CHRONICLE LEWIS BURG I The Lewisburc Chronicle. 4T lIUPntllT rAMILT jot7!ai, Tnued on Friday Morning; at Jswitlurg, fTnion county, Pennsylvania. tl 74 irnai'l within th're month: $-, if Pid a yr- jiju if not palU butjre the year expiree ; 4 HflMM $1.50 vr v.er. r-r wn arraanv in .uT.no-. ete fur 4BaTistnvr handsomely inrtl at SO cents p r square one vevk. 2b cent rach KuWqiieot inwrtion. f.i year. Two a4uarra.tr Co- all months iT f-r a y.ar. Mercantile adrerlnriifiit. not excee'lini? one fourth of a column, ll a year, Half quar.-. a hall price. Yearly ndeertimentn under half a j-tre. M rent per line 18 44awe to aaquare Ion primer, 16 brevier. VI nonnareil. Uiaenattnuaneea optional with the Publisher, when all ,iea are not paid; and I nterort on all account., due. Commnnicanons no'teiteii on io;im 01 general itmrei -eaat within the rauire of parly or eertarian contest. All letter to rotue poet-paid, aerompauied by the name si.. addrwe of Die writer, t r.-eeire attention. ei-Tlws-. relating exHuivlv to the Kdilnrial Hepartment. to he directed to IlKNav C. IIikk. v.u.. vi.tor and those on uiineae matter to O. X. Woaitcy, 1 ItWiiAer. The MAGNETIC Ttl.KUKAI'll i located in the nfBee Cjf the Ctranic'e. and arrangement are made to obtain Beea from the fcaat in advance of the Mails. Connected with the Offiee are ample materials ffr mort lrl. ..rmn PBTNTrNr. which will he executed with Beninese and despatch and on reasonable terms. 09lcw on Market Square, north aide, eacond story, 3d uor above the r-ost oniee. o. N. woBDEir, Proprietor. ttnnir'i' VOTi'l) ft Mll) IViYl HI'. Jli J iiiiil iiil SiiiiUilJSilJU t 7t to" 1 JlTXE 2, li4. Lewlsbnre, Centre & Spruce Creek Railroad. RAILROAD CONVENTION. A Mass Meeting of the Friends of the Lewisburj, Center Si Spruce Creek Rail Unad, will be held on l'mrur, the 9th of June inst., at OLD TOUT, Center county. This is a matter of great importance to our Farmers, who should niitke every effort to secure the early coniincuecnieiit and completion of the Koad. Aaronsburg Berichter. Ig-We hope our readers in Union and Ccuter counties, will remember the above mecting-FElDAV, of next wttK-and ' as many attend as possible. Improvements ; ("Ofirove Hall of that kind can not be made without j Forest Hill much and long-continued work. j Forest Iron Works At the Mifflinburg meeting, it was rec- j Frceburg ommended that all the subscription 1 'artleton -...... n , j it . i Kratrersviile - Looks in I. nion, Ccuter, and Huntingdon jtfCnsvje couutics be compared about the oOth of ( jeTrifciUrg June, and the amount subscribed thcu i Middleburg ascertained. We fear that, in some sec-' Mifflinburg lions, a thorough canvass has not been ' Middle Creek made. Shall it be attended to 7 'Kfs ! Mt. Pleasant Mill Committees to ohtain Suhscription. Buffiibe Manin Drie$bach, Col. P. Ituhl, West Buffet David Watson, David Sliaf-1 ftr, Henry Zellers. HmrMone John Siee s. tanner. Httrtlri Mark Halfpenny, John WilLBenj. Mench, Jacob Braucher. Al JJlmburg Geo. Dreisbach. iaaWe have, as usual, manv discoura - ..r ! r. .11.. -.... V... ging repuM- ui .Jiw."".- s-eu - rj the fly, and fruit killed by tbe frost : yet the prospect for the former is on the whole good in this region, and first-rate for fruit. The West promises unprecedented crops. 3TA notice in our last of the wheat ,crep in the south part of this county, read that it was " but slightly winterkilled, especially of that drilled in." Some have misapprehended the meaning of the sen tence. It means that the wheat drilled in is not as bad'.y killed as that sown broad cast and plowed or harrowed in. Battalion Day Saturday last was bright and beautiful, and many came to town to enjoy it. Here were four Com panies represented, viz. Lewisburg Infantry, of Lcwisburg, Uuioa Cameron Guards do Emmitt Guards, of Selinsgrove, Pollock Guards, of Crotzersville ; the latter a new company, not yet fully complete in its organization. Next Monday is appointed for the Elec tion of a Brigade Inspector aud Brigadier General. Capt. Emmitt and Maj. Simon- ton are candidates for the Inspectorship. Fatal Accident. On Sunday last, as Mr. Brown, a young man from Maine, was conveying