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~- .• z ``' . ** 4 '; - I - . . , -.: tPA coanifinverosi of °ramie+ life. 4 .' But
------- I in so great a country, so. variously peo
\ pled, proviems should be made for all ,
classes of ultimate, andiceeMinly no means
have be rovided 'An' the thorOngiredu
cation of scitolars. 11. university where
thinking men, desirous of so doing, could
attend lectures i.ln various subjects .by.
Professors ial c o is mastered the% Is
what we want ' A.webool where a ma
,
,
can go es de ed, inteany blench of knotd
edge as he Pl'ainen, with competent guides
to assist him. Each an institute would
be invaluable., --
The West point. Academy is said by
some to have no , equal, as a military
tetra, lathe \ *feint& • Most certainly its
city possible•Vival is the Military Axed
anspat fit. Gyr, in Prance, Ger Naval
Acidemyisegnally pre-eminent.l Now as
\the novereustent has been so successful in
'establishing schools lathe only brandies
atlas attelnted, we can see ado reason
why we should'not also have a -Govern
ment university of the highest class.
\
, Philoscopbers and scholars are, by some,
thought to be as important elernects of 4
gieat metier' as are soldiers and sailore.
We ,would feel mortified ,if our officers_
had to go abroad to be, taught how to
command our armies and - navies, and it
snonld be equally mortifying
that our
most highly educated men can not be
made at home. France has a university
and it is successful; the Imperial govern
ment encourages the higher classes of
learning and art. In such- things the
Republican government here should not
outdone. A _ ___ __________
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FOR acrvErtacou:
JOHN Jr: eg.A.R,r.-
JUDGE OP Sr PRE:SIE COURT:
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ALLTANDEX. 1111,ANDS.
,1 "• - truiscros 01" POOB.-
- - , LBDIEVIticCILUELf.
'Ws Patsy on - She titudds pages of
Shia morning's GArtfre---Secand page :
.Pannelittania and Oldo State items, Very
isteresting liimitter.tim of ifiscallaheous
News. rdrd and Sixth pages:- .ti issanee
and Trade, Markets, Imports, Rios? .News.
Seventh paged Far‘nt, Garden and House-
Pszsoistml st AlltWerp, 504 E
U. Q. BONDI! at Frankfort, 881. ,
I
GoLD closed is New Tork Saturdiy
f i t 185:@1351'
I, Timm be any truth in the report,
frotrillichmond;that Gov: WELLS urges
upon -General CANBY the propriety of
withholding his official announcement of
the results of the election until the meet
mg or Congress, 'the c,onntry will feel
/NA wholly reconciled to; the
-'-poilultir6feitol so ecceutecastatessaan.
1
UNDER oath, on =may last, that ex
cellent official, Mr. Prothonotary SNOW
DEN, testified at Philadelphia that he nat
uralized upwards ofidithotufarill citizens
daring the political campaign of .'6B
each of them-at fity cents per head, under
eatitractidth:the Democratic Committee.
The Committee seem to have paid nothing
to, the defrauded official for the other
- thotzsamds of blank certificates which some:
how eontrived to secure the seal of the
Court, _ _
E
'Orli print this morning the nay inter..
asting Report of Superintendent DOUTO
` ET?, upon.the operations of the ieliools of
Allegheny amity during the past year.
Our` citizens will _welcome this official
' statement, with its sbundant prods that
2 a - welt 'devised system of public Lusfire
t Lion is administered by capable hands. A
gratifying degree, of prosperity is re
vealed in , the right direction. There.re
mains much to be done, but the past war
ihablghist expectatioi# ler the fu
ture 811=0341 of the cause of popular edu
' Vail= to tbis einurninitir.
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P
AT the recent conventionof the lime:l
- PMlologicalAssociation, an interest',
Lug discussion took place on the neceesity
existing in this ciitintry for a -poit:gradu
ate university.. That 4-tmeh ,a,.necessity
does exist, le shown by. the number of
graduates of our best eo eges who
go
abreat‘to study in frritigis 'Universities.
Oxford, Cambridge, Heildelberg, Bonn,
and Leipzig are all finishing this scholas
de iduceLlonsofnmusi Young Am cans.
