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The 9TH annual session, of three days,
viii be held at Mortified, commencing
Tuesday, August Is,
ORDER OF EXERCISES.
THcsday, A. NJ. Organization. Ap-
pointment of Committees, &C. Address by
the President, Rev c. Pease, d d.
p. NJ. Address by Rev. Eli Ballou, Essay
by Mr.. f. Conant, OF Academies and Pub
lie Schools
Evening. Address by Prof. W. A. Cum
mings
"Wednesday, A. E. Address by Prof. NJ.
Ii. Buckham. Discussion The Demand
in Vermont for Normal Schools.
L. NJ. Address by Edward Bourne, l. l..
d. Essay by Mr., f. G. johnson. on Gra-
ded Schools.
Evening. Address by Prof. W II. Parker
Thursday. A. NJ. Address by Rev. c.
W Gushing. Discussion; Common School
Studies, and the duties of Town Superin-
tendents in regard to granting certificates.
Z. NJ. Discussion Too frequent chan.
ges IN School Books-how shall the evil be
remeded' Election of officers. and other
miscellaneous business.
Evening. Discussion An Educational
journal for Vermont. Address by j. S.
Adams, Esq, Secretary Of the Board of
Each address, as time will permit, will
be followed by a discussion of its subject.
Certificates of attendance for free return
by railroad, will be furnished by the Re-
cording Secretary. Common School teach
ers, Town uperintendants, and all persons
interested In the improvement of Vermont
schools are invited to attend and partci-
pate in the discussion of the questi, ms to
come before the Association. The meeting
promises to be one of unusua interest. As
many as can do SO, are requested to come
by the Monday evening train from the North
and South as the first train from the North
on Tuesday does not arrive at Mortified
TIL II ~, and the first from the South till
i +. NJ. The citizens of Northfeld will
give all in attendance cordial reception.
j. III. GRAHAM } ru,:...
j. 5. LEE, O0""''
Northfield, Aug l,
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Ma. EDITOR Permit me through the
columns Of your paper, to call the attention
Of farmers and pork raisers, to the follow
ing facts in relation TO sickness and death
among hogs Lorin Dean, Esq, of this
town, lost some two hundred dollars worth
OF hCgs within the space ofOue year. Some
he would find dead by the trough others
sicken and die in few moments. On IN
yestigaton he found that one or t,co teeth
IN The SlcE hogs were turned black. lie I'M
mediately removed them, and the hogs in-
yariably got well. Others have tried the
same course, and always with perfect sue
cess, Being philanthropist, he desires
that these facts may be made known hoping
they may be the means of arresting the
disease that is now making such fearful
ravages among hogs in many parts OF our
country. Farmers FRIEND.
Manchester, August 3, 1857.
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another, where having been often whipped
before, he ID sure of being whipped again,
we are not sure, and leave it for experienc-
ed persons to decide.
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Mr.. MARCY AS A SCnooLBoY.-lhe fol-
lowing interesting anccdote, from the BOs-
ton Transcript OF the lst, is said to be from
the pen of Lucius NJ. Sargent:
This is a short preface to short story,
which interested me, when | heard it,
many years ago and which recent event
has treshened up in my memory, ! passed
the night under the hospitable rOOfof the
Hon. Salem Towne, of Charlton, in the
county of Worcester. As we sat together,
in the evening, and were speaking Of educa-
ton and of schools, Mr. Iownc informed
me, that, out the year 1900, he taught
school in the southwestern district OF
Charlton. An inhabitant Of Sturbridge,
the adjoining town, had Il son, of whose
abilities and general character he appeared
to entertain a low estimate, and OF whom
he spoke to Mr. Towne disparagingy, as a
boy who gave him trouble Mr.. Towne,
Notwithstanding this puternal iorewarning,
consented to receive the lad on probation.
