3ttr £aucßsttr iuttUtflewtr, Pui.IBHKDEVEBT WKDNESDAT BT (10 0H!E, USD«I1»®» * CO J. M. COOPKB, H. Q SMITH, WM. A, MORTON, ALFRED SAITOH BBON TERMS —Two Dollars per annum, payable a il cases in advance. office-southwest corner of Centre SQUARE. «-All letters on business should be ad dled U> COOPER, SANDERSON * Co. A Monomaniac. I have an intimate friend who, alas, .“““'rmpE-....-"”''”"- ble otherwise but that J precedence, blie acteeme . maln pur . SS3SS2--«. •XSSSUSSSg^ V e.,.. made very much like oth dre*.ses, &c.*, veij ' erfolkn; but it is * again relapses, giving her - something else, and just new garments on and on, regardless o 116 “ '• fcuhinn till sometimes,* the changing fanluon, tin, , tiiev actually hegm to weal out. U is jUst so in regard to her children ; ahe is forever attending to theirstud.es nV nrnlav while she makes warm iamhs- woouu.k gives ilie the heart-ache to « ‘lien. »» wronged by their own mother, and they sneh dear, bright, good, pro tty eh.mreii, 11 The fact is, she gives no more time or thought to the momentous matter dress' than is really nrcamary. Vou wtmld not believe how oblivious she is to new fashions. _ ~, , j ■■ How do -you like waterfalls . saul 1 to her last spring. . kl ”(Vh, every kind," she replied; “I , never saw one i did noMike. “ Why,in the world, tlien, iUm J prW'd I* 11 you’ve just the wear one. criui i, 3 i, ow head and hair for it, mid I I was cut short by her look of ut tr bewilderment, and, remembering hei mania, realized she did., t even kn wlmt a waterfall is, but actual), thou h f was talking of of' (wl.ut I c. them), water («»»«.•*->■ .agura, BU When as sometimes docs happen, thanks h> the dress maker, she gets a real, down-right fashionable dress and von go to meeting alb agog » > she’s about sure to coasting m very quietly, in some plain, decent thing, Jin*, worn at least a dozen tunes “Why in the name of common sense, didn’t you wear your new silk yesttr duvV” asked I, 0116 Monday. “Oh, I never thought of it, she re plied ; “hut, now that you remind me 0 it; I don’t Chink 1 shall ever wear to church; it’s uncomfortably long, and is so made to require much time an thought in dress. A church is no place for finery.” ' “ Whatdoyiiu wautof the dress, then. cried I, quite vexed. , r “Oh, to wear to some places, w here should be singular without something of the kind,’! she replied. “ Just as if you weren’t alwayssmgu ■ lar in your dress,” cried 1, my patience quite gfme. Khe blushed, with tears in her eyes, as she said, " I don’t want to he singu lar- hut neat and comfortable, aud enough i.rstyle not to attract attention tomiyielf; but the fashions change so ofteh, and time tiles so swiftly on the wiugs of duty, I do often get - too far behind the times in dress. Poor dear! how 1 did pity her! lon see the very heart of her mama is, that she dou’t barb-for dress per sc, and so don't make it her chief end. There might be gleam of reason in it, if she wore old-fashioned things f 1 .necessity ; but'TKs no sucli thing, tahe has plenty of money; her husband rich and so devoted he would leave no stone unturned to get the moon down for her, if she asked him for it. The. insanity of it is that she might, and yet docs not, dress fashiohably ! Furthermore, iPs Fa cross’ to her that she is obliged to dress at all. One evening she said to me, with a sigh, 1 have a dressmaker coming to-morrow ; isn’t it a trial?” Sow, (though I'wouldn t for the world have anybody know ,it) I am pinched for means; so I answered, “ with an inward groan, “ I shouldn t . think it a trial,' if '1 hail all these nice ’ gooilsito tie made up.” “Shouldn’t you?” answered’she, in innocent surpjjjse, “ but 1 do. I have just been seeking patience by realhng the third chapter of Genesis, and re flecting that it is for our sins we have to dress at all. I am sure I repent of ‘ Adam’sysin’ every time I have to get up a new dress.” Did you ever’.’.! One cqld,snowy gabbath in December she wore a hood to church ! I thought . myself prepared .for any development, but it was too much tosee hermit there, listening to every word of the hiermon, just as unconscious of-her hoyd. as 1.1 \ the proverb ‘‘out of sight, oiifof mind. Y were true to ladies’ head-gear. ‘‘See if I don't give hdr-a shaking up for.this,’ thought I. So I seized upon her, going home, and whispered holier ear, “ What upon earth possessed you to jvear that tiling to meeting?” • She glanced down, in a dazed way, . at her cloak, dress, Over-shoes, then up into my face with an innocent “ What amiss?” y “That hood!” hissed I. 1 ‘*Oh yes,'l forgot I had it on,” said ' she with a quiet smile; “ 1 was threat ened with the toothache, aud couldn't go out without it.” “Then stay at home;” growled I; “you wouldn't catch me out sucli a day, spoiling.my new hat and feathers, if I wasn’t obliged to be there to sing.” ■J* There U a divine law against our forsaking the worshipping assembly;” replied my friend, solemnly . ? but is - . there any human or divine, against wearing a hood inside a churcli ?” “ Yes ” snapt I, “ the law of fashion, which you break at your peril.” Hhe only smiled, and asked me very coolly if 1? had been instructed by Dr. jj *b excellent-sermon, just as if I had been attending to that! I have about given up arguing 0 with .. • her; (it is only folly, you khow, to I argue -with a maniac;) but I thought I .her husband must feel dreadfully; bo, tone d@y IfWentsto condole with .him .' , about jt'; and wlmt do'yog think he up and skid ? - “ When I wanted a wife,” said he, ; “ I searched the city through for a young lady who had not a monomania for.dress and fashion, and she was the only one I hit upon; so I married her, and she suits me first rate.” Only think of it!!) lancastcr JfntcUujenm: VOLUME 67 Letter from Captain Semmestohls Broth er 9 Samuel Sernmes. Mobile, Ala., Aug. fe, 1860. My Dear Brother : The cessation 0 f the war leaves me atliberty to renew my correspondence with you, without subjecting you to suspicion and annoy ance, and I need not say to you how grateful to the yearnings of my heart is this long suspended privilege. Y.ou have been frequently in my thoughts during our unfortunate struggle, and I have often felt much solicitude on your account lest a part of the odium and ill will which a zealous performance of my duty has called down upon my head from a “ mad nation” should attach to you aud 'your family, and operate to your injury. Indeed, I have no doubt but that the prejudice against me was the secret of the barbarous.and malig nant persecution of your son, of I heard only a few days days from my wife's friend and relation, Mrs. Juijge Spencer, of Cincinnati. I have never in-* quired asdo your opinions and conduct during the war, being content to leave vou the same liberty of choice and ac tion that I claimed for myself. I knew that whatever you did, you would do Uke a man of honor, and I rested satis-; ned. Besides, you had been for some time retired from active life by your want of health. As for myself, I have nothing to regret, save only the indepen dence. My conscience, which is the only earthly tribunal of which a good man should be afraid, bears me witness of the uprightness of my intention in choosing my course when, with, many regrets, l severed my connection with theolduov erninentand hastened to the defence ot 'mv home aud section; and now, upon reviewing the whole of my subsequen t career, I can see no act with which i have to reproach myself as unbecoming a man of honor and a gentleman. 