a daughter of Mr. Philip Kaotx from tbe Maine Saw Mill in Selins grove to her home on the Frceburg road, the horse took fright while going down a bill in sight of Mr. Kantz's. At the foot of the hill.but a few feet from her father's house, the young lady was thrown out upon the Bridge, and was so injured that she died in a very few moments. Mr. B. was also thrown out, had an arm broken, and was otherwise badly bruised. A sister of the deceased was the only one who saw the catastrophe, but knew not who the . sufferer was until she bad gone and raised Ler up! The attention of Assessors, as well as School Directors, is invited to the follow ing section of tbe New School Law. It : takes effect immediately : Sec. 35. That it shall be the duty of ue several assessors to assesss such per sons as may remove iuto their respective districts between the last assessment and ' the first of May in each year, or who may Jure been omitted from the last assess ment, and to return their names with the " amount of State and County tax payable by each, to the Board of School Directors, ' who shall thereupon assess the amount of aSchaoI tax payable by such persons, which tax cb.aU be collected u in other cases, j gTIie following Sons Miltonic spirit. e cup it from a late Philad. Daily Register : KtBRASKATHK ECLIPSE. " filing b the heaven in black!" Let darkneaj reign. That fierce frulhun put out the natinri'e eyael Blinded and ahorn, the ftiaut North now lies penetrate campeoD, wmuiup, in Die pami Tie fit kind nature, witu funereal train. . Barken the earth iien truth and freedom diesl , ijg jjt sca drawa nixht'a eurtain o'er the akiea Ww Mc. riilahi lure, and not in Tain. H ansa ! maddened with brief eciipen - Vn note "h'f.tls thf piUart with his handV wbat rerka he if the Temple fall or atand, while Dagnn-worahip cmeara men'a lying lipal ' Ha "bowed himaelf with all hia life's endeavor. ( . ' we, in eHlgicc ttrenglh, and Slavery pits rox KVllil IT !C, PLYM0UTI1 ROCK. Impobtant Act. An act has been passed Ly the Legislature and approved by the Governor changing the mode of creating and dividing election districts in I this Commonwealth. UpOH the petition : , .,. . e 1 . of one third of the voters of any election d;strjct) presented to tic Court of Quarter SessioDS' lt su11 be lawful fr sncu Court to order an election in such district upon tho question of the location or change of , ., ... ... ,. 6 the place of holding elections. 1 be scc- ond section of this act gives the Courts authority to divide any borough, ward, or township iuto one or more election dis tricts, or to form an election district out of parts of two or mure townships, to suit the convenience and wishes of the inhabi tants thereof. No district thus formed shall contain less than one hundred voters. Pothville Remitter. itayTiie following is revised alphabetical List of Post Offices and Post Masters in Union county. Ojj'u t. Post Muster. Beaver Town - Geo. A. Smith l?eaver Springs (Adanisburg) Reub Keller KiifT.tlue X Roads Jas M't'leight Joliu Hcrrold Fasnaueht A. liucchtel Amon 11. Lutz im' Vi!'ier ....euuU,o,u. James .Madden George Keen II. W. Crotzer R. W. Smith - John Forstcr - Wm Barth II. N. Backhus John Sehnce New Rcrlin New Columbia - II. D. Maize I - M.Seehler! enns Creek (tenterville) - W m. Bogar Selinsgrove - J. ill. App Jesse M. Walter W infield White Deer Mills Jonas Fisher mmti V uuig uudiu uuuv J'l-iaoiin eujj gested as Superintendent of Common i Seliools for I'nion Coontv Tarn nf thesn - - - , . .J , : f'Jessrs'. 01 IBe rrceourg Aca- demy and Fisher, of the Mifflinburg Aca demy) are already successfully engaged in the cause of Education, iu important loca- lities. Mr. James Aiken is at present ! . , , , , , not thus engaged : and those who know bis life-long experience in the common school vocation, and bis adaptedness to the , , , . , station of geueral adviser, overseer, and encourager, we thiuk will agree with us that no better choice could be made. We write this without the knowledge of Mr. A., and have no authority to announce li i in as a candidate : at the same time we believe, if the School Directors of Union county should freely