win no laurels by it, (hat any one will desire to pluck from his brow. Oddities of Great Men.—Tbe greatest men are often affected by the most trivial cir cumstances, which have no apparent connec tion wiih the effects they produce. An old gentleman, of whom we know something, felt secure against the cramp when he placed bis shoes on going to bed, so that the right shoe was on the left shoe, and the toe of the ngm mat n. -4- ui of tho if he did not bring the right shoe around id that way, he was liable to the eramp. Dr. Johnson used always, in going up 8011-court, to put one foot upon each stone of the pavement; if he failed, he felt certain that the day would be unlucky. Buffon, the celebrated naturalist, nevqr wrote but in full dress. Dr. Poutd, of Oxford, studied in full canonicals. An emi nent living writer can never compose without his slippers on. A celebrated preacher of (he last century could never make a sermon with his garters oa. ' Christianity and Infidelity. —To a young infidel, who scoffed at Christianity on account of the misconduct of some of its •professors, Dr. Mason said, “ Did you ever know an uproar made because an infidel went astray from the paths of morality 7” The infidel admitted he had not, “Then,” said the Doctor, “ don’t you see that you admit Christianity is a holy religion, by expecting its professors to be holy ; and that thus, by your very objection, you pay it the highest compliment in your power 1” Influence of Praver. —Judge Hale, in his letters to his children, makes no scruples to say: “If I omit praying, and, reading a portion of God’s blessed word in the morning, nothing goes well with me all the day.” Dr. Boerbaave said that u his practice of retiring for an hour in the morning and spend ing it in devotion and meditation, gave him firmness and vigor for the business of the whole day. He who goes forth from God, alter acquiring his will, and committing him self to his care, is (he best fitted for all the successes and disappointments in life. Dont Grumble. —He is a fool that grum bles at every little mischance. Put the best foot forward, is an old and good maxim. Don't run about and tell acquaintances that lyou have been unfortunate. People do not like to have unfortunate people for acquaint ances. Add to a vigorous determination, a cheerful spirit; if reverses come, bear them like a philosopher, and gel rid of them as soon as you can. Poverty is like a panther look it earnestly in the face and it will (urn from you. A friend, (tilling how hot it was in New Orleans, says“A vessel loaded with pig lead lay at the levee, discharging her cargo; a nigger would get a pig on his bach, and before-he could get ashore, the lead would melt and run all over him, so (hat he’d have to be dug out with a cold chisel.” The sage of the Buffalo Republic thinks that “ if a young man spends (wo hours with a young lady every night, and her old folks don’t make any fuss about it, and his old folks don’t make any fuss about it, the two young folks may be Said to be engaged.” Singular Attack.—A Sock of swallows attacked a man in, Salem, Mass., recently, and it was with difficulty that he defended his face from their assaults. He came near being tvfalhwed. AGITATM. 11 “the agitation PF luoceHT IS *KBIHNINS or wifooyX H eomntwmtattpm Report of County Superintendent of Common Schools. In presenting (his, our third annual report, we propose to confine ourselves as closely as practicablgjftfee instructions of the depart ment in rsHpto this branch' pr Our ditty. ScuootfinLsEs.—WehaVe ouj ndle* res pecting nearly all of them f but had divided them into five instead of threechjssefc., How such a motley group of houses cap be placed into these classes is at present rather difficult for us to see. In fact we must place them in two classes, for if the first class are to> in clude only those “which are sufficiently well adapted to the grade of school for which (hey are intended, in point of location, play ground, shade trees, wood house, privy, distance the water is brought, its contiguity with (he road and other buildings, its materials, construc tion, general plan, height of ceiling, manner of warming and ventilating, and state of re pair ; then there is not such a school bouse in the county. Nevertheless we have some TO”? good school houses aod the number is but not one which includes affilhe requisites of a first class house. For an example of the more general deficiencies we do not think of one that has an enclosed yard with suitable play ground, shade trees and accessible water privileges'combined. We believe there is not one house literally shut out from the highway; so we are exclu ded from reporting a single first class school house. There are two hundred buildings id this county that are called sbfiool houses. They are all built of wood; and all but eight are one story high; And dll but ten cost test than three hundred' dollars 'each, .Six teen of them are built of logs, and these are nearly ratted down. The average amount of vafue in the (wo hundred school houses of tfiis county would not exceed one hundred dollars each, or twenty thousand dollars in (he aggregate of money invested in this kind of properly in the county. The district that has the greatest amount of property invested in school building in proportion to the taxable property is Bloss; (he greatest amount ab-* solutely is Delmar. Thejdislrict that has the least investment of this kind in proportion to is Chatham; the least absolutely is Ward.