-B F McNEIL.. Editor and Pi-oprietor. £Jif S|n<|itim IS PUBLISH ED Every Friday Naming on Juliana Street, orrooun: i hum.i j. hoi si:. BEDFORD, BEDFORD COUNTY, PA. TERMS: * ..UO a j ear it paid strictly in advance, *2.-3 if n■: *i<l within three a: -nth-, $2.50 if not paid Within she year Rates of Advertising, 1 >ne Square, three weeks or Jew $1 25 • "in* each additional insertion less than three month, ..30 3 Months, 6M Eths. 1 Year. •>ne Square. ... $3 50 $4 75 $* 00 Ivo scares * I 00 10 00 Throe square, . . 6 6# #OO 15 #0 5 Column - 12 00 20 00 35 0# One Column .26 00 35 00 65 00 Administrators' and Executors' notices $2.50, Auditor? notice? sl.s®, if under 10 lines. Estrays $1.25, if bat uae hca 1 is advertised. 25 cent? on every additional head. One square is the APACE occupied by tea lines of min ion. Fractions of a square under five lines count as a hal: square, and over five lines a full * ;are. Adver tisements charred to persons handing them in. PROFESSIONAL AND BUSINESS CARDsT - ESdMT H. AUSIP. $ ArrwRSET IT LAW, BEPPORS. PA„ Will faithfnlly acd promptly attend to all business en trusted to h;.- care in Bedford and adjoining eouHties. Military claims. Pension*, back pay. Bounty. Ac. spee dily collected. office with Mann A spang, on Juliana street, 3 doors south of the iienrel House. April 1, 1664.—tf. J. R. Dl RBORROW, ATTOnSET AT LAW. BEPVORD, PA. Oilice one door south of the "Mengel House, *' W—l attend promptly to all business intrusted to his . are Collect! n made on the shortest notice. Having, air.?, been regularly licensed to pr .-••• Claims against the Government. particuiar attention will he given to the collection of Military claims of all kinds; Pensions. Back Pay. Bounty, Bounty Loans, Ac. Bedford, apr. 3,1564—tf. ALEX. US6, ATTORVKT AT LAW. And agent for procuring arrears of Pay and Bounty money. Office ;>u Juliana Street, Bedford. Pa. April 1, 1664 —tf. KIXMELL A- UXE\EELTF.R. ATTORVET- AT LAW. BE: FOED. P.t. Have formed a partnership in the practice of the Law Office en Juliana Street, two doors South of the Mer.ge! House- April I.lS64—tf. jB JOIIX MAJOR. ■TTSTICe OF TRt PEACE. HOPEWELL. BEDFORD COr.TTT. and ait business pertaining to his office will be attended to promptly. Will *i?o attend tu the sale or renting of real estate. Instrument? of writing carefully prepared. Also settlinyup partnerships and other ac counts. April 1, IS64—tf. IXA.XOVER. ATTOEXET AT LAW. BEDFORD, PA., April 1,1664.—1£ JOSEPH W. TATE, ATTJOBWKT at LAW, BEDFOKD PA. Y1"1L1 promptly attend to eolleetis-ns and all busj.ess I V edtrasted to his care in Bedford and adjoining conn ties. M aey advanced <tn Judgsien £. Notes and o'ber Claims. Has for sale Town Lots, in Tatesviie, and ?t_ Joseph,: on Bedford Railroad. Farms and unim proved land in quantities to suit purchasers. •5 • opt*.-lie the Banking House'if Re?-d A ScheJi. apr. 15. 1364—10 m. , JOHN LI TZ, ATTORNEY AT LAW, ASTD Regularly '.censed agent for the collection of Govern ment elaiu '. C acf.es. back pay. pensions, Ac- will give pr nipt attention to ail business entrusted to his eare. Office with J. R. Darbonraw, EST., on J abaca Street. Bedford Pa. August 10th. 1864.—tf. M. A. POINTS, ATTORNEY AT LAW. Bedford. PA. Respectfully tender* it:? proie-sivnai service* to the , u ic. Office with J. W. Liigenfeiter, Esq- on Jcluna -treeL two door* south of the •'.Mrric'.e House." Bedford, lite. S. 1?64-tf. DENTISTRY. I. N. BOWSER, Rcident Dentist of Wood bnry. \\"ILL spend the second Monday, Tuesday, and Wed- II nesday. of each :rni.h at Hopewell, the remaining . hree day si Bloody Eur- attending to the duties of his profession. At ail other times he can be found in his of h:ce at VT.x,d>.iiry. excepting the last Monday and Tues ■b-j tf the same month, which he srill spend in ilartins rg, Blair concty. Penna. Persons decking operations -h -ald -all 'early, as time is limited. Ail operations war ranted. Aug. S,lS64ytf. C. X. UU KOK. J. O. MINXICH. JR. DENTISTS, BEDFORD. PA. tl tie flank ftni'ding. Jofifntt Street. A'.! ; entries pertaining to Surgical or Mechanics! Dentistry earefady an i faithfully performed and war ranted. TERMS CASH. jano'6s-ly. DR. B. F. HARRY, Respectfully .enders his professional service." to the ithen? of Bedford an I riciaky. Office and residence on Pitt Street, in the building formerly occupied by Dr. J. H. Jlefias. April I, IS64—tj. J. L. MARBOURG, M. D. Having permanently located respectfully tenders hi? "it ?ionv services to the tries- "f Bedford and vi aity. Office on Juliana Street, opposite the Bank, one door north of Hail A Palmer's office. April 1, 1 54—tf. DANIEL BORDER. PITT-- .".TWO :>i,,ks WEST or THE Bedford HOTEL. Bedford, Pa. Watehnuikeri Healer in Jewelry.Speetaele*. Ac He KEEPS ON HAND A STOCK OF PINE GOLD AND SILVER WATCHES, SPECTACLES OF Brihiaat Doable Retried Glasses, also Scotch Pebble Gla'ves. Gold Watch Chains, Breast Pins. Finger King's, be*' quality of Gold Pens. He will supply to order any thing in his line BOt on hand, apr. 8, 1664—it. U. S. HOTEL. HARRIBBURG, PENN A. CORNER SIXTH AND MARKET STREETS, OFPOMTS R&ADIX6 K- R- lIECOT. D. H. HUTCfIBWON, Proprietor. jao6'6"-3nL UNION HOTEL. VALENTINE STECK.MAN, PROPRIXTOR, Weet Pitt Street. Bedford, Fa., t f'orvterly lie Globe It'>**!.) THE peUir are assured that be has made smpe ar raugeraents to aecenir.o'iate al! that may favor hiio with heir patronage. A ff eadid Livery Stable attached. P'T64. E X CHAN G E IIOTEL, HUNTINGDON. PA. JOHN S. MILLER, Proprietor. April 20th, 1164.