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THE LINCOLN DYNASTY.
The history of the present administration has
V ct to be written, but we may supply a chapter
in anticipation of the volume of startling dis
closures that is to astound the world with the
recital of the grossest bribery, corruptions, def
alcations, plundering*, extravagance and profli
gacy that has ever disgraced or overthrown a
Government. Through the basest falsehoods,
this party has obtained eontrol of the national
affairs. It professed to roll up its eyes in holy
horror at the. amount of flic national expendi
tures under the late administration. It retailed
its danders, and howled its charges of corrup
tion and extravagance against the Democratic
party, until the' people were deceived into bc
fieviii" them. Its "smelling committees" trump
ed up the vilest stuff", and through their lying
"Reports," spread it over the length and breadth
of the land. The President was denounced as
an Aristocrat, reveling in regal splendor in the
White House, where all manner of dissipation
reigned supreme. A "Government" was want
ed! A plain, simple, honest President was want
ed ! A back-woodsman, a flat-boat man, a rail
splitter —anything to bring us back to the puri
ty. simplicity and economy of the days of the
fathers of tlio Government, "llonest old Abe"
was the man for the crisis. He was to be, a sec
ond Washington, a Jackson, a Cincinnatus, a
Lyeurgiis, a Socrates, and wo don't know how
many ot'ief illustrious warriors and statesmen
he was to resemble. Well, enough of the peo
ple lxdieved this trash, put forth with so much
audacity and impudence, to drag down the Dem
ocratic party, the Constitution and the Union
all together. One could not well survive the
other. The Democratic party is the only party
that has "kept step to the music of the Union,"
and preserved inviolate the Constitution and
Laws, and they must stand or fall together.—
"Honest old Abe," byway of a change, was
elected, but the extensive promises of "a good
time, coming," have not been realized. The
Union is broken up, the eounlry is involved in
civil war, the treasury is robbed, the public debt
is piling np by millions, the tuxes arc enormous,
and "smelling committees" are obliged to 1M 1 at
tached to every department of the Government
to drive away the thieves. This is the HONEST
administration the people were, promised, ami
this the HONEST party that dares to arraign oth
ers for corruption anil extravagance. Would
that we could stop here, but the duty we owe
the public, compels us to go a little further. No
sooner had the rail-splitter and his family taken
possession of the White House, than they turn
ed up their plebeian noses at the shabby furni
ture of the I'residential Mansion, although it
remained furnished in the same stylo as when
occupied by the "Old Aristocrat." The House
must tie re-furnished to suit the rail-splitting re
finement, and Republican simplicity, of the new
President. The following is a description ol the
re-fitting up of the Mansion, and we vouch for
its accuracy:—
The carpet for the East Room is a very rich
Axminstcr, woven in one entire piece—101) by
50 feet. It was made and designed expressly
for that apartment. The pattern consists of
three medallions, so arranged us to form one
grand medallion for the whole room, and pre
sents a most magnificent appearance. The de
sign displays a taste of the most recheiv/te char
acter. The entire ground work is composed of
UOtilliTS AND Will'* ATI IS OF I LOWERS AND ITiITT
UIEHES.
The curtains are of men CRIMSON SATIN, TRIM
MED WITH GOLD L'RINCIF. AND TASSKT.S.
The lace curtains were designed and MADE IN
SWITZERLAND KXI'RESSI.Y EOli THIS ROOM. They
arc six yards long and two yards wide, and are
of THE FINEST NEEDLEWORK EVER BROUGHT TO
Tins COUNTRY. Tlicsc splendid hangings are
mounted with magnificent carved gill cornices of
national design, representing a shield and the
United States coat of arms.
The pajier hangings for the east room are of
IllCll CRIMSON OARNET AND HOLD, and WCIV also
manufactured expressly for this room. Thevare
of precisely the SAME DESK INS AS THE HANGINGS
INLOITSNAFOLKON'S UECEITION ROOMS IN TIIETF-
H.I.ERIES. The whole, room now presents a more
gorgeous appearance than it has ever done, and
RIVALS IN MAGNIFICENCE, ANY SIMIIAR APART
MENT IN THE WORLD.
The green room has a carpet of the same do
sign and quality as that of the oast room. The
curtains and paper here have also been renewed.
