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HAVE FAITH IN HEAVEN.
nr mas m. L. noon.
Bare faith in Heaven I the way is dark
And cloads and darkness hover nigh.
Bat far beyond, where lies thy mark,
Forever smiles a cloudless sky.
The murky cloud which lowers here
And fills thy heart with boding care.
Shall show its silvery lining clear.
And thou shall caich its brightness there.
Duty .points ant the way for thee:
No flowery path is thine to tread i
But strains of Heaven’s own melody
Shall melt into thy soul instead.
Enough for thee Ufe’a few bright boon.
When Hope, kind angel, cheer’d thy sou]
And whispered of -the fadeless flowers
Which lined (by pathway to the goal.
The spell is o’er—waste not a tear ' .
. On that bright dream—those mythic flow’re
A holier mission waits thee here.
And wakes to life thy new-born powers.
hove, for earth’s suffering, weary hearts :
Tears, when no more thou hast to give;
Kind words, which often life impart
To fainting souls—for this, oh, live!
Poor out thy life in one great prayer
Of holy deeds, of truth and love;
They’ll lead thy footsteps upward, where
The way ia lost in light above.
Gneneostle, lowa,
GASTON:
THE LITTLE WOLF.
In eighteen hundred and twenty-four, an
old lady named Madame de Sariac, living in
Gascony, had one of those nursery fights with
her grandson, aged seven, which at the time
are treated as eternal sins, and afterwards re
garded as prospective virtues. Young mas
ter had been required to knee), and demand
pardon for soma misdeed; young master re
fused. Backing into a corner, he doubled
his little fists and in a voice of infantile thun
der exclaimed, “Touch me if you dare!”
Old grandmamma Sariac was fain to leave
her rebellious descendant to his own devices:
which rebellious descendanesvas Gaston de
Raoossel-Baulboo, the Little Wolf of the
Gaston household. On another occasion the
Little Wolf, offended by Baptiste, ordered
Baptiste out of the) house. The old servant
not taking the dismissal of a baby much to
heait, remained ; and the nest morning per
forms his services as usual. Little Wolf, fu
rious, appeals to grandmamma. Grandttw
ma, indignant at this baby invasion of her
authority, upholds Baptiste.
“Very wet!!” lisps Little Wolf in an ag
ony of passion, “then you must -choose,!®-
tween him and me I If he stays I go.”
True to his word the young autocrat dis
appeared that very night, and was only re
covered when he had wandered three good
leaguesaway on the Toulouse road. Another
time also he started off. This was when M.
le Comte de Raousset Boulhon, senior, came
to take him to the Jesuits’ College at Fri.
bourg; and papa Boulhon was a man so
cold, so stern, so severe, that even the Little
Wolf was daunted, and preferred the woods
and hunger to that iron face and icy heart.
This time he was two nights in the forest;
but the old count caught him at last, and
hauled him off to Fribourg.
The Jesuits received him kindly, and edu.
cased him judiciously. He had been eight
years at the college, and had never received
I a punishment in any shape, when, one day—
he was seventeen nnw—the reverend father
ordered him to kneel during the evening les
son, as an expiation of some collegiate of
fence of which ha had been guilty.
“I will only kneel before God,” said he to
the father Gralice.
“You must obey, or leave the college,” an.
Bwered the father.
“My choice is made,” replied Gaston, and
ha left the college that very evening.
A short time afler this he came of age.