1 ap proved the secession movement ot tue Southern States, though I had no agency in it. I thought that a separa tiou of those two sections of our Re public, which had been engaged in a deeply moral conflict for thirty years, would ultimately result to the great vantage of them both. The world was» wide enough for them to live apart, and peace, I thought, would be the fruit of their mutual independence of each other. Although I cared very, little about the institution of slavery, 1 thought that the subordinate position ot the inferior race was its proper position. I believed that the doctrine of States rights was the only doctrine winch would save our Republic from the fate of all other Republics that had gone be fore us in- the history of the world. 1 believed that this doctrine had been vio lated, and that it would never be sulh ciently respected by the controlling mas ses of the Northern section to prevent them from defacing with sacrilegious hands our national bonds of Union wheresoever its letter was meant to guard the peculiar rights of the bouth. Believing this, there was butone course which a faithful Southern man could pursue, and maintain his self-respect. I pursued thatcourse. When the alter native was presented to me of adhering to the allegiance due to my State or to the United States, I chose the former. Having taken my side, I gave it zeal ous and earnest support. I spent four years in active service, and only ceased to labor for my cause when it was no longer possible. I rendered this service without ever having treated a prisoner otherwise than humanely, and, I may say, often kindly ; and without evei having committed an act of war at any time, or in any manner, which was not sanctioned by the laws of war ; yet my name will probably go down to posterity in the untruthful histories that will be written by bigoted and venal histor- as a sort of Blue Beard or Cap tain Kidd. But I am content, my brother. My conscience is clear; my self-respect has been preserved, and my sense of manhood remains unimpaired. I think, too, the South will be content, notwithstandingher immense losses and sacrifices. If she had yielded to the in tolerant exactions of Northern selfish ness and fauaticism, without appealing tfo the arbitrament of war, she would have played a craven aud unworthy part. It is better to lose, everything else than your honor and manhood. I know you will believe me, my brother, when I tell you that I should feel great ly humbled in my own opinion, were I this day entitled to wear an admiral s flag in the old bay, and in possession of all tlie means aud appliances of wealth,' if I thought my honors and rewards had been gained by a sacrifice of creed. Th ; b preservation ofmy ownself-reSpect is in finitely preferable to all such gains. I have come out of the war poor, but, Hod willing I shall make a support fbr my family. The President treats me as ah outlaw, unworthy of amnesty. I have nothing to say. If I am deem.ed un worthy to be a citizen, I can'remain in my native land as an alien. A magnanimous people would have passed an act of general amnesty, it being ab surd and ridiculous to talk about rebels and traitors in connection with such a revolution as has swept over the length and breadth of this land in which States, and not individuals merely, were the actors. But enough of this subject. 1 am still in Mobile, but it is yet uncertain where I shall go, or what I shall do. It I save five or six thousand dollars put of the. wreck ofmy affairs, it will be fully as much as I expect. I think-of retiring into the country, whereupon a„small farm, I can live in obscurity and peace the few years that remain to me. My children are ail grown ; are well educa ted', and will be able if the worst comes to the worst, to take care of themselves. - Remember me kindly to your family, my dear brother, and let me hear froln you. We have become old men. We have both had our troubles, but the chain of affection which binds me to you remains unaffected by the cares of the world, and is as bright now aswlien we slept in each other’s arms. Your affectionate brother, R. Semmes. A High Wind. Anoldchap named PeterH ■, —lived,-1 in an old, one-story wooden houseofnot very extensive dimensions, and when it was subjected to the foree of one of those 'hurricanes so' numerous of late years at the West, its power of resist ance was insufficient to withstand so I great a pressure, ahdityielded the point without a struggle ; however, it was not upset or torn topieces,butmerely moved a few rods. In the course of the journey the stove split out, and the danger of conflagration wasimminent. Old Peter was too mucli excited to notice the re moval of his house, and seeing the ne cessity of immediately applying water to 'the burning embers on the floor, he seized a bucket and darted out behind the house, when great was his astonish ment to find all traces of the well oblit erated. After looking in blank aston ishment a moment, he called out to his wife, “ Sarah, I’ll be blamed if the wind has not biowed the well clear out of the lot! there’s notso much asa stone left!' Chunks of Wisdom by Josh Billings. Sailors heave (be lead for the pur pose of finding the bottom not for the purpose of going thare it is sum so with advise; men should ask for it, not :so much for the purpose of follering it, az for the purpose ov strengthening his I own plans. Enny boddy kan tell whare lightning struck last, butriFtakes a smart man tew find out where it is a going tew strike next time —this iz one ov the differen ces detween laming and wisdom. Most enny boddy can write poor sense, thare aint but few that can write good nonsense —arid it almos takes an eddy cated man tew appreciate it after it iz Writ. gtifteflaneott*. School Report. From the report of Hod. Chas. R. Co burn, State Superintendent, which has just been laid before the Legislature, we learn that the whole number of Com mon School Districts in the State is 1837, and of schools 12,960. The whole attendance of pupils for the year 1860 was 703,930— the average attendance 459 121. There were 5,841 male and 8,- 645' female teachers employed, the for mer at au average salary of $31.82 per month aniPthe latter $24.21. The total cost of. the,system for the year was $3,- 614,238.55. We make the following ex tracts from the report: PROSPECTS IN THE FUTURE. During the four past years the educa tional interests of the Commonwealth have been effected more or less unfavor ably by the war. Fewer school houses have been built, and of those erected, there are less in number of first-class housed, less furniture has been furnish ed and less apparatus been procured than in former years.' Many districts, whose directors intended to have put up 'line school buildings, upon large and commodious lots, during these four years, have yet their old, dilapidated, inconvenient houses, located at the cor liers where the public roads meet. Many bouses tl>af would, but for the war, have been well supplied with good furniture and apparatus, are yet with-. out either. . . f Still the greatest injury that the schools have sustained is in drawal of so large a number of our best male teachers. In counties where none but males have previously been employ ed as teachers, many ot the schools have been closed, because 110 teachers could be procured. Females, not having been expected to teach hi these counties, had not previously prepared themselves for the position. Thus the schools were left without teachers in some cases and with incompetent ones in others. .Superin tendents'were obliged to issue certifi cates to individuals that would not, un der other circumstances, have received them, and directors