Weekly Reveille, Volume 39, Number 52, Vevay, Switzerland County, 24 December 1856 — Page 2

■i e which impends over that ill-fated island front tlit short crop of lawyers, which has thrown o gloom over it the present season. We sec by the late Dublin papers that at the last term of the Court of Queen's Bench there, only four applicants were called to tho bar! This scarcity tnnst be the more alarming from its being entirely imlooked for. That, potatoes might rot ami that corn crops might fail everybody know; but that lawyers should ever cease from off the earth, who ever could have dreamed? •

bosom Mill heaved. ami lUd silent tear: if Ihiwcd/sht murmured,‘‘lliy will be done.”; s; Meanwhile the other angels had . been j , bending over tho child—already were tUe j v death damps gathering oh that fair brow; ; ti they silently waved bath the gtiio messeu- ; g gcr, and brought cordials from life giving' n I founts, failed back the faM departing breath j 1 with their shining wings, and etc the raor-1 ntng dawned color had ■ returned to tho, o&hcu lips and pallid cheek—waimptb to . 0 the icy limbs—light to the darkened eye—; t love bounds to the hnshsJ ’voice if the t Vhild —deep fervent joy and thankfulness; • to the mothers heart. ' Will she ever for* get the Christmas* angels that gave her darting back to life? . • < , 1 There a Way up many flights of stairs flcw'the winged spirits into a cold, miserr , able garret. Upon a heap,,.of straw in one comer lay a wretched looking boy—ibis mailed locks—his tattered-garments ' and tear-stained cheeks bespoke the or* < phan. Love. Memory, Hope and the an- , gel of Dreams oniled their gifts, and gave j him a Pbright, beautiful vision, one that i would over haunt him as something holy, j 'Again had he a happy home, loving parents and kindly■ words; again did the j dark-browed angel of Sorrow fold its j j-wingsnround him, and" agaju he felt o i (mother's dying kiss npon,hi? lips, ami 1 liMcncdTo her last wonle, “Strive to do ( right, my bod and remembcr lbtit God i* thy friend.” ■lle'Tuvoko with a saddened memory hot bighthoughts and noble pur poses were, in his youthful beait, and his hopes ' were, raised; : Ids.' energies t Iren gib cued by Ins Christmas dream. Yet . another gift had lloy/ They descended to the strcets'of. mighty city, 1 seeking nppnwbpra to bestow U. A child, 1 a slight child had wandered through the street? from early down uhtiU nightf.il); begging a.morsi-'l of brcad; rudely was she repulsed; bitterly cold blew , the wind _ r through those thin ghrmunis, and those 1 silken cmU that had oticc been i/mother’’* ■ pride hung in tangled around her thin face. Her little bare feet and hands I were benumbed-with tho cold arid rim sunk down upon a deserted, step, leaning ker r wo.iry head against the cold iron rajling; 1 her blue lips parted,"and she sadly* moaned l through her tears, “Oiil molhei! darling ; mother, why wont you came foryonr poor | Ullic? you promised to come; and she Joes not love to stay where it is so cold. J Tenderly did the loving angels take the 1 child in their arms, and flinging aside t her inde garments, gave her one of spotless purity, ami bore her back with them . to their glorious homo; 1 Mother, Home, Love and Heaven—all are thy gifts, poor Lihic; on this fair e: ChriMmas morn, il Warsaw, Ky.