appoint him to this important and honorable position capable of conferring so much lasting good upon the rising generation, in this eventful period his right feelings would not per mit him to decline the service. Next Monday, the School Directors of the several counties meet to select their Superintendent, and to fix his salary. William Tweed Esq., of Turbutville, has been recommended as Superintendent for Northumberland county, and Rev.A.H. Lackey, of Jersey Shore, for Lycoming. Robert C. Boss, of Lewistown, for Mif flin county. Union Seminary. The West Penn'a Conference of the Evangelical Association (Albright Church,) are making vigorous efforts to found a good Literary Institution at New Berlin. Kev. W.W. Obwio says in a lata No. of their Messenger "Thus far we have succeeded beyond all expectation. INcw Berlin (including its immediate vicinity) has subscribed over five thousand dollars. Buffalo Valley has pro- duced the firot five hundred dollar subscrip-1 tion (M.D.), and one of four hundred dol-1 lars (J. Z.) Dry Valley bas made a good begiuuiog, and wo now calculate on ten thousand dollars in Union county. Have we not succeeded well f "We now aim at thirty thousand dollars. and hope we shall not be disappointed. We find, however, one difficulty : our friends, have hitherto, generally, been accustomed to subscribe but 5, 10, 'id aud at most 50 dollars to benevolent purposes. Five hun dred, and a thousand, not to say five aud ten thousand dollar subscriptions, have never been heard of in our 'church, altho' such subscriptions are not seldom in many other churches. Buying farms for ten and fifteen thousand dollars, and building hou ses and barns that cost from one to two thousand dollara,is nothing unusual among the members of our church : but subscrib ing .& paying fivt hundred or thousand LEWISBURG, UNION crto considered impossible. But the way to this is now being broke, and 1 trust we shall have more subscriptions, not for the sake of glorying, but for the sake of hum anity, and for the sake of God and immor tal souls ; for certainly we are but stewards of God in this life, and woe unto us if wo are not faithful in the use and distribution of our Lord's property !" Rev. Simon Wolfe is an Agent for the Seminary. The missouri Repudiation. The Nebraska bill is of great length, and much of it mere vorbiage, which no body would read if we were to print it. It vests in the Governors (appointed at Wa shington) of the two new Territories a Veto on the acts of the Territorial Legislature, vest the Right of Suffrage in free uhitet exclusively (including all the foreign-born who shall have declared their inteution and sworn to support She Constitution of the United States)and disposes of the Missouri Inhibition of Slavery in those Territories in this backhanded fashion : Sec. 2. Anil be it further enacted, That the Constitution and all laws of the United States which are not locally inap plicable, shall haye the eame force and ef fect within the said Territory of Kansas as elsewhere within the I oUed Mutes, except the eighth section of the act preparatory to the admission of Missouri into the Union, approved March C, 1820, which, being in consistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with Slavery in the States and Territories, as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true in tent and meaning of this act not to legis late Slavery iuto any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Consti tution of the United States : Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be con- fitrliefl fn roi'ivrt nr mil. in fr.rco anw l.v ne I rcu'aton which may have existed prior t0 lne act , Warcu Uj iSU) eituer protect in prohibiting or abolishing Slavery in the Territory. THE WHOLE VOTE. llrmocrati. Whig ir F.S. Absent. for. Agamic lor. Acainac. vara itatis. Maine 1 3 0 4 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 4 0 I 0 14 0 1 0 9 0 10 0 I 0 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 53 0 0 2 1 1 0 s 1 I 3 2 1 0 I 1 0 15 1 3 1 0 3 0 3 0 1 1 0 0 I 0 3 15 15 30 -New Hampshire 3 2 Massachusetts Khoitc Island Vermont Connecticut 3 0 2 3 9 12 3 2 New York ! ivt jersey