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A WISE ScHooLMAsTER.-Discussing with
a FREUD, the other day, the prevalent system
olschool instruction, iheimprovements when
il is undergoing, and the personal merits oil
several teachers, our attention was Instantly
and lorcibly arrested by remark which our
friend made of one gentleman to whose
school he had sent his boys. Mr.. Littlefeld,
who has his academy at Maiden, Ulster
county. Speaking of Mr.. Littlefield's aiten-
ton TO the physical development of his pu-
pills, our friend said, "Why, sir, he goes out
snow-balling with the boys-lets them peit
him as much as they please and pelts back
again; and il they can they may get HIM
down in the snow and rub his face with It.
But when the bell rings heis master again in
a moment" A sensible man, thar MIR. Lit
tlefeld. This simple fact mentioned ofhim
gives US high notion ofhis judgment and
proper sense of the relation between himself
and his pupils. Com. Adr.
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CANADA TRADE.

Under law of the last Congress, Eng
lish goods are allowed 10 land at any of our
ports, and be transported through the coun-
try 10 any Of the British pro sinces, without
The pc yment of duties. Under the operation
of his law, our steamers have been heavily
freighied for some days, and our wharves
and store houses presented business as
pect unusual 10 the season. Merchandise oil
this description has 10 be landed at this port
to be inspected and receive IFS clearance for
st. Johns. This arrangement enables the
Montreal merchants 10 getlheir goods near
ly month earlier than by theSt Lawrence,
and is destined TO work q revolution in the
Canada trade-while it will afford a rich
item of business for the Rail-road.-Bar
Free Press.
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~.The Pittsburg Gazette states that five
persons are now pretty certainly supposed TO
be lost in the great fire of Thursday. Sam
uel Kingston, Esq, and a woman, employed
as servant in the family, persisted in his
house, in Second ST. A poor woman, of
German extraction, persisted in Third street.
A married woman, the mother of two chill
dren, named McGowly.perished in Third st;
and man, named Johnson, is supposed 10
have been lost in Wood street, having last
been seen in burning building. There are
also reports OF the loss of others, but they
cannot be traced TO any reliable source.
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THE, PROGRESS OF ANNEXATION

No observer of the course of things since
the beginning ofthe annexation movement
needs to be told that the acquisition of Texas
is intended as the initiative of other acauisi-
lions of Mexican territory. The following
paragraph from the Nashville Union has its
own significance:
''The last advices from California inform
us that the province is in state of revolution
the natives wishing &c cxpel the Mexicans
and having every prospect ofsuccess. The
struggle will be short, if has not already
terminated. We learn also that many oronr
citizens who cmigrated 10 Oregon have fall
len down and settled in North California. and
that they have found the most delightful
climate and a rich SOIL They affirm that
Oregon is but bleak, barren waste. com
pared with California. We refer TO these
lacia TO show that it is not all unreasonable
to suppose that Cab ornia may be in a con-
dition, at a rery early day, to be ANNEXED 10
our Union"
A more convenient mode of conquest was
never devised Than the one which has given
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RAILROAD MEETING.

