Truth and Kight God and our Country. Two Dollars per Annum. VOLUME 12. BLOOMSBURG, COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA., WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 7, 1860. NUMBER 44 IV. II. JAC0B1Y Proprietor. r 1 .7 STA It OF THE NORTH PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESPAY BY W3I. II. JACOBY, Office oil Main St., Jrd Sqnarc below Market, TERMS : Two Dollars per annum if paid within fix months from tins time of subscri bing two dollars and fifty cents it not paid within the year. No subscription taken for a. leas period than fix months; no discon tinuances permitted until all arrearages are paid, unless at the option of the editor. The terms of advertising will be as follows : One square, twelve Iines? three limes, SI 00 Every subsequent insertion, ...... 25 One square, three months, 3 00 One year, 8 00 EVEATIDE. In the summer evenings, . When the wind blew low, And the skys were radiant Willi the sunset glow Thou and 1 were happy, Long, loug year ago ! Love, the young and hopeful, Hover'd o'er us twain, Fill'd us with sad pleasure And delicious pain In the summer evenings, Wandering: in the lane. In the winter evenings. When the wild winds roar. Blustering at the chimney, Piping at' the door Thou and I are happy As in the day ot yore. Love still hovers o'er ns, - Robed in white attire, Drawing heavenly tnuio From an earthly lyre In the winter eveniugs, Siuiur by the fire. , For the Star cflhe Kot th. An Incident in my Life. BT CAS LOS. i Juan Caverillo, the Jesuitical hiah priest of Cuzco, was my most intimate friend ; and the many acts of kindness done me by him showed that he was sincere. My official position secured me the respect ot the army and officers of ' the Government, while the fact of my being the only Young American ever in Cuzco, wou me the atten lion of the ladies of thai place Not only was 1 universally kuowu, but all seemed to vie in extending the hospitalities of their several mansions. But the priedhood in general, and the Jesuits in particular, were my firm friends, actuated, '.hough, by the laudable desire of converting me from my heresies 1 have neither time r.or space to relate how many conversations were held with me on 1be subject how appeals were addressed to my judgment as well as my ambition how entreaties were mingled with threats nor how arrangements had been made by the ladies of the City to havo ma pub licly baptized in the Cathedral, where the Bishop was to associate as my God-father and La 6enora Yaldiviesoas myCod-moiher. Suffice it to know that nothing was left un done to secure my conversion, ;he Cuzco tiians regarding the presence of a Protestant 4n their midst as an evil not to be borne. Conveots and monasteries opened at my request, a privilege never granted to even the parents of the nuns. Even the myste ries of the "tejar" were revealed to my -carious eyes. Let me give you a faiut idea of it. ; Every year the female portion of the community are required to spend nine days j in the Itjar, in order to get purified. They re placed in damp, subterranean cells, from which even the light of day is ex--claded. About twenty Indians, negresses, hybrids, and white women are put in each, no distinction being made as to position or olor. The coarsest kind of food is eiven them, whit e none but their confessors have access to their dismal abode. At midnight they are awakened, and required to scourge their naked backs with an iron instrument constructed for that purpose ; and the dark in asses of clotted blood on the brick floor And on the surrounding walls, attested the eeverity with which the scourge had been applied. , . . - Joan Caverillo agreed to show me the subterranean passages, (constructed 300 years ago,) and by means of which the priests communicate in the different con rents. t Jo this connection 1 may state, that Cuzco was the seat of the Spanish Inquisi tion. - My companion first took the precau tion of swearing me to secreey during his Jifei Armed with long' torches, we de cended the vaults of ' San Diego, and Ira versed the long, gloomy galleries, which the fitful glare of the torches only served to make "darkness visible," and occasionally revealed to my shuddering view, long, slimy lizards, which crawled in immense nurn fceM, in ; the - green mold at my feet i After mbarring a huge .iron door, we were nsh cretl into a small, arched room, where stood three athletic men, who were completely "masked. They seized me, and despite ray istruggjes, succeeded; in forcing ' o. gag " into rny month andy blindfolding rwy eyes. . 