text: . ' 1 f 'flit -Yflrt - M>3.***xrmjM©r ?•*'« ,. m.A cl* i h>, • m 15 iK;r. m st T'iri A#* -••jin ■. f?:5iy mr ■■ * •1 ■■■{* :• « * ? ' Sr •.?«< _ ._-_ .j ■ gii-LHi-LLJWF'.JJi j ~**> >, fa ;I • (T ■*■«■ -- • • • '* ■ 1,1 - ■■ 1 •— ■ ■ --- © 1 OO JN ABVAKCE! BEIDGETC - I^o 660, ■ Jl'IHL ._____■---_.______—— -----—___—^ _;____1_ ‘ 'v jBusiiiwss §xxHin^ ! b7~fT~FERCJtJSiOTV, ARTIST, * Vo. 604'Arch Street, PHILADELPHIA >Jrt * (Six doors above Sixth.) * Photographs taken either from L.fe. Daguerreotype*, %r Atnbrotypca an i colored in the most beautiful *.y «. Call and see Specimens. J R 15 IJA Tlltfii WHOLESALE and BETAIL ^Furniture SZ^arcbcttse 221 SOUTH SECOND ST, JPTTTT . /V DBIlPHIA. BELOW BOCK, ypr*JoBBiao pmourTLT attended to. May 21, 1859.-If. " “ T H E UIVIO It • ” A UGH STREET, ABOVE THIRD, ■PTTTI.ADEIiAHIA. Itasitvafeou being in the very centre of business, with Pa^nger Railroads runuing pas**ud inclose proximity * Ford* to those in search of pleasure? a cheap and pleas - * at rule to all places of interest in or aWut the Cjty. The pronrietor gives assurance tha* “1HE IN ION hall be kept with such clmra-ter a* will meet public aj* wrohation, and respectfully solicits patronage from Cura #ttrland and adjoining Coufciies. TF.RMS, 50 perdav. March slum. ’ UPTON 8. NEWCOMER. l»r. ROBTVW. ELIIER KE6PETTFCLLY eff-rs hi 5 professional serriees to the eitisen* of Bridgeton and vicinity. Orrivt—!*i,t Room of Mrs. Jnn- Seeley’s dwelhnjr, emnivree Sirtat, first honsveaet of Elmer A XiionVlaw, •Ifloe. AP”1-1 ' i'iiDRIUK. & CIIEESMaN, DEALERS IN i^‘.g~fi‘rsi?TRvr.o0 AND BLACKSMITH COAL, Bridgeton, I¥- J. SPRINGS. AXLES,' ANVILS, VICKS. BELLOWS, ke. ISWCTEOftlCK. JOHN CEEKSMAN, 61. L A \1\G, HLANING, having pursued a regular course in Dentistry from the most skilled dentists in New Jersey and Philadelphia, would offer his professional services to all who may see fit to give him a call. All work warranted to give satisfaction or no charge. In the New York opposite the Purcell's Office, entrance to the Dental Department, through the Sail adjoining the Jewelry store. TO IN IN O E5 ^ 2P, K II K G E O A n E i\ TINT, COMMERCIAL STREET, a few doors out of the Presbyterian Session will be directly opposite the Baptist Church. It continues to practice Dentistry in all its various departments... have been using electricity in extracting teeth, and it does not prevent the feeling of pain under the operation. In all cases, it is recommended to use the latest reliable remedies. Brigham,  generally. Office—in the corner of brick building, B. Doors West of E. Davis & Son’s Hotel, For 2, 1851. BUCHANAN, N. J. SAMUEL R. GRIFFIN, URIAH DAVIS, THOMAS V. HARRIS Grocery, 13th Co. Boat, shop and retail store, HO. 10, CALL'S BUILDING, a..U. 1849-1.v. Bridgeton, N. J. S. E. EAR, CHEAP FANCY DRY GOODS AND TRIMMINGS store, A. L. LEWIS, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER, No. 23 East Commerce Street, BRIDGETON, N. J. Clocks, Watches and Jewelry neatly repaired. Hay 12. __ HILTON A WOODS WOOLEN AND BURLAP CABINET WARE, No. 33 NORTH SECOND STREET, ONE DOOR ABOVE CHRIST CHURCH, Bill BA DEBT I! I A. EST A large assortment of Cottage Furniture in the showroom. April 7-y itillviHe News Report. Sign of the Indian, war Brandriff’s Hotel, ALFRED WALTON WOULD respectfully solicit the attention of his friends and the public in general, to his establishment, where may be had any of the Newspapers, Magazines, Periodicals by the single copy or delivered regularly in any part of the town. A supply of good bargains. I offer. Vegetables, Fruit, Etc., for sale on the most reasonable terms. Thankful for past favors, a continuance of patronage is solicited by ALFRED WALTON. Millville: Alg. 18, 1860,-tf WOOLEN H. M. MORRIS, Manufacturer, 728 Market Street, below Eighth Philadelphia, Formerly Hughes & Morris. Also, sole agent in Philadelphia for the sale of CAU ART’S SPLENDID MELODIONS and HARMONIMS. The instruments are the patentee’s own make, and are the most reliable. Instrument is ever offered to the public. Key, *4, 1860 y __ "Buchanan a son, MASCARIUS OF RAW HONE SUPER-PHOSPHATE OF LIME, Cash Price $45 per 2000. (2| cto. per lb.) WHOLESALE OFFICE, NO. 20 South Wharves, factory, near Front and Dickerson Streets PHILADELPHIA. BONDS WANTED. THE HIGHEST Cash Prices Paid for all kinds of BONES. WILMINGTON IN- WILSON, (successor TO WILMINGTON & JEFFERSON.) IMPORTER & WHOLESALE DRUGGIST Jf0. 