The agitator. (Wellsborough, Tioga County, Pa.) 1854-1865, March 29, 1860, Image 1
Terms of Publication, -r jiOGA COUNTY AGITATOR is published j^ or sday Morning, and mailed- to subscriber; very reasonable' -price of - oXE DOLLAR PER ANNUM, '' ‘ally »« advance. It is intended to notify every briber when the term for -which he has paid shall by the stamp—“ Time Out,” on the mar h»re I JJ e | a£ t paper. The paper>lll then be stopped S*® 01 f ar iber remittance be received. By this ar gemeat no man can be brought in debt to the f n * \oitator is the Official Paper of the County, large and steadily increasing circulation reach «f.nto every neighborhood in.thc County I It is sent posture to any Post Office within the county r£<: ,.i but whose most, convenient’-post office may be Coant y- ' ' Business C-wds, not exceeding 5 lines, paper Inclu ss re r .w”': . ’ . "BUSINESS directory. fig. toWRET & S. F. WIESOIE * jxorSETS a COUNSELLORS AT LAW, Will A nttced tho Coart'of, Tioga, Pottor and McKean , Mtie- 1 - [Wellsbord', Feb'. 1,1853.] S, B. BROOKS, .TTDRNEY and counsellor at. law il ELKLAXD, TIOGA CO. PA. . Ibe multitude of Counselors there is safety ."—BCMt. tot «. i s :'’- ___ pit. W. W- WEBB. | OPFICE over Cone's Law Office, first door below Farr’? Hotel. Nights he will bo found «T his i fir-t door above the bridge on Main Street, Saatucl Dickinson’Sj c:*. OARXX, DENTIST, JC — L at his residence near the JB»aiBiSL\ I Academy. All work pertaining to UXTiTY^b ; ' hue of business done promptly and ' ' [April 22, 1858.] warrant: 1 ! _ L ‘ - * J— — PICKINSON house 4 fORX I X G , N. T. Mu. A. Field Proprietor. * r ‘ t 5 taken to anti from the Depot free of charge. of if 1 IVA lUi IC U I WKLLSBOKO’, PA. L. D. TAYLOR. PROPRIETOR. ‘rwjoMmdU popular house is centrally located, and NBuenda »Mf‘to the patronage of the travelling public. \ y v. Jo. l?sv b- ' A MERIC AW HOTEL. CORNING, N. Y.. B FREEMAN, - - - - Proprietor. v M i g 2o els- Lodgings, 25 cts. Board, 75 cts. per day. Coniine. March 31, 1859. (ly.)j “ “j. C. WHITTAKER, Hydropathic Physician and Surgeon. ELKLAND, TIOGA CO., PENNA. Will visit patients in all parts of the County, or re vive them for treatment at his house. [June 1-I,] H. O. COLE, BARBER AMD HAIR DRESSER CtllOF in the rear of the Post Office. Everything in S }iU Hoc will he done as well and promptly as it on be done in the city saloons. Preparations for re coring dandruff, and beautifying the hair, for sale cheap- Hair and whiskers dyed any colon. Call and n elh-boro. Sept. 22, 3559. GAINES HOTEL. EC. V CRM IL YEA, PROPRIETOR . Gaines, Tioga County, Fa. THIS well known hotel is located within easy access of tbehestfishing andhunting grounds in North'rn Pa. No pains will be spared for the accommodation cf pleasure seekers and the traveling public. April 14. 1559. THE CORNING JOIIRAAL. George W. Pratt, Sditor and Proprietor. I? published at Corning, Steuben Co.. N. Y., at One Dvllar and Fifty Cenb per year, in advance. The Jnunalrs Republican in politics, and has a circula te reaching into every part of Steuben County.— ILu«e desirous of extending their business into that isdihe adjoining counties will find it an excellent ad- Tirtising medium. Address as above. DRESS MAKING^ ATIS? M. A. JOHNSON, respectfully announces to AjL the mi/.ens of WelUboro ami vicinity, that she uti taken rooms over Niles & Elliott’s Store, where •be is prepared to execute all orders in the line of DRESS MAKING. Having bad experience in the h*me>s, she feels confident that she can give satisfac u d to all who may favor her with their patronage. Sept. 29. ISSO. JOHN B. SHAKESPEAB, TAILOR. HAVING opened Ilia shop in the room over Wm. Roberts Tin Shop,respectfully informs the -miens of Wcllshoro' nnd vicinity, that he is prepared uexecute orders’ in his line of business with prumpt tess and despatch Cutting done on short notice. _Wellshoro, Get, 21, ISSS. — 6tn_ WA TCHES! WATCHES! TOE Subscriber has trot a fine aasortment of hoary EXGLTSH LEVER UUSTER-CASE Gold nu(l Silver Walclies, 'inch he will sell cheaper than “dirt*’ on ‘Time,’ i. e. will sell ‘Time Pieces* on a short (approved) credit. All kinds of REPAIRING done promptly. If a ~t> of work is not done to the satisfaction of the party rdering it. no charge will be made. Past favors appreciated and a contiuance of patron tfe kindlv solicited. ANDIE FOLEY. WcMoro, June 21, ISIS. HOME INDUSTRY. THE SUBSCRIBER having established a MAR BLE MANUFACTORY - at the village of Tioga, 'Lore lie is prepared to furnish Monuments, Tomb-Stones, &c., '■ the l.ert VERMONT & ITALIAN MAKBEE i »‘u!d respectfully solicit the patronage of this and ad •ame counties. Having a stock on hand be is now ready to ex hale all orders with