On the evening Of the very first day, the
school agent came to the teacher, and told
! him, that the boy was a bad boy, and
| would disturb the whole school ana must
be turned out. The agent, very probably,
received his impressions from the judicious
! parent who seems 10 have nude no secret
OF his opinions. Mr.. Iowne rejected this
hasty counsel, and informed the agent that
he should keep watchtul eve upon the
lad, and that he thought it would be time
enough to turn him out Of school when he
made any disturbance, and that he was en-
titled to fair trial. When the boy came, H.,
for the first time, to recite his lesson, and
had gotten through, Mr.. Iowne :old linn to
shut up his book. lie did 80, but instantly
recoied, and lodged his head, as if he ex-
pected blow. The teachtr inquired what
was the matter; tho ooy replied that he sup
posed he should be beaten; and being ask
ed ii he had been accustomed TO such us ge,
he replied in the affirmative, Mr., Iowne
then quietcd his alarm, and assured him
that he had nothing to fear, II he conducted
himself well, and encouraged him, by com
meuding his recitation; and was SO i'm
pressed by the lads manner of rcGeiv ng
tins appreciation that he ventured to say 10
him, Il believe you are good boy" These
words not only entered dt the ear-they
reached the heart, | will not aduut the
strong expression which | once heard from
the lips OF very intelligent Jesuit, aud say
: that the teacher had found Il master kew L
l the soul of his disciple, but, from that
hour, he had ehectually turned the switch
That beautiful appeal-"Aly son, give III,
a thy heart" had not been thus silcutl,
Q made IN vain. The lad told his associate
Y that. though others had said he was baC
t boy Mr. Towne had told him hc believed ht
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bound to take him to the next station, but
may e1pel him at once. unless by such ex
pulsion the life and health Of such person
would be thoreby endangered.
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Religious Intelligence.

We learn that Camp meeting will be
held for ST. A bans district, commencing
Sept. 9th and closing on the 10th, on the
land belonging to Mr.. John Smith, lying
about three miles south of lIighgate Falls,
four from Swanton Falls, and five from St.
Adams village
Another will be held two miles north Of
Stowe village, commencing Sept. 10th and
closing on the following Tuesday.
The oldest pastor in New Hampshire,
according to the Congregational Journal
is Rev. Laban Ainsworth. OF Jafirey, where
he was settled in 1882. lie has, therefore
been the accredited minister of the place
over three quarters of century. A late
Sabbath was the one hundredth anniversary
Of his birth day. In the afternoon he
walked to the meeting, and was able to
hear the discourse, which was preached by
his colleague
Twelve new churches are in process of
erection in Philadelphia, which will cost
in the aggregate two hundred and four
thousand dollars. Besides these, there is u
Roman Catholic Cathedral of the expense
Of which no estimate can be formed
The work of building chapel in Paris
for the use OF the American people IN that
city, is going steadily forward. The build
ing is to cost S45 0O0-the means are de-
rived from private subscriptions, mostly
made In tins country, The Rev. Z. n.
Kirk who is devoted to this object, is about
TO visit Palestine tor his health, but will
return to Paris before the Church is finished
which will be about October next.
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southern views sofPopulaiion and P"ii-
ties III Kansas
The Washington correspondent Of the y
York Courier x Enquirer writes as follows:

The Washington correspondent OF the
York Courier Il Enquirer writes as follows
WASHINGTON, Aug. ).
An important statement relative to Kan
sas affairs has appeared over the signature
of South Carolina journalist. This writ
er is supposed to be Col. Orr, who VIII be
the next speaker of the House, and who
for many years edited u newspaper IN the
mountain district of South Carolina. lie
has lately spent much time IN Kansas,
where, in cOnnexion with other agltators,
it is presumed that he has been organizing
the Slavery party for another and ina ell
fort lie says that the South has Jailed ior
the want OF men, The Southern States
have contributed large amounts of money
IN support OF their cause, but their eml-
grant aid societies and other proselytising
agencies have not succeeded in throwing ln-
to Kansas more than 5000 voters, while the
Northern Free State vote is II 900, or
more than three 70 one lie says there are
in the Territory exactly 50 slaves. 1t
should be kept in mind that these state
ments are from the highest Southern au-
thorty. The admissions III regard to tine
voters is yery important lfthere are Il,
900 legal Free State voters, what more con-
elusive proof could be given that the gov
ernment, supported in the Territory by Fed
raj bayonets, is u system Of intolerable op-
preston For it is certain that no consid-
erab.e portion OF that vote has ever been
admitted to the polls. The pro-slayery
vote, pure and simple, ;" is probably large
ly over stated Where were the 5000 vo-
ters when the members OF the Consti ution'
al Convention were elected On that occa
sion but 1000 appeared, and large pro-
portion OF these were undoubtedly Northern
National Democrats opposed to Slavery
but ready TO cooperate with the party wh'
goes by that name, OF lor that matter, viii
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lNDIAN TRouBLEs-Sr. Paul JuLY 3l.--
Col. Noble, the Constructing Suplrintcnd-
cnt OF the Wagon Road to the South Pass.
