THE STAR OF THE NORTH. K, V. Wnnri Proprietor.] VOLUME 9. THE STAR OF TIIE NORTH U FOBLMUED ttmv WUNUHAV MOMNINUBY It. \V. WKAVKR, orncG- up stairs, in the new brick build. *, on Iks south side oj Main Street, third square below lllarktt. i'ER M 8 :—Two Dollars per annum, if paid within six months from the time of sub scribing ; two dollars end fifty cent* if not paid within the year. No subscription re reitred for a less period thsn six months; no discontinuance permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editor. ADVERTISEMENTS not exceeding one square will be inserted three times for One Dollar, and twenty-five rents for each additional in anition. A liberal discount will be made to those who advertise by the year. SfßlXtili PUItAY, ST BEAD TIIORMTOK. By the flowry-banlced Florldian river The young Spring lay ; Glinting sunbeams filled his quiver That February day; Beside him peeped the violet's eye, And scented the breeze the orange blow; The Virginia red-bird whistled nigh, Beat south by the northern snow I On his shield of golder. sunshine The young Spring lay ; The flaming spear he held was made Of lightning Hashed in May; "Thou, lyruut Winter! hast oome down And overpassed they line! I'll have a toray in thy field, Since thou hait camped in mine I Since over my southern floral clime Thy snows have dared to brood, I'll try which is the stronger, The gentle or the rude. "Gsthert south-winds, gather I Breeze tip lor the North I Birds of sunny leather, For the rear come forth!" Northward trooped the gallant Spring, While Winter, cowed, retreated, And left the plain for mountain tope, Without a fight defeated ; Whore Hudson's rooks hke dragons gape, Spring breaks their icy teeth, And from the ralley's turfy lap Hd melts the snowy wreath- Through mildest davs he keens the field, While Winter northward rallies, And made an ambush lor the Spring That with his danger dallies— But the still woods hear the battle cry, And warn the gentle Spring to tlyl Down from the Adirondack This second morn of Spring Come the vast ooriel surges Their loam like snows to fling- Like hungry wolves of Labrador Tne gusty winds will howl and roar Yet bonny Spring, God bless thee For thy brief and bright foray— We'll mingle with the winds of March Thy foietaste of the May I And when the early April Shall deck with (lowers the wood- Twill prove for thee the gentle Is stronger than the rude I NTIUKING BACK. Gov. Pollockhas some pluck in him. From the contemptuous manner in which many of hie political associates spoke of him, and his apparent want of all manly resentment for their insults, we had got to regard him as of •mall account, a creaturo with no mind of his own, who would allow even his persecutors, by bravado, to dictate the disposal of the ex ecutive patronage. But we had underrated him in that respect. It seema he is not so abject that he can be trodden upon by every body with impunity. He has shown that ho is not altogether lost to a proper sense ol manhood and self-respect. The late mongrel Convention at Harrisburg treated him most shamefully. It was com posed of the representatives of all the factions thai had made him Governor, they assumed atill to occupy the same position before the country—being simply that ol hostility to the democracy, in that he was with them to the inmost—lie was their Chief—and, by all the rules of common decency and (be uniform praotice of parties, he was nettled to some friendly recognition, to something else than a scornful, silent contempt. But they passed bim by without the slightest notice, a cruel intuit to any man, but particularly galling to ■n aspiring politician. They had fixed up a ticket after a two days' session nominating a candidate for successor to the Governor him self and a couple of gentlemen for the Su preme Bench, understood to be distasteful to him. They passed a batch of high sounding resolutions, in which no notice whatever was taken of his administration. And then some 1 gentlemen, members of lite Convention, coll. j ed on him to appoint to the vacancy on the 1 SuDreme Bench one of the Convention's can didates. This was too much. The Governor declined to oblige the gentlemen, expressed bis chagrin to ihe discourtesy towards hrm •elf, and said that "he had desired to support: the nomiuees of the Convention, but after its course he did not see how he could lake any part in (he canvass." Ha spoke as a man of spirit would do, and he has carried out the sentiments he then ex