Massachusetts and Maine, I have left a 1 wotk thal will defy the malice and con*! ceit 6f all snch weak, and foolish things ‘ j as the Vbvny Xews, both otv the score of : j, business and politics. I have lived more \ I than half a century, and never voted any i other than the’regular democratic ticket. 1 To aay holWag of my political standing * at the,East, my first, vote was cast in Ohio. ( I was at one-time (Editor of the Cincin- 1 null Enquirer, and gave, so far os I know, v entire satisfaction tu the Western Dcraoc- 1 racy, as I.had done, daring nearly twenty ! years service, in that capacity to tho De- , mocracy of the East. I should have been , editor of the Enquirer, to-day, probably, it ill-health had not compelled me tu J leave it, as I had done before, for the , same cause, tho Eastern Argus, tho lead- j ing democratic organ of Maine. Ill; j health has'prevented roe from taking as 1 active a part in politics, since I came | "here, as I otherwise would have done. Sot still, 1 have found! opportunity to write occasionally for democratic papers, both East and West, ana have endeavored, in all proper waysTo ijonlribnto my mite towards the.' success? of correct political principles. " I have generally been able to attend our County ppnventures, as' well as’- tho Joint Conventions of LotlrCounties,'and pending the I pre-. sided at both tho Q'oiinly.andJoint Con-, vcotionx, to the satisfaction, Tltcliove, of both.; Two years before/1 was nominated for the .Senate |>y the Joint Convention; and defeated, as all (lic demoeratic nominees.Were, that year, I had reason to l» more |han satisfied with the . vote given me/ ns |L was' defeated by ft far Icss.mnjqrity Old and respectable citizens/who were On the same ticket, or tiid.diighly/ respectable candidates, who run oh the CongfMstoprtl-tickols in Ohio and Switzoilahd.V EycnVduring the Inst canvass, J contributed, my Unite, Imlh by occasional . public speaking! and ..with n|y jpen, towards the aggregate work, tliat ; ! gave ns so brilliant jSiicccss, It was'only jo mite*, compared with the vnM labor'of I I thought, and work done, by tho speakers land .workers ih the.good cause, in this State, and throughout the Union/ ’ Have I not shown good cause vhj I •should deem the puerile.attacks of the j: News contemptible, even were it elite J j with a Httle common sense. 1 think so. r j But it ha's neither tact nor talent. It is ’ I impotent for good, and harmless for evil. L |Thinl'.rato brciflcss lawyeVs make poor * I politicians and- worse editors. They are .generally demagogues and place huntorr.

Polygamy and Utah.

Judicial Cuaroe Aoaivst a Plctiutt op Wives.— At the July term of Uia First Judicial District Court of Utah Territory held at Genoa, in Carton consty, Jodge Drummond chanted the Grand Jury vary lorctbly aud earnestly tgaiott the illegality of poligamy. He called the attention of the jury to the section ofRevisod 8 fat* ties ol tho United State# prohibiting tha cohabiting of men and women fondly and lasciviously. He said there waa no sfattile regulating marriage in (he territory, and consequently that .nil ceremonies by tho people of that territory, called "sriri-. log,” are anything olber intheeye# of* the law than a legal marriage ceremony. Judge Dm hi ruondsaid: .. It is wholly useless and noonday madness for the Legislature to pass lawi.snd for the Federal Government to send judge# and attorneys here to exeente thbee laws, if the mandate of pne roan .elolhtfd with a priestly power *dd wholly mlcarned in the science of the law, is to be pemlttW to not only thwart the action of theUgUtatere of the Territory, hut .'boldly'ana openly bid jlefiance and sportive rebellion against the Federal authority nf the U-. nited Stales, and dictate to grand jurise when to find bills of indictmsnf and whe» to find bill# of indictment »nd_yrhen nqt. These things .cannot bo endued in • republican governments All these ms a, ihei afore, who bave a multiplicity of women residing with them, at the same boas* or at the same harem, are inMscta of yonr investigation. 1 have already instructed you that there is no law in this territory ; authorising nny one to perfoam marriage ceremonies, either in or out of (bichnrcn; and much as you may regret to do eo r it is nevenboloss your duly to respect the law of the land, and prefer hills of indictment against all suth as have not ken legally married in some other countries, and particularly when two or .more ‘ j women are found cohabiting with the sama ■ maa.' ' *

Wednesday, - - December 24, 1856.