His father called him into his study, and in
the presence of a notary, gave him up all
the accounts of his minority, putting him in
immediate possession of the fortune devolving
on him through bis mother, and taking bis
receipt with the terrible formality and autom
aton-like stolidity of his character. Gaston
remained a short lime with his father after
this; but the severe rule of the old royalist
was not much lo his taste; and, in a few
months the young count de Raoussetßoulfaon,
handsome, ardent, rich, accomplished and
generous, found himself in the full flood of
Parisian temptation and Parisian excess. He
was not long in wearing off the thin lacker
of modesty and humility with, which his col.
iegiate education might have covered his
natural impetuosity ; not long' either in for
sakmg the white flag, in allegiance to which
t .i! r• l ” brou S ht U P> f° r ,be tri-ooior and
he faith of la jeune France. A year of
ansian life sent him down to his father’s
ease a very different being to what he was
even when be I eft n. From the royalist
c 00-bay had emerged the Republican
f D _ y. Papa Bouibon was horrified. After
inner, while Gasion smoked his cigar on the
erraoe, he said to his wife (Gaston’s mother
■ °' r aw j bls mother had died when he was an
infam.)
Madam, it will be painful for me (o dis
pute with my son ; impossible lo support his
Pposmon. You see him! He returns to us
torn l aris with a beard, and a cigar between
Pra PS ’ el *^ e cigar pass; but tell him, I
man ' - U ’. ma^am ' that it does not become a
mnir a ,9 to wear a beard (ike a
he »-ii’ l * lal I shall be obliged to him if
1 mjfco a sacrifice of itTo my wishes.”
asion’s beard was a very fine one ; he
l: . P rou d of it, and it added not a little lo
auty ; but the old man was not one to
(0 ‘ Gaston yielded; end the nest
ornmg appeared with a smooth chin,
Monsieur,” said the count to him, “I thank
7 °“ tor your deference lo my wishes. ,r :
THE AGITATOR.
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A few days after this, he said again to hia
wife; “Madam, I authorize you to tell my
son, that he may lei hia beard grow again.
Afler duly considering the mailer, I do not
see any objection to it.”
Gaston, charmed, looked up his razors;
but the old man soon grew disgusted and im
patient at the unseemly stubble that necessa
rily prefaced the full-grown beard.
“Madam,” he said, one evening, “deci
dedly a beard does not become Gaston. 1
"pray you, tell him to shave it off again,”-
For an answer to ibis request, Gaston went
up stairs, packed up bis trunks, and started
that night for Patis. The father and son
never met again.
Returned to Parts, Gaston plunged'ElUh
even fiercer passion and more reckless li
cense, into the dissipations and vices of his
class; realizing in himself all the mad ex
travagances which Leon -Cozlao, Belzac,
Kock, and others, have described as belong
ing to the “lion” of the nineteenth century.
Of course, his fortune was soon dissipated,
and he had to take to various unpoelical
means of earning a simple subsistence. At
last, wearied’ with his position, and having in
him a fat nobler character and larger nature
than the Ufa of- tha Boulevards could satisfy,
be resolved on going lo Algeria; there to
settle and colonize on a grand scale. Gaston
de Raousset could do nothing in miniature.
His father died about this lime, and theaddi
tional portion which came into his hands
helped him on wonderfully in Algeria.
His life was by no means dull or uninter
esting there. He made himself renowned as
one of the most daring sportsmen of the col
ony ; be performed many brilliant actions as
a military volunteer; and be kepi a kind of
open house for all who cared to accept bis
almost regal hospitality. He also wrote a
political pamphlet, which attracted considera
ble notice, and procured him the favor of the
new governor of (Algeria, the due d’Aumale.
All was going on merrily when the revolution
of eighteen hundred and forty-eighl broke
out; and Gaston de Raousset, like many
others, was crushed and ruined by the blow.
But Gaston was none the less republican be
cause the republic had destroyed his fortunes.
He was not one to hunt with the hounds for
the moment ol their puccess, unless he could,
join heartily in the game; and his speeches
to the electors of the Bouches des Rhone,
and of Vaucluse, his articles in the journal
wh.ch he edited more than a year, his whole
conduct and language bound him publicly lo
the cause of liberty, though he made but linle
personal gain out of his advocacy. For, he
failed at the general election, and he failed at
the election for the Legislative Assembly.