pressed by appointing Mr. Armstrong, of Ly coming county, to fill the vacancy on ihe Bench occasioned by Jodge Black's resigna nation. Both Mr. Veecb and Mr. Lewis were urged upon him, but (be men who nominated tbem bad insulted him and the vindication of himself prompted him to select another, leav ing the Convention to take care of ita own favorites. The personal friends of the Gov ernor will probably carry the matter still fur ther to and show their dissatisfaction on the day of tbe election — PiHtburg Union. QT If any one speak ill of ihee, flee home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart; if thou be guilty, it is a just correc tion ; if not guilty, it is a fair instuction; moke use of both, so shall thou distil honey cut of gall and of an open enemy mako a secret friend. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22, 1857. As Unjust Assault upon thlel Justice 1 uuey. The BufTalo Commercial Advertiser of the Bth inat. says: "Chief Justice Taney's decision that ne groes are not citizens of the United States, and consequently not entitled to sue in tho federal courts, is not only in contradiction to the action of the executive department of the government and some of the laws of Congress, but is in (lie very teeth of a form er decision of the Supreme Court, delivered by the Chief Justice himself in 1843. An Albany contemporary copies from the first volume of Howard's Reports the decision of the court in the case of James Ash, s Mary land negro, who sued for his freedom Ir. the circuit court of the district of Columbia, as Dred Soon did in that of Missouri. The case was in like manner carried up to the Supreme Court, and the following decision was delivered by Chief Justice Taney." This does gteat injustice to the Chief Jus tice and the whole court. The case ol Ash and Williams, referred to, was instituted in the circuit coutl for the district oi Columbia, which is the only existing court of record having civil jurisdiction therein. It has full and com plate jurisdiction in all cases. The act of tlio 2 7th of February, 1801, provides. "That there shall be a court in the said District, which shall bo called the circuit court of the District of Columbia," and "that said court shall have cognizance ol all [crimes and otlencea committed within said District] and ol all cases m law and equity between pirtiee both or either of which shall be resi dent or bo found within said District." In short, the circuit court has all (he juris diction in the District which both State and national courts Itavo in the several Stales, without regard to citizenship, alienage, or residence. This is not so out ot the District, and in the Stales where the United States circuit courts have only a limited jurisdic tion. By the judiciary act of 1789 tho civil jurisdiction of tltase courts in suits of a civil nature of common law or in equity is con fined to cases where the United States are parties plaintilT, "or an alien is a party, or the sail is between a citizen ol the Slate where the suit is brought and a citizen of an other Slate." This statute, based upon the words of the constitution, remains unaltered except in patent cases. In the case of Dred Scott the plaintilT did nol sue as an alien, nor claim lo be such, but oileged that he wus a "citizen," and insisted the court had jurisdic tion on the very ground of citizenship. The Supreme Court, following tho past judicial dicisions and the opinion of Wm. Wirt, as Attorney Goneral, held that he wss not a cit izen. The opposition must b hard pressed for arguments to refute (hose of the decision of the court, when they resort to such gross efforts to deceive the public in relation to the past action of the court. The authors of this attack well knew that the question of citizen ship was not involved in Ash's case, and that the courts hsd jurisdiction under the laws of the District, where Congress, by the constitution, had the power, and exercised it, to pass laws, which they conlJ not make applicable in the several States. These de ceptions must deprive those engaged in mak ing them of the confidence of those whom they intend to deceive.