lessons have been committed. Each of the other classes is called in its order, and the de gree of its advancement marked opposite each name as taken in the reading classes, Tije re view being conducted partly by myself and partly by the teacher, in order to* test his skill. I follow the examination by a lecture ten or thirty minutes in length. I have in my note book tbe names of between six and seven thous and children, and the marking indicating the advancement of each. I have visited some of the Schools twice, and am able, by reference to my note book, to tell exactly what each pu pil has been about, and also to determine the ability and skill of the teacher. I have found tbis method of school visitation to be a won derful stimulus to both teacher and pupil. Drills. —This, summer I have visited but a few,schools in a district; occupying most of my time in teachers’ drills. I had learned by my winters visiting what the faults of the tea chers were, and X think my time has been well spent in endeavoring to correct them. Examinations. —Teachers are notified to pre pare themselves with pen, ink and paper; the paper being folded into books of uniform size. Examination begins at nine A. M.; I ask the questions oraly, -teachers writing the answers and numbering -them to correspond with the number of the question. This examination lasts three hours; I then gather the little books containing the answers, and examine them at my leisure. In the afternoon the ex amination is entirely oral, and is also about three hours in length. I mark the written and oral examinations separately, and from a com parison of the two, deduce the results, which I mark upon the certificate. This marking I guarantee to be positively correct. The writ ten examination is much mure inferesting to spectators than the oral, for little books written in one district, I take to the next and distribute them among the audience. Thus, for imdance, when I ask for question number ten, they are enabled to see how the teachers of tbe "last township answered it. The main difficulty is, that spectators often get more excited than I wUh them to bo. Examination in each dis trict twice a year. AVritten questions renewed as often a? circumstances require. School l)h colors. —There are few districts here the school directors do not attend the regular examinations and when practicable, the school visitations. Usually, they decide before the examination is through which appli cants ought to be rejected, and which ought not to be, which, by’ the way, helps me greatly in the discharge of my duty. I have found the directors hospitable ami kind, and not unfre qncntly the* best men in the district both in morals and ability. They usually meet me with the warm greeting of old friends. Secretaries* Vis^s. —Six districts only have paid the secretary for visiting schools. In some instances the visiting, lias been highly beneficial—in others it has not. The difficul ty is, the secretary sometimes tries to make changes in the government of the school and method of teaching, fur which ho is not com petent, either as to judgment or education. If the right man could be selected, there would be no question as to the utility of the visit. Public Sentiment. —So far as I know not a single educator in the county is opposed to the present school system. The opposition now comes almost entirely either from those who pay large taxes and have no children to school, or from those who have favorites they wish to teach their school, who are not qualified, and consequently cannot get a certificate. I be lieve the voters of this county would sustain the present school system, in opposition to any other that could be devised. There arc fault finders, to be sure, and enough of them; so there arc in regard to every other feature of the State government. There arc people in this county who Jliate the Legislature so bit terly, they wish it could not meet again in twelve years. ’Wherever you find a man who lias children to educate, and wishes to do it, and has hitherto been active in- sustaining schools, that man almost invariably hails with joy the new feature of the system, and exeits all his influence to sustain it. ■Signs of Progress. —lst. The conciliation of many foes, and the gaining of many friends. 2d. The levying of building taxes, by several large districts which have heretofore neglected this duty. 3d. A large increase in educational reading on the part of teachers, and a much greater demand than ever,‘for the “School Law and instructions” by the people. 4th. The er ection of thirty-five new school houses, sth. The increasing of the already enormously high school tax, amid the pressure of hard times.- 6th. A very remarkable improvement in the qualifications of teachers. 