Disgusted at his non-success, he quilled Paris
and France for the golden land of California.
He sailed from Southampton on the seven
teenth of May, in the Avon, going as a
steerage passenger among sailors and ser
vant. It was a hard trial for his pride ; also
for one of his luxurious habits ; but the other
French gentlemen on hoard soon found out
his real value, and, steerage passenger as he
was he associated with the cabin passengers
as their equal—which assuredly he was, and
somewhat their superior. At San Francisco
be turned fisherman and fish salesman ; then
he was a lighterman, working hard from
morning to-night, m lading and unlading
ships; and lastly, he went off lo Los Ange
los and San Diego to buy cows for the pur
pose of reselling them at an emormous profit
at San Francisco. He made the journey
many times ; once striking off on a solitary
voyage of discovery. But his cow-selling
ended disastrously, though it gave him a
clear knowledge of the country, and enabled
him to mature the great project he bad con
ceived. The weakness of the Mexican gov
ernment, and the hatred of the people for the
Americans, gave him the idea of forming a
Sonnra, “a valiant French barrier,” which
should both protect Mexico against the United
States, and form the nucleus of an important
French colony, Mr. Dillon, the French con
sul at San Francisco, was consulted on this
project. He entered into it warmly ; gave
M. de Raousset an introduction to leading
people able lo help him ; and our hero left
for Mexico to lay his plans before the bouse
of Inker, Torre <fe Company bankers.
This was the project proposed: The
mines of Arizona, which had been abandoned
for a long while, owing lo the terrible neigh
hoood of the Apaches Indians, were known
as (he richest and most easily worked in all
Sonora, The Mexican government was to
grant these mines to Raousset, and he was to
free them from the Indians, develop their re
sources, and make them the nucleus of
French emigration. In about two months’
time, the Restaurodora Company was formed,
and a formal concession of the land was
made to it by General Arista, president of
the Mexican republic. Two months after,
Raousset signed a private treaty with the
directors of the company engaging to land
at once at Guay mas, in Sonora, with a hun
dred and fifty armed men under military or
ganization, to explore and take possession of
Arizona and her mines; the society under
taking the cost of the expedition, sending
ammunition and provision to Guaymas, and
to Saric—half way between Guaymas, and
Arizona. For his share, Raousset was to
have half of the land, the mines and the
place already found and lo be found. M.
Augiiar, governor of Sonora, and M. Le.
vaeseur, French minister at Mexico, were
members of the Restauradora Society ; fur
nished with powerful letters of introduction
and protection, notably to General Blanco,
military chief of Sonora, our hero and bis
little band disembarked at Guaymas, in June,
eighteen hundred and fifty-iwo.
Immediately on landing, be wrote to Gen*
era! Blanco, who had been apprised before-
WELISBOROa TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 25, 1858.
hand by M. Levasseur of the expedition.
The general feigned astonishment, ignorance
and hesitation ; and commanded Raousset to
wait inactive at Guaymas until bf had made
up his mind what he should do with him and
his followers. The minister remonstrated ;
Raousset complained; the general was firm.
For a rival company had been formed in
Mexico to dispute the possession of Arizona
with the Restauradora Society; and Blanco
and the leading men of Guaymas belonged
to it. After a month spent in inaction, luxury
and rapid demoralization of the whole band,
Raousset went alone to Hermosilla, where
his volunteers were lo join him. But his
troops fell into disputations and anarchy (by
the way ; and Raousset had to gallop bade
;o near Guaymas, to rally, rate, and reform
them. At Hermosilla he made an example
of some of the ringleaders, whom he dis
missed with contempt, and the little band fell
again quietly under bis control. On the fif
teenth of August they arrived at (he Puebla
de Santa Anna, en route to Saric, where food
and stores awaited them ; end there Raousset
received a note signed by Blanco, and ad
dressed to the department, which “required
the French to renounce their nationality ; or,
in case of refusal, they were lo be forced to
re-embark.” M. de Rsousset refused to obey
this dictum, or to accept the alternative; and
he and his men pushed on lo Saric, where
the two dragoons brought them the general’s
final and irrevocable decision, that they must
either become. Mexican soldiers without pay
—as such they might claim (he mines—or
they might be still Frenchmen, but strangers,
and incapable of possessing land, according
lb the ancient law of Mexico; or they might
reduce their band to fifty men, under a. re
sponsible Mexican chief, in which case they
might march at once lo Arizona and take
possession of the mines in the name and for
the service of the Restauradora Company.
