Mr. Seward’s “Irrepressible Conflict.' 7 The declaration laid down by Mr. Seward, in his Rochester speech, that there is such an “irrepressible conflict” between the instituti ons of slavery ’ and Free labor, that one or the other must alternately prevail thoroughout the Union, baa been denounced by Douglas and others as a bloody and treasonable' heresy.— Mr, Everett, however in his Inst oration on Webster, intimates that Mr. Seward-ia bran dishing borrowed thunder, and that the doc trine in question had a much less heretical ori gin. Mr, Everett says: “fie [Mr, Webster] not only confidently an ticipated what the lapse of seven years since his decease has witnessed and is witnessing, that the newly acquired and newly organised, terri tories of the Union would grow up,into free states; but, m common with all or nearly all the. statesmen of the lust generation, he believed that free labor t could ultimately prevail through out ike country. He thought he saw that, in the operation of the same causes, which have produced this result in the middle and eastern states, it was visibly taking place in the states north of the cotton-growing region; and he inclined to the opinion that there, also, under the influence of physical and economical causes, free labor would eventually be found most pro ductive, and would therefore be ultimately es tablished Henry Clay’s “Opinion.” The following passage from Mr. Clay’s great speech before the Colonization Society in Jan uary 18*27, w-nud seem to point him out as the author of the “Irrepressible Conflict doc trine” above referred to ; “We are reproached with doing mischief by the agitation of this question. The Society goes iqto no house-bold to disturb its domestic tran quility ; it addresses itself to no slaves, to wea ken their obligations of obedience. It seeks to affect ho man’s property. It neither has the power nor will to affect the property of any one, contrary to bis consent. The execution of its schemes would augment, instead of diminish, the value of the property left behind, The So ciety, composed of free men, concerns itself only with the free. Collateral consequences we are not responsible for. It is not this Society which has produced the great moral revolution which the age exhibits. What would they, who thus reproach us, have done! If they would repress all tendencies toward Liberty and ultimate emancipation, they must do more than put down the benevolent efforts of this Society. They must go lock to the era of our Liberty am! Independence, and muzzle the cannon which -luimlcr-it* annual joyous return. They must ive u.e stave trade with all it train of atroci- i They must suppress the workings of Brit ish philanthropy, seeking to ameliorate the con dition of the unfortunate West Indian slaves. They must arrest the career, of South Ameri can 'delhrcance from thraldom. They must blow out the moral lights around us, nnd ex tinguish that greatest torch uf all which Ameri ca presents to a benighted world, pointing the way to their rights, their liberties, and their happiness. And when they have achieved all these purposes, their work will be yet incom plete. They must penetrate the human soul, and eradicate the light of reason and the love of liberty. Then, and not till then* when uni versal darkness and dispair prevail, can yon perpetuate slavery, and repress all sympathies and. ?i' fomape w bjnevolent cfforu anjong^freo race doomed to bondage/ 1 Senator Bigler. The Senatorial term of William Bigler will expire ou the -Uh of March, 1861, and the Leg islature of ISO I will have to elect a successor to him. JSo one will lament to hear that there 'I is nut the slightest chance of re-election. His ) doom was'sealed at the election of Tuesday last. Before that election the faithful were appealed to to vote with their whole strength for the Democratic nominees, particularly the nomi nees for State Senators, because two-thirds of the Senate of the next Legislature will he in the Lgislature that is to elect a United States Senator. The mighty mind, the exalted char acter, the lofty patriotism and the trauscendant talents of Senator Bigler, were referred to, and the election was to result in a Democratic vic tory and an endorsement of his course. Mark the result: Bui one Democratic cau date for the Senate was elected. The whole eleven districts were carried by the Opposition. This, of itself, secures an Opposition majority in the Senate of 1861; but at the election of October, 1860, the Opposition will also carry enough Senators to secure a still greater major ity in the Legislature that is to choose a United States Senator. The Senate of next winter will consist of 22 Opposition and 11 Democrats. Of this number 4 Opposition and 7 Democrats go out at the end of tiie session, leaving the number holding over for 18G1, 18 Opposition and 4 Democrats. At the election of October, IbdO, the Opposition will certainly carry 6 Sen ators and may carry 7. So that the Senate of 1861 will probably be composed of 24 Opposi tion and 9 Democrats—a snug majority of 15, against any Democratic candidate for United States Senator, and particularly against Wil liam Bigler, in whose behalf such earnest ap peals w» made in various districts this Fall. The C .