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FRIDAY, 1569
Vita' RETITBLICAii
STATE. TICKET.
•
GOVERNOR,
JOHN W. GEARY.
SUPREME -JUDGE,
HENRY W.WILLIAMS.
COUNTY TICKET.
ASBOGRATZ iftb43 DISTRICT COURT.
JOHN M. 'KIRKPATRICK.
ABRIBTANT LA'ir JUDGE, COMMON PLEAS.
FRED , K. H. COLLIER.
"STATIC 51NA.274
THOMAS HOWARD.:'
• " PARSEMBLY,
MILES 5. , / HUMPHREYS,
/ ALEXANDER 3131,LAR.
• - JOSEPH WALTON, ;
JAMES TAYI,OB: ,`•-•
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D; N WHITE,
JOHN H. BEGS ,
SUBMIT
JEIIIGH S.
JQS. F. DENNISToN. ,
-2 - - CLERIC OF COURTS.
JOSEPH BRONVNE.
RzcoltDss,
.THOMAS H. EIMER.
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Skis mornißgos iltrarrg—Recond page:
Pennsevania and West Virginia State .
Items, Interesting- ifiscellany., Third
and IfiztAPagis: Commercial, financial,
Ne'reantae antA'. River • Arm; Market's,
Imports. &tenth page .7- NOW of Travel,
initructive Reading Matter, Amusements.
Psvtoiacrx at Antwerp, 49if. •
' V B. 80311 . t . it 'Frankfort, 87}
GOLD closed in New York yesterday
at,,1351.
WE CALL the , special:, attention of our
oil men to the report of the Petroleum
Association in another column.
Pn.7.sEzmirswr of tlxtGrand Jury,
ere published, contains , cogent and
e suggestions, and will repay pe
r
, mai
•
EVIDENCE in the FosTun.Covonz con.
7 tested Congressional election case is now
being yreceived in Fayette county, at
Uniontown.
OPE
Tun Dintoptieric opposition, in Ohio,
;-to negro suffrage.,.is forever hushed. We
hear an indistinct
. half-way mumble
about State rights—and that's the end of
'it. Ditto at Htu - visbUrg,next week! •
Duo eaci:Or . the P4t:f9t l P.Yeare; in
ihe Eur4ean immigration to this country
fhe Gennans Attyq;,largnly r opinumbereg
:the Irish, the:aggrwte !showing that only
.150,000 of the laid were tended at New'
YOrk, igainet some ' 410;000 Of the former
%Tas.'Ohio 'Denitioracy demand "the
closest possible approximation to absolute
ftee-trade." 4:s thu:Oppositicin clairn to.pos
!' sess national ..opinions, we
presume that Pennsylvania.the , platoon . of
the paity:_-7111 take tbe : same ground at
Harriilitdg neit •
IVE TRUST that our neighbors of the
Post, those ardent and untiring apostles
of a white.mants doctrine in other days,
L.a.o
Will go into training _at once for the re
. mailable gizanastics of 'next week.
Whenthey "jump Jim Crow," the yob
bo should admire their agility and grace.
Tar. nominationn• of a soldier candidate
for Governor of 9itio at the hands of the
Democracy, lends 'frsh hope t o the
friend's of Gen; HARCOC/rhat he wilbre
ceive similar horior at the flo,llB of that
party of this State. His cheacei are cer:
tainly bettered by the nomination of
RosEcnauis. \ • •
A HasTy COIATED VOTE has contribn
led' to the Democrtdic success in Virginia.
It'is the Democratia intention to quit re
viling that wing of the party. hereafter,
and to extend to it,in the words of the Ohio
‘'Democratic convention, "the right hand
of fellowship fellowship'as to brethren in, a common
cense." .Pittsburgh-Psst, take notice I.
A mimic; room made by a cones.
pondent who directs the attention of our
readers to the factlhat Cincinnati expends
$10,900,000 to secure the Southern trade
for her dealers dry gooda_ and -gro
ceries, while 'Pittsburgh can !secure her
bold upon the vast,.mineral resources of
the Lake Superior' country by an outlay
of one-fourth that amount ar ount for asbipearml.