7th. An increas ingly strong desire on the part of teachers to fit themselves more thoroughly for their pro fession. Bth. The organization of a largo and deeply interesting teachers’ county association. 9ch. An increase in the average attendance of pupils of over one thousand six hundred.- 10th. An extension of the time in which the schools were kept open. 11th. An increase in the salaries of teachers, notwithstanding the pressure in money matters. The progress of the educational interests of the county has been greater during the last three years than in any previous six years.— Indeed, I regard the present educational stan dard, as one hundred per cent, higher than at the commencement of the new order of thing* four years ago. With the present corps of teachers and directors, the standard will be placed higher and still higher. Many heart-felt thanks arc due to the De partment at Harrisburg, and to tfic teachers, directors and citizens of the county for their kindness to jne, and their hearty co-operation in the great work of educating the vnuth of our land. N. L. REYNOLDS, County Superintendent Oceola, August 25, 185 S, Igi, We notice that Judge hr has. Mail Agent on the Tioga Railroad, lias returned to this village having nearly recovered from the injuries he received by the upsetting of a car on the CatiUvissa Railroad the last week in January. His escape as well as that of his fellow passengers in the same car was marvel lous. The rear end of the car was thrown from the track and after sliding obliquely down an embankment of sixty feet slope was over turned. The forward end of the car remained near the track. The car was set on fire by the upsetting of the stove, and the seats broken by the shock. The few passengers within were hurled to the bottom and some of them badly hurt among whom was Judge .Lyman.—Cor ning Journal, Han Cough, Cold, pain in the Chest, or BronciuTu? In fact have you the premoni tory symptom* of the “insatiate archer” Con sumption? Know that relief is at hand in Win tar's (JaUattt of Wild Cherry. ling tore* i>- (>»* the written sig nature of "/ C •'/!(• ' '.V, U.t THE AGTTATOR. HUGH TptrtffG, Editor & Proprietor. WELISBOROUGH, PA. Timrsda.r Morning, April 31, *59. a rants* party. The Warren County Ledger, formerly an un scrupulously partizan Buchanan sheet, hutnow attached to fortunes of the Forney Democracy of this State, sees in the failure of tbe slave hunters to take hack Daniel Webster to slavery a very large impediment to the general health of the Union; it sees in the late failure to en force the Fugitive Slave Law in Philadelphia, the premonitory symptoms of that sickness by which the American Eagle (who stands with one foot on the Free, and the other on the Slave States and thus holds them together,) must ul timately hang down his head and with moulting feathers incontinently droop and die. A very sad, not to say gloomy, not to say mournful picture to draw, at a time too, when patriotic poultry is so high. With an acumen for which wo had hereto fore -not given it credit, the Ledger finds the se cret of the slave Daniel’s liberation, although fully and fairly proved to have been a slave, in the force of public opinion, From effect to cause, it goes back to find the secret force, so potent in its power as to have over thrown or made useless a law, upon which it has believed for the last nine years, the safety of our glorious Union depended. It finds this public opinion in constant creation in the “nig ger songs” of our streets. It sees in poor “Nelly Gray” who was “taken away,” an inlet to the sympathies of the popular heart; and in the line where it says “the white man had bound her. in hU chain,” the Ledger secs an inlet to the popular disgust. It beholds the creation of this fatal public opinion in the Anti- Slavery literature of the day, as if there ever was a pure literature which in its very spirit was not anti-slavery. But those things are only secondary in the Ledger s view. The real cause of this public opinion which could quietly sneer down the Fugitive Slave Law and make it a dead letter on out Statute Books, is to he found in the action of the political parties of the day. With this asseveration in effect, the Ledger prepares us for another which will sur prise the Democracy of Tioga County not a little ; not because it is something new to them, but because it is spoken with a boldness only equal to its truth so far as the Democracy is concerned. It says: “The Republican party “ which proclaims itself anti-Slavcry arrays “itself against a Democratic party which is “ decidedly pro-Slavery. Northern men of ex “ tremc vipws control and lead the Republican “ party, while ultra Southern men control and “ direct the machinery of the Democratic party P It was only a few days ago that the Washing ton Union came down very severely upon Mr. Brown of Mississippi for saying in a public speech in Now York that the object of acqui ring Cuba was to extend Slavery