- at Washiagtou did nil they could to aid the Sin 11.11 : ■ get his men elected in cer tain districts: t. -•,> failure was total. But a single Democrat a 1 - elected to the Senate, and William Bigler wul have leave to retire perma nently to private life, on the 4th of March, 1861, going out in company with his friend and pro tector, James Buchanan.— Phil. Bulletin. Doubtless an- Honest Sermon. —The follow ing is a funeral sermon lately preached in Ohio by a Buckeye clergyman: “I have been begged, importuned, and entreated to preach this 'ere sermon, but I don't want to do it. I never did like the man; I never knew nothing good of him. He had horses, and he run them ; he had cocks, and he fit them. I have heard he was occasionally good at fires. The bearers will please remove the body.” The Western Penna. Fair, held at Pitts burgh, September, 1859, awarded the first Pre miums for best business and ornamental Wri ting to tin- lion City Commercial Cdllege. This is ti.’ th-i triumph at the Fairs of this City over o' her Colleges. —Pittsburgh Gazette. S-oittor Foote has presented to the United S'at.'s Circuit and district Courts for the Dis trict of Vermont and the members of the bar, his entire law, Congressional and miscellaneous library consisting of 8.000 volumes. It is reported that Tiofcnor & Fields will be the new publishers of the Atlantic Monthly, which changes hands in consequence of the failure of Philips Sampson 4 Co. THE AGITATOR! HUGH TOTING, Editor & Proprietor. WELLSBORODGH, PA, Tlimsday Wonting. Oct., 37, ’SO. The •‘lnsurrection.” la view of the triumph of the Republican patty in every free State -where elections have been held this Fall with the exception of Cali fornia, and in view of the annihilation of Bu chananism and Douglasism in every State north of Mason and Dixon*, line, the late riot at Har- Terry ;Virginia r —the particular, of which we furnish below—was a god-send to the Mu latto Democrats which they have not bad.before and will hardly find again in a decade of years. Already the leading papers of the Pro-Slavery Democracy are trying to connect the “Insur rection” so-called, with the Republican Party, and the country presses are echoing the thun der with ridiculous zeal. Many of our readers will remember the name of John Brown of Kansas notoriety—some times called “Old Brown” and “Osawatomie Brown”—who caused such terror to) the Pro- Slavery Democratic Ruffians of Kansas in 1856. During the troubles of that year, he moved to Kansas with his sons, all peaceable and worthy citizens, to find better homes in the Great West. It is not necessary to recite the terrors the house-burnings, the infamous and more than infamous treatment to which all free. State set tlers were subjected by lawless human blood hounds from Missouri and the other States of the South, backed by a weak and corrupt Ad ministration atWasbington. Enough that John Brown, hitherto an orderly and peaceable citi zens was goaded to desperation by the inhuman conduct of these demons in the shape of men. Ills youngest son Frederick was taken and foully murdered when riding unarmed to the house of a neighbor; his son John was marched over the prairies by pro-slavery United States troops, with the “ball and chain” attached to his arms, and with his ancles loaded with shackles till his sufferings made him a maniac, just because his fellow citizens had elected him to the Topeka Free State Legislature. His own sufferings of mind, body, and estate, added to these, filled his mind with a hatred which made him at last a monomaniac. From that time to the present his life has been devoted to wreak ing his vengeance upon those who heaped these wrongs upon him. Last Spring he invaded Missouri with a handful of men, liberated eleven slave, and successfully piloted them to the free shores of Canada. This is the last we hear of him till he turns up at Harper’s Ferry last week. It seems that the resentment of this fanatical old madman had extended not only to Missouri ans whom he believed to be the author of bis wrongs, but to all other slave-holders. lie be lieved himself to be, and so stated