,Tnn Washington Reporter recognizes
'the existeria iso - ine 'dissatisfaction in
that . onintiviaide die Senatorial' nominit:
tionofilizatwouniatnome stapicions
that the conferees were corruptly influ
enced in behalf of their nominee. So far
as concerns, the latter intimation, .the
Reporter's demand for an investigation
seems to us a proper one, and'.desirable
in the interests of all concerned.
DEMOCRATIC "friendship for the rights
and interests of the laboring man s ' was
vaunted at . Columbus,the other day, by a
party which, in the resolution directly
preceding, avowed Its desire for absolute
free trade. It is the same party which
once elected for'' President a man who
thought a sheep's' head 'and pluck wages
enough for:any worklng man here, be
cause no more was paid in some districts
of Europe: • Tliat sort of friendship
means that sort'of competition I
A Paw' itiraviciex at Washington,
who are no friends to the . Secretary of the
Treasury, are engaged in an, adroit
theme to injure him, by putting forward
to as' a candidate for the next
Eg
,dential nomination. The move
men( *engineered under the cover of a
professed friendship, but the expected re
sult, if reallzed, would be unfavorable to
the official usefulness of. Mr. BOUTWELL.
We are quite sure that he, himself, is no
party to a movement which, viewed as
one of good faith, must be regarded as
premature and injudicious.
AN uNusuaL NllMlikEt of issues of high
public consequence have been considered
by the Supreme Court now sitting at
Philadelphia. Their judgment, on the
Registry Law has been already„ ricoticed.
The constitutionality of the tonnage-tai,
contested- by the railway companies in
1 -several suits, has always been uniformly
sustained. In the case of RANKIN Vs.
DEIMOLikIi was heldthat express con
[tracts to pay coin dollars can only be sat
' isded by the specific,payment as agreed.
This decision avOwedly follOis an inter
pretation lately' given by the Supreme
Court of the United States.
THE WHIT.S:DEMOCR:A.TEI OF OHIO and
.thelf Colored brethren"in Virginia have
struck hands for a close alliance, offen
sive and defensive, against "the party of
despotism." Virginia made the over
qure di Thesday, - and Ohio the neat day
ratified the league. Fotty thousand ma
jority was something not
. to be sneezed
at by any Bucieye Democrat who under
stood himself. The question now i 9,,/
what will their brethren in Pennsylvania
say, about it? Are we to have C4sa/and
"a white man's government" neeweek,
or HANCOCK with "the right hand of fel
lowship 'to all conservative/brethren"
black or white?
WUNP.
weIMAINin.
A MIRACULOUS CONVERSION
•
The Democratic party is shedding its
grub form, and begins to flit around a
prettily Parti-colored moth. 'The trans
formation has beetkat last fairly inaugural
ed in Chid and Virginia,un another week
will witness its success in our own State.
Democracy forsweass its traditional hate
to the negro, and opens wide its no.longer
reluctant arme e, to receive a :lace which it
has always reviled to the fullest com
munion of political rights. The "dead
issues" of the late civil war, to which the
opposition have so long clang, and which
have weighed them down, down beyond
the possibility but not the hope of resur
-1 rection; are hereafter to be abandoned,
the "white man's party" is scattered to
the four winds t never again to be t allied
under that standard of defeat, the pledges,
resolutions and protests of ten years of
disaster are recanted and swallowed with
an eager galp, and the Democ
racy of '69' plant themselves squarely
upon the platforin of - the equality of all
men under the law. The atone which
the builders rejected, at New York be
comes at last the head of the corner. New
principles, new measures, new men and
new hopes are henceforth the guiding
stars of Wei political future. Through
many arid disastrous tribulations, the
Bourbons of the opp mition have come to a
wiser policy at last: - This change of base
wis attempted last year, in the Conven
tion which ultimately nominated Say
nous and B ',mu; defeated then,its friendi
were strengthened by theirEfall, and the
chastened and repentant Democracy of
'69 every Where bow submissively, and
kiss the rod which has humUlated them..
Henceforth, -the hopes of the "white
:man's party" are reposed in the colored
Democracy of the South, and in the
broadest declarations of personal freedom
and political liberty, wiltout regard to
race or color.
