STAR OF T! NORTI
R. W. WEAVER, SUITOR.
(ttoeramburg Thursday Jsa. tU, 1855.
THB INAUGURAL ADDKKSS
Of Gov. POI.LOCK will be found in our pa
pa* to-day. and if there is any thing which
it prove* it is the Know-Nothing connection
of ,tfce new Governor. There is in the ad
dress ail the clap-trap eant about American
ism, which marks the members ef tho new
Jacrbin parly, and by which they appeal to
the low, selfish .passions of bigotry and ig
norance.
As to the ganaral character of the address
wo prefer to give our views in the language
of (be Philadelphia Ledgir, an independent
journal that mires upon the discrimination
and common venue of ike public for its sup
ifon. Its ebie editors says:
"From en officer just stepping into official
station, and as yet unacquainted with the
duties end requirements of his office, much'
in the development of State policy cannot
be expected from an initiative address—but
dte Governor fails to come op to even mod
orate expectation in tlria pellicular. There
ii no one positive princ : p!s of action which
may be inferred of the official comae he haa
meshed-out-fin himself, to be found in his
address. 'What he saya it well enough as
general propositions, but there is nothing of
binding force to which he can be held in
hie future conduct, nothing which in the
general terms in which they are enunciated,
may not be departed from with the most
perfect impunity. Thua it is bis desire to
aid by "all constitutional and legs! means,
he dvelo;)ment and resources of the State,
%ut what are constitutional and legal means,
he does not say, though "ell branches of in
dustry are to receive the fostering cere and
encouragement of the Governor." The in
terests of Philadelphia are to be ''promoted
by a prudent and liberal system of legisla
tion," the creation of a "well regulated and
carefully guarded system of banking is cot
-only sound policy but beneficial to the legit
imate trade and commerce of the-country,"
but what the Governor considers a "well
regulated system of banking," nobody knows
tod nobody can 'tifer from the address. He
to 31 -reeharter all "old banks which have the
public confidence;" and will sanction new
bunks when "indispensably necesrary" and :
'clearly demanded by actual businet-s wants.'
When was a bank ever proposed to be ere
Eted, that the business wants of the commu
nity were not maJe the pretext for a char
ter I The State debt should be reduced by
every 'available and practicable means.'—
The popular will hes declared that lite Stale
Works shall be sold, and -he thinks by 'avoid
ing thetrorwof former legislation' a sale on
terms 'favorable to the State and beneficial
to the purchaser* may be eerrured.' His
views on the sale of intoxicating liquors
seem to favor a stringent license law ; the
pardoning power should be 'exercised with
great cautionthe practice of municipal and
county subscriptions to railroads 'should be
avoided legisiation as 'far as practicable'
should be pesteral and uniform. In feet ev
ery declaration of principle has a qualifying
phrase which destroys ita force and would
allow almost any kind of legislation 'o rush
headlong through."
Ojie (ihe Know-Nothings
In Philadelphis Ihe Know Nothings have
had pretty much tneii own wsj tn the man
agement of municipal affairs, and the results
are becoming apparent. They elected ono
of their order, named Simpsen, County Trees
urer, and used the poor fellow as a ■cars-raw
■until last week he found himsetl on trisl be
fore Judge Black under an endictment for
embezzling Ihe public funds which had
coma to his hands. The Commonwealth
showed that he had embezzled those funds,
and than Benjamin H. Brewsrer Esq., open
ed in behalf of the defendant, with the best
speech that tbe nature of the case permitted.
It was ae good as cootd be expected.
He said Robert (>. Simpson, st the time
oT his election, was an illiterate man, and
•ntirely unqualified for the situation. He
was compelled to rely entirely upon persons
familiar with accounts, and Ihe custody of
•large sums of money. His necessities com
polled him to take as sureties keen and
ekillful person*; he Lad to rely on their man
•geeaont; they epread snares for him into
which he could not avoid falling, owing to
ilia ignorance. If the money of the Com
monwealth bad been embezzled at all, it
was m;l by Robert G. Simpson, who could
and did know nothing of the correctness of
llia heoounts, but the parties to be charged
ksere Seiner, his surely, and Chrislman, his
chief elerk, into whose hands ha had natur
ally fallen. These were the parties to be
teUMsd and not the igoora.nl and depend
ent Robert G. Simpson, who could not per
sonelly here committed4llie offence char-
Vindication ef Col. Henry I. Molt.
ff Col. Molt was really a Know-Notbing,
and if that order bit any confidence that
they could elect another Canal Commission
er neat fall, they would trust lo that way of
gaining Ihe control of the public works, and
their efforts ic tbe legislature to abolish the
Canal Board Is certain proof that Col. Molt
is not with tbem, or that tbey bae no hope
of elaeiing another of (heir order into the
Board next fall.