The |,i u „ room has also liecn newly papered
and carpeted, and new coverings put on the fur
niture. The. windows had lieen newly curtain
ed) with broeatelle and laee. Next eoincs the
Crimson Room, which is Mrs. LINCOLN'S prin
cipal reception room. This has been entirely
new furnished. The furniture covering is MAG
NIFICENT FRENCH BROCADE SATIN, CRIMSON, MA
ROON and WHITE.
I'ho window curtains, carpet and paper hang
ings ARE all in keeping with the ELEGANT FURNI
TURE of the apartment. In this room is also a
grand action piano. The hall and stairways have
all been newly carpeted and DECORATED. The
1 'resident's PRIVATE dining room has also been
newly furnished with GREEN SILK UHOCATET.T.F..
The diplomatic dining room lias also received
similar attention in the matter of re-furnishing,
<&o.
The guest room in which PRINCE ALBERT was
domiciled on his late visit to this country, has
lieen fitted up in the RICHEST POSSIBLE STYI.F.. —
The curtains arc of ROYAL PURPLE SATIN, trim
med with RICH GOLD BULLION FRINGE AND TAS
SELS. The carpet is a heavy Wilton. The fur
niture of the RICHEST CARVED ROSEWOOD. TILO
paper hangings correspond with the halarfpc of
the room, giving the whole a REGAL APPEARANCE.
The T'resident's room lias also lieen entirely re
furnished, as also the private Secretary's, Mr.
NICOLAY, and that pf the assistant private Sec
retary, Mr. HAY.
The sleeping rooms and the various other a
partments have also lieen re-furnished in appro
priate and superb style. Mrs. LINCOLN lias ex
pressed herself in the highest terms gratified with
the change the house has undergone.
Ckiifmii it.
VOLUME SB.
NEW SERIES. •
The Mansion lieing made to present a "REGAL
APPEARANCE," in imitation of the residences of
the crowned heads of Europe, a Hall and Ban
quet is forthwith projected to show off' the deco
rations. The Chevalier Wikotl, that Prince of
Profligates, who lias been taken into the. bosom
of Mr. Lincoln's family to do the foreign nil's, is
dispatched with bouquets and perfumed invita
tions to assemble the guests. Over eight hun
dred ure invited and all save the exclusive bou
tou are snubbed off". The great dignitaries of
the land, in civil and military life, with their
wives and daughters, were out in full feather on
the occasion, and none other. Mrs. Lincoln,
the plain, unpretending wife of "Old Abe, the
rail-splitter," was dressed in all the gaudy adorn
ments of the height of fashion—
"Curl id, and hooped, anil jeweled,
She danced before them all."
The following is an inventory of the. "finery"
she sported on the occasion of her Grand Hall
in the White House, furnished expressly for the
reporters:—
Mrs. LINCOLN was dressed in a magnificent
rolie of rich white satin, with full train, and
richly plaited in broad bands over the bosom.—
The skirt was looped up with white ribbon, with
black borders frilled with bows; around the low
er edge of the skirt was a broad row ol' black
thread laee, nearly twelve inches wide. She
wore a head dress of artificia lwhite crysnnthe
inums, sparingly interspersed with red roses.—
She wore no other jewelry than a heavy pearl
neck luce, car-rings and brooch, which glistened
in harmony with the ample folds of her white
satin dress. Iler whole dress was in exquisite
taste.
The Grand Banquet for this magnificent en
tertainment was pronounced the finest display of
gastronomic art ever seen in this country. It
was prepared by Millard, of New York, and
cost thousands upon thousands of dollars. Our
handsome and graceful President did the honors
of the festive board with all the NATIVE hauteur
he could sum up. In looking over the dishes
prepared for the hungry and thirsty guests, we
are pleased to observe that such vulgar "ration.*"
as "army crackers and old bacon," are entirely
excluded from the table. What business would
they have there at such a time, to shock such re
fined tastes! This is the artistic bill of fare serv
ed up:—
Steamed oysters, seolloped oysters, boned tur
key, pato dc foie grassc, aspic of tongue, l'atti
giblet a la Eimis anse, chicken salad a la I'nris
sicne, Filet do Ixciif, stuffed turkey with truffles,
quails, partiilges, canvas back ducks, Charlotte.
