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T ' oll -i VI P- r WELLSBOEO. TIOGA COUNTY. PA., WEDNESDAY MORNING. OCTOBER % 1861. | NO. 1
igs«r
KfTfiTA^FOr'
- J. c. tVHITTAKEB,
Hydropathic Hainan -end Surgeon.
SIKLAND, TIOGA CO., .PENNA.
ri.it patients in nil pa.te of the! County, orre
them for treatment jat bib ho.ase. t [Jane »,].
J. I
TTORNEY and coonselllr at law
, Wellsboro, Tioga Co., Fa.' Will devote his
, uclnaively to the practice of Collections
1. any of the Northern' counties of Ponnsyl
““ - -■ n0v21,60
'^ijrasimsi^HocsE.
-ftntr ot Jfoie Street and the Avenue 4 WelUloro, Pa,
J. W. UIGONY, PROPRIETOR.
Tjis popular Hotel, having been re-fitted and re
' failed throughout, is now open to the public as a
Iftfrlass house. ________
IZAAK W ALTOS HOUSE,
[4, C. YEHMIIYEA, PROPRIETOR.
Gaines, Tioga County, Pa.
THIS is anew hotel located within easy access o
the bc-t fishing and hunting grtmnds in Northern
Et So pains will be spared for the- accommodation
,1 plei«nre seekers and the traveling public.
April 12, 1860. -
cite. CAMPB)!LI,
BARBER AND BAIB'd}eSSEE.
SHOP in the rear of the Post Ofiict; Everything in
his lioe will bo done as well aril promptly as it
nbe done in the city saloons. Pr paragons' for re
mite dandruff, and beautifying *ie hair, for sale
kip. Hair and whiskers dyed an.’ijoolor. Call and
ra. ffcllsboro, Sept. 22, 1859. ’ j
THE CORNING 10l RNAL.
Stage W. Pratt, Editor « I proprietor.
- T 3 published at Corning, Steuben v 10., JJ. Y., at One
I Dollar and Fifty Cents per advance. The
InraiUs Republican in politics, *jd has a circula
te retching into every part of Sf|hben County.—
Hose desirous of extending their business into that
ud the adjoining counties will find i t an excellent ad
nrtuing medium. Address os ah or!
WELESHpH
■wellsbobJ
- -PROPRIETOR,
(tiled StMet Hotel.)
8,8. FARR,
' [Formerly of the XJ\
| Savins leased this well j
Wiciu the patronage of tj
tad obliging waiters, togej
knowledge of the business
«f those who ' stop with
ijrecable. *
ITellsboro, May 31, IS6 >
(mown add popular House,
;he 'public. With attentive
Iher wit* the Proprietor's
he hople to htake the stay
him -Voth pleasant and
FRA
PICTURE
Toilet glasses, Pc
Engravings, Needle
tbs ncaest manner, in p
.lose Wood, Black Walou
ions leaving any article fi
next day framed in any s .
them. Specimens at
•trails, t, turr;E, Certificates
. iVorb, i ~ 4c-. framed in
Lin and • imjm'ented Gilt.
It, OakjW. Ac. Per
ir receive them
;yle they Jtish afid hung for
imith’s: boos stoke.
EDICT -pt. ».,
| E. B. BEN
¥OULD inform the
located in Elkla:
is prepared by thirty
uses of the eyes and th
principles, and that be I
I —dreadful disease, called!
Suncii V!t!,) and will aft
the line of Physic and 8
Elkland Boro, August!
public thai ids permanently
lid Boro,'Jpgi Co- Pa-, and
11V experie ice fo (treat all dis
beir appendages on scientific
lean caro'- irithout fail, that
I St. Vitu^’Dance, [Chorea
end to any er business in
urgery. . I* 1 I?
8, IB6o*. ;I - J
ND FiJID STORE
fj LOUR
IISBOttO.