— Washington Union. Chief Justice Taney and Slavery, It has suited the Abolition journals to rep i resent this gentleman as a large s'aveholder; whereas the following seems to be tho fact, f rom ihe Cincinnati Enquirer : " Let the decision speak for itself; but Mr. Taney, personally, is opposed to slavery, in principle and practice. Forty years ago, | though never wealthy, ho freed every negro 1 in his possession, and has paid servant's wa -1 ges ever since. They were all valuable, and I one, his body servant, has been the head | waiter in one of the largest hotels in Balti . more for many years. Judge Tuney has always been the truest Iriend of the black man, and it is related by i a cotemporary that the most eloquent speech | he ever made was at the Frederick County : bar, in defence of a little negro girl, in which ; he thrilled his auditors by exalting the happy | construction of our courts and the justice of I our laws in allowing the business of the cir cuit to be stopped, in order lo give that poor little negro her rights and her lawful protec tion. And although the little creature had ! most likely committed crime, Mr. Tuney's eloquent appeal rescued her from the ven geance of the law. Thus have all his acts, ! public and private, been characterized by I justice and generosity." We would suggest to those editors who j have indulged in pro-Slavery anathemas against this humane and distinguished jurist, that they do his reputation the justice to give the above fact a place in their columns.— They will not be expected to apologize lor past wrongs done him, but they should evince a desire lo disabuse the minds of their friends and readers, by correcting their errors respec ting Judge Taney's Slavery prejudice, in the same public manner that they wero made.— Let them "do unto others as they would that others should do unto them," and for one we will promise not to complain of their amendatory disposition in this instance. tWA Vigilance Committee has, it i said, been formed in Nebraska to protoct tho squatters in their rights against speculators, several of whom have alroady been com pelled to yield up claims to original sot tlcrs. . CV The Duko of Wellington has consen ted to preside at the noxt anniversary of tho London I'rinlen' Pension Society. Laying Submarine i olograph Cables. The Magrelic Telegraph Company be tween New York and Washington, having connections reselling to New Orleans, has just laid two English triple wire cables across the Susquehanna, opposite Havre de Grace, for the purpose of securing a permanent and uninterrupted connection of the wires si that point. The cables were laid in about an hour and a half, and eight thousand feet of cable were used for the purpose. The meth od of laying submarine cables across rivers is nearly the same as laying thvrn across teas, though, in the latter ease, the risk and difficulties ate much greater. Mr. Butt, who laid the telegraph cable across the British channel and between Sardinia and Africa, recently read a paper before the British Roy al Institute, giving his experience in such undertakings. In laying the cable Irom Pied mont to the Island of Corsica, n largo steam er tvas used with the cable in the hold. Sud denly the cable commenced running out with an impetuosity that endangered the lives ol the workmen. Two miles of wire ware run out before this was chocked. When at length chocked, it was lottnd that the insula tion of the line had been impaired, and the injured portion had to be recovered from the sea and cut out—a difficult and laborious op eration. The cause of the accident was the great weight of tho length of cabin in sus pension when passing over a deep hole in the bottom of the sea. In another attempt to lay a cable from Sardinia to Africa the vessel became unmanageable, lost herconrse, and thero was not sufficient cable to reacb tho land. Tho cable was severed when about twenty-six miles had been paid out, and tho remainder saved for another trial.— On the second trial, when about sixty miles had beer, paid out, another sudden and a'artn ing run of tho coble occnrod. The insula tion of the cable was again impaired, and as the injured part could not be recovered from tho sen, it ws decided to sover the cable and return to Sardinia, lo recover it Irom the other end. Two more attempts were made to*con>plete tho laying of tho cable, but in one case tho vessel was driven out of her course, and in the other the cable was sever ed by a violent plunge of the vosel in a storm. The enterprise yet remains unac complished. It is said that depths of nearly two miles wore encountered. Hut even afier the cable is laid, there is risk of accident impairing its usefulness.