Abandoning the old issues, the old
leaders are thrust to the wall. The Ran-,
nays, Cusses, ifelandightuns, Packers,
the old fogies of the party who are found
• to be-immrably inoculated with all its
ancient proidiees, as they are hopeless
ly identified with the principles which
Democnkg hastens to abandon forever,
the 'once honored leaders of the party
through all disastrous conflicts at the
polls or on the 611e -field, with the Re-,
public,an friends of"the 'Union; are sent
to the rear in dligiace,4d new arms lift'
up strange , standards to* henceforth
followed and defended by the-National
Democracy. This is `their afgrir, not
ours, brit we cannot part with foes N vklua
hive so long and bravely confronted us,
and whom we- have so often spared in
their defeat for the honest manhood of
their opposition, without sending
~our
sympathies with them. They were' op.-,
posterits worthy of our iteekthey stood(
up squarely under lirtruct_eolersOf:_De
ifitkri4o iiierowittriirlOWAtitne.
tatarigeona fidelity 'wbich might
PITTSI3URGIT GAZETTE : FRIDAY, JULY 9,
havci lionored - any* truth. They are su
perseded now by new men, shrewder
but less honest. Let the discarded vet
erans console themselves, in the contem
.plation of the defeats still more disas
trous which neither_ a change of the
party base nor of it; leaders can avert!
The Ohio Democracy, in accepting the
new dispensation, do nothing by halves.
They have thrown overboard the old is.
sues, and have sent every formerly prom
inent leader to the rear. No more Ran
neys, rto 'more "white man's" politics tor
them. They nominate . ROSECRANS for
Governor. relying upon his military pop
\ularity as one of "lancomes hirelings in
,
an unconstitutional war," and placing
him upon a platform so remarkable that a
hundred thousand 'Ohio Democrats will
ge
8 ear it to be a Radical trick. Not even
•,,
itl demand for the taxation of bonds, for
inback redemption, and for free trade,
Or its protest against the national banking
Istem, will reconcile them to a policy
Melt finds nothing to
_Cbject to negro
suffrage except that the Xlith Article is
subversive of State rights, and which
"eztencia the right hand of , fellowahip, , ,jand
reevnicea as brethren in a common come
all Conservative men., not‘heretofore Dem.
aerate, who will now unite with them."
The honest Ohio Democracy looked for.
their customary denunciations of negro
equality; see what they get instead of it!
They asked for the ;wholesome political
bread on which they' have habitually di
eted for years, and the Convention in,
sults them with the hardest of stones.
The experiment is a bold one, and we
doubt if its results will pay expenses. But
there it is! The Ohio Democracy has
Made a square turn at the shortest of cor
ners, and pledges itself to universal
equality and brotherhood, palpably em
bracing therein thei . reviled African race.
So far, the politicians win.
The Pennsylvania DeMocracy, meeting
in Convention next week, are expected
to go
.and do . likewise. They will Wive
no use for old principles or old candidates.
Messrs. Cass, Packer and McCandless
may hang up their fiddles. Gen. HAN
COCK it the coming man of the party.
11 the old•tlme talk of a "white man's
:overnment" will "dry up," and the pub
lic utterances of the party, for the cam
paign of '69, are to be in the most catho-
lie spirit or petiee, good will, equality
and fraternity for all men, irrespective of
ace or color, who will unite "in rescuing
the government from unworthy hands."
We are on the eve - of the Democratic
millenium, and all good. Pennsylvania
Democrats are affectionately admonished
to emulate the wise forecast of their Ohio
brethren, and prepare themselves for the
change which Welcomes to Democracy
"a man *nd a brother."
As little as we respect the sincerity of
theDemocratie motives, in this apparent
conversion from au odious faith in pro
scriptici to the broad and generous doe-,
trkne of human equality, we must gladly
recognize it as a mark of national pro
gress onward and upward. When even
Democracy if fain to subscribe at last,
with whatever reservations, to the only
true reading of American liberty, we must
regard it as a triumph, as substantial as It
le final, for the great principle which un
derlies all the institutions of the Republic.
Welcome, then, to the reconstructed
Democracy upon the platform of the Con
stitution as it is! For the present, they
must be content to find 'virtue Its own re
ward, and await, on back seats, the pro
motion which can only come when their
faith shall be proved by works.