Russe ii lu I'crskme, Mnrienaes, ohnto.ftubrinnd
chocolate Bavnrion, Jelly Bavnrien, Compcttes,
fruit glace, lain lions, orange glace, biscuit glace,
fancy cakes, rich mottoes, flower mottoes, sand
wiches, l'ruit and grapes.
In the centre of the bible was a looking glass,
and along it were ranged the fancy pieces of con
fectionary. At the head of tlio table was a large
helmet of sugar, signifying Avar; then a huge
fancy basket of sugar—a pagoda temple of Lib
erty; a pagoda cornucopia covered with sugared
fruits and frosted sugar; a huge fountain of
frosted sugar, and setting around the candy glas
ses apparently full of frothing beer, four bee
hives, a handsome Swiss cottage in sugar and
cake, and a Chinese pagoda. On a rude table
was a very bilge fort, named Fort Pickens, made
of cake, and sugared; the inside AVUS filled with
quails, candied; and the Avliole presented a per
fectly gorgeous appearance, the tables fairly groan
ing with expensive luxuries, heaped one upon
another.
What estimate will the. moral sense of the peo
ple place upon these doings? We have had three
days of Fasting, Humiliation anill'rayer, in one
year, for deliverance from our National afflic
tions, and now wo wind it nil up with a Grand
Revel at the White House! We have wiif, ruin
and desolation spread over the land, and the men
who hold the destinies of the nation in their
hands are reveling in grandeur and dissipation,
and "killing time" in feasting and .dancing. If
it is right to squander the people's money in such
extravagance and folly, then it is right, to plun
der the treasury of the nation, ami we have no
more need for investigating committees. In oth
er times Avhen afflictions and disasters came up
on the people, their rulers humbled themselves
liefore God, and in soberness and sack-cloth and
ashes received His judgments, now our riders
make a feast and have a midnight revel in music,
dancing and gaiety. If this is Avliat the people
bargained for when they elected "Honest Old
Abe the rail-splitter" to the Presidency, AVC are
much mistaken. Would that our President and
government officials at Washington, could lie
brought to observe the proprieties Incoming the
present situation of our unhappy country, and
made to remember that it is "righteousness ox
altcth a Nation; but sin is a reproach to any
pooole."—[ Vidlri/ Spirit.
STORY OF THE WAR IN KENTUCKY.
A Campbcllsvillc (Ky.) correspondent of the
Louisville Democrat tells this story ;
"I now have before mc. a letter to a friend
from a private in Colonel Haggard's cavalry
regiment, stationed at Columbia. The writer
was formerly a justice of the peace, is a'rough
spocimcn of mountain character, is fond of his
grog and a good joke, anil always ready for, a
fight whenever it inny suit his convenience of
his or his country's enemies. Tlis name is An
drew Jackson Garman, (rather significant of
the pugnacious propensity.) It seems tlmf'Squire
Garman took a very active part in favor of the
Union cause in Cumberland, (his county) Mon
roe and Metcalfe counties last summer ami fall,
captured come twenty head of contraband mules
and several horses, and bad a hand in bringing
to a boat on Cumberland river engaged in the
contraband business—in a word, 'Squire Gar
mon was a terror to the secesh generally in that
locality, rendering himself obnoxious to their
bloodthirsty proclivities.
"Some ten or fifteen days since 'Squire Gar
mon learned that his family were all down sick
with the measles, and determined to visit them, •
Freedom of Thought and Opinion.
BEDFORD, PA., FRIDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 28,1862.
cost what it might. So he obtained a lurlough
from his gallant, colonel under protest that he
(Garmon) would never return to his regiment.
—The first or second night after his arrival at
home the. secesh, his old neigliliors and relatives,
twenty-eight strong, armed cap-a-pie, visited his
house and knocked at the door. The 'Squire
hailed them ;no answer. lle sprang out of lied,
gathered his irons, and lighted a candle, when
he discovered three men in his Tlining room, and
fired at them. They all scanqiered nut of the
house, one falling dead at the door. The cap
tain then ordered him to come out, Avhieh he
refused to do, and in turn invited,them to come
in and exchange bullets there. This tlicy de
clined to do, and immediately oponecl fire on his
house thro' the doors and Avindows, the 'Squire
returning the lire as fast as he could. This
was kept up, the 'Squire thinks, about one hour,
Aidien his assailants left, leaving three deal in
the yard and carrying off' five mortally Avoun
deil, (since dead.) The 'Squire then lighted up
the house, and his sick family came out from
their hjding-places. Not a whole pane of glass
remained in seven AvindpAVS. Three balls hud
entered the posts and rails of his daughter's bed,
she being too unAA'ell to get up; 25 halls w#re
found in his Avife's bed-tick and the furniture of
his house Avas literally riddled.