—ft. A LOCAL AND GENERAL NEWBPAPBR, DEVOTED TO PCLITICS, EDUCATION, LITE RATI'HE AND MORALS. Sale OF VALUABLE REAL ESTATE. BY virtue .of .13 -viler v>f the Orphan?' Court ttf Bedford Count;., the undersigned will effer for ?:le, >n the nretni.'es. in Cnihberisiid YaHey Township, Btdford a sa. ty, On Tuesday, Jiii|uarv 3Lit. 1865, ail the .ulKwing described prt-perty of Ann Rofgr. n>, late of the Township of Csmriuri Valley, Kr wP : A TRACT OF LAND. adjoining land? of Abraham Me Hell and and otbjew, containing FORTY -THREE ICR Kg, #tru-t ::;rH-;irc, about PI YE ACRE- CLEARED and endor fence. with LOO 'dwelling house thereon ereetcd. Terms Cash at confirmation of sale. Sale to commence a! 11 o'clock, A. St., of said day, H. XII'ODKMU?.' j*n.6.'<ts~tt. Administrator. VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE, nnHE jubscrifcer will tflrr at public sate on SATIR I) \Y. 1 THE TWENTY-FIRST HAY OF JANUARY. 1885. in the Borough of Bedford, the following deaeribed pro perty. situate in Bedford Township. Bedford county, ad joining lands of Jatne- Rea. sr.. Was. Dunirio and others. Containing 123 Acrtti. part limestone, about FIFTY ACRES CLEARED and under fence, the balance timber lend. There is on the place a TWO AND A-HALF STORY BOH HOUSE, weather boarded. Doable Log Barn. Spiring House. Smoke House, and a Tenant House. Ther. are Two Apple Or chards of choice fruit and a Poach Orchard ><n this farm, and two never failing Springe, and stieaais of water run ning through it. Also a good Sugar Camp containing 'lilts trees. Any person wishing to examine the property can do so by calling on tbe subscriber. Sale to commence at lb o'clock. j*u.6, Mdt* J .AM Kb KBA, Jr. \ORTH POIYT HOTEL FOR SALE OR RENT. V THE subscriber •■•St- rs for Sale or Rent for one or more years, the Xor.h P->int Hotel, situate on the Fix Mile Run Branch of the Huntingdon and Broad Top Rail Road. This House is doing a profitable bwknw, is well fcrnl.-h and in govt order: contains fourteen rooms, with the ne cessary outbuildings and stabling. I will sell the house with the furniture, beds and bedding, sieves, etc., or will sell the furniture, adding, etc,, or rent to a good tenant for three years. For further particulars inquire of John Major, Esq., Hopewell, or uf the undersigned at North Point. LEWIS ANDERSON. North Point, Jan. 6. tsfo-tf. GLORIOUS NEWS TO THE PEOPLE OF BEDFORD COIMV! The first train on the Southern Pennsylvania and Con neUsriile railroad has arrived heavily freighted with goods of every dereriptiot: for CHEAP CORNER. We lake pleasure in telling our customers ar I the pub lic that we are now _ Prepared for the Winter Trade. We have jnst received a large stock of LADIES' WINTER DRESS GOODS, SACK FLANNELS. CLOAK CLOTHS, SHAWLS, HOODS, Ac., Ac. Cloths, Cassimeres, Satlnetts, and a Terr great variety of READY MAI >E CLOTHING, Over Coat, Over Coats, Over Coats ! Come, Gentlemen, and examine our stock of clothing. Boot* & Shoes, Boots? & Shoes, for Ladies and Gentlemen, Tosand GDIs. Groceries, ffffccusirarc. Tobacco, and all articles n-uaUy frond in a first class store. We are sincerely grateful to a generous public for their patronage in the past, asd hope by stria: attention to their wants, and * food desire to nlease, to make it rav a'i who visit -CHEAP CORNER." J. L. PARQUHAR. Bedford. Jan. 6, ISCa. VALUABLE FARM FOR SALE! IN Hopewell Township, Bedford county, near Wi.-hart'- .Mill, "3 Yellow Creek, a at four mile? ftum I!<i;*e weil Station on the H. A B. T. R. R.. and within six miles of tbe fir -ad Top Coal Mines, whikls aff-nvls one of- the oeat markets in the eotorry far all marketing a farmer an p-ontee. It contains Tiro Hundred Acre*! g>od ie- ne land, about One Hoedrvd and Fifty acres i f which a;e cleared and in a gov*. cu:e of cultivation— coarmkat to sthotiL and churches. It is now occupied by Henry Clapper, who will give parties calling to see it any inferuiariou le- red in regard to the land. For fur ther information, ad-Lass R. B. VIGTOX, President Glamorgan Iron Co.. Nov. lb, 1-64. iiuntiagbn, I'a. THE MAt-VOKk TIMES. The price of the Times ; Daily; is Fore Gems!. To Mail Su'-scribcr* j-er annt :,;„ $lO OO Dicta din r Sunday morning edit in. hi 2. Tbe htn-Ymij T:xx. Hue copy I year #3 00 Two c ■ l ies lyear...— 5 OO The Wtsrit Tikes. One copy I year. * - OO Three c.-t-i-# I year GO Fresh names mar at any time be added to clubs, lioth of the WiitlT and Si!-W cur. at Club Lata . Payment inrerisbly its advance. H'e hart <n> aat%-*rited trar'Mny Add res • H J. RAYMOND A CO.. Pcblisfcer*. fcc.?V®' -?. Information Free 2 TO NERVOUS SUFFERERS. A GENTLEMAN, cure *, of Nervous DchDiiy, In.taa j etcucy. Premature Decay, and Youthful Error, actuated by a desire to efit others, will be happy t furnish to ail wbt teed it .rec of large.; the recipe and dire 'ices for making the r-mplemtx-dy nsed in h? ca-c. PuCirers wishing to pr6-Wythe advertiser? bad experie,.e*. and j -cts a sure a d raiu.vLfc retce'ly. can do so by address ing him at ence at his place •>( hwt.nes?. The Recipe and full iabvcau- ii—of ri;, ,nip>.rtsnee to a.:—wtli tie choer fuiiT sent by return mail. Address JOHN B. OGDEN. No. Ai Na>-as Street, New York, p. ,i,AVrrvs .