I Pennsylvania 12 4 8 5 4 0 3 4 i Ohio I Indiana Illinois i V.o2n ; Wisconsin I California 58 47 SlaVI STATES. Delaware 2 4 13 5 5 2 5 8 6 4' 3 4 3 4 4 j Maryland i j ir"lni ! iSorth Carolina , S()Ulh Carolina j Florida , fprKia Alabama Mississippi Louisiana Arkansas ' Missouri ennesl,f e Kentucky 72 3 53 47 20 8 0 58 130 50 20 C6 Recapitulation. For. Democrats from North 58 47 do South 72 3 130 50180 Whigs from North 0 58 do South 20 8 20 CC 86 Absentees 80 Total members both Houses 29C Total for bill 150 against do. 116 Absent 30146 Bern. maj. for bill 80 Whig maj. against bill 46 The Democratic Members ia the lTouFe, from either New York, Pennsylvania or Indiana, could have defeated the bill. The rotes from Maine, New Hampshire, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania,and several other States, were cast in direct , j ;nr.Innt Ar,,. f L- !, ;n tjlJ j,,, j P P We give in full the names of the Trai tors to Freedom from the Free States in each House, who voted for the Bill ; also of the honorable men from the South who voted against the perfidious act. Whigs in Italics, Dem. iu Roman. For the Bill. Maine Moses M'Donald 1. New Hampshire M oses Norris, Jared W.Williams (Senators,) Har.Hibbard 3. Massachusetts None 1 Vermont None ! Rhode Island Aone Connecticut Isaac Toucey (Senator,) Colin M. Ingcrsoll 2. New Yokk Thos W. Cumming, Frs B. Cutting, Peter Howe, John J. Taylor, Wm.M-Tweed, Hiram Walbridgo, Wm.A. Walker,MikW!sh,Th COUNTY, PENN., FRIDAY, JUNE 2, 1854. Nkw Jersey John R. Thompson (be- nator,) Saml Lilly, Geo. Vail 3. Pennsylvania. Richard Broadbcad, (Senator,) Samuel A. Bridges, John L. Dawson, Thomas B. Florence, J. Glaney Jones, William H. Kurtz, John McNair, Asa Packer, John Bobbins, Jr., Christian M. Straub, William II. Witte. llendriek B. Wright 12. Ouio David T.Disney, Fred. W.Green, Edsnn B. Olds, Wilson Shannon I. Indiana John Pettit (Senator,) John G. Davis, Cyrus L. Dunham, Norman Eddy, Wm.H. English, Tho. A. Hendricks, James II. Lane, Smith Miller 8. Illinois Stephen Arnold Donglas, Jas Shields (Senators,) Jas.C.Allen, Willis Allen, Wm. A. Richardson 5. Michigan Lewis Cass, Cbas.E.Stuart, (Senators,) Saml Clark, David Stuart 4. Wisconsin JVW Iowa Augs. C. Dodge, Geo. W.Jones, (Senators,) Bernhart Henn 3. California Wm. M. Gwin, John B. Weller (Senators,) Milton S. Latham, J. A. M'Dougall 4. Against the Bnx. Pennsylvania Josqm R. Chandler, Carlton B. Curtis, Juhn Dick, Augustus Drum, William Everliart, James Gamble, Galusha A. Grow, iic E. Wester, Tltu$. M. limee, John McCulloeh, Ker Hiddlet icarth, David Ritchie, Samuel L. Russell, .Michael C Trout 14. Southern States. Virginia John S. Millson 1. NoRtn Carolina Richard C. Pur- I year, ijion U. Rmjen 2. TtsnrysEEJohn IMl,(Senator,) Wm. Culloni, RrJvrt M. lhj,j Lmerson Ether - uiftr. lytitn'iniet ir. jtirtvr v. Louisiana Theodore. G. Hunt 1. ' Missouri Thomas II. Benton 1. Tkxas Samuel Houston (Seuator) 1. Total 8 Whigs, 3 Democrats 11. Absent, or not Voting. Pennsylvania JamcCooner, (Sen.) From e States-Vw:,58D. 12 21 -its consequences, But the deed is done no man can tell ! HOPES. vrhen f am a man ' la tlia TMietev nf Childhoail. ! enh-n 1 aa vnurf!" ia the mietrv cfUM Aire. Ye beautiful hopes of Boyhood ! Where have ye strayed away ! Gone like the summer shower. Passed like the summer day ! I see your bright eye glancing By the brook and in ihe eltn ; Te beautiful hopes of Boyhood, . Come ye not back again? Te beautiful hopes of Manhood, Image of Boyhood's hour, I feel your warm breath on me. And oh! its thrilling power! And I heanyonr anqel foot-fa 111 In the breeze that fans me now ; ' And the touch of your gentle 6ngers In the coolness of my brow. All snnlight are your pinions, All golden is your track ; And the silver of yonr whisper Says we are coming back : Here take this crystal tear drop, From purest joy distilled ; O beautiful hopes of Manhood, My fond heart ye have filled ! You're singing yonr organ-anthem In the chambers' of my soul, And the musical waves come rolling As waves of the ocean roll : With snowy wings now folded, On with the syren song; Ye beautiful hopes of Manhood, Will ye not tarry long ! Latin, Greek, and English. education of bots. The following article contains so much of sober truth and wholesome common sense, that we transfer it bodily to our columns, notwithstanding its length. We invoke for it a careful perusal. Ed. C'Aron. AnvasriD LaTiti ExnciEa,fnVA Selections for Reading. Revised, with additions. There is enough within the lids of this little book, sent us by the Philadelphia publishers, to ensure the long continued wretchedness of many a fine, bright-eyed boy. We can imagine it thumbed into dog-ears,and ornamented with pencil-draw ings of innumerable animals not yet classi fied by naturalists; and wc could wish it tossed into a corner with all the old lexi cons, dictionaries, and other ingenious con trivances of past ages for stultifying boys and driving them in illimitable hopeless ness of learning any thing,to kites, marbles, and prisoner's base. Here we have talk about "ordinabj" and "cardinals," "co ordinate" and "inverted propositions," " potasis," " predicates " and " apodosis ;" " avidem " follows the " pracnomen " and " the enclitics que,ne, ve, are annex ed," &c. In the performance of our duty as a critic, wc have not shruuk from look ing over the abridged rules and portions of tbe exercises, though at tho imminent and momentary risk of lock-jaw. We have hardly yet sufficiently recovered to tender our sympathy in advance to the wretched boys over whom tuis aud similar books are impending. Our recollections are yet fresh of the miseries we endured in youth, of the useless years we spent on the hard benches of an academy, turning over tbe leaves of Doncegan and Ainsworth, puzzling our brains with tbe abstractions of Anthon and Valpy, Adams and Ruddiman, and play ing " head or point " over Latin exercises, or, when the master was too vigilant for that, dosing until intermission, and dream ing of tbe exciting pleasures of foot-ball or cricket ''-- How bitterly bar we regratted those misspent years ! If they had been devoted to the study of natural hiotory, botany, geology, chcmistrypbjsical science, mathe matics, machinery, drawing, the arts of industrial life, music, phonography and book-keeping, we might have been prepared to enter upon the duties of life on a foot ing of equality with what arc styled "self taught men;" we might have been useful to our day and generation as an inventor, a man of science, a thorough business man or an artist. But alas I the bright d:tys f . youth were passed the acquisition of languages, which have been as useful to us as the lingo of a tribe of missionary eating Kamschatkan. Latin and Greek may and should be studied by certain persons; but English should first be studied, and no unneces sary difficulties interposed. Some well-meaning, goodish people put a stripling to learning Latin, as the read iest way of learning English. One throws light on the other, they say. And- so they would recommend a medical student to spend all his time on geology, a law student in Pennsylvania to devote himself to the codes in force in China and the East Indies, and a soldier to learn feiicing by throwing knives a lit L'hinoie. No, to learn English, one must study Engli.-h But it is said that many words ia English are similar to words in Latin. Granted: j tQ j jf you gtu,jy iin, WCH ; English, 1 n, Kcn thcm . . . . . , cl,A.,l.l ,..af l.nm in I ,hn w li ir-h auburn juu :: mvs. ... you do not know. If you h ive studied the foice in English of the cousonantal frame ij n or i n of a radix, in the words, ! nexus, vcneral, we-jieratc, wenesis, genitive, ,1,,;i ,i,.:i ,,;,,. .Hnptlii;:u. ', Ariiidred, He., you win coniprenenu similar Latin words at a glance. Take auother case : P L, often changed into F L, is ; not know, and of whose work we can speak a consonantal frame found in several ' freely, has mala a botch even in abridg languages. Its general sense is Jd. We ; fg the rules. Page 110, we find a defini find it in English in an immense family . tion of the participle which, though it of words. We give a few of the principal i would serve at pinch for the present and ones : i perfect, does not include the future. Fif- I'ty Com ply 'i-ant Com ii-cate t-form Com-t-meat