Ti Corrc»l*o»tileiil<t TTP To notice con tw token u r anm.vmoni communlMlioiir. Wliolercr li Inteiulea fur iBKritiin in iil ' ba lulbentlcaleJ by the MUia nnu aititrew of Iho *rikp, not nrteivurily for publitatmn, ba « n JSleo or rood rail!.. Wo «cn« uuJcrUko to ’■ return rejected cnmmuntcatloiu.

IVVritien fjrltw UstcII!*. Crlotmas Gifts. i . . . pr uAijnsi hjiatu. , ; . Night hud folded her” mighty arms! around thejbroad cotIi), and the merry Cinihlitias eve had couio. Thousands of shining geuis .were glittering In the hlue canopy above, ami in the ceptre of the glorious pavilHon hung the great light, shining over the vast earth converting it into a place of beauty. The joyous rushing streams, now.coM and passionless in the embiaco of tho ice king, mirrpied calmly nil the beauty uhyve them, ami the snow that covoted everything as with a winding sheet, sp’arkled in the moonlight ami starlight, ns though the earth, had been strewn with diamonds;

To l*o»l-?Iaittrr. 1'Mr-Mukrt ulll oblige lb* fublijhcr, by Infoimlitff bltn '"r .ny plpcrs ibol are r,l token out of .befr tiie rvB*vn*, If sny nrc rittin. HijI* - rpqulroj IWj to bo Jon*. •

* River navigation iiclored. Cause —Hunting ice. (

hereby stale that Mr. Case did'not write the nilicle iu reference to the charges of the News.

BND l 0F THE VOLUME.

The picsent mniilicr- of jhe Ruvctixt completes the terics for 185G. Ad there ' vrillbc 53 Wednesdays iu the year, wp 'idsue no paper.r.cxt week. On the Wcdnwday in 1S57, Urn first number of the new volnmo will be ij-sued. Our Prospectus is out —wo hope our fmnds will send us largo lists of new buhr.cnhers for U357.

' (UV.ift-n f»r th# Hot«UU. ■ A Word to the Democracy of Switzer- * land ant! Ohio Counties, v I’ki.lowrCmzbs s : —T hose of ypQ who read the Ueveille, or the Ncws.wiil recollect thiil a pretty long anil pretty well writ-, icu article appeared in the.first named: paper. defending roe against the of the In tier, about, the middle of’ Autumn, if my recoilcctionVbc corrcct. M did not intend to take any notice of itJit.lbo'Ume (if its attacks, or of the ..article' in questmn, 1 If 1 had deemed.the course P! the Xfiws of the slightest consequence, I could t have replied, at ths-'tjiuc of its attacks, over my own name, and if/ a very different ; manner, from (he defense made. No; doubt it was well intended: and it was! generally considered very well done, hyj intelligent fairminded liicn of both par-1 ties; though some democrats thought it j was written hy one of the opposition.— ; From its candid tone and fairness, as well us from the knowledge itJ*Ahibited of-the7r«e ehuradtr of the News, I never d mbted that it was written, as it professed to be, hy a democrat; hut I had not then, and have not now, the slightest knowledge of its author,, . I write this article, not because.! deem any thing the* News has said, or can say , about me worth noticing; hut because! ; j good , wrote tba defense, or that, if I did not write it, I knew wh.o did, and had a Hand in it. The object of this communication ! is to relievo myself of all cause for such ! a belief; mid I hero repeat that 1 know ) nothing! of the wiitcr—and more, that I I have no suspicions as to who he may bo; II do not care a lig about his identity, far- ! ther than to put in this flat denial of nil j knowledge of him, mid to say that I was | sorry that any friend of mine should | deem an attack from such a spurco worthy (of any reply, but contempt and silence. j Having had cause for writing the above j paragraphs, the most of this sheet rn- | maining white, I hope it will not be J deemed odt of place if. I say a few words jin regard to myself, giving so.raereasons I why I deem the slacks' of-rac/i sheets as • the Nows harmless, so far as l am conI corned. No one need bo asli:2)ad of the ■ universal imperfect ions - of humanity.— j None but a pharisee or a fool .will pro- | lend to deny them .fur himself or his [friend. Perfection docs not belong to I this state of existence, if indeed it .bei longs to any created intelligence.* Put | some mew are honest and honorable, jast jand merciful, .and patriotic and intelliigent, whilo otbers nro so in pait; and I others the'vary opposite, in whole or in • part. , . ■■ /'■ ■■ ■. V .. '; ;V- * - j As for. niy.* lifo’has not been ispent in a corner,Vor in' idleness.' Tlinsi j far it has : bien spent in making "two ’ ■spears of grass grow, whereond grew be* | . fore.” During the short.lime 1 have been; , in this county, ! have car 80 or 40,000 ; cords of*wood;‘8omo thousands of dollars . worth 6f I timber--cleared. up from the ! - . • - ‘ . . ! sitimp more-than three ; hupdicd acres of land—built several ihiles of ed mure than 40C choice fruit tree.*, that have commenced bearing, and about 18 acres of vines, ten ones of. which are : trenched 24 inebes deep, walled, staked; , mid in bearing. Besides, whatever credit may bo due to others for their enterprise in the matter, and I am not disposed to deny a particle of it, bnt* rather to , acknowledge and commend it, it is donbtfvl whether there could have been any 1 mill or distillery in this town, without my efforts. : I have also, tinea 1 h&vo been here, built I on contract, in other States, six hundred ! miles of telegraph line. Ail this I have [done, and that too, while being all the j timo in poor health, and nearly half the time in very bad health. And in doing this 1 have circulated, I suppose, a good ’deal over 8100,000, mostly among labo- j rers. In Now England, ami especially In