"The 'Squire's personal ousualities wore as
follows: One ball severed a finger, another
bled him in the temple, a third crossed his
breast, severing his sliirt bosom, a fourth pass
ed his hat and a fifth unbuttoned his shirt slee\'C.
"The 'Squire thinks they nuist. have fireil
some two hundred rounds at him; but. none the
worse for Avenr, he is ready to repeat the op
eration Avhcnever they are.
"The cool and deliberate manner in Avhieh
the 'Squire details the rencontre to bis friends,
aside from bis reputation for veracity, gi\ r es tlio
highest assurance of its entire truthfulness!"
ROMANCE OF AN OLD COUPLE.
The following someiVhat remarkable narra
tive is related by a Western lady, UOAV on a
visit to this isty front Mariposa. She is her
self" a character. She lias crossed the plains
tAviee—first in 1819, during Avhic.li her hus
band perished—and is the first American lady
who returned to the East by Avuy of Panama.
She is a genuine heroine—a fine specimen of
stout-hearted Western womanhood—and her
adventures in the Avilds of the uiqieopled West,
have lieen numerous and exciting. If the good
folks of Mariposa have missed a lady from their
neighborhood, they ore hereby apprised that
stie u< eomtori.rta/ wuuut'S— v ii.. r i. „
of Mrs. Nesliet, on tl c corner of Montgomery
and Sutter Streets, and will not return to the
mountains, until Holmes, of the Gazette, ceases
to harrow the hearts of Mariposa mothers by
calling tlicir little babies "brats."
Well, Avliile tlio train of which this lady was
a member AVUS encamped at a point on tlio
Ilumliolt where the Lesser trail intersects the
Carson track of travel, she visited the tent of a
family, consisting of an elderly couple and one
child—a daughter of fourteen or fifteen years.
The old lady AVUS sitting on a pile of blankets,
under the canvass, encouraging a most deter
mined attack of the "sulks," Avhile the mascu
line head of affairs had planted himself on his
wooden tongue, and was sucking his pipo as
leisurely as though lie expected to remain there
forever. A single glance dovelojied the fact
that there was a difficulty in that little train of
one wagon and three persons, and that it had
attained a point of quiet desperation beyond
the reach of adjustment. Three days before
they had pitched their tent at the forks of the
road, and as they couldn't agree on the route
by which to enter California, there they hail re
mained. The husband expressing a preference
for the Carson road —the Avife for the l-csser—
and neither would yield.—The Avife declared
she would remain there, through the winter; the
husband said he should lie pleased to lengthen
the sojourn through the summer folloAving.
On the morning of the fourth day, the Avife
| broke a sullen silence of thirty-six hours by
proposing a division of the property, Avhieh con
sisted of two yoke of cattle, one wagon, camp
furniture, a small quantity of provision, and
twelve dollars in silver. The proposal AVUS ac
cepted, and forthwith tlio "plunder" AVOS divi
ded, leaving the Avagon to the old man and the
daughter to the mother. The latter exchanged
Avith a neighboring train the cattle belonging
to her for a pony and pack saddle, and piling
the daughter and her portion of the. divided spoil
upon the animal, she resolutely started across
the desert l>v the Lesser trail, Avhile the old man
silently yoked the cattle and took the other route.
Singular as this nmy seem, it is nevertheless
true. It is among the many occurrences of life
stranger than Action.
Of course both parties reached California in
safety. We say "of course," for it is scarcely
possible that any obstacle, death included, could
have seriously interfered witli the progress of
stubbornness so sublime. Arriving at Sac
ramento Avitli her daughter, the old woman
Avomen were less plenty then than now, and
subsequently opened a boarding bouse, and in a
fcAv years amassed a handsome fortune. Two
years ago she Avent to San Francisco, and the
daughter, whose education had not been neg
lected, w'as married io one ot our most sub
stantial citizens.
