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VOL. 8.
ah ie Fuse,
Do yon revere ourchartered right ”
Ana thus prove traitor —as they say,
| Noticing an old Auntie of at least seventy
years we accosted her thus:
Master.’
+ Well. Auntic, where are you go-
rim.
A TRAITOR 8 LYRIC. i «Dunno Master, 1 gesss I'se gwan up
BY WALTER ANONYM. f worfsl i 3 :
ne «1lave you a home in the north ¥”,
Do you uphold the Nation's cause, Maa % eS : RL
hi ans Daniel Wehster thoughit— frit Yes Master, brother Sawyer says Father
he Constitution and the Laws | Lincvm has a guod home for us?
With Union’s life unwrought? - = ; on 20
Does then your soul, indiznait swell “Do you know where ’
With scorn for the foul fiend who Said i “Wy—up norf.”
“Your Magna Charta is from Hell!’ ! Ee 2
You are 7 Copperhead £7? | Where is your old man ?
| tHe des gone dead last fall in camp,
i
I
i
Those Ethiopsan Zoophytes
Who now hold sway—
Do you despise the vulture horde, |
Upon the Country's vitals fed,
Who serve corruption as their Lord ?
You are a “Copperhead !"’
Do you revert to formor days.
fhe d ays of glory and renown,
When patriots won the statesman’s bays :
An wore the mural erown?
When nt the place conld make the man,
Bur aye, the mau the place instead,
W here honor proadly led the van?
You are a ‘Copperhead !’
Do you e’cr pray that strife may cease,
That war y stay his crimson hand
And that the bioad white wings of peace
May brood the Lind!
If such your prayer, for one, I say.
God's blessing rest upon your hood !
Come share with me the ‘sabri inet”
Uf traitor! “Copperhead!”
When through these clouds (he Union star
shall struggle from its sad eclipse,
And the red met or of the war
h the horizon dips,
r eulogy be mine
No epitaph—it happly dead
Than this shoit, alistic line :
Walter, the “Copperhead 1”
THE WAR DEMON! 5 sONC.
War, war, war:
With cannc
re, and gun;
War, war, ar!
Hell's cd ini ul is begun.
Ho! W 1. wake your horn, 1
Tio! i nt your lay,
And 1g, fiom the deepest belly,
iy to-day.
Blood. bload, blood !
What a joy sight to see!
Blood
it good;
yin a wonnded 8 ul,
A foaming bumper of blood !
Death, Death, Death!
In camp, and forest and plain.
Death, death, death!
On Island, desert and ma
Pile up the dead to ihe
To rot in the ching su
| weed vocofline they need ro shrouds,
For the Demon's work ie doe!
nS TTT UE Br
Jilise ollancous.
THE NE-|
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TRE LMaNGEPT (oN 0x
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"ORCES.
We find the following account of what
abolition withropy 1s doing for the negro |
ention of the
county to it
and vite the os
friends of = ircedom™ : /
1t is pari of a letter written from Uh |
Arkansas, and deseriies the embarkation of |
sever housand * free Americans of Afri- |
can descent,” for ‘de bebenly lands of de |
Norf.? Let the false philanthropists and
the decitful humanitarians read it and then
answer it Sambo and Dinah bad better not |
be left in i
+ Their little cabin homes, |
in the far ath, i
Where they hoe the sugar i
En.
wharf
and the corn.”
WATCHMAN,
i the boat, Gen
Stil they come
Peenu
was full —the mud holes were filed up, Faen
one generally tied in liule!
bundles. and the head. Such
pile of rags never before was seen, ‘There
were seen nearly three thousand n ggers on
hand ; vot one in twenty five of whom had
even a quarter change of ecloathing. Gir's |;
of mariogable age with nothing on but a
coarse tow shirt with coarse shoes into
which their gothic Limbs desended looking |
like chair legs auchorea in a dirty spittoon.
The shirt was none too long, at either end,
being more for inventory than use. There
were little boys with® clothes quite too big,
the worn cnt hat of seme planter dropping
clear over their heads. Girls were dressed
without regard to sex. We noticed in par-
ticular one who wouid weigh about two
handred pounds. She wore an old pair of
boots, dirt colored shirt, old vest to small]
by a third. aud a red handkerchief or the
head. In one hand she had her baggage —|
little bunch of peacock feathers and two
piles of caniless This lot completed ‘her,
treasure. if we except a little pup some,
three weeks old carried under one arm.