0T James Gowan Esq-, Mount Airy,
Was Isjt week elected President ol the Penn
eyfvaoia State Agricultural Society. Judge
Woodward is the Vioe President from Ihi*
Congressional district.
MP Wa are pleased to see bat our friend
Theodore Wright, of (be Wilkiamspoct Ga
rs** baa been appointed Pastmsyisr at that
pliee, iee J. 8- Maxwell, resigned.
V;T""' iiSst; w—'
LiBTTCR -FROM GOV- RKCDEH.
The following -letter from Go*, Rtcom of
Kansas will induce many to seek an earthly
paradise in dm West. It is dated Deo. 29th,
1354, at Shawnee M lesion, Kansas Tarri
lory ; and, among, other things, its author
say a:
"This is indeed a lovdly errantry. The
more I see of 'it the more -I am pleased. In
rioh and fertile soil, fine streams of water—
limber not abundant, but sufficient—-superb
roads and unsurpassed climate*,it has recom
mendations of singular value. The winters
are genial, dry and bracing; about all the
really cold weather is caused by the r.oith
ers, powerful and piercing winds that blow
only occasionally, and spend their force in
twelve to twenty-four hours. The interven
ing westher is more like Our Indian sum
mer than anything else. For day* past I
have eat in my room with the outer door
open and no fire. On Christmas day I had
no fire till night; and so far aa 'I can learn,
this is very often the case with southern ex
posures. Indeed, to-day, although I have a
alight fire, the sun is too warm to stand out
in it with comfort. And even in this kind
of weather we have no mid; tks ground is
dry and comparatively warm The health
fulness of the climate is extraordinary ; the
air is dfv, clear, pure and bracing, and there
are numbers of well authenticated cases
where persons of undoubtedly diseased
iungs, so pronounced by competent physi
cians—One ol them declared to be an in
curable case—have been restored to robust
health by residing or traveling on ost plains.
Emigrants aro coming in even now, and in
the spring there will be doubtless a rush of
them.
As soon as the high water commence In
the Kansas river, there will be several steam
boats upon it as high as Fort IMey, which
is 6aid to be the centre of the Continent,
and surrouuded by a fine country. Building
mechanics will be in great demand at the
very highest w ages, ss well a* laborers, and
there will not be far short of two thousand
houses erected in the Territory next year.—
The building stone we have in many parts
of the Territory is of the finest kind, easily
quarried and dressed, and good brick clay is
abundant. The Military Buildings at Fort
IMey are all of white limestone, which is
quarried generally in blocks, is soft enough
to dress with a hatchet, and hardens on ex
posure to the air. The buitJing* composed
of it presents a beautiful appearance. Tho
Spring opens here, I am told, about the -Ist
of March.
Leavenworth City, which had thd or.der
brush cleared off it, only last October, and
stakes driven for ttie streets, lias now some
fifty houses in it, and no inconsiderable
quantity of goods sold there. It is destined
to be au impcitam commercial cny.
Very truly yours,
A. H. REEDER.
An I uteres! lug ('use,
Was lately tried in the 'Court of Cheater
coumy, which will puzzle aome of the legal
fraternity. The plff. was engaged in tan
ning near Phmnixvitle, and the Spring which |
supplied his vats, had not been known to :
fail for 25 years, until the deft, began mining
operations in ihe immediate vicinity. The j
evidence found that the deft, en Iris property I
had struck the same stream of water which
supplied the plff'a spring. The legal ques
tion was, could the defendant pump the wa
ter from the mine and thus dry the plfTs
spring, without being liable for damages.—
Tho question it one of novel character and
vast importance, and after a long and able
argument, the Court charged the Jury, that
( tie deft, was liable and the ,plff. must recov
er, and they accordingly found a verdict of
Sl7O for the plff. This case was prompily
renewed, and in a more searching and com
prehensing argument will be presented for
the session of the Supreme Court.
Jilt bim Agate-
Cooper, of the Vallty Spirit, ia a funny
fellow, and soroeiin es cuts sharp. In speak
ing of the election of a United Stales Sena
tor by the legislature be lays :
" Simon Cameron is thought to be about
the best mau who has any chance whatever.
llovv much lower in the acale of intellect
and honesiy the confusionisls will go in their
soarch for a Senator fit :o represent them,
perhaps depends upou bow much lower it is
possible to get."
TC3T THE Kuow-Nothing Convention of N.
Hampshire last week nominated the Rev.