were forced to place in their schools persons as teachers that they would otherwise have rejected without hesitancy. In some of the Southern counties many oi the schools have been broken up by the rebel raids and invasions. Teachers in some in stances were curried oft to suffer and die in rebel prisons, and school houses have been used for hospitals. In the city o Harrisburg four of the public school houses were tilled with wounded and dviuff soldiers for several months duiing 1861 and 1863, and the boys’ schools ot the city were entirely broken up. me borough of Cliambersburg was destroy ed by fire, kindled by rebel bauds and most of the citizens thereby rendered unable to pay taxes Jo r the support of schools, now needed more than ever be fore. Their academy and female semi nary were burned, and thus arose the great demand for more extensive ac commodations and higher grades of in struction in the public schools ; butliow could tbose demands be met by citizens whose properly had in one isad hour been swept away To aid the directors in this emergency, the Legislature made a special appropriation to the schools of the flistriet, of four thousand dollars, and released the citizens from the pay ment of all school taxes for the year 1864. . , County Superintendents 111 several cases were drafted, or entered the ser vice by enlistment. This occasionally happened, too, at the time when they were most needed in their respective counties, as when examinations ot teachers were to be held, or institutes conducted. As a consequence, schools must be supplied with teachers who had no certificates when their schools began, merely because there were no superintendents to examine them, and the schools must be opened before an appointment could be made. Hence too, leniency on the part of the bchool Department has been absolutely imper ative, in order to keep the schools ill operation at all, in many districts oi the State. The difficulties that have met the school officers of the several counties of the Commonwealth have greatly embarrassed Their operations, and caused them at times to almost de spair of keeping the system in operation. And yet, notwithstanding all The difficulties, and drawbacks, and dis couragements, these officers have, as a very general thing, perseveringly, and with fidelity to the cause, perform ed their duties, refusing to shorten the term of school, br employ incompe tent teachers when competent ones could possibly be fouud. As the war has been brought to a successful termi nation, we may reasonably hope for less embarrassment. Our soldier teachers, who have survived the marches, and exposures, and the battles of the cam- anil the levers, and diarrhoea, atuTpneumonia, and scurvy, and gan grene, and • starvation of the prisons, have returned to their fields of labor in the school room, and we have promise of better schools. ’Tis true that many came back crippled and maimed, many with broken constitutions, and some also with morals and character gone.— Still many return to us better men and better teachers than they were before. In the army they have learned most ef fectually the absolute necessity oi ready, prompt, unquestioning obedience to order and the importance of teaching the youth placed under their charge to love their country and its institutions. With these things favorable, may we uot hope that our schools will be more prosperous ? With less taxation for war purposes, shall we uot build more good school houses, and make greater expen diture for furniture and apparatus?— With many of our best teachers return ed to us, can we not anticipate better schools, more thorough teaching, and a better system of government? With our minds free from the excitement of the past four years, shall uot the public attention be more steadily directed to the matter of educating the youth of our Commonwealth, and thereby pre paring them for the responsibilities that are coming upon them? With school officersunembarrassiSd by other perplex ing official duties, not pertaining to school affairs, can we not demand of them more time for their school duties, and greater fidelity in the discharge of those duties? attendance of pupils. There is no other one cause that so completely neutralizes the exertions of teachers and school officers as the irreg ularity of attendance of the pupils. It will be seen by reference to the statisti cal tables for the several counties, that this ekil, although alarming as it has hitherto been, is increasing, and that the average attendance in the whole State is but 6.28 per centum, and in some counties even below. The evils of such a course cannot be estimated. Of the 629,587 children that had their names entered on the teachers’ rolls in our public schools during the year, the average attendance has been only ■ 396 701. Some have attended but a few days, some a few weeks, but none of the delinquents have attended with sufficient regularity to derive much ad vantage from the schools. Thus a large army is coming upon the stage each year, the members of which are not prepared by mental and moral culture for the duties of citizens, and this, notwithstanding the facilities I afforded by the munificence of the State for their education. Property holders are, called upon to pay taxes to educate the children, and then because parents do not send them to school, they must again be taxed to bring to justice and punishment those same children, for crimes committed, which with proper culture, would have been avoided. This matter is still worse when we consider that the evil is by no means confined to the pupils whoare irregulars No teacher can do as well bydh§ regu lar attendants, when several in each class are occasionally absent, as he can when the classes are always full. The delinquents injure and retard the pro gress of the whole school. Parents, as a general thing, keep their children at hoipe, ip order to have the LANCASTER, A PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 17, 1866. benefit of their labor. Tlius, for the sake of money, they defraujd their toff spring out of that which, if they pos sessed, they would not ih after life selP'for all the treasures their parents chn bequeath; and at thej same time tlley send them to prey upon the same community that has paid liberally fot their education. A question well worthy j the serious consideration of our law makers pre sents itself here. Can nothing be done to remedy this evil? Can jno induce ments be offered to that shall incline them to permit thjeir children to get an education —amotijve that shall have a power stronger tbah money ? Must citizens pay millionsdf dollars au nually for the education of the youth of the Commonwealth, and then hays ooe-third ormore,of the children attetia school 6nly occasionally ? For ibghquld be remembered that\the of a school, where all the xjh*ldren attend every day. is no greater tbaifc+tjis for a school of similar grade, wh A_ or one-half are present but days in the week. This calls loudly for a remedy. COLLEGES, SEMINARIES AND ACADE MIES. • • Remarks were made in a previous re port relative to the multiplicity of our higher institutions, and the propriety of making the numberless, and thereby increasing the and income of those that remain. views then advauced have been strengthened oy the experience of another year. It is more and more apparent that the num ber of these institutions does not increase, correspondingly, the number of our educated young men. \Vith the bless ings of peace comes the stronger necssity for highly cultivated minds. The field of usefulness for educated