short notice having been given Of Rail
Road Meeting to hear Mr.. Parker from Chesh-
ire County, N. H., who had been sent BY tho
Cheshire Company to receive and impait in
formation in relationthe great Western route,
very respectable assembIage of people was
convened. Hon. Fl. Seymourw was appointed
TO the Chair, H. Bell, Secretary.
The discourse OF Mr.. Parker proved high
ly interesting. and conveyed much valuable
information upon points in which the people
in This region wore comparatively ignorant,
or involved in error. The people and the
Company Of Cheshire ever have been and
continue to be the fast friends Of the West.
ern route. This IS emphaiically their route,
said Mr.. Parker. They regard it as alo-
ge;her the most remuaeraive TO capitalists,
the shortest, the cheapest in construction aud
repair, and promising to command
greater transit Of freig ht and passage than sry
which has been projected from Boston to
Montreal. The Cheshire company ard peo-
pie have no objection to the continuation Of
the route from Bellows Falls up the Connect
icut to White River, by those who feel an in-
tercst in that project. Their original prefer
ence for the Western route however, remains
undiminished.
A Committee Oh resolutions was raised and
reported the following which were adopted:
Resolred.
LIST, That this meeting have received with
much qualification the communications Of A.
A: Parker Esq, as Agent of the Cheshire Rail
Road Corporation, and decidedly approve
of the objects Of his mission, to awaken an ia
terest in the construction of that road az i
portion ofthe great route from Boston 10 Bur
liugton.
Cd, That we recommend this object TO our
community, as one calculated 10 perlectthe
connection between those interested thus i'm
mediaiely in the Fit hburgh Road and its
continuation in western Vermont. and calcu-
Lated to secure the completion Of that design
SO important to our prosperity.
Sd, That we pledge ourselves to sustain
the sincerity ofthese opinions by our acts.
and. in relation to the great design, to direct
to it all the energies of a people awake to
their interests.
The following gentlemen were aPpoin-
ted an executive Committee for Add
son County to correspond with other parts
Of the country on the Rutland route, to call
county meeting and use allhonorable nlears
to secure the success of the western route;
WILLIAM NASH,
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT.
SAMUEL SWIFT,
SAMUEL p. STRONG,
PARIS FLETCHER,
JAMES MCDONALD.
The hest spirit prevailed and the assem-
bly, adjourned with an apparent determine
ion that prompt efforts should be made TO
promote the purposes of the meeting
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sweepingly as though they had elected Clay
instead Of Polk. Hon. MP. Tallmadge is
especially the object Of Loco-Foco execra-
ton.
MICHIGAN 'CRUMBs1The Chicago Dem
ocrat announces the followings appointments
of Michiganians, including surveyor Gen
eral, Consul, anda Commissioner to the
Sandwish Islands. One of the lucky men
Farnsworth) has been Chief Justice or
Chancellor, and once ran for Governor, but
was beaten. Another mcknight once
had to run away from the State, having Kill
led man in a brawl bat appears to have
go. back again. Ten Eyck, we believe, is
New York Federalist of the Vanderpoel or
der, transformed into patriarch Of Michi-
gan Democracy
Saws the Democrat:
The Office ofSurveyor General for Ohio,
Indiana and Michigan has been transferred
10 Detroit from Cincinnati; and Hon. Luci-
US Lyon, Nj. e. of the last Congress from
the Grand River District Of Michigan, has
been appointed Surveyor General.
Col j. McReynolds. Of Detroit. has been
appointed Superintendent of the Light
Houses for the Upper Lakes.
S. Mcknight, Esq. has been appointed
Superintendent OF Indian Affairs at Sault 81
Marie.
Elon Farnsworth do. at Mackinac.
Col Stockton, Supe rintendent OF the Min
cral Grounds near Lake Superior.
Mr.. Bradley, Of Masball, U. S. Distric
Attorney.
Antony Ten Eyck, Commissioner TO the
Sandwich Islands.
Mr. johnson, of Grand River. Consul tt
the MatanZas.
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TOWN ELECTIONS.

The Rochester Daily Adrc7lise, thinks the
result Of our Town Elections proves nothing
Ms TO the Politics OF our State. Ii thought
otherwise when its party WAS The victor
We DO not consider the politics Of town
necessarily indicated by lis Supervisor, but
II is notorious that party nominations are al
most every where made AMI he lines drawn
as tight as they will go. No reasoning man
can doubt that a change from Loco-Foco
minority of Supervisors (which the State
has had steadily for the last ION, years) 10 a
decided Wing majority, (Which il has now ,
proves something. What that something is.
our readers understand, and so dues the Adj
= rtr,iser.-dibany Ere. Jo9r.
e-%The E1ddisonian Is TO take The name
oil UsirED STATES JOURNAL Every body is
anxious 10 wash themselves Of the defilement
CT fylersm, even of lis remembrance.
e ~ A mes. WING paper has Secn started
AZ Bowling Green, Ky. Success 10 the en-
tcrprise.
~ The Tyler Party will need separ-
ate ;oynship-or perhaps Il School District
will 9o-as City of Refuge. The Yyhies
whom they betrayed and deserted don't ike
t:'em, and now ti,2 Loco Fncns. whom they
have faithfully served. are kicking then Out
oi oa;cc and revi!pg them ns coarsely and
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THE MoRMoNs. The Warsaw Signal

THE MoRMoNs. The Warsaw Signal
says:
"We learn fom gentleman, direct from
Nauvoo, that new revelation has been re-
ceved in relation 10 the temple. The work,
on that structure, is TO be almost entirely
suspended for the present, and the whole en-
ergy of the saints is TO be devoted 10 the
building of the wall or rampant around the
edifice. This wall isto enclose six acres
the temple in the centre. 1t is to be four
teen feet high, six feet thick, compose Of solid
stone masonry. The work on this new mon
nment Of folly, has been already commenced
andhundreds o. hands employed in carrying
it forward"
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U. $. CIRCUIT CouRT-vERMoNT.

