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On the 95th inst, by Rev. j. White
man, Mr.. DAVID p. Price, TO Mss
MARY (. CLEMENTS Of Bloominggrove.
On the e5th inst, by Rev. James
6ricrhist, CHARLES McMASAMAN to
ISABELLA SrASsBuRY, all Of White
Water township.
On the 18th inst, by DR.. U. G.
Reeves, NJ. G., Mr.. GEoRoE VIII
LTAMs, Of Fayette County. to MISS
ELIZABETH MARTIN. Of Union Comfy.
On .he 29d inst, by the Rev. j.
Whiteman, DR.. Charles f. F. Pentz,
of Union County. TO Miss. Rebecca
Abbott. Of Franklin County.
On Wednesday, March Ia, 1856, by
Rev. B. +. Crary. the Rev. CHARLES
TINsLEY, Of the Indiana conference, 10
Miss CATHARINE Benton. daughter Of
Rev. Walter Benton, OF Brownstown.
Jackson county, Ia,
On Tuesday. March IS, 1855, by
Rev. L. w. Berry, D. D., the Rev.
WEsLY J. SfAuLDISe, A. B., of the
New Philadelphia circuit. Indiana con-
ference, to Mss MARTHA ALNIRA BER-
RY, daughter OF Rev. L. w. Berry,
d. D.. of New Albany, Ia.
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-03-30
Synopsis Of the School Law.


Section one provides for the assess
ment and collection of ten cents on
the hundred dollars and fifty cents
on every poll, for school purposes
Negroes and mulattoes are excepted
from the tax and excluded from the
schools.
Section two provides what kind Of
funds shall be school-funds, subject to
be divided equally throughout the
State, which includes all the funds
heretofore given to the schools. except
the 10th section Of land in each town
ship, which, in other parts of the law,
is given to the respective townships.
Section three holds the counties
liable for the funds committed to their
charge.
Sections four, five, six, seven, and
eight make the civil township school
districts, and define the duties Of the
teachers, clerks, and treasurers, as did
the old law.
Section nine provides that any town
ship may levy tax, for building and
repairing school houses, paying the
school debts for buildings, and to OBJ
tain libraries. not to exceed twenty
FIVE cents on the one hundred dollars
worth Of proparty and poll tax Of fifty
cents in any one year.
Section ten provides, that on or be.
fore the Goth day Of September, in
each year, the trustees shall take an
enumeration Of the children between
the ages Of FIVE and tweenty-one years
including married persons. The pa.
rents Of children may make choice oil
the district to which their children
shall be sent.
Sections eleven, twelve, thirteen,
fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, and seven
teen provide that report Of the mum.
Der Of children shall be made TO the
county auditor, on or before the frs,
day Of October, and points out the
manner Of assessing and collecting
the tax; for division Of the townships
into district, and the transfer Of chill
dren from one district to another, a:
in the old law.
Section eighteen provides that i
trustees neglect their duties. in en-
umerating the children, de-, then the
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lows: Primary Department. less than
twenty two cents per week, Academic.
thirty cents per week. Collegiate, less
than fifty cents per week. Who can
complain OF this, in view Of the ad.
vantages of such an Institution?
Take, for instance. the prices Of tn.
ton in The Oxford Female College for
the Collegiate year Of forty two weeks.
Primary Department, 334 cents per
week, Academic, over fifty two cents
per week. Collegiate, over seventy
one cents per week. From this COM
parison. it viii be seen that the pri
ces in the Brookville College are at
least one third lower than they are in
the Oxford Female College and In
stitute. These comparisons are not
made for the purpose of drawing pat
ronsge from the above Institutions.
flor there is room enough for all, }
but to show those in this locality who
think our charges are too high, that
we are not above other Institu tons Of
similar grade in this section Of coun-
try. Notwithstanding the hard times,
the prospects OF the college may be
said to be fattering. The number OF
students is increasing at present, and
with an excellent Board Of instruction,
who are devoting their energies to
their appropriate work, We are per-
sua,led that all concerned will be sat-
isfed with the progress their children
are making in the several branches
that they are pursuing.
AS to the health of BrookviIle,
may say with safety. that it is not sur
passed by any other town in the White
Water valley
have lived in nine different towns
in the west. within the last twenty
years, and after a residence here of
three years. | am bold to say SO lar as
my observation goes, that no town in
the west is more uniformly healthy
than Brookville.
Boarding can be procured in pri-
vate families at from two dollars TWEEN
ty-ive cents to two dollars fifty cents
per week.
There are some young men who
} board themselves at cost ofnot more
than one dollar and twenty-five cents
per week.
Will not the citizens of Brookville
and Franklin county especially. rally
{ around this Institution and sustain it!
The next term viii commence Monday
the 93d of April.
JOHN w. KELLY. Treasurer.
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Opinion of a Supreme Judge on the
LIQUOR Law.