-fcKvrci-5 of both aexsce will find this information ibvaluable. 3m. Ladies Dress Goods. INRE>. 11 M- r: if.. -t ' ■ French A:j ' if i ' <tti V. vi D- .atoe-. a:, ct.crs. Pupiins, Mohau-. Cohcrga, Aipacas, every ta-hhinabie color, eiaeap at u- i.i'. < KAMRR & CO'e. Imp ortant. Be; ;KE you fpcti 1 your cash for winter clothing, call at fraicer k Co'fc, and - e how low too can buy every d o riptiroi of goods. Ther hi-Ve on b .nd a large ttnry. m i wiiJ ceil at short profirs. de< .2 EW < nv i { > c^. AT.ARGK cupjdv—cheaper toi yon can make.— Also Floor Gil Chute, at! widths, at dec.2,'M- CRAMER k COS. BEDFORD, Pa,. FRIpAI, JANUARY Q0.1865. !? O F TTF. ; • A GRAND POEM. Who thai! judge a man from manners ? Who iba'i! know him by his drees ? Paupers may be St for princes, Princes fit for eomething ks. Crumpied shirt and dirt* jacket Mar beclotbe the golden ore Of the deejest thought* and feeling*— Satin vests caold do no more. There are spring? of crystal nectar Ever welling out of stone: There are parplo buds and goidea. Hidden crushed aod, ive-grywa ; God, who sbdnts by soais, not dresses. Love- and prospers you and me, While he values throne-, the highest, Bat as pebbles in the sea. Man. upraieod above his feiiows, Of! forgets his fellows then. Masters, rulers, lords remember That your meant;: kin.L are mes. ilea by labor, men by feeling. Men by thought, and men by fame, Claiming equal rights to sunshine, In a man's ennobling name. , There are foam-embroidertd oceans. There arc little weed-clad rills. There are feeble, inch-liigh saplings. There are c-rdars on the bills; God. who counts by souls, not stations. Lores and prospers you and me; For, to Him, all rain distinctions Are as pebbles in the sea. Toiling hands alone are builders Of a nations wealth or fame; Titled laziness is pensioned, Fed and fattened on the same: By the sweat of others' foreheads. Living only to rejoice, While the poor man's outraged freedom Vainiy lifted up its voice. Truth and justice are eternal. Born with loveliness and light: Secret wrongs shall never prosper, While there is a sunny right; God- whose world-heard voice is singing i> .landless lore to you and me, Sink* oppression with its titles, A< the pebbles in the sea. CoKSOLiTOST. —A r<-cetn writer on the planetary system coolly says—"'There need be no alarm about cornets : should one of these erratic bodies come in to collision with the earth and destroy it, the in habitants will suffer r.o pain, as the atmosphere of the comet will instantly suffocate every living thing except the fishes, and so render them insensible to pain!" He prayetn best who loveth well Both man, and bird and beast; • He prayeth best, who loveet ben All th : ng, both great and small: For the dear God, who lovt>th as. He made, and loreth sib — Coleridge. A prominent bachelor politician on the Kennebec remarked to a lady that soaps tone was to keen ihe feet warm in bed. •'Yes," said the young lady, who had been an at tentive listener, "but some gentlemen have an im provement on that which you know nothing about" The bachelor turned pale and maintained a wistful silence. Soldiers who die in hospitals are buried without parade, everything is done decently and in order. A plain coffin is procured, and the deceased placed in it. prepared as decently lor its eternal rest as his habiliments will allow. In the coffin with him is put a bottle, and tightly corked within it is a scrap ot paper, telling his name, rank, company and regi ment, and date and cause of deaih. Every division hospital has its plot of ground for burial purposes, airi in this the worn out soldier is put to rest- The < eremony is always simple, always brief, but always touching*. A V-ard. on which is inscribed the name of the deceased, is afterwards placed at the head of the grave. ILU-TKATJVE PfjUjoorE.—Mrs. A., accompanied by Mrs. 8.. recently paid a visit to Tiffany's, and bought there, aided by her friend's counsel, a very stylish assortment of jewelry for her own proper wearing. Before they Lad quiet concluded their purchases, a stranger.* whom we will call Mrs. came in, and after requiring the service of half the attendants, bought a far more extensive and costly assortment of richly set precious stones, for the adornment of her person, whereupon: _Yr*. .1. to Mrs. B. (in an undertone I—''Jirident- IT Shoddy.' Mr*. C. overbearing!—"No Madam, Petrole um."—ME IT York Tribune. THE WEALTHIEST MA:. —As ASXCAL ISCOME OF > *i.ooo,t''o. —Alexander T. Stewart, the dry goods nabob of New York, has the largest income of any man in America, or (probably! the world. He has lately paid an income tax of S2/0.000! —on a net ipaome of fine million dollar*! This would be the interest, at 6 per cent., of over eighty millions.— We know ot no case among the wealthy men of England that surpasses or equals this : and we sup pose A. T. Stewart is the •'richest man" living— Albany Arym. DLSAFPOIXTED. —A man applied to Dr. -lackson. the celebrated chemist of Boston, with a bix of specimens: •'Can you tell me what this is. sir?