— The London Artisan, of February, describes an accident which occurred to the Dover submarine cable, by which communication with the Continent was temporarily cut off. A ship of 700 tons, driven by a gale of wind dragged her anchor, and came npon the Os lend Telegraph cable, which, after holding the ship some time, gavo way. The ship was driven forward with violence, but sud denly was brought up head to wind by the Calais cable, which held her for about an hour, when the second cable gave way, and both lines were afterwards found unworka ble. The experiment of laying a cable across the Atlantic, which is now about to be tried, is the greatest undertaking of the kind ever attempted, and will be attended with corresponding difficulties and danger.— The first experiments may not succeed, but eventually there is but little doubt that the genius and perseverance ol man will ac complish the task.— Ledger. Another Miigulur Marriage- The Albany Journal records the marriage of a man named Traux and a Mrs. Martinue of that city, and adds:— The bride is a gay widow of 25 6nmmers, and the bridegroom a widower of 66 win ters, with a family of eleven children, while i the bride has only one child, a son about ; five years old. The marriage ceremony was 1 performed at the residence of the bride, in Chestnut street, in the presence of a large parly, who subsequently met at the house of J. Poland, in Washington street, where a handsome set-down had been prepared for them, to which justice was done. Wine flowed freely until nenr midnight, when the party dispersed, leaving the bridegroom to settle the bill with the landlord. The newly married couple met for the first time on Saturday last, when the old man became fascinated with the young widow, and He, through the instigation ol certain parties, offered her marriage. A negotiation ensued, and she knowing that the old man was possessed of n considerable amount of properly, demanded from him Ihe sum of SSO per annum, payable on the first of May, for Ihe education ol her son, and a further sum of SIOOO to herself. This he finally as sented to, when a member of the bar was called in, who drew up the required papers, which, after being duly executed, the kuot was tied. ty The tea-dealers in London, it is said, are all for Palmersion. They have on hand 100,000,000 pounds of tea, a great part of it bought on speculation, in the prospect of a rise in the price in the continuance of the war. Peace, at this time, would involve them in ruinous losses; but war would add two millions sterling to the value of their etock. Politics and trade are here so intimately blended that the London tea-dealers will, no doubt, seo a groat deal of virluo in gunpow der for the perverseussH of the Chinese in re fusing lo allow themselves, in their internal policy, to be governed by outsiders. IT A bridge, to cost $50,000, is to bo built over the Missouti at Lawrence, Ne braska, a few miles above tho Omaha, and about eight hundred miles from the Missis sippi. It is the first and only point in the diatanco of moro than a thousand miles whore there is any rock bottom. Troth and Right God and our Country. A LEGEND UF NEW ENGLAND. BT JOHN O. WHITTIXR. " Shrieks—fiendish yalls,—they slab them in their sleep." One hundred years ago!—the hunter who ranged the hills and forests ol New England, fought against other enemies than the brown bear and the panther. The husbanJman, as he toiled on the plain, or the nanow clearing, kept closely at his side a loaded weapon, and wrought diligently and firmly in (be midst of peril. The frequent crack of the Indian's ri fle was heard in the still depths ol the forest —the death knell of the unwary hunter; and ever and anon, the flame of some devoted farm house, whose dwellers bad been alaugh- I leted by some merciless foe, rose redly upon , the darkness of night time. The wild fiery ' eyes of the heathen gleamed through the thick underwood ol the forest, upon the pass ing of the wotshippers of the only true God: and the war whoop rang shrill and loud un der tho very walls of the sanctuary of prayer. Perhaps no part of New England affords a wider field for (ho researches of logeudry, than that portion of Massachusetts Bay, for merly known as tho province of Maine.