Raousset assembled his men, read them the
conditions of the general, and asked what
course they would take? They unanimously
refused Blanco’s proposition, and determined
on continuing the expedition according to the
terms of the agreement made with the Res
tauradora Company. The prefect of Altar,
under whose jurisdiction the Saric war in
cluded, next forbade further march, 01 future
possession to these armed French immi
grants; and Col. Gimeuez not only added
insult to bis compatriot's breach of faith, but
even wrote privately lo Lenoir, Raousset’a
senior, lieutenant, to urge him >o seize the
command of (be troop, and deliver them over',
lo the Mexican authorities. Lenoir gave ihtf
letter to Raousset who read it aloud to the]
band; and they, for all answer, cried “To"
arms 1” with more vigor than prudence.
Raousset restrained them for the moment;
but further correspondence with the Mexi
cans having proved to him that nothing was
to be got by patience or by 'parley, he de
clared war. On the twenty-third of Sep
tember, he and his men quitted Saric, and
marched back on Hermosilla, slopping for a
week at La Madeleine was a young girl, fair
as a Saxon, tall, proud and beautiful. Some
one ai her father’s attacked the character of
Raousset. She defended him, although her
'father, being one of the principal authorities
of Sonora, was officially his enemy. An
old lady said satirically : “My dear Antonia,
are you seriously in love with this pirate
chief?”
“Yes,” answered Antonia, rising and dra
ping herself iu her rebozo, “I do love this
pirate, as you call him. Yes ; I love him !”
The next evening Antonia, in the sight of
six thousand people, went to the pirate-count’s
camp, and into the lent-.
In eight days Hermosilla was reached ;
and in an hour after the preliminary parley
with Novara, the temporary prefect, the
French—with a severe loss of officers and
men—were masiers of the town, and the war
was fairly begun. As (he Norihern Sono
rians bated the present government and fa
vored Ihe French emigration, it seemed as
if it would be the signal for a general revolt.
Perhaps it would have decided the question
had Raousset been enabled to follow up the
advantage he had gained ; but unfortunately
for him, he fell sick immediately after the
battle, and, more dead than alive, was car
ried back to Goaymas by his men, utterly
demoralized by the want of their officers. A
short distance from Guayroaa a messenger
from M. Calvo, a French merchant, prayed
de Raousset not to advance further ; but to
see the General and to patch up some kind
of treaty which should prevent further blood
shed. -Raousset was marching on Guaymas,
and would have surely taken it, even in the
present enfeebled state of his band, as it was
totally undefended and unprotected. Ra
ousset obeyed the suggestion; but no good
came of it; and, in the evening, his sickness
increased, so that for weeks he was insensi
ble, and hovering between life and death.
When he recovered he found that the com
pany had treated with General Blanco, and
bad accepeted forty thousand piastres for tha
evacuation of Sonora.
As soon as he was able Raousset went to
San Francisco to organize another expedi
tion : and at this moment Walker, the fili
buster, offered him the command of his troops
in Lower California, which offer be refused.
Arista now gave up the presidency of the
Mexican republic which Santa Anna as
sumed. The Frenchman believed in Santa
Anna, and hoped as much as he believed.