Judge Perkins, in a Letter to the
Richmond Jeffersonian, says: "The
liquor law may be enforced in Indi-
ana, though it could not be in any
despotism in Europe" This we re-
gard as an inkling of his opinion, that
it is constitutional in Indiana, though
it might not be in despotism.-That
it is consistent with a democratic gov
eminent, but not with n despotic gov
eminent. This accounts, mo doubt, for
the opposition with which it meets
among the foreigners, who have not
been here long enough to understand
the difference between the despotism,
under which they were raised and the
free institutions Of this land. Well
said, Judge.
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-03-30

Too TRUE FOR A JoKE.-Geo. p.
Buell., the talented editor Of the Dem
ocratic Review, gives the following
opinion of the late Legislature:
81 certainly regard the Legislature
Of 1855, as body, almost without n
redeeming quality. If there is not,
in its history. the barrenness of the
African Desert, there is the poisonous
fruit of the valley of Java; and it is
almost universally regarded, in our
own and other States as popular alb
ortion."
The course of the twenty-six Sena'
tors, who disregarded their official
oaths. in refusing to elect the officers
provided for by law, and the constitu'
ton, justly entities them to this..rebuke
from one of their own party, and we
again predict that not one Of the fore.
sworn, will ever be reelected to tha
post.
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-03-30
New Hampshire Election.

The following from the Boston cor
respondent Of the New York Post,
the leading Democratic paper in New
York, gives the most honest exposition
of the causes Of the defeat in New
Hampshire that we have seen. We
commend it to those who are hoping
that the defeat in Indiana was caused
only by the American party on the
ground Of Know Nothingism:
BosroN, March 10, 1855.
Everybody is talking Of the New
Hamshire election, which has result.
ed precisely as some Of the more san
guine supporters Of Metcalfe have pre-
dicted it would, ever since he was put
in nomination. We have returns from
almost all the State, and the majority
against the Pierce party-I did moi
say the democracy, which is very
different thing-is about I 900. which
will probably be increased TO $4,000
when all the towns have been heard
from. The legislature is anti-admin.
istration, and every member Of Con-
gress is Of the same political hue
The two U. s. Senators will be any
thing but friends Of the administra,
ton.
Such are the consequences Of the
blundcrs Of the men now in power (?)
ut Washington. Forte attribute them
to Know Nothingism would be the ex'
IRENE of folly. All that Know Moth.
ingism is in New Hampshire-all tina,
1t is in any New England State-is O
nuclcous around which mcn have raj.
lied who wished to rebukc n traitorou:
administration.
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lcoxAuNcArrD.

lcoNnuNcArrD.
Died at her residence, in Springfield
Township, on Sabbath morning, March
10, Mrs. Mary Shirk, relict of An
drew Shirk, deceased, aged about 65
years.
The deceased was a native Of Ken
lucky, bat emigrated to this county in
company with her parents, az quite an
early day. AT the death Of her hus-
band she was left with large and de-
pendent family, which caused the cares
and duties of life to press heavily up
on her; yet, she was spared to see her
family all grown up. and permitted to
administer TO the wants and necessi-
ties Of one, now languishing upon a
bed Of sickness, until the Wednesday
evening previous to her death.
Mrs. Shirk protessed faith in Christ.
and united with the Big Cedar Grove
Baptist Church, in the prime Of lie,
and for more than thirty years main
tanned that union and communion with
the church, that zone, save the pious
Christian, would likely have main
tanned. The funeral services were at
tended to on the day succeeding her
death, at which time Elder L. p. Bond
preached to an attentive and sympa-
lhizing audience, from Revelation.
18th chapter. and 18Th verse: "And
l heard voice from Heaven, saying
unto me, write, Blessed are the dead
which die in the Lord from henceforih;
yea, saith the spirit. that they may
rest from their labours; and their
works do follow them" j. p. b.
On the esd inst, at the residence Of
her father, in Dearborn County, Mrs.
Ann Peterson, widow Of the late Ben
famine Peterson, Of Highland Town
shin.
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Henrie House, Cincinnati.