» Others were dressed in east off clothing
of some: former mistress. gay as blue-jays,
Some were 80 ragged that their nakedness
was the great source of remak of - bystan- |
ders, yet they heeded not more than 50 |
many cattle would. The administrator of |
their «ffects would have a curiosity shop of |
worthless duds, quiint and numerous They
carried oft stuffof no use or account, simply
because they had picked itup. We notic
ed old pans ana basins, old boots and shoes i
boot jacks, brooms, dust pans, tea kettles, ‘|
gridiorns. snufl bottles, coarsecombs, brok- |
¢n lamps, un ¢Lps, worn out hoop skirts. |
old blackening brushes, old hamuwers, old |
stove pipe, hoes, corn baskets, old - coftce
mills, horse blankets, empty champagne
was full—the levee
Beadqu
with ba
( red on a
i
|
bottles, dogs of all ages and colors, emply |
hair oil bottles, bundles of chicken fathers,
sir ngs of dried apples, boiled eggs. cotton
pillows, pepper boxes, saddle bags, sauee
pans butcher krives and a thousand iudes-
crivable articles in the crowd, guarded with
the most zealous care. No two of the 1009:
cents were dressed alike. Coats nade from
horse blankets table covers ani calicor— |
[sent for came back by express and
| sons and brothers lost in
| has the least idea of ther
{ceptihat it was up “norf.”
| must ewpty hand.d.
Ldirt and rags, filth and disease,
ike the last end of hard ticaes—the crop our
+ Who will take care of the
north ¢
“Father Lincum Master, and brother
wyer says so
What a sermon was this on
you up in
the eruelty
| of those who bring the gray hairs of igno
rence in Sorrow to a grave, ur rather a oich
in the ground among strangers.
A thick lipped chap, black as a raven hair
heavy enough for a mat; feet requiring
shoes large enough for coal barges, sat on a
cracker box whistling Kingdon Coming;and
winking at the fat lipped wenshes squofted
around,
+« Hallo, boy !
«Up norf.”
“Where is your family ?
+Ilaint got none.”
“What are you going to
North ¢’
+ Nufien!
Where are you going #’'
do up in the
Dis Tere wigger’s dun gon an’
| stopped work.
++Where will you get ciothes 77
+ Massa Linkum gib ‘em to us.”
“Who says so
Massa Sawyer.
Well boy, if Sassa Linkum. don’t give
you clothes, how will you get them ¢”
;Umph—umph ! D.s nigger do hke d®
soldiers — confiscate what he wants”
*+ Do the soldiers steal 27°
“Golly massu, indeed endo ! Dey stole
all massa Culpton bak; den dey all
Missus Culp an’s elothes and litte tings
trunk an’
stole her diamonds pin and all de stuff they
wanted. Dig chile don’t
work after dis.”
The toy had belonged as we afterwards
learned, to a man named Culpton residing
back in the country. lle
cate back into camp with a foraging party
d. al] the valuables
One of the party,
stole
out of her room and busted her
Uwph -~umph !
nbout six mes,
wio had stolen, as hie sa
they could vy hands on.
!a lieutenant from southern Wiscensin whose
{ name we know but do not eare to mention
! gut the pin (a diamond broach worth about,
one thousand dollars) and sent it home to
his wife: Gen. Washburn who was in con
va Suma,
"BELLEFONTE, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 1 1863.
erreur
The bell rang. Niggers yelied. Horses
on board ‘snuffed the battle afar” and won-
dered why they were so crowded, The
crowd on shore! to the number of a thous-
and or two, expressed various opinions,
none of them complimentary to the flight of
this sccond Moses—--the engines began their
work-—-niggers and horses swung their hats,
and waved their tails, and the crowd
of cmancipated doriiegs were afloat
for the land of the free and the home of the
brave.
Of every one hundred emancipated negroes
of the South, ninety five have no idea of the
future other than they are free, and that
henceforth they will be fod and clothed by
Massa Linkum ? In the past their life was
one of the entire dependence on their mas-
ters, The negro worked tus allotted time.