Pi-cate Com-jiic-ity " 7ex-us ris.it He-ply Apr, Sun-nr Ite-rfex ' Re-7iWrs?tt1tlr3fect Kup-i-ant Coo-p e l'er-eX l'UX t'om-firi Pint Oorut-ative Cum-ctae Snn-ne t'oli How easy it is to learn in English the force of this consonantal radical rd. All that is necessary is to group together the words in which it occurs, aud its ireneral meaning is apparent. But what boy under twenty ever discovers that rotqileko in Greek, or comjdico in Latin, has any con nection with covple iu English? If he knows what the radical is in bis own lan guage and comprehends its meaning, he will be at no loss to master, vttliout a die tionary, the meaning of over a hundred words in Greek, a hundred and nioctv in Latin, and nearly as many in each of the languages derived from Latin. In French alone, he would translate at sight the large nuniDcr ot derivatives troin plier, piascr, floyer, txpliquer, &c. A boy has no business with the abstrac tions of grammar. He learns English by hearing it spoken by intelligent persons. When he is old enough to turn Lis attcn- tion to its formation, the most important thing for him to know is that every guage consists ot a lew raaicaiana numer- ous aenvauve or seconaary worus; mai m, v, b, p, and , change easily into each other, while the same is true of:, t, f, th, and d, and of other families of letters; and that the meaning of the radical consonan tal frame is modified by prefixes, suffixes and substitution of intermediate vowels. Show him that the general idea of division or separation or cutting may be applied to the catting up of an apple for distribution (share,') to the political division cf terri tory (shire,') to the separation of wool from a sheep's back (sAear and shorn,) to the division line between land aud ocean (shore,) to the abbreviated state of a thing divided (short,) to tho quality of a cutting instrument (liarp,)or to indicate the came of an animal formidably armed for cutting up Lis prey (sfiarl;) and you will have little trouble in teaching him the force of the consonants sh-r in a radical syllable ; or, if you would demonstrate to him that radical words are connoted by affiliations of meaning, that roughness of surface, harshness of sound, irregularity, or rude ness or motion, are expressed by words bearing certain resemblances, show him the r and the guttural g or gh, It cr ck, or the modified guttural ch or nch in every such word. Raj and Rough, Rugged and Rugged, Rag Ala aud w fin& led, RJce, Rock and eRag, are words growing out of the same general idea of rough surface ; bh-i?ug, Reach, 7etrA,and bAta, indicate modifications of the same kind of action ; and, in the world of sound, cRote, cR&Jc, cRctk, scA'eai, sh j?ie&, acReach, eA'auncA, have an unmistakable affinity. Each one of these words is the head of a family, corresponding to one in Saxon, Latin, Ger man, and. other languages. The raical in English do not much exceed a thousand; in German, Becker has reduced them to about six hundred ; in French, Charassin and Francois to about fifteen buudred; aud in Latin or Greek, they do not num ber more than seven or eight buudied. To compi le, theu, a book of exercise on any larguagtue best plan would bit to let tlietu turn on the radical words. These once mastered in every possible combina tion, it would be eay to master all the de rivatives by a study of formation of words aud permutation of letters. To arrive at ttna point, if agisted by proper Looks, ana : an intelligent and sxiitul teacuer tnornugn- jlu f...niTw. mill U ika l.nmt.MA In Ka llllrrltt j laiuiiiei eun i u v uuguit. iv " 1 , would require from six to eight weeks for an average boy. The diutinury should be superseded by interlinear translation and oral instruction. Subsequent practice in reading, speaking and writiug, would teach syntactical construction aud secondary meanings of words. Neither the Latin, German, French, nor other language closely connected with the English, should occupy more than from three to six mouths of the time of any boy of ordinary mental calibre. That it does so is owing to the'ignnranee and bad meth ods of teachers. Of all the professors in the American college we doubt whether more than one or two can speak Latin fluently aud correctly; a few others may write it after a fashion ; but the mas are miserable smatterers, spite of all their i a i .. - . ,e j- j j in F rench or German should offer t ) teach j one of those Lngnagcs in a college, thee j " know-nothing " Latin professors would ' trraT 11 V. II tLTIV OrtR Dl fflllTll SUA iniiielll.3 ! be the first to sanction the kicking out of Itown such an arrant humbus. lue most i 'SPf V? rpetratcd by these jcn-gauv uuug.