This House is situated in ne midst
of the business portion of the city, in
the immediate vicinity of the principal
Banks, Express and Telegraph Offices,
and convenient to the Steam boat
landing and Railroad depots. Omni.
buses and hacks always ready, to take
passengers to and from the different
railways and steamboats,.
The house will be open all hours,
day and night, for the reception and
entertainment of the public With
these conveniences, and the undivided
attention of the proprietor, he hopes to
receive liberal share of public pat
rome. Give the Henrie House call,
and sec for yourselves. Board pei
day only one dollar.
J.wOODS.
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The following item. furnished US by
A. r. McCLEERY, Esq, may be Of
some intererest to many of our read
ers:..
The farm consists Of 208 acres in Fay
cite County, and belongs to Franklin,
Fayette and Union counties. $50
acres are under cultivation, and SO
acres in woodland. 1t is estimated
that the value Of the property belong
ing to the institution is about ss,
The expense Of the Asylum for the
year. after deducting receipts from
the farm. are e2, 5o3,64. of which. il
we are correctly informed, one hall
falls to Franklin County.
We are satisfied that with $4,000,
a farm near Brookville can be had, on
which our poor can be kept. alta less
expense than si25o per year. Every
consideration Of economy and human
ity. we think. indicates that the part
nership should be dissolved, especially
as large expenditures will be necessa
nv to make the house and farm nov
owned, answer any longer the pur
pose for which it is designed. w,
learn that Fayette and Franklin, ART
in favor Of sale. but Union opposes
There are now 40 inmates in the Asy
lum-swenty. seven males and TWEEN
ty-two females.
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Who was the First Know Nothing?

w III was tikC = Las xAhoW ~soeiA11S =
This has been question, inmyste-
ry akin to another which for a while
agited the minds of the enquiring and
philosophic, viz, "Who ate the first
oyster?" To both questions there
was mighty silence instead Of an an
swer.
1t now appears that the first men,
toned, is not shrouded in such impen-
etrable mystery after all. Cicero
says, in his "Academical Questions, ("
that Socrates was Know Nothing
This is his language:-"Sapientissi-
mus Socrates dicebat scire Sc nihl,
praeter hoe ipsum, quod Mill sciret;
reliquos hoe etiam nescire." The
friend who fshed this up from the
dead sea of latin literature adds a
translation:-"The very learned Soc
rates was accustomed to say that he
knew nothing, that other men did not
know even this"
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Corrfsponotntf.
BR0OKvILLE COLLEGE.

Mr.. EDrroR:-Will you allow me a
small space in your paper to say few
things in reference to Brookville Col
lege? And first as to the price of tuition.
This is as low as other institutions Of
a similar character. Take, for instance
the Oxford Female College, and Ok
ford Female Institute, boil. of which
charge the same. Their prices are as
follows:
Primary Department, per annum, sl4
Academic, 22
Collegiate, =" /" 30
White Water Presbyterial Academy,
Dunlapsville, Indiana:
Primary Department, per annum, $40
Middle, 4" IA
Classical, go
White Water College, Centreville.
Indiana:
Primary Department, per annum. $50
Academical, +" Is. so
Collegiate, 4" " $3.50
Rrookville College. b. are due at
the middle of the term. AL if paid be-
fore the close Of the term ten per cent
is deducted. The price oftuiIion is as
follows:
Primary Dept, $40 Discount off, SO
Academic, {" S14 1850
Collegiate, SEA I" ei.60
From the above, it will be seen that
the prices in Brookyille College are
below those of the above Institutions,
except one item in White Water Col
lege. Their Primary department is
seven dollars and fifty cents, while
Brookvillc College is nine dollars. -
In the Accidental and Collegiate,
we arc below them. and also with all
the rest, except the Classical Depart
ment in the White Water Presbyterial
Academy, that is one dollar and sixty
ty cents below Brookville College.
Where payments are promptly made,
the patron gets the benefit 81 the 10
per cent discount This being the
case, the tuition bill will b. as fol-
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School Examiners.