\ Of those which may be embraced in a second class, including such as by some alteration and improvement, may be 'welt adapted to the wants of the locality we may number one hundred and ten. Fifty three of these are nearly new houses, and bad they been substantially built, with the modern ar rangements, and proper surroundings, we could pul them in the first class or houses. The remaining ninety houses,, we should pro nounce absolutely hopeless or recovery, and tfnfit for the purpose of receiving school ehil uran *» -—.o than one essential particular. Of those embraced in IDe seerm* every one is subject to some one or the following complaints; and many or them are chargable with many faults, Ist. The foundation' not sunk or laid properly which exposes Ifie whole building to be racked by frosts. 2d. The grounds not graded, or enclosed or planted with shade trees. 3d. No grounds at all at tached for yards. 4th. No privy or wood house. sth. Not painted, 6th. §hamily built. 7th. General plan in heighih, pro portions or arrangements wrong. These de fects have arisen from the habit or directors in a great, majority of cases, or letting the job of building altogether too low,and toper sons that are not mechanics and are in no way competent to build a good house, or judge or the expense or quality or the work. There is no subject about which there is a greater variety or tastes than in buildings ; and all this variety is manifested in our school houses, without aiming, in most cases, to any well approved model. It is yet to be seen ir our book or school architecture will materi ally improve this branch or public expense. School House Furniture. —This in cludes- desks and seats, platform and desk for teacher, blackboards, maps-, globes and other apparatus, arrangements for hats, bon nets and books, broom, pail and cup. Here too alas, we must all fail in the second and jhircl class. We are not aware that any board of directors have furnished the houses with maps,globes, charts, dictionary or other apparatus. All the houses hale benches and desks for scholars and teacher of some kind. Most of them furnish, after repeated solicita tions by the teacher, a broom, pail and cup. There are sixty-two blackboards among the two hundred school houses, varying from three to fifty square feet each. There are forty-two school houses where the desks allj face in one direction; and of these, twenty-: five are adapted, as they should be, only for two scholars each. The remaining portion are seated in all the ways that the ingenuity of man can invent. Some have slabs with| legs set in by a two inch augur. Some have boards laid on blocks both for seating and writing. Some face the wall and some face the centre of the hodse. The modern desks or seats With iron frames or pedestals have not yet been introduced in the county. In less than one half of the houses is there any thing in (he shape of bail or lobby. The ma jority have the door in one corner and that door opens directly into the school room. Fifiy-nine have only a little vestibule of about five feel square j not large, enough to set the broom and pile the hats and bonnets. Thirty two have halls of large dimensions, and twenty five are entered as they should be, by a middle front door opening into a hall, from which there are two- smaller doors- into the school room.' We conclude our remarks about school houses, by saying that the job for building s school house in this county during (he past two years baa varied in different rural dis- \r' r “ tnets, from sevAnty-five to two hundred and Jiliy dollar*. TH|U in nineteen bites out or t went yt hey are not built in a substantial or workmanlike manlier. We should like to see one model house built. We believe such a house can be built in any district of this county, Tor three hundred dollars, finished and furnished, and we do not believe it can be done as it ought to bo done for less money. Scbools. —There is but one school now in the county in which there are three depart ments the year round. There are but.four in which there are two departments the year round. There are four more in which there are two departments generally.in ifio winter. There are no others that have more than one room for all grades. But of these 197 single schools possibly half a dozen have an assist ant teacher in the winter. Of the 206 schools we judge that twenty six of them discontinue in the winter, and seventy-eight of them are only taught four months in the year. But one school in the county is taught ten months; and only forty are taught six months in the year. This is all the directors can do with an average tax of over twelve mills to the dollar. And what is another curious fact in the working of our system of school taxes, the very district that has the most schooling, and, all things considered (he best, on account of density of population, pays only Six mills lex. With (he exception of a few of our village schools, no attempt has been made to grade the schools; that is, provide for a large school of different departments. Out of these villages there are a few, say ten, localities, where two or more schools might be brought under the same roof and thus form a graded school. Instead