208 Market Street, PHILADELPHIA. PA. Dealer in Drugs, Dyes, Spices, oils, Varnishes, Chemicals, Medicines for Medicine, Analysis, Phosphates, Buckwheat, etc. For the West Jersey Pioneer. ON ELOQUENCE. BY LEWIS DAVIS. Author of Canadian Correspondence. Some people think eloquence consists alone in the speaker; his rare gifts of genius, his scholastic accomplishments; his flashes of wit and fancy; his tumid, valuable utterance; in the studied contrivances of speech; or the acoustic properties of the lecture room. Others seem of opinion that the most essential requisites for a public speaker are nothing more than the graces of address, a fine appearance, and the glory of a foreign reputation. In these improved times (since Cicero) they are satisfied if they find in an orator a courtly pink man in garb of fashion, though he speak and act before the public assembly like any body other than himself. Some persons would be amazed at seeing a plain, unassuming man, with no very striking marks of genius upon him, appearing on the stage acting just like himself, without any effort to show off and appear enticing and grand. Nor is it to be wondered at, when indeed it is so uncommon to find in a public speaker due honesty and opportunity of manner, whose tones are smooth, unlabored, and yet unapproachable; who has something proper to say, and can set the naked, unadorned truth before the people in an interesting and attractive manner, and in a telling style. It is rare to find an independent man who can so talk and act with freedom and familiarity before the variegated multitude, as when in an ordinary meeting of friends, in his own house, in the shop. Or in the field; so that a natural utterance in public would be as much a marvel to some, as it would should be with the present in the domestic circle in that same awkward, labored, disagreeable, counterfeit manner that some do in the pulpit, and on the forum before the multitude without apology. Many whose office requires public speaking, as soon as they commence discourse are particular to affect a majestic dignity and importance, as if without this spell, the auditors might not realize the presence of a wise and pompous personage, in their deliberate utterance are uncalled for hesitation, stutter and a-hem; great swelling words evolving nothing but impaired, and small ideas, with the most clownish, ridiculous postures, and singularly ungainly, gesticulations, as if thus to season the discourse to the taste of hardy, stupid people, and give rather a rigid, extemporaneous appearance to their delivery, last otherwise some might think it wanting in force and earnestness. But boisterous, ranting speech, and wild declamation bursting forth with volcanic force, aimless, and unattended with any moving glow or warm emotion, all go for nothing, or seem so intolerable that they that Ipear might entreat that the harangue should not be spoken to them any more. Even some popular speakers, if stayed from certain recurrent times and swerves which habitually succeed in their utterance, could scarcely speak at all. Since proficiency in rhetorical attainments is so rarely to be found, erroneous oratory we can account for or endure—for only a few are expected to have the mastery and know the regulation and control of the voice by means of the action of articulation rightly applied. But those artificial, undefined inflections in expression are provoking, and puzzle the mind of the hearer to find out what. In emotion of the soul, expression of the soul is expressed; or what impression the superfluous stress, will drawl are intended to effect. Only one among a thousand possess the glorious attributes of genuine oratory—or rather, rather, that true eloquence in man which sometimes turns whole assemblies into astonishment and admiration. Nothing save natural feeling, expressed with natural sensitivity, can give the subject that electric fire which darts through and through an audience, kindling each heart into enthusiasm, and awakening the people to some high purpose and noble action. The triumphs of true eloquence, touching and sublime; awful as they have sometimes been, are seen only when the orator, forgetful of himself and every thing else, stands before you in the simple majesty of truth, overpowered with his own convictions of right, exhibiting the skill and might of logic, with his own soul abounding in knowledge and love, and his countenance glowing with holy zeal, speaking in thrilling, melting