- :Pads, intim Latin - quarter, eivitini with
Yankee •Studmbil; Graduatesof Yale or
thinoves, if they wish to continue their
studies must go across tb.e ocean to tad
schools of big'her capabilities. Hence
the importance of the question before the
Convention. What Amen
' es needs, is an - University.. Small col
' legal abatia in most of thatreted States;
every Distriet seems; soma or later, to
reduce arias min 'who is willing : and
1133i1Oustc• Peri)etitateldi_ nembt eon._
laibolug more - or , less -Money:, with
which ; to jot,' a pliegofatia it
'le welt se: - One eonsikinischOolltsiye the
rudiment` the ptmy colleges, or (more
epprlmistely): Latin schools, 'moo the
efteothirgodilbfargier, azid one or twf
_the s little higher,
but not much-4nd then the education of
Ilill
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lIIE
THE EN FRANCIOSESIEN 1. TRAP.
The political speculations which have
of late been based tips* a supposed dif
ference of opinion, touching the South
ern situation, between tie President and
his Secretaries,, Route/nu. and Muss-
WELL, prove to be wholly at" fault. No
Such diversity of opinion" taw- existed.
Gem Gnarr is frankly and thoroughly in
accord . with the authors of those letters
which have given so moth saWirigsment
, to the Radical Republicans of Tennessee.'
His declarationii in regard to , Virginia
and Mississippi politics, es telegraphed to
us yesterday, '
prove that the !resident
stands heartily committed to Republican
ism of the most radical type. Re insists
upon the .exectition of the reconstruction
acts in good faith, %tpon the ratification
of the ICVth Article, upon the ab
solute security of protection to
life and piwerty, irrespective of
personal opinion or race, upon loyal
acts as well as • lpyal profeisions, upon
the complete maintenance of the ,public
credit and faith. These are the true tests
of Republiciuilsaz everrehere, North or
South, neither including nor excluding
a perfect freedom of individual judement
upon the collateral issue of disfranchise
ment.
_ Tried by these tests, the professions of
Gov. Wszahat in Virginia need only to
be supplemented by a corresponding pol
icy on the part of that majoilty which
elected him, to command the heartiest
endorsement from the Federal Adminis
tration. Bat the Administration is with
the loyal country in suspending its judg
ment in the premises until Gov. W sta.
WES Republican, -or quasi:Republican
supporters shall show their hands on the
country's side.
So in Mississippi, the "former enemies
of the Government" have' yet to" win
their title to the National confidence;
, clearly, the President withholds his sym
pathies and co-operation until their acts
shall show works meet for a sincere re
;le-Mance. Until then, the President
frankly declares that there "former one
mies" must be tegarlied, with a wise can
, tion ' if not - as enemies. milady not as
meritorious friends.
• Neither in Virginia nor Mississippi is
the disfinnehisement issue made a Repub
lican , teat. There, as throughout the
North, the most radical of the party have
had no hesitation in accepting the poli li cy
of an universal amnesty. If this, pocy
is to: result in temporary majorities
against us, it is better even so than would
be any unprofitable effort to defer yet
longer a solution which time must in
evitably bring about, Mid la which de
lays are certain to multiply perlli for, the
Republican cause.
If the Majority which has triumphed
in Virginia, or which may triumph in
Mississippi, shall cordially subscribe to
tie Republican tests ieciigriliedlithe
President in his decleritions first above,;
alluded to, can - an enlightened aud'sin
cere Republicanism ask for more? l'aith.
ful to those taste, Whatsoever ;p y' , may
'for the present assume. local control in
tliose-Siatethizituit4flikeisity kip to the
Iteriblicantausicr,, and chryeta4a fieund,
Republican doctrines-the cardinal prin
ciples of our faith—trtevoe.- ably into their
State polity. We shall not dispar
age the great results of Republican
principles -, inseparably engrafted ~upon
the local Donstitution, - . becatise the se
may chance to be secure under . e
Conservative or Democratic preponder
ance. The triumph of these principles
must sooner or later ensure the complete
overthrow of any party which does not
heartily accept and work up to them.
Av9:lll.aPl4l4ll_ id' 3 .• 149...i1er-whiell la
to become 'es .cer t a inly a part of the
National law if.l?;the oldest clauscs already
established therein-L*lll463lply sti ;; ee, in
the prOOsasell octal:mita Republicanize the
most melikruiptly rebei of
,Ahe Southern'
populations. , We haye the fullestfaith in
its ft effCiesg. to that "end, and, in
'that Ogth,feel aowa:illness In the contesa.
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•:PrrrAtTTRGB 04gisrt_ t :
_TrESDAY, ' AUGUST - .3;-1869.
7-7 —7-. ~
Illation of AIM tainting -elements of dis
turbance in, my of those States.