Wclcam thai Judge Nelson, whose appoint
mcat as Judge Of the Supreme Court Of the
United States we noticed a few days since,
will attend the Circuit Court to be holden at
Windsor in this district in May next. There
having been no Circuit Judge here butat che
tcrm Of the Court for three years past, and
nowe since October teru 1912, several cases,
such as appeals and adjourned questions in
bankruptcy, with few others. heiug cases
in v ich the District Judge could not sit, have
been necessarily postponed from term to
term. II is expected that all these, and such
other cases as may be pending will be heard
AMI disposed of at the ensuing term.--Ib.
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nointed to other contingencies. Not only id
he regret the reference, but the tone and lem
per in which il was made.
As The subject had been brought unaer
discussion, he felt. it TO be his du'y' on 'ne
mart ofthe Governmental state, IN language
most temperate, but az the same ihe .ne
most decisive, that they considered una. we
hive right to this territory oil Uresor
which is clear and unquestionable una, %e
desire an amicable adjustment oil the diner
ences between ourselves and The ohneo
States; but that. having exhausted every
effort TO obtain it, flour rights are inVaucu
we are resolved and prepared to MAINTAIN
them.
A tremendous burst ofcheets from all part
of the House followed this annuncia
| toll.
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have become minor consideration TO the III
terests of some of her officials; and our sus-
niciops mislead us, if the enquiry for the pres
emf is not, what will certain individuals gam
BY accepting or rejecting annexation tine
great concerns of the State being left out Of
Consideration in deciding personal issue oil
SO momentous a character.
at seems to be agreed that proclamat'ons
have been issued to ELL vacancies IN Congress-
so as to amuse the citizens with few elec-
tons. None has been issued convening Con-
g,ess-nor will there be, we apprehend, nn-
til there is a general rising Of the country
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RETRExCuMENT AND REFoRM."-We bave
already alluded to the new rule set up by MIR.
Vice President Dallas, whereby some $780,
OOO have been construed out Of the Treasury
of the United States into the pockets Of SEN
ators, and in virtue Of which Mr.. Daniel ;.
Dickinson of this State is reported TO have
received $500 for an imaginary journey per-
formed from Binghamptou 10 washington
between midnigh bit and morning on the 4th OF
March. Ii now seems that Mr.. Dallas does
not stand alone in his GLORY" The last Lo-
co-Foeo House Of Representatives were e.
quallS distinguished for very clever device TO
"put money in their pockets" at the expense
of the People. Under the general provision
of the law authorizing each branch OF Con-
gress to supply itself with the necessary
Books, &C., the last House Of Representatives
voted to give to each Member 81 volumes oil
Gales & Seaton's State Paper, 20 to 80 vol
umes Of the Register of Debates, l3 volumes
of the Extra Globe, Peter Forces American
Archieves, and variety of smaller articles,
amounting in all to about 5000 TO each men,
Der! or course, out of242 Members there
were a good many who did not care a six
pence for these works, and were ready to sell
them to the highest bidder. Accord
ingly, it is said that one Spectator alone
bought up about 20 of these shares, oil
members tickets" as they are called. fol
$500 apiece. We think the whole affair
most discreditable job, though eminently
characteristic Of I.oeo-F ocoism, and strikigly
Illustrative ofthe sincerity Of its profession:
about " Retrenchment and Reform. Etc
Jour-
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CINCINNATI ELECTION.

The Wings ofCincinnati have achieved a
most glorious victory at their charter cleo
lion this spring. The election was held on
Sd inst. Mayor Spencer, the Wing candi
date, is reelected by majority ofover 200;
and IS Wing out OF 30 members of the
Council are also elected.
A writer in the Tribune says Texas script
would have sold cheap that night in Cincin-
natl.
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SEVEN DAYS LATER FROM EU-
ROPE,