1 'was then 'carried opie A jdistacce farther, Closely followed by my supposed riend jaarr, who- only -gave: a f mournful smile .while my assistants were binding me. Oa .the termination of the journey, I was freed, end fonnd myself r in sl , huge, underground stpartrnentlhe size" of which I was unable Id discern, owing to the semi-obscurity. Cal-iui cl: white-robed priests and youthfid lindens" chanted in a low and solemn tons haired priest approached, and in Spanish bade me renounce my heretical opinions, and adopt the tenets of the Holy Catholic Church. This of course I refused; and then demanded my instant release, staling that such an insult to the person of an American would not be Ions; without redress from my country. The old man regarded me for a moment with a derisite smile, and then led me into an adjoining cell, where I beheld in endless profusion, instruments of torture, mixed with the dried skeletons of men and women, whose grinning skulls were fearfully distinct. 1 then learned that I was iu the room of the Grand Inquisitor. Alter minutely explaining the modes of ap plying the various instruments, and seeing the cold drops of sweat standing on my brow, he informed me that my friends had already received word of my having perish ed in the Muchangara river; and again, in the name of his holiness the Pope of Rome, he commanded me to abjure my religion. I ga"m refused. He then dismissed the maidens, among whom I recognized Isa bellita as she cast an imploring glance be hind her. I was again seized, and the terrible screws applied to my thumbs. I endeavored to convince myself that I was the victim of some night mare, or that they were merely jesting ; but the granduess and solemnity of the scene, together with the sharp pains shooting through my body, gave fearful evidence of its reality. I had often braved death before, but then itntuie was the ageiit,and not man, -Am my friends would have been 'certain of my fate, now little imagining the terrible ordeal I was ! undergoing for the sake of those truths taught me by a fond mother, years ago, when I was a lisping child. 1 thought of that mother, who, even then, perhaps, was praying for the safety of her son. I thought of her as when with tearful eyes, and faint ing steps, she said, "Albert, I fear I never shall bee you again" Visions of a gray haired and invalid fa.her, whose stay I had been, also fljated before my mind's eye ; and with them, the thoughts of a brother and sister, now thousands of miles away In mental agony I groaned ; but instead of pitying roe, my tormentors only smiled in derision. . But a low, rumbling sound interrupted the prayer which was being offered up to God for strength. The ground began to quiver and undulate beneath my feel like the waves of the ocean, and the noise in creased lo the roar of the hurricane. Those around me fell upon their knees, began Jo tell their beads, and repeat the "Ave Maria " It was an earthquake ! A thund ering, louder than the fir.t, announced the second shook. Apparently, the earth oscil lated to and fro like the pendulum of a clock. The adjacent volcauoes gave forth their heated lava and fire amidst horrible thuuderings, while the crash of the crum bling edifices above my head, and ihe shrieks bursting from 70,000 hearts, gave evidence of the fearful convulsions of Na ture. Then succeeded a silence as un earthly as the din a moment previous. I called loudly to those who had surrounded me, but bo voice replied. ' The torches were quenched, but an unearthly and sul phureous haze filled the place. The band of priests had been swallowed up in a yawning chasm at my side, which was gradually filling with a black, murky sub stance. Juan, my guide, lay beside me, a falling pillar having instantly killed him. Seeing a female form some distance from me in the posture of prayer, I diseugaged myself from the painful thumb screws, and hastened lo her. Ii was labellila, though alas ! life was extinct. Overpowered by my feelings, 1 then sank to the floor, court ing death as the speediest relief from pres ent sufferings. Ihe Presidential Eace. BY SiM BILLINGS. "Well, bnys, doz yon bleeve in dreams? I duz. You all 'member that dreem I had had 'bout Jim bein elected ?"' "Jim who, Sam ?" Jim Buchanan, of conrse. Who else 1 Why I drempt I saw him an' Fillmore, an' Fremont, all playin 6even -up, an' when Jim an' Fillmore was both six an' six what dnz Jim do but turn np Jack an' git out The very next thing we heerd after that wuz Jim was 'lected. I rote to Jim 'bout it, but he forgot io anser my. letter. 