Good bye! "white man's government!"
AFUSTOCRATIC pEIISOCRACY.
Observation and experience, running
thtough the life-time of a generation of
men, hive sonfirmed us in the conviction
that the Dimocratie leaders of the. United
States, are without any just conception of
the equality - and inalienability of hu
man rights, but are'at, bottom thoroughly
in favor of an aristocratic, if not amon
archleal, form of government—, Here was
our neighbor, the Poal, the other day, ar
guing strenuously from certain mental,
1 physical and social inequalities, that Just
:the same diversities must exist as to Po
litical rights, and, - consequently,- that
'either Tuouee JEFFERSON, in tram
' ing the Deciaratidn of Independence,
and the Continental Congress, in adopting
and proclaiming it, have been strangely
misunderstood, or else had no definite
'and correct idea of what they weie assert
hig.t. Take a sample of Its logic, thus:
_ ' , Races of men are not born equal; in
dividuals ofthe same race are not born
equal; children of the; same family are
not born equal; nor do the men who pro
pagate the doctrine of equality. believe
in it. Greeley does not believe his boot,-
black was born his equal; nor does Sum
nee believe Andy Johnson, or any other
man, was born his equal; it is all the un
meaning prattle of demagogues, to play
upon kind feelings and carry out -a vile
scheme for partisan success." • '
Now, it must be admitted that in
weight To TM71113 is not equal to Dais
TEL Lelinsmr; that in strength &imam
was decidedly superior to ordinary men;
that in learning and understanding ford
Bacon has no equal among the Demo
cratic editors of this country; and that in
- social rank a boot-black ie not on a level
with a Prince of the royal blood: All
this signifies nothing. Some small men,
for all the practical purposes of life, have
'indubitable advantages over thee balky
'Competitors.. :We have - encountered be
grimed - miners who, in knowledge of
mathematice mineralogy, botany, len
' ',guages, antlother Solid attainments, were
inhomparatlltt ahead of the! proprietera for
whom`tbey wrought. '
=4. 7 419*OliilitlijItOlewligittAi; Oar - tied
to its natural and nendelogOnonilualdn,
would entirety
all Political
rights and powers . in the hands of com
paratively few individuals. It would be
gin by excluding from'all direct partici
pation in public concerns, those classes
which are in certain particulars con
fessedly at the low,er end of the physical,
mental and social seal es, and so least able
to•assert their rights and maintain them.
Having done that, the end would not be
reached„but only a beginning made. An
irresistible impulse would carry it on to
excind the classes next above. .Eventu
ally, this process would leave only the
upper •circle, and: this would be narrowed
down and. weeded out, until it should
constitute an aristocracy a monarchy, or
an autocracy, according as sh?uld
be desired.
- "Races of men are
.not beim eqinil,"
quoth the •Pod. Well, the English have
said so these three hundred yearsj tind
pointed to the Irish 'as the readiest Icon
' firmation of the averment Do the Irish
believe this dogma, as applied to them
selves, because the English maintain, it?
They will doubtless confess that the Eng.
lish haYe most money and power. , All
history bears consentient testimony to
that effect, but does this possession of
more cash and force qualify and abate the
pretensions of the Irish to equal political
rights with their English neighbors? This
is a plain quesfion,nd there is no need
of circumlocutin N answering it. If
what our neighbor nowNikvers 'is true, in
any legitimate sense, Ike Irish have been
falsely giumliling for tlifeeclies about
tyrannies that were 'not \ t,,aniiles, but
only wholesome exercises oPauthority by
a superior race, over an inferiiir one, in.
virtue of that headship which larger nat
ural endowments, of one sort, or another,
communicates and sanctifies.
This aristocratic Democracy is not at
all to our liking. It is spurious. not sim
ply in outlying and immaterial pectiliari
ties, but in all that is central, primary,
intrinsic and vital. It is rotten at the
heart, and no medication can restore it to
heilth, or inspire farther confidence in it.
Some races of men are' born superior
to others in certain particulars. This is
demonstrated in the differing degrees of
civilization to which they have attained.
