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SCHO0. REFORM--NO. :.

\ TALK A}OUT OUTLINE MAPS
/ The directors bought one hundred and
f0rty-three seB, last winter, at a cost of
about two thousand five hundred dol
lars. During the anxiety and uncer-
tainty Of war, such large outlay was
hardly to be expected; but it was "A step
in the right direction, and a first STEP.
Before this, We had few maps and lit
tleapparatus of any kind. We taught
aftera primitive fashion. Some schools
We're even without blackboards. 9th
ers had them but neVerused them. We
remember three or four of the latter
sort. There hang their blackboards
just wherethey have been for two years,
as bright and new a. the day they We're
made, unsc,atched by crayon and un-
sullied by chalk dust. We need not
say the teachers Of these schools were
the worst kind of Ounces.
But to come back to the maps. We
think their purchase ''turns over anew
leaf" The maps are boUgh This isa
living fact worth all the prospects and
promises in the universe. 1t proves
that directors. are alive to the impor-
tance0f choolreform that, therefore,
other apparatus will be likely to follow
as soon as the means Of the respective
districts will justify; and that the
schools and their claims were not for
gotten even during the great peril Of
the nation.
Wherever teachers made good use Of
the maps, more Geography was learn
ed last winter. than in the whole five
years preceding. \ short exercise was
given once or twice day, and the rhoie
school joined in it. The progress made
was surprising. In some schools nearly
all the pupils, big and little, were soon
able to point out and name most Of the
countries, ,capes, mountains, lakes, CULTS,
rivers, &C., Of the whole world. This
began to attract attention. The grum-
bling-which assure to follow any unu-
sual expense-gradually ceased. The
tempest in a teapot subsidized. The
maps became popular, and it was gem
orally agreed that the directors had ac-
ted wisely and well. Such were there
suits where the maps were properly
used.
We regret 10 say they were not every
where properly used. About eighty
sets were put into the schools. The
rest came late in the term, and it was
not thought worth while to put them
up. OF the eighty teachers who had
the maps, how many, think you, made
little or no use of them? About .Ftfy!
We blush as we write it down. Fifty
teachers who did not use the maps. Is
it strange that in such neighb0rhOOdS
complaints grew louder, that the tenn
pest in teapot grew tiercer. The pre-
dictions of the fault-finders We're veri-
fed: '"The maps were worthless" '"The
money was thrown away" Few took
the trouble TO reflect that the fault was
the teachers. The teachersal alleged that
they hadn't time" or couldn't get
the school to takean interest, E" or didn't
"knoW how" and other excuses equal
ly trifiing. They should take time.
An outline map exercise for few min
utes each day, is as profitable as any
thing else; and an interest is always a.
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Phrenology, Physiognomy and Psy-
chOlOgy-only 20 cents, or $500 year.
New volume begins with Jan. No.
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way, New York.
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AN EDITORIN LUCK.-At the North
western fair just held here, and which
by the way was splendid success, apart
OF the programme was that of foot ra-
cling, in which "Brick" Pomeroy, ed
itOr of the Lacrosse Democrat, and a
young man named Messenger, We're
the contestants. The best two out of
three, distance 100 yards, for s50O:a side,
were the conditions. The parties We're
well built, athletic looking men, and
dressed in fanciful costume.-"B Brick"
wore flesh embroidered suit imported
from ConstantinOple, and presented to
him in token of his many virtues by
the favorite lady of the harem. What
high appreciation these Turkish ladies
have of Western editor The purse
was won by the redoubtable "Brick''
who made the hundred yards in nine
seconds.
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CONGRESS has met and organized.
The cohesive power of public plum
der" still holds the Abolition members
together. The New York politicians,
who were so loud in their protestatiOns
Of friendship for President johnson,
haveunited with ThaddeusS Stevens and
the Radicals to kick Johnson's policy
out of sight. There isn't a single con-
servative Republican" in the whole
Congressional bear-garden at Wash
ington. The people have been most e.
gregiously hoodwinked by the pro-
feSsions of the men who last fall pre-
tended to support the Presidents res
toratiOn policy, but who now trample
that policy under foot. Mcpherson,
the Clerk of the lower House of Con-
gress, has excluded from his roll of
members, even the names of the rep
resentatives from the Presidents own
State, some of whom are the bosom
friends, personal and political, of An
drew Johnson. OF course, his excuse
for this course of conduct, is, that Ten
nessee is not in the Union. If this be
so, how can we have a lawfully elected
Pre- sident from that State? The Ten
nessee Congressman have just as much
legal right to occupy seats in the Fed
eral House of Representatives, as An
drew Johnson, of Tennessee, has to oc-
cupy the chair of the Federal Execu-
tive. Again, the caucus of Abolition
congressman, has adopted resolution
shutting the doors of Congress In the
faces OF the Southern representatives,
and recommending the appointment of
joint committee of Senators and
Members to inquire into and report up-
on their qualifications. Now, each
house IS, separately and Independently,
the judge of the qualifications of It's
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4 widow Gets IA Verdict of $1,000.