AT the March meeting of the Board
Of Commissioners, Henry Berry, Jr.,
George Dickson. and Jas. d. Allison
were appointed Examiners Of School
teachers, for the ensuing year.
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-03-30

THANKs.-We have received from
Geo. A. Chase, Esq, a copy of the
proceedings Of the Teachers Asso-
citation of this State. We regret that
it does not contain, at least, a synop-
sis OF the able addresses delivered on
the occasion, but it is interesting as it
is, and forebodesa better day in edu-
cational matters.
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-03-30

Accrprsr.-Captain Peck Of this
township met with a serious accident
some two weeks ago. While climb
inr fence. rail turned. and he fell,
brealiwg leg. He was tolerably
comfortable last Monday, and there
Are hopes Of bis speedy recovery.
n. Berry 10 the attending physician.
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Communicated.
Resolutions of Coincidence.

At called meeting Of Penn Lodge
No. 80 I. o. OF, held at the Hall of
the Lodge in Brookville. on the eve
ming of the 26th inst. the following
preamble and resolutions were passed:
Inasmuch as this lodge is advised
that our beloved young brother George
Price, after protracted and painful
illness, departed this life on the night
of the 25th inst, at the residence of
his parents, in Brookville, as testi-
timonial of regard for the unobtrusive
merit of the deceased, the following
resolutions are unanimously adopted:
LIST. We most respectfully and affec-
tionately offer to the parents and rel
atives of the deceased our coincidence
over this sad event, which in the
morning of his youth has deprived
them of son and brother, and that
we mourn with them as having our
selves suffered the loss OF his society
and friendship in our association.
end. That the members of this
Lodge, will attend the funeral of the
deceased. and that each of us do wear
the usual badge Of mourning for thir-
ty days. r. II. TYNER, Sec'y.
On motion it was ordered that copy
of the above resolutions be.handed to
the Indiana American and Franklin
Democrat for publication.
George was twenty-one years old,
last April. He WAS talented and
promising. and much esteemed, par
ticularly by his young associates in
College. His disease was consump-
tioa. caused by cold caught last
spring on sudden change of weather.
En-
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9'nB MARKETS.

ROCKVILLE MARKETS.
Every "Wednesday by
LlNcK & FARoUIIAR,
Dry Goods and Produce Dealers No I.
roo,,nercfaI R0ar
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CINCINNATI MARKETS.

coRREorKD EVERY WEDNESDAY
From the Latest ana hest Author
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If she does, just give her piece Of
your mind. The cross old jade ought to
take time to read all your letters
But deal with her gently. or you will
awake a perfect tigrcss. No ofense.
Miss Hetty.
ES- The Kansas election was to
take place to-day. (3oth of March. }
Read the article in another colum from
a Missouri paper. Does it not init
mate that fthe Govenoris not protected
by the military, he will be linched if
he opposes the slavery propogandists =?
We confess that we so understand it.
zI- The Lawrenceburgh and Indi.
annapolis railroad company has made
arrangements to lay down third rail
on the Cincinnati and st. Louis rail-
road, from Lawrenceburgh to Cincin-
natl, so rs to avoid the necessity OF
changing cars at Lawrenceburgh.-
Tho work is To be done Immediately.
~ William Heron, formerly Of
this county. writing from his new home
Maquon, Knox county, Illinois. says:
"This country is as different from old
Franklin, as Il Is distant. There are
but few hills. and those are Of an in
significant character. There is but
little timber-mostly level and pro-
ductive, and prairie. But with all the
beauty Of country | can not get along
without the American" You shall
have it, Will.
Indiana American. [volume] (Brookville, Ind.) 1833-1861, 1855-03-30