John Moore, a Universalis! Minister, for
Governor. It now appears that Mr. Mooie
is not eligible to the office, having only re
sided five years in the Stale, while the con
stitution requires a residence of seven years.
Verily some fellows become Know-Nothings
very easily.
tar Henry C. Ilickok, Esq., a Democratic
lawyer of l.ewisbnrg, and heretofore the ed
itor of the Chrontttt, has been appointed
Deputy State Superintendent of Common
Schools by Governor Pollook. lie has the
talent to make a useful officer, and the Gov
ernor either could not find a better Whig for
the place or Mr. Hickok has seen "Sam."—
Perhaps both.
SENATORIAL ELECTION.— The second TUBS-
Jaj' of February has been fixed for the ipe
ciai election of Slate Senator, to supoly the
vacancy caused by the death of Levi Foul
trod. The bounds of the former County of
Philadelphia comprise the Senatorial Oisitict
in which the election is to be held..
CV The Know-Xothtngi were defeated at
Mayevillo, Kentucky, on Monday last, in a
eon tens for council—every man elocted is
ant i-Know-Itvhing.
tnr THE stack of the Shatnokin fur
naoo lately choked tip, and the has
been blown out.
THE Massachusetts Mouse of Representa
tivee has deteriniued to use no stationary
nor anything else not of American Manufac
ture. i
A- Fancy Senator.
Viator, the flam*burg correcpondent of
tho Pittsburgh Union, thua describes the
dress and appearance of Hon. fames Coo
pet, the Whig United Slates Serihtor, of this
State: <
"This afternoon, Senator James Cooper
made his appearance in the Senate Chamber
of the Capital, looking as blaud and winning
as a French dancing master, and dressed
trery much in the a /.i Bean Brummel style.
His coat and pants were of the finer! texture,
and made up to the top of the fashion ala
Paris. Bat the rofiles on bis wrists, coining
down to the knuckles of his bauds, were the
most decidedly killing little things you ever
sow. Well, the truth is, these ruffles look
evry body down. Even Mr. Crabb, who
dresses exceedingly well, and with much
taste, too, when brought in contact with
the dandy United Slates Senator, didn't look
| the least French. I cannot say thai I dislike
ruffles when"l see them on a ladv 0 I fash
ion, or a little Miss, bec. j M ! lh ' )llk l|ie|n
pretty and tombwhal becoming; bnt bang
"5, if I like to see them on tho wrists of a
man, whether that man be a private citizen,
or the representative in a 'Democratic -Sen
ate, of a very decidedly Democratic consti
tuency, such as Senator Cooper was sent to
represent. Uuless I much mistake the tone
of remark around me, whilst Mr. Cooper
was in the Senate ibis afternoon, those bits
of quilled linen did not aid hie cause much,
if he is a candidate for re-election to tha*
| Sun ale. Bui, after all, a* the old lady said,
when ehe knee* the call, (by the by, many
a young lacy does the same thing,) it is all
a matter of taste.
Who Is lienry K. Strong f
Ferry K. Strong, elected Speaker of tl.e
Housa of Representatives, is an old line An
ti-Mason, of the Rimer ami Stevens school.
During the Punnsylvania crusade against se
cret societies, he was editing an Ami Mason
ic paper in Hairisburg, and peiseouted all
such associations to the bitter end. He was
one of the prime coadjutors in bringing about
the disgraceful inquisition into Masonry.—
Failing to gain a living at Ami-Masonry, he
quit politics, ntid'iurned his attention to the
law. In this, too, he failed, when he mo
ved bis family to Illinois, but he himself
went to Philadelphia, where, by professing
Temperance, Whiggery, Abolitionism, &c.,
he succeeded in getting a seal in the Legis
lature. Thus we find him, after battening
on the plunder ol Ri'nor's Administration by
opposing secret societies as dangerous to the
liberties of the conulry, and going thro' the
gradations of a thirJrate Philadelphia Law
yer, occupying the exalted position ofSpea
ker of the House—which position b9 occu
pies solely by virtue of belonging to a se
cret politics 1 society ! Verily, times change
—the opinions of men with them \-liolti
daytburg Standard.
Office Seekers.
What patriots the Whigs and Know-Noth
ings are. The State Capital, wo are told, is
literally besieged with these gentry, begging
efftee at the hands of tho new administration.
Look out for a storm, as soon as Governor
POLLOCK has filled ttro "baker's dozen" "of
appointments in bis gift. There will un
doubtedly be curses both "loud end deep"
among the hundreds who will be disappoint
ed. For Flour Inspector in Philadelphia,
there are, it is said, about 300 applicants!
and for Whiskey Inspector, over 300 ! How
many of these latter went for "Pollock and
Prohibition" we have no means of knowing.