-.rz. m nn ttle book -be- i fore us, the A'uencao editor, whom we do Flet j ,ecn mortal p-"ges are devoted to the geni-J-Yex-ible, . tive case ; its use is described in the drv- est manner in eleven tedious rules ; and yet a construction so common as tunc tern- poris is nowhere alluded to, nor is the true ! meaning of the genitive made clear. We must here close. Our article has gTcwo to an enonuouse size. We offer no ! aP"In?y T -5. The fu! 'portant enough to justify a treat ubject is im- ment more I elaborate than tbe multiplied cares of a tally paper permit ns to bestow. It is melaui hjly to reflect hew many boy are repulsed from learning by methods which make learning dift.-u'.t ; bow many rosy checked, promising youths arc stupeGed by tho viin attempt to bore into their Dra,ns tne attractions or parchment-Iaeed : gr"nans. i a-:a ,r. Lh,y ue,jxt-r. A Fanciful Gate. A correspondent of the Home Journal givci a pleasant account of a gate be pass- ci throujh. The cute was a common one. shut by a chain and bail. But the post to which, the inner end of the chain was attached was curved ami painted in the likeness of a negro, with cu hand raised .,0 nis ,atf au1 the otnor nd,., to weCome you in. As vou oresned the lan-lgate towani ou ; goiag iri) the wgTn p08t,pu;ntcr font toward you, by a joint ia ni. oacK fj.. Lowiaz you in. I'ccn letting the gate go to, a spring in his back ' broorht him np standing" again, ready for the nct com-.r. This faithful follow performed the amub'e for bis master for many years, without reward, except now and then a new coat of paint ; and finally died of a rheumatic back, contracted in his master s service. New Tiibeb Cent Pucks. A new three cent coin has been issued from the United States mint They bear date 1854, and differ from the old coin in bein" of pure silver, somewhat thinner, and a trifle larger. The star, also, is surrounded by a raised line, whilo the space over III, on tbe opposite side, and within the C, 4s a sprig, and underneath a quiver of arrows. Tho new coin is much pref -rable to the old in appearance. Nebraska. The following good one is from a Western exchange : Wta-n S-.! coold't rllmb tbe wall Of Pamd'e. to p-er. in. He (ret a anake with tnraej tonM Ik-ncath tli gule w creep in. So when Nebeanka'a vfrviti er.il Hie eraty l.a. a he d leave iu. "H li-.'li w uj r-i 'IK no ' be rriee : -Lo Lere atu t,: aaye Stcj hen. On Saturday last, in 1'incinuati, a dog supposed to ba mad, bit a man severely in the thigh and arm A blacksmith attempt ed to shoot the dog, but Lis pun burst, horribly lareraling hi arm, so that L will probably lose it. The A. was at fcvt killed. - Ui'bsias Idea op as Anofl. Pnneb says Nicholas has called his brother in-law. tbe King of Prussia, " an angel of peace.'" An angel after the Russian view has, of course, two wings one of iufautry, and one of arlCkry. .-...-', VOLUME XI NO. 9. "WnoLE Ncxber, 529. mm Me .Vent Fx IWoane. Anotter Eemedj tor Potato Rot. We know the wiir of the following as an intelligent and clofe observer, who ' is not likely to be the dupe of his own fancy, and we shnll at least put faith enough iu hia theory to subject it to Mm test of expjriccce. His observations ao the cause of Potato Rot are withheld, siaee there seems to be no serious demur to the presumptiou that said ci'is is t-) be found in the ravages of an exceedingly minute, quick -darting, winded insect, as our comae pondeut affirms. He informs us that thene insects have already rondo their appearance in bis garden this spring, and that ihejy are likely to be exceedingly destructive this season unless counteracted. Here is his Remedi run Potato Rot. Take of hard wood charcoal dust, made fine by grinding in a plaster or other mill, fire' parts by measure ; one p".rt of fine slacked lime, or in the absence of lime, plaster of Paris, (gypsum) ; mix well together. Then make small neks of coarse open cotton cloth, that will contain three or four, quarts; fi'l the bag with tba mixture; take the bag and shake some of tJu dx upon the polato I-.v- ', whih t!0 dew u on the tops. Li'.