1 tell you, boys, it's no use tawking. I knows what's what, an' ef you only node what I drempt last nite, you'd know' more than yon knows now. . Take a drink, Sam, and tell ns all aboat it- Don?t keer ef I do. Well, yon see arter 1 left you, boyb. last nite, I wuz jest as sober as I ever wnz. You all knows that, 'ciuse I' never drinks 'cept on speshul occasions. I did stumble a leetle just a leetle bnt that wuz .'cause t wuz thinking so hard on what Bill thar had sed 'bout us gittin Cuber ef cld Breck wuz 'lected, an' how nice it would be to put each fellers as us down thar to take keer of the Dons and Senoriters: It wnz too much trubble to shuck my coat, or pull off my bates, so 1 laid down jest as I wnz. Let us lake adrink'---r-i. Well, as soon as Morfos had japt me in sleep I begun to dream I thort a grate big feller, with a cocked hat an' a sword by his side teeht me on the shoulder an' aved me I wouldn't go to the race j I lole him 1 wood go enywhar fur fun, an', axed him to pitch ahed. As soon a? we got to the dore, thar git in and then followed hisself. After we wuz in 1 didn't saj nuthin, an' he did'nt nether, an' so we both wuz silent. The carrije went mity fast, and in aboot an hour an' a half we slopt. I forgot to menshun that there wuz a black bottle 'tween the cushuns, an' that both of us tuck several j drinks, ef not more. Boys, lei's take wun now. . We got out uv the carrije on the groun, an' looked round us. I frunt. but a little to the rite, wnz a grate big white house, and the rode frum the gate wuz so fizt thai you could cum to the door frum any side you pleased. All the way round wuz about a quarter of a mile. I then turned round to look at the people who was thar. They wuz about twenty in all. Rite in front was Jim: Mister Buchanan, says the man who brought me, allow me to Pshaw ! sez I ; I knows him well enuf ; I'm the man what done so much for him an' Breck to runVintown How do you do, ole feller? How hev you been? How's all? an' what's the news ? . I'm fust rite, thank you, sez he, emilin' and bowin' ,-nity perlite. How's all to P'jnkingtown ? Oh, we're all so-so, sez I ; but what's to pay here ? Why, we're going to hev the race, pes Jim, speaking low to me, and looking mity solemn, an' I sent fur you to stan an' judge who beats. Cum along, now, and let me interduce you to the folks. Air those fillers in the rode the candi dates ? ses I. Yes, ses he, and them other men out thar is their fried da and bakkers. But here we air. Gentlemen, allow me to introduce my particler friend, Mister Billings Mister Houston, Mister Billings, Mister Bell, Mister Bdlings; Mister Lincoln, Mister Billings; Mifcter Douglas, Mister Billings; Mister Breckinridge, Mister Billings ; Mister Bil lings, gentlemen, will take his stan here and juje who beats the race. Excuse me for a minit, as I mus seo if the track is clear. It seems to me, I've met you somewhar before, Mister Billings, ses Mr. Bell, an' yourn is a face what can't be easy forgot. I don't recollec, 6es I ; for I seed what he was arter. It mus be so, ses he, for I've been every -whar thro' this glorious Union. This glo rious Union, Mr. Billings, mus be preserved, an' the eagle mus bear aloft on magnaiinous pinyuns the banner uf the 6tars, an' skreem defiance at the violaters uf the resplendent Constitution. Jes so, ses I. I'll tell you what, Mister Billing, pes Dou 'las. wavin his arm, this here scene, with all these people lookin' on, an' you to pass your free jugineut 'bout this race, re minded me powerfully of Poplar Suvrmty. That air the doctrine, sir. All of us is free an' independent. Ef I want to do anything ef I wants to cut my tbrote who's to prevent me ? Nobody, of course, ses I. This race is to be wuu by runnin', ses Houston : I don't like runnin', and never did, speshully for the Presidency, but ihe j tails on end to us. The calf's neck was in people would make me, an' I had to. But ; the tiger's month, whose large paws era 1 tell you, Mister Billings, you orter see me j braced his victim. I looked, waiting for in a fite. I kinder guess I can kill aii' ele ! oiue change in le position of the body to as many Mexikens as the nex man. Shouldn't be surprised, ses I. I'd scorn lo try an' influence you, Mister Billings, pes ole Abe, though there is sura as I knows as does it. But I would merely mention, uf a piece of nuse, which, per haps, you have not heern of, that I think the Gineral