He bad his chicken coop, truck patch where
vegetables were raised for sale. His cabin,
garden, clothes, food medicine §c , were al-
ways furnished by the master without
charge. If the negro wanted cloathes he had
medical attendance, If he died the negroes
hud a funeral, the corpse was lain in a coffin
and given christian burial. What money he
made from sale of egzs, poultry, trock or
coe, cotton, or other staples raised on the
patch of ground formed by the ncgroesin
common for their own usa, beside the gar-
den patch was his own, to be used as fancy
dictated. The relation between master and
slave was simply of partneiship. The slave
worked for the master-—— the master cared
for his slave, .
When night came the slave could rest:—
When Sunday came he could bask in the
sun, attend chuch, visit bis wench or sweet.
heart, dress up in store clothes aud make
her presents with money made from his gar-
den often amounting to from fifty to two
hundred dollars a year,
Agents for the Government, anxious to do
a big thing and acquire a reputation for
winch zeal, tell these poor people all sorts
ons word twenty of which
The great idea tanght them is
of trash, in
is truth.
this :
“You poor slaves! Father Lincoln has
liberated you at last! You have had to work
all your lives. The year of Jubilee has
erme. You are now free. Father Abraham
las sent me to take you north, The Gov-
croment will now take care of yon ; will giv
you a freeride on the bott—you shall have
rations end clothes--your days of work
and slavery are now over. :
They belicve that work is now ended, ~~
Placing implicit coniidence in what is told
them by government agents, chaplains and
others, they really think that in the fature
they will have their cabins furmshed them
| mand here at the time compellsd him to
or be arrested. The pin was
was af-
send for at,
oflicr articles nemly as valuable were never
hicard of more. But we are diverging. There
of all a es
cach a real object of charity —gomng cif to
starve to death among those who are not
1i nds, (0 take the place of noithern
battle, Mot one
destination—ex-
They went al.
Thus health was in
It looked
were in thecrowd niggers
their {
amy bas gove forth to gather! Most of
the abled bodied men and women are kept
here
The wen to do teaming, dig ditches. wait
on oflisers and &c., the wenches to do cook-
ing, ironing and other work. Families are
more wildly seperated thav ever before,--
The men are generally kept bere——the
women and children sent oft to take care
oi themselves, And this is the new free-
dom. y
Brother “awyer flew around like a fly in
a new pantry. Ile spoke words of c¢ncour-
agewent to the wooly of Egyptians. The
lrmbs he patted kiudly on the head, Deep
ly realizing the importance of his position,
he was earnest in the fulfillment of duty,--
He was in as great demand as a bottle of
!'Scoteh snuff at a nigger party. Old woman
| sat on their little bundless, waiting and
wondering. Children picked their dirty
‘no ses. munched crackors and bacon rinds—
and squa led a rich chorus to “0ld John
| Brown.”
Young wenches with legs like stove pipes
lin shape and color, sat idly around, lazily
dreaming of the year of jubilee. Some were
well dressed, some had on men’s hats of all
varities. Others had old breeches on their
legs which was as full of architeotuial beau-
ty as a fence post.—Some had sfockings-
some had none, most of them had clothes
| ufficient to cover their nakedness, while
those who bad appeared to feel quite as
happy.and to be as much at easo as their
better dressed sisters.
At last the boat was crowded till there
came forth the cry ‘all full aboard. And it
looked as if there was no room to spare. On
-deck, in the hold, in bunks and on planform
over the horses —crouching around the boil-
ers, hid in piles of rags; under the stairs in
the way under foot. Not over hall of them
ceuld go ou this trip. Then came the cries
of good bye Aunt Dinah !"
*¢ Take care of yoursefo, up dar Clem !’—
‘Umph-—umph,honey dis chile am all right.
The party with brother Sawyer moving
around among them thew resembling a green
ape among a lot of black beans; was ready
|
| patches,
—will have their poultry yards. and truck
reui free—will be fed and doctored
in the future as in the past. They are told
{ter several weeks, restored to its owner, but at all former masters are their encmies,all
{ Lorthern men are fricuds.
Alcady they are getting their eyes open
to the humbuggery of freedom.—When the
truth shall have more fully dawned on their
dull brains —when they are compelled to
pay. rent, buy all the little articles hereto-
forc furnished them ; to work at such work
as 1s afforded and to be cheated out of “their
pay they will look upon their blessed Fath-
or Abraham as a great deceiver. The idea
of subsisting them by charity is sheer non-
sense. We kuow their ave in the north hun-
dreds of liberal people who now give freely
of clothes, provisions and money to aid fess
ignorant ones of earth.