and nothing else. The Democrats of Tioga will probably agree with the Union, that however true these family secrets are, they ought not to bo pro claimed aloud in the streets, and, of course, they will be severe on the Ledger accordingly. It is our present purpose to correct an error into which it has fallen with regard to the position and aims of the Republican party, not because we have any hopes of making its editor see his error as we see it, but because it is a part of the premises from which he reasons himself and his readers into a belief in the mournful con clusions hinted at above. r The Republican party never did, docs not now, and never will “makq war upon the Con stitutional rights of their Southern brethren.” Not a word can be found in a Republican plat form ever adopted by .a meeting or Convention of Republicans, which indicates such a thing, and the Ledger very well knows this. In the conflict of interests now going on in this Re public between Slave labor on the one hand, and Free labor on the other, the Republican party has chosen sides with the latter. The party grew out of this conflict, instead of its having originated it. Upon this point do the pro- Slavery Democratic leaders always seek to de ceive their followers. They tried, with but in ISSG to identify (he Republican with (he Abolition party, and they still play at the same game. Thus, the Ledger f affects to sec nothing on its right hand but dis : union through Abolitionism, on its left ■ nothing but disunion through pro-Slavery fa naticism. Truly it is in a deplorable dilemma. What can it do? The American Bird must p totter and fall soon, if a “great change” does . not take place. But the Ledger proposes a remedy for the country’s evils in a Great Third Parte. What kind of a party do you think is pro posed? A party which will be “eminently conservative in its motives and actions”—“a great Democratic party, such as it was in the days of Jefferson”—a partj’ "where men who love their country can associate for their coun try’s good”—a parly “within whose folds the conservative men of all parties may carry out their patriotic desires.” That is the kind of a party the Warren Ledger -is now looking for. There must be no nigger songs sung by its members. Nelly Gray’s sable lovyor must not be commisscrated. Anti-Slavery literature must not be read or tolerated because this would spoil the conservatism! A few words more with the Warren ledger and we will close this article. Your Great Tuird Party can never exist. It is impossible. Why ? We will tell you why, not in the lan guage of William H. Seward, for that would be abolitionism in your eyes, but in the language of one of your own professed leaders, John Hickman. In a speech made at the Forney Convention at Harrisburg the other day, he enunciated the following doctrine—a doctrine which originated not with him, nor with Seward nor with Lincoln of Illinois who said it before TIOGA OOUKTY AGITATOR. THE him”, but 'with Jkffersos himself whose princi ples the Ledger professes to understand. “When you can harmonize light and dark ness, integrity and corruption, the-patriotic de votion of the private citizen to the principles of our government, with a tyranny worse than-that of the middle ages, it will he time enough to cry “peace.” Let this truth be made promi nent—that there is an eternal antagonism between freedom and slavery. The constitution of the human mind and human heart makes it inevi table ; and the one or the other must eventually gain the ascendancy. The struggle between them, but just begun, is now going on ‘in our midst, and he is but a superficial observer who does not discover it.” There is no escape from it. There can bo no third party. The floating elements of the late Democratic party, must swim into the vortex of one of these antagonisms. Those who love Freedom and its attendant blessings will become Republicans, while those who love Slavery and its blessings must become Shamocrats. ' THE LATE ELECTIONS. Connecticut. The Connecticut election was held Monday, 2nd inst., and the Rupuhlicans carried the State by a handsome majority—electing the whole State Ticket, the entire Congressional Delegation, and a largo majority of the Legis lature. Well done. fllicliisan. An election was held in this State for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court on the sth, and the returns indicate the election of the Repub lican candidate by twelve thousand majority^ Kliotlo Island. The election in Rhode; Island was held on the 6th, and resulted in the election of the op position candidates, for Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, and a majority of the Legislature. Wisconsin. The returns of the election in this state on the 7th, indicate the success of Byron Paine, the Republican candidate for Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, by