*' "Certainly 1 can sir: that is iron pyrites." "What, sir?" in a voice of thunder. ••Iron pyrites." "Iron pyrites' and what k. that?" "That's what it is." said the chemist, putting a lot on the shovel over the hot coals, where it disap peared. "Dross." "And what is iron pyrites worth 7' "Nothing." r "Nothing! Why, there's a woman who owns a hill full of that in our town, and I've married her!" AVECOOTES OF PRKSIIIEXT LI scour.—We find the following in the Washington correspondence of the Boston rosA: "When Mr. Chase c-alfed on him the day after his appointment to the beach, he alluded, in the coarse of their interview, to the fact that he once had a sweetheart in Kicbmond. The President *aH he bad better abandon all thoughts of courting in liich momi henceforth, arid attend to his court in Wash ington. On the ame day a gentleman gained an audience with the President and made complaint that the Secretary of War had refused to release a friend of his from j.risOu , notwithstanding the re lease had been ordered by the president himself. — Mr. Lincoln replied that he had an understanding with Mr. .Stanton, to the effect that when the iutter was in possession of facts which made it proper in such cases to retain the parties in custody Ifor a time he should suspend the order of release. The gentleman, not satisfied with this explanation, at tempted fo east the blame of the affair upon Secre tary Stanton, when Mr. Lincoln, with a significant smlie. said : 'My friend, you should remember the pas-ag of '■scripture which -ays "Aeense not a ser vant unto .his master." ' The visitor remarket!! that he bad lieen an attentive reader of the Bible, but he could not recollect such a pa-sage in it.. 'Oh you'll find it in the thirtieth or thirty-first chapter of Proverbs,' said Mr. Lincoln. And the gentle, mac went home and read Proverbs xxx., 10: 'Ac cuse not a servant to his master, lest he corse thee and thon be found guilty!' " ?bc Uthicalor. THE SCHOOLS OF BEDFORD €Ol ATI. Reports of the Count} Saperintendent. School House*. —My predecessor, in his last anna- I report, states that "at least fifty are unfit for shool purpose*. ' Nine of these have since been j-placed by new and excellent houses; and, after a ireful inspection of all the houses in the county, tjcep! two, I am satisfied that there remain sixty ijvan which may safely be pat down as unfit. Molt 4 those built during the year lack oine essential <j a first-class house, but they are all vast'7 superi a to the class of houses they re-place, and as good prhtps, in ever)- respect, as the means of the res ptctite districts could afford. The one erected for thfc gaded schools of Woodbury vitliage, in Middle WboOurv district, is a fine brick house, two stories bighith two school rooms on the first floor, and a largchool room and a recitation room on the sec ond. It will accommodate about one hundred and sevtkv pupils, and is a model of taste, durability and Bnvenience. Tfere are one hundred and seventy-three school houss in the county, and at least seventy-five of •hemot-cupy sites utterly unsuitable. They seem to havdbeen placed where they are. because the ground iheyttand on conld be put to no other possible use. Fhehea'.th of pupils, beauty of location, conveni ence of access, shade, and suitable play-ground, hav.been entirely overlooked or uncared for, and all <Ter the county, on bleak hill-tops, or steep moqiiain sides, in ragged ravines or swampy flats, maybe seen these monuments to the carelessness or ueompetency of those who placed them there. — It nay be regarded as a fortunate fact that most of ;hsn are fastrottingdown. andmust soonbere placed oynew ones. Most of the houses, built within the las few years, are more favorably located, but thete isaill grave and almost criminal neglect in selecting site. Irom the best information I have been able to get I am satisfied that nearly half the school houses staid on ground for which the present boards of di rectors have fio title papers. The land, however, in nearly every instance, was leased, sold or given, to tie respective districts, and the necessary title papers could easily have been secnred at the time. This was postponed, and finally neglected entirely. So Br as 1 can learn, there are only five deeds for schlol property recorded in the county. Soch neg iee'with regard to titles can not fail to become a fratfnl source of contention, litigation and losses, in be future. Jurniiure and Apparatus. —ln most of the older noises the furniture is very rude, uncomfortable, ant injurious to the health of pupils. In those butt more recently, it is generally substantial, con futable, and as neat and tasty as could be afforded. With the exception of three or four globes, and as rainy sets of blocks for illustrating cube root, the sooo U are without apparatus. There are but seven ass of outline maps ia all the schools. Teachers. —One hundred and eighty-nine have ben .;mployed during the year—3 held permanent tertifieales s 14 temporory certificates from other eouni.es endorsed ; 8 old certificates renewed, and the rest temporary certficates. issued by me after an actual examination. I have issued no permanent certificates. Seventy-eight teachers are from fifteen to twenty y ears of ege : 49 from twenty to thirty : 35 from •hirtv to forty, and the remainder