Neither Gm. GRANS nor Hr. Bony-
WELL alley themselves against enfran-
Iflfleinn'Alat in Tennessee. On the contra.
ry, therein good reason to believe that
they botirehare alike is the public appre
bensionwthat tta course of Gov. 551 TEE
illustrated as it hats been , within the east
month by the most flagrant duplicity
on the part of his rebel -Democratic sup
porters, may result not in the enfranchise
mentor rebels, but in the ,disfrartehise
merited the existing colored suffrage, so
far as that end may be attained by the
revision of the State Constitution -and by
the -refusal of Tennessee , to ratify the
X.Vtit Article. Gov. Simms is likely to
be re4lected; he is and will be imartily a
Rep Ham, but he will have a Democrat
ic ' islature at his back. If he has, as
char ed, really contributed to this unfor
tunate result by his own misconduct in
the execution of the local registry-laws,
he will have brought great odium and
equally great embarrassmenta upon him.
self, end an odium equally great upon
that doctrine of eafranchisement - neon
which alone he stood at the opening of
the local canvass. - The dangers of the
situation are so patent that we have no
fault to find with Messrs. Boorwzia, and
CRESWELL for their recent expressions of
of sympathy for Governor SENTER'S
rival. Indeed, we are confident
that the President takes the same I
view of the situation, and that his,
preferences run in the same direction.
For as things now look, Tennessee may
as surely be reckoned in opposition to
the Republican tests of which we have
above spoken, as Virginia and Mississip
pi will be in accord with them. Hee
Republican Governor, only elected as a
stalking horse to cover the Democratic
designs, will be powerless to counteract
them, and the real State authority, em
bodied in her Legislature, will reject the
Article, wi!l go to the fullest length in
,
nullifying the spirit of the reconstruction
policy, will practically divest Republican
citizens of their present protection in life
and, property, will thoroughly endorse
the Democratic project cf repudiation,
and in all other respects reveal the
e:un
changed hostility of the "former en mies
of the eovernment."
' The' mischief in Tennessee is 'ore 1
,-
than half done already; practically, these
disastrous results are certain, even before
thh opening of the' Polli on Thuriday
next. We have heretofore cordially sup
ported the policy •of enfranchisement in
that State, and with our good wishes for
Saw= as the frank and sincere exponent
of that policy. The treachery of his rebel
supporters supplies no good reasons why
we should surrender our preference for
this policy; we can only regres that the
situation has so 'changed es to imperil its
success, the election of RENTER Clearly
indicating such a rebel triumph as will
throw the State out of the ltspublican
line for years. It is somewhat sat
isfactory to reflect that all loyal Ten
neeseeaus will be speedily reunited un
der the pressure of Democratic misrule,
and that the Federal Constitution, as it
will be, will supply a salutary curb for the
rebel plans of proscription. In the
meantime, It will be well if the radical
Republicans of Mississippi and Texas,
upholding the equality of political rights
for every citizen, shall be warned by the
trap;into which their Mends have fallen
in 'Tennessee, and provide additional
lifeguards against a similar treachery.
- , - •
- The Sitreey Committee of City Conn
oils
yesterday held a meeting to deter
mine tbexante'or Prtameable and Liber
ty avenues. , After amorally describing
the angles of the newmates of egress
.
fromthe city, the Committee adjonined
. .
to the elegant and palatial suburban
residence of Dr. Gross, where a sumptu
ous dinner was awaiting. The Commit
tee fully and fairly discharged their
duty towards the good things spread out
of the hospitality of Dr. Gr oss and his
excellent and accomplighed lady, Vari
ous sentiments were offered In which the
name of the host was variously' used for
our next Mayor, Member of Ccingress,
and Governor—either of which positions
he would honorably and creditably
811. Between himself and his ex
cellent lady and daughter the
Committee had , a very pleasant
time in their call at his charming and
beautiful residence. Subsequently they
visited the very fine home of Mr. Ro
land 11. Smith, where pure and s park w
ling
wines were awaiting them. Mr. Smith.
lives in a most delightful spot, and , his
latch string was out with a generous
will. The Committee next visited Mr.