a majority propably exceeding 5,000 votes. Illinois. i The election held in this state for Judges and Clerics of Supreme Court, resulted in suc cess of the entire Republican ticket by an aver age majority of 2,000 votes? St. Louis, The municipal election held in St. Louis on the 4th inst., resulted in the election of a Re publican Mayor by 2500 majority, the whole city Ticket, and a large majority of the Coun cil. Poi-tlmid, Me. On the sth inst., a Republican Mayor, and a large majority of Republican Aldermen and Councilman, were elected in Portland, Me. Cleveland oiiio. A Republican Mayor and the entire Repub lican Ticket was elected in Cleveland on the 4th inst. Cincinnati. The whole opposition Ticket was elected in this city, by an average majority of 1000 votes, on the 4th inst. ’ Jbonitvillc. This city also elected the opposition candi date for Mayor, 'and a majority of opposition city councilman on the -4th inst.—Keokuk, Schenectady, and Galena are to be added to the list of Republican-triumphs in cities, last week. On the other band, that full-fed Navy Yard, Brooklyn, has gone “Democratic”—a victory of the Navy Yard and other Government em ployees which is isolated, and Brooklyn is very appropriately termed byaLocofoco exchange to he “one green spot.” Fdr further particulars in regard to Brook lyn Elections, see “Report of the committee to investigate frauds in the Navy Department” sub mitted to the last Congress. We are satisfied with the above list. It must tickle “J. B” and his friends. State Legislature The State Legislature adjourned sins die, last Friday noon. Its history is not marked with any measure of importance to the people at large, although a vast amount of special legis lation was got through with. The only meas ure of importance to the people of the State and of particular importance to the people of the Northern part of it, namely, the Free Bank ing Law, was defeated. It did not fail through want of energy on the part of Mr. 'Wilusto.v the able Representative from this county. On the contrary, it enlisted his earnest attention throughout, and he was the acknowledged champion of this measure in the House ; but it failed because it was asked for by the people as against monopolists, and because the people and their Representatives in the lower part of the State, are nit prepared for a reform of this kind. But even though it has failed, much has been done towards its passage at some sul>- sequent session not far in the distance. The speeches of Mr. Wii.liston and other gentle men who know the superiority of this system of Banking over all other systems, cannot fail to have their effect upon the public mind. Mr. Williston has acquitted himself well, and Tioga County has reason to be proud of her Representative. If any fraud was to be dis covered and exposed ; if the; wrong was to be denounced or the right to be vindicated and upheld; if corrupt legislation was suspected he was always on hand, feared by the base, and honored by (he upright. IVe trust that the ex perience which he has acquired as a legislator, will not be lost to the people, the best policy being, in our view, to keep good servants if we can, after they have proved themselves faithful to the trust reposed in them. Mr. Manx, the member from the other part of the district, although he has been a silent memberhe has been nevertheless a workingone. In every question in any way affecting our local interests he has given our more immediate rep resentative his hearty cotiperation and support. The Legislature of Ifew York has passed a Registry Law, to prevent at all future elections the polling of illegal votes. This is a move in the right direction. “Forney’s Convention” Assembled at Harrisburg on the 13th inst., and was said to have been a bril\iant affair. Thi* county was represented by John W. Ryan of Lnwrenceville, and the name of 11. Sherwood Esq., of this Borough was among the Vice Presidents, although .that gentleman was not there. Resolutions were passed endorsing Gov. Packer, and denouncing Buchanan and his ad ministration measures in the strongest terms. Speeches were made by John C. Knox, John Hickman and others. Mr. Hickman’s speech is considered a splendid effort, full of eloquence and logic. He took strong Seward grounds on the Slavery question as will be seen by an ex tract given in another part of this paper. The Convention adjourned without nfcking any nominations, but not without repudiating the Loco Food ticket hoisted by the Buchaneers on the IGth of March. Wo expected a letter from our well known correspondent, Jas. 0. Rourke Esq., which un happily failed us. We shall give the Conven tion and its sentiments a more extended notice next weejfr~-'~^^^ The Sickles Trial. , The lawyers in the Sickles trial are stilTcn-- gaged in arguing the case before a jury. They are not engaged in arguing the