On one hand is a race that has never
emerged from a. condition of barbarism,
or something akin thereto. Ages have
come and gone; cycle after cycle has
revolved; and it still hugs its degradation,
making no efforts to escape into the upper
and purer atmosphere of enlightenment.
On the other hand is a race that took, in
the earliest dawn of time, instinctively to
scientific development, and has steadily.
pursued it, though with the varying suc
cess which attends all great anff . protracted
enterprises. Between these two anti
podal races are ranged all the rest, in the
positions assigned them by their respec.
live elective affinities. •
Has the superior rice the right to ex
ploit the others? to put the sane in
terrogation in anotier form—has an in_
ferior race no righti .except such as its
superior may be eased to allow and
respect? The ansizer• must be in the
affirmative, if thert is any substantial
basis for the conclusion that the individual
who possesses most bodily strength or
mental power has a right, by reason'of
it,•to exalt himself, to a supremacy over
hiti fellows.
Nature is not piodigal of great men,
In thia(whole nation of thirty odd mil
lions there are riot a dozen men who loom
up with,distinct, peculiar, and permanent
elements of genuine greatness. All the
rest are common 'Teeple, distinguished,
indeed, , by this or that,, but destitute of
the prime faculties of a tree and overshad
owing conspiculty. Getting rid of the
impressions produced upon us by the stir
and turmoil of the present time —looking
back.intO expired egea through' the light
of history—and gathering from the wreck
and waste the few names that remain—
we see how meagre is the roll of the im
mortal names. Examining the preten
sions of these with precision, we find
that many of them owe their prestige
mi t e to fortuitous circumstances titan to
their own native nobility of soni.
How are the superior ones of_ any race
bound to use their powers. Clearly, for
the public welfare; that Is, for the well
being of those who are below them, not
in nature, but in point . of special qualifi
cations. This rule, obligatory on indi
viduals, attaches with like invincibility to
rases.
But, when all these differences of: en
dowment • are admitted, there. remain
facts In which all individuals and races
touch each other, blend into a common
brotherhood, and hence rest upon a per
fect and anchangable equality. Rights
and responsibilities are the same in each ,
individual and race. .1. In these respects,
there are no higher and lower. The boot
black, or the humblest menial on earth,
la the peer of the profoundest philoso
pher or the astutest statesman. Before
the law, all distinctions which are re
cognised elsewhere, fade out and disap
pear. At the tribunal of public justice,
as at the bar of God; 'in all the places
from whence political power emenates,
and In all the ends to which it reaches,
men are all units, equal in rank and po
tentiality. This is . a Democracy of, which
the Post and' its party know nothing, be
cause there is no realDfigtocracy in them.
BY THIS time the work of laying the
French Atlantic Cable apProaches com
pletion. The Greet Baetern, with ,her
P reci°4 4t i/ OP' b-h g. 4 : 0 /o l v,: itZ U
prob9btlit ,1 fag at:tacker, :off e
Ilia of Bentrre s the moat southern,
as well as the easternmost of the three
little points eland lying south of New
Foundland and belonging to France.
Years ago, when the first eahle was daid,
and prematurely prOnounced a success,
the whole country rejoiced with fire
works, processions and banquets. Now,
there will be, no such demonstratiercts, for•
what, was until then loOked npon; with
distrust, as an insane and chimerica i l idea,
incapable of practical accomplieltmeat,
is now an acknowledged success aid, the,
greatest triumph which human skill, in
genuity and success have ever coniuered,
has, from familiarity, growit cdmmon
place. But the completion' of each new
line of telegraphic communication with
Europe is really- a legitimate reason for
hearty rejoicing. The greatest tyrints .
of man have been Ocean and Time,, and
each new cable adds another chain - lb our
• o
bonds upo •z n the turbulent, terrible sea,
and another step Cowards the annihilation
of the time and distance between the tWo
worlds. Man has not been able to emu
late the supernatural creatures of fiction ) ,
in putting a girdle around the earth / in
forty minutes, but, having the:girdleace
there, even the fOty minutes ,are not
needed for futher Communication. The
new cable is called French, / which seems
a misnomer when we reine ( mber that ,En
glish factories made jtEnglish money
paid for it, and English ships, guided. by
Englishmen, haie cariled' it and laid it
across the ocean's bed;hut• it Is neverthe
less French, for both of its terminations
are located on French soil. This is a
fact of wonderful importance when we re
flect that En,land is the. only nation with
which the United States are ever likely to
engage in hostilities, and in such a case
communication & with Europe
would be invaluable, while reliable tele-.
grapnicinformation by way of England
would liemposaible. The successful
completion ofqls new work makes us
still more independent of the mother
country, and for that reason, if for .no
other, is a matter for na)lonal congratula
tion. .