Gangwisch's brawell,: Where the mem
bers were excellently well treated, the
host displaying all those hospitable %util
ities for . which so jintly,_famaus.,
Sabarquently the residence Of Me Alex
ander B. Bashi was , visitecto n'here tbC
charming and seething wine, made
from rhubarb by - the skillful hands of
Mrs. Belle, was tested and found of very
aneerior grade. , The Vommittee then
salloarned, having acoompliahed a full
day's labor and a day of right good pleas
ure and enjoyment'. •
Coroner's BAI nese. -
,
• Coroner Clawson held seventeen in•
quests during the, month of. July, as fol.
lows: James Purcell, burled tinder a
clay bank; Adam `accidentally
drowned; Eldridge _Price killed by
accident en the Panhandle ' Railroad;
James P. Rigby, killed on the Alle
*hen), Valley Railroad; James O'Hara.
accidentally drowned; Thomas Mauer-
molt, accidentally drowned; Charles But
ler, killed by casting at Pert Pitt Foun
dry; George H. Berry, killed while rid
ing on top of earn ou the PanhandlO
Railroad; Thomas T. V. Smith, sadden
tally- drowned; • ;Lamellae 'Haney, • Rani
struck while working on the Mercantile
Library building; John Morrison,Lull
-una.townahip,f snn•struckf• OSA& Idol:
boner, suicide; • 'James- Barkerel,
soai
dentelly
__drowned; ,Bllitolser,.
'accidebtilly drowned; UnktlOWu. Maio,
child, Ilitroxid CUMialg Ed. A:list:4om
t 1
.Icdm e
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land Railroad thin, suicide.
ALLEGHENY COUNTY SCHOOLS.
Superintendent's Report for 1868.69.
Another school year has closed and
with its close it becomes necessary for
me to make report of the working of our
schools. I had intended, and it was my
wish at the close of the ninth year of my
ofliclal labors, to make a full and com
plete report of all the work that has been
done during my term of office, no to the
present term; bat on looking over my
note books, I havenot the time necessarY
for such a work. in consequence of the
number of &Metal duties teat are now
crowding themselves upon me, I must
content myself with but a glance at..the
past and stop only to note . a few items of
progess--one of the many—with which
we are surrounded.'
From the resources of information at•
_our, contmand we feel sale in making the
assertion, that our schools are steadily
tilliWing favor in the minds of our people.
non has been thegrowth in popular
savor for ! he past none years, that we can
ith safety say tht all our intelligent
tisane may be said to be the friends of
tar common acheoli. • As an evidence of
his favorable public sentiment, the de
nd for better and More ample accom
°dation for educational purposes which
,constantly being made by the people,
—and met by the directors—is still on
the increase, and the style of the house,
and furniture, which was regarded as
very good ,—a few years slnce,—is now
entirely discarded. The better to enable
the reader to judge or our progress in
the may of providing new houses to take
the place, in many cases of those old di
lapidated relics of bygone days,—we
subjoln,—in tabular form—a list of the
new houses, erected during the past nine
years, and at the same time, showing
several other items of information, the
nature of which will be gems at sglance,
and may add something to tto interest
of the reader.
,0 •
Aversuo number - 4EE:4
of nenolsxs ! .e • • • ri
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_
Female "Pupils .... a. a 4. ...
Fi
s 0
igaa- 0
Male Pupils ... • ...
. o
Salary cf Females r. 14 gg
i -74
. .
It 2 S X 8 2
Hasty of 2
.7 . 4 2 s
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Female Tesebera.iE g g
•
Male Teachers. p r 7, gi a 3
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Avenge No. ut,*El ti
th°Ata • •0 e.
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r E ,71 8
A d
Cost oforwriouses
ecsooll
. - F.. a'
N o .. New nooses— ' ,
g
Number of Roue, e
/V 2 2
From an inspection of the above table
it will be seen that from 1861 to the clos
ing of the school year ending on the
first Monday of June, 1869,95 new houses
were built at a total cost of $767,488.19,
making an average for each house of a
little over $BOOO. Never before Within the
same number of years has so large a
sum of money been spent in providing
ne c w is . e h d o uisne s, s oru ori nmuh i mot gn po vxd
plans for the new houses, that each. may
roperly ventilated and comfartably
fur p nished fur the ageomtr_odation of the
pupils.
!SCHOOL ROUSES.
Ten new houses have been built during
the year, which Is not so large a number
as the previous one; but when we take
into account the consolidation of several
of oar townstdps with the city of Pitts
burgh and making it a separate school
district, the amount of new houses will
• be found to , be about a fair average with
the past three years; although the num
ber built in 1868, together with the cost,
•
(as will be seen from the above table,)
was greater than any year since I became
officially connected with the schools.