question of guilt, but whether the adulterous intercourse which Sickles had discovered between Key and Mrs. S. justified him in killing Key, or, if it dal not justify him, to what extent, if any, it diminishes his criminality. ; We do not know when the trial will be brought to a close or guess at Us result. We hope to bo able in our next issue to give the verdict of the jury, if the jury' should agree upon a verdict, which is rather doubtful. A friend sends us the following hint to farmers, on the subject of ingrafting potatoes, which is taken from the Inverness (Scotland) Courier. It is hardly necessary to say that “cups" and “regents" are the names of vari eties known in that Country. As the time for planting approaches our farmers might, at least, try the experiment. The last four words of the extract below ought to be a sufficient induce ment. “Four years ago, Mr. Anderson the spirited Tenant of Meikle Tarrel, Eastern Ross, having read an article in the Newspapers, on the In grafting of potatoes, tried the experiment on a few seeds, in his garden, consisting of “Cups" and “Regents the process was as follows : Tie scooped out all the eyes of a “Regent,” - and inserted the eye of a “Cup” in each of the va cant places, taking care that the insertion fitted the vacant spaces; and for the purpose of mak ing the two parts adhere, binding them to gether with a string before laying them in the ground. The string (any string will do,) must not cover or blind the inserted eye. The ex periment succeeded admirably. The progeny of such ingraftment is a red and white potatoe, and an acre which be planted with such, this year, has ycilded to Mr. Anderson the extraor dinary returns of thirty two bulls, entirely free from disease." Republican State Convention. The citizens of Philadelphia and of the sev eral counties of this Commonwealth attached to the People’s party, and all others who are op posed to the unwise and extravagant measures of the National Administration, are requested to send delegates, equal in number to their rep resentation in the General Assembly, to a Con vention to be held at Harrisdckg on" Wedxes day the Btu op Jcxe, 1859, to nominate can didates for Auditor General and Surveyor Gen eral, to be voted for at the General Election in next October. HENRY M. FELLER, Wm. B. Manx, Secy, Chairman. FBOMjrtiE PEOPLE. For tho Agitator. The Old Grave Yard. The communication in your issue of the 14th calls for some notice, and in the absence of an abler hand we will venture to suggest soma thoughts and facts in relation'to the subject; and let us premise that the judgment of a stran ger who enters a village for the first time, and the estimate placed .by such person upon the society into which he has entered, is very much influenced by the condition of the village bury ing ground; and this influence will be greater or less as the person upon whom it operates is possessed oflmore or less refinement of taste. It roust be conceded that no other one thing so surely tests the state of society as do the evi dences of respect fur the memory of the depart ed. Assuming the correctness of these promises we will state a few facts showing our past and present condition in this regard. And first let us say that all our sympathies are in favor of the old burying ground. Pa rents, and friends near and dear to our hearts rest there; memories “pleasant yet mournful to the soul” there cluster, and yet other consid erations compel us to favor the new cemetery; they are these: In an early day the old lot which contains same half acre of ground was donated for bur ial purposes. Of the causes which led to its selection we are not aware. It is so located as to he incapable of expansion except on one side, and there hut fur a short distance, and into low, wet ground; It is out of sight from any part of the village or from the principal highways; it is so near the Academy that some years ago during the prevalence of an epidemic disease in our then sparse community, the effluvia arising from the graves was offensive to the inmates of the school; moreover the plan of the ground so far as it has any was the old checker-hoard plan connected with and controlled by that ancient superstition which requires that the dead should always be interred with their feet to the cast, which in this case compelled the violation of all taste in the arrangement of lots or graves.