— Thcte tho ferocious Norridgewuck held his stern councils, and there tho tribes of Penob scot went forth with song and dance to do baltlo upon tho white man. There, the ro mantic and chivalrous Casting immured him self in the forest solitudes, and there the high hearted Ralle—the mind-gilled Jesuit—gath ered together the broken strength of the Nor ridgewock, and built up in the great wilder ness a temple of the true God. There, 100, ho perished in tho dark onslaught of the Col onists—perished with many wounds, at the very foot of the Cross, which his own hands hud planted. And there the Norridgowocks fell—ono aftor another, asking nor giving quarter, as they resisted tho white spoiler up on the threshhold at their cousecruted place of worship, and in view of their wives and children. Tho following is one among Ihe many le gends of the strange encounters of the White Man und the Indian, which aieyet preserved in the ancient records and traditions of Maino. The simple an J unvarnished narrative is only given: It was a sultry evening towards the Inst of Juno, 1722, (hot Capt. Ilormon and tho Kast eru Rangers, urged their canoes up tne Ken nebec river in pursuit of their enemies. Four hours they toiled diligently at the our. The last trace of civilization was left behind, and the long shadows of the skirling forest met I and blended in the middle ol tho stream, which wound darkly through 'hem. At ov ery sound from the adjacent shores—the rust ling wing of some night bird, or tho quick footsteps of somo wild beast—tie dash of the oar was suspended, the ranger's grasp tight ened on his rifle. Ail knew the peril of the enterprise ; and thatsilenee which is natural of jeopardy settled like a cloud upon tho mid night adventurers. "Hush—softly, men!" said 'he watchful Hermoti, in a voice whioh scarcely rose above a hoarse whisper, as the canoe swept around a rugged promontory,] "there is a light a head!" All eyes were bent towards the shore. A tall Indian figure gleamed up amidst great oaks, casting a red and strong light upon the dark waters. For a single and breathless moment the operation of the oar was sus pended, and every ear listened with painful ejtnestness to catch the well known sounds which seldom failed to indicate the propin iquily of the savages. But all was now si lent. With slow and faint movement of the oar, the canoe gradually approached the sus pected spot. The landing was effected in silence. After moving cautiously for a cou siderable distance in the dark shadow, the party at length ventured within the broad circle of the light, which at first attracted their attention. Hermon was at the head, with an eye and a hand as quick as those of the sav age enemy whom he sought. The body of a fallen tree lay across the path. As the rangers were on the point of leaping over it,the coarse whisper of Hermon again broke the silence: " God of heaven !" he exclaimed, pointing to the tree. "See here!—'tis the work of the cursed red skins!" A smothered curse growled or the lips of the rsngers, as they bent grimly forward in the direction pointed oat by the r command er. Blood was sprinkled on the rank grass and the hand of a white man lay on the bloody log. • There was not a/words poken, but every countenanco worked with tmible emotion. Had the ringers followed their own desperate inclination, they would hava berried reck lessly onward to the work ol vengeance, but the example of the ieader. w.'io had regained his usual calmness and selicommand, pre pared them for a less speedy but more cer tain triumph. Cautiously passing over the fearful obstacle in the pathway, and closely followed by his companions! he advanced stealthily and cautiously upon the light, hi ding himself and his party as much as pos sible behind the trees. In a few moments they obtained a full view of the object ot their search. Stretched t their length around a huge lire, but a convenient distance from it, lay the painted and half naked forms of twenty savages. It was evident from their appearance that they had passed the day in one ol their horrid revela, and that :hey were now suffering under the effects of intoxica tion. Occasionally * warrior among them atarted half upnhl,grasping his toma hawk, as if to combat some vision of the die ordered brain, but unable to ska It* off the stupor from hia aensee, uniformly fell back ( Into bia former position. The rangers crept nearer. As thsy bent (heir keen eyes along their well tried rifles each felt perfectly sure of his aim. They waited for the signal of Hermoa, who was endeavoring to bring his long musket to bear upon the head of the most distant savage. "Fire!" he at longth exclaimed, as the sight of his piece interposed lull and distinct between his eye and the wild scalplock of the Indian. "Fire, anil rush on." The sharp voice of thirty rifles filled through the heart o( the