Government ought to make a few internal improvements mity close to Punkintown. Yon don't say so 1 ses I. As fur me, sep old Breck, all I want is a fare trac and no favers. All rite, ole hoss, ses I. And now gen tilmin, yon must take your places ac' git ready. They then turned in lo pitchin' up half a dollar, till they all got their places. Abe was on the inside trac ; Breck nex ; Doug-, las nex; Bell nex, an' ole Sam on the out side. Well, they- all got in a line, and I gave the word, and they started. Ole Sam hadn't got twenty Btepa before he slumpt his foot, an' kerslap he went to the groun. At la6t they got about half way round, an' Douglas begun to fall behind. Thinks I ole hoss, your legs is too short. Bell, too, was a blowin' mighty hard an' I seed 'the race was between Breck and ole Abe. They jes cum a tearin' down that rode, I tell you. When they was within about fifty yards of the 6tartin' place, them two was jest brest an' brest. Bell was several yards behind, and Stephen in his wake. As for Houston, he jest laid whar he fell. Well, bojs, on they cum like race horses, an' all the look ers on, enssia' and swearin' es ef they was mad. Breck's bottom was surpri'in' but old Abe's long legs was also carryin' him mity fast, I tell yon. They had got within about three feet of the lice, an I . wuz tremblin' all over, I wuz so ankshus, when all. at wuns both give a lunge forard, an . Which won, Sam ; which wun ? ' I'll tell yon arter the fi ret Tuesday in November. ' Boys, let's lake a drink. Charleston Courier.. . Some people's highest"idea of content ment is to sit in the house and see others get stack in the mud. A Night with the Tigers. Of a pitch dark night, if a tiger jumps in- to a camp and seizes any one, he is out of it again with one bound. My own plan is to tire ofl the heaviest charged piece at hand ; as at the sound of the sudden shot, ihere is a good chance of the tiger dropping his victim, who, unless killed by the spring or first blow, may ihus be recovered. All that night the lungoor these are the baboons of India, and stand, when on their hindjegs, five and a half feet high were chattering and hooting on Ihe branches of the trees, up to ihe very edge of the camp. These animals, which live in the mountains with the tigers and panthers, never allow them to move without following them, and by jumping from branch to branch of the trees, over their heads, they warn other ani mals and man of the tiger's approach. The horses, also, this night were very uneasy ; but the fires and the constant watch of the sentries kept the tigers out. I watched for daj light with much anxie ty ; and directly there was sufficient light, rubbing the cotlen of my rifle-sights, I got in' people up and started for the place where the calf had been tied. The kullal or wine-maker was taken as a guide, lest we should lose ourselves in the jungle, and also 10 carry the drink water. Scarcely two hundred yards had been passed when we heard the tiger, which infested that part of the forest, roar londly. The poor villager, the father of the remaining family, whisp ed, "Wuh hal that is he ! that's the tiger who owns my village." I replied, '-If you run you are a dead man : keep behind us." Placing in front my head shikaree, Mang kalee; who has very good sight, while in the dusk my own is very bad, we hurried along the path. Coming to some rocks from which I knew that the tted-up calf could be seen, and thinking that the shika ree might not have remembered the spot, 1 pulled him back cautiously. I looked. There was the white calf apparently dead. Mangkalee remarked as much in a whisper. The younger shikaree, Nursoo, was behind me on the left. We all gazed al a tail. The distance was some sixty yards from us, but we could not make out the tiger. At length the end of the tail moved. Nursoo, making a similar motion with his forefinger, whisp- ered in my tar, Doom-hilta-hai" ("The tail's moving"). 