Bat the novelty of liberatity wifi soon
wear off and when the hundreds of thous-
#nds wives and orphans of northern soldiers
slain in this accuased war shall stand in
rags and tears, wih outstreched hands on
every strect corner, what chance will the
negro have ¢ They will be cursed by Dem--
ocrats, forgotten by Republicans —uncared
by all. The people who now look upon the
uegro with pity will ‘soon look upon him
with contempt and finally with loathing and
disgust. The laboring man of the north who
now sees deprivations, hard times and in-
cessant toil, weeded wi'h the most rigid econ-
omy to escape starvation and the poor house
will not consent to share his labor and pay
with a nigger who will not work except
when watched.
COU TY SUPERINTENDENTS AND
NOEMAL SCHOOLS.
The following letter of tne State Super-
intendent, copied from the School Journal,
July No. 1860, p. 14, to County Superin-
tendent Langdon, of Washington county,
sets aside effectually the fallacy of those
who are now secking the votes of the Di-
rectors of this county in relation to that
office. W e trust that these guardians of our
educational interest will give it a careful
perusal.
anstowine, June 23, 1860.
DiAR Ste: —Yours of the 19th inst., pre-
sents a very serious question, and one of
which it is somewhat difficult to answer.
Ina community with, say 275 schools,
and an average of about six months teach-
ing, it is not easy to p-reeive how a County
Superintendent, who devotes his whole time
to the duties of his office,during the parts of
the year when these duties require it, can
have much time left for other purposes, —
Those duties are :
1st. The eximination of teachers.
in forty-two districts. will occupy. at least
two mouths, giving one day to each dis-
trict.
2d. The visitations of the schools, I per-
| Burrell,
This
ae
NO. 1.
ceive that last year, several of {your dis-
tricts hud two months teaching, and one
ten months. Therefore, they were at least
cight months within which visitation could
be attended to.
Examinations and visitations will hence
occupy ten months, leaving only two for the
preparation of the annual report and other
home work, connected with the cus admin-
istrativa of the offize, which have s8lso
strong claims. 4
1 admit that (forts on the ‘part of the
County Superintendent to wid teachers ine
the business of preparation for the duties
of their office, are
wade in the right spirit and the right
way, that he can devote his leisure time,
if any, Ww no beter pupose. But be
always liable to suspicions of personal or
improper motives, if conuceted with a per-
maneut ivstitution, intended to effect this
object, Money -is necessarily: to be paid
for its benefits; and he becomes implicated
in the minds of the people, mm the suSpi-
cion at least of sharing tie proti's, and
thus adding to his income; and if this 18
done, 1n a county requiring all his time for
other duties, he is dumaged und with him
the cause is damaged, to that extent, by
this state of things.
Though from the present necessities of
the case, County Superintendents are, no.
doubt,’ compelied to aid teachers in their
occasional efforts for self-improvement, yet
it is not be forgotten, that our Pennsyl.
vania system expressly assizns no such duty
to the office. Regular Normal Schools and
other means ot professional education are
ultiwately to be relied on for this pur-
pose. ‘The proper functioa of the County
Superintendent is, at present, to assertan,
by an examination of the teachers aud the
inspestion of their schools, who are and
why erc not competent; not to leave these
primary duties and devote himself to the
businuss of traluing teachers.
laudable; and, when
is
These are my genersl views; and with-
out giving, because I do not know enough
of your local circumstances to give, more
specific advice, you will be able to gath-
er from them what the action of this De-
partment would be in the matter, were it
necessary to act on it.
Yours truly,
THOS. 11. BURROWES,
Wast Co., Pa.