to Governor Wise, an instrument in the hands of God, to punish slave holders everywhere : and bU m,e -w oe iu uursc foe cmltns irom the captives and let them go free. In order to do this on a larger scale, he -rented a farm in Maryland during the summer, situated about six miles from Harper’s Ferry, where he concocted and matured a plot, so poorly conceived and so poorly executed ns to stamp him at once as a lunatic. A wilder and more hopeless enter prise than his never before entered into the brain of nfan. The plan proposed for himself and his twenty followers was to liberate and arm the slaves in that part of the country and to march with them by the safest route to Can ada. On the 17th inat.. Brown, accompanied by sixteen white men and five negroes marched to Harper’s Ferry a town containing gome two |housand inhabitants, took possession of it without bloodshed, entrenched jhimself in the State Arsenal, and held it successfully for thirty six hours. Now whatever of military glory this may reflect upon the head of “Old Brown” and his followers, we submit that it does not speak well for the chivalry of the F. F. Vs. In fact wo think it shows them up in rather a cowardly light, and the long winded Governor of Vir ginia thought so too, and told them so. It is quite probable that the “insurgents” as they call “Old Brown” and his men would have re mained there till doomsday, if not captured by a company of United States troops from Wash ington. In the affray five of the rioters in cluding a son of Old Brown were killed; one named Cook escaped and the rest were made prisoners. Brown himself received eight flesh wounds, a fact that showed the desperation with which he fought. Search was made at Brown’s farm where a large number of pikes were found ; also a number of pistols and rifles; also a carpet bag containing a Constitution for a secret society and a private letter from Gerrit Smith, all of which has thrown the ohivalric citizens of Maryland and Virginia and the Mu latto Democracy qf the North, into a lever of excitement. Old Brown is in the hands of the Virginia authorities and in a few weeks will be tried for murder, and doubtless hung. This is the whole story. —The Mulatto Democratic party at the North will hail this story with all the eagerness of hungry wolves. The leaders will seek to dis tort, exaggerate and magnify this riot into a stupendous plot on the part of the North against thi South, They are even now trying to make out that these twenty fanatics who have brought destruction upon themselves by their madness, are aided and set on by the Great Eepublican Party. All such attempts will prove futile and revert upon themselves. The Republican Party has no such end in view as the forcible libera tion of slaves. It simply seeks to prevent the extension of the cursed institution into terri tory now free. If any new instance were needed to prove slavery a enrse, it is furnished by the fact that twenty determined men can take a slavery-ridden town like Harper’s Ferry containing two thousand inhabitants, without any assistance from any of the inhabitants of THE TIOGA COUNTY AGITfeTOIPP the town, black or white. No: the members of the Republican; Patty believe that J the surest way to Universal Freedom is “not through in surrections,-civiL-war, .and - bloodshed, but “ through peace, discussion and the quiet diffu sion" of sentiments of humanity anl justice;” and we are no more responsible for the acts of Brown than we are for the acts and words of such men as Bully Brooks, or Tombs of Georgia, who said he would yet call the roll c f his slaves under the shadow of the Bunker dill Monu ment. Some weeks ago the Agitator gave its views in brief on a very profound question previously propounded and expatiated upon for its own amusement by a paper published at Towandn, Pa., yclept the Bradford Herald, viz : “Is Dem ocracy a principle 1” In reply to| our article, that paper ascended into the abstruse and— didn’t come down. We retorted good natured ly and did the editor the honor of conferring upon him the honorary degree of Doctor, as some compensation for his discovery of the “Pangs of Danger” and a medical novelty in regard to symptoms. This did bring him down to the usual argument of lunk-heads—billings gate. Yet, after all, we are disposed to forgive friend Chase (we hope he will excuse this fra ternal greeting) for calling us a “ thing” and a “monkey” (oh mi 1 you naughty man 1 how could you?) presuming that the sweetness of temper which gave rise to these epithets was superinduced by the reading of thulate election returns from Pennsylvania, lowa, Ohio, and the other States which rebuked the political infamy of that