neatness, accuracy and dispatch. All work delivered if desired. JOHN BLAMPIED. * Lc-£3, Tiog.l Co., Pa.. Sept. 28, 3S$9. W ill. terbell, CORNING, N. Y Wholesale and Retail Dealer, in Mrc,«, A»d )hs [jcines, Lend, Zinc, and Colored 0!!i, VnrnishfPrushes Cmpheneand Hunting b.je Stnjj\ S_nsh nud GlasJ, Pure Liquor* for Patent Medicines, Artist* Paints and lirn*kcs, r I u,l i€r>j, Fancy Articles, Elnvorinig Extracts, tfcc., ALSO, —A general assortment of School Books— Blank Books, Staple and Fancy t < Stationary. r . T «’.uiius t Druggiits and Country Merchants dealing ‘*iavof thy above articles can be supplied ut a small Uudcc ou Xew York prices. [Sept. 22, 1557.] | STOVE MD TO SHOP! OPPOSITE ROY'S DRUG STOKE, you can huy Stoves, Tin, and Japanned , for onc-half the usual prices . urge Xo. s Elevated Oven Cook Stove and Trim -lii\ fw , $15 ' 00 - kinds of x Tiii and Hardware for Ready-Pay. an y OGO who wants anything in this line ‘ ’ a ad see our prices before purchasing elsewhere, v the place — two doors south’of Farr’s Ho- V* ,°Ppo=Uc Rot's Drujj Store. CALL AXD SHE !So9. l. I; v H. D. DEMING, announce'to the people of Tioga County if 1 *sjcdVk QuW prepared to fill all prders for Apple, Pear Apricot, Evergreen and Deciduous “ u tr> Al>,o Currants. Raspberries, Gooseberries, | ' rril -s and Strawberries of all new and approved vari i; of Hybrid, Perpetual and Sum i. *'•.£>'.,, 0 , mer llom*r. Moss* Bourbon, Noisette, Tea, ? • ’itln na » and Climbing Boses. $ • the finest netrva* ?' 3 . 1V 1 rioties of Althea, Calycanthus, I s -' Pi A iaCa? Syringios. Viburnums, M'igilias £c. p . Paeonies, Dahlias, Phloxes. Tulips, T ariet!e l *, I 1 *««•»»*■.*. - i‘'*^^««°” r^rS 4dlnB " PrnDin * WIU ta Kr ' U- D. DEMSG, TV.lUboro, P». THE AGITATOR ScUotcO to the srtnujion of the area of JFmfcom ana the Spread of healths Reform* WHILE THERE SHALL BE A WRONG UNRIGHTED, AND UNTIL “MAN’S INHUMANITY TO MAN” SHALL CEASE, AGITATION MUST CONTINUE. VOL. VI. For tbo Agitator. tJKDER THE SNOW. The. Spring is coming to us at last, Bat our Northern hills are bleak, And bare and brown, the mountain sides Will be for many a week. And in shady spots, where the north-winds blow Lie the last remains of the winter snow. In such a spot, but a day ago, I found such a pretty prize, For peeping up at me thro* the snow. Shone two little violet eyes. Two purple buds/growing bright and still, Under the snow-drift, on the hill. , O’er many a life the north-winds blow, Aud from many a weary heart, • As the changing seasons come and go, The flowers of joy depart; ’* But the blossom of Hope will live and grow In the coldest places, under the snow. Soon we shall hear the gong of birds, And the summer sun will shine. And flowers of many brilliant hues Will over the green-sward twine; “In the JvUness of time” and even thus, Many a joy may come to us. THE VOLUNTEER COUNSEL. John Taylor was licensed when a youth of twenty-pne. to practice at the bar of . He was poor, but well educated,‘and possessed ex traordinary genius. The graces of his person, combined with the superiority of his intellect, enabled him to win the hand of a fashionable beauty. Twelve months afterwards, the husband was employed by a wealthy firm of the city to go on a mission as land agent, to the west. As a heavy salary was offered, he bade farewell to his wife and infant son. He wrote back every week, but received not a line in answer. Six month? elapsed, when the husband received a letter from his employers that explained all. Shortly after his departure for the West/ his wife and father removed to Mississippi. There she immediately obtained a divorce by act of Legislature, married again forthwith, and to complete the climax of her cruelty and wrong, had the name of Taylor’s son changed to that of Marks, her second matrimonial partner. This perfidy nearly drove Taylor insane.— His career, from that moment, became eccen tric in the first degree. Sometimes he preached, sometimes he plead at the bar; at last a fever carried him off at a comparatively early age. At an early hour on the Cth of April, 1840, the Court House, in Clarksville, Texas, was tilled to (Overflowing. Save in the war times there never had been witnessed so large-a gath ering in the Red River country, while the strong feeling apparent in every flushed face will be sufficiently explained by the matter following: About the close of 1839, George Hopkins, one of the weathiest planters and most influen tial men of Northern Texas, offered a gross insult to Mary Ellison, the young a;nd beautiful wife of his chief overseer. The husband threat ened to chastise him for the outrage, whereupon Hopkins loaded his gun, went to Ellison’s house and shot him in his own