on 'ohs hS TO- Noh hS NC peIni.lcu
with impunity to set at naught and
defy the provisions Of the bill; and
defy you, Southerners, who as free
men Of this republic. claim your rights
under that Bill? Suppose he should
do this thing, and should order the
election on the first Of April, or LIST Of
May, would he not virtually declare
that residence in the Territory oil
two or three months was necessary
qualification for legal voter?
The bill requires only an actual
residence IN said Territory, whether
that residence commences on the day
of the election, or year before. Thus
it is written-such is the law upon
which this Territory was erested-and
the South and West ale willing to
abide by it.
The Bill only gives the Gov. power
10 appoint the "time and places" and
the persons who shall superintend
such election and the returns thereof"
but it takes upon itself the Office Of
defining the qualification of voters in
language SO plain, SO unmistakable
that the "wayfaring man though q
fool might read and not err therein"
The Judges af the election, says the
Bill, shall superintend the "returns
thereof" The votes recorded in
these returns are prima faeis Legal
votes: and the Governor. notwith'
standing any number Of protests from
the defeated party, cannot so behind
them: he must declare those having
the highest number of votes ip these
returns to be duly elected. There is
another tribunsl-the Assembly and
not the Governor who shall judge and
decide Of the eligibility Of its own mem
bers. The organic Bill in lis words
like the Constitution Of the United
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-29
The South Alarmed.

The people and press of the South
are getting alarmed at the prospects of
the pro-slavery party in Congress. The
new movement to elect a Territorial
Representative to Congress, independent
of the action of the seif-styled Legisla-
tive Assembly, is conceded by them to
be master-stroke of policy on the part
of FFeesoilers. And the formation of a
State Constitution, and its presentation
to the next Congress is an "astute con-
triyance which could not have origi-
mated on the frontiers" Read the fol-
lowing from the Charleston, s. c., Mer-
curry, the most ultra pro-slayery journal
published in the South =
"The Freesoilers have determined to
appoint a government of their own !;
have disowned all obedience to the Ter
ritorial Government existing; have deter
mined to elect Delegate to Congress
through their own organization, and
leave it to that abolitionized body to de-
termine between it and the law of the
land and, finally. have determined to
hold a Convention for the purpose of
framing Constitution, and presenting
themselves "a poor minority of the set
tiers of Kansas) for admission into the
Union as Freesoii State.
"The plan is one of those astute con-
trivances that could not have originated
on the frontiers. 1t bears the marks OF
Seward on every section of it; and the
object is to transfer the Territories over
their domestic laws, to the House of the
Representatives at Washington. where
the revolutionary doings of band of
incendiaries, it is hoped, will be treated
by their brother fanatics as the Higher
Law
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-29
Kansas Lands

The Washington correspondent of the
ST. Louis Republican. writing on the
25th of August, says =
A great anxiety is felt relative to the
probable time when the Kansas lands will
bethrown into market. Ihaye ascertained
st the General Land Office, that so far as
that Office is concerned, these lands will
be offered for sale, and viii be open to
location within the next twelve months.
The time. however, depends in measure
on the action of the Indian Bureau. as
there are yet outstanding Indian titles to
be extiEguished. 1t may be safely ealcu-
lated that some time during the next year
the holder of certificates can appropriate
to his own use and benefit a portion of
these fine lands which brought into such
extrayagant play Gov. Reeder's specula-
tive propensities. The charming half
breed Kaw lands may yet fall to the share
of the border rufians,'' should they be
ready with legal certificates to pounce
upon them at the first opening of the
General Land Office. I would advise
them to keep sharp look out for the oc-
casion, of the near approach of which 1
shall try and keep you adyised.-Squat-
ter Sovereign.
The Kansas herald of freedom., 1855-09-29
Rattlesnake's Bite.

Many persons have died of the bite of
this willy and dangerous reptile. Although
not so large in size as the boa constructor
vet the effects of its bite, if not provided
against. are so fatal and deadly as the
coils which enfold man and horse in their
chill embrace. Many may wonder why
the bite of the rattlesnake is so fatal
The reasons are simply these The pois-
on, or the fluid which acts as such, issues
from the fangs, and is secreted in the
wound made by the bite. This fluid
chills and crystalizes the blood, and be-
numbing steals gradually over the frame,
like that felt by a freezing person, the
blood being like water in freezing state.
Some years ago physician was bitten by
rattlesnake; but, unfortunately, though
be cured many of various kinds of dis
eases, lie could not cure himself, nor
could he be cured by any of his brother
physicians and in one or two hours he
died martyr to his own ignorance, with
the antidote within arms reach, and
which, if taken in time. would have saved
his life. And even now there are like
cases in the papers, which proves beyond
doubt that the fact is not known as it
ought to be that brandy or rum taken i'm
mediately after the bite, or as soon as con-
venient, and in such. quantity as to make
a person tipsy, will destroy the effects OF
the poison and serve as safe and sure
antidote.