1 now made out the body ol the animal clear enough. Not a blade of the grass nor leaf was between us. A sin gle forest tree, without a branch on it for thirty feet from the ground, was twenty yards nearer the tiger. It was very probable that he would see ns, but it must be risked; to, pressing down J my shikaree, Alangkalee, with my hand be j hind me, and keeping the trunk of the iree beween Ihe foe and me, while 1 said with in myself "God be with me ! If I got be hind that tree, without your Beeing me, you're a dead tiger." I past rapidly for ward. So intent was the huge beast upon the poor calf that he did not hear me. I placed the barrels of my rifio against the tree, bul was obliged to wait. The tiger aud the calf lay contiguous, allow me to aim al a vital part. There were some forty paces between us. As all rifle shooters know, this a very un certain distance, and one at which all the polygrooved rifles with a large charge of powder, that I have seen tried, riso from four to six inches. The weapon I had in my hand was a very broad-belted, two grooved rifle, carry ing balls ten to the pound; and only four days before this I had proved that, when loaded with the bullet mould full of powder, it carried its ball point blank, without rising or falling, fcr ninety yards. Strange it was that I had this rifle by me for three years, but owing to having a very favorite double polygrooved rifle some pounds heavier, by Westly Richards, to which I was much- at tached, I had but very rarely U6ed the Wilk inson. At length the calf gave a struggle and kicked the tiger, on which the latter clasp ed him nearer, arching his own body, and exposing the white of his belly and chest. 1 pulled ihe trigger very slowly, aiming for bis heart he was on his left side as if I were firing at an egg lor a thousand pounds. , 1 knew that I hit the ppot aimed at ; but to my astonishment, the tiger sprung up several feet in the air with a roar, rolled over and toward me for he was on higher ground than I was when, bounding to his feet, as if unscathed, he made for the mountains, the last rock of which was with in forty yards of hira. , t I must acknowledge that firing at a beast of this sort, with no . vital part to aim at, standing as 1 was for some lime looking al him, and on lower ground, my heart beat rather quicker than was its wont. Albeit I had never turned my back lo any animal iu the jungles, and not one had. ever seen its 6hape. 1 was confident, loo, in my own nerve and shooting, for . I had cut down, with one exception and that one had cut me down as the 6cythe does the grass ev ery wild beast of the forest. . Immediately the tiger. sprang to his feet and exposed his : broad left side to me, I stepped from behind the tree, looked at him in the face with contempt, as if he had been a sheep, and while he passed tne with every hair set, his beautiful white beard and each bound covering fifteen feet al least, for twenty five 3'ards, and then fell on his head under the lowest rock of the mountain in which wan his strong hold. Up went into the air his thick stumpy tail. Seizing my other rifle, I walked up to about fifteen yards of him for he was still opening his mouth and gaspingand broke his back Turning round to the poor villager who, knew that the tiger was dead, was afraid to corne near him, I patted him on the shoulder and said, ''There is your enemy, old man, now, where does ihe tigress live?" "I know nothing about her," said the man trembling all over and no wonder "this was ihe owner of the village. I know noth- ng al all of the tigress. She takes her wa ter at the other side of the village, and a long way off.' I returned to my camp, only fonr hun dred yards off, took a cup ol ten, and order ed them to brin in the man-eater. He was the largest as far as bulk and muscular power, of any tiger 1 had ever seen. His extreme length, as he lay dead, was ten ; feet eight inches ; his tad was only three feet three an extraordinary short tail. This ' it was, with its great thickness, which i made us notice it. His head was very large. The points of all the large fangs were considerably broker ; this had saved the calf, who, though scratched, and is now well and happy with my milch cattle at Nagpore. inejngmar anerj , yw.k.- u. ways has to divide in order to luck the rrt I tl . : - - ? bioou, nau oeen missca ; mougi., uouuuo, education lhi9 unfortunate system brings in another minute, the poor calf's head j hytlrau,ic presMlre t0 bear with remorse would have been munched off. The villa- j crupl,y npm ,he irnmalure intellect of gers irom an s.ues nocKeu io eo ino man- ; eater. The raj-ih, or rather the l&ndholJer of the district, sent many congratulations and thanks. Thirteen quarts of .at were taken from this lusty animal. A Sailor's Spree. At a dinner a sea captain told the follow ing story : Ladies and gentlemen, when I was sec ond mate with Capl. Brown, I went up town and drew my pay for the voyage just completed. Falling in with some ship- j ferred lo j3 an outrage upon humanity, and mates, we went into a grogshop and treated a crime against society. Teachers