door. The murderer was arrested and held to an swer the charge. This occurrence produced intense excitement, and Hopkins, in order to turn the tide of popular opinion, or at least to mitigate the general wrath, which was violently against him, circulated reports infamously prejudicial to the character and standing of the woman who had suffered such cruel wrongs at his hads. She brought her suit for slander. And two cases, one criminal and the other civil, and both out of the same tragedy, were pending at the April Circuit Court for 1840. The interest felt by the community as to the issue, became far deeper, when it was known that Ashley and Pike, of Arkansas, and the celebrated G. S. Prentiss, of New Orleans, each by enormous fees had been retained by Hop kins for defense. The trial of the indictment for murder ended on the Bth of April, with the acquittal of Hop kins. Such a result might well have been foreseen, comparing the talents of the counsel engaged on either side. The Texas lawyers yrere utterly overwhelmed by the arguments jhd eloquence of their opponents. It was a fijgjht of dwarfs against giants. "The slander suit was for the 9th, and the throng of spectators grew in number as well as in excitement. And what seemed strange, the current of public opinion jjow i*an for Hop kins. Ilis money had procured witnesses who served his powerful advocates*^indeed, so tri umphant had been the success of the previous day, that when the slander case was called, Mary Ellison was left without an attorney; all had withdrawn. The pigmy.pettifoggers dared not brave the wit of Pike nor tfoe thunders of Prentiss. 1 “Have you no counsel ?” inquired Judge Mills, looking kindly at the plaintiff. “No, sir, they have all deserted me, and I am too poor to employ any more,” replied the beautiful Mary, bursting into tears. “In such a case, will not some chivalrous member tof the profession volunteer ?” asked the Judge, glancing around the bar. The thirty lawyers were silent, “I will, your honor,” said a voice from the thickest part of the crowd qjtuated bohind'the bar. At the sound of the voice many started half from their seats, and perhaps there was no heart in the intense throng that did not beat somewhat quicker—it was so unearthly sweet, ringing and mournful. The first sensation -was changed, however, into laughter, when a tall, gaunt, spectral figure, that no person present, remembered to have seen before, elbowed his way thro’ the crowd and placed himself within the bar. His appearance was a problem to puzzle the sphynx herself. His high, pale forehead, and his small, nervously, twitching face, seemed active with the concentrated essence of genius ; but his infantile blue eyes, hardly visible be neath their massive, arches, looked dim.and dreamy, and almost unconscious, and his clo thing so shabby that the court almost hesitated to let the case proceed under his management. “Has your name been entered on the rolls of thp State f” demanded the Judge suspi ciously. “It is immaterial about mj name being on the rolls,” answered the stranger, hia thin lips WELLSBORO, TIOGA COUNTY, PA., THURSDAY MORNING. MARCH 1860. curling up in a sneer. I may be allowed to appear once by the courtesy of the court and the bar. Here is my license from the highest tribunal in America,” and he handed Judge Mills a parchment. The trial immediately went on. In the ex amination of the witnesses, th.e stranger evinced little ingenuity as commonly thought. He suffered each one to tell his own story without interruption, though he generally managed to make each one tell it over two or three times/ He asked few questions, which with keen wit nesses only served to correct mistakes; and be made no notes, which in strong memories only tend to embarrass. The examination being ended, as counsel for • the plaintiff he had a right to the opening as w.ell as the closing speech. But to the astonishment of every one he declined the former, and allowed the defense to lead off. Then a shadow might have been seen to flit across the features of Pike, and to darketi the bright eyes of Prentiss. They saw that they had “caught a tartar,” but who it was or how it happened, it was impossible to guess. Col. Ashley spoke first. He dealt the jury a dish of that close, dry logic, which in after years rendered him famous in the Senate. The poet, Albert Pike, followed with a vain of wit, and a half torrent of ridicule, in which neither the plaintiff nor her ragged attorney were for gotten or spared. The great Prentiss concluded for the defend ant with a gorgeous flow of brilliant os a shower of falling stars, and with bursts of oratory that brought the house down in cheers in which even the sworn jury themselves