DIRECT TRADE - WITH LAKE SU-
PERIOR.
EDITORS GAZETTE: I l'ead with plea
sure your editorial remarks upon the im
portance of a ship canal to Lake Erie, in,
the GAZETTE of this morning. .:In a
series of articles furnished for your:paper
last October, I endeavored to urge' this
iinportant subject. It seems to me one of
vital importance to our manufacturers in
general, and especially so to our iron and
coal interests.
I have in my possession a little map of
the iron ore producing region, of Marl
qnette county, Michigan, know as the
"Lake Superior Iron Region; from a
glance at this map it-will be seen that the
developed iron district embraces a strip of
territory about tour miles broad and sir
teen miles long, running from the town
of Negaune to Lake Michigamine,reached
by the Ontonagon and Bay de Noquet
R. R. and the Peninsula Branch of the-
C. &N.W.R. R. The lake- terminus of
the roads is at Marquette, on Lake Supe
rior and Green Bay. The importance of
the trade is understood by your cOtres
pondent "H." From the - Marquette
Mining Journal, I find that the, shipments
of iron ore and pig iron for 1868 were as
follows:
(iron tons of 65 per gent. iron ore 536 em
*arose tons of ehercoat plg Iron --. 40,0001
This would represent an aggregate
equal to :61,000 tons of pig,iron,or about
"Onefiffli of the; entire product of the United
Stated for 1868.' The, importance of this
little spot will be better underatood from,
reference td these authentic figures.
Bituminous coal is shipped from Buf
falo, Brie and Cleveland ,to this iron r&
gion, in limited quantities; if our immense
cool interests had a „ship , canal to Erie,
and lake vessels at our docks, capable of
carrying 600 to, 1,000 tons, hence to Es=
canabs or Marquette, what possibilities
wonid such a future foreshadow,- to our
manufacturing and,. mining interests.
Cincinnati builds a iailroad . to Chattanoo
ga, to secure an enlargedHouthern trade,
at a cost to the city of $10;000,000. Pitts
burgh can bring lake vessels to her docks
for about $2,600,000. Is it not - worth
thinking of ? Would not such = under
taking, which would develop several of,
the beat counties in the State, be worthy'
the attention of our State Legislatois?.
The "unexpended balance" in our State
Treasury would repay a better , rate of in ,
terest if invested in such a work, than in
any shape I can think of. , R.
Wasningtou Heins
The news from Alabama is most cheer
ing. The Republicans Urd-e, in very excel-
lent condition, and the prospect of a great
triumph at the election on the first Mon
day in August could not be better.
The attempt to revive the, old National
Intelligencer has failed, and the partiea
who:proposed purchasing the establish=
ment will start a new paper In the fall,
with the. Hon. Edmund Burke,- of New
Hampshire, at the head of the editorial
Corps.
Senator Cameron and Wayne McVeigh,
of West Chester, bad an interview with
the President Wednesday morning, when
the former presented objections against
the appointment of Benjamin Harris
Bremner .as Attorney General, which, it
was fnmored, was the President's irate•
lion in case of the resignation of Attor
ney General Hoar. It is understood that
Senator Cameron recommended Mr.Me-
Velgh as a suitable man for this position.
At the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday
it is well understood that the Cuban ques
tion =was disculsed at length. All • the
members present coincided with the Pies
ident in his opinion that the attifgade of
our relations With Great Britain renders
it necessart fo r our Government to'inain: ,
tain a stric ~neut- a lity,. and particu'arly
to avoid any
,o9mplication regarding the
belligerent rights question, which ,would
give England an opportunity to offset our
complaintsagainst the Queen's proclama
tion acknowledging the belligerency of
the rebels daring our late;war. Such, I
have good reason to believe, are the
views of the Cabinet unanimously.