deplore all around, so that each of n had at least x jtj p0pi!s pink under it, medical authorities half a dozen glasses of brandy stowed away je,l0nnce iti cemeteries and iusane asylums beforo we separated. I intended lo go on are replenished by it, but private interests board again, and remain by the ship, for I aj a mWgnMed public opinion permit, as had agreed to go another voyage in her j vet no adequate reform. What became of me during a month after-j The opinion seems lo prevail that be wards, I cannot recall even at this day. I ' caUs0 hard-headed lawyers, or energetic only remember having been tumbled neck j merchants, in the maturity of a vigorous and heels out of a house and picking my- J manhood, can bend their utmost powers of self up from the gutter. 1 fancied lhat I , m'md, early and late 10 their respective pur was in the infernal regions, surrounded by j BUlls during term-time or tho spring sales, fiends that were tearing the very flesh from , e B&mQ fierce intensity of prolonged men- my oones. iney seeraeu 10 enier my mouth, my ears, my eyes ; I felt them feat- ing on my heart, l liearu inetn screaming in my ears. Burning, at the same time, within and without, I rushed to the wharf to jump over board, but they held me back, and threw me down upon a door-step in Commercial street, telling me that they intended to keep me there, and pick my bones bare, and 1 then burn me lo ashes. 1 cried :or ieip, but they laughed at me ; 1 tried to rise, and they held me down ; I shut my eyes that I might not see, and they tore them open ; I COUlu uo nounng uui suiici , i nuu ciou lost the power to kill myself. Words can not describe my sufferings. Aboui day break a man who came to open the store, upon the door step of which I lay, raised me, and seeing my condition, advised me very kindly to go home, and never drink any more rum, but get religion. I told him to go to h 1 ! and staggaied across the : by a1 means. Directors are trustees for street to reach the wharf with the intention tb( aa:j ti10 imperative official obli- of jumping overboard; bul again the fiends galion rCbl'ins Up0n them is to discharge threw me down and laughed at me. I felt tBheir dulJ. jQ guch a way ai W1ji best sub myself moved from place to place, and ev. J a he blIc iuleresU entrusted in their ery one who moved me gave the same ad vice not to drink any more rum. In my heart I wished them all roasting At last relief came. A man, who had been a sail or, took me by the arm and led mo iuto a grogshop. lie 6aid to the barkeeper "Brandy, your best," and handed me a glass; but my hand trembled so much that I could not hold it. He then placed me on a chair, and poured the liquor down my throat, but up came again through mouth and nose, all over him, my stomach would not receive it. Next he poured water into my mouth, and seeing that it remained down, he nearly filled another tumbler with brandy, and made me take it by mouthfuls, till it was all stowed away. In an instant the fiends vanished, the warm blood coursed through my veins, my sight was clear, ray step firm, I was a new man. My friend for such I shall always regard hinv took mo to the Mariner's House, then kept by Mr. Broad heap, and in a lew minutes had me naked in the bath, washing me naked in the bath room. He first gave me 'a warm bath, washing me with his hands, and then near ly sent the soul out ot my body, by letting fail a cold shower upon me. I sprang a fathom out of the tub, and would have ihroitled him, but he 6tepped out of tho way. After a thorough rub down, he put me in bed.then went out and brought me more brandy with laudanum in it, which he made me drink. I slept nearly forty hours, and though stupid when I awoke, yet felt refreshed. My friend called to see me, and gave me half a dollar to taper off wilh thai was to take an occasional glass of "TO" if I felt 1 could not do withont it : his neck by a ribbon)" is my. tapering off token. He called frequently afterwards to see me; and his parting 'advice was "When you want to drink rum, fall down upon your knees and ask God, for Christ's sake, to protect you ; this you will find bet ter than signing any pledge. And he was right. Educational. We make the following extracts from the State Superintendent's annual report for 1859, which we commend lo the good sense of Directors and patrons of the schools of our county : MISDIRECTED rPVCATIOK. In pome of the rural districts directors per sist, regardless of complaints and remon strance, in keeping the schools open seven