tones, with a voice full, round, rich and melodious, which makes an overflow of sound, while golden sentiments descend in airy, freshening streams, reviving every aspiring heart. But how often a discourse containing every desirable element of intellectual and moral worth; which animates and sets devout souls all aglow, is all lost on some proud, exquisite creature, when he has more concern lest certain other irreverent ones of his own vain set should not be pleased with the appearance of the chosen speaker, and his grave subject should savor too much of temperance and righteousness for their vitiated taste, than he has for any solid infirmity or good received either to himself or others. Hence, when such ought to be absorbed in the lofty subject while presented in the most effective manner, nevertheless are all the while in hearty sympathy with low, base, prejudiced minds, and disorderly persons in the audience, who come not desirous to learn or be edified, but to gaze and disturb the thoughtful and studious. Thus, devout persons are often disquieted, vexed and indignant at such fellows’ uneasiness, noise and irreverence. It is difficult for any person to entertain an audience in staid decorum and profound silence when such misguided ones, who, full of guile and mischief, are impatient for something sportive, ridiculous or vulgar, eagerly waiting and watching for anything in the performance congenial to their own vague, silly minds, while a meritorious, impressive lecture upon the most sublime subject, delivered with all the attributes of efficient oratory, seems to them stale, flat, and unprofitable, or as only worthy of scorn and obloquy. The thundering oratory of Demosthenes, or the tone In the strains of Ciceronian eloquence, would have as little effect upon such a united minds as upon the tumultuous waves of the sea, or the South-Sea Islanders: for such take pride on the occasion in showing the power of their own superior rustic abilities to turn the current of the most forcible eloquence from a thousand attentive minds, that otherwise would be overpowered with the momentous subject in profound and solemn audience. For how easily one or two bold, presumptuous blockheads in an assembly. Assembly can break the thread of discourse and spoil the completeness and the enjoyment of the best intellectual exercises. There are some who would rather endure scourging than the infliction of a purely intellectual and moral discourse that, contained no distinctive element of humor, falsity, and nonsense. The audience contains chiefly the proper elements of electrifying fire, or rather that they themselves should contain certain correspondents, reflective qualities above eloquence—a inclination yielding to intellectual power—a disposition to receive and obey thy truth. It is an error to some that attentive, ardent hearers would make good speakers of almost any one who “means well possessing the grace and beauty of intellect, this one shining essential of effective eloquence—and that they themselves do have the chief part in making the literary performance excellent and profitable, by receiving it as men of culture, inadecrate in proper manner, as momentous truth; and if its benign influence does not reach them it is their own fault. No cue can he affected by eloquence who has not soflle susceptible clement of being on which it can sympathetically strike.— Could auy (living} man rouse deep feeling in the besom of granite, or electrify and ‘ | penetrate statuary with emotion f Could i Oemovtiieoes be impressive before a eumpa- j ; ny of hardened ruffians, with little sense of1 ; moral beauty, and with no sense of the pow- j er and majesty of eternal truth? Coaid Ci cero charm those barren shapes so over-' wrought with idea li'y that they cannot eu- j dure the realities of life, at the same time | incapable of perceiving true moral beauty ? ! With all the triumphs of irresistible elo quence, it would be difficult to convince i 'hose myrmidous that the sad inefficiency of the oratory is not from power to commu nicate, but from want of capacity in them selves to comprehend what is touching aud trumfl nutinii In mnr., 1 _J ' D - -n wrong frame of miu'd and heart. With mind impure and conscience defiled, they attribute the fault to tbe professional speaker; for as James and Jambres (foremost gainsayers in Egypt) withstood Moses, so do these tall misguides extenuate, and filacc themselves in