At the late term Of the Court of COM
mon Pleas of Chester county, Pa, a
widow named Baily, sued the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company for damages
for the loss of her husband, alleging
carelessness on the part of the railroad
employees. 1t appears that in Septem-
ber, 1864, Baily was returning with a
number of other persons from a politi-
cal meeting i'll Lancaster. The train,
filled with passengers, reached Penning-
tonville towards smidnight, behind time,
and being on the south track, and the
station house on the north side, Mr..
Baily and number Of the passengers
alighted from the cars, and were on the
north track, when some one discovered
locomotive coming up that track at
full speed, and not many rods below
He gave the alarm and succeeded in
getting the people all off except Mr..
Baily, who wasstruck by the cow-catch-
er, tossed into the air and fell with his
head between the ends Of two crOss-ties,
and was 80 much injured as TO die from
the effects of it the next morning.
The widow received verdict of so, 700.
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TERRIBLE RAILROAD DISASTER.
Collision ON the New .5cTscy Central
ROad---Sineteeu Persons Killed and
NoVuHPs{

Collision ON the New 5cTsey Central
RORd---Niueteeu Persons KILLED and
Wounded.
EAsToN, \. J., Dec. 1.-The Western
express which left Harrisburg at three
O'Clock this morning, ran into a coal
train at White House, y. j. on the
New Jersey Central Road, about eight
O'Clock this morning, killing seven
persons and Wounding ten or twelve
others.
hiHed.-The killed are as follows:
r. :. Chidsey, Easton; Edward john
son. Washington, r. J.; James Taylor,
Easton, n. j.; West Mettler, Phillips
burg; Edward Davis, Be!videre; :.
W. Edinger, Carpenterviile, y. J.
ded.-Thef0llowingw We're Woun-
ded; VIM. Rex, lee broken Mrs. Har-
svey, leg broken; Mrs. HarVey's child
also injured: Andrew O'Neil. arm bro
ken; ". ". Marsh, OF Scho0ley's
Mountain, and also Wm. Strekel. woun-
ded about the head; Geo. Walter, of
Newark. y. j., slightly; \. :. Strong,
of East Hampton, Mass, badly about
the head Mrs. A. :. Strong, slightly;
E. w. LoWthrop, Trenton, not danger
ouSly injured; John +. Stigcr, Clinton,
\. j., both arms broken; Wm. f. Ma
rys. Washington, -, side and arms
injured.
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g,roelama.ien By ...e presiden..