Bright lights were glancing from every window, and strains of .tnnsic fell muffled, on the winter air, glad voices rose and echoed, ami joyonsaess seemed to he on fill things. • Surely good fairies mus t he abroad overt lid. whole land, so happy do all teem. Not fairies —angels. A bright hand of apj'cis have left their glorious home; and tloating through the btill ether, have glided from orhto orb, from sphere to sphere, from star to star, down to this beautiful hut corrupted, sinful emth, to scatter.their Christ in as gifts .among mortals. Hand in haud[ they speed through the moonlight over the crystal paved land, coramuuiugj sweetly together, and wafting blowing* on every breeze that fluttered past them. They entered u room, wheifl.sat an old man, weary with years, with the weight of "snows that never melt” upon his head. The. angel of Memory laid down her gift before him; it was a sweet sad picture of the past—of a fair young being that once leaned upon him for support—of beaut it ul children that gathered mound—of sorrows, bereavements, loneliness, with the snowwreaths clinging thick above their graves; hut ns the angel of Hope laid her gift before him, an expression of peaceful happiness pawed over his countenance and he mnrronrcd, ; ‘T thall moat them again and away again on.their mission of love, now leaving a gift in the hovel of poverty, and now in the abode of wealth. ;Auou they passed into a lofty dwelling where ont now the voices of the midnight revellers bad been heard; joyous -mirth had echoed; bright glances had flashed from brighter dyes; sparkling wit had flowed with the sparkling wine; envy had poured her bitter shafts; malice, hatred, deceit, false, adulation had been hidden neath a mask of smiling hypocrisy. The mistress who had presided oyer it all, wandered through the stately and deserted apartments, and sweet pictures, the rare statuary, and the beautiful exotics which adorned them, and sighed heavily;—why sigh amid so much loveliness? Bho had heard the whisperings of slander from ungrateful hearts, and she heard the troubled step of her husband in the room above, and the angel of Remorse had already laid Ins gift in her hcait.i Bad and weary she sought her chamber, a low moan struck her car;' swiftly she sprang to (ho low couch of her neglected babe, a tear lay <jjj tho cheek of the fair innocent that had: wept itself to sleep, arid as tlm how wretched another) knelt beside her. child, the angel of Repentance, sent a sharp pang- of sorrow to her heart and she wept bitterly over misspent hours, neglected duties, and blesringn abused. Then the angel of Forgiveness laid her band upon the stern brow of the husband, and scatleied its gifts of gentle dew over tho wife’s withering heart, and she laid her bright yo ung head on her husband's bosom, prom ising evermore to be gaided by lite better judgment, and his kiss of pardon was on her brow.— Then Faith- gave them both a bright guerdon to wear in membranco of that Christinas eve, bnt Memory placed the tear of tho sleeping babe upon its mother’s heart, that, by its gentle weight kept her from swerving from tho path of duty.