older than forty ; "2 have taught only four months; 49 only eight months ; 38 only twelve months, and the remainder more tbon twelve mohths. Females have, as a gen . ral rule, taught quite as successfully as males: 69 have received their education in the common schools; - 4 claim to have read an educational work thorbegh ly, or an educational periodical regularly. Tbo rest have either done no professional reading at all, or have read to little purpose. About twenty think of making teaching a life-business. Visitations. —I visited oil the schools except four. I was in the neighborhood of these twice, but they were not open either time. Seventeen were visited twice, and six three times. The visits averaged an hour and a quarter. Most of the time I was accom panied by directors, or citizens, or both. In only tive districts were the schools visited by directors as the law requires. Four secretaries acted as district superintendents, with the most satisfactory results in every instance. In South Woodbury district the schools were not only visited monthly by the district superintendent, but by nearly every member of the board also; and. as the result of their earnest and intelligent supervision, the schools are perhaps in a more flourishing and satisfactory condition than any others in the county. Institutes. —An attempt was made to organize district institutes in every district, but in a majority of them with not very flattering success. A large part of the county presents natural obstacles to their successful working, which can not be easily sur mounted. The distance to travel is so great, the country so broken, and the roads so bad. that to attend them is alwaj-3 difficult, and often impossi ble. Besides, many of them, during the past wai ter. were composed entirely of young and inexpe rienced teachers, all of them anxious to be instruct ed, bnt none of them able to instruct. Grading and Classification.— There are four gra ded schools in theeoontv : one in each of the bor oughs of Bedford, Bloody Run, and Schellsbnrg. and one in Woodbury village. Outside of these there is not strict uniformity of text-books in any district, and as a necessary consequence, there can be but fc-w thoroughly disciplined schools. Nearly every board of directors has decide'] upon a uniform series of books, but their exclusive nse has never been enforced in the schools, and it is no unusual thing to find three or four books on the same subject, by different authors, in the same school. Half the usefulness of many schools is thus destroyed by this short-sighted and ruinous policy. A vigorous effort to secure uniformity of text-books will be made during the coming fall and winter. Concluding llemark~T>uriug the past three years, nearly ITO of our best teachers have gone into the army, or engaged in other pursuits. 1 P'*ces have been taken by persons too young and inexpe rienced to teach skillfully or give general satisfac tion. For this reason, the schools were not proba bly tatreht so well nor so acceptably, during the past winter, as formerly. If we couiu have retained the corps of teachers *e had in 1861, or as many 0! them as would have continued in the profession in a tune of peace, the schools coold not have failed to be in a most flourishing condition. Tbey bad ac quired sufficient experience to be able ti> give geuer ;.i sati,facticu, and the hostility to 'he --ho-.. -y --was rapidly disappearing. But we have almost an entire new corps, and must start, in this respect, nearly where we were when the county eopermten dency was established ten years *gb- Whether a sufficient number of even indifferent teachers can be found to teach the coming winter, the future wii] show. Of this, I am certain— if drain upon our population continues, the time is not far distant, when our schools must be taught by females, or not taught at all. The Trunk Tragedy—What It Is, and Where It (me From—Sentence of the Woman. [Special Correspondent® of Philadelphia Press.]; NORFOLK, Va.. January 7, 1865. f The great trunk tragedy, which has so excited public attention not only in Norfolk but in the en ure United States, came to a final close yesterday by the trial, conviction and sentence of the accused party. Maria Louisa Linder, the alleged perpetra tor of the crime, i- a tall, thin woman, apparently about forty year* of age. She is a German by birth, -id the Teutonic Ksp still clings to her language.-r Vesterdav morning she was brought into court, and after the trial, which occupied an hour and thred yiarters. she was sentenced. She was dressed in n t lain biaek dn ss ard a corresponding dark colored in net. Her face evidently showed iorth the deep mental agony that was upheaving her very soul.-r- Sfce stood at the bar of the court , not exactly in the prisoners' box. but-, for support, leaned against a staunch iron pillar as she gave in her The court wa- filled with a number of distinguished personages, who had been allowed the especial priv ilege of being in attendance. 