is now IN this city, The expedition is for
the present suspended, the euclmpment,
west ol the Big Sioux, having been broken
up the 18th inst, ou account of the violent
opposition offered by the Nankton Sioux
Indians to tho further progress of the
party, They consequently retreated to
Big Wood, about 80 miles west OF Fort
Ridgely. The objections raised by the
IankIons to Col. Mobiles choosing their
country was that they would frighteu away
the butialoes, their sole means of subsist-
ence. Col, Noble, before leaving the In
dians, appointed the 2Oth of August to
hold council to treat for the right ot way
across the country. Should the negoti-
atoms fail, it is his intention to perform
the duties assigned him despite all hostil-
ilics.
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The Caledonan says that on the first inst.
the lightning struck barn belonging to
Walter Stone in Cabot; two barns and sheds
connected and thirty tons of hay were con-
sumed. Nearly at the same time the house
of Mr. John Walbridge, half mile off,
was struck, the lightning passed down the
rod to the last iasulator, where portion
of the fluid left the rod and followed the
hook or supporter, that held the insulat tor,
into tho house, passing through brick
oven which had just been heating. A young
girl was engaged at the mouth Of the oven
cleaning it out. She received very severe
shock as the fluid passed All the injury
she sustained, apparent at present, was
the effect upon her eyes. At first she was
entirely blind, but now can see very little
and seems to be doing well, The fluid per
forated the hearth The main part of the
electric charge followed the rod, throwing
up dirt at the end of it
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DEATn OF MR. DoBBlN The late Secre-
tary of the Navy, John c. Dobbin, died at
Fayetteville, North Carolina, on tuesday .
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We give below an official account OF the
doings of the meeting held here, Saturday
last, to consider the subject of forming an
Agricultural Society for this County.
Chittendcn Co. Agricultural Society.
In pursuance of a call issued by John Van
Sicklin and others, Executive Committee, the
subscribers to the Chittenden County Agrcultur.
al Society met in the Town Hall, Burlington, on
the sth day of August A. D. 1857. On motion
of DR.. +. j. Hendee, Sion E Howard was chosen
Chairman, and Russell S. Taft Secretary.
The meeting then adjourned to O'Clock P. NJ.
when it was again called to order-John b.
Wheeler, Esq. for the Committee api onted to
draft Constitution, presented the following Re.
San Andreas independent., 1857-01-03
Mining Laws.

Adopted By the Miners of San Andreas District,
at a Public Meeting held June 18th, 1856.
BOUNDARYl
/. On the North by Murray's Creek, and on
the East, South and West, to include all of the
Territory drained by San Andreas Greek and
its Tributaries.
2. All Mining Claims, shall be properly de-
signated, by conspicuous stakes.
g. Claims for Shaft Diggings shall be one
hundred feet square.
H. A Tunnel Claim shall be one hundred feet
wide, running through the hill but no Com
pany shall hold more than one hundred feet to
each Member of the Company, when running
with the lead or in pay-dirt.
s. A Gulch Claim shall be one hundred feet
square.
6. A Surface Claim shall be two hundred
feet square.
Z. Any person or persons discovering New
Diggings, shall be entitled to an extra Claim for
the discovery.
s. All Miners, on application, shall have the
right to examine adjoining Claims to prevent
encroachments.
g. All Mining Claims shall become forfeited,
by being abandoned, or not worked for three
consecutive days, (except in case of sickness, J
provided water can be obtained for working
the same.
4V. AL OlatluS Ill OudllS VI uuuclS, VI any
Claims that have been worked in the dry season
shall be considered workable from June lst,
until November lst.
|. IL. All Riddlings and Tailings shall be
deemed abandoned, and become forfeited, three
days after the abandonment of the Claim from
which they have been taken, provided they are
not worked, if workable.
II. All persons shall be entitled to hold, at
the same time, a Sluice Claim, and Claim in
Deep Diggings, provided he works the same
according to law.
13 Persons holding Claims, where water
cannot be Immediately obtained, shall keep a
notice on the same, renewed every ten days, or
have the same Recorded, by Recorder chosen
for that purpose, by the Miners, which shall
hold good until water can be obtained
IA. All Claims to be Recorded shall be done
so, by the owner or owners, in person, of the
same.
Is. All Laws or parts of Laws conflicting
with the above are hereby repealed, and from
this date rendered void.