forest. There was a groan— a smothered cry—a wild ar.d convulsive movement among the sleeping Indians, and all was again silent. The rangers sprang forward with their clubbed muskets and hunting knives ; but their work was done. The Red Men had gone to their lust audit before the great Spirit, and no sound was heard among them, savo the gurgling of the hot blood from their life less bosoms. They were left unburied on tho place of their reveling—a prey to tho foul birds of die air, and the ravenous beasts of the wilderness. Their scalps were borne homeward in tri umph by the successful rangers, whose chil dren and grandchildren shndderd, long after, at the thrilling narrative of tho midnight ad venture. Tilt; BttUSSRU CAHI'ET. It was the prettiest scene imaginable. A little parlor, guyly and prettily furnished— snowy curtains, bright carret, nice prints; young husband ut one side of the fire read ing newspaper; young wife at the other sew ing on shirt-buttons; leu things on die (able, and tho brightest of bright brass kettles sing ing merrily 011 the hob. (Young wife speaks.)—" And so, Harry, you don't think my new carpet pretty, alter all!" "On the contrary, my love, I think it only too pretty." "Too pretty ! too pretty for what, Harry?" "For ur, my dear. Remembei f urn neith er a lord nor a banker, but a man with an income to make." "Hut it only costs as much as an ugly ono, Harry 1" "Still, T.ucy, it may do harm by leading to other things." For some timo nothing was heard in the little parlor bul the click of Lucy's needle as it flew through the linen, and the singing of die kettles on die hob. Presently Harry looked up. "My dear," he said, "I lorgnt to te'.l you I met Robinson coming from the city. He j promised to look in this evening; so if you I have any littlo preparations to make, now is your lime." "At what hour do you expect him' l asked | Lucy. "About eight." " In that case I shall have just time 10 make you a nice hot cake;" and laying down her work good humoredly, she tripped away 10 the kitchen. When she was gor.e, Harry put away his paper, and looked somewhat penitently at the new carpet. "It certainly is very pretty,"said he to him self; "and I'm half afraid I hurt Lucy by what I said. She's a dear, good thoughtful girl, and worthy any man's confidence and love; but women are so easily led away to buy whatever strikes their fancy. They re quire our stronger judgment to guide them. Yes, I was right on the whole to give her that little lesson." And Harry returned with renewed sell-satisfaction to bis dtowsy de baie. Eight o'clock strike!), and Lucy appear*, preceded by a delicious odor of bot cake. "There it is, Harry. Does it look nice!'' "Beautiful (like yourself!) and if it only tastes half as well as it smells, we shall have Robinson dropping into tea every other evert ing for the rest of his life. "Flatierer. But your Iriend has not come yet. What sort of person is he! I hope he's not very fashionable." Harry burst out laughing. "Oh. don't be afraid," said he; "he won't overpower you with his personal graces. He is long and lank; and his nose has a twist to one side, as it some one had tried, at some time or other, to wrench it off. and failed; but tben he is the drollest fellow you ever saw ia your life. Jones says he would make his fortune if he went on the stage. "Was he not one of your party :o Rich mond the other day!" asked Lucy, as she arranged her bright tea things and trimmed the lamp. "Yes and kept us iu roars of laugh er the whole day. He is a capital ventriloquist, and sent the waiters skipping about ihe house answering imaginary calls, until they thought the place was bewitched. Then at dinner, the tish asked what news from the river, and said had'nt been there these s* days; anJ tne turkey grumbled aboc! the stuffing. Tne melted bunet told as t was nothing but tiour and vra-er: ar.J the a's re vealed family secrets that wouW hare rca.'e the lady's hair stand on all end it *he iau been thereto hear. Auer d.ncer we wee; to stroll through the tields: and he be: Jo e$ a sovereign he would sad across the r.rer ic mv silk umbrella " "In your umbrella!"' exclaimed Lacy; "as.; did he win'" "Of course he didn't, my dear He both his balance and hi* bet. N* the meanest; he put his foot in th* umbrella down t we*, and ha went with it; and the bank vr* slippery, he was drowned benve we oe*k dreg him up ngain '' " Was he tightened !'' s*d l e-ey "Net he," relumed Hetty "The Sre. th *g he did w*s re make a