1 noticed the phono graphic reporters of both the Norfolk newspapers, and to the gentleman connected with the Old Do minion I am greatly indebted for a transference of the woman's testimony. Major Webster, the presi ding Judge, called the court to order, and the caae was at once opened. I give the testimony exactly as 1: was rendered by the woman, correcting all gram matical errors which a person of her* education and station in life must be supposed to have made : Maria Louisa Lander sworn —I am the person ac cused and guilty of taking a trunk fotm Norfolk to Baltimore county containing the body of John Freet i>orn. Question. Are you a married woman ? Answer. No sir : I never was married, but kept a common house at.the comer of Woodside lane ami Little Water street. I lived with this man Free bora, to whom I became attached, and we lived to gether as man and wife. Q. L>id you ever live with this man after he had enlisted ? A. Yes, sir : I never knew him before that timg. Q. Now state to the Court all you know aboii the trunk affair. The woman here became greatly affected, and wept bitterly, but in a short time continued her evi dence. John Freeborn told me that he was tired of he army, and that if I wouid get- him to Chicago fit- would give me four hundred dollars. I asked him how he would be able to get so much money.— He said he was going to jump the bounty and get a bousand dollars and then we would both go to Can ada and get married. I told him that I would not know how to get him away from bere, for the Got rnment men watched everything so closely. He -aid : '*Go and tray a large trunk, and I will get in st. and yon can do with me just as though as I wa.- voor clothing. You /an check me to Baltimore, and hen get in the cars and go to Chicago." I did not like to do it, but he made me: and we went on bound the Baltimore boat. Q. By Judge Webster. Did he say anything about smothering ? A. Yes, and he cut a small hole in the trunk.— [Here the trunk was shown. It is a large and hand some one. about twenty-five inches high, sixteen inches broad, and thirty-two inches long. Immedi ately beneath one of the straps is seen a very small orifice, through which the deceased gained his breath, by means of a pipestem. It would be al most impossible to detect the orifice unless it was pointed out The hole would not admit the passage of sufficient air to sustain animation in a rat. There is plenty of room within the trunk to allow a limited use of the limbs, but they would necessarily be con tracted to such an extent as to produce a violent cramp, after a person had been so subjugated for a period of five hours.] He did not think there would be any difficulty in breathing through the stem of the pipe which he used. W hen I got to Fortress Monroe I went up to the trunk and kicked it twice. That was the sign by which I was to know how he was getting on. He answered it twice, so that I knew it was all right.— He had no liqor in his trunk—nothing but a canteen of water, a towel, and a piece of chewing tobacco. When I got to Baltimo.e 1 ordered a baekman to take me to a hotel. Ido not know which one it was, I was so anxious to get there. When I got to the hotel I went np stairs, and had the trunk brought up with me. and then when we got into the room I locked the door. 1 was so glaa when I got there that I kicked the trunk with all my might, but I got no answer. I said, ''Now. Johny. yon are all right." He did not answer me. and I thought he was fooling no-. I got the key and opened the trunk, and he laid perfectly still, when I said, "Come Jack, get up, you are in Baltimore now. and no one is about Here but me." He said nothing, when I put my hand upon his face and be was dead. [The woman was here so overcome with her feelings that it was some minutes before she could proceed.] I dropped the lid of the trunk, and "was crazy in my head." I saw a card on the mantel-piece of the room, and I wrote the word "Chicago' on it. and rang immedi ately for a servant. He got me a "trackman and I rold him I wanted to go right away to Chicago. He 'aid he would take me to the Calvert Street Station for two dollars. I told him 1 would give him that, and banded him a five dollar bill, when he gave me back three dollars. He put the trunk behind the carriage, and when we got to the depot he asked me if I wanted it checked: told him yes. He said. "Go and get your ticket and I will get it checked for you." I was scared almost to death ; I never felt so funny before in my life. I wanted it fojndout and I hadn t the heart to tell any one. I went to get my ticket, and instead of doing so I walked up the street I do not know what made me, but I couldn't help it 1 saw a policeman coming down near me and I wan ed to tell him. but I did not know how. I walked ihe streets all night; no one said anything to me. and I did not say a word to any one. Tbenext mor ning I heard some say something about a trunk, and [ thanked God that it had been found out. I walked through the streets during all the morning, and final ly I felt so bad that I weat and told on myaeif. This was ail done upon the moment. I was perfectly crazy after 1 found out that the soldier was dead. Judge Webster, after having consulted with Gen eral Shepley upon the sentence, returned to the court room ana sentenced her to a fine of five hun dred dollars and two years' imprisonment at hard labor. PROFAXITY. —Why will men '"take the name of God in vain?" what possible advantage is to IK tamed by it? And yet this wanton, vulgar sin of