For the other offices, such ss Adjutant Gen
eral, Lazaretto Physician, Keepers of Arse
nals, &c., there are enough ol hungry appli
cants to swell the list to a cool thousand I
There are rich times at hand—and no
mistake.
Lucerne Coal operations 10^855.
Col. J. L. Butler, W. Leejr, Alexander
Gray, H. Gay lord, and other coal operators
of Luzerne, met lust week at Wdkes-barre
and passed the following resolutious:
Resolitd, That in consequence of the large
proportion of the capital of tire coal opera
tors of this regiou.having been locked up by
a necessary extension ol time on their las:
season's sales—the said operators are com
polled to insist on cash terms of payment
the coming season.
Rewired, That we will sell no coal during
the coming season,'except for cash, payable
at the end of tbe mou'.h in which the coal
shall be shipped.
Resolved , That the schedule of prices fixed
upon for coal last season shall be the prices
for coal during tbe coming season, for all
coal shipped down the river.
Resolved, That the coal operators of the
Wyoming Valley consider it not only their
province, but (heir interests, as well as the
iuterest of llieir customer*, to regulate the
freights on coal on a more reasonable and
permanent basis than has heretofore obtain- ■
ed, and that tbey will during the coming
season regulate tbem on such basis, and
maintain tbem at whatever rates they msy
be fixed by a meeting of the ogetators to be
hfeld every two months.
Reeolved, That tbe freights on coal to the
different points of delivery for the first two
montbs of tbe navigation, shall be as follows
—taking Wilkes-batre and Plymouth as
starting points—the freight from Nanticoke
to be five cents less, and from Piltston ten
cents more :
"•on pes TOW.
VV. Barre & Plymouth to Bloomsburg, JO 75
do do Danville, 085
do do Duuoannnn, 145
do do Harrisburg, 1 60
do do Middletown, 1 67
do do Marietta, I 80
do do Columbia basin, tB3
do do do river, 190
do do Wrightsville, I 95
do do Safe Harbor, 2 15
do do Havre de Grace, 235
do do Baltimore, 275
Tux Credit System —A very large num
ber of the mechanics, merchants, manufac
turers, and tradesmen of Wilmington, Deia-
WtfffriHyo determined to alter the customa
ry credit ay*--mand make settlement every
six months. Owe- 4 yesr has heretofore
I been the custom
Vormponitnu ofih* ttar.
From Uarrisbarg.
Htnimto, Jan. 20, 18S.—f his bid* fair
to be a lingular acsiion, from the qneer ele
ments that are brought together in the Legis
lature. Overthreo fourths of the members
of the House are new men without experi
ence of the duties they are called upon to
discharge. There are quite a number of
preachers among them -, and in fact the cler-~
ical profession appears rh *be pushing ahead
in the political xrorld, whether to the advan
tage of the morals of the people and the pro
motion of piety among them, remain to be
scon.
A motion has prevailed in the Senate, to
inquire into the expediency of disbanding
all Volunteer companies in the State; ond,
that no one shall hereafter be inrmed, un
less two-thirds at least of the members, shall
be native born citizens. This ia one of the
rrtovemetitg consequent upon the recent elec
: tioa.
Some very raw men, have been thrown in
to the House, this session. One of them in
troduced a bill, to permit nogroea to vote;
in happy ignorance of the constitution ol
the Stale; limiting the right of suffrage to
free white citizens. Another member, the
Rev. Mr. Clapp, introduced a few days since,
a bill to establish courts of conciliation,
which, besides a dozen absurdities, would
destroy, in a large mass of cases, thu consti- j
lutjonal right of trial by jury. The new par'
tyls well named the Know-Nothings, judging
from the material it has sent to the Legisla
ture.
Mr. Buckalew brought in a bill some days
since, to repeal the Registration act; which
pissed the Senate unanimously. The Re
gistration act is useless, and at lha same time
s source of considerable expense. It is high
time to strike it from the statu to book,
where it ought never to have been placed.
Mr. Maxwell, your representative, will bo
a respected and useful member of the House.
His course is oao of intelligence and fidelity,
the reward of which will -be popular confi
dence and affection.
Yours truly, '* # • •
OF Mr. Ballhaa introdced-inlo the House,
at Harrisburg, a bill for the ntoro economi
cal and thorough collection of Taxes. It
provides that the County Treasurer shall
give public notice and attend at the several
places of election at given times, and receive
tbe Taxes laid, for which ha shall be entitled
to liso per centum on all monies collected and
paid out, and all not paid aftera certain time
to be collected by constables. The plan
would probably save half the sums now paid
for collection, and-also preserve many sums
now lost by tbe delay and easiness of col
lectors.