But the two men quarrelled in (i)eir inter
views ; and de Raousset in revenge entered
into a plot against Santa, which was discov
ered ; the plotter himself receiving timely
intimidation of bis betrayal and so able to
escape the doom which else would have
overtaken him then. He returned to San
Frtncisco; still with Sonora, t be mines of
Arizona and Antonia in his bead, and he
worked his plan so well that in the middle of
May, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, he
sailed for Guaymas, prepared to take his own
course for weal or woe. He began bis jour
ney by garroling the American captain, who
wished lo delay the start owing to the terri
ble weather; and on the twenty-eight of
June, he landed at Guaymas. His first
measures were abortive; but his presence
the French soldiers and emigrants in the
town to the last degree. Mexican folly and
insolence were not wanting to exasperate ibis
French pride and rapacity, and soon a strug
gle between the two parties was inevitable.
Fights in different part of the town inflamed
the bad blood already roused; and when a
body of armed Indians and a large number
of troops from the interior arrived to strength
en the Mexicans, all hope of peace was at
an end. The French soldiers clamored for
war—for a sudden onset and the leadership
of the Count; Raousset, nothing loth, urged
on the scheme, of which he undertook both
the responsibility and the command. After
three hours’ hard fighting the insurgents laid
down their arms ; Raousset broke his sword,
and was conducted as a prisoner to the Con
sul’s house. It had been a combat between
four hundred on the insurgents’ side snd
eighteen hundred on the Mexican. Ten days
after Raousset was tried and condemned, and
in two days was executed. He refused to
allow his eyes to be bandaged, and met his
death with a calm, grave courage that had
something truly heroic in it. He fell at the
first volley,and (he Sonorians lamented him
as the fallen defender of their Independence.
Here were grand talents and a rich fioture
lost, which under more favorable circumslan
ces might have revolutionized a hemisphere.
His biographer, Henry de la Mndelene, calls
him a “Cortes slain at the outset;” and a
second Cortes he might indeed have Iproved,
had he known the material out of which
man fashions success.
How an Ungovernable Temper was
Controlled. —Mr. ClayiOn, author of a book
on the Crimean campaign, met in bis journey
with a strong-minded woman. He says:
“We next touched at Malta, taking on
board a few fresh passengers in lieu of some
we landed there. Among the new comers
was a lady of a most violent temper, so un
governable that she hated morally all who
did not agree entirely with her ideas upon
everything. Her husband informed us that
just before his marriage he was warned of the
-lady’s fiery disposition c and to test the accu
racy of the information, one evening, as he
sat next to her at dinner, he managed clever
ly to jog the servant’s elbow, as a plate of
mock-iurtie soup was offered her, which of
course was upset over the young lady’s while
dress of tulle lace. No complaint, not even
a frown, being evinced, the delighted suitor
concluded that what he had heard was a mis
take, and that his inamorata had the temper
of a lamb that had been fed upon mashed po;
taloes, and as harmless as water gruel. So
the marriage look place ; but soon the lady’s
real character displayed itself, as is always
the case after marriage, but never before, and
his wife, like a human Siromboli, was sub
ject to fiery eruptions every ten minutes at an
average. “How is it, my dear,” said the
happy husband, “that having such a bad lem
per, you stood the ordeal by soup so well ?”
“Why,” answered the lady. “I may have
appeared indifferent at the time, but, good
heavens ! you should only have gone inlo my
room a little while afterwards and seen the
marks of my teeth on the bed post.’’
Not Bad.—A Southern gentleman owned
a slave, who was a Universalis!. On one oc
casion he illustrated the intellectual character
of his religion in the following manner:
A certain slave had obtained a license of
the Baptists to preach. He was holding forth
in the presence of many of his colored breth
ren on one time, when he undertook lo des
cribe the process of Adam’s creation. Says
he:
“When God made Adam, he stoop down
and scrape up a little dirt; "wet it a little,
warm it a little in he hands and squeeze it in
de shape, and den lean him against the fence
lo dry
“Top dar!” said our Universalis! darkey,
“you say dal are de fust man ebet made?”