The Steamer Caledonia arrived at Bos-
ton early Tuesday morning:
THE OREGON QUESTION IN ENG
LAHD.
The reader will not overlook the impor-
tant debate in the British House of Commons
on the 4lh of April. The views Of Sir Rob
crt Peel, and Of the British Government. on
the Oregon question, are therein clearly set
forth, and the manner in which the Premier's
declaration was responded TO from all parts
Of the House, shows that these opinions are
held in common BY all parties in Eng
land.
1t will be seen that Sir Robert Peel takes
direct issue with our Government on this
qucstion.-Thc precise grounds on which
VIC found our claim to Oregon, are identically
the same as those upon which the British
Ministry rest theirs. Each party, therefore,
has taken up its position, nor does it seem
possible for either to recede. Believing, as
we do. that the American title TO Oregon is
"clear and unquestionable," we do not see
how our government can yield, either by ne
gotiaiion or arbitration, our right to the Ter
ritory:
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US Texas, and promises 10 secure California;
Our settlers 90 into Mexican province and
take up their gabode; others follow them !;
thev take occasion to rise against the local
authorities, sure OF assistance from their
countrymen in tile United States the strug-
gle is for liberty. They prevail, then they
and the country are in a condition 10 be an
uexed. This is more convenient than war
like Observation-Disclosures American.
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TIE British Mail, for Montreal, Quebec,
&c, left Boston Tuesday morning. reached
tits village Wednesday noon, and doubtless
was in Montreal Thursday morning. This
mil weighed nearly four tons, and notwiih-
standing The very bad state of the roads. was
brough, through TO this in the usual mail time.
-jVGEr'.inga
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SEVENTEEN EMANciPArED SLAVES, con-
signed to Hon. John G. Palfrey, of Boston,
Secretary Of the State of Massachusetts, ar
rived at that Port, from New Orleans, in the
barque Bashaw, on Saturday last. These
are some of the property lately left Mr.. Pal
frey, and their liberation is Il specimen of the
kind of emancipation which alone can do any
practical good. 1t amounts to more than all
the abolitonists have done within the last IL
ycars.-N Y Erpres,
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THE GALAXY.
MISUNDERSTANDING W!P.
Wednesday, April 80. l845,
V. b. PALMER,

We could announce to the business men Of
BOSTON, NEW YORK, and other Cities,
that y. 3. Palmer is our agent TO procure, re-
ceire pay, and .forrard advertisements for
the NORTHER N q 4 L a X Y.
Mr.. PGlmer's office in Boston. is No. IS Sicle
Street,-in Ne,0 York, No, lG0 NassGa 81
and in Philadelphia No. SO Pine Street.
II. BELL, Proprietor.
Middlebury, March %, 1S45.
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DIR RAILROAD COMMITTEE FOR
ADDISON COUNTY.

This Committee was raised week SINCE
We haYe not as yet heard oftheirdoings'but
from the well known character and inieiil-
gence Of the gentlemen composing IT We
doub, not something has been already done
They must see that there is a crisis spPrcaeh-
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~ There has been u great fire in Mad;-
son, lowa-lOO buildings burnt, including the
Presbyterian Church.
hFIt is stated that Geo. washington
Jones, OF Tenn, is too succeed Gen. Wilson.
N. II. as Surveyor General of Iowa and Wis
consin.
n.Jacksonr efilses to be buried in Commo-
dore Elliot's "Sarcophagus." His republic
can ieelingsforbid it. The Sarcophagus was
prepared Tor an Emperor or King"
i paragraph for ra1ious latitudes and lon
gitl1des.
"We hear that The democracy of Groton
nave The same difficulties TO encounter re-
speeding the appointment of a Post Master
that the party have there. Too many ap-
plicants."-Lo1eH Jour
Tanks in Ohio. The Cincinnati Gazette
says that it seems probable that some fifteen
or twenty will be Immediately organized in
dinerent parts ofsthe State of Ohio. nearly
equal numbers as branches of the Sta,e
Bank, and as Independent Banks. The en-
craving for the Independent Banks has been
given by the Treasurer, part 10 Rawdon
Wright, Hatch e. Co., and part to a Phi!a,
delphia.
A uindfaA to Fanny Ur,ght. Quite a
windiall has come TO Fanny Wright. An
uncle in Scotland has recently died. and LETT
her property worth 100000. She is now
IN Jersey City, and will remain in this coun-
try few weeks, for the purpose of taking
certain necessary legal steps preliminary 10
taxing possession of this munificent lega-
:. CASE OF GORDON. Tho case of Nicholas
D. Gordon, tried for the second time IN /
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We learn that there was destructive fire at
GAINESVILLE, Ohio on the 7lh inst, which to-
tally destroyed dwelling houses, 2 or ;
stores, and a number of barns, out-houses,
&c.
A block or4 buildings was destroyed by
fire in Cincinnati on the Alb inst. Loss very
heavy
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FARTHER FROM TEXAS.