A similar law now exists in Philadelphia,
where the Receiver has already taken SI,-
800,000, leaving only 8300,000 of lax un
paid, much of which will yot be collected, I
others exonerated, and a comparatively
small portion lost.
We trust the main features of Mr. Ball's
bill may be ouacted into a law.
Romance and Reality.
Henry WikofT, volt known for hie strange
courtship of Miss Gamble, by which he got
tn:o a Sardinian prison instead of the lady's
arms, has written an account of his "Court
ship and its Consequences," making a vol
ume as large <as a common sized novel, and
equally as spicy in its incidents. WikofT
tells his story with an eye to the picturesque
and the fanciful, and makes a very amusing
story out of his misfortunes. T. E. Peter
son, 102 Cbesnul street, Philadelphia, is the
publisher of tbe book. The price ie 84 in
paper binding, or 31,25 in cloth.
S fire In Huntington.
The dwelling house of Ami Harrison, Esq,
in Huntington township, wastotally destroy
ed by fire on Wednesday last. The fire
was communicated by a stove pipe. The
fire caught in or near the roof whilo the fam
ily were at dinner, and the first thai the in
itiate# knew ihe bouse was completely en
veloped in flames. The contents ol the
house, together with a considerable sum of
money, was all destroyed. No insurance.—
Unfortunately his insurance had run out
but a few days — Luzerne Union.
financial Mutton at New York.
The New York Evening Post contains the
following bright view ol business matters :
" The accumulation of specie now going
on, the contraction of business, and the re
newed disposition to expand gradually,
shown by the banks, is beginning tore
assure the financial public. Money rates
are-oa the decline, and the wants of the
borrower more readily attended to where Ihe
securities offered are of prime kind. There
are no fears entertained of any revival of
specie exports for a long while to come.—
Oar exports of other kinds are large, and
imports moderate. What imports of dry
goods we are to have aro likely to coma
soon, and all at once. Any later shipments
will be speculative on foreign accounts."
CouNTcartiTiNO BY PiiOTocasrnr has be
oome an art which may be very dangerous
in its consequenoes to the public. A da
gnerreotypist ir. Cincinnati has been perlorm
ing a series of experiments in this art, and
he is enabled to copy all kinds of ordinary
writing and printing—checks, notes, autog
raphe or letters. A number of bank bills
copied in ibis way wore presented at various
banks in the city of Cincinnati, and in every
case they were pronounced, after careful in
spection, to bo genuine. Bills printed in
red, blue or green colors cannot be copied,
aud ihe photograpbio piotures will turn
while by welting ttieni with a solution of
corrosive sublimate ot of bybriodate of po
tassium.
—Maurice Wurtx, who projected (some
thirty years ago) the great line of improve
ment belonging to the Delaware k Hudson
Canal Company, died in Philadelphia recent
ly ,at au advanced age. He was a man of
great energy ot character, and was possessed
of an enormous fortune at tbolime of hit
decease.
&)tuatiottcA department.
A GOOD m 11001.-
'The difference between ihe veriotfs meth
ods of tseching is best illustrated, and ean
in fact only be correctly seen by one tvho
visits the different schools. We were that
week much pteaaed to visit a school con
ducted on the best plan of teaching, by oral
instruction end illustration, as adopted in
the High Schools of this State, and in the
Common Schools of Now England, where
teachers an manufactured for almost the
entire South and West. The school we vis
ited had been open only 21 days, wo be
lieve ; and the scholars had been of a very
primitive capacity—reared among the stumps
and stones—eight miles from blown ; and
certainly with very poor previous advan
tages. Yet in those 21 days they had not
only mastered the elements of arithmetic,
but were enable to work almost any illus
tration on the black-board. They under
stood and practiced all that can be taught in
rhetorical reading, about accent, emphasis,
modulation and inflection ot the voice; in
deed many things which even the neighbor
ing teachers do not pretend to understand.—
In Grammar they had made k beginning,
and were doing well.
There was not.e of the sing-song reading
in this school, such as is too common ; with
an o and an aat the end of each word to
conneot it with the next one; and not only
was the teacher but also the scholars pleased
with the lesson. Most of the teaching bud
been done by oral explanations from the
teacher in a familiar style; followed by a
series of answers and replies from the schol
ars.* To learn rn this way is not the drudg
ery or task of book recitations for scholars,
and to see scholars learn from his assistance
is a pleasure to every right-minded teacher.