“Sarten I” said the preacher.
“Den said the other, “jes tell a feller whar
dal fence come from !’’
“Hush!” said the preacher, “(wo more
queshions like dat would spile all the feology
in the world.”
Advertising a Husband.—A Mrs. Smi'h,
having lost her husband, concludes that the
best plan ia to advertise :
Lost Strayed or Stolen.—An inni
vidual whom I in an unguarded moment of
loneliness, was' though'less enough to adopt
as a husband. He is a good-looking .and
feeble individual, knows enough however, to
go in when it rains, unless some good-looking
girl offers him her umbrella. Answers to
(he name of Jim. Was last seen in company
wiih Julia Harris, walking with bis arm
around her waist, up the plank road, looking
more (ike a fool, if possible, than ever.
Anybody who will catch the poor fellow, and
bring him barefully back, so that I can
ebaslise him for running away, will be asked
to slay to lea by
Henrietta A. Smith.
“I say, Mister,” said a linle urchin to a
man with a pair of cross eyes, “warn’t you
born in the middle of the week?”
“No, you little devil, why do you ask me
that?”
“Cause I didn’t know but yon might have
been,, seeing that you are all the lima looking
both way# for Sunday.”
From the Pa. School Journal.
The Rights of Teachers and Pupils,
opinion OF JUDGE SMYBBB.
Commonwealth ns. Alfred Hopple. —ln the
Court of Quarter Sessional of Bucks Co.
Indictment for Assault and Battery.
CB&EOB OP COURT —SJtVSGR, P. 3.
The Defendant is indicted for Assault and
Battery on Asher Collins. The case arises
under the following stale of fdils:
The Prosecutor, Collins, is | a Teacher of
one of the public schools in Warrington ts’p.
in this county. The Defendant, who resides
in another sub-district of the ideate township,
came to the School of the Prosecutor, and
representing himself to be twenty-one years
of age, applied, nevertheless,! jbr admission
into the school. He produced no order or
certificate from the Directors,! entitling him to
admission ; and according td this own show
ing, was not legally entitled thereto. This'ts
proven by a member of the Board, and is not
denied.
The Prosecutnr, however, agreed to re
ceive him, but on the express condition, that
he should obey the teacher arid conform to
all the rules of the school, in all lawful
things.” ’ ' j
On a certain Friday afternoon, the Defend
ant being in the act of repeating an exercise
in Grammar, which the teacher did not hear,
or was not satisfied with, was.direcled by the
latter to repeal it, which he did, and was then
directed to do so again. This ted to a contro
versy between them, in the cdurse of which
the defendant, according to the testimony of
some of the witnesses, expressed himself in
terms distepeclful to his teacher —and was di
ie,cted to lake his seat. This he did; but
conlinuetkp use disrepeolful language towards
Mr. CollinsV in regard to thd [subject of the
controversy, and refusing to cjtop the subject
and be quiet, after the teacher had, as.we
conceive, very mildly desired} him to do so,
and his great physical superiority, together
with his manifestation of a spirit of resist
ance, making it a hopeless attempt to resort
to the usual methods of correction, he was at
length directed by the teacher to leave the
room. This he defyingly refused; and, to
avoid a personal struggle, orj the example of
successful defiance of his authority in the
presence of his scholars, the teacher dismis
sed the school. - I,
There was no session of theschool on Sat
urday. On the following Monday morning,
the defendant at the usual hour, csme to the
school and took his accustomed seal, walking
up the room, as Mr. Collins testifies, with a
taunting air and defiant manner, although
other witnesses say they observed nothing of
the kind, 11
After the opening exercise; consisting of
the reading of a part of the; word of God,
Mr. Collins desired the defendant to come up
to his desk, in the hope of extracting from
him, some expression of contrition for his be
havior on Friday previous, which would jus
tify him, in permittipj*, him I to remain -in
school. Being asked whether he was not
ashamed of his behavior or sorry for it, the
answer was “No, sir-ee / NpJ more than you
are!’’ He was then told again, that be must
leave the school, • j [ '
This he refused and neglected to do; where
upon the teacher laid his band gently on his
shoulder to pul him it; and jhe defendant at
the same lime grasped the prosecutor by the
arm, and in this position they moved towards
the door. On passing the ; sill or threshold,
Collins says he gave Hopple (a push, with a
view to break his hold on bis arm and disen
gage himself. He did notj succeed in this,
and both (ell together. Hopple uppermost.