men and women has been greatly Extended dur ing the past few years, and we as Penn sy lvauians should be preWed to send forth thousands of thoroughly educated scholars to occupy this inciting held. It is suggested for the consideration of the Legislature, whether! it would not promote the cause =of general educa tion In our State to have all of our educatioual interest brought under the scope of legislative authority and a 1 o our chartered institutions placed, to a certain extent, within the control o the School Department. I hese mstitu lions are already doing a noble work ■ ,ie cause of education, but they are crippled iu their labors, or many ot them, for the waut of apparatus, furni ture, libraries and cabineti, and also for lack of sufficient patronage. It is be lieved tliat if they were some State authority, and liable toofli cial visitations by some State officer, and theirecipients of Statfe beneficence, to some extent, aud upon certain pre scribed conditions, it would greatly in crease their efficiency and usefulness. apportionment of the state a PKOPKIATION. The way* in which thd money now -appropriated is apportioned among the several districts of the Stkte renders its application unequal and greatly in creases the local taxatiod m the new districts. The following statistics taken from the reports for 1864, will make this inequality evident. Lancaster county draws money tor JS.MjJ taxable* and supports tut scht ols tlls Pottercount v draws money for taxatiles an ,tKr??hudty draws moAey taxa bles and supp , * r,siw St “° ,,ls ' v fnr 1 171 ta\a sullivan comitv draws money for 1,1- J one school for ''potter tlmrelore supports onescliool for eye- y ”*Dehiware therefore supports one school for every 7D taxables. 1 , f .Sullivan 1 lien-lore supports one school rot every -I .(i taxables. | Thus Potter and Sullivan, with coni paratively a sparse population, and their resources but partially developed, must support more than double the number of schools for the same number of taxa-. bles that Lancaster aud: Delaware do, with all their immense wealth. h.et us look at these same counties ill another light. Were Lancaster to have one school for the same number of taxables that Potter has, it would be obliged to support 1,204, and Delaware, when thus compared with Sullivan, would support 318 schools; aud if Pottersupportedone school for 61.7 taxables, as Lancaster does there would be but4o schools mthe countv, and Sullivan compared the same way with Delaware, would have hut L. Now, Lancaster reports 27,5.6 children attending school, aud if that county were to have one school for the same number of taxables as Potter has, there would be ±2 pupils for each school, and Potter with thesame number oi taxables to each school as Lancaster, would have SO pupils in each of her schools. Dela ware would have, when compared with Sullivan, for every school 23 pupils, and Sullivan would have 113. The object of introducing these num bers, anil making these comparisons, will be obvious when it is remembered, that the same number of cents tor each taxable isdrawn from the State Treasury in all portions of the State. Then if one county has a school for every seventy taxables, and another for every twenty one, one county would receive in an average twenty-four dollars sixty cents for each school, and another but seven dollars ninety-eight cents. From these comparisons it is plain, that there should be some change made in the method of apportioning the amount given by the State among the different districts of the Commonwealth, be the sum approprlu ted great or small. In some districts and counties of the State the number of children of the proper age to attend school is much greater in proportion to the number of taxables than in others. In the old, wealthy districts there are less children in proportion to the taxables than_ m the new and sparsely settled counties, consequently more schools are required in proportion to the money received m the new than in the old counties ; thus the local taxation is greatly increased in the poorer portions of the State by our method of apportioning the money appropriated by the State. Aguiu, the number of taxables in the several districts aud counties is chang ing from year to year, in some greatly increasing, and in otherß diminishing, and of course the number of schools re quired for the accommodation of the children should be correspondingly in creased or diminished, and the amount received from the State varied in the same proportion. By the plan upon which we now apportion the money there can be no change in the sum re ceived by the several districts during three years, unless the sum appropri ated be changed. The money given is for the education of all the children ot the Commonwealth, between the ages of six and twenty-one years, who see fit to attend the schools ; therefore the apportionment should be based upon the number of children between those ages actually residing within the dis trict, and who are consequently entitled to the advantages of the schoqls of the district, and the amount should be varied from year to year as the number of children varies. With this view of the matter, the following plan for the division of the State appro priation is suggested for the considera tion of the Legislature: Let the censusofthe children be taken each year by the secretary of the board of directors, who shall be required to certify, under oath or affirmation, to its correctness, and report the same to the County Superintendent, who shall also forward all the reports for the county to the State Superintendent, on a speci fied day, and the number thus ascer tained be the basis of distribution for each ydar. NORMAL SCHOOLS. Three of the twelve Normal school districts into which the State is now di vided, are supplied with schools. One in the Second district, located at Mil lersville, in Lancaster county, was re cognized by the proper State authorities December 1, 1859. One of the Twelfth '"district, located in Edinboro’, Erie county, was recognized January 23,1861, and one for the Fifth district, at Mans field, Tioga county, on Deceinber 11, 1862. These schools are all prosperous, as will be seen by the annual report of each, found on page 301, in this volume. Indeed, so numerous have been 1 he application, for admission, that many have necessarily been re fused for want of suitable accom modations. Each of these institutions has received from the State the sum of fifteen thousand dollars,.all of which has been applied toward the liquidation of the debts incurred for the purchase of grounds, and the erection of suitable buildings and improvements, or for the purchase of apparatus and libraries. These schools are private property, so far as the grounds and buildings are concerned. The laud has been donated to or purchased by the trustees, and the buildings erected by subscription, or by stock companies, bo that the property invested does uotin any sense belong to the State, otili they are, at the same time and to a certain extent, State in stitutions, having been recognized as such, under the Normal school law of 1857. When thus recognized as State schools, it was done with the under standing by all parties, that they were to prepare young men and women for -teachers for opr public schools ; hence they have received pecuniary aid from the State Treasury, and for this pur pose they were established and are maintained. In this way they tnTve hitherto done, and are still doing a good work for our school system a work that no other agency heretofore put iu to operation iu