of nine such schools we consider there should be twenty in the county. \Ve have done what could to encourage such a- union, and when- the superior advan tages of such scbools are considered, schools in which the scholar* could be classified ac cording to attainment, we are surprised that they teceive m»more attention at the meetings of our directors. With only the five perma nent and four partially graded schools which we have mentioned, the remaining hundred and ninety-six are composed of all the schol ars of each locality assembled in one room and (ought in the main by one teacher. Our schools are generally taught by femals in the summer, and about one third of them by fe males in the winter; the remaining two-thirds having a male teacher for from two to tbiee months. Thus we might pul down five schools in a first class of thoroughly graded schools; five more in a second class of par tially graded, and the remaining hundred and ninety-six are ungraded, and all but about ten of them from the sparseness of the popula tion must remain so at present. But among these ungraded schools are found some of our best teachers and so of course, some of our best schools. It would hardly be fair to designate the district which 1 consider tu have had the best schools the past year as on ac count iha change of teachers, another dis trict may bear off tm> r «lm by next year. Nine-tenths of our schools do not retain iKo same teacher two terms in succession and this is one of the chief obstacles to success. The scholars are hardly used to tbe system of one teacher till a change is made. Some times they are taught one way and some times another; sometimes right and some times wrong; and the wonder is that in this zig-zag course, such general progress is made in the right direction. Not one half the boards of directors have attempted a compliance with the law requit ing a uniformity of text books. We have lectured and published as much as seemed to us prudent on this subject and can only say that wc are hopeful that we shall yet see this jargon of tongues in the shape of such a confusion of text books ruled out of our schools. We almost despair of ever seeing six intelligent men agreeing upon the best text book through each of the branches taught in our common schools. But amid the variety of excellences in many authors, it is not so important which one is selected, as that a uniformity be established. Our schools are generally governed by moral rather than physical suasion. The general intelligence of our teachers, I am happy to say, is against a frequent resort to the rod. Some discard its use entirely, while the majority resort to it only as a last argu ment. In our school code we hove placed it where the civil code has pul the rope; our general observation has strengthened a con viction, freely expressed to our teachers, that the minimum of scolding and punishment physical, is the maximum of good govern ment and vice versa. The Teacher.—Nearly every school in the county is taught by two different teachers in the course of the year, much to the dis advantage of both teacher and scholar. VVe estimate the number of teachers in the coun* ty (o be four hundred. Our examinations have exceeded six hundred, but a few are from other States or counties, and many are re-examinations, the certificates having ex pired, at first our practice was to have all teachers record their names, address, age, how long they had taught, and whether they intended to make leaching their profession, in a book prepared for that purpose. This is not invariably practiced now ; but of the four hundred teachers wo should estimate their ages very closely, we should think as follows. Under 17 years 80. Between 17 and 21 years 110. Between 21 and 25 years 85, Between 25 and 30 years 65. Between 3Q and 40 years 36. Between 40 and 50 years 20.. Over 50 years 4. Nine-tenths of the number including generally our best teachers were born and educated in the coun ty s three years ago three fourths of our teachers had' never been to any thing but a district school; and nine tenths of them had never read. • treatise on the subject of School ’ r PUBLISHER? & PROPRIETORS. teaching. Now I estimate that three fourths of oor teachers have been to some higher school and pursued a course of mental in* stntction of some kind; many are begin* ping to inquire for books on teaching, but I should t)unk not.more than one third qi (bo paembershad yet apquired froth hooks any real important kno«(ei!£e.of teaching. This has been deeply deploref), and in our lectures to classes of teachers we have reocommended them to purchase Page’s Theory and Practice of Teaching, even if they had to go without a pair of shoes*. Some of our teachers say about one eighth, never leach but one or two terms and then, abandon the profession to the great relief, both of it and. themselves, another portion of tbdm about the same size, bang on to the profession when they qan get a school, not because they tike it, but because there docs not seem to be any place for them in the world; nothing for them to do, and this is the easiest, way for (hem to get means enough to keep soul and body together. The re* maining three quarters will probably contin ue to teach school from one to three terms a. year, (ill they can find more lucrative busi ness, or get married. You may put down this county good for lorty first class teachers, that we are not afraid to reecommend to any common school in the stale, for fifty more that will soon be come such ; for one hundred and ten that are, and will probably remain'ordinary good and middling teachers, and of the remaining one quarter of the schools we have nothing to say in this report. With the estimated number four hundred, if we divide them according to the instruc tions of the department into three classes graded by the manner of teaching, and “ general ability lo leach and govern,” we should put down, First, eighty ‘who give full satisfaction Second, one hundred and sixty ‘medium Teachersand one hundred and sixty in the Third class ‘whose services might better be dispensed with.’ Of the whole number again we estimate that their expe rience in leaching would range as follows. Less than one year 90. Between I and 3 years 140. Between 3 and 6 years 80. Between 6 and 10 years 50. Between 10 and 20 years 30. Over 20 years 10. School Visitation. —We can not report a single district where the requirements of the law, respecting school visitation by the directors once a month, has been complied with. We think when the decision of the Superintendent authorising the board lo select a suitable man from their number as secre tary, and pay him per day for his services of visiting schools, is fully understood by the directors, (his duty will be attended to some better; but to get either directors, parents or visitors of any kind into the school depends mainly upon the teachers. Some have adop ted such a course of reviews, examinations, and exhibitions as to awaken an interest on the part of citizens m the locality of the school, and draw them to the school house. Teachers need lo be full of invention to keep the scholars awake, and then the scholars will keep the parents awake, and so there will be a live school. ! i , 6. .-'T* The prevalent public sentiment regarding the school system is at least as favorable to the education of the masses as ever it has been ; abstractly there would be but little difference on the question of the importance of a general system of education ; the prin ciple of providing for the education of our children by the Stale we think is generality conceded, though of course (here are those who doubt the Justice of taxing one man’s property for the education of another man’s children. We believe no question has yet arisen respecting the injustice of taxing one man’s properly to arrest, try, imprison or hang the idle, ignorant and vicious of another family, though it may cost ten times as much to hang, as to educate the children. No question arrives about the propriety of pay ing taxes to build Jjuls, court bouses, stale houses, roads, and pay armies, and treaties. Why then shall we doubt the propriety, yea, the economy of paying taxes to educate the immortal minds, that are to give to our com monwealth more true fame than all the pub lic buildings, armies and mines that we can even boast of. Yea, this home education brings its rich rewards back to our own neighborhoods and firesides, more than any other public or private interests, for which we are taxed. We have in this county in round numbers, nine thousand children of a suitable age to be sent to school, six thousand of these are regular attendants upon our common schools ; the balance attend irregu larly. For the education of these children the current school lax on this county will be about fifteen thousand dollars which with the Slate appropriation, will make an aggregate sum of seventeen thousand dollars in this county for the education of the children of this county. The amount paid in the shape of tuition bill &c. at our Academies, and pri vate schools, would lift the sum total to about twenty thousand dollars; this is but little more than two dollars a head, ail told, for educating a scholar a year in this county. We believe we hazard nothing in saying that no investment of any tax or appropriation of money in our community returns such a large interest to the payers as this ; could you spread the pall of mental darkness over the minds of these nine thousand children, such as it would be but for our schools; could you witness the backward march of civilization that would follow ; the decrease of property and social happiness, and tas'e, and the increase of deformity, crime and in dolence ; we are quite sure that all com plaints of a thorough State established and State patronised system of education would vanish. But it is justice to the citizens of Tioga Co., to say that they complain not of the general features of jhe law. The principle of ma king provision for the education of all the children by the Stale is generally acknow). edged a correct one. It is what wo all want; only let the principles assigned in the law bo made general and ninety nine one hundredhs of the citizens of this couniy will be cordial in their support of the school law. That principle is that the taxable properly of iho State s'hould educate the children; here is where our school fund is invested—e' - erv' properly owner has just his share of it.- Now (he Stale has said to each ciiizen, you must pay according to what you are worth for (he education of the children. In the ab sence of a school fund there is no other way
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