TERMS FOR 1837,

Single copy, ono year. $2,00; orSl.50 if paid in advance. Ten copies for 810. Twenty copies (and one to tho .get.ef up of tho club) for 820.00. These piiccs will be strictly adhered - to during the coming year. i IVuusuen,

WAinixoToif, Dm, 19.

Mr, Kelsey, a member of the Home Cemmirtee on Mileage, is preparing « bill to. equalize mileage, which now rsngr* from'SlG in S5,9(i0, the latter being paid to the delegates from .Oregon and Wash*ingltm territories' per session. Ho proposes that the present rates bo cumin Bid tip to 250 or.500 - miles, and all oborV this reduced to-ten instead of fifty rents per mile. Likewise, a deduction of twenty-five to.thirty dollars pur diem to be made for voluntary absence from C*tigress. , / it is said the Committee on Territories in the Honstv will report against Itm memorial of tho .inhabitants of Arezonis, asking for tho establishment of a territorial government.

Coan—At Dubuque, Iowa, we under: stand snow has fallen to an unusual depth —in many places drifted for miles to the depth of fourteen or fifteen feet. * T)ie streams are frozen over hard andiasl-r amt teams pass over them with ci much mlcly as though the ice was granite rock

- (£r To star gazers, the aspect -of the heaven* now presents a glorious array of brilliant objects.. The planets venns, Jupiter and Mars are in full glory-, IC fixed elars, Sirius, Rigel, Fonialliault, Altair, Procyon, Castor, Pollux.; Vega and many others of similar calibre, are -also visible nightly.

* I.ons viixE, Dec. liO.

■ 1 The llnsscl villa Herald of Wedneidiy says the insnrrcclion excitement exists to the neighliothood of Volnay and Gordonvillc. A number of negroes h»w b«a arrested; one, from the iron works of Tennessee, said he knew nit about the plot; but woulddio before he woold tell, Ilf received seven hundred and fifty lukes, 1 4!.i. ' - '

K. Cise.

■ Th bMu eiseifii C LO sed. — I’lielJiulinglou Gazette of the ICth says: "Thi river

Patriot, Dec. 18, 1S56.

The Salt Supply.

of persons crossing on foot.* It is thought by many that to-day (cams might cross in safety—wo would advise them to delay an experiment*of this kind for a day or two at least.” .

| UlCtJUUUJT ltliuneii>i.. l n. t ;. ..„ 0 . | advanced in price owing, it' is said,.to the ; short supply. If the Liverpool papcrs ; me to ho emitted there is tlangerof the price of salt running up (he same scale. { Owing, to some cansc. lhosinking of land, ■ it is said, the yield af brine in thosalt mines of Cheshire has greatly, fallen off, | equal to 75 per cent. As 130,000 tonsj of this article were shipped from these; mines last-year to the United S’nles alone; this calamity would bo likely to aQecttlie price. Some argue, however, that the decrease is only temporaiy, and that the sinking of new shafts will remove it. As the manufacture has extended with gigantic strides of late) so will, of course, these temporary inconveniences occur somewhat more frequently, but nevertheless equally The. best test of the opinion of. those who are mure interested is the price of the article. The quotations in the CrilUu market remain the same for some weeks—in fact are rather “osier; and it is probably this, as ranch as the small depreciation in the. strength of the brine at AVinsford, which causes there, at a few ■ . * ’ .. j / works, the pressnt cessation of manufactare. ‘ ‘ - ’*•. . **••

‘ At Cadiz, Trigg co., jcitonUj, a fre* negro was hung after Wing tried, bj (b# vigilance committee,' A number mori j.arein jiti!; some will behung. Judge Cook bait called the •- Co art 5 for I Christmas day. .Excitement tery high.