New houses built during the year
as follows, viz: Harrison two. cost
$3,200: Pine one, cost $1,380; Plum one,
cost $2,273; Lower St. Clair one first class
hotuse with two rooms 40132 and ceiling
12 feet, coat $3,800; Union one, but too
small to accommodate the children of
the district; Robinson one, with two
rooms, cost 53,000; East Deer one, cost
$950; Relleview one, threef house and
lot $14,000, size of lot acres: Fifth
ward, Allegheny tlitY, one, cost of house,
lot and furniture $70,000. Quite a num
ber of these houses are models of neat
ness and are nearly all supplied with the
most approved style of furniture:
In this report we will only refer spe
cially to the new house built in the Fifth
ward, Allegheny city, and It is, perhaps,
one of the best, if not the very best, house
in Western Pennsylvania, or perhaps in
the State. Size ofhouse. front. 134 feet;
width, 68 feet, with hall running through
the center and two cross halls running
through from the front to the rear, with
stairways in each, and contains 14 school
rogs each-28:34 feet, with 14 feet ceil
in and each school room has a dress
ing ' room attached; also, one large re
ception room, 34:40 feet, with two dress
ing rooms attached, one High School
Room, Mai° feet, with one exhibition
whole3sx7B feet, with 22feet ceiling. The
building is heated by steam. The
Directors of this school deserve the
thanks of every parent in the ward for
the good judgment which they hate ex
emplided in the ample accommodations
which the have made for the children
of the . ard, y.
and their untiring effort put
forth for the improvement of the schools.
WORK DONE ET THE SUPERINTENDENT.
My whole time has been spent . in at
tending Ao the 'duties •of the officii. I
have visited every district in - 00Untyl
but three, although a lbw of the schools
were not visited in some of the districts.
:This was owing to a variety of causes;
some were not provided with a teacher.
others had closed. -This I Ivry much re
gretted, for doubtless some Directors
were impressed with the idea that since.
Pittsburgh constituted a separate school
district with its own officer-to look after
its schools, there remained but little for
the County. Superintendent to do, and
h e nce he should yisit each school of the
county once or twice a year and snd a"
half or a day at each _ T oesuch
•we would only say. that before the sep
aration of the city from the county there
were (829) aix hundred atultwenty-nine
schools to visit and now only (515) flve
hundred and fi ft een remain to RD visited
by the. County Superintendent, and in
order that he may visit each school once,
make his tour of, annual examinations
.of teachers. attend educational meetings,
will mantra him to travel over four thou
sand miles during the year.
In order to enable the public to under-
'stead bowfin time of the Superintend .
era w,as spent during the 31004 X will say
that he held 415.examinatious, examined,
7•31 applleants for certificates, greetea 47s
Prevli!lnual,- and, professional • eolith
pita, made 552 visits tosch00,10; attended
10.dietricitlatitutespgetherwIth 00 flee _I
educational: tia wrOtogie /Moral.
'spent 308 days in a4sl duty ani trav
eled ' di:dinette year 4296 :OW. Thl4'
work was done during the last year, and
such is the .labor devolving upon the
Munty Superintendent each year. and
wo be to the man who undertakes it and
wrwr.E Atamccrits.
Prof. Curry's Normal Institute still
continuesn to furnish the usual amount of
Well drilled teachers for our schools, and
we feel that to his school the Directors
are indebted fbr more first class scholars
and teachers than all the other institu
tions of the county combined. Profs.
Dickson and Dunbar of the Linntean Nor
mal Academy have been doing a good
work in the way of furnishing . some
very good teachers and we heartily wish
them abundant suc cess and hope they in
I their new field will be able to send us
many more good teachers.
.itronnaz senooL.
We regret to say that as yet but little
has been accomplished. by way of awn
ings State. Normal School for our dis
trict. At the triannual Convention of
School Directors, which met in
takest,-
a ccmmittee was appointed to he
matter into consideration and to corres
pond with the counties of Butler and
Beaver upon the aubject, which was
done, but uhis time nothing has
been accomplished beyond saying to Mr.
James Kelly, of Wilkinsburg. that they
will accept of his genexous offgr of ten
acres of ground, propo s ed to be donated
for a site for the Normal School. Such a
tschool duca t be an invaluante addition
to our ional institutions and one
which would be of lasting benefit to our
teachers.
COUNTY INSTITUTE.