Awl Avliat became of the old man ? The wife
'and not seen or heard of hiin since they parted
on the Humboldt. Tlicy had lived happily to
gether as a man and Avife for years, and she
sometimes reproached herself for the wilfulness
that separated them after so long a pilgrimage
together through this rough life. But ho AVOS
not dead.—Wo cannot trace his course in Cal
ifornia, hoAvevor. All that we know of liirn is,
that fortune had not smiled, and that for years
he had toiled without hope. Finally feeling
scarcely able longer to Avleld the pick and sliOA'-
el, he visited San Francisco, in the hojie of find
ing employment, better adapted to his wasted
strength.
For tlirec months he rcmnincd idle after nr-
riving here, and then for want of occupation
became the humble retailer of peanuts and or
rnges, with his entire stock of traffic in a bas
ket upon his arm. This was about six months
ago. A few weeks since, in the southern part
of the city, lie observed a lady in the hall, and
stopping upon the threshold the lady approached,
and the old man raised his eyes and dropped
the liasket. And no wonder, either—for she
was his wife—his "old woman !"
She recognized him, and tlu'owing up her
arms in amazement exclaimed ; "Great God !
John, is that you ?"
''All that is left of mc," replied the old man.
With extended arms they approached. Sud
denly the old bidy's countenance changed, and
she stcpi>ed back.
"John," said she, with a look which might j
have been construed into earnestness, "how did j
you find the Carson track."
"Miserable, Suky—miserable?" replied the;
old man; "full of sand and alkali!"
"Then I urns right, John ?" she continued,,
inquiringly.
'That's enough," said she, throwing her arms 1
arcunil the old man's neek; "that's enough,
John ; and the old couple so strangely sundered,
were agnin united.—l kith are living with their
daughter on Second street. — San Francisco Mir
ror.
KEEPING A SECRET.
The thriving little New England town of
Nantucket, which smells strongly of fish, and
is bound to lie lkiston, No 2, some of these
ilavs, was the scene, last week, of a feminine
exploit worthy to be recorded in the npjiendix
to the history of poor Joan of Arc. It eiune
t<> pass, that on Saturday night, when a dozen
of -Nantucket citizens arrived at home for the
evening, they found the partners of their bo
soms non est, those gems of womanhood hav
ing disappeared from the domestic hearth in a
manner savoring of magic. Each individual
husband made up his mind that his individual
wife stepped iuto lier neighbor's to have one of;
those amiable chats in which women delight to
figure up the bail qualities of those personally j
known to them; and each husband at once eoni- 1
mcaecil composing an elaborate lecture on the
sin of "gadding," for the express benefit ol his
wife when she would return. Horrible to re
late, however, 9 o'clock passed without bring
ing one of the wives home, and a dozen sets of
children commenced to cry, in a dozen different
keys, that they were' "so sleepy."
it is the excellent custom in Nantuek
o*o nudity aim nasu DID rising gosniuui,
every Saturday night before sending it to bed,
in order that the aibrcsniil generation may lie
infracted, "though tiic heavens full;" and as iho
dozen wives we have mentioned still remained
absent, the dozen bonified husbands had no
choice but to go into the juvenile business them
selves ! Accordingly, Avith set teeth and much
inward profanity, the twelve Bmrtyrs proceed
to denude their offspring anil suh;ccfc tliem to
unique hydrophatliic treatment, holding the lit
tle sufferers to such unspeakable, awkivaril atti
tudes, and transfixing them with sueti stabs ol
soap, that the howling AVT> V.ke that of small
bulls of Bashan. Having once tucked the re
sponsibilities safely into bed, however, the just
ly exasperated pater j'ainiUases armed themselves
with lanterns, and Avcnt forth to hunt tor their
missinrt halves.—lnto all the houses of their ac
quaintances went those raging Ruin cos; but no-
Avhero could they find their Juliets; and after
interchanging vows of A'cngoanee with each oth
er, the\' returned to their severe! domiciles in
despair.