- JSST The storm of.Sunday week was "heard bP’in all quarter? in: the.'West. The Steubenville Herald gives a summary of stables,, fences; trees, Ac., laid down there, and says: *.‘Wo have learned that the- Presbyterian Chnrch, at Pons, Pa., was blown down on yesterday—nearly all (he chimney tops tumbled from dwellings—the Methodist Church at Cumberland blown' down to the foundation, Ac.” ' ;

. PROSPECTUS OF TUB INDIANA STATE JOURNAL fbr lds?, SN'view of having a largely increased mim« .her of subscribers to what we bad whea w* rbmim-necd the year IS5G, we Shall mairtha W/tkhj Indinu.t Stair Journal to 'single subscribers, and In clubs at thi fnllowinp ratcs>‘ which are the same as those of (he rrisjorily of Eastern papers:’ ,

TERM *. • • ’ * One copy, one year, : n • ' - |j,60' Ten.copies, one ycar.'aod one to getter 1 -.. V' up of Oluh, .... ' - • 15,00* Twenty copies, one year, krone address, SO,00 Thiriy five-copies, one-year; to one ad- ; dress, and 1 to the getter up of club, 36,00 Fifty copies, one year, to one address, - and (wo to the getter up of club, . < (0,00; ;(Er In club* of -len the name.of each sub?* 1 scriber will be written on hit-piper, bur i*. Clubs above ibat number, of where the papers are sent for. one dollar each, no name tern be t written on thepiptrt, but the Kxtixr Clls will be sent to osb i-kuom for him to,distribute.—, TiuS ;«the. invariable practice of all papers tending out ClatfJat cheap rales, and cannot 1 be departed from in any particular. , . ■. TUB NAILV JOVBIfAL, , 1 'Villi full. Legislative reports, local, comraev-. citrl and. telegraphic news, will be sent bp*, mail for $0 00 a yoar, or 60 cents a month, -'J Address; JOURNAL COMPANY, nov2C-tf Indianapolis, Indiana,

S3 A wedding occurred at Richmond, Indiana/a'day or two ago, nod in the evening. a party of friends proceeded to the residence of the bride foijtbe purpose -of serenading the happy, couple. The bridegroom mistook their design, and having hia imBgmalion/fiilcd with , visions of 'burglars, aimed Himself with a gnn, loaded with buckshot, and GrctVinto the midst of tho parly. One of them, named Goorge Oombs, was severely, wounded in the log; and tho others received trifling wounds.

Anno Offlcere. . ThVOommUteo on MiliiaryAfTairs in IhcHouse of have rep or- ! ted a bill which, ft is .stated increases the |pay of all commissioned officers, at the rate of $20 per month with the addition ol 10 cents, in 111 of ration. The equity*of this measure, it;is.further stated consist in the increase 'of. pay. to the young officers; whose Hmithd inconfCs make them the objects* of so mony hardships, - The Lieutenant gets his S20 a month, equally with the Colonel or General. ; Aq officer whose pay is $40 gets $60 under the provisions of his bill—being art ipetease of 50 per cent. —-while thcofficcrs who nowreeeiVe $200 receive 9220—an increase of 10 per cent. The 10 cents additional on the ration preserve the.equality of compensation under the longevity ration principle.