joined, notwithstanding the stern order of the bench. Thus wonderfully susceptible are the Southern people to the charms of impassioned eloquence. It was the stranger’s turn. He had remained apparently abstracted during all the previous speeches. Still and straight in Ins \ scat, his pale forehead shooting high like a cone of snow, and but for that continued twitch that came and went perpetually on his sallow face, you would have taken him for a mere man of mar ble, or a human form carved in ice. Even bis dim dreary eyes were invisible beneath those shaggy eyebrows. Virginia. But how, at last, he rises—before the bar, not behind it—and so near the wondering jury that he might touch the foreman with his bony fin ger. With eyes half shut, and standing rigid as a pillar of iron, his thin lips curled as if in scorn, slightly apart, and the sound comes forth. At first it is low and sweet, insinuating itself into the brain, as an artless tune, win ning its way into the deepest recesses of the heart like the melody of a magic incarnation— while the speaker proceeds, without a gesture or the signal of excitement, to tear in pieces the arguments of Ashley, that melt away at' his touch as frost before the sunbeams. Every one looked surprised. Ilis logic was at once so brief and so luminously clear, that the rudest peasant could comprehend it without an effort. Anon be came to the dazzling wit of the po et lawyer, Pike. Then the curl of his lip grew sharper, his smooth face began to kindle up, and bis eyes to and dreamy nh lon ger, but vivid as lightning, red as fire globes, and larger than twin meteors. The whole soul was in his eye; the whole heart streamed out of his face. In five minutes Pike’s wit seemed the foam of fully, and his finest satire horrible profanity, when contrasted with the inimitable sallies and exterminating sarcasms of the stran ger, interspersed with jests and anecdotes that filled the forum with roars of laughter. Then, without as much as bestowing an allu sion upon Prentiss, he turned round short upon the perjured witnesses of Hopkins, tore their testimony into atoms, and hurled in their faces such terrible invectives that all trembled as with ague, and two of them actually fled in dismay froth the court house. The excitement of the 'crowd was becoming tremendous. Their united life and soul seemed to hang upon the burning tongue of the stran ger. He inspired them with the poison of his own malicious feelings. He seemed to have stolen nature’s long hidden secrets of attraction. He was the sun to the sea of all thought and emotion which rose and fell and boiled in bil lows as he chose. But his greatest triumph was to come. His eyes began to glance furtively at the assassin Hopkins, and his lean, taper finger to assume the same direction. lie hemmed in the wretch with a circumvolution of stronger evi dence .and impregnable argument, cutting off all hopes of escape. He piled up huge bastions of facts. Ho dug beneath the feet of the murderer and slanderer, ditches of dilemmas such ad no sophistry could overleap, and no stretch of in genuity could evade; and thus having, as one might say, importuned his victims, and girt about like a scorpion in a circle of fire, he stripped himself to the work of massacre. Then it was a vision both glorious and dread ful to behold the orator. Ilis actions, before graceful as the wave of a golden billow in the breeze, now grew impetuous ns the motion of aft oak in a hurricane. His voice became a trumpet filled with wild whirlpools, deafening the ear with the crashes*of power, and yet in termingled all the while with a sweet undersong of softened cadence. His face was as red as a drunkards, his forehead glowed like a heated furnace, his countenance was haggard like that of a maniac; and ever and anon he flung bis long and bony arms on high as if grasping for thunderbolts. lie drew a picture of murder in sueb appal ling colors, that, in comparison, hell itself might be conaidered beautiful. He painted the slanderer so black that the sun seemed dark at noon-day, when shining upon the accursed mon ster; and then fixing both portraits on the shrinking Hopkins; he fastened them there for ever. The agitation of the audience nearly amounted to madness. All at once the spea ker ascended from his perilous bight. His voice wailed out for the murdered dead, and for the living—the beautiful Mary more beautiful eve ry moment as her tears flowed faster—till men wept, and women sobbed like children. He closed by a strange exhortation to the ju-- ry, and through them, to the bystanders. He advised the panel, after they should bring in a verdict for the plaintiff, not to offer violence to the defendant, however richly