I. 11 LaNaoox, i
the article on
Ep. Wax r
he Superintendency in your paper of, the
3d inst, and are very much pleased with
gome of the suggestions. Suggestion first,
is one which certainly needs but littie com-
ment. It is axiomate and all true’ friends
of educaticn must feel rejoiced that, thus
far at least, Pennsylvania has kept her
grand system of education [ree from the |
arnish of political strife, As to suzges-
tion second. we have all realized the great
benefit derived from having a ‘‘conseientious
live man’ to fill the office since the
present Superintendent, T. [olahan, has
occupied it, When he entered upon his du-
ties, it is a well known fact that opposition
to it was the predominating feeling in almost
every part of the counts. Petitions nad
been circulated and freely signed in some
districts, urging the. Legisla ure to repeal
that portion of the school law which had
created at. This feeling was still more
terribly shown by the action of the Direc
tors themselves in reducing the salary three
hundred dollars below that given to Mr.
This spirit has, in a great mea-
sure, passed away for reasons that caused
it having to exist, and those who
oppose it, Are either of the ‘perrywise”
eased
would refer all interested to the July No,
of the School Journal 1860. p. t4. As for
suggestion fifth. If a new and untried per-
son is placed in office, it might be well
enough to keep back part of the salary un-
til until the final set:lement as a lash to spur
him to action, if such a mode of procedure
were legal, which we opine it could not be.
if nochange is made, we deem 1t unneces-
sary, as the present incumbrent has beer
tied a d not been found wanting.
MALNY CITIZENS.
————— > ee
GOV. CURTIN.
Speaking of Gov. Curtin’s letter of with-
drawal as candidate for Governor, the lin-
ton Democrat says:
Wise, thoughtful, and magnanimous Gov-
ernor ! Your patriotism is unbounded, your
charity unhwited !
the people of this State with another admin-
istration such as you have given them during
your present term, ought surely and must
command their most profound gratiude ! —
Uncharitably speaking however, the poeti-
cal fox may have been in ‘the Executive
mind and the grapes may have been esteem
ed sour:
That you will not curse
“Those grapes up there which Jook so fine,
Which I so lately thought were mine—
Since they are now beyond my power,
I'll lot * alone” —I GUESS THEY RE SOUR."
But his Excellency also informs the Leg-
islatuie in this offizial document that he Las
traded off the State to the Administration
at Washington, for *“ @ high official position!”
1t is well known that ever since the pres-
ent internal war commenced, a constant
struggle has been going on between the Na-
tional and State Administrations as to which
should dispense the ariny patronage amongst
the Pennsylvania soldiers. Each power de-
manded al}, but this was finally’ compro-
wised by permitting the State authorities to
appoint and commission all officers from
Colonel down, the National authorities ap-
pointing all of higher grade. Yet a con-
stant cisturbance was kept up between them
in referance to other matters of patronage
and plunder. Now this is all fixed. Lin-
coin ogrees to give Curtin ¢“ a high official
position”’—Minister to Spaiu, it is said—af-
ter his term of office expires! That is, Mr.
Curtin must behave himself to the entire
sfaction of Mr. Lincoln, or else the ” high
official position” will not be given him. —
+ Be a good /boy, Andy,” says Abe, palling
him on the shoulder, ** and do every thing
as 1 tell you," and alter you have lust vour
present office I will give you a sill nicer
one.” The Governor of the great Staie of
Pennsylvania—the most powerful State in
the Union and which never before brooked
dictation —for the paltry consideration of an
office, thus quietly and disgracefully sunren-
ders his own honor and the dignity of the
Commonwealth into the hands of the Na-
i tional Sezretary at War, who desires to im-
pose upon her the onerous burdens from
which he unjustly ‘ntends to relieve New
England! Tt is said of an Irish Lord that
he thanked God he had a country to sell —
and well may Governor Curtin repeat tive in-
famous declaration of his Natipnal proto-
type. But we Pennsylvanians, who once
were freemen, while we curse in our hearts
the dirty bargain and the high contracting
parties, must keep our lips clised and smoth.
our burning words of mdignation, or else
we will be officially denounced by President
and Governor as Copperheads and rebel Sym-
pathisers! We once had the privileze of de-
nouncing fraud and rebuking official infamy
without having our matives impeached, our
characters villified, and our persons threat-
ened wite Bastiles,, but those halcyon days
of undefiled freedom and offizitl purity are
class, or else among those who wish to sce]
a suili greater number of paid officers under
the name of District Superintendents. In|
the article alluded to, we find the sentence, |
His labors shall be incessant, &e.”? We
would refer all interested in the matter to
the official report of the labors of the d.fler-
ent Superintendents in the State, published
in the March No, of the Schoo! Journal. |
They will find there that Mr. Holahan’s,
name stands among those who have devoted
he most time to the datics of his office,
There are sixty-five Superintendenis in the
State and he stands fifth on the list. The
Superintendent of Luzerne stands first, at a
salary of ¢ight hundred dollars, having de-
voted two hundred and ninety-four days.