Pants AirTnnit and party . sue ex
ilic:lM, to visit New York in' October, and
Ott rilf#d trns4l West , thO,VOinsippl
ThOy i reantC444ll44, about
the 20th'or iingusfin the iteaniir.aty of
Paris. ° ' '
Teachers , Institutes.
- .
EDITORS vAZET \ TR: The City Superin
tendent is about nicking arrangements to
hold an Institute in Pittsburgh in thel. .
latter part . _ of August. Such a thing
shkuld in the approbation- and claim
the aid and sympathy of ever. teacher
and friend of sehools in the-city. The
' design of institutes js good, and great
benefit to the' - educational' interest has
reaulted`from them. There is a Judi-
dons way -Of holding them, which too
cften is not. accomplished. And' great
predjudice • against • them exists—even
among some - popular teachers. This
proceeds from their perversion and miss,
management morethan anything else.'
There . are teachers. who think that they
know enough, and do of wish to learn
any more, nor •do they want anybody
else to know as innch as they. !These
Will always oppose institutes. Others
ale afraid of being etp4ed, or afraid of
soinething being done in the institute
that will render I them unpopular with
the patrons( of schoOliC 'Those who de
nounce Wein as a nuisance and as &hum
bug, 03 l 'generally ihe ones that will
either do nothing for them, or if they do
anything, it is just to render them deserv
ing oft odious: epithets that, they ap
/61y to them.
Too'often the lectures and eiterCises of
such meetings are not catculated to
edify teachers and aid them in their
work. Popular teachers, who 'have
great reputation, are generally chosen for
the performances. And these can often.'
er exult more in their 'own success than
they can,instruct others how to attain the
same degree of prcitiblency. More than
once have I known a respectable audi
ence to be bored by dull and prosy ad
dresses from such persons. And there
are teachers-who fear that they will lose •
caste by associating with others.
' The legitimate, design of institutes is
to prepare teaahers for efficiency and
thoroughness in their vocation ; to. give
chances for 'manifesting professional
courtesy; and to,show the public
(parents and guardiansespecially) what
the teacher's position is—to enlist their
sympathies, and Cooperation, and to en
gage every influence that will promote
the success and- respectability of the
work of education. This is to be accoin
plished by lectures, descriptions, clan
drills (model lessons) and such other
exercises as the ingenuity of true and live
teachers may contrive. puch perions
always regard it as a labor of love to en
gage in any enterprise that contemplates
this design. A true teacher is always a
16.rner, and always rejoices in the sac
cesiof his fellow, laborers In the profes
sion. He, is in his- right element when
he has a chancel.° give them' some aid
and encouragement. - •
All topics presented at inch meetings
should come from practical educators.
and should have, direct :bearing on the
\school policy ftheded. Sublime oratory
and flowery oamposltions may amuse,.
but'they will not aid in the management
of a Common schooL Things that vet- •
eranteachera may regard as hackneyed,
may be brought out in a new dress and
in a mariner that will help young'teach
era wonderfully •
I hope for the credit of the city and
for the general success of public educa
tion, that the Institute in contemplation
will be one ffoin which teachers will go
feeling nerved anew for their, work, as
well as better informed and mora,united
in fraternal bonds;_ and that its Anflaence"
will so reach the public as to shoiv what
areas duties tothe Young and towards
teachers and schools. EIICRATOS.
Grand Concert--The International
troupe will give one of their grand con
certs at Masonic Hall; Saturday evening.
Miss L. Lewis, the most charming con
tralto singer in this _country, is the lead
ing spirit, assisted by Mr. W. Apinadoo
and other oelebreties. Tickets/for sale
at C. C. Mellor's, 81 Wood street.
THE SYMPTONS OF CONSUMPTION.
Peleoesi of the counteduce.
Sph tine, or expectoration of pus
Thin pin sinks In water:
It Is sometimes streaked with blood.
There is chilliness or shivering', anal flashes
of heat. . .
There is a pearly whiteness of the eyes.