the State can accom- . plish. As the money previously ap propriated has been applied, 1 -the teach ers attending the schools-or those in tending to become teachers, have not received directly any benefit from the appropriation. Their expenses, while in attendance, have not been lessened in the least degree. The students who do not contemplate entering the teach ers profession have been as much aided by the money-given as have the teach ers. The schools are open equally to all. Inasmuch as the Normal schools are recognized by the State authorities, with the express understanding that their specific duty to the comrndu school .system of the Commonwealth, is to educate teachers for the schools, and inastnuch as the appropriations that have heeh made have gone to in crease of the value of property belong ing to tile individuals,* or companies, owning the grounds and buildings, rath er than to directly aid teachers in pre paring themselves for duties, it is be lieved by the Superintendent that ap propriations should still be made to the Normal schools, but upon such condi tions that a large proportion, if not tlfe whole of the amount given, be applied direbtly to aid young men and women iu preparing themselves for teachers. There is a provision in the law allow ing directors of the several school dis tricts in Normal school districts, to send to. rite Normal schools one pupil each tuition of said pupil to be paid out of the school funds of the district. Notwithstanding this provis ion was incorporated in the law at its massage, in 1857, but three pupils have ever been sent to any of the Normal schools as “pupils on district account.” two orthfee crying evil It is not probable any more wi ever thus be sent. .{The principal of the school to which 'those three were sent, reported the, fact, and stated that the law in regard to “district pupils” was so unacceptable, that directors would not send them. This is the only way in which the law proposes to aid teach ers who attend these schools; and- as this has failed to accomplish the object desired, it seems necessary to adopt some more acceptable method, by which the object can be accomplished. The State is, to a certain extent, pecuniarily interested in these schools, havirfg be come so in consequence of theappropria tionsalready made to each of them, and by their recognition, under the law, as State institutions: also, by the recognition, acquired authority over them. The interest thus secured, and the authority acqu.red, is undoubtedly intended by the law to be used and ex ercised solely for the benefit ol the teachers desiring to prepare themselves, in those schools, for the performance ot their duties as teachers. But as the ap propriations have hitherto been made, that class of students has received no pecuniary advantage at all. Their ex penses, to themselves, are the same as those paid by students who attend these schools for the sole purpose of obtaining a literary and scientific education, to prepare themselves for other depart ments of industry. Thus, although funds have been appropriated, and prop erly appropriated, teachers have not been directly aided. **’'** We hftve now scattered over the State, hundreds of young men, who have re turned from the war crippled and maimed for life. The armless sleeves, or cork legs, orsupporting crutches, tell sad, but truthful tales, of the strife in which these men have been engaged for their country’s weal. They are not able to earn a livelihood by manual labor, and they are too manly to desire to be supported by others, without rendering some equivalent. Very many of these young men had taught moreoriess before the war.; still they were unqualified,and need the training of i£ Normal school to prepare themfortheprofession. Others can, if properly educated, teach with success; but they are not qualified, and what is still more discouraging to them, they cannot pay foran education, and, crippled and maimed as they are, they have no means of earning any thing, even for their support. Our schools are in need-of hundreds of just such teachers as these returned soldiers will make, if they can be prepared for the labor thus required of them. Here, too, is a field of usefulness in which they can labor, and to many of them, the only field in which they can labor. Our Normal’schools were recognized by-the State for the express purpose i f educating teachers for the public schools. Does’it not, then, become the duty of the-fitate to aid these noble defenders of our government, as well as others, in qualifying themselves to educatetliose who -are soon to control the destinies, ot States and nations? In view of the foregoing considera tions, it is earnestly recommended that - an appropriation of live thousand dollars be made to each of the three State Nor mal schools now in operation, upon conditions that four-fifths of the sum appropriated to each shall be used to lessen theexpensesof studentsof proper age, who attend the schools for the sole purpose ofqualifying themselves for the business of teaching, and the remain ing one-fifth to be applied to the pur chase of furniture and apparatus, in such a way as to a majority of the trus tees shall seem best calculated to pro mote the interests of the institutions, and prepare them the better to accomplish the great object contemplated by the originators of our Normal school law. The following advice can be best ap' predated by editors: Don’t write poetry. If you cannot help it, if it sings in your head and will be heard, why then there is no other way than to putit on paper and senditto the printer But try to help it if you can. There are only two or three poets alive at any one time. A great poet makes and marks an age; and poor poets, or those who think they are poets and are not, are as plenty as blackber ries. Every hamlet has its poetaster. O! how much valuable white paper is spoiled by those who think they can write poetry ! You may write a correct verse with faultless rhymes, and there is not a glean of poetry in it. Poetry requires a peculiar faculty, the imagina tion ; you may have genius,.sense and learning, and the power of expression so to write prose as to rival Burke or Johnson, and after all make yourself rediculous by tryinglyour hand at poetry. Write prose. t “lf X am not at home from the party to-night at ten o’clock,” saida husband to his better and bigger half, “ don’t wait for me.” “ That X won’t,” replied thelady, significantly—“l won’t -wait, but I’ll come for you !’ ’ The gen tleman returned at ten o’clock precisely. The Brooklyn Tragedy. DEATH OF BUSS. William H. Russ, one of the chief actors in this melancholy drama, the would-be murderer and suicide has, at leugth, according to his own expressed hopes and determination, passed away to a future and let us hope a happier scene of being. He died aboutA o'clock yesterday (Wednesday) morning, from the consequences of his self-indicted in juries. Up to the time of bis decease he seemed to manifest not the slightest symptoms of remorse, and now and again he expressed his regret that his deadly purpose had-not been more sure ly executed. His wuumls were not ne cessarily fatal, though he could not by any possibility have recovered the use of his right eye, and the physicians are unanimous in ascribing his death to his absence of inclination to rally aud sur vive. will be remembered we stated some time since that Mr. Russ was a player of some reliown in American chess cir cles. We are now able to give further particulars. Various considerations, for the most part of a private and do mestic nature led him to adopt in his sphere of action, a nom deplume , though not one of a very mysterious or enigmat ical character, it being simply a trans position of his name from William Henry Russ to William R. Henry. Chess connoiseqrs will at once call to mind that this signature lias frequently appeared appended to some ol the most iugenious problems ami careful criti cism U in connection with their art which have seen thelightiulhiscontinent dur ing thelastfewyears. Mr. Russ from t he time that he first becameadevotee althe shrine of Caissa, has made it his chief care to collect as far its possible all the works which have appeared on the theory and practice since first that queen of gan/es wit* invented. . He has succeeded in bringing together about three huudred volumes, and excerpts, and problems, taken from the columns of the various chess periodicals, without number. These, we understand, are to be disposed of at auction on the loth instant by Messrs. Westerman cV of this city. Mr. Russ lias been connected with va rious of the New York journals as a chess editor, and has frequently played the role of arbitrator in those unbloody disputes which sometimes disturb the peace of the qhess world, and which are .generally as fiercely fought as battles Involving more serious results. Miss Dayton, we rejoice to learn, is still proceeding very favorably. The most sanguine anticipations are enter tained a 9 to her ultimate recovery. She seems herself to he very hopeful in re gard to her restoration to health, aud this is one of the most encouraging features in her case. It has not yet, however, been deemed advisa'bleto make any further attempt to extract the ball still remaining in her head. The oper ation will be performed at the earlist moment consistent with saltfty. —-V ). World, Jan. 4 th. The Ojster Trade of Baltimore Tilt* Baltimore Sun of yesterday has the following statement in regard to the Oyster trade of that City : Baltimore has long enjoyed a monop oly in most ofHhis class ot merchandise ; certainly so as relates to - oysters —fresh and canned, as well as most kinds of canned fruits and vegetables; and her reputation* has been tully sustained throughout the past year. The number of houses now engaged in this trade is 40; employing upwards of 3, <W)0 persons of both sexes in the various departments of shucking, packing, peeling, preserv ing, processing <kc. The quantity ol oysters brought to this market is about 4,000,000 of bushs., of which the packers consume about 3,500,000 bushs.. or a daily cuiisumpt of 12,150 bushs., for the whole season—and when all in full run tor the 100 davs, averaging 30 to 35,000 bushs., daily/- A little more than, half of this quantity are packed raw, in cans, fitted) of half to one gallon, requiring probably 3,500,000 cans and 100,000 cases. The balance are hermetically sealed. The raw or fresh oyster branch gives employment to about I.OUU persons— shuckers, packers, tfec. The first are al most exclusively negroes. The hermet ically sealed branch requires about 2,nu( hands—chiefly white persons of the fe ale sex—forthe reason that the ope ing of the oyster is rendered easy by the new process of steaming'.. tSixty thousand one, two and three pound cans are hermetically sealed daily during at least 100 days, thus 0,000,000-cans are required for the oys ters, and fruits and vegetables, which are packed during the summer season, average about 00 000 cans daily during 100 days, or an additional 000,000, 0n0 cans _ an d these jointly require upwards of 500,000 eases. The making of the cans gives employment t<> three or four hundred pet ons; ami their value in tin, solder, <k<\, is about :?800,000. The making of the cases gives employment constantly to upwards of^Oocarpenters and their value about >225,000. The number of vessels engaged tak- ing oysters for the Baltimore market is about 1,000, of fifty tons each, and some •500 to 000 vessels of larger class are run- ning them to the market. These ves sels, 1 ,000 to 1 ,BI)n in number, require an average of crews equal to 4 each or some (i,ool) persons; and during the fruit and vegetable season as many more persons are employed in picking, boxing and shipping them, to market, and when these reach the wharves, some MoO car ters, carmen and draymen are required to deliver them. A Mistaken Idea. One of our cotemporaries most truth fully remarks that a popular idea among our people is that all their sons should adopt clerkships, and the adoption of the business of book keeping as a means of obtaining their livelihood, and every effort is made to give them an education to that end. Solar as the education of their children in the science of keeping proper accounts is concerned, the idea is a good one, as every young man should have a sufficient knowledge to properly manage hi 3 own books, should he ever embark in business, but to make book-keepers and clerks of our boys is a grand mistake.— Better place them in a workshop, mill or foundry, where they can learn inde pendent trades, which at all times will secure them employment, and pecuni ary compensation for which will be at least as much, if not more, than the business of accounts. We earnestly ad vise all parents to learn theirsons trades, no matter what, so that it is an indus trious pursuit, and let us in the future be spared the pains of seeing, so many stout, able-bodied young men out of employment, and seeking situations only where the pen can be"used. There is dignity in labor, and an honest trade is the best legacy a parent can bestow upon his child; for it will secure his bread where all else may fail. —One day, as Dr. Young was walking in his garden at Welwyn, in company with two ladies, (one of whom he after wards married), the servant came to ac quaint him that a gentleman wished to speak with him. ' “ Tell him,” said the doctor, “ I am too happily engaged to change my situation.” The ladies in sisted that he should go, as. his visitor wa& a man of rank, his patron and his friend. But, as persuasion had no ef fect, one took him by the right arm, the I Self Righteousness other by the left, and led/him to the “It was ever my invariable custom garden gate, when, finding resistance in my youth,” says.a celebrated Persian in vain, he bowed, laid-his hand upon writer, “to rise from my sleep to watch, his heart, and in that expressive man- pray, and read the Koran. One night, w„» -■*«,'; i p 5sssr 1 ;a;“¥i3? spoke the following lines. said Ito him, ‘thy other children are Tm drivea m looked when from lhe garden lost in irreligious slumber, while X alone And thus disputed orders sent from Heaven; awake to praise God.’ Son of my soul,’ Like him I go, but yet to go I’m loth; said he.