IN WE
respeotfuJ& inform the people
y that a
FEEII -STORE
The snbscriberVould
and-vicing
FLOUR & j
eon's Drug Stoircjion Main St.,
Jtantly on' jeanjt ne good nn as*
id FEED ta cjin he found in
all sell clj lap {for cash. AlqgjT
I ;} f. ‘
We door above Bn Gibi
'’tare he will keep couji
•ttrtment o( FLOUR ai
the market, whlch'ho wi
•i large assortment of
Choice Wines an| I ijiiqnor^
a superior quality, apd warral led .’free from adal
kration, which he sell to Li an do th era
wholesale, cheaper tiTan aqy 0; in
-Northern Pennsylvania, i ; J« EA^ON*
- Wellsboro, Dec. 19, JB6O. (l J U~j •
jpUARLESTON" TRILLS.—
. 'W'KIQHT •&L BJ li;
•Having secured the he <t mills in are now
Urepared to do ■
<tonom Work, 9Ker!;hant Work,
in fact, everything that can \>b done in Country
so as to give pet feet satisf jction* •
JLODR, MEAL A.' JD FEED,
" AT WHOLESALE 0 : 1 RETAIL,
‘toot store io -,Well6«oro, or i‘ i the mill. Cash or
exchanged for grain n{ tKt maffcef price. ‘
All goods delivered itqq of ett yg& wiitbin the corpo
nhon. . f WRI i BAILEY.
ffellshoro.Pcb. 13,10,861. 'i f
PasaiONAßtp Mill CNTERT SHOP,
•' main e t., wel; ißboalo. .
Hiss JA.UIiIIiE SMITH) is just purchased her
PALL AHD WINTiIR *OOOS,
Consisting, of Strais of all 1 fands.Pattom Hats,
~™.mer Hats, Tlowira. Volvo BUM of »U tmds,
in foot T- l ; ' •
ALL .TONUS OP i’EIM MINGS."
solicits a call fJom the ladies of Wellsboro and
»tcnuty, feeling confident that’ ’ ' ,
SEfi GOODS' JILL BEAR INSPECTION, ‘
favor* jly with those of; any •establish
id toe cotitty; in regard to price.
BtEACHI2 te ANJ> JPEESSIN# 4<me in a
,j\
the residence *f C. WiHiaaas, oppo
a|- ■
WHEAT
%Q 9&. tip toipad cheap, at
: rTwaiaars.
•RY.
[OTEL.
} bis old
ias taken
in good
:o Hotel,
traveling
ways’ on
[ART.
lOW,
W, will
[oKean
the
ig to
and
'I | BE JAMES H. DANi|.
“ And yqu are willing be shot Id go ?”
“Why riot," answered the young wife en
thusiastically. “ I should d 'spiae myself,
Adele,]if I Was not willing to gWe my husband
to my country. France needs nil her eons in
this extremity. I thank God I have Henri to
offer on hef altar.”
Her l sister shrugged her shqulders. " Tcu
always wete rontantic, my dear," she said.—
“ For my I art, if I hand a banc some husband,
a splendid testate in Normandy, n hotel in Paris,
diamonds, I cashmere, equipagds, servants, as
you have, ! should not be willing to risk them
so slightly Suppose Henri is killed. You will
be a widow, and, for a time at east, can enjoy
none pf thjse things." j
“■Ohl i dele, how can you | talk so? Has
not tbjs good father lacoire Been telling us,
ever since |we were children, trial the curse of
modetfn times was its materialistic view of life ?
That to eajf, drink, and be tnerfy seemed to be
the whole purpose of That luxury
had corroped national virtue S That the day
of heroism had passed ? How often has my
heart swelled against these imputations, for I
will not believe that human nature has sunk so
low! : No| I have often told him, the diviner
partslof olir race have not all died out We
are stjill capable, vre women, ol' making sacri
fices for opr country; and our husbands, fath
ers, bjrothfers, sons, still capable of dying for it.
I could, myself, if the occasion called for it, be,
I hope, a iecond Joan of Arc I never loved
Henn baß eo well as since he came home, the
other dayj and told fie, that, in this crisis of
France's fate, he bad determined to offer her
bis swordl and, if necessary, 1 is life. We can
die but opce. What more glorious than to die
in a holy fcause!” And the yi ung wife looked
sublime tm she spoke it.
Natalia had been married but a year or two.
Her (hearty, accomplishments, any amiability
had won (for her, at eighteen, the heart of the
young jdd Tankervilje, the g: eatest match of
the seasJn. Passionately attached to each
other, they spent the houry continually to
gether : pey read, they, did] every t tbing in.
company! The life they led qua more like an
idyl than?like a life in modern society and in
Paris. |n the midst of thip dream of bliss
came thq news of the retreat from Moscow.
All Enrobe itose against Fraice. The Empe
roi, beaten pack from Dresden to Leipsic, and
froW Leipsic fo the