Of Huntingdon next, at a salary of six
hundred doliars, having devoted two hun-
dred and eighty seven days. Of Crawford
next, at ‘a salary of six hundred dollars,
having devoted two hundred and eighty-six
days. Of Bucks next, at a salary of eight
huadred dollars, having devoted two hun-
dred and eighty days. Of Centre next, ata
salary of five hundred dollars, having devo-
ted two hundred and seventy-seven days,
Deduet the Sundays, and there remains but
sixteen working days in which ne has not
actively engaged in official duties. Plain
figures, when indisputable, are said to be
the most effective logic, and we will indulge
in no windy bursts of “rhetoric” to enforce
our point. It is there—judge for your.
selves. We would bring no objections to
any one of the candidates, (for we under-
stand there are several,) but surely when a
man has been tried and found faithful he
deserves to be retaived. Such a man, em-
phatically, must be “the right man in the
place.” "Suggestions third and fourth on
the subject of Normal Schools betray a la-
gone. Then our officers were universally re-
i garded and denominated *< public servants’
—now they arrozate ro themselves the aris-
tocratic title of ruLrkS, and so far as they
dare they enforce their presumptiout preten-
eion3. If a Governor of a great State—a
State little less powerful than the Nation
itself—is true to i's people even in small
things he is quickly quieted wiih the prom-
1se of a foreign wission, when kis term of
office expires!
Well, Mr. Stanton now carries Gov: Cur-
tin in his breeches pocket, bound: hand acd
foot, his menial. The people are sold and
they can’t help it. But another turn of the
wheel may awaken them. Let us wait—
and see whether New Eugland and New
York are to be made to fill the last drait
before conscription is to be enforced in
Pennsylvania,
re ee GO
For the Watchman. ]
NORMAL SCHOOLS AND SUPT BUR-
ROWE'S DECISION.
Mr, EpiToR :— Lhe Press of last week had,
and the WaToayMaN of this week probably
will have, a communication entitled, ¢Nor-
| mal Schools and the County Superintenden-
cy,” which is prefaced so cunningly as to
be calculated to mislead honest thinkers
and to call in question the motives of him
who has of late signed himselt “yours
truly.” Let this specious stroke of policy
then recoil on the head of him who thus
misapplies the language of authority, while
we invite all candid readers to a consid-
eration of so much of the truth involved
in the decision as pertains 9 us and not
more,
The ‘gist’ of the article was opposi-
lion to the endeavor that is now being made
to establish a school for the instruction of
wmentable iznorance of the instructions of |
the department upon the sulject
teachers, To do this, the lame cage of
We. Mr Langdon was cited and the Superin-
tendent’s decision in reference to doit, The |
case is this: Mr. L. while Superintendent
of Wash'ngton county, he attempted to
promote his private interests at the sacri-
fice of public interests Heaimed at found-
ing a schoo! in California, in said county,
ostensibly for teachers, but really for such |
as paid hom best, Ilis avarice caused him
to neglect his offizial duties and rendered
him msabsrdinate to the department. The
result was first the decision eited above.
and finally a dismassal of Mr. C from the
office.
was so popular and useful. namely, that of!
instructing teachers in the sammer vacation.
These are his words : ¢“ Tadmit that the <f
forts on the part of County Sup't., to aid
teachers in the business of preparaton for
ha duties of their oflice, are laudable, and,
when made in the right spot, and in the
right way, that Le can devote Lis leisure time,
if any. 10 no better purpose.*’
Tt is also asserted that the Sup’t. will
leisure tune for this work. The
dlarm thus raised can have emanated only
from a confirmed old fogy. Mr. L. of Wash.’
ington Co. chd find time, but abused it --
Comnaring our county with his county it
will be seen that we have still more time.
He had 270 schools and 42 districts, we have
170 schools and 24 districts. In the former
numbers the difference is 100 schools. in the
latter digits are inverted. "His schools were
in session 8 months, ours scarcely 6 months
six of our disirlets continae in sessin later,
but these ean ve visicen while the normal
school is open. The sitistics of the several
districts can all be collected in the same
way. and the annnal report made withoug
the lose of one week. So far then as time
18 concerned the place is peasible.