- c. j J?rj2 vry r-.p-. idly, as the furnace '. .- !ctj Li molds. I would neuri.T.-,i.J '..i-i to done twice in the season, i.t ; .--.inacili perioi's. I do not n 'y on the liuse or p!sr ter only to male tri? hnvoxl tiast stick to the leav'"?. li. h v.. !t k:iou that no in sect will chouse to live noar c'larooal for JreasoLs which checiitj asign therefr-ra ciiarcoai dusi is kuo rcuicuy. xrj it; wtopvor ap?l.OVcj the cause will approve j((f tie ren:cdy whoever tries the remedy, ; e tlie caluc , ' t t i . - i rr I am ready to compare notes and argue agaiutt any other Potato Rot theory that is uiado puolic, f cl in most of them I will take their theory to prove mine correct.. Yours, James Richardson, . West Poultney.Tt Frif.sd GREELcr : If my theory, after critical examination by good judges, and pnetiee, is found to be correct, I shall be willing to take any premium that is now offered to competitors. Yon are at liberty to make what use you see fit, the publie, and my interest being mutual. i. a. " sa-I rarely if ever knew an early -rising;, hard-working, prudent man, and careful of his earnings, and strictly bonnet, who eom plained of bad luck. A good character, good habits, and iron industry, are impreg nable tr the asaults of all the' ill luck ever dreamed of. But when I see a tatterde malion creeping out of a tavern late in the foreao-in, with hands st ick into his pock ets, the ritu of his hat turned np, and the crown ku vked H, I know he has Lad bad luck for tint worst &f all luck is to be a Iup'jrard, a knave, or a tippler. Dkpartmest of vaobast Dkv Goods. ic. It is said that one of the most inter !stinr departments of the crystal palace ihioiuou U th-t which is assigned to lost irtici'ts picked up by the policy. Among :Lcc thern are about three hundred hee cambric handierehiefs, some valued at 5o0. There are also a many veils, a large stock of gloves, an extensive assnrtment jf babies' shoe eud Ptockings, and soate hundred articles of jewelry, pieces of which raLga as high as $100 in value. -' Baltimork CoMinssiox House. If you want the services of a prompt and en ergetic firm, give Cakr, Giese & Co. a trial. These gentieuien are extensively engaged in the Grain and Lumber Com mission business and enjoy a high reputa tion for obtaining the highest prices and making q oick returns. Their card will be found in another column of this paper. n uuumprt Uaxtte. Human Lije versus Fbeioht. Chas. fl. Haswell, surveyor of sea steamers for :he Boards of Underwriters of New York, Philadelphia, Boston, and Lloyds, Lon don, in his tcstimoney before the Wyse court martial, stated, iu repiy tu a rj':e tion, that vessels were ofen u e fr car rying passenger, wh-eS w.mM not be ud for freight, t tur fjrn,:r ire-e vi.t i-:sredf On Monday m.-tuir a scVjoner wis -eized in Norfolk, (Va.) rTj a ci it'-.- cf 'laving carried off Fugitive S!acs f.-ou hat port. The first mate and ot, w .r.l tr.-b" rrcstcd, and it is stated that they testify that the Captaiu, w ho has not been taken, tol the negroes and landed them it New Bedford. ' " It is said " that a company of c.ipitjl sts bas been formed, with ex Governor Johnston at the head, which will bid SI 1.000,000 for the Main Line. The Camden and Amby Company whose pres :JeLt carries New T.-ry in his breeches packets, will piveSTg.Of'O.WI.. ' ; IlTMENiAt. 1 NaTs t (ion. Somebody ijvcrties for agents to sell a work entitled Iivinenial Instructor." A contemporary id-Is, " the best hy menial instructor we e , at i ' dow ot h a voung wiuow. tvnai sue lou't know there i no use learning." Tbe itock'iaou Gazette thus criticises a lew wors : receiveoj a dook eon- led, 'Arabella, a Talo of Tuadernete lite utb.ox is a fjol." .. . m , . j
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