He says the latter then throttled him, whilst
they were struggling on lhe:gfound, and con
tinued to do so, until one of (the larger boys
pulled him off. : | i
Some pi' the witnesses say -that after they
rose, Collins struck or struck ;al Hopple with
both his hands at once.. This he denies; but
it appears from all the evidence, that after all
this had taken place, and whilst Mr. Collins
was in the act of returning (into the school
room, the latter in an angry a|nd violent man
ner followed him_up, and kicked and struck
him several times. - j|
What is an Assault and Battery ?
An Assault is an intentional attempt to do
violence or injury to the person of another;
and a Battery is where, in’ such an attempt,
the defendant actually touches the person of
another in a rude, insolent, pii angry manner,
without any legal excuse or justification.
A man has a light to defend his own per
son against any illegal violence; but he may
not, even then, go beyond the limiis of so
much force as is necessary for that end.—
For any excess beyond (bat, prompted by
anger or revenge, be is liable! in law, as if he
were the original aggressor. \ This is on ihe
principle of the danger that ‘would result to
society, if men were at liberty to avenge their
own wrongs. I I j.
“Order is heaven's first law,” we are told
Jrder . .leaven. , are tola.
To its maintninance, discipline and subordi
nation are indispensible; obedience to taw,
whether in the family, the school or the Stale,
is,of the very essence of liberty. This in
volves the duty of respect lb lawful authority,
in all these several relations of man to his
fellow. Power, uncontrolled! by law is des
potism. Freedom, unrestrained by law is an
archy. , i -
Apply this to our public schools. The of
fice of the teacher is to impart instruction r
the province of the pupil is reverently to re
ceive it. The duty of the teacher is to main
tain order and discipline in liis school; With
out it, study would be impossible and instruc
tion out of the question. The duty of the
pupil is to submit himself respectfully, to the
authority of his teacher and (the rules of the
school. The directors of common schools,
exercise a supervisory power over those roles
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m.imy.
and the discipline by which they are sought
to be upheld. If the teacher inflicts a cruel
and barbarous punishment,.out of ail proper*
lion lo ibe offence, and prompted by anger or
passion, he is amenable to the criminal law.
What more is required than this for the ,
proper protection of the pupil, against any
abuse of authority on the part of the teacher?
Shall each pupil, as oflen as he seer fit ta
fancy himself wiser than his preceptor, be al
lowed to be disrespectful, (hen contumacious,
end finally rebellious 1
Manifestly, the mode and measure of in
struction must be left to the experience and
wisdom of the teacher; and he is the sole
judge as to the manner in which he shall test
the proficiency of the pupil, and his attention
to his tasks and studies.
It seems Co the Couil that this teacher man
ifested both good judgment end temper by his
conduct on this occasion. By adjourning the
school, he avoided a, perhaps, humiliating
conflict with a pupil stronger than himself,
before his scholars, without at the same time
making a concession to a stubborn and rebel
lious spirit.
Nor do I tee (hat the teacher exacted more
then hie duty required, on Monday morning.
Had the defendant had right views of tree
manliness and dignity, he would then have
made the acknowledgement required of him.