WASHINGTON. NOY 30.
The following proclamation has iust
been issued by the President Of the
United States of America:
Whereas, By the proclamation Of thr
President of the United States of the
10Th day Of December. 1863, the privl-
lege of the writ of habeas corpus, III
certain cases herein set forth, was Sus-
pended throughout the United States; :;
and whereas, the reasons for that suS-
pension may he regarded as having
ceased in some Of the States and terri-
tories,
Now, therefore, be it known that !,
Andrew Johnson, President of the I :
nited States, do hereby proclaim ana
declare that the suspension aforesaid,
and all other pr0clamatiOns and orders
Suspending the privilege of the writ OF
habeas corpus iii the States and terrific
r!eS Of the United States are revoked
and annulled except a. 10 the States OF
Virginia, Kentucky, Texas, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, tlor-
ida, TenneSse, Alabama, Mississippi,
Louisiana and Arkansas, the District OF
Columbia and the territories of New
Mexico and Arizonia
In witness whereof | have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal OF the
United States to be affixed.
Done at the Cityof Washington, this
lst day of December, 1865, and of the
Independence of the United States the
ninetieth.
Signed ANDREW JOHNSON,
BY the President:
VIM H. Seward, Secretary OF State.
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wakened if it is properly conducted.
If they did not know how to use the
maps they should have learned how.
No special gift born with the few and
denied to the many is required. There
are the maps and the Key to them.
Nothing more is needed. With indus
try and common sense, one can learn to
use them in a week, "a well as another.
Shall it be said that directors buy appa-
ratus, but that teachers will not use it
and shall directors be censured for the
best thing they ever did, because teach
ers neglect their duty? We shall see
what we shall see.
J. w. DICK ERSON,
Co. Sup't.
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For the Bedford Gazette.
Large Expectations And Small Results.
1t was in the Spring of ISL, whilst
yet the American nation dwtit tOgeth-
er as a band of brothers, and were one
in affection, as well as in name; ere
yet the demon of civil discord, causing
host to encounter host, had desOlated
| large portions of the Southern States,
reducing TO ashes unnumbered stately
editices, and cOnsigning to mtimely
graves thousands and tensof thousands.
sleeping the earth with blood, and
rending theair with shrieksOf anguish
that the Maryland Annual Conference
of the Methodist Protestant Church,
had convened in the quiet city of Al
exandria, nestled upon the banks of
the majestic Potomac, in the ''Old Do
miniOn." Atan early stage in the pro-
ceedings, theministers and delegates in
attendance were electrified with the IL
dings thata Mr.. s., a student from
the Theological Seminary at G--, a
young man of extensive attainments
and brilliant talents, was on hand as a
candidate for admission. Expectation
was on tiptoe. The hearts of old di-
vines grew warm with gratitude, and
they were ready to thank the Lord Of
the harvest for sending such an d6Ie la
borer FORTH into the harvest field. "Un-
Gle Toby (then young mani thought
that possibly there was some mistake
aboutthematter. Heinvited theyoung
prodigy to his lodgings, and by quiz
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members, but the appointment of this
revolutionary committee, makes Se,1a-
tors the judges of the qualifications of
Members, ct rice rersa But, we think
the Radicals have overshot their mark.
The people will, beyond all question,
promptly rebuke these high-handed
proceedings. If the Union is not re-
stored, and the war, therefore, has been
a failure, the masses, SO wantonly and
cruelty deceived by the men in power,
will take the matter into their own
hands, and themselves restore the Union!
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LATER FROM sIEXICO.
Matters OH the Rio GramGie--.DepurGurr
OF the EnlnresS.

New YORK, Dee. 2.-Advices from
Mexico to the 9th of November, have
been received via Havana.
HuIuaga had been exiled, by order
of fMaXimilian, to France.
\ French war steamer had forced the
passes on the Rio Grande, and reached
MatamOraS.
The Frehch transport Ailier had
reached Mexico, with 400 Austrians and
a detachment Of XOuaveo, on their way
to Matamoras. The Empress Charlotte
stopped eight days at Vera Cruz, and
left for Hucatan on a merchant vessel.
MaXimiIian remains in the city oi
Mexico.
Further imperial successes in the in
terror are reported by official papers,
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THE SAME THING AT LAST.