Sunday and Monday came and passed, and
yet no AA'iA'Cs! I'ho tA\'olvc Benedicts had to
get their own meals, spank their own progeny,
and clean the knives. Gno ot tl.eni tried to
make the boils, but gave it up when he found
that he hail made his couch resemble a Avhaio
wrapped in blankets. The absence of the bete
tor-halves commenced io excite a Avihl conster
nation then, that might have culminated in
dozen suicides, had it not leaked out. that the
ladies were in a deserted house, past which the
husbands hail gone twenty times in search, en
joying themselves like Arcadians Avith nil sorts
of nice eatables and intensely enjoying tlie dis
may of their lords. To tell the truth, these
Avives had taken this means of convinc.ug their
husbands that they could keep a secret, though
thoy Avcrc women, and had skill enough io hide,
anil have a good time, where their lordships
could not find them. It hail long lieen secretly a
grecil between them to pay their husbands thus
for 0011:1*111 taunts about women being incapa
ble of keeping a secret; anil for forty-eight
hours they had taught their musters that WIACS
could "go to lodge," and "have business at the
office" at night, as AVCII as husbands. The
merry dames consented, after much persuasion
and humble-pie, to return to their homes at
I hist, stipulating, liowc\'cr, that they should be
treated en masse to a turkey supper, in expia
tion of the many things tiiey hail to forgive.
Twelve happier men could not be found than
AATM'C those tAvehe Nantucket citizens, Avhen
Avoman's smiles and woman's buckwheat cakes
gladdened their doniicils once more, and the
humility with Avhieh they received their lesson
in matrimony shoAved them worthy to live- in
the same State with Cambridge University and
the "Atlantic Monthly I" Husband* ! it is to
you AAC speak ; behave yoursches like lamli*.
C 3" A hint to landlords in general and one in
particular, AVUS recently given by a tenant in
Ixinilon in these words: A gentleman Avho is a
bout to leavo the house in which he resides, and
being desirous to return it to his landlord in the
same condition in Avhieh he found it will pay a
fair price for five hundred full grown rats, an
acre of poisonous weeds, anil a carload of rub
bish to be left on the door step, and the rnts
suffered to run loose through the house. Ad
dress, &c., &e.
evr HOAV docs a young man of genuine integ
rity resemble a thief? He is difficult to find J
WHOLE NUMBER. 2994.
VOL. 5. N6. 30.
THE SCHOOLMASTER ABROAD.
EDITED BY SIMON SYNTAX, ESQ.
and friends of education are respect
fully requested to send communicationßto the above,
care of "Bedford Gazette."
OUR COMMON SCHOOLS
We arc indebted to HON. JOHN CESSNA, for
a neatly bound copy of the "Jle/xirt of the Su
pierintendent of t!ic Common Schools," from which
we take the following in relation to the schools
of our county. It is rather a favorable report
of the system in this county, but Directors will
find some hints for improvement in their sever
al districts :
School Houses —sufficient in all respects:—Bed-
ford bor. 1, with seven rooms; Monroe 1; Na
pier 3; E. Provideivcc 2; W. Providence 3; St.
Clair 2; Snake Spring 2; Union 1; S. Wood
berry 2—17.
Insufficient School houses:—Bedford township
3; Broad Top 2; Colcrnin 1; Cuml>erland Val
ley 0; Harrison 4; Hopewell 2; Juniata 4;
I Londonderry 5; Monroe 5; Napier 4; Provi
| dcncc, East 1; W. I*rovidence 2; Schellsburg 2;
i St. Clair 5 ; Union o; Mid. Woodberry 3; S.
Woodberry 2—39.
i Furniture —sufficient:—Bedford lx>r. 4 rooms;
Broad Top 4 schools; Monroe 1; Napier 3j E.
Providence 2; W. Providence 3; St. Clair 2;
Snake Spring 2; Union 1; M. Woodberry 2;
S. Woodberry 3—27.
Insufficient furniture:—Bedford lxir. 1 room;
Bedford township o schools; Broad Topi; Cole
rain 2; Cumb'd. Valley 9; Harrison 4; Hope
well 2; Juniata 4; Londonderry 5 ; Monroe 10;
E. Providence 2 ; W. Providence 2; Schcllsb'g.
2; St. Clair 9; Union G; M. Wootlbcny 3; S.
: Woodl>crry I—GB. v>
Schools —properly grnded:—Bedford bor. 5, —
I in the now Union school not yet fully occupied
j Neither graded nor classified: Bedford bor.