the most contemptihlo position of oppo sition to that immutable truth which eudor eth forever. These dark, uOrealiziug, dis sembling shades would reproach the mo3t, endowed orator, and call Demosthenes, and Cicero, and Paul babblers, and mock at the inanity of their sayings. Poet Hope, C W., Feb’y 8,1861. Cuffy says he’d rather die in a railroad smash-up, than in a steamboat burst up, for this reason: “If you get run off and smashed up, dar you is; but if you get blown up on the boat where is you?” Remember, ye who ridicule a young man for his parsimony, and stigmatize him as “small,” that by-and-by he can afford to be generous when you have nothing to give. A flirt's like the dipper attached to a hydrant—every one is at liberty to drink from it, but no one desires to carry it away. Henry Ward Beecher, in a sermon on riches, says: “As men grow rich they grow mean.” Why, I know men—pious men—who actually perjure themselves about their property, that they may save what is justly due the city for taxes. They are as mean as—well—means have tunneled them from end to end, and the biggest one lies through the heart, and the deni daily runs his tunnel through and through. PETER CHANCERY, Esq., AND HIS SIX DOLLARS. WINNING THE BLESSING THAT MAT FOLLOW THE SETTLEMENT OF THE SMALLEST ACCOUNT. “Sir, if you please, boss would like you to pay this little bill today," said for the tenth time a half-grown boy in a dirty jacket, to a lawyer in his office. The attorney at length turned round and... Stared the boy full in the face, as if he had been some newly discovered specimen, gave a long whistle, thrust his inky fingers into one pocket and then into the other of his black cloth vest, and then gave another long whistle, and completed his stare at the boy’s face. "Ho, ha, hum! That bill sir, eh?" said the legal young gentleman, extending the tips of his fingers towards the well-worn bit of paper, and daintily opening it, looked at the contents. "Hum! for capping and for heel-tapping six shillings; for foxing ten and six pence and other sundries, eh? So your waster wants we to settle this bill, eh?" repeated the man of briefs. "Yes sir; this is the nineteenth time I’ve come for it, and I intend to knock off at twenty, and call it a half a day." "You’re an impudent boy." "I’m always impudent to lawyers, coz I can’t help it—it’s catching." "You’ve got your eye teeth cut, I see." "That’s what the boss sent me for, instead of the "printies as was getting their teeth cut. I cut mine at nine months old, with a hand saw. Boss says if you don’t pay the bill, he’ll sue you." "Sue me? I’m a lawyer." "Ht makes no odds. Lawyer or no lawyer, boss declares he’ll do it—so fork over." "Declares he’ll sue me?" "As true as there is  this, muttered the attorney to himself. “It's not my plan to pay these bills. What is a lawyer’s profession good for if he can’t get clear of paying his own bills. He’ll sue me?” ’Tis just five dollars. It come hard, and he don’t want the mon ey. What is five dollars to him? His boy cou’ld have earned it in the time he has been sending him to me for it. So your master will sue me if I don’t pay?” “He says he will doit, and charge you a new pair of shoes for me.” “ilarkee; I can’t,pay to day, and so if your boss will sue ust ask him to em ploy me as Ills attorney.” “You?” ‘‘Yen I’ll issue the writ, have it served, and then you see 1 shall put the cost into my own pocket, instead of seeing it go into another lawyer's. So you see if 1 have to pay the bill, I’ll make cost—capital idea.” The boy scratched his head awhile, as if striving to comprehend this capital idea, aud shook it doubtfully. “I don’t know aboutjthis, it looks tricky. I’ll ask boss, though, if as how you won’t pay it now with out being sued.” “I had ra?her be sued, if he will emp?oy me. boy ” “But who is to pay them costs—the boss?” The lawyer looked all at once very serious, and ga ve one of those long whistles peculiar to him. “Well, I’m a sensible man, truly. My anxiety to get the costs of suit blinded me to the i’.ict that they wore to come out of my owu pocket before they could be safely put in. Ah, weli my boy, I suppose 1 must pay. Here’s a five dollar gold piece; is the bill receipted? It’s so dry and greasy I can’t see. “It was nice and clean when boss gin it to me, and the written shined like Kapp’s blackin — it’s tored dunnin so much.” “Well, here’s your money,” said the man of law, taking a solitary five dollar gold