feoe at we, wee tie water dripping hem his rtwked rose, that that set us all ofl laughing again like mad men." "What a strange man?" said Luey, with a slight shade of apprehension in her lone. "But that wasn't all," said Harry in the fall tide of his reminiscence. "We had lo give him aome hot brandy and water to keep him from catching cold; and on the way home he inaiated on driving; and charmed, 1 suppoaed, by his success in that attempt, wanted to get on the horse's back lo inti mate Franconi in The Wild Courser of the des ert. Jones got Lightened, and tried lo pull him back. Ho manfully resisted; and both looked so ridiculous, 1 could do nothing but laugh. That was rather sn unlucky plank though," continued Harry; "for the horse not being accustomed, 1 suppose, lo equestrisn feats, ran away, burst from the harness, and | smashed one ol the stubs; und 1 had to pay two pounds fourteen and leupence for my share of tho damage. " And your silk umbrella," said Lucy, did you loose that too?" " Yes indeed—seventeen and sixpence more, by Jove!" said Harry, with a sudden cessation of his smilos. "I did not think the day's pleasure had cost tr.e so much." "Besides the dinner," said Lucy. "Besides the dinner; twelve shilliitgsmore." "Well I declare," said Lucy laughing arid clapping Iter hands, "that is the drollest thing I over knew. Two poonds fourteen and ten pence, and twelve shillings, make three pounds six and tenpence, and seventeen and sixpence, exactly lour pounds four shillings and fourpetice." * "Well?" "Just the price of my Brussels carpet, arid fourpcnca over." ''He—em !" saiJ Harry. Oml Teaching. Not many yean ego, it was a practice, nearly universal, in schools, to conduct all recitations in strict accordance with the text of the book; ihe teacher asking the questions anil the pupil giving the answers as printed in the book. To some eitrmt, the same course is pursued in many schools at ihe present time, but far less so than formerly. Where it has been adapted, it has been found that the scholars often learned words, without gaining any clear or well defined ideas. The leading cducalionists directed uttention to the error, and lecturers and wri ters did what they could to bring the old method of teaching into disrepute. They declaimed and wrote against it, and con tended strongly and wisely for a change.— ' Hut in education, as in oiber concerns, "one extreme is very apt to follow another." In | advocating the importance as oral teaching, some went too fr, and ga7e undue promi nence to the subject. Soma teachers were made to believe and lo act as though oral leaching was the only true method, and ibat text-books were to be almost, if no! alto gether, discarded. Bat the wise and judici ous educator will readily eee '.bat this would be an error quite as great as ibe former, that its tendency would be to relieve the pupil from (rue mental discipline, anj weaken bis self-reliance. The true pUn consis's in a medium course, or in a blending of ihe !wo : and those teach ers will be the most successful, who unite the two in [eoper proportions. Tbe objec tion to the oIJ plan was not go mooh to the use of the text-book, as to the improper ue of it. The book should be used by the pu pil, and its contents learned, and the impor tant trutba and principles of each lesson should, if possible, be comprehended; and if they ate clearly understood, they can be. and should be clearly exr-essed In order that the scholat's knowledge of a lesson may be known, the teacher -horrid freelv use the oral method, and asc sura cues tions as will tend to test thorouahlr the scholar's understanding. In conocct.r.g recitations. i.e shomd not conrire h.s atten tion to the mere questions o: tie boot He should rather urn w one a tesh a-.d clear understanding of the lessen under consideration, so that he may be xb-e to conduct the reeicauoa without xny rv cr er.ee to the words of the lock The s-- tul teacher, who l'eels an rtterest ;n the subject, w-.l be ready to ask raary i:-r.den tal questions, which w,.. tend both to e.v;t the scholar's knowledge of tre d.-ect s S iect. and also to x-.Tii.er. re.r thot-pha. and induce htm to tk r.k and .-.resttgite Even the s.r'.p'.o: quest.on ;n Ge-p"x phr ttran.ir.ir. etc —av fe exylxae-d xrvi made suggestive o: oner quest or i d the on. tewching should rr.x ybe d.ror ed to an ejtjvi-.s.or. of t.e '.beet Too r'-s; question ;.v tlsvumphv .> -ur. -. 'A rto is vlev-Tiphy xud the i-s ter ..< A .'.