ho might deserve it; in other words not to lynch the villain, but leave his puishment to God. This was the most artful trick of all and the best calculated to insure vengeance. The jury returned a verdict of $50,000, and the night after, Hopkins was taken out of bed' by lynchers and beaten nearly to death. As the court adjourned, the stranger made .known his name, and called the attention of the ; people to the announcement: * “John Taylor will preach here this evening at early candle-light.”; . The crowd all turned out, and Taylor’s ser mon equalled, if it did not surpass, the splen dor of his forensic effort. This is not exagger ation. I have listened to Webster, Clay, and Calhoun —to Dewey, Tyng and Bacon—but never heard anything in the form of sublime words, evenly remotely approximating to che eloquence of'-John Taylor—massive as a moun tain, and wildly rushing as a cataract of fire. As this is the opinion of aft who have heard the marvelous man. Matrimonial Advertisement Adventure. The New York correspondent of the Charles ton Mercury tells the following story. The matrimonial advertisements continue to *fill an ample space in the Herald , notwithstan ding the damaging effect of Mr. Hill’s late rev elation, (“.Matrimonial Brokerage in the Me tropolis.”) A facetious fellow of myfoequain tance, insatiate of female adventures? answered 'one of these advertisements the other day from two young girls, twins, Blanche ana Ruse by name. His overture was accepted, and he was .requested by a return note to call at a house in ySullivan street. The welcome billet was deli ciously perfumed, and the writing in a fancy like hand. » • My friend’s romantic chord was touched, in the face of his long and wicked city experience, and straight way he began to have visions of a pair of blooming girls like two cherries on one stem, nothing less enhancing than' the original Rose and Blanche in Sue’s “Wandering Jew.” With a selfishness co-extensive with the male human species, he determined to have the mo nopoly of both. He went to the house, found it a respectable looking mansion, rapped at the door, was admitted by the servant on giving his name, (an assumed one,) was shown up stairs into a prettily furnished room, and was told that the sisters would soon be in. a few moments a fierce and spectral fe-, male, over forty years old and rather drunk, entered the room, and without a word, flung herself, with, the recklessness of two dozen Camilles, into the arms of this amazed adven turer. Before he could recover his balance or say a word, a tall ruffian hurst into the room with a pistol in each hand, and cried frantically, •‘You are the betrayer of my wife! I will kill you both together !” The ferocious female (a perfect gorilla in strength and appearance) threw herself still .closer about the arms of my misguided friend. Fortunately he is a powerful fellow, a-splen did gymnast, and a fine amateur sparer. With one sudden, mighty punch of his right fist he floored the woman ; with "a single bound he planted his dangerous left upon the black muz zle of the “injured husband,” knocking him completely off his pins ; with a second | stride he kad gained the door of the chamber, and three more jumps took him down stairs and out of the .house. He imprudently confided this ludicrous affair to a few of his friends—l say “imprudently,” because he has to stand in numerable drinks on the strength of it. They have orlly to say “Rose” or “Blanche,” and with a deprecatory phrase or gesture from the victim, the coctail or hot rum is always forth coming. “Last summer I took my four-year old,to see his aunt in Washington County, N. Y. There, for the first time, he had a near view of a cow. lie would stand and look on while his uncle milked, (the men do the milking there.) and ask all manner of questions. In this way he learned that the long, crooked branches* on the cow’s head were called horns. City boys only know of one kind of horns —i.e., little city boys. A few days after obtaining this informa tion, hearing a strange kind of bawling noise in the yard, he ran out to ascertain its source. In a few minutes he returned, wonder and de light depicted on his countenance, exclaiming, ‘Mamma, mamma! oh I do come out here I The cow’s blowing her hotnV ” I think the following will satisfy you that the ideas of the rising generation in Wisconsin are sound on the Maine question : “A three-year old, the property of my next neighbor, saw a drunken man ‘tacking’ through the street in front of their house. ‘Mother/ said he, ‘did God make that man V She re plied in the affirmative. Tho little fellow re flected* a moment, and then exclaimed,: T wouldn’t have done it.’ ” / in order to amuse the children on the Sab bath, a lady in Brooklyn was engaged in read ing to them from the Bible the story of David and Goliath, and coming to that passage in which Goliath so boastingly and defiantly dared the young strippling, a little chap, almost in his first trowsers, said, “Sister, skip that— skip‘that—he's onlj blowing! I want to know who licked I” A Superintendent of the * Railroad(l) — But, sir we must have repairs on the road ; the cross-ties are rotten, and the rails are broken, and’we endanger the lives of passengers every day we run I President: Confound the pas sengers, sir 1 the.road will have to do as It is. If we spend any more money on it before the first of January, we can’troakc our semi-annual dividend of four per cent* Punching.—“ Ain’t there no exceptions to your law about punching a fellow ?” said a scamp to a Judge.-“No, sir; no exceptions whatever.” “Now Judge, I guess you are mis taken, Just suppose, for. instance,! should brandy-punch a man, what then ?” “No levity in Court, sir. Sheriff, expose this man to the atmosphere. ' ' " Awnnai Report of the Superintendent of Tioga County. The educational interests of this‘county are in a prosperous condition. All has been ac complished that was expected, and in some re spects more. Trne, tbqj;e has been a falling off in the statistical tables in most of those things* by which the editor of the School Journal es timates progress. The salaries of teachers, the average number of scholars, and the length of the school term, have each been diminished* , The late financial derangement must take most of the blame for this. The taxes being, collected with difficulty, and the cry of hard times, induced the directors to both reduce the wages of teachers and the length of the school term. Most of the male.teachers who received $25 per month last year only received $2O this. This, however, does not argue that they taught any poorer schools. I think our progress can be estimated better in the following specifications, than in the sta tistical tables. ' i School Homes. —Twenty-two school houses have been built the past year. Many of these take the places of those heretofore reported as unfit. One in Tioga district cost $l,OOO, and one in Middlebury, $BOO. If the building, with its internal arrange ments, inclnding pail, broom, cup and black board, were all that is required to constitute a first class bouse, I should say we now had at least one hundred, and.l sec some superintend ents have reported suchfas first class. Liberty, one of tfTe largest and wealthiest dis tricts in the county, ha§ for the first time levied a building tar. The people (mostly Germans) manifest some uneasiness, but nevertheless sub mit to it with much better grace, and take a more intelligent view of it than some of the northern “Y mkee” townships. Tho c e districts which’ have never levied a building tax, arc easily distinguished by the very low valuation of their school property. They have not paid any better wages, nor kept schools open any longer than those districts which have the tax; and by-and-by, when those having the tax shall have their houses all built, and are ready to extend the school term from six to eight or nine 'months, and also to raise the salaries of teachers, they will just begin to see that they have no houses to keep school in; that some imist be 'built; that a tax must be levied, and tvhile their funds are thus diverted from the schools, they cannot compete with the other districts in regard to teacher's wages.— The best teachers will be driven away, and too late to remedy the evil, they wil find themselves much in the rear in all educational matters.— j Directors* Report s.—There 1 still exists much confusion in the annual reports of directors. The whole number of scholars has always been under-estimated, and the number over estimated. The winter school is not usually taught by the same person as the summer, and thus even the new form of teachers’ reports does-not tell the number who came in the sum mer. but in the winter. As to the avei.ige number of scholars, there is loss fault this year than ever before, it being the first in which the average in some districts has not been reported as equal to or greater than the whole number. I think the average is not generally more than two-thirds the .whole number, and often not mire than Half. Teachers’ Institutes. —The county institute has held two sessions, one at Mansfitfd, the other at Tioga. The success at each was complete. One would not suppose there couldi be such a charm in associated effort. Saying motbing of the knowledge gained, the spirit, the ambition imbibed at each, was worth more fhan a thou sand dollars to the county. Teachers