piece from his watch fob; “now tell your master, Mr. Last, if he has any other accounts he wants sued, I'll attend to them with the greatest pleasure.” “Thank you sir,” answered the boy pocketing the five; “but you are the only dunning customer who has, and now you've paid up, he hasn’t none but cash folks. Good day to you.” “Now there goes five dollars that will do that fellow no good. It is a five-thrown away. It wouldn’t have left my pocket but I was sure his patience was worn out, and cost would come of it. I like to get costs, but I can’t think a lawyer has anything to do with paying them.” As Peter Chancery did not believe in his own mind that paying his debt to Mr. Last was to be any benefit to him, and was of an opinion that it was money thrown away, let us follow the fate of these five dollars through the day. “He has paid,” said the boy, placing the money in his master’s hand. “Well, I’m glad of it,” answered Mr. Last, surveying the money through his glasses, “and it’s a half eagle too. Now run and pay Mr. Furnace,” as the boy delivered his money. “I was just wondering where I could get five dollars to pay a hill that is due today. ‘Here, John,’ ” he said to one of his apprentices, “put on your hat and take this money to Capt. O’Brine, and tell him I came within one of disappointing him, when some money came in I didn’t expect.” Capt. O’Brine was on board the schooner at the next wharf, and with him was a sea man with his hat in his hand looking very gloomily as he spoke with him. “I’m sorry, my man, I can’t pay you— but I have just raised and scraped the last dollar I can get above water, to pay my insurance money, and have not a copper left in my pocket to jingle, but keys and old nails.” “But I am very much in need, sir; my wife is failing, and my family are in want of a good many things just now, and I got several articles at the store, expecting to get some money from you to take them up as I went along home. We haven’t in the house another hour, no tax, nor—" “I’ll, my dear, I’m sort of. The house comes tomorrow. I can’t help you unless I sell my coat of my back, or pawn my schooner’s kodak. Nobody pays me.” The sailor who had come to get advance of wages, turned away sorrowfully, when the apprentice boy came up and said, in his hearing: “Here sir, is five dollars Mr. Furnace owes you. He says when he told you he couldn’t pay your bill today, he didn’t expect some money that came in after you left the shop.” “Ah, that’s my fine boy! Here, Jack, take this five dollars, and come on Saturday and get the balance of your wages.” The seaman, with a joyful bound, took the piece, and touching his hat, sprang with a light heart on shore, and hastened to the Store where he had already selected the comforts and necessaries his family stood so much in need of. As he entered a poor woman was trying to prevail upon the storekeeper to settle a demand for making his shirts. “You had better take it out of the store,” he said to her, “really I have not half the amount of your bill today, and I don’t expect to have. I have to charge everything, and no money comes in.” “I can’t do without it,” answered the woman earnestly, “my daughter is very ill, and in want of every comfort; I am out of firewood, and indeed I want many things which I have depended upon this money to get. I worked night and day to get your shirts done.” “I am very sorry, Mrs. Conway,” said the storekeeper, looking into his money-drawer: “I’ve not five shillings here—and your bill is five dollars and ninepence.” The poor woman thought of her invalid child, and wrung her hands. “A sailor was here awhile ago, and selected full five dollars worth of articles here on the counter and went away to get his wages to pay for them, and I question if he comes back. If he does and pays for them you shall have your money madam,” At this instant Jack made his appearance at the door. “Well, shipmate,” said he, in atone much more elevated than he was discovered speaking in with the captain. “Well, my hearty, hand over your freight. I’ve got the documents, so give us possession,” and displaying his five dollar piece laid hold of the purchases. The storekeeper examining and seeing that the money was good, bade him take them with him; and then, sighing as he took another and last look at the piece, he handed it to the poor widow, who, with a joyful smile, received it from him, and hastened from the store. In a low and very humble tenement, near