The most successful, although not the
gest County Institute, .that was ever
held in the county, was held during the
last three days of March and the Ist and
2d of April. Nearly four hundred
teachers were enrolled as members, and
when It is remembered that Pittsburgh
constitutes a separate district and holds
an Institute for itself, it may be said that
a very large proportion of our teachers
- were in attendance. The lectures of
Mrs. Mary Rowe Smith, Prof. Jones,
Bev. B. G. Northrop, Rev. T. li.. Beecher,
Prof. Shoemaker. Nev. Dr. Clark, and
State Superintendent Wickersham to
gether with the practical drills and ' best
methods of teaching, composition, ac.,
were all of such a character as to keep
up the most intense interest Until the
last moment of our exercis e s . The
beneficial eilecle of the Institute were
visible in many . schools that I have
visited since, and other teachers feeling
that they been greatly Denefitted
have expressed a desire that I should
visit them at au early day. that I may
the better judge of how much they have
profited by the week spent at the Insti
tute. We feel that the County Institute
can be made a most valuable auxiliary
in our educational machinery.
WANTS.
I might here speak of many, but at
tills time . will only name a very few.
Ist. We want a lull corps of well trained
professional teachers for all of our
schools. Ido not mean to say that it is
a corps of teachers, we want, nor do I
wish to be understood as saying that we
have no professional teachers, or that we
have not many excellent ones of whom it
may be said that they are exactly the right
persona In the right place. I claim that
we have a large number of earnest, de
voted, and self-sacrificing teachers, who
are devoted to their work, but earnest
ness and energy are not always combined
with intelligence and tact. 2nd. We
want more encouragement in order that
teachers may seek to make teaching a
permanent profession, and hence be in
duced tA seek for those qualifications
which will justly entitle them to the
rank of professional teachers. 3rd. We
want the salaries of our teachers increas
ed or otherwise we must not expect that
the same amount of talent will long re
main in the profession that is to be found
in otner and less important branches of
business.
CONCLIISION.
We feel safe in saying that every intel
ligent citizen, who stops for but a mo
ment to review the educational work of
the past few years, andsees the
II is
taken evidence of progress which now
surrounds him on every aide—will repu
diate the absurd idea—as totally unwor
thy not only of men, bat of freemen—that
the State should only provide a primary
education for her children and that only
to her poor, as such.
Has she no other wealth save that of
her agricultural, mineral, commercial or
manufacturing? Has she no resources of
wealth to be developed but those which
lie deeply imbedded in her iron moun
tains or her coal beide Or is it on the
mind of her children that we are to base
our Hess of wealth? Is It mind that God
has stamped_ with immortallq? If so,
then certainly we must educate. not a
small unfortunate lew, but every child,
high and low, rich or Poor, and not only
in the rudiments, but in all that pertains
to a liberal education, such as will lit our
youth for a fall and comoiete discharge
of all the duties devolving upon them as
citizen? of a free government. In this
age of progress it will not do to stop and
say that we will only partially educate
oar children. Tell it everywhere that
intelligence and respebt for the rights of
all classes are still marching on, and no
spirit of opposition can long impede their
progress. Proclaim it everywhere within
the length and breadth'of our land, that
with intelligence and mond culture the
rights of individuals will never be hived-
Led with impunity. Nothing can be dime
that will so surely attract industry and
wealth to us, as to make our sohools
the best in the State. With every man
who respects himself and family, there
is no single consideration that will so
certainly determine where they Will seek
homes, as where the advantages of
good schools are to behad. 'Jibe first and
j'aramonnt.oonsideration Lathe education
of his children. '• -
. Let us study,then ?olio conduct our
schools es that in tr u th it may be said
we have the best in the Sta and it will
attract thousands to our midst to engage
in.the numerous mechanical and agri
cultural' industries, thereby adding
greatly to our wealth as well asdevelop-
Ing immensely more. .
Truly it may be said that we.ave en
tered upon a new erain our education.
There never wail a ' tune when overt
friend of our • common schools could
work so hopefully as , at • the present.
There is a general awakening upon the
stibject. It is thorough and the slum
bers the caster° over, and in these
times of such unparalleled activity
every man V can - work better than
beibre,and thus hope , to elevate
the st andard of eximation, and create a
more liberal public sentiment. The co
operation of parents and the sympathies
of the public in favor of wise measures
for the improvement of our schools must
be had. Then may we asonably ex
pect that they will meet t he full measure
oftheir usefulness, and with Godes bison
ing prove the richest inheritance that
can be bestowed upon the children of the
State. .
• •A. T. DOUTIIETT,. ,
Cointy Superintendent of Allegheny Co.
Allegheny. City, juts/ 17th,186 9 :i • • •
•
WitatibliM i.t ha t
IT isitanored In,
tykpßa ha! SPrtMg u rP
nopleasa n - --- dAdmiral orteT,
Secretary between
Robeson ;sl4tosmagnis4pute
Qt : o °l4li VLF% a
Sectetin ' t h 4 4,) ‘•- - ‘ ' '
'depirtmeit.