Choosing to take a defiant attitude, the prose
cutor was placed in the dilemma of either
permitting his authority to be set at naught,
or to require him to make submission or to
leave the school. ' He s was not bound to com
mit himself to the chances of a doubtful and
hazardous personal conflict with his superior
in strength, when the latter showed evident
signs of a determination to resist, if he
therefore, ordered the defendant out, and af
ter affording him a reasonable opportunity to
go, and he did not, he then placed bia hands
on him gently to put him out, and used no
more force than was necessary for (hat pur
pose, he was guilty of no legal ofieoce, nor
in my judgment of any impropriety.
Charles Albaugb was recently tried, con
victed and sentenced in Cleveland, Ohio, for
robbing tba mail; Tba Columbus (Ohio)
Gazette, says :
“Charles Albaugh is only SO years of age,
and the events of the past few months will
fill an important chapter in his life’s history.
On Christmas day he eloped with bis land*
lord’s daughter, a Miss German, in her six
tenth year, went to Alexandria, Pq«. and was
married. Ao eSbrt was made In keep the
affair secret, but it was discovered by the
girl’s parents, who wens highly incensed at
their daughter's imprudence. On the 28th
of January, Mr. Prentiss, the United Stales
Mail Agent, arrested Albaugh upon a charge
of robbing the mail. He was taken to
Cleveland, tried, convicted and sentenced
before the United Stales Court, and upon
reaching Cardington, on bis way to the Pen
itentiary, the young wife came aboard the
cars to bid farewell to her convict husband.
The meeting was a painfully affecting one.
She begged him to keep up his spirits, to
make a firm resolve to do his whole duty
while in prison. She vowed to stick to him
though all the rest of the world should for*
sake him ; ’for,’ said she, ‘Charley, we are
both young; we may have years of happi
ness in store for us, and when your time has
expired, we can go to some other land where
the offense will not be known, where we can
live happily together, and earn an honest
livelihood. The poor girl nerved herself to
the task, and, as she wiped the tears away
from the cheeks of her young husband, she
never whimpered. The car was full of pas
sengers, who; witnessed the scene with tearful
emotion. The conductor, who, at the request
of the officers, had kindly delayed a few mo
ments , to give the. young cpuple an opportu
nity of meeting each other, at fast notified
them that he could delay no longer, and the
whistle gave notice that the cars were about
starting. ‘Keep up your courage like a man,
Charley,* said the fair heroine, and, as she
kissed bis cheek, she turned to leave him ;
but, overpowered by her feelings, that she
had thus far kept nnder control, she fell faint,
ing in the arms of the bystanders, who car
ried her gently into the station-house, and
the cars rolled over thfe rails with increased
speed, to make up for the detention.”
Do'”"
A Udck Whipping aw Eagib. —-A large
bald eagle pounced upon a sturdy Muscovy
drake, on Thursday evening, at Me. John
Rowlett's farm in Prince George county, Va. t
in order lo make a meal of him, but ihe
drake, not relishing such unceremonious cal),
put his muscular energies into very active
exercise, and made so scientific a use of them
as lo give his fea'hered majesty a souncf
drubbing—whereupon the latter determined
not to '‘mount upwards’’ again with an empty
stomach made a vigorous attack upon one of
ihe lady ducks of the yard, who was fortu
nately rescued from the talons of the hungry
and savage bird before she sustained any se
rious injury. It was decidedly one of the
most filibustering enterprises that we have
heard of for a long lime. The eagle nar-,
rowly escaped caplure. and he will not again,
we imagine, undertake another expedition of
the kind.
I’ve been dealing in real estate a little late
ly.”
in I”
“Bought a lot in the cemetery, and half an
acre just north of it for a residence.”
“Ju»i north ! What in the deuce did yon
go so far north tbrT Going to live there •”
“Yes, Bill, I want a home beyoqd the
grave!”
Bill looks solemn, and;both vanish, whist
ling a melancho’y air.
Bates of Advertising-
3 months. 6 months. 12 mo*s
X Sad Honeymoon.
“Well, John, how much have yea dipped