The n. o. Picaytme issued an Extra on
the I4lh, containing letters from Mr.. Kendall
at Galveston on the 9TH and at Houston OIL
the sth. These embody few facts not already
given, save that none of the Texan Cabinet
were then at Houston, except Col. Cooke.
Secretary of War, and that /" revolution is
openly talked Of" in case President Jones
does not soon call Congress to decide the
question OF Annexation
HoUsToS, April, s, 1916.
Editors O. he Picaygne: Presuming that,
having disposed OF the Annexation question
in your country, you naturally look with some
interest to the movements in ,his quarter in
reference to it, drop you line to say that
no official action on the part of our Govern
ment has not yet transpired in regard to it,
unless it be that the President Git is so rumor-
ed) has ordered writs of election for Mem
bers Of Congress, to fill vacant districts-wiIh
view to call that body together about the 1st
ofJune.
The receipt of the news OF the passage Of
the Annexation Resolutions by the United
States Congress took the British and French
Ministers here by surprise. and on the arrival
of British man-of-war at Galveston, a few
days afterwards with dispatches for the for
mer, both these functionaries Immediately re-
paired to the Seatof Government, for the pur-
pose, as it is understood, of asking of our
Government pOstponement Of any action
on its part in reference to the consumma-
ton of Annexation until their Govern
ments could be heard from, and hav-
ing, as it is understood, obtained pledge of
some sort to that effect, they forthwith put
about and returned TO Galveston there to a.
wait the arrival of further dispatches. Major
Donelson met them on their way up, between
here and Washington-they being on their
way TO this place-and when he got there the
Government icere Gbsent-President and Cab
met having found it convenient to have bust
ness in the country just at that time. This
may be considered ominous of the feeling of
the party in power towards Annexation
They are evidently in no hurry, and there is
no telling what inducements may be offered
within the next sixty days to remain indie
pendent. In haste, yours truly,
f. J. W..
The Picayune adds the following:
1--WE have two private letters before us, a
day later than those published above. and
which were written at the latest hour TO be
be in readiness for the steamer, from which
we learn that President Jones had returned
to Washington, and that the U. S. Minister,
Major Donelson had been treated so caUoiierly
by him and his Cabinet that he spoke Of nth
dra'cang from the seat Of Government TO Gal
reston. This intelligence is from sources SO
1irect as to leave no room TO doubt its accu-
rscy. From all that we can learn we are con-
strained to believe, that if rupture with Maj
Donelson would assist in procrastinaiing ac-
ion with the acquiesceDce of the people, Pres
dent Jones would edefy the nations with an
'ther erequdfur proclamation. 1t is very ev-
dent tina, the interests ofthe people of Texas
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Rail. Rond.-See notice for meeting gt
Ciaremont, N. II. This project is important
TO all friends of The Central route Watch
man.
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RAILROADS AND THE TARIFF

AZ The Buffalo Courier follows the
Evening Post right into the following blum
der, after the Post itself has been driven out
of ii:
"RdilroGd Iron can be obtained in Great
Britain al $25 1-2 per Ton"
On this fact the Post proceeded 10 preach
a pathetic anti-Tariff sermon, which the
Courier works over and endorses. Now the
real fact is that Railroad Iron was worth
f12 sterling in England at the latest dates
received when the Pos; wrote IFS article, and
is worth fl2 les by the advices via Great
Western. equal TO $50 1-2 first cost in Eng
lard, while American Iron Masters are now
turning out good Rails under contract at a
less price. Put on the freight and charges,
with ~ per cent Revenue duty, and
English Railroad Iron would cost about $50
ton in New York or any part of this Coun-
try. But for the Protective features of our
Tariff every ion of Railroad Iron laid down
in our Country this session and for an indefi
nie period TO come, Cunless previously con-
traeted tor nj lower price, would here cost
this exhorbitant price, which would have
gone 10 swell heavy balauce of indebted
ness against US. Now a great deal will be
made at home, at less cozt. giving en-
ployment TO American artisans and laborer,.
market for American Provisions. and SUD-
port 10 American Schools, Churches, &c.
Stand by the Tariff, and we will have home
made Railroad Iron al $40 ion before Folks
term is out.