=f money, or the tuition fee is th: root of
evil in this case, the d:fliculty may be obvi-
ated in several ways: Dy placing the
school beyond the reach of pecaniary mo-
tives in the superintendent, by raising his
sallary so as to enable him to teach gratis.
or without = charge for tuition. 2. The
school way be placed nnder the control of
the directors through a committee, and the
Supt. may teach when the tuition is volun-
tary or when the convention makes it defin-
ite. Yours truly,
THEOPHRIL 13 WEAVER
A CONTEAS
We are apt to hear a great deal in our
Northern Abolition papers (that are syste-
matically employed in cultivating hate be-
tween the two sections of the Union) about
the barbarity and tyrannical nature of the
people of the South. Now, ‘if there ever
was a time that would call out all the bad
feelings of the Southern heart, develope its
viciousness, and make manifest all its fiend-
ishuess and despotism, that time is the pre
sent; when a powerful eneiny presses thom
on all sides, threatening their subjugation,
the overthrow of their institutions, ani evez
environing them with the dread and fear
of actual starvation. Yet we blush when
we read [not from lying Abolition journals
of the North but) from the Boanthern jour-
vals the nselves, the real condition of liber-
ty there, as compared with what it is with
us. Circumveanted with enemies, harrass-
ed, distressed as the Soutiern people are,
it has never been found either safe or ne-
eessary for them to mob newspaper presses,
prison without cause or accusation, or vi-
olaie their established fundamental laws (so
nearly identical wih ou:s as they are,) ns
has been so much in vogue here, under Ab-
raham. At least it has never been done in
the South without a remedy Being speedily
applied, and the Government as well as the
massed of the people pronouncing thew
condemnation upon any such act or acts.
For example :—it seems that Gen. Hind-
man, of the rebel army, having sometki
of the spirit of Butler, Milroy and O'Neil!
in him, has been taking on himself certain
despotic powers in his own command, and
amongst other things has declared martial
law, as Lincoln has done all over the North,
no war exists, Accordingly, his
case has ben brought to the notice of
the rebel House of Congress. Mr. Foote, of
Mississippi, pitched into him most unmer-.
cifully, and Mr. Rassell, of Wheeling, Va,,
nffers a series of resolution strongly denun-
clatory of martial law, except by special
legislative enactment. Now, if such a sst
of resolations were to be introduced into
our Congress (as lately constituted) the
author would be denounced as a most un-
mitigated “Coppernead” and *‘traitor,” and
they would not stood have as good a chance
of being even considered ag a resolution by
Thad. Stevens, declaring that the Union
with slavery should uot be restored would
of ‘passing that wise and gracious body.
There would have been something of that
genuine liberalism. something of Demogra-
ey, something of Republicanism in such a
measure that would have inured its death in
any deliberative body of Abolitionists, Yet
the resolution of Mr. Russell passed the re.
bel Coegress.
Ought we not to blush when we read of
how our despised ‘*-oligarchical,” ‘‘slave-
driving” enemies teach such lessons.~ Fz-
aminer, Washington, Pa.
7” An editor out West wants to know
¢ what's to become of the women if muslin
goes up much higher #*’ Our devil thinks
that the result will be that they will turn
out to be a poor skiftless get.
have no
2
where
The State Superintendent at the ! sy
same time expressed his regret at the ne- | i per's Ferry, on his deed of murder, be dined
cessity of his interference in a work which | {in room No. 4, Parker Honse, in company
THE JOHN BROWN RAID-AN IM-
. PORTANT DISCLOSURE.
Mr. Sumner was fe. fe. cleoted to the United
| States Senate, the other day, by the Legis
lature of Massachusetts, Mr. Swan, a mem-
| ber of the Scnate of that State, although an
{ Abolitionist, would not, it seems, vote far
{ Mr. Sumner, and gave the following reasons
| or so refusing :
i «I come now, "Mr. Pesident, to what is
| known in Liistory as the Jokn Brown rail.