*- gortption o; thx cm Aodtst bow , r scholars, who were taught a-w.r.l g ■ • the verba;.ru r xr. o he wvAvi gi el x-v wed detined k.-.0-t o.'ue o. the soh ,v: l ei .v .; ; i* I'Mffs. b hot hi.' Or. .;t o rex. or ava the now rv.ge "ok the ;cachet ask x.:.' ..- x. q-v< t. f -i w . . x'.-.d to awiken tho-qgh: x-. : e.- Tv •pop. to a thvw.gx -u.-.tsrsrard rg .-. •>-# sub-eo -.-. i ts nec ers xm a *r* n tere-t w.llbc throws aro-uiv". -t Hits TmttoM—V ~f. roe" g l> •UJkU'O Mvh.gxi was tiv.'i,: tie eoov-g) K> be est a jnv rcwo. viw--e he was bbigtr. to go >m x\v *3cl ox—. x -aul v he. p jet 'e sage 0..t0t the aixvi Wv arf beocw . g exhaMWvl aatf-atteit he *Afhwws*ii the d ttec Lvk ~Vw. .sd vhew 1N TV .-b-ec.NN* v pav.Ag tea owe r *d vc w ixre. w*.t o obeeetaoa u t INS. haw TU hw -I . it i cwo*t sks owk x-ssshec nwi- [Two Dollars per Anna*. NUMBER 14. Laud speculations ID IHO West—Their ID* fluence here' The exlenl to which .peculetion. in land hare been carried on in the West, cannot bat exercise an injurious influence, aooner or la ter, even here. To use an old aimila, the financial world ia like a placid lake, which a stone dropped into disturbs, mre or less,ore? ail ite surface, however remote. Already,iu fact, the debts due to eastern merchants from many quarters of that vaal and growing sec tion, hairs failed to be liquidated at maturity, because the farmers and other easterners of the wertern storekeepers, being embarked beyond their means in land speculations, have not been prompt in paying their semi annual bills. The nearer regions of ihs West liavo been the first to exhibit this deficiency, for it has been from them, principally, that the money for.thesa 'peculations has been taken, and the actors in them have gone. As this stato of things is not new, as we are not without a parallel to it in the past, we msy almost certainly predict what ia to follow. For prosperous as tho West is, specula tion exaggerate* that prosperity. Over large portions ut that thriving region prices range according to its supposed future wants, not according to its present ones. In Chicago lands will, to day, bring more money than in corresponding situations in Philadelphia, or even in New York; yet scores of persons aro unxious to purchase, notwithstanding these enormous prices, in the hope of a still further advance. Thus speculation stimu lates itself. A fictitious value to property is kept up, and w ill be tilt tho bubble burst*. Hundreds who aro shrewd enough to SOD the false character of prices, nevertheless are embarked in speculations, believing that they will be able to sell before the revulsion commences, and saying, "after ma the del uge." To carry on these transactions how ever, means must be had; and hence money is at three, four and six percent per month. Honest debts are neglected in order to gam ble on lands. Adventurous capitalists, who have gone from the East, are doubling their fortunes every two years, mainly by lend ing usurious rates, with mortgages for col laterals. It requires r.o long argument to demos strate that this sta'e cf things car.no*. last al ways. The bursting of the bubble ia aimp'y a question of time. And wher. the consul | sion comes. the East will bo the sufferer, though more innocent than the West—that is, it will le the victim, unless it takes heed ' in time to curtail the indebtedness of the • West. There was a period, which men of lorty cr upwards sti.i remember, when what is occurring in Minnesota, lowa and other points of toe now far West, tock place in Indiana. Illinois and Missouri, a period ' during which lands were ran tp to fictitious and speculative prices, and after which they fell, lor ioDg years' by a natcra. reaction, to price; below the;:actual worih. Thousands of persons, even in the East, were ru.ued by these fearful times. Titers will be thou sands ruined now if they do not take heed in season. We are so But we should be false to our pos'tica as conscien tious journalist*, if we did no: want the pub lic, if we did not speak boldly out. The contagion of speculation, wnuch has thrown the West into a fininc-a. fever, is extending even to our eastern c.tve*.and ;os*iy aiarms a. cautious and refletisg m*n — Lrizrr "SEJSSATIOI PREStnei.' The Wash ng on Stir pwbUahwa a ls from England. wr .tea by t Uir of phia. in b.cS she refe-s .z the soitowsj terms, to Spurgeoo, the • aeiaamoe f reacaer:" 1 Ttecbcrch was *sll orercrowded. a zl me were saca p-exswe w, aMr bou-gecc. 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