— Furthermore, at some seasons the ground is so wet that hailing has been necessary in order to decent burial—heartstrings have vihratrd in an guish to the plash of the coffin as the loved and lost descended to a watery grave, in strange and painful contradiction of the minister’s proc lamation, “earth to earth, dust to dust.” Last ly, the surface of the old ground, though not quite level is entirely monotonous and so inca pable of satisfactory improvement that no at tempt at it has been made. In view of these facts a charter was obtained for a cemetery company, for the purpose of es tablishing a cemetery such as would be under the protection of law, and would be capable of accommodating the wants of the community present and prospective, in all that pertains to a. cemetery in an intelligent age. The Trustees appointed by the law proceeded to view the old ground and found it impractica , hie for the reasons given above. The lands in the neighborhood were then faithfully examined, and weeks spent in the service by the trustees aided by public spirited citizens ; every place in the vicinity was canvassed. The locality of the new cemetery was the last to which atten tion was called, and was so obviously the best that it was adopted instantcr and unanimously ; ten acres of land were here purchased of Mr. Wilson, who generously offered it at a very low price for the purposes contemplated. An experienced engineer was employed who proceeded to lay out the ground into burial lots, carriage drives, walks, lawns, &c,, in a manner which must make it when completed, an honor to the enterprise and taste of our citizens through all coming timo. .A large number of the lots have been sold to citizens of the village and country around, who are desirous to pos sess a secure place of sepulture for themselves and families. Many persons have been interred in those lots, upon which the good taste of the owners is already displaying itself, in those im provements which make the resting places of the dead a place of pleasant and profitable re sort to the living. These are some of the facta connected with tiurTsubject; more might be stated, but we stop here; we L'ouid not consistently say less, we have no desire to say~SSt>re, as we cannot res pect either the head or the heart of him who would wish to raise a controversy upon such a subject For the Agitator. The Wellsboro and Tioga Road.' Editor of the Agitator; Dear Sir; Having during the last three months noticed a number of communications against the above road, I am inclined to believe that you will not refuse to give room also to a few remarks of mine on the same subject. In my opinion, the real question is not be tween the people of the county and the present owners or owner of the road, but between the tax-payers and the lumber dealersof Middle hury. Ry au expenditure of over $30,000 of our money a plank road was built which great ly enhanced the value of the property of said dealers by facilitating the transportation of their lumber ; but they wanted to profit still more ; they gave such a low price to teamsters, that the latter to make it pay had to put on such ex tra heavy loads that the plank was cut through in a very short time and the company had to fail. They have since acted a similar part to wards the new gravel road, sending the same heavy loads over it on very rainy days when the new~road was soft. The same policy would prevail against a coun j ty road, and the same results would follow, with j this difference, that in the latter case the tax ■; payers would have to foot the bill and the su | pervisors would leave to stand the suits brought 1 against them by the very men whose acts would make a good road impossible. Would we feel more satisfied then—particularly Middlebury ■who would have 10 miles of such road to keep in order ? Would it not he more just all round for the teamsters to insist on a paying price from the lumber dealers, who cannot do without them and who can well afford it? - It seems to me that a kindly feeling between the teamsters and the owners of the road, would go far towards the removal of all difficulties, and secure us from impending and' greatly in creased road taxes, If the teamsters have to jray toll, they are entitled to receive that much more on every load. I have been told that since the.gates are up they bavo’had to submit to a reduction of twenty-five cents per thousand feet. Does not this look as if they were not fairly dealt with by the lumbermen ? The rem edy is in their own hands, why do they not use it? United we stand, divided we fall. April 12, 1859. Respectfully, ( F.uu Play. -M-A-R-R-I-E-D On the 13th Inst., at Lawron dies Boots, Sewed, Pegged. Heels; *' a^ s Ladies Slippers, Ladies Gaiters. ' |( . a: .j3- > Black and Colored, Misses M«rrucco bo" ■■ pers. Children's Fine and Coarse berk, • gress and Calf Gaiters, Men’s Coarse bn>-- Calf Brogans, Youth's Fine and Men’s Calf Boots, Coarse and kip SSg_COME AND SEE.®* S®.COMB AND SEE-® 1 HARDWARE AjijnP! CROCKERY V, IE .tP : GROCERIES i U EiP! PAINTS & OILS f: a E.iP! FISH pUKiU WOODEN WARE Everything very cheap at EVERYTHING VERY CHEAP AJ, EVERYTHING VERY CHEAP Ai EVERYTHING VERY CHEAP A* EVERYTHING VERY CHEAP OSGOOD"’ OSGOOP-’ OSGO<% OSGG 01 ”' Wcllsboro, April 22, ISoD. 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