FROZ THE NOVETLIES.
Correspondence of the Pittsburgh Gazette,'
UNIONTOWN, ;lily 30, 1869.
Since my letter of the 19th ultimo, giv
ing you some account of my .ramblings
among the the mountains, I have made a
supplementary visit, this time using the
bodily vigor acquired during a fortnight's
residence on the mountain from its pure
air and pure waters in making sundry
pedestrian excursions to various spots - no-
ted for some remarkable curiosity of na
ture,:distant from one to five miles from
my focal point at powner's, on Chalk
hill. Of these spots "Peddler's Rocks"
and "Mlikhouse Rocks" are remarkable
for the number and enormous size of.
conglomorate rocks strewn over the sur
face of the highest peaks of the mountain,
and covered with. moss andlitchen. The
face of these rocks is worn and corruga
ted,' suggesting the idea that, in some
long past geological era. they had been
abraded by attrition of water. Some out
lying rocks are nearly as haze as your
custom hoiso; others by their proximity,
and the appearance of their sides, corres
ponding with each other and occupying
the highest ground any where in sight,
suggest the idea that they must, in their
fall from the Moon or some other planet,
have been fractured by concussion with
the earth, too stubborn and rocky itself
to swallow or imbed the huge visitors.
Under a vast overhanging section of one
of these immense rocks, by which
a sort of cave is formed, we en
tered and found the space saf
ffcient to stand erect. We could
hear the gurgling* through its invis
visible fissures of a copious spring of
water, limpid and cold, forming a minia
ture lake about our feet.. This feature
has doubtless suggested the name of the
place, Milkhouseßock. The "Peddler's
Rock" is so-called because many years
ago the body of a murdered peddler was
found near it. Several remarkable springs
were among the objects of our search,
"Trout Spring, "
, "Blue Spring" and
"Sand Spring." These, when found,
proved to be severally little lakes or ponds
of some twenty or thirty feet in diameter,
the water very clear and cold. Trout.
Spring is so called because the speckled
beanlies make it their home. Blue,
Spring gets' 'its name from a pecu
liar precipitate which impartsan apparent
blue tint to the water, wbich, neverthe
less, is perfrtly limpid and clear. In
Sand Spring is seen a beautiful white sand,
hence, the name. This sand covers the
bed of the little lake, and is very quick,
and w ould . quickly swallow up, or drown,
any luckless Wight who might slip from
the footlog on which it is crossed. -
I was accompanied on these tramps by
several ladies from West ruginia and
from Pittsburgh, all of whom, am sure,
will join me in grateful acknowledgmemt
of the kindness of 2dr. Jacob Johnson,
of Chalkhill, without whose guidance
our search would have been bootless and
to whose intelligence, we owe our knowl-
edge of the legends' connected with the
wild recesses we have so imperfectly
described. Soon may he . marry, long
may he live, rich may bells harvests.
BAILBLBR.
ONE OF THE MOST ASTOUNDING
CURES EVER. PUBUSHED-AT . •
TESTED B 1 OVER FIFTY WIT.;
N MISES.
The remarkable cure of Miss Fisher, of Dearer
county, is one worthy of more. than a passing
notice, especially when so many persons are suf.
fe.rieg not only with diseases of the eyes, and
partial or total blindmess,lmt , likewise with other
chronic ailments which Dr. Keyser has treated
ith such astounding Success•
.. .
The. lady concerned' was doomed to perpetual
i
blindness; which through Dr.'HeYser'S skill was
..,. .. ;
•
completely removed, the truth of which has been
[
touched for by a stiflicient number of witnesses 1.
to establish the fact beyond all cavil.. The sub-
• Joined letter from the young lady's brother
speaks for itself i . : . - • . .
Da.' ICErSan — This is tbe. rat of Danes that I •
have to the cure of my sister. Christians Fisher.
They were all willieg to put their name' down,
' and were very much astonished.to see that. you
brun.ht her sight so soon. 317 mo her sends bee
tha..ks to you: she says "you are one of the great
-eat men in the world.” ebe says if we Imo not ..
come across you eh• believes her child would not
.
be living at Oil+ thee. We , altjoln In sending
our love and respects to y ou.
' . - • ..- _ . 'S. P. IPISHEII.
. . .
Notch Bewickley.
We, the undersigned know of the cure of
Miss Fisher, and bear willing testimony to the
fact above stated..