! (colored school) 1; Bedford township 3; Broad
Top 3; Colcrain 5 ; Cumb'd. Valley G; Harri
son 3; Hopewell 2; Juniata 4 ; Monroe 9; Na
pier 5; W. Providence 4; St. Clair Gi Union
"J: M. Woodlxn+y 4—-lit).
I'eaehcrs. —l7 ic scarcity of teachers will not
j justify the raising of the standard of qualifica
tion for provisional certificate the ensuing year,
Last year the lowest figure was 3E
Visitation. —Schools visited once 133; twice?;
not visited at all 51; average length of visit 2J
hours. Ilegular visitation was commenced in
November, but found so few pupils present in
many, that I thought it better to devote the time
to those in each district that wore comparative
ly filled and in care of inexperienced teachers,
i to the visitation of which a longer time was
' given. Much time was also lost in procuring
teachers for unsupplied schools. The county is
j so broken by mountains, and the schools so dis
' tant from each other, that not more than two a
■ day can be visited; but the ensuing year it is in
; tended to visit every school in the county.
Directors of the following districts accompa
nied me driving my visitation of their schools:
Bedford township, Broad Top, Colcrnin, Cum
berhtnd Valley, Harrison, Juniata, Napier, E.
Providence, St. Clair, Union, M. Woodberry
anil S. Woodlxrry. v
Institutes. —Tne annual meeting of the Coun
i ty institute took place in Bedford borough in
j December, was lnigely attended by teachers and
citizens, and was of more than usual interest
i and utility. The scmi-nnnunl meeting of the
I county association was held in April, awl was
well attended.
District institutes were organized and gene
rally well attended, in Colcrain, Hopewell, Lib
ert)-, W. Providence, St. Clair, Union, and in
'M. and S. Woodberry. As a general rule, it
may be said thai these useful institutions existed
in all the districts whose directors only required
twenty-two days to the teacher's month, allow
ing the other two for this purpose. This is a
most Ixmcticial practice, and one which should
generally prevail.
Progress in Districts. —Bedford borough has
liecn furnishing its huge union school, and fen
cing and ornamenting the campus during the year.
Cumberland Valley has advanced the salaries of
teachers, and graded them nceording to certifi
cate. Its school houses are yet insufficient —
particularly that at Centrcville; but it is under
stood they are to be improved. Bedford town
ship, Broad Top, Colcrain, Liberty, E. and W.
Providence, St. Clair, Snake Spring, Union and
the two Woodberrys arc making consideralfie
advancement by improving bouses, seeking good
teachers, and encouraging district institutes.—
Some of tho houses in all the districts, except
Bedford borough, Napier and S. Woodberry, are
lamentably deficient in furniture.
Southampton still rejects the school law. Ono
general objection is to the provision which re
quires the schools to be kept o]>cn four months
each year; when, it is asserted, that owing to
the distance from the schools, the difficulty of the
roads and the employments of the people, they
can only be respectably fillet! only three—the
Hates of 3ttrotrtia/ng:
One Square, three weeaeor lei*..flOO
One Square, each additional insertion lest
than three months gg
3 MONTHS. 0 MONTHS. 1 !Ut.
One square • $3 00 S3 00 $9 00
Two squares 300 500 000
Three squares 400 700 12 00
1 Column gOO 000 15 00
§ Column 800 12 00 20 00
i Column 13 00 18 00 30 00
One Column 18 00 30 00 50 00
The space occupied by ten lines of this sise of
type counts one square. All fractions of a square
under fire lines will be measured as a half square t
and all orer fire lines as a full square. All legal
adrertisements will be charged to the person hand
ing them in.
other month, being thus, as it is said, nearly
wasted. Perhaps a change in the law allowing
such districts to shorten the term to three months,
with the assent of the County and State Super
intendents, might be the meaas of inducing such
districts to adopt tho system, ami thus gradually
bring them into ity support.
Public Sentiment., —lt can safely be asserted
that the system is growing in favor with tho peo
ple at large. This is manifested l>y a greater
willingness to visit the school room, ami attend
the public examination of teachers; by the en
couragement of teachers' institutes, the desire
for better teiichcrs, and by a readier supply of
the necessary lrooks for tho children.