other Doctor, “J. B.” his roaster. We are disposed to forgive George’s irrasci bility for another reason. lie had just been writing that article showing by the stern logic of Arabic figures that the Republican party of Bradford county had given only 2104 majority! Ah, friend George, we think that is juite enough, particularly ns the odd 4 without that 2100 would have been sufficient for all practical pur poses. We beg to assure friend Chase, that though we are an agitator, we are by no means nervous or exciteablo. Neither does “tie least little thing"—the Herald for example—“throw us in to a tremor.” Physically we are twice as heavy as Dr. Chase, probably; at least we are twice as heavy as boys usually are. Wo are lymphat ic in temperament, and make it a point to ap peal to the reason and judgment of men in be half of principles, rather than ;o excite their basest passions and vilest prejudices against persons, as the Herald man doet. We seldom or never stoop to low personalities, and in all discussions, we usually keep goo 1 natured our self, and try to keep our opponent good natured also. If he persist in being crabbed and sour, we incontinently drop him, jus as we intend to drop you, George, believing that no good can result from an exchange of views with a man Finally, George, if you will only keep good natured we will agree to say nothing more about them “pangs of danger.” Nor will we call you “Dr.” any more. Be v rtuous, sweet tempered and calm, and you will be happy.— Good-bye Georgey! Thanksgiving-, I Governor Packer has publisher thanksgiving proclamation: [L. S.] Pennsylvania, ss:—ln the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Penn sylvania. William F. Packer, Governor of the said Commonwealth. fkoclamatios, Fellow Citizens; —'The blessitgs vouchsafed by a kind Providence through tie past year de mand our grateful recognition and again call for the sacrifice of thanlcsgivlr g and praise. Under the protection of a Government that se cures to all equal rights, we hav i pufsued, un molested, the various arouatiots ofllife, with more than usual prosperity. Ti e earth, under the labors of the husbandman, 1 as yielded her increase, and our barns and storehouses are crowded with the fruits of the harvest. Wo have not only been preserved from the ravages of the pestilence, but the past has been a year distinguished for health in our large cities and throughout all our rural districts. Our homes have been the abodes of tranquility, and bless ings innumerable have clustered around our domestic hearths. Our variouk schools and seminaries of learning are diffusing throughout our community a higher intelligence and im parting to our youth noble aspirations. The institutions of our holy religion] are well sus tained ; and under its pure and genial influ ence. the spirit of unity and lore, the earnest of yet better days, is most happily developed. To God, the great and the good, tke are indebted for all, and to Him let praise he rendered. With these sentiments, and jin accordance with the known wishes of many of my fellow citizens, I, William F. Packer, Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania!, do hereby ap point Thursday,, the 24th dayj 'of November next, as a day of general thanksgiving and praise to Almighty God, and recommend to all our people to lay aside, on thatjday, their cus tomary worldly business, assemble in their re spective places of worship, and unite in praising God for Ills excellent greatness toward us, be seeching His gracious goodness. Given under my hand and the great seal of the State, at Harrisburg, this fourteenth day of October, A. D. 1859, and of the p onimonwealth the eighty-fourth. WM. F. PACKER. By the Governor: I TFm. M. Heisteh, Sec’y of Commonwealth. Why Broderick was Killed. —Col. Baker, late the Republican candidate for Congress in Calitbania, delivered an eloquent funeral ora tion over the remains of Mr. B roderick, in the course of which he said: "What was bis (Brod erick’s) crime? The answer is in bis own words: ‘They hate killed me because I was op posed to the extension of Slavery and a corrupt Administration.’ Fellow-citizens, they are re markable words, uttered at a very remarkable moment; they involve the history of his Sena torial career, and of its sad and bloody termi nation." | A cannon ball fired by the |Chiness Peiho, took a leg from every one of six men who were standing in line on a British gdn-boat. FROM THE P ' Letter from Kansas. Political Meeting in Atchison—City Election . Pole on the Wyandott Constitution—Late and encouraging reports from the Mines, &c., &c. 1 Atchison, Kansas, Oct. 8, 1859. Mk. Yobnu; If a short epistle from the “Tar 'West,” still he of any interest to the reader* of the Agitator, I will occupy a few moments in penning a few facta which I base lately witnessed in this city: i On Monday evening last there was to he a meeting in front of the Massosoit Honse in this place, and tbo/. _Ewing, jr., and Got. Robinson were to speak on the issues of the day. At about 7 o’clock the meeting was organized by electing Gen. S. C. Pomeroy, Chairman, when Mr. Ewing came forward and commenced speak ing. lie had not proceeded far before the Dem ocracy commenced to cry him down, and yell ing for Abell and Stringfellow, who have both in years past made themselves notorious in the history of Kansas. But Mr. Ewing kept on speaking and spoke for three-quarters of on hour, reviewing the of Kansas, and urging, in the strongeslpeiimf, the adoption of the Wyandott ConstitutiS&SKAfter retiring, the Democrats commenced yelling for Abell, which brought the venerable gentleman out. As soon as he commenced speaking the Repub licans were determined not to be bamboozled in any such way and commenced calling at the tops of their voices for Robinson, which com pletely drowned the voice of the Speaker, when be retired and Robinson "came forward and, made quite a lengthy speech; in favor of the' Constitution. It must be remembered that the Democracy have held two meetings all alone, a few evenings before, and in which not one Republican interfered or spoke. The joint political meeting between Hon. Marcus J. Parrott and Judge Sanders W. John ston was held at the ’aame place on the 27th ult. Mr. Johnston being ‘fat nome” In Ohio, his place was supplied by W. C. McDowell of Leavenworth. The discussion lasted four hours and Mr. McDowell was most effectually beaten. The people of Kansas do not want a man from Ohio to represent them in Congress, and one too, who is in favor of re-opening the African Slave Trade, as Mr. Johnston stated that Ac wo* in his speech at Big Springs, and affidavits have been produced from several responsible citizens to that effect. On the sth nit., the voters of this city were called upon to elect a Mayor, Gen. Pomeroy’s term having expired, and which office he has held for the past two years, doing great credit to himself and honor to the people of the cjty. The Pro-Slavery men nominated Geo. 11. Fair child, late of Tioga County, N. ¥., and the Re publicans, John M. Price. Mr. Price engaged the Atchison Brass Band to play for him on this occasion, and pla-cards: “For Mayor, John M. Price," were displayed in big letters on the band wagon. AtTO o’clock a. m., P. T. Abell, followed by a mob, chine up and tore off the cards and informed the band they could not play. He had given $lO for the purchase of instruments to get the band started, and he was not going to have his money used in any such way. He and his whole party were “armed to the teeth," and if they persisted they done it at their peril. The Band was determined to play notwithstanding the regent Abell had ad vised them not to, but at the earnest request of Af citizens cV V»oth parties, they retired to their homes. A great many of the pro-slavery men denounced this act, and had they not previously voted they would have cast their ballots for the Republican candidate. Several strong pro-slavery men with whom I am intimately acquainted, voted for Mr. Price in consequence of this Border Ruffian move ment on the part of Mr. Abell. By getting a great many foreigners beastly drunk, and lead ing them up to the polls in each ward several times, they carried the day, and sent the news off by telegraph, that Atchison City had gone Democratic by 23 majority. In the evening they held a meeting to have a genera] rejoicing over their victory, and a more degraded and beastly set of drunken men I never saw in my life. G. 0. Chase, editor of the Union (the Na tional - Demooratic-Pro-Slavery-Border-Ruffian organ of this place, who came to Kansas-last spring from Owego, N. ¥., and who voted for Fremont in ’SG,) was so tight he could hardly navigate. After several had spoken he came forward and made a few remarks, congratula ting the Democracy on their selecting so amia ble a man for Mayor, and wound up by saying the meeting had better adjourn and come in and take ar “small private drink” and retire. On last Tuesday the election was held in the Territory to vote on the Wyandott Constitution, Notwithstanding a great many illegal votes were polled by the pro-slavery democracy, the Constitution was carried by a majority of one in this city, and nearly 200 in the County. So far as beard from, the majority is about 4000, and it is expected the entire vote in the Terri tory will swell it to 6000. From present ap