and eight hours a day, often only a short in termission at noon, and the school houses not always properly furnished and ventila ted. The practice apparently originates in an unconsciousness of the radical difference belwen mental and nianuai labor;andthe beHef that ;f ff)f ;nfttancCj a robust wood. , u: v ,11 .I u,nn. UV L' vail Dn nig ijw cav i. uui "titiu.t injury the brain-work of growing children can be adjusted lo a similar standard. These errors ol enlightened ignorance find their counter-parkin more enlightened communities, in the forcing system of tui tion still too often encouraged in both pub lie and private schools in onr commercial metropolis, and Pome of our interior cities , arge towng iistaUirig knowiedg0 for ., - . . or dawn;n2 woraan hooJ Wth a caU,ogue of lext books and KluJies lliat might atlonish a university; j j5 rrolific of 60perficial attainments, or feebla health, broken constitutions and pre mature graves, that are ignorantly, but not the le?s falsely and irreverently charged to "a mysterious Providence," instead of inex cusable violations of the physical laws of our being, fo obvious and palbable, that he who runs may read. In its immediate ap- plication and ultimate results, the policy re , taj application 1? proper lor children ana I voutU) and can salely be exacted of them ; and thus tho period of lile that should be one of genial culture, and the gradual, nat ural, healthful development of the whole being, becomes one of painful sacrifice and misdirected self-destroying effort. CHOICE OF TEACHERS. Two applicants presented themselves for employment by a board of directors One 1 of lhem liejj a good certificate, had taught j ihe gchoo, or tWQ gaVQ general sat- 1 isfactioilf and wa9 decided choice of a large majorily of lhe patrons of the school. The other had taught two shert terras, at inter vals of several years, did not hold so good a certificate as the other, and was a justice of ihe peace, and expected to attend to his duties as such while teaching. The board desiro tho opinion of the Department as to which of the two should be employed. The 1 emphatic answer is, tho first named leacher care. 1 nu can oniy ue uuuh, uy iuo em ployment of tho best teachers amongst those r. . 1 - V . I U tU am I who prcfent themselves, or can be had, wherever there is a material dirtereace in their qualifications. Again, teaching is a difficult a.id arduous vocation, requiring closo application, and taxing the time, thoughts and energies of those who fol low it, and should be the principal, if not the exclusive business of those engaged in it, and not an incident, or appendage to other interests or pursuits, aud least of all subordinate to them. The practice of teach ing merely as a help weight to some other interest or pursuit, belongs to a past age, and directors owe it to their constituents, and the latter have a right to demand, that it shall not be sanctioned except in cases of extreme necessity ; and where a competent teacher, devoted to the business, presents himself iu competition with one of inferior qualifications, and who, as in this case, in tends to engage in other pursuits, directors should unhesitatingly employ the former and reject the latter. teachers' wages. Economy is always a commendable vir tue in school directors, provided it be gen uine, and does not degenerate in parsimony. But the last place to economize is in teachers' wages, and the directors cannot practice the virtue in ihis direction, without losing vastly more than they hope lo gain by the operation. Skillful and successful teachers are entitled to full compensation and can fairly earn it ; and if it cannot be bad, .they will as a matter of course go where they can get it, or quit the business ; whilst half price teachers are a dear bar- is lo-t, for the teacher could not earn it, and the pupils have spent their time with out being benefitted, and quite likely will have to unlearn what they did attempt to acquire. A low priced teacher is not a cheap teacher, and it is a great misfortune that this ' fact is not more generally understood. Pennsylvania loses a large per centage of her best teachers, because they are - not properly compensated at home. Some of the western counties have been deprived this fall, ol many of their most worthy teachers, because of the large reduction iu the wages offered ; and wherever this has been the case, the schools will go back ward more during the coming winter, than they could go forward in two winters in the hands of good