‘it is better to sleep than to Like him I ko, for angles drove us both, -ornfeA tn nminrk the faults of thv hreth- Hard was his late, but mine still more unkind, wake to remark wv lauita oi tny Dretn His Eve went with him, but mine stays behind, ren. NUMBER 2. Edwin Booth at the Winter Garden From N. Y. Tribune, Jan*_4th.J An immense audience, according to general anticipation, was assembled last night at the Winter Garden, to witness the reappearance of Edwin Booth. By opening the doors at a very early hour, the management euabled the spectators to reach their places witli ease, ifrul thus to avoid the expected inconveniV ,ence .of a tumultuous throng. Thd theater rapidly tilled up, and, when at\ last the curtain rose, presented that old, familiar spectacle, a sea of faces. Not duly was every seat occupied, but every inch of standing-room was eagerly ap propriated by the thronging multitude. •Seldom, indeed, has any New York theater been thus crowded, and never by an audience of a more intelligent class. Its welcome to Mr. Booth was significant, in no common sense of the word. Actuated by profound sympathy and admiration, it expressed itself in one long and almost deafening tumult of enthusiasm. Nine cheers, each round beiug followed by its particular and emphatic i* tiger,” hailed the mel ancholy Dane, and gave him, at the outset, due warrant to “ cast his nightly color off.” Frequent applause, too, followed his personation, from point to point, and he was called before the cur tain at the end of each act. The New York Herald was remembered, in the course of the evening, with three rounds of emphatic groans ami a lib eral allowance of hisses —an unmistaka ble indication of the spirit in which the public have condemned the atrocious . attack on Mr. Booth, made in that pa ! per not many days ago. In short, the • reception accorded to Mr. Booth was * such as his genius merits, and such as j the people of New York so well know - how to render loan object of their es teem. In reference to the performance we can say but a word of commendation, writing, as we do, at a very late hour. M>. Booth has never played Hamlet more perfectly than he played it last night, and we doubtif the charaelerhas ever been represented more correctly and admirably. The general represen tation of the play was also satisfactory. We shall take an early opportunity to review this subject with that thorough ness which is its due. One other fact, however, should he state i. Mr. Booth has preferred to ap peal directly to the justice of the Amer ican public, rather than to avail himself of an address, inviting him to return lb the stage, signed by mauy of the lead ing citizens of this and other cities. The welcome accorded to him lust ni£hl shows that he made the wiser choice. At the same time, we have authority for stating that Mr. Booth is profound ly grateful for the friendship thus deli cately expressed, and will always re member it with gratitude and pleasure. Observance of the Sabbath.. , The “ loyal ” Forney has kicked up a terrible row in Philadelphia by issuing a Sunday paper. The self-righteous clergy are horrified at this alleged “ desecration of the Sabbath,” and are striving to excite popular indignation against Forney aud to bring public opinion to hear against him to force him to give up his Sunday paper. This is the old dodgeof the devil rebuking sin. It is undoubtedly important, as a mat ter of policy even, that a proper observ ance of the Sabbath should be enforce —to say nothing of a higher obligation; and it is a lamentable fact.that lor years there lias been a growing neglect of this obligation. And it is a notable and in disputable fact that .this growing ne glect of the Sabbath 7 its desecration, has been mainly due to the course of a very large portion ot the •clergy. They have set the evil example. They have turned their churches into political club-rooms, and substituted po litical harangues for religious teach ings. They have thus not only dese crated the day by devoting it to political labors, but have desecrated their pulpits by delivering partisan harrangues there from. We dare say this Has been the course of those who are foremost in this crusade against Forney’s Sunday paper. If it is, as appears, naked hostility to a regular Sunday paper, it. U a senseless affair. Such papers are is sued in Boston and New 'i ork, with out exciting the pharisaical imlignu tiou of the self-righteous clergy M>ere. And the truth is, the issue of a Sunday paper involves much less violation of the Sabbath than that of a regular Mon day morning paper. Most of the labor on the fornftr is necessarily done before the Sabbath ; while much of that upon the Monday’s issue of a daily paper, is usually, if not necessarily, done Sun day night. These Philadelphia clergy should, therefore, be consistent and di rect their batteries against the Monday morning papers which they patronize and read. As before remarked, we hold to a pro- per observance of the Sabbath, hut the political clergy are not the men to in culcate it. Their own evil example ri ses up to counteract all their precepts upon the subject. In this, as in many other thiDgs, they are like guide-boards, pointingout the way hut not walking herein. —jY. JI. Patriot. Marriage Kxtraordlnary. An extraordinary marriage took place at the Union Methodist Kpiseopal Church, Rev: Mr. ('arrow’s, in l'hiladel pltia, ou Sunday evening. Mr. Rein, a German by birth, aurt-a celeb rated tamer of horses by profession, was united in the holy bonds of matrimony to Miss HannahJ*.Duke,the.lowagiantess. The bridegroom served with distinction in the Union army. He is rather below the middle stature of mankind in point of size and weight, he scarcely turning the beam at one hundred and forty pounds. The bride weighs live hundred and eighty-live pounds avoid urpois. Sin lias been exhibited at Judge Ingulfs museum, on Market street, for some time past. Mr. Rein, on visiting the establishment, fell violently in love with the fair giantess, proposed marriage, “ of course she said yes." Ou Sunday evening, at eight o’clock, the carrriages i drew up before the mustuui, and the twain, soon to be made one, entered therein' and proceeded to the church. — The bridal party consisted of the Sia mese twins—Chang and Hug—and other celebrities of the museum. Upon enter- ing the church the visitors were the most “ observed of all observers.” They were united in the matrimonial bond in accordance with the plain usage of the Methodist persuasion, after which they retired. The event was extraordinary because of the remarkable fact of the difference in size of the party.— P Press. 0 Singular Case. One of our exchanges says there is a young man in a town in Vermont who r.an not sprak to hi* father! Previous to his birth some difference arose be tween his mother and her husband, and for a considerable time she refused to speak to him. This difficulty was sub sequently healed—the child was born, and in duetiinebegan to talk—butwhen sitting with liis father was invariably silent. It continued so till it was five years old, when the father, having ex hausted his powers of persuasion, threat ened it with punishment for its stub bornness. When the punishment was inflicted, it elicited nothing but sighs and groaus, which told but too plainly that the little sutferer was vainly en deavoring x> speak. All who were present united in this opipion, that it was impossible for (hr child to speak to its father —and time proved their opin ion to be correct. At a mature age its efforts to converse with its parent could only produce The most bitter sighs and groans. — JS T cw York Ledger. RATES OF ADVERTISING. "Btrsnntss Advertisements, 113 a yeax per • square of ten lines; ten per cent. Increase for fractions of a year. _ . _ - Rbaii Estate, Personal Property, ana Gxn gwAT. advertising, 7 cents a line for tne first, and 4 o£nta for each subsequent .mser- Patent Medicines and other adver’s by tne column: Oneoolnmn, 1 year, Half column, 1 year Third column, 1 year,............~ ™ Quarter column,- so Business Cards, of ten lines or less, one year, —• lo Business Cards, five lines or less, one year, .. & Legal and other Notices— Executors’ notices 2.00 Administrators' notices, 2.00 Assignees' notices, 2.00 Auditors’ notices 1.50 Other “Notices, ’ ten lines, or less, threN times...