pearances the Democrats will not carry a single county in the Territory. Dr. Stringfellow says he is going to Washington to oppose the ad mission of Kansas under that instrument. He has no objections to the apportionment, but is afraid the people will elect a "nigger" Gov ernor. ijl the following Kansas is not the “land of promise" as some delight in calling it, but the land of eternal cor ruption and confusion. It is hoped that these times will not last much longer, for she will most likely be admitted at the approaching ses sion of Congress, a free and sovereign State, when hundreds and thousands will flock in from the East, and plant their fortunes on the boundless prairies of the “Great American Desert.” The day is not far-distant when this is destined to be one of the most densely-popu lated States in the Union, and that must soon follow after her admission under the Free-State Constitution framed at Wyandott. Times are rather tight all over the Territory, but there is more business done in Atchison than any place on the Missouri between here and St. Louis, This being the starting point for the Great Salt Lake Mail, and nearly all the trains for Pike’s Peak, Utah, California and Oregon, and located as it is, fourteen miles fur ther west than any other town in Kansas on the . “Big Muddy," nothing will prevent it from becoming the largest city in the Territory. The Railroad will be finished from St. Joseph to this place next month, than there will be a direct line all the way from the frontier to the Atlantic seaboard. The news from Pike’s Peak is encouraging. The Express from Denver City yesterday, brought $41,000 in dust from the Mines, and still rich discoveries are being made daily. The Missouri River is slowly rising, and this seems to be the head of navigation at present all the boats stopping hero and discharging their freight and returning to St. Louis. Yours, Ac., F. A. R. first argument for the enlargement of the htea of our vijlago is for-the convenience add, economy of schools. ' Ef&ry child within wiftS in one mile of Jthe centr£stone of this village* 'should be educated hare:; _ Ist. Economy requires it. It can be done cheaper than in the little ephemeral schools that have been supported in the immediate neigh borhood. There, in little, uncomfortable huts, from sis to sixteen scholars have been huddled together, and a teacher capable of teaching full three times the number has been employed term after term. This is very bad economy. But this ia not the worst of it. Hence we eay that 2d. Utility requires the enlargement of this district for school purposes. By utility here we mean the best education of oar children as well as the cheapest. It is a settled question with all education that, where it is practicable, schol ars-should be arranged in different departments according to their attainments. Any good teach er will testify to us that he can teach sixty scholars of about the same grade, better than he can thirty of the usual grades found in a common echqolag; It requires no experience in fact, and hut very little reflection to see that a class of beginners would he advanced much faster in a room by themselves. A room prop erly provided with pictures and a, b, o, plates, and slates, paper and pencils; with shelves to lay them aside when they want to sleep, and a separate play ground when they need to play, and a teacher just adapted to such little ones— alike at home with the books, the drawings and the plays. Children commencing in such a school will not only learn much faster, but they will not contract an early, and, too often, per manent dislike to all school books, teachers, et omne generis. The same principle holds good with every advancing grade. The scholars will advance much faster. If any one is disposed to think this is all theory and wont work in practice, we are happy to know that the means are at hand to convince the most confirmed un believer of the great utility and practicability of the plan. Corning is not far off. Just visit the Union School of that viliaagc, under the au perintendance of Mr. Parker. Visit all the de partments. Mr. Parker will be happy to tell you of any friction in the machinery if there is any. But if any man can spend one day in such a school and not be convinced of its supe rior advantages over any ungraded school, where the scholars can not be placed in differ ent departments, and have the full benefit of a healthful competition and rivalship, and hopes of advancement, we know not what ideas ho can have of schools. 3d. A wise self respect requires this care for our school.