pro fanity is evidenty on the increase. Oaths fall upon ghe ears in the cars, and at the comers of the street. The North American Review says well; There are among us uot a few who feel that a simple assertion or plain statement of obvious facte trill pass tor nothing, unless they swear to its truth nv all the names of the Deity, and blister their hps with every variety of hot and sulphurous oaths. If we observe such persons closely, we shall generally find that the fierceness of their profanity is in in verse ratio to the affluence of their ideas. We venture to affirm that the profanest men with in the circle of your knowledge are all afflicted with a chronic weakness of the intellect. The utterance ofan oath, though it may prevent a vacuus in sound, is no indication of sense. It requires no genious to /.wear. The rcckles- taking of sacred names in vain is as little characteristic of true independence of thought as it is of high moral culture, in this brea thing and beautiful world, filled, as it were, with the presence of the Deity, and fragrant with its incense from a thousand alters of praise, it would be no ser vility, should we catch the spirit of reverent wor shipers. and illustrate in ourselves the sentiment that the Christian is the highest style of man.'' Drrru OF COAT. BZDS.—Heath's mine in Virginia is represented to contain a coal bed fifty feet in thickness. A coal bed near Wilksbarre. Pa., is said to be 25 feet thick : at Mauch Chunk is a coal bed 40 to 50 feet thick : and in the basin of the Sebuvlkitl are 50 alternative .'cams of coal, 25 of which are more than 3 feet in thickness. In Nova- Scotia is a coal formation 1400 feet deep, and con taining 75 alternate layers of coal. The Whiteha ven coal mine, in England, has been worked under the sea r and the Newcastle coal mine, in the same country, has been worked to the depth of 1500 feet and bored to a similar additional depth, without finding the bottom of the coal measure. Vo) 38: No. 4 THE MONKEY AXD THE DRCNKAMI.— Mr. Pollard states that in his drinking days he was the compan ion of a man in Arundel Co.. Maryland, who had a monkey which he rained at a thousand dollars.— '•We always took him out on onr chesnuts parties. He shook off all our chesnuts for us, and when he Muki not shake them off, he would go to the very -nd of the limb and knock them off with his fist.— Dae dav we stopped at a tavern and drank freely.— About half a glass of whisky was left, and Jack took he glass, and drank it all np. Soon he was merry, skipjied, hopped, and danced, and set os all in a roar of laughter. Jack was drunk. "We all agreed, six of us, that we would come to the tsvern next day. and get Jack drunk ag?iin. and have sport all day. 1 called at ray friend's house * next morning, and we went out for Jack. Instead of being as usual on his box, he was not to be seen. We looked inside, and he was crouched up in a heap. •Come out here." said his master. Jack came lout on three lees; his fore-paw was upon his he&a.— Jack had the head-ache; I knew what was the mat ter with him. He felt just as I felt, many a morn ing. Jack was sick and couldn't go. So we waited three days. We then jwent, and while drinking, a glass was provided for Jack. But where was he? Skulking behind the chairs, 'Come here Jack, and drink.' said his master, holding out the glass to him. Jack retreated, and as the door was opened, slipped out and in a moment was on top of the house. His Master went out to call him down, but he would not come. He got a cow-skin and shook it at him.— Jack sat on the ridge-pole and refused to obey. His master got a gun and pointed it at him. A monkey i.s much afraid of a gun. Jack slipped overthe back side of the house. His master then got two gun a, and had one pointed each side of the house, when the monkey seeing his bad predicament, at once whipped up on the chimney and got down in one of ihe flues, holding on by his fore paws! The mas ter was beaten. The man kept that monkey twelve rears, but could never persuade him to taste anoth er drop of whisky. The beast had more sense than a man who has an immortal soul, and thinks him self the first and best ofGod's creatures on earth." BRAIN WORE AND LONGEVITY —The philosophers >ught to have length of days for their portion, see ing how their pursuits onght to elevate them above he disturbances oflife. And such is, in fact, the operation oflife, by whichjtheir faculties are furnish ed with constant entertainments on subjects which would seem to lie outside the range of uneasy pas sions. while creating or exciting the noblest moral motion. An unusual amount of health and longev ity is. in fact, found among philosophers—whether mathematicians, naturalists, or speculative students. Such things have been heard of as strife in these •erene fields of thought; such sights have been seen as faces furrowed with fretfalness, or working with passion, but the old age of many philosophers is, at this moment, an honor to their vocation. Peter Barlow was, when he lately died at 82, the same Peter Barlow that he had been to two genera tions of friends and disciples. Sir David Brewster is sail occupied at the tame age. The late Mr. Tooke did not puzzle his brain about the currency too much to be still up to the