-. .50 Htnlsters Electing Where They Shall Pcr-V form Their Ministerial Functions. Am Aircotiiij; Scene in a llom*o of Frail Women—The Sequel, Ac. Ou yesterday we were apprised of an incident which has recently transpired in tliis city, whieh we have deemed worthy of publication because of the atro cious conduct of certain ministers of various denominations in Cincinnati. For several weeks past a proprietress of an alleged house of dissolute repute ou Sixth street has been lying sick even unto death, and during the past two weeks the best physicians of Cincinnati have pronounced her recovery as posi tively impossible. The unfortunate -uli’erer was advised of her nearness .to dissolution, and admonished to dispose of her earthly goods and estate, and to prepare her soul for the presence of the great 1 Am. At tirst the afflicted woman failed to realize theawfulsolemuity of the advice given. Her strength gradually weak ened. and as hour after horn* hastened the life, which was struggling within for a victory over an incurable disease, , the dread of death and the responsibili ty-rtf tin-hereafter, began to awaken in the sinful break a realization of her true condition. Her property was disposed of by a will, and her diain°iuls, tu the valtfe of over six thousand dollars, were sent to a welt known jewelry house oil Fourth sireet to he sold, and. the pro ceeds to be given as devised in her he-' quest. Kvery earthly care was re moved, and the dying woman com menced the work ,of preparation lor deatli and eternity. ‘The more she reflected on the past and unimprov ed life, and the very brie! intrrini between her and the grave, the more horrible seemed to her all the trailties and wickedness of human life. She came to a lull sense ol her condition, and < ailing her frail subordinate females around her bedside, she told them in a feeble voiee how wicked she hull been, that she was not prepared to die, und asked them all to reform and go topray er and piav that (iod would have mercy on her soul. It was truly a house of weeping, hut no one lell hersell fitted to fall in the presence of their Maker and prav for forgiveness At the earn est request of the Mitl'erer messengers were senl to to come and pray with rrer-, hut learn ing the reputation of the house, ihty j/ositirr/i/ r< fust (l In fjo. Thus re fused the advice and prayers of profess ed Christian ministers, the sorrow stricken and agonizing woman sent for an undertaker, to whom she gave all directions for her burial, and then ask ed him to pray for her. lie didso, and the poor woman wept like a child and begged earnestly lor pardon. Other humane and ( ’ll l ist ian men and women, hearing of the distress of mind the sick woman was laboring under, also culled, and read to her passages ol scripture aiul ottered up prayers. Uev.*Mr. Kmery. the city missionary, was sent lor and promptly went to’lhc chamber of the dying. Ho talked to her of heaven and its promises, and told her how she nuist give herself entirely up to (iod to insure His forgiveness. A dozen of female ill mates of the house knelt with tlie min ister around the bed. and, as he prayed, they cried alone upon Hod to forgive them. The was truly allecting. Ihe pros trate form of the invalid, with eyes turned upward, and hands clenched, never ceased lor a momen tto ask pardon of the Almighty, and when the minister was about to take his leave, she said. “ I feel h.-iler, hut emm* again soon ami pray with me,” while the halt-score ot attending women earnestly entreated the man of (iod to rail und give them also his prayers. On yesterday Mr. Finery called again, and was warmly received. He again talked and prayed, uid again were all interested in his jrayers. Fast evening the invalid was scarcely able to speak, and it was Lliought she could not survive the night, lmt she was heard to say very distinctly, ■‘Thank Ood, 1 am not now afraid to lie.” How tlie ministers who under take to preach tie* (iospel to-day can re •oucile their conduct, with their Maker, in refusing to cull and pruy with that .listressed woman,, we are ala loss to de termine. ( 'iiicniintli lin/iiii'i‘i’ t 'Mh- iunt. A Itccrult Trom the (ir:ivc. The following strange cireumstmiee, unions the most remarkable that oc curred during the war, in vouelied for by Colonel Klli.s, late of the Ist Missouri cavalry, and can be attested by. the parties concerntMg A few days-fiftcr a fiercely contested battle in the South, u.pafty of soldiers belonging to tile Ist Missouri took a juuut'ovcr the battle held, and came up 'to a spot where the rebel dead were buried. In one pi .re the hairflf a man’s head was seen sticking out of the ground like a tuft of grass, and near by a hand‘was seen protruding upwards, w hich evidently belonged to the corpse that owned the head ol hair. tine of tlipYavalrymen remarked to his com pan ionY, in a spirit ot thought less levity. ‘7Sce. there’s a (fead leb reaching out/for something; let’s se what he wants h’ In the same sin' of wanton ni\seliief,alniostrecklcssii the cavalrymen look hold ot the in. s baud and hauled the body out ol tho grave, the liaise dirt falling back into the shallow- holes Soon alter the man be gan to stir anti manifest signs of life, to the utter astonishment and horror of the resurrectionists. The mail was taken by his rescuerk to their tei.t and was rubbed down, washed oil', and in a few days became as 11 good as new. 1 ' lie said that in the battle he was stunned by the passage of a shell w hich knocked him senseless.— lie was picked up among the dead und buried like the rest. Not a scrutch>wus found Oil his body. Ile said that-lie had joined the rebel army, and fought tho l'ederals long ami well, but us this was his second appearance on earth he would join the FederahoTtnd light for Mlieni. lie accordingly enlisted in the list Missouri, ditl a good deal of tough •bnarching and hard lighting, and last September was mustered out of the service and paid oil at Hen ton barracks. — At. /.oniti ArWH. licaulllul Sentiments. The beautiful extract below is from the pen of lion. George H. Hilliard: “ I confess that increasing years bring with them an increasing respect for men who do not succeed in life, as those words are commonly used. Heaven is said to be a place of "those who have not succeeded on earth ; and it is sure that celestial grace does not thrive and bloom ■ in tlie hot blaze of worillly prosperity. 11l success in business afi'airssometimes arises from a superabundance of quali ties in themselves good—from a con science too sensitive, a taste too fastidi ous, a self-forgetfulness too ronmhtic, a iiodesty too retiring. 1 wall not go so far us to say, with a living poet, that ‘tile world knows nothing of its men,’ but there are forms of greatness, or at least excellence, which ‘die und make no sign there are martyrs that miss the palm but not the slake ; heroes with out the laurel, and conquerors without the triumph.” —One of the Northern “school marms," who isemployed in teaching the “ freed men," told u sprightly negro girl that she “ must not call the woman with whom she lived, mistress—that shewaa as good as anybody.” Pretty soon the girl asked her teacher what business she followed before coming South to teach. “ I was a bonnet maker,” was the reply. “ Well!” BUid the girl, gathering upher books and making for the door, " I am not.go'in to ‘sociate wid you any longer —you say I is ekel to my mistress, and She don’t '.sociate wid bonnet makers.” A fellow out. West being Asked whether the liquor he was • drinking 1 was a good article, repliedi “ Wal, I don't know, guess so. There Is only one queer thing about it, whenever’l wipe my mouth, I burn a hole in my shirt,”
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