Plans Jt>r ne.rt year. —To urge directors to
make membership in the district Institute obliga
tory on all their teachers, and to oncournge the
reading of educational works.
To grant no private examinations till after
the close of the public examinations; and then
only in special cases, and at the written request
of a board of directors—such examinations on
ly to bo held on Saturdays.
To visit as many districts as possible, and ad
dress the citizens, on the duties of citizens, di
rectors, parents and teachers, toward the schools.
To sustain our newspapers In tho generous
grant each hns made of a column for education
al purposes.
To endenvor to carry out tho decisions of tho
Department in reference to tho employment of
no teachers, except such as arc of good moral
character and deportment.
A SINGULAR INCIDENT.
The Lynchburg Hopublican publishes the fol
lowing incident, remarkable alike for its mel
ancholy fulfilment to the brother of one of tho
parties concerned:
Just before tlie war broke out, and before
Lincoln's proclamation was issued, a young Vir
ginian named Summerfield was visiting the city
of New York, where he made tho acquaintance
of two Misses Holincs, of Waterbury, Vermont.
He became somewhat intimate with the young
ladies, and tlie intercourca seemed to be mutu
ally agreeable.
The proclamation was issued, ami the whofo
North thrown into a blaze of excitement On
present meeting would prolmbly be tllcir ltim,
they must hurry home to aid in making up o
vereoats and clothing for the volunteers from
their town. Suuninierfield expressed his regret
that they must leave, hut at the same time es
pecially requested them to 800 tlmt the overcoats
were well made, as it was his intention if ho ev
er met the Vermont regiment in battlo, to kill
one of them and take lus coat.
Now for the sequel. Virginia seceded.—Tho
second Vermont regiment, a portion of which'
was from the town of Waterbury, was sent to
Virginia. Tlie battle of Manassas was fought,
in which they were engaged, and so was Sum
merfield.
During the battle, Siimmcrficld marked his
man, not knowing to what State he belonged;
tbc fatal ball was sped on its errand of death ;
the victim fell at the flash of the gun, and upon
rushing to secure the dead man's arms, Summer.
field observed that he had a fine new overcoat
strapped to his hack, which he determined to
appropriate to his own use. Tho fight was o
ver, and Summerfield hnd time to examine his
prize, when, remarkable as it may appear, the
eont was marked with the name of Thomas
Holmes, and in the pocket were found letters
signed with the names of the sisters whom Sum
merfield hail known in New York, and to whom
ho had made the remark we have quoted, in
which the dead man was addressed as the broth
er. Tho evidence was conclusive—lie had kill
ed the brother of his friends, and the remark
which he had male in jest hiul a melancholy
fullfillmcnt. Wo are assured this narrative is
literally true. Summerfield now wears the ooat,
and, our informant states, is not a little impress
ed with the singularity of the coincidence.
Cvr A young medical student, who hail been
screwed very hard at his examination for ad
mission to the faculty, on a very warm day was
nearly overcome by the numerous questions put
to him, when flic following query was added;
"What course would you adopt to pioduco a
copious perspiration After a long breath, lie
observed, wiping his forehead: "I would have
the patient examined before tho Medical So
ciety !"
CST One of Dean Trench's Sermons upon tho
subject, "What we can and cannot carry away
when wc die," commences thus appositely:—
Alexander the Groat, 1 icing on his death-bed,
commanded that, when he was carried forth to
the grave, his hands should not lie wrapped, as
was usual, in tho ccrcelotlies hut should bo left
outside the bier, so that all men might see they
were empty.
Gs*Punishment of a Murderer in Miehiijan.—
Win. I). Klngin was convicted in Michigan, last
week, of a murder marked by very atrocious
circumstances. Jn accordance with tho law of
the Stato, he has lieen taken to tho State prison,
there to endure solitary confinement fbr life.—
Prom tho time he enters his cell, ho will never
see a face' again. I Tis meals are conveyed to him'
through an opening in his cell, and when it be
comes necessary for human lieings to approach
bhn, tl\ey are hooded so as to conceal their fea
tures.
IST No doubt honesty is the Itest policy, but
those who do honest things merely because they
think it good policy, are not honest.
frjT Spare that you may speed; fast that you
l nay feast; labor that you may live; and run
that you may rest. .
Difficulties and strong men, like strop and
razor, are made fbr each other.