the water, was a family of five children, whose appearance exhibited the utmost destitution. On a cot bed lay a poor woman, ill and emaciated. The door opened and a man in coarse, patched garments, entered with a wood saw and a horse, and laid them down by the door and approached the bed. “Are you any better, dear?” he asked, in a rough voice, but in the kindest tones. “No—have you found work? If you could get me a little nourishing food, I could regain my strength.” The man gazed upon her pale face a moment, and again taking up his horse went out. He had not gone far before a woman met him, and said she wished him to follow and saw some wood for her. His heart bounded with hope and gratitude, and he went after her to her dwelling — an abode little better than his own for poverty; yet wearing an air of comfort. He sawed the wood, split and piled it, and received six shillings, with which he hastened to a store for necessaries for his wife, and then he hurried home to gladden her heart with the delicacies he had provided. Till now he had no work for four days, and his family had been starving, and from this day his wife got better, and was at length restored to his family and to health, from a state of weakness, which another day’s continuation would probably have proved fatal. These six shillings, which did so much good, were paid him by the poor woman from the five dollars she had received from the storekeeper, and the sailor had paid him. The poor woman’s daughter was also revived, and finally married to a young man who had been kept three years absent, and returned true to his truth. But for the five dollars, which had been so instrumental in her recovery, he might have returned to be told that she, whose memory had been so long the polar star of his heart, had perished. So much good did the five dollar piece do, which Peter Chancery, Esq., so reluctantly paid to Mr. Last’s apprentice boy, though little credit is due to this gentleman for this result that followed. It is thus Providence often makes bad men the instrument of good to others. Let this little story lead those who think a “small bill” can stand because it is a small bill, remember how much good a five dollar piece has done in one single day, and that in paying one bill they may be paying a series of twenty bills and dispensing good to hundreds around them. REPORTS OF TOWN SUPERINTENDENTS. MAURICE RIVER. In presenting this my annual report, I am able to say that the schools in our township are in a flourishing condition, and there appears to be an increasing interest manifested by the people in the cause of education.— Our schools are supplied with competent and I believe successful teachers, all of whom have had considerable experience in teaching all of the teachers have been regularly examined and licensed by them, in connection with the superintendent. If some of our school houses were pulled down and new ones erected in their places, I think we should be making one grand step in favor of education and improvement. Upon the whole, I think we have reasons for encouragement and increased exertion. E. SHEPPARD, Superintendent. DEERFIELD. In obedience to the law requiring an annual report from the different town superintendents, I would respectfully offer the following as that of Deerfield township, Cumberland county. The township is divided into six districts, and also contributes to the formation of two districts of adjacent townships. The number of school houses within the township is six—one to each district. They all consist of one story frame buildings, in healthy neighborhoods, with suitable shade trees and play grounds attached. Four of these houses are in good and comfortable condition; the remaining two are very much out of repair. Two of the districts are incorporated under the general law. The schools will compare favorably with others of the surrounding country, but the ideas of the people in regard to education are behind the age. In district No. 2, numbering 120 scholars, with a house totally unfit for occupancy, there has been for the past three years an effort to build a new house by taxing the inhabitants to the amount necessary to defray the expenses, but it has been so unsuccessful, although a majority are in favor of it, but not two-thirds, as the law requires. Those having no children, or whose children are grown up, think it unjust for them to be compelled to contribute to the education of