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I have an intimate friend who, alas,
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ble otherwise but that J
precedence, blie acteeme . maln pur .
SS3SS2--«.
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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,”