went back to their schools with a determination to do their best. I must confess that the number of intel ligent and promising young men and women in the county far exceeds any estimate I had ever made. The Superintcndency might be abol ished, or even the whole law repealed, and not chain the energies or materially limit the suc cess of this noble band of earnest and devoted teachers. I doubt not, that “the institute now might live without the aid of the influence which called it into existence. Length of School Term. —The school term wifi not be materially lengthened until there are more school houses built. The taxes are now very high in most districts. The sfthool houses must be built, and there is no way of extending the school term, but to either raise the taxes, cease to build, or diminish the teacher-’s wages ; neither of which seems to be practicable. Teachers. —The great success of the school year,-in this county, has been the improvement in the qualifications of-teachers. When I com menced the examinations of the year, I raised tho standard of qualification some twenty per" cent; so that those who held the poorest certi ficates of last year would not obtain any this, unless thdy had improved. Yet while I gran ted only about four hundred last year, I have granted four hundred aqd fifty this. 1 expected, and indeed the Cry was raised in nearly every part of the county, that teachers Would be scarce, but the opposite has been the result. While I firmly believe that rigid examinations and thorough school visitations hare aided much in establishing this progress, I would not forget the earnest and self-sacrificing labors of the teachers in the high school? and academies.— Our two academies have sent out nearly one hundred teachers, and most of them have done efficient service. They reflect great credit upon, the source of their instruction/ .Public Sentiment . —l know of no public vo cation in which there is less opposition than in the Superintendency of the common schools of this county* Both as teacher and preacher, I have found the croakers to be far more numer ous than as superintendent. In this respect 1 world not change positions with any county or State officer. Those who sympathise with the educational cause at all, usually co-operate with and sustain the superintendent in the discharge of his laborious and responsible,duties. Teachers* Salaries. —ln employing teacher?, it has been the custom either to appropriate a given sum to. each school, and let the director living nearest hire.tha teacher as best he could, or for the board to hire all teachers, giving each the same salary irrespective of qualifications. It gratifies ine to be able to state,' that now nearly* one half of the’districts grade the teach- Rates of Advertisings Advertisements tv ill be-charged SX pe;> square of TO lines, one or ihfee insertions, and 2J5 cents fur .every subsequent insertion. Advertisements of Jefs jhnn JO lines considered as s squire. Jhesnbjeined be charged for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and yearly ad • vertlsements Square, - 2 do. 3 do. $ column, - * do.' Column, - Advertisements not having thetmmber of insftrtfot'S desired marked upon them, will bo published unuboer dered out and charged accordingly. „ Posters, Handbills, Bill-Heads, liefter-tfendsVnfta’l kinds of Jobbing done in country establishments.-ex ecuted neatly and promptly. _ Justices*, Constables’, and other BLANKS constantly on band. NO, 35. er's wages according to tbe qualifications.— .The others will soon be driven to do the same, or elsejfi.il their schools with tba rejected teach ers of other townships.- Where the wages are graded, the good teachers, of course get more, and the poor teachers less than the average.— T!hus the former will seek those districts where the wages are graded, and the latter those where they are not. Directors. —-The office of school director be gins to be better appreciated. Men-of good judgment and progressive views are quite gen erally chosen. These, however, do not always discharge their duties with that fidelity which they ought. But directors, generally, manifest a determination to live up to the law, and [ most earnestly desire that they should, fur the districts where they have the poorest schools, and where they comjplain most of the law, are the ones where they have seen least of the law. In my next report I should be. pleased to re view concisely the advance and retrograde movements of each township for the hist six years. Personally and officially, I ajfi under .many obligations to directors and teachers for theirinvaluablc services to me in the discharge of my duties. • X. L. Ketnoi ps. Oceola, June 29, 1859- County Svyt* “Winter Rules,” rare done after the manner of .Dr. Hall's Journal rf Health, by the San dusky Ectjisier: Never go to bed with cold or damp feet. If you discover that your.fect are cold and damp and have no fire to warm them by, walk your room until morning, play leap frog with tins ottoman, do anything to pass away time until the cook makes a fire down stairs, (always maintaining a cheerful disposition,) but don’t, on any account, go to bed with cold feet. Don’t go to bed with any one who has cold feet.