subject at 86. Sir Ro derick Murchison is past 70, and so is Sir J. Her schel- Literature ought to have the same operation a= science; but it seems to nave more room for agi tations and anxieties, except in the case of authors who live and with their works, exempt from self-re gard. Jacob Grimm was a very perfect example of the philosophic serenity which a literary career can yield, and he lived to 78. There is something remarkable in tbelongevity of literary women in modern times, even if we look not beyond our own country. Mrs. Piozzi and Mrs. Delancy perhaps scarcely enter within the conili :ions : and the still lamented Jane Austin was nnder an early doom from consumption; but Miss Edge worth was above 80 when she died; Joanna and Ag nes.Baillie were older still; and Mrs. Trollope died the other day at 84. The artists who have departed lately have been old. Boit, who was 87, and Vernet 74. Mulready was 76, and Cockerell, the architect, was 73.— Once a tceek. INDIAN LOVE.—A young Indian failed in his at tentions to a young squaw. She made complaint to an old chief, who appointed a hearing or tnaL The lady laid the case before the Judge, and explained the nature of the promise made to ner. It consist ed of sundry visits to her wigwam, "many little in definite attentions'' and presents, a bunch of feath ers, and several yards of red flannel. This was the charge. The faithless swain denied the "undefina ble attentions'' intoto. He had visited her father's wigwam for the purpose of passing away time, when ii was not convenient to hunt, and had given the feathers and flannel from friendly motives, and noth ing further. During the latter part of the defense the squaw fainted. The plea was considered inval id, and the offender sentenced to give the lady "a yellow feather, a bunch that was then dangling from his nose, and a dozen of coonskins." The sentence was no sooner concluded than the squaw sprang ap < >n her feet, and clapping her hands, ex claimed with joy: "Now me ready to be courted again." EGGS IS WINTER. —C. R. informs as how hens may be made to lay in winter when eggs sell at high prices. Usually in spring and summer hens lay well, it would appear then that the nearer the tempera ture of winter can be made to that of spring, tie better hens will lav. His hen-house is in a cellar with windows on the south side reaching from the top to the bottom. Under the roost is stone floor covered with peat or loam a foot and a half deep. Sincechanginghis'hens from cold to a warm shelter, and feeding them with boiled potatoes, flesh, pow dered bone, blood, Ac., eggs have become abundant. So fowles should be kept over two years, as they lay best when a year old and before. Select roos ters from small varieties and different breeds. Bol ton Grays are nearest the standard forlavers. Years of experience have confirmed our valued correspon dent in these views of barnyard fowls. His large and elegant flock of chickens which we saw last sum mer serve to satisfy us that our correspondent is a most successful poulterer, one who has learned wis dom from practice and experience.— Boston Culti vator. KEXTrcEET.—It is a sign ofnrogress in Kentucky, when Gov. Bramlette is brought to recommend e mancipation to the Legislature. True, be tecom mends only "gradual emancipation," and the de portation of the slaves : but tie days of gradual e mancipation are past. If emancipation is decreed in that State, at all, it will be immediate in its ef fects. The plan proposed by the Union Convention, late ly held in 1 rankfort, it appears to be the most ef fective. It is simply to repeal the slave code of the S'-ate. That would leave slavery without any foot hold, and its death would be certain. The State Constitutions forbids emancipation "without the consent of the ownersbut as this plan does not directly involve emancipation, it does not come un der Constitutional prohibition, and it may, therefore be adopted without violence to any one's Constitu tional scruples. Its adoption would kill slavery as dead as a door natL A GREAT RASCAL. —Two youag lawyers. Archy Brown and .Thomas Jones, were fond dropping into Mr. Smith's parlor, and spending an hour or two with his only daughter Mary. One evening, when Brown had discussed almost every topic, Brown suddenly, in his sweetest tones, struck out as fol lows : "Do you think, Mary you could leave lather nhd mother, this pleasant home,' with all its ease and comforts, and emigrate to tie Ear West withayoung lawyer, who had but little besides his profession to depend upon, and with him search out a no me, w'lich it should be your joint duty to beautify, ana make delightful and happy, like this? " Dropping ber head softly on his shoulder, she whispered: "I think I could Areby." "Well." said he, "there's Tom Jones who's 30- ing to emigrate, and wants to get a wife; I'll men tion it to hum" The Pakin Gazette contains a report from the Chinese Government on the extinction of the rebel lion, which ends .with the following: "It is, there, fore, most needful that thanks be offered to the jrods for their assistance. Wherefore the Board ol Rites is directed to examine into the services rendered by the different gods, and to report to *a. M
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