others, but remembering that someone was obliged in years gone by to help towards their education or that of their children, and not knowing that as the masses are improved intellectually, so everything will rise in the scale of importance. The laws in relation to licensing teachers have not been obeyed as they universally should be, but through the Past summer I have compelled all to be licensed according to law. I think if a law was passed making it finable for any person to present himself or herself as a teacher, without being at first licensed, it would in a great measure prevent this evil. The trustees, as a general thing, do not take sufficient interest in their different schools, many of them often. I think that the people are gradually becoming convinced of the importance of education, and that in time greater facilities will be afforded for the education of the young. CHARLES C. PHILLIPS, Town Superintendent. GREENWICH. I have sent you as true an account as I have been able to collect from the different sources in this township, at the same time I acknowledge it to be very deficient in many points. First, the teachers of this township do not seem to understand that it is their duty to make out a list and send me, as the law requires them, but they leave that for me to find out as best I can, by collecting the roll books from the schools. Thus, I am able only to furnish a part of my report through the teacher—the very source to look to. The ages of the children I have to refer to the returns of the trustees in the spring, to find anything about. As for the condition of our schools, the past year I have but little to say. I cannot complain of our teachers, for they do not have an opportunity to do justice, were they to try ever so hard. For this reason: some of them have not books enough to form a class, nor blackboard enough on which to draw the map of Rhode Island. The houses in three of the districts are passable, as far as quality is concerned, but not in size. The one in the second district, particularly, is not large enough. In our first district, we have three houses, in which there is a school a part of all the year, and the public money is allowed to each scholar when he goes to school, be that when it may. There is not money enough when used in that way, to give each child but one term of schooling, and after that the pay comes from another source, that is, out of the parents’ pockets. We need a new house in the first district, one large enough to accommodate all the children in the district, and then confine the public money to that school, then the money that now schools each child one term, would school all in the district nine months. RICHARD S. DARE, Town Superintendent. HOPEWELL. In reviewing the past three years, I think it is very evident that there is an increased interest felt throughout the township in regard to our common schools, though the inhabitants are not yet awake to their own interest upon the subject. Our schools at present are in good condition, and most of them are taught by those who are well qualified to teach all that is required of them. During the past year there has been a new school house built in Harmony district, by tax, at a cost of six hundred and fifty dollars; one half being raised this year with the expectation of raising the balance next, thus availing themselves of that wise and just law which gives every person the privilege of paying their equal and just proportion throughout the district. JOSEPH H. OGDEN, Town Superintendent. True religion consists in the juggling of the old-fashioned doctrines. Selection for Scrap Books, no. 114. A Stirring and Awakening Call. Tell me, O ye Professor of religion, if the hour of God’s judgment come to you? Is it begun at your house yet? How do you feel it? Bath it contrived your spirits? Have you known the godly sorrow? The chastisement of the Lord, and rebukes of the Almighty? Hath his pure eternal Word divided yet between your souls and spirits, the joys and marrows? Have you ever been weary and heavy laden with sin? Hath it been a burden? Did you ever cry out in the agony of your spirits, Men and brethren, what shall we do to be saved? Who shall deliver us from the body of sin here and the wrath to come? The travail of the holy ancients. If not you are yet strangers to Christ and his kingdom; and if you die in that state, where he is gone you shall never come. For Zion, God’s city, must be