ClinisTr , isr Prangs,
Alton • P. riStiza. (brother.)
.A.x.s(l3 Et iteutzT,
Teyjor ay. nne. Allegheny.
BrOEX.t IdeCAegsg.
LonISA Ifisttim, (her twice.)
S. H. Brown., Philip Friday- Ilachel Friday.
H. N. Teekle. A. R. Carroll.. Am. Jenkins.
E. W. Leven. lithlizeillirrle, J. A. Fleming,
dorfer, S .lad LeMm..l., slims Hyde,
.S.nwlneburg EllraLevendor. T. L. Young,
'Wm. Alison, rer. A. sd. Leven-
Lea
finer. J. F. Mitchell. dopier,
A. tiardner. O. Levendorter J. P.:Morrison,
A. W. Mort Pori Bobt .bfanead, as, ygehend,
/sahebs Dobbs. N. Fanthouser. D. Fisher,
(*.Fisher (best) Lizzie Idaheadi- 'Fillie Idalwad,
'l', M. lllahead, Thos. wanted, Leon Allison.
Mary J.orown, Jane A. Morton 3. C. Willel,
Mary J.Weller. N. H. Hexed, Albs yll.Mo,tori
to re. ll. Morton Ezra Hazen. _Jennie thr ileon.
C. At. P at ten . Mar th a
E.Wlbon-Mary Fatten. _
Jennie Patten. Martha .F.tien, James Patten.
Sadie &Dobbs, JennleC.Dobbs J. W Dobbs,
I. Dobbs. Win. U. Perm.... C. F,sher ,
Willismina Finer. (her mother.)
Deafness, Hard Hearing, Discharges from the'
Ear, Fallouts or the. Esre (Atival , °sena. blind
Eyes, inflamed It , es, and every species of Sore
Eyes aricl:r ars .Rupture. Vardar-oft-le, Ealsrg d
Limos, Broken; News,- IJlllttlated Legs and the
various diseases of,the skin I sine hair successfully
. a
trted. • , - , '
Dlt. KEYSER, maybe Consu•ted every day
until• 12 ci`e.ock. atblestore. 167 Liberty street.
and .s freall. ttl 3 o'cioeli Willa °Mee. No. 190
Fenn street. . ,
, • ROUSE 111113 - SIrSTS* I .
It is Saul thing to visas throng* I ifit only half
alive,. Yet there, are thotussods whose habitual • ,
condition is one of langitor and debility. T'kulilii - ;,..
.
complain of no rpecidc disease; they suffer no
positive pain; but they - hare no relish for any
thing WhtehliffOrds mental or sensuous - pleasure
to tad? , mere robust - and suet g,tla fellow beings.
. , .
in nine cases out of ten this state of lastitude
and torpor irises from a morbid. stomach. Indi
gestion destrOys the ;energy of btith mien and
body. When the waste of ; nature is not Supplied
_
bye due and regular assimliation ost the food.
every organ ts starved. every function interrup
,
Now. what does common sense suggest nadir
thee • circumstances of deuression? The system
needs ranting and strengthening; eat mere'? for
an hoer or two. to SOnk afterward Into a more
P liable condition thin ,or. r. tas it assuredly
would do if an ordinary sicohollo 6 iroulant were
resorted to.) but rodir.ally and permanently ,.
How Is this destroy Is abject-to be accom
plished?' She answer to th s'qoestl-n, founded
on the unvarying elperlences of a qua,ter of a
century. Is easily given. ,Itifuse new vigor into
the d.gestlie organs hi a course of isOsYST
- ' TER I, bTtkldiaftH BITTBES: rf:, not ' waste
\
• time In administering • temp,sury rercedtes, but
wake. In* •Trem up by recuperating the f-ustain
' head.of Ithystera sir. Leis and energy. the treat r
organ upon which :aft the other otgans ds td eat
' tittle undone gad otlDP , ort. , ' ' ':. -..:e :..
By the. Mae, . that a slows, doses of: thv great
vegetable tontctino Inv gamut hareWien taken.
the ieeble tame of the 411Pepth: will begin to
nest Ha benign inettence. Appetiws will be ere-
Med., mid 'with, appetite Ulu capacity to digest
what I: craies. - t erseret e Unlit the effete tem
-4 plet*ortfti healthful blood.tt tribe th e Instate
of flesh and mvoies.bone awl nerve sad brain.
Tows througte.tise ebanuels 'of airealatlea. In
,etsoad 'elate eraterf-panalual. witr w =thes
bate heretsfbre been itaparliatil