- If such a school is cheaper and better, then a regard for our jpwn interests re- quires ns to establish it. WtTshall never see our public, or common schools elevated to the position which will make them creditable to our villages until some such provision is made. No one who has been familiar with those schools for the last ten years will pronounce them ade quate to the wants, or creditable to the intelli gence and public spirit of Wellsboro. It is mor ally certain that these schools never can assume the dignity or usefulness which all our citizens have a right to expect of them, and without which they will be hardly an apology—shunned and deeefted by most of the families who do the most pecuniarily to support them—until this liberal' policy is adopted. With the present concracieu DOIIIJU... ioo and hopes, the schools roust continue to be hampered and crushed till all their life is extinguished. * 4. Justice demands that the money raised for school purposes, by an equal tax upon the prop erty of the Boro, shall not be thrown away.— We are fully persuaded that these schools may assume the character- we here contemplate, so that every man who pays his money to support them, shall deem it both a benefit and an honor to patronize them, instead of creating thereby a kind of safety valve to let off, or receive that material that is not wanted in the academy.— Go to Corning, Geneva, Lyons, Oswego, the vil lages of New England generally, and every place where the children of all the inhabitants are thus-gatbered under one experienced, suc cessful teacher, with suitable helpers, and you shall see that no infant school, select school, or academy is conducted with better order, or more wholesome discipline for the elevation of all classes. There, more knowledge is imparted and correct principles inculcated for the same amount of money than in any other school we have ever known. We have abandoned, mainly, the hopes we had sometimes fondly cherished of seeing the educational machinery of this Boro, all united under one head; the academy and common schools uniting to form an eclectic board of ed ucation. But our convictions are strong as ever that this is the true course. We firmly believe that a convention of twelve of the best teachers in the State would so decide. Oar academy would thereby assume the dignified proportions of such an institution, worthy the renown of its ancient and most palmy days. The provis ions for foreign scholars would be much more satisfactory than they can be under the present policy. All apparent or real antagonism exist ing between the two schools would cease, and the primary departments, while answering the ends of a common school much better than they are now attained, would at the same time be constant feeders for the academic department. And farther, we are persuaded that even now the Directors could have their scholars taught in the academy, by an amicable arrangement with the Trustees and Principal of the latter institution, better and cheaper than they can teach them in the present building. But this merging of the two schools is a dif ferent question. Though well worthy the re flection of the friends of education among us, it is not essential to the school argument for the enlargement of our Boro. We dismiss it for the present, and only add that the bright hopes we have foreshadowed for our common school in this Bpro, can never be realized as they should be until our incorporation is thrown around the population, that, in the nature of the case, should be educated here, J. F. C. w A ™rSl. s ? oro ' on the 22d Sep l -, by J- Emerv Esq., Mr JOSEPH HOWARD to Miss CAROLINE KNAPP both of Chatham. At the residence of the bride's parents in Huntsville Pa,, Oct. 19, by Elder W. B. France, Mr. S. B. 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A man may not only “tahe his own life," b? his Autobiography, withont committing/./,, may carry himself into future time by prciiucV** book which the world will not willingly let die tv* is what the great Kobert-Hondin, thegrcaiestirJif 1 * what is called conjuring; has lately done h fterv markable book Confidences d’un Prestvjiteur, translation of which is here presented to the Actr.aa reading public, The work has had the in Europe, from its lively style as well as the information it contains, historical and On the practice and principles of the other details, mental as well as machanical, wedeh unite to make perfect the exhibition of White AU*. the antipodes of what our forefather* knew, penewrf and punished as the Black Art. From the Wcetmiuater Pei'iev, “Without any sarcastic intention. we might ihj* that the Conjurer was really a man of 1 greater ability than many a successful author. 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