—. Either sit up yourself, or kick tho cold feet out of bed. Never go to sleep at night with your head lolling out of an open window, with tho ther mometer at zero. Valuable lives have been sacrificed, ere now, to this effeminate practice. After being out several hours on a hitter cold day, never sit, for more than five minutes at a, rime, on the top of a red hot stove, however tempted you may be to do it. The sensation may be very agreeable, we grant <wou, but tho consequences are dreadful. Never begin a journey before breakfast un less you are able to pay for your lodgings, ;h which case you would, perhaps, be excusable for taking an early shirt without putting tho family to the inconvenience of getting you a warm|meal,_ or otherwise disturbing them. After exercising violently at a ball, never go out in the cold air without bundling up well with a shawl or overcoat. If yon haven’t any overcoat, take the first overcoat you can fin J. If you could find a pair of fur gloves, nr a muffler, you would lesson the chances of taki ig cold very materially. If von are afflicted with hoarseness, talk hut little, unless you are a female, in which case, silence would be sure death, so perhaps yon bad better take chances with the hoarseness. Pencil Sketches of the Supreme Court Judges. —A graphic writer in the CicvHand Plaindealer, thus decribes the personnel of th« U. S. Supreme Court:—“First on the bench sat Clifford, fat and sleeky with no gray hairs, and weighing, 1 should judge, two hundred. Nest, Grier, about the same size, and quite g»ay headed; then Wayne, with light, but not gray hair, and about one hundred and fifty pounds weight: next, McLean, with scarcely a white hair, though far advanced in years, look ing bale and hearty, and of about two hundred pounds weight* Catron, with silver hair, but not so large a man as McLean* Nest, Nelson,- with whiskers from his ears round under hw chin, and the only man who had a whisker. He would weigh one hundred and eighty or more. Last, Judge Cambell, the only bald headed man. He had silver side locks, and in above medium size. Altogether it is a weighty, body. In.frunt of thej'udge's bench, (\ery fine arm chairs) are the busts of the venerable Chief Justice Marshall, Butledge, Jay and Eisworth. The Court room is small, nut large enough to. hold mure than fifty persons/ 7 A greenhorn, from somewhere, standing care lessly upon the end of one of the Eastriyerpier«,‘ watching a Brooklyn ferry boat, accidently loose his equilibrium, and found himself suddenly in the “damp/ 7 lie, however, soon clambered up again and while blowing off the superfluous bri#e, he asked by a bystander how he relished old Neptune's soup, to’which he replied; “ Wall, I aint gut much again it; but all I have to aa*y is, that whoever put the salt in warnt a bit stingy/ 7 , Severe upon her own Sex. —Lola Mop tea ironically remarks to young gentlemen : , “Ton ought to know that there are four things which always more or less interest a lady—a parrot, a peacock, a monkey, and a man; and the nearer' you can come in uniting these about equally in your character, the more, you will be loved. This is a cheap and excellent recipe for making a dandy, a creature which is -always an object of admiration to the ladies.” ' A runaway thief having applied to a blit 1- smith for work, the latter showed him some handcuffs, and asked him if he understood sm h kinds pf work. “Why, yes, sir,-” said the other, “1 guess I’ve had a hand in ’em afore.” Dr. Franklin says; “When I see. a. house well furnished with huuks and periodicals, them I see intelligelbt and well-informed children ; but, if there are no books' or newspapers, the children are ignorant, if not profligate,” A mind too vigorous and active serves only to consume the body to which U.is joined, as (he' richest jewels are soonest found to wear theie settings. Foley consists in drawing false coni lesions from just principles, by which itis distinguished from madness, which . draws just conclusions from false principles.—iern-c. . - 3 MONTHS. 6 MONTHS. 12 MONttfr, - $3,00 - $4,50 " *6.00 6,00 6,40 7,00. . 8,50 nyjo. •- ' 8,00 0,50 12,50 15,0(T 20,00 Sfr.fftf 25,00 35,00 ’ 60,0( - Winter Rules.