Adopted June 8th, '56. oct25-3m
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earth. than the excessive use of alcohol.
Then, persevere, hard after the old traitor
to God and man; pursue him, closely,
through every gulch, across every plain,
over eyery mourfain, and never cease
pursuing. until driven to the very suburbs
Of Creation, you hurl him over, r,-and God
grant that his miserable ghost may never
again visit our sin-stricken world.
nThe Deep responds, and He'll. through
All her gloom, returns the
Groans the melancholy roar"
My pleasing task is ended. Ladies, I
thank you for your presence and attention !;
may your bright smiles and warm hearts
never grow less attractive, to Odd Fellows
in particular; and | hope, ere the festiv-
ltles OF this day close, your influence may
be such as to keep at perfect equipoise the
minds and hearts Of these my lady-admi-
ring brethren.
Brethren, farewell; I thank you kind
ly; go on afresh, to labor and toll, and
when called from labor to refreshment,
at the sound of the gayil, may you, with
consciences pure and holy, enter the great
Grand Lodge on high; where, with all the
faithful workmen, you may ascribe to Him
who presides as Noble Grand indeed, all
praises, and honor, and power, and bless
inc.
San Andreas independent., 1857-01-03
Ranch Act.

An ACT to protect the Oacners of Growing Crops,
Buildings, and other Improvements IN the M
ring Districts Of this State-Approved April
25th, 1855.
Sec. l. No person shall for mining purposes,
destroy or in njure any growing crops of grain or
garden vegetables growing upon the mineral
lands of this State, nor undermine or injure any
house, building, improvement or fruit trees,
standing upon mineral lands and the property
of another, except as hereinafter provided.
SEC 2. Whenever any person, for mining
purposes, shall desire to occupy or use any
mineral lands of this State, then occupied by
such growing crops of grain, garden vegeta-
bles, fruit trees houses, buildings or other i'm
provements, property of another, such person
shall first give bond to the owner of the grow
ing crop, building, fruit trees or other improve
ment to be approved by Justice of the Peace
of the township with two or more sufficient
sureties, in n sum to be fixed by three disinter-
ested citizens, householders of the township,
one to be selected by the obligor one by the
obligee, and one by Justice of the Peace of
the township, conditional that the obligor shall
pay to the obligee any and all damages which
said obligee may sustain in consequence of the
destruction by the obligor, or those in his en-
ploy, of the growing crops, fruit trees, improve
ments or buildings of the obligee; prouided,
that the word improvements in this Act shall
be construed to mean any superstructure on
said farm, ranch or garden, and nothing more
SEC. 3. If any person or persons shall violate
the provisions of the first and second sections
of this Act, he or they shall be deemed guilty
of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof
before any court Of competent jurisdiction,
shall be fined in sum not exceeding two hun
dred dollars nor less than fifty dollars, or by
Imprisonment in the County Jail of said county
not exceeding three months, either or both, at
the discretion sof the Court provided, nothing
in this Act, shall prevent miners from working
any mineral lands in the State, after the grow
ing crops on the same are harvested.
San Andreas independent., 1857-01-03
READ AND REFLECT.

ii there's an hereafter,
tAnd that there is, conscience, uninfiuenced,
AND suffered to speak out tells every man,
Then 1t IS an awful thing to die.
More horrid yet to die at ones own hand.
Shall Nature, swerving from her earliest dictate,
Self-preservation, fall by its own act?
Forbid it Heavenl
Inc Indulgence IN secret pratice is the most
certain, though not always the most ;mmea;-
ate and direct, avenue to destruction. Physi1
clans OF all ages have been most unanimously
OF opinion that the loss of one ounce of semi-
nal secretions, by unnatural aid or emissions.
weakens the system more than the abstraction
of forty ounces of blood One of the rrpsr
writers on medical Jurisprudence states that
three-fourths of the insane owe their maladv te,
such abuse.
How important, then, it is for every one, hay-r
ing the least cause to suspect any trouble iul
that way, to attend to it Immediately; even
one single occurrence should be sufficient to-
cause doubt, and much more so if the person
had ever indulged in the sonl-killing habit.
The treatment pursued by the justly celebrated
DR.. J. G. Young, in cases of seminal weakness,
impotency, sterility, nervous debility and pa
ralysis, the last is the most dangerous, and
when it once occurs, incurable,j IS not surpass-
ed by any Physician in the country. 1t is the
same as that followed by him for years, under
the guidance Of the world-reaouned Ricord of
Paris, and Acton Of London. Hr Young's office
is at the corner of Montgomery and California
Streets, where he can be consulted on that and
all other private diseases, with the utmost cor-
fdence and secrecy. DIR. Young will warrant
perfect cure, or make no charge.