redeemed through judgment, and her converts through righteousness: yea, the house of God cannot escape it; wherefore said one of old, “If judgment begins at the house of God, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?” Woe to them that live without the judgments of the Lord! Woe to them that cast his reproofs behind their backs, and live in earthly pleasures, fattening themselves in the justs and pleasures, as for the day of slaughter, and treasuring up wrath against the day of wrath! The ancient saints lived not thus: they worked out their salvation. vation with fear and trembling; yea, they gave all diligence to make their calling and election sure. Which way do you work out yours? I think, that holy prophet, his lips quivered, and his body trembled, that his soul might rest in the day of trouble; is this your State? Or are you rather worshippers of the beast at this day, lovers of the Worldly; secluded, voluptuous life, walking in the lusts of the eye, the lusts of the flesh, and pride of life; like rebellious Israel of old, forgetting God's days without number? But this know, that all who forget God shall be turned into hell. William Penn. Now discipline was preserved and offenders were dealt with in the olden time. Cave, in his "Primitive Christianity," clearly shows, from the writings of many of the ancients, particularly for the first three hundred years after Christ, that much care and zeal were maintained to preserve the church clean and pure by a wholesome discipline. Penitents, before they were received into unity, made open confession of their safety; this being accounted the very spring of repentance, and without which they could not be read. "Out of confession," says Tertuilian, "is born repentance, and on repentance God if pacified and therefore without this neither riches nor honor would procure any admission into the church; a remarkable instance whereof was in the Emperor Theodosius the Great, who, for his bloody and barbarous slaughter of the Thessalonians, was by Ambrose, bishop of Milan, suspended, brought to public confession, and forced to undergo a severe course of repentance for his sins, by his admission into fellowship again. "So wisely," says Cave, "did the prudence and piety of those times deal with offenders, either letting the reins so loose as to patronize presumption or encourage any to sin; nor yet holding them so straight, as to drive men into despair."—John Great. Beautiful Analogy — There is a vast instructive and beautiful analogy to be observed in the two forces (the centripetal and centrifugal) whereby the planets are balanced and kept in their appointed orbits, and the two great agencies of human conduct, viz.; the rushing onward will, and the enduring, attracting power of the Holy Spirit of Truth, “a manifestation of which,” we are told in Scripture, “is given to every man to profit withal.” But few persons, it will be true, should not be so. They do not perceive its influence because there is a want of humble passion in yielding to it. The will has come so imperious by long indulgence, and has so often and so violently torn itself away from its proper centre, that it runs on unchecked in its forward steps; sometimes exploding and wounding itself, and sometimes wounding others. Could the planets have also found a will of their own, they would probably long since have upset the universe. — Very Ann Kelly. HOMETRADE.—“The principal spiritual trade of a Christian is his hometrade, such as meditation, self-examination, supplication and praise; this is more than enough to employ all his time without looking at other faults.” A Melancholy Avowal — Buivar, the novelist, in a letter to a gentleman in Boston, said, “I have closed my career as a writer of fiction. I am gloomy and unhappy. I have exhausted the powers of life, obscuring pleasure where it is not to be found. Sickness — Sickness is intended to teach us what a vain thing the love of the world is—what a poor thing man is—and what precious thing an interest in Christ is. Forgiveness.—Two persons being very much at variance, referred their quarrel to the third person. Each accused the other, and both declared himself to be without blame. The umpire heard them very patiently, and then said, “My judgment is that the innocent forgive the guilty.” Intercourse with God.—Be mindful there is no state in which preservation from evil and unprofitable thoughts is more often, than in the effort. 