■ mr The Adams Express Company Imo received orders from the Treasury Department for the transfer of $500,000 gold coin from Bt. T.onis to New Orleans,

A Paper lor the milfonl GJCQVILLE’S - FAMILY GAZETTE.—An Weekly Journal, published'!!* NEW-YORK, is the cheapest and best Ntwil and LiTL-Rsni Pi milt pEiiooiciLin the World*It contains sixteen large pages, of a form syUfJ able for binding, mil, besides all the News of,) the Dir, comprises Stojubs, Amxcdotcs, entafrv taining and instructive Misosllt, aqd avary* variety of curious and rare Raiding, and gt tbt--. following unprecedeeted prices; ‘ - .

and $1,000,000 in silver coin and bullion

from the latter city to Philadelphia.— Within the last fodr years; this Company, has transferred for the Untied States Govr eminent eighty-three millions of-dollan. fa coin; and never yet have sustained the loss of ono dime in the operation—on , th 1 contrary limy have a credit for excess of weight on amounts delivered.

A single copy, $1; eight copies. (5; a&4; twenty copies (to one address) (10; inoemMy iuadcancf. JOSEPH A, SCOVILLK, .]t ', Publisher, St Franklin street, New-Vork, ,t In this place on Thursday list', Miw EUm : Patton.

notice.

An Extraordinary Famine.

ALL those indebted to (be undersigned irej earnestly requested to call and settle;,bp.* immediately. 1 must have money) andthtie*Tore those o"ing me must settle ap Oft ptbh fore January 1, 1857, either by cub ornoJe,jU Let this fact be remembered, for H Is the I ill coll wjlh some, through the press, unless t|er yhat they owe me, . '■ u - * dfd7 JOSEPH JAOERS/71;*

A new famine seems to overhang unliappy'Ireland. Everybody recollects the last one—the subscriptions, the public meetings, the fillip loads of provisions that were sent out, 'and the ship loads of emigrants that were scot .back in return. An impudent Edinburgh reviewer; once defined an Irishman to be."a six-foot machine for turning “potatoes into*,hnmui nature.*’ So, perhaps, it was no more than .reasonable, after the flour and Indian mealtwe sent.over bad been worked up into 1mman nature, that it should be returned. to us in its manufactured state. But this is Slide'from the~parpose of tbit, present 1 writing, which is to call the attention of the humane to the new blight which threatens “the first flower of ihe

Those loving angels passed on in their mission. They passed before an humble tenement', and gazed through the uncurtained window, A pale browed mother was kneeling beside the form of her only child. A few embers were on the hearth, but they were dying out, as was the love light from tho eyes of the beautiful child; Wildly did the anguished mother plead with Heaven for the life that was her life. Silently tho ministering spirits gathered around tho sorrowing one. Palo faepd Pity besonght h6r companions to soothe her grief. Resignation laid her hand gently upon the upraised brow, and bestowed her beautiful gift; gradually the wild rob* 'were subdued/ hut although her

Somelliing CJoo(I «o Eat. WE have now a Bakery to inY,' Grocery Store, and are prepared;*to;., furnish at! kinds of Pastry and CtoofecliodjnMLj fur Social or Wedding parties, in good mlfl and on short notice. Cakes, Pie*, CiBdipf* Nuts and Fruits, furnished to order. OiTtfUf;. a call. [dectOJ CLARKSON & WAJ.pfK*.

Christmas Is Coming*

■ II0! BOYS!! HOUI THOSE wishing Confectionaries for the Holidays, will find a full assortment at P. WILEY'S, corner of Main and Liberty Us, opposite Odd Fellows’ Hall. Gandies of,all kinds, Bon Bans, Fancy Ccmftts, in boxes. Nuts, Unisons, &c. 5T Rockets, Roman Candles, Torpedoes, Serpents, ic., &c. Besides a complete assortment of FAMILY GROCERIES, Woon and. Willow Ware, of the best quality—fresh and'fine. JpChcsp .11 th« Cbfipnt, for C«*U Onijr.*£R , (JecJT

Gold nud Silver 1 ; j 1)AID for Hides and Skim arid all fcinda of ; Fuas and Pelts, at the ief/_hi|hul market price, by C. TH1EBAUD $ SONS. :