Scholars who attend such a school as the
one referred to will at the end of font months
be further advanced in their education than
their neighbor's children who study without
a guide fdr four years. And the present com
mon school system is capable of furnishing
this be-t moihod of teaching to every man's
child in the State. Proper ind competent
teachers alone aro-wanting: or perhaps we
should say a course of proper instruction to
our present teachers. In a conrse of three
mouths' instruction next summer nearly ev
ery teacher in the county can learn to leach
a school after the manner of the one we re
fer to-; and so far as our acquaintance goes,
those teachers who need this instruction are
willing to avail themselves of it. Indeed
many of them are anxious to obtain instruc
tion; and out of the 150 teachers in Colum
bia county a very good Teacher's Institute
could be organizad. Of the present teachers
•in the county 40 do not profess to understand
the grammar of their language, and 26 are
equally deficient in a knowledge of Geogra
phy. And yet in every school there are
children capable of understanding these
studies; and many should do so, if the
teachers were more advanced. Necessity
alone has deprived them of their privileges
this year, and by another term many will
require the instruction to which they are on
titled, and which the State designs to furn
ish to every man's child by the present sys
tem of public schools.
One of the greatest advantages resulting
from the labors of a County Superintendent
is that ell the improvements made in an)
one school in the county aro immediately
carried into the others. Every now improve
ment adopted by any teacher is recommend
ed to all the others, who are thus continual
ly 'booked up' in the best methods of teach
ing ; and the scholars in any one school en
joy the advantages of the best means of in
struction in the whole county. A proper
spirit of emulation will manifest itself among
teachers to be in the foremost rank, and to
see their teaching carried as a model into
other schools. It will coon become known
who aro the best teachers, and these will be
sought for with a proper remuneration, while
others must bide the lime on a smaller sal
ary until -their diligenos and study shall
make them worthy of a better position and
grade'Tn the class of teachers.
There has heretofore been too little dis
crimination in the wages of teachers in this
county. Directors seem to have, as a gen
eral rule, gone too much upon the notion
that a "teacher is a teacher," without any
reference to (be grade of qualifications.—
Bloom township this year, aud one or two
others, aro the exceptions. Generally, the
good teachers of the county aru not paid
well enough, aud the deficient ones receive
100 much;
But the subject admits of many more re
marks than we have room fur, or leisure to
write out to-day.
SCHOOLS UNDER THE NEW SYSTEM.
The following extract from the Berks
county Gaulle is applicable in many res
peots to this locality; and shows that in
Berks county the cause of education is pro
gressing :
We regret to hear that in some parts of
our county the public schools are so indifier
enlly managed that they are far from being
popular iiistitutio'hs. This matter is alto
gether in the hands of the Directors and ths
people, and although we hope much trom
the exertions of the County Superintendent,
yet if those exertions be not seconded by
the directors and people, his most faithful
efforts can prodnce little good. If the
schools are open but a few months, and
than in the hands of incompetent teachers,
they become next to Useless, aud conse
quently unpopular with those who pay taxes
to support the.n. Let them bo made what
they ought to be, throughout the county,
and they will everywhere gain opon public
favor, as in many townships they are now
doing.
We know this from the condition of things
in this city, as compared with former years.
Time was, and not long ago, whan but few
who could afford to send lb air children to
pay schools, permitted them to attend the
publio schools. And why? Not because
they bad any objection to such schools, in
the abstract, but because the schools were
not what they should be. Directors paid
little attention to their duties; the necessary
roles were not Adopted and edtorced; in
competent teachers were Appointed and re
tained without examination, beoadse tbty
happened to be daughters or sister*, uncles
or aenls, of directors and teachers ware per
mitted to put in tbeir lima and draw their
aalariaa without any aupethiision or account
ability.
A glance at tbe public schools of our city
will show how much all this has changed.—
i The annual examinations insure study and
progress. Our teachers are an educated and
progressive body, keeping up with the ad
vancement of the age. Merit is made the
test of appointment, a rule which—although
it sometimes occasions dissatisfaction—the
controllers snow every disposition to adhere
to. Regulations, essential to the success
and advanced character of the schools, have
been adopted, and our means ol public in
struction are a just source of prido to our
citizens. We have no hesitancy in saying
that the public Schools of Reading compare
favorably vfith the best in the State, —a
tact of "tfhich ita citizens have u right to bo
ptoud, for by what can tho character of a
community be better learned than from ita
means of education?
Before the union of the words, tho variety
of hooka used, and the different rules pre
vailing were the cause of useless expense
and annoyance to persons taoHng from one
ward to another, and to the public general
ly'. Nor wa there any uniformity in tho
grading of the schools, the salaries of tea
chers, or in any other point essential to tho
welfare of the whole. All this has been
remedied, and further improvements can be
made which, without diminishing tha effi
ciency of tha schools, will teud to reduce
their cost.