After all the carnage and destruction
Of four years of war, how much nearer
are we to restoration of the Union
than we were when the Peace Congress
was in session, in March, 1861? The
question. which then divided North Car
olina, Virginia, Tennessee and other
"border states" from the North, was
the status of the negro in the Terrific
ries. That which now operates to keep
the Southern States out of the Union,
Is the status of the negro in those States.
Had the proposition Of Virginia, offer
ed in the Peace Congress by Mr.. James
4. Seddon, been accepted, by that body,
and adopted by the Federal Congress,
not one of the ''bOrder states" would
have joined the Secession movement.
That proposition was simply the "Crit-
tenden Compromise" This was Vir-
ginia's ultimatum, and to abide by this,
that State was solemnly pledged by her
Convention. It's success in Congress
would have saved Virginia, Tennessee,
North Carolina, Arkansas and Missouri,
to the Union, and would have complete
" checked the "Cotton States in their
attempt at revolution. But, as is well
known, it was defeated by the votes of
Northern Radicals and war was the re-
suit. Well, half a million of fighting
men have gone to bloody graves; the
fair fields and beautiful cities of one
half of the Union, are in desoIation and
ashes; debt of untold millions con-
tracted during the war, oppresses the
people; and, worse than all, our rulers
have set such examples of usurpation
and lawlessness, under the plea of ''ne-
cessity," as will enable any corrupt or
ambitious successor to make fair excu-
ses for trampling under foot that popu-
lar liberty which once was the pride
and boast of our country. But these
dreadful sacrifices have not secured
what it was represented they would
accomplish. tits nowsix months since
the war has come to an end. Congress,
just convened, is still but trump par
lament" consisting almost exclusively
of representatives from the Northern
States. The same subject which agita-
ted the Congress of 1851, threatens di-
vision and exacerbatiOn in the present.
1t is the everlasting negro Orer again!
After all the horror and misery of the
late war, it turns out that Congress, at
last, must relieve the country of this
black tissue" which has so often Ito
borrow phrase from AbOlitionismJ
"threatened the life of the nation. -
The Congress of 1861, might have done
this just as easily as the present one
will do it. But the Northern Radicals
wanted war, trusting in the fanaticism
of the time and the superiority of num-
bers, to bear out successfully their
schemes for the destruction of negro
slavery. They succeeded in defeating
the peaceful settlement of the negro
question and it was referred to the ar
bitrament of the sword. Though sue
cessful through the agency of war, in
their effort to abolish slavery, they have
failed in their ulterior purpose, the en-
frd'achiSenae,d and political eJeUGtiOn Of
the negro. Hence they stand to-day
where they stood in 1861, and hence
they will not yet permit the restoration
of the Union.
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PRESIDENT JOHNSON and his cabinet
permit even "rebel" soldiers to vote III
the Southern States; but few unscru-
pulous partizans in this State, would
disfranchisemen nwhOneverlifteda hand
against the government, but simply
evaded military service in a cause which
they could not cOnscientiously support.
Now, it matters not how righteous and
just was the war in which these men
refused to fight; they co,lScieatioassly be-
lieved it to have been wrong. Are they
to be deprived Of their citizenship for
conscience sake? Are these men to be
denied the ballot, whilst the whole con-
tinent is ringing with the cry of ''uni-
versal suffrage?''s Are these white men
to be degraded, when we hear from ev-
cry Abolition stump and every Radical
pulpit, and read in every column OF
every Republican" newspaper, the de-
mand for the social and political eleva-
tion of the African? The next LegisIa-
turewin havetO answer these questions.
The last one, under the lead of Colonel
Mcclure, of Franklin, and Mr.. Brown,
Of Warren, decided them in the mega
tive. But, John Cessna and some other
political tricksters, will press the sub
jject upon the coming Legislature, and
will demand, in the name of the RE
publican" party, the enactment of a
law excluding from the ballot-box all
that class of citizens above described.
We eshall soon see whether partizan vim
dictiveness will be able to override the
Constitution of the State and to rob a
large proportion of our citizens Of the
sacred franchises which it 50 solemnly
guarantees.
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VicksbErg papers report most out
rageous and disgraceful riot of negroes
at Algiers, which would have ended in
much bioodshed only for the prompt
interference of the military.
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THE Presidents Message has not
been received up to the hour of going
to press, and, therefore, we cannot give
our readers any idea of its tenor.
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The caucus then adjourned.
XXX5xfh C0nGrcSs---FirSt Session.
HOUSE.