Salt! Sant *' cik-« WR have now on hand e good'ltippl^f 4 No. 1 Kanawha Salt. ‘ ■ ■ • rfcti p. L. OHISARD:*:tJO?».;^ L t« Ua>

* (Forth# Indiana Itevellte. • . To tho 'Public. Having h.tely resigned the post which for some timo I havo occupied, ns Teacher of one of the Ycvay Public Schools, I deem a statement of the reasons which ii avti prompted mo lo tliis cornso. duo to School System. I mako these otatements in order that they may understand the manner in! which the Schools have been regulated and conducted. It is : unnecessary to premise that the Board • of Trustees, appointed t» taka chargo'of the Educational interests of the Town, are tho legitimate aud sole managers oftlie Schools. TIio law explicitly declares that it is their duty to make such regulations as would to for tho ben interest of the school —and everybody *wil) admit, that to do tliis they mnst co operate 1 with tho teacher by tho adoption of such measures as would givo efficiency to his.labors, and order to tbo school system. Without this management on the part of the Directors, the law is a hitter, and the system a total failure. Thcso, things onr Trustees have entirely neglected to do. To show this want of interest on their part, it is but necessary lo mention one or two facts as examples of many derelictions of duty. Punctuality in attendance, fur instance, is absolutely necessary to the good order of a school, and every one knows that order is essential lo.snccosa!/ ’ This in the present* instance was effectually prevented by the refusal to permit tho adoption of a rule to insure tho punctual attendance on the part of the scholars. The natural'result ""was that children who might to havo been in the school at the time appointed for commencing exercises, wore allowed to roam tho streets half the day and disturb the school by their entrance at any- hour they pleased, I earnestly asked the Directors lo remove this source of evil by adopting a rule enjoining punctuality—-which they positively refused to do, assigning ns a reason that it was a Public School. Now, if by n Public School, they mean one where tho children arc permitted to enter at any time, and to act ns they may choose, in despite of regulations adopted by the proper authorities, then they and I enite/lain diffeicnt opinions on tho subject; and it certainly seems to mo their views of the low, on this point at least, aro very far-fetched. \Yhether these gentlemen really expressed their honest convictions of duty, or whether they were afraid to act in their official capacity, independently of public opinion, I shall not pretend to Buy— but I will set it down as a truth which a thinking co'mmnnity will admit, that when men have permitted themselves tp bo appointed to the superintending of matters of-bo much importnneo ns the 'mKnhgeiticnt of Schools, they should not

ignore their duly, nor shrink from there- \ sponsibility they.have assupicd.- . _,v The. da tics ofDirectorsreqnire them; to < visit and inspect the schools from time to see that they are properly arran* jl god and classified. Onr Trnatccs have , not only voluntarily ‘neglected this—-hut i in many instances when itiformod that j their services were required in matters j ovci which ’thc teachera have no control, they have failed everytim e— t h row mg all the • resppnsitnIity, ihing pertain* i oe tothe. Sellool,' upon dhoteqcbcr. By soniemisriwnagaiuent, several small children: rycre/ficnt .id school,. who ought to liavp been in some other department. The Trustees 1 'repeatedly promised to have llicra rerooved, : ond as repeatedly brokatheir promutB. • And in fact,' in every thing pertaining to the ylutics of their office/lhey;.ii|iyedisplayed a sad ; want,of independence—avoiding' everything that was calculated cither directly.or indirectly to give them'trouble- •; ’; 4 On one weeafion, when I bad an aggravated case of; disobedience,- ♦hich'imperatively demanded hn immeiliate Exercise of authority, Mr; Schenck after having been urgently rcqiiMted.' abtf promising to comply, absolutely neglected to comb near the School. /. .; ; - ‘ Such conduct on the part of gentlemen who cnjdy llio public confidence, ought t'o be exposed. ’ . "• Jpiix P. -Boca.