The uotual results o f this are seen in the
largely increa-ed attendance upon the pub
lio schools. All send, for the controllers
have made them—what lire legislature do
signed them to be—the best schools in the
city. A privala school for boys—unless it
bo a boarding echool for strangers—cannot
exist in Reading with our grammer schools
and high school in operation.
Tite office of County Superintendent prom
ises to bo productive of the best results, and
although these are always some who with
to go backward, wo hope that no attempt
will be made to modify, in any of its essen
tial features, a law which has already done
so much for our city schools, and from which
•o much more may be anticipated through
out tbe county.
Let our country friends, or any, if ench
there be, who feel disposed to drag the
school system down to what it was a few
years ago, but wait until the law bas had a
fair tiial, and we have no: a doubt but that
they will be satisfied. Above all, let them
letirii to appreciate the advantages of edu
cation ; they w ill wish to aid rather than
to retard tire efforts of those directors who,
without feo or reward, devote much time
and attention to this important cuuso,
UttADFOIIO COUNTY.
Tho following resolutions were lately dis
cussed before the Teacher's Association of
Bradford county. The first two were adopt
ed, the third otto laid on the table, and the
remaining two laid over for further discus
sion :
1. Resolved, That the Elementary branches
such as reading, spelling, or.hography and j
orthoepy, should be more thoroughly taught
in our coin in on schools than they now are.
2. Resolved, That in the opinion of the As
sociation, tho interests of the cause of Ed
ucation would be greatly promoted by re
quiring a higher standard of qualification
for Teachers.
3. Resolved, That the study of some of the
higher btani-hes, such as Algebra, Physiolo
gy and Drawing, should be Vncouruged in
our common schools.
4. Resolved, That no communications be
tween scholars during school session, should
be allowed, except at such times between
the recitations as the teachers shall specify.
5. Resolved, That there should be one
school officer in each Township, whose du
ty it shall be to examine teachers either
alone or in connection with the' Superinten
dent.
A bold Move-<AKOther United States
llank I
The following is the copy of a petition to
the Legislature that is now being circulated
in all parts of our Commonwealth. Hund
reds of copies of theso petitions are in this
county, and are receiving tho signatures of
scores of our political opponents:
To ike Honorable the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives, of the Commonwealth of Penn
sylvania, in General Assembly met:
The undersigned citizens of said Com*
rnonweahh, most respectfully, yet earnestly
represent to your honorable bodies : That
you pass a law directing all the public works
now bad and held by the said Common
wealth, to be sold at publio sale, uncondi
tionally, to tho highest and best bidders.
Giving and granting unto such person or
persons, company or companies, the right
and privilege of hanking; with,say one-filth
of the nett amount of such part or parts as
as shall be sold in pursuance of said law:
And we would also, most respectfully sug
gest, that one-third of said fifth be located iu
the oiiv of Philadelphia; one-third of the
same be located in the city of Pittsburg ; and
the remaining third in such place or places
as your honorable bodies may designate.
And wo, cs in duty bound, will ever pray,
Stc.
Should the present Know-Nothing Legis
lature enact a law in compliance with the
the above petition, we shall once more have
the corruptions and vitlanies of a monster
bank to combat. The proposition to estab
lish such on institution, and the plan sugges
ted for rising the capital stock, is pregnant
with the worst kind of corruption. ; us t
think of our proud old Common wealth set*-
liug her valuable and gigaotio Public Im
provements, to raise money to establish a
MONSTER BANK, whose officers would be tbe
minions of the greedy cormorants now in
power in this State, and whose chief object
would rob widows and orphans and swindle
the people In the same manner they weia
swindled by the defunct U. 5' Bank. Mont
(iron* 1 Carlisle Volunhtr
Hr The Legislature last feek took an
other lej> forward in "reform'' by dealing
some e%ht or ten additional officers—tha
i precise rfti in be r we don't see titled, bat >!•
together lbs #np!oyees of the present Legit
: latute ootnnnjber those of the ot tbe last by
. at least aJ< zeti.
This is not very important matter, it is true
■ as the addhiotial expense will oat much ex
ceed 83,000, but it exhibits a lendfa which
if not promptly checked, will eosn frjtterae
•ho fruitful mother of a hundtad raorif.
These offices are crested for theWole pup
pose of making places for idle flowers of
"Sain" to loaf at the pufclio expose. The
number of employ see might have |cen con
siderably reduced without detriment to ibe
public interest; —but refjrm of that kind is
only intended to be talked about with those
good natuied people whose easy credulity
forms the chief stock in trade of cralty pelt
time—it is not for use. The first week dt
a Know-Notbittg Legislature sees tbe num
ber of its officers increased thirty per oeut.