The hair of the head falls off.,
At tithes there is s circumscribed red spot On
one or licth cheeks.
Therein swelling of the hande and feet..
There le, great debility and emaciation, of , the
There is ii.hbgb colored state of the wine..
With a d,eripatt on 6 tandlng like brick dust . _
- There is oftentimes a great thirst..
• The blood Is hurried through the - arteries and
reins.
The pulse is over a hundred, and even es high
.
an one hundred and forty' a minute. ,
The veins en the surface of the body ao•bluer
than usual, and languid.
As the disease progresses the !lenity increases.
The expectoration becomes more copliMs.
The finger nada are incuriated.
There, la a mammas and warrant otatk.the
powers of life.
,There la often pain In one or both Lange . ..
There is often diarrhoea; and faintness.
There Is great alni.ingiof the vital forces.
When there are tarbercies, amall PortiOns o
turbereulous mitten wl.lbe expectorited.
This tubercular matter has an offensive odor.
Op an examination with a lung sound rattling
and_giirgling is heard.'
There 13 alivays more or less en n;h.
Some of these symptons are tiways present in
pulmonary consumption, and ntarly or quits all
of them in different stages of tLe
No disease of which we have any knowledge le
lip common and so almost invariably fatal; yet
this need not be the case if the earlier symptottia
were heeded. Time and again we have called at
tention to Dr. 11.1SYSEIVS - LUNG CURE, which
will tic every Instance of a recent cough arrest
the 'progress of the disease aid hinder its devel
opment, and even after It has become settled will
often care it and arrest furtier decay of the
ungs. I • -
Sobiat the great Medicine Etore,'-Yo. 107 LIB
ERTY STREET, one door from Bt. Clair.' 'Dr.
Keyser may be e,onsultcd at his LIBERTY
STREET OFFICE EVERY DAY lINTIL'III
o'clock, and at his resident office, No. 1.0 - 1/Pena
street, from 1 to 4.4.ciock. • ;
CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE IN FAVOR
OF HOSTETTER'S S MAUCH 'BIT•
TERS. ' ' -
•
=W H. geese, a leading druggist Monticello, -
111., in a letter of Jute e. DAS, Writes to this if
feet: "Haring sold i llostettent Bitters for the
past fear years, I cannot but speak of the article
u.beitl the ben tonic and appetiser extant.
Baring the agile season of lfike. I mink' not keep
a sulltztent stook on hand . aunty ' ycustom
ers: fa fact, your Bitters was as 'tame as qui
nine. count ry . that thysiclans prescribe It MI
over th e lndeed. gha t many families
think they are tot - safe without you , valuable
team." •
J. K. Witherspoon. Esq., a ishalltrete of
.ICernahaw co ,, ntt. r. C,states. hi der date of • 13 . ISM .t hat be M used he Bitters • con
stantly is his OR 'amity for the previous two
years He drat Olt the prepar dolt when stiffer
-1.4 from haestion, produced• or set , . re attack
of , fever, Before the first bottle' was. Nabbed he
expertenc.d a reMarkst.le etiange,for tke better.
He had tried brandy at theoutse,, but found that
fitful hint mure harm than gu 41. Ia One 'month
from the time be commenced using. the Zithers
his strength and appetite were restortd.i
He had recommended the article -to others to
like cotton tauces, and never knowu If to- fail had mind it a perfect special:l for, ctilLis . and,
f.ver.
Mr. Samuel Toting, of Clarion; Pa., , under date ,
of Aptll 4 2860, certUles that be was completely
cured ut .•one of the most utstresslos attac k/ of
-dyspepata that ever adhered any mortal " by
three mattes of the Bitters, after • 'varlets other
remedies bad proved no werieas.. Uest,ored[po
• ce health, be th .nks "that azzatlant Prep
aration inr tee.tautt. t* ..L• •
(I. X. Spencer..oi-Bnot 0 1 10, .Pariteo.,
• Itua., wriung thtnee Web. 11,1XL'IaPyire,"/ have
otos oar Stomach Bltterlt tar a s ai years In:
my praotae, "AMMO keen% lOW•daentit
• Illtt.rs now prenirieed by i.O profasalonles-
Gran?, '