N. B.-Letters inclosing $I0 90 will receive
prompt attention. The doctors time being so
much taken up that he cannot attend to letters
unless paid for it.
T. S.-Apartments privately arranged.
San Andreas independent., 1857-01-03
:. Give my respects to my friends, and be-
lleye me, Yours, truly,
CHARLES WINKLEY.
SONG,

Oh come to me when | am lonely and sad,
And whisper of something I love-
Bring beautiful thoughts of far-off world,
And point to the sunlight above
Tell me gently ofpeace, nestled down in the soul,
Like glittering star in its rest;
Let me know the sweet tones that soothe my
thoughts,
Breathed out from a warm, loving breast
Oh, come to me Oft as the angels have come
When fades the last glimmer of light;
Bid day beam out of the weary soul
AT the gathering hush of earth's night
Oh come to me when I am sinking away,
And murmur gentle adieu;
Come ere my glad soul has her pinions unfurld d
For the glittering home in her view.
San Andreas independent., 1857-01-03
For the San Andreas Independent.
An Ode to the Departed Year.

BY MINER.-wRITTEN IN HIS CABIN.
Old year, as you are about to leave us,
bid you long farewell,
Though many are left in misery here,
If the truth they dare to tell
Thousands have left their native homes,
Their lives and fortunes for to try
But can do nothing in this land of gold,
The winter seasons are so dry.
0, welcome Happy New Year,
Twice welcome tidings may you bring,
To the hard-worked, honest miner,
That he may gleeful laugh and sing.
The year that is about to leave us,
BY drouth, was very bad indeed
The miners suffered in want of water,
Nor had the cattle any feed.
May God, through all His mercies,
Ordain the coming year may not be so,
For if it is this land of flowers and gold,
Will be the fountain source of VICE.
South Fork Calaveras, Dec. %, 1916.
San Andreas independent., 1857-01-03
IMPORTANT to Miners, Travellers, q:


There is no malady of deeper Importance,
either in medical or moral point of view, to
which the human family is more liable, than
that arising from impure connections.
AS a medical man. it is the duty of every
physician to look at disease as it affects health
and life, and his sole object should be to miti-
gate, as far as lies in his power, the bodily suf
ferlng. Human nature at best is but frail; all
are liable to misfortune.
| OF all the ills that affect man, none are more
terrible than those of private nature Dread
tul as 1t is in the person who contracts it,
frighttul as are its rayages upon his constitu-
ton ending frequently in destruction and O.
loathsome grave, it becomes of still greater i'm
portance when it is transmitted to innocent Off
spring. Such being the case, how necessary it
becomes that every one having the least reason
to fear that they have contracted the disease
should attend to it at once by consulting some
physician, whose responsibility and education
enables him to warrant safe, speedy and per-
manent cure. In accordance with this necessi-
ty. DIR. YOUNG feels called upon to state
that by long study and extensive practice he
has become perfect master of all those diseases
which come under the denomination of yenereal
and having paid moro attention to that branch
than any other physician in the United States,
he feels himself better qualified to treat them
| Syphilis in all its forms, such as Swelling of
the Groins Ulcers, Ulcers in the Throat Sec
ondary Syphilis, Cutaneous Eruptions, Ulcera-
| tions, Tertiary Syphilis Syphilis in Children,
Mercurial Syphilitic Affections, Gonorrhea,
Gleet, Structures, False Passages, Inflammation
of the Bladder and PROSTATE Glands, Excoria-
tions, Tumors, Pustules, ETC., arc as familiar to
him as the most common things of daily obser-
yation.
The Doctor effects cure in recent cases in 8
few days, and finds no difficulty in curing those
of long duration, without submitting the pa
tient to such treatment as will draw upon him
the slightest suspicion, or oblige him to neglect
his business whether within doors or without
The diet need not be changed, except in cases
of severe inflammation. There are in California,
p&tients, (amounting to over two thousand in
the past year, that could furnish proof of this !;
but these are matters that require the incest
secrecy, which he always preserves.
All letters ineosing S 0, will be promptly
attended to- Office hours fronv 8 A. NJ, to 8
P. NJ Address J. g. YOUNG, Nd