D* OMINOUS.—There was an inciJent oo
cutred during the cero/fiony of administer
ing the oath to Governor Pollock, on Tues
day last, which is worthy of note. Just as
the Speaker of the Senate said to him—'Yoa
do swear yon will support the Constitution
of the United Slates,' the Governor bowed
in token oi asreut, and aa ho did so, the
-ciiffulttrn:; upon which they stood in front
of the Capital broke (Sown. It was ominous-,
aad indicated perhaps that the lime was not
far distant *!: At-.s would be a break
down of the Know-Nothing parly of which
the Governor is the ehossu leader.
Remarkable Prophecy.
The following remarkable prediction was
made by Ftiar Bucbn, who was born iu the
year 1214, tome <3lO years ago. • Her#,''
says a certain writer, ' is poetry and philoa*
ophy wound together forming a wondrous
chain of prophecyA\
" Bridges unsupported by atches will be\"
made to 6pan the foaming current. Meu \
shall descend to the bottom' ol the ocean,
safely breathing, and treading with firm step
on ibo golden sands never brightened by
the light of day. Call put the secret powers
of Sol aud Luna into action, and behold a
single steersman silting at the helm guiding
the vlssel, divides tho wares with greater
rapidity than if she had been filled with a
crew of ntariuers toiling at tha oart; and
the leaded chariot, no longer ttteumtreraA
by IhP panting steeds, shall dart on it* course
with resistless force and rapidity. Let the
einqdo elements do thy labor; bind tha elei
nal elements, and yoke them to the aarno
plow."
TUB PHILOSOPHY or DYSPEPSIA is thua sta
led by a recent medical writerAs soon aa
food reaches tbe stomach of a hungry,
healthy man, it ponrs out a fluid substance
called gas riu juice, as instantly ss the eye
yields water if it be touched with anything
hard; this gastrin dissolves the food front
without inwards, a* lumps of ico in a glark
of water are melted from without inward*. _
If from any cause ins font l> not il-us melt
ed, or dissolved, that is imlige'stioti or dys
pepsia. Vinegar, in its action on food, it
rhore nearly like the gastric juice than aay
other fluid known. Thus it is that a pickle,
or a litllo vinegar, will "settle tho stomach"
u hen sumo discomfort is experienced after
eating." - >N
LATET FROM TORO-PE.—The steamship
Canada, Irox. Liverpool, with dates to Sat
urday, the 6th inst, arrived on Wednesday
afternoon. Amqngst tho passengers are
Bishop O'Connor and Archbishop Keoriok.
There are only two points ot interest iu tha
news by the Catia-a, namely, that the allies
have 300 guns nsw ready to open their
fire npon Sebastopol, and that afler 48
hours bombarmetu they will make an ac
tempt to storm on the southern side. They
only await a favorable opportunity to comt
(nonce. The second point is, that the ne
gotiation* at Vienna are further postponed
for fourteen days, giving one more hope
of peace.
THB MIM'B PIB BOMMSl.—Menchikoffij"
the defender of Ssbastopol, and who has ere' :
a ted such an awlnl gap in the British anry> j
is conclusively ptoven, m Fruzier's Maga
zine, to have descended from a very ancient,
but very gooJ pis maker of Warsaw. This
may account for tho skill of the present
Menchikoff in unking mince meal of tba
Allies.
GSAKLTNQ TO Tits T*ETII.—The San Ap
t onio (Texas) Ledger telates the following
incident as having occurred in that city :
"We are told that an individual in out
city, a low tiiglts nge, being put to it
stake, took "frt-m "fits rut)!! it I
set of teeth On a gold plate, and pawned it
for a few dollars to coiitinuo the game with.
We have heard of "fighting to the teeth,
but never bofors of gambling to tba laelh I"
Dr. BEALE NOT PARDONED—It appears that
Gov. BIGLER WIS greatly importuned to par
don Dr. lie ale, just before ha retired frona
office, but thut ao absolutely refused to ex
ercise such auttority.
Cuaioua FAC\ —More money is spent an
nually in tha United States for cigars than is
expended for a.l the Coram on Schools in tba
Union.
NEARLY all he principle hotels in Now ;
York havo closed their bars on Sunday, for
tho purpose of aiding Mayor Wood's effort* •
to suppresi Sutday drinking.
LABOR te WIALTII —Where labor i* thwnf
money.— Vhere money, there le ent*f
prise—where enterprise, there is prosperity,^
fV A French woman in St. Louie was seU
coutly deli vend of fire healthy cbiUrttfe'vjS
BT A Car am League baa bean
Lancaster cujttly, with* capital ofjgp^B