This expedition was planned and fitted out
fs Boston, end its expenses defrayed by
scription. The day he started for Har
with some of the most ardent and zealous
F support ters of Mr. Sumner, and for this rea-
son I allude to it. "The Rupublican patty
now disown the act ; they call him a mono-
maniac—an insane man !-—but when the
telegraphic wires, with lightning speed,
brought the news of his death to New Eng
laud, so depraved at that time was the pul
lic sentiment here, that the village church
bells tolled out his funeral knell, an the
ministers of (od, with a few honorable c¢x-
ceptions, prayed in their pulpits that thede
parted spirit of the ** patriot saint’ might
rest in peace. TLis act, Mr President was
the death-blow to the peace of the Unici,
Withoat it, Virginia would not bave scce-
ded—and Godegrant that we may vet recov-
er from it. I know the names of the per
sons who were engaged in this transaction,
and shal leave a record of them for histors.
Another deed of murder, Mr. President
and 1 will nat deta you longer. When
Anthony Burns, the fugitive slave, was aon.
fined in the Court Hou.e in this city, n meet-
ing was held at Faneuil Hall to consider the
subject. Theodore Parker and the Rev. 71.
W. Higginson were there, Mr. Parker, in
concluding an elcguent speech, alluded to
the fact that a slave was confined in the
Court House, and exc'aimed, in substance,
“Why stand we here idle 7 To the resene |
A rush wes i nmediatly made for the Cour
hvuse, and at the door stoud a poor laboring
man, a Mr. Batchelder, a night watch. «+ Lis
wife and two children were probably sleep
ing at home, yossibly dreamirg of him as
he was toil ng for their daily bread. The
crowd demanded admittance ; he refused,
and was 1mwmediately assassinoted wpan the
spot, ¥ ho killed him, the world never
knew. These men, Mr. President, wer tha
confidential friends of and supporters of Mr,
Sumner and for this reason I have alluded
ta the subject. 1 vote against him.” *
HOW TO MAKE UNION MEN.
We are asked to put on record for future.
reference the following facts, which vecured
last Fail :
Pruxpenine Gey. Tavnons PLANTATION.
Walton's Daly Montpelier Journal con-
tains a letter from a sollier of the Vermont
8th, dated Camp Allemands, Augnst 29,
in which he states that on the previous
Thursday the property of Gen. Richard
Taylor, a son of old General Taylor, (by
whom it was beqreathed to him ) was con-
fiscated. the son benz now in the Rebel
army, The slaves, one hundred. and fifty
in number, were all declared emancipated,
while the plantation was plundered by the
Union soldiers. According: to "the writer's
statement :
“it 1s one of the most splendid planta-
tions that T ever saw. There are on it
seven hundred aeres of sugar cane which
must rot upon the ground if the Govern-
ment does not harvest it. 1 wish you
could have seen the soldiers plunder this
plantation. After the stock was driven off,
the boys began by ordering the slaves to
bring out everything there was to eat and
drink. They brought ont hundreds of bot-
tles of wine, eggs, preseived figs and peacher
turkeys, chickons and honey in any qian
tity.
**T brought away a large camp kettle and
frying pans that belonged to’old General
Taylor, and also many of his private pa-
pers. 1 have one letter of Lis own hand-
writing, and many from Secretary Marcy
—some from General Scott, and some from
Floyd. I brought four bottles of claret wine.
*T'he camp is loaded down with plonder
—all kinds of clothing,
Tirgs, waiches,
Swords and some of General
Taylor's old hats and coats, bls ard
swords -——and, in fact, cvery old relic he
had ig worn shout the camp.
“You and cvery one ay be than\.(ul
that you are out of reach of the plunder-
ing armies. Here are whole familes of
women and children running mn the woods.
large plantations entirely deserted - noth
ing left exeept slaves too old to run away-
all kinds of the best mahogony furviture
broken to pieces. Nothing is respected.
te eee eee
J In most quarrels there is a fault on
both sides.
rt, me
6d A mischievons cur must le tied
shor't.
guns, pistols,
—— OBO ra
027 Why is a blush like a little girl? Be-
cause it becomes a woman,
ipl aire
37> What kind of fruit does Tomb Tums
and his wife represent 3 —dwarf pear.
reese
The shortness of life is often owing
the irregularities of the liver.
to
er Be np.
07~ It is better to meet dander than to
wait for it, A ship on.a lse shore stands
‘Out to sea iu a storm to emempe chipre-k.
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