W Ash lNtTltN, IJtC. I.
At noon Mr.. M'Pherson, Clerk of the
House, proceeded to call, as requiredh by
law, the roll Of the members elect.
While the roll was being called, Mr..
Maynard, of Tennessee, whose name i
not on the list, wished to suggest some
thing, but the Clerk refused to be in
terrupted. After the call was compile
ted, Mr. Maynard again arose, but the
Clerk again ruled him out of order.
One hundred and seventy-tive mem
berS answered to their names. Mr.
Brooks, New York, made a speech,
characterizing the omission Of the
members from Tennessee from the roll
as unprecedented. If Mr. Maynard
was not loyal man, from Union and
loyal State, the President himself was
not loyal, but an alien and a stranger.
He charged that the adoption of the
resolution by the Republican caucus
was designed as antagonistic to the
Presidents forthcoming message.
The House took noactiOn on the sub
iect, but under the operation of the
previous question, proceeded to the e.
lection of Speaker; Mr.. ColfaX, of IN
diana, and Mr.. Brooks, of New York,
being placed in nomination.
The result was announced as follows:
ColfaX, 139, Brooks, 30.
Mr.. Colfax was declared elected amid
applause from the floor and galleries,
and was conducted to the chair by Mr..
Morrill, and Mr.. Brooks.
Mr. Colfax made brief but eloquent
and patriotic speech.
Having taken the oath of Office him
self, the Speakeradministered it to 9th
er members, who were called up by
delegations.
Mr. Wilson, Iowa, introduced resOlu-
tion declaring Mcpherson clerk, Mr..
Ordway sergeant-at arms, Mr.. Goode-
now door keeper, and Mr.. Given post
master until iltheirsuccessors shall be du-
ly qualified. The yeas and nays being
ordered, Mr.. Wilson's resolution was
adopted-yeas 1873, nays 35.
Those officers of tha House were then
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ARTEMus WARD says that his halr
resembles lovers, on the eve of separa-
ton. 1t is hard TO part.
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EgMbecflity Rules the land.

On the passage of the Constitutional
amendment through. Congress. it was pre-
scntcd to President Lincoln for his signature
and was signed rs other resolutions are. Af
forwards some person having control and
keeping Of The President lrace Tic discov-
cry that tho Presidents signatures to a.
Constitutional amendments was not required.
Old Abe iii accordance with inStl uetions from
his keepers, Immediately sent III a message
to Congless, informing that body that his
signature to the amendment was all wrong.
Thus admitting bis imbecility and wea' ness
and acknowledging to the world his igno-
rance in regard to his most common and
everyday duties. Verify ignorance has con
trol of the helm, the ship of State must
drift to destruction - lFdyne Co. Dem.
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Col. E,issa ssarssonea.

WiiliHnpS, Fish, late Colonel of the First
Connecticut cavalry, and formerly Provost
MalshaI of Baltimore, who was sentenced
last April, to be cashlered, forfeit all pay and
allowances, pay a fine of SIS, 900, and be i'm
prlsoncd i'll the Albany penitentialy until
the fine should be paid has been pardoned
by the President - Wash Rep. ....
This man Fishis one of thc've scoun-
drels yet unhung, During his official sway
in Baltimore, his crimes outraged humanity.
He affected to ape Butler in New Orleans,
an!l played the ty,ant to the full extent of
bis little brief authority. = lie Used the
terrors Of his official power for purposes of
cxtortion and dcmabded hribes from his vic
TINS with shameless effrontery lie de-
traudcd the government in hundred WAYS
and appropriated to his own use large sums
OF money not righttully his own. Notwith-
standing his conduit was made public at the
time, and the attention of his Buperiors was
called To his many delinquencies yet he was
suffered to continue during many months in
his course OF crime. Finally, howeversthe
pressure became too great and Fish was re-
moved from office and ordered to trial The
evidences of his guilt were so numerous,
conclusive and damning, that his conyic-
tion could not be avoided and he was, very
lightly, scntcnccdas is referred to in the ex-
tract above. uuf i...-.r -...,
Now, however, after having undergone
less than onc-tenth part of the punishment.
his crimes deserved. he is pardoned by the
President and permitted to contaminate So
clety by his presence again. The private
soldier who, yearning for a plimpse of the
wife and little ones he has left behind and
whom he has not been permitted to see du-
ring two years Of danger and suffering,
leaves his regiment without permission to
entcr his home byistealth and listen for one
shortshorr to the prattle oil his babes, is ar
rested, tried and shot as a deserter. But
the scollndrel who abuses his power, plays
the tyraut and the rogue combined and fills
his pockets full with ll-gotton gains, is tried, d
apd--parGonel by the Prcsi-
dent. - HheeLing Register 4