teachers Even "hard times" and the "frosi" do not justify ihe employ ment of low priced, incompeleat teachers. It is ar. unwise and unprofitable business every way. Teachers' examinations can not build up the system, so long as those who merit and receive first-class certifi cates, are driven out of the schools by the ' inadequate compensation offered. There is another crying evil, and it is this: "Paying fair wages to inferior teachers, that should; not be "paid to any but good teachers. The wages thould always he grad uated to the qualifications of teachers. Pay a good teacher, good wages ; and if yon mut put up with an inferior teacher, cut down the wages, until he qualifies himself, or a better one can be had, and then raise the wages accordingly. But don't cut the throat of the school system by paying good wages to good and bad teachers alike, for it is only offering a premium to incompe tency. School directors are the back bone of the school system. Ther have more power and responsibility than all the other officers of the system put together. And this is right ; but they can only "mag nify their office" and uphold the system, by looking at their duty, in this respect, in its true light, and then faithfully performing it, with the same practical shrewdness and sound judgment that they would exhibit in the management of their own private busi ness affairs. The principle is the same, the policy the same, and, applied to lha common schools, the results cannot be otherwise than eminently beneficial ; while the contrary policy must, every where and always, prove disastrous. PROVISIONAL CER11FICATCS ; ALTER ATI0M9. To prevent alterations in the provisional certificate after it is granted to teachers, Superintendents are advised to write the words "one," "two," "three," &c , opposite the respective branches, instead of using the figures, "1." "2," "3," Lc. This Till more effectually prevent erasure or alteration of figures of a low grade, and thesubstilulien of those of higher value, which is some times attempted by dishonest teachers. IIow a Lady Preserved Webster's Eeplj to llayne. The Taunton (Mass.) Gazette incorpo rates the following interesting reminiscence in a notice of the article on "The National Intelligencer and its editor," in the last Atlantic Monthly. "It will be seen from this Interesting nar rative that there was a time when Joseph Gales 6tood alone among Congressional re porters ; and to still further illoslrate hs position in that line, we call to mind what we once heard an intimate friend of Mr. Webster say we owed to him and his wife with regard to the celebrated reply to Mr. Hayue. Meeting the Massachusetts Sena tor as he was going to the Capitol oc that morning, Mr. Gales inquired of him how long he intended to speak ; aboul half an hour was the reply. The editor's duties at that time were pressing; but he ventured to take 60 much time from them. Mr. Webster, however, shortly after met Judge Story, who eaid lhat be thought the timo bad come to give the country his views ou the Constitution. Mr. Gales took up his pencil unaware of the new arrangement, and alike uncon scious of lha lapse of lime under the en chantment of the orator, and consequently he wrote on until the close of the spell. Some days passed away, and the "proof of the speech not appearing, Mr. Webster called on the reporter, and made inquiry. "I have the notes," said Mr. Gales, "and Ihey are at your service, as 1 shall never find time to write tbem out." This led to some remonstrance and persuasion, but the overtasked editor siood firm. Then Mrs. Gales came to his rescue, by saying that she thought she could decipher her hns. band's hort hand, as she had formerly oc casionally done po Mr. Gales doubted, seeing that it was fifteen years since she had tried it But she bad heard the speech,' and a the resistless sweep of its arguments and the gorgeous aud massive magnificence of its imagery were yet vivid on her mind, she persisted in undertaking the difficult work. In due time thereafter, the fair manuscript came to the hand of Mr. Web ster for final correction. Scarcely a word needed to be changed ; and soon a set of diamonds costing a thousand dollars, ac companied the rick thanks of the eloquent statesman. Thus was saved to literalure the most memorable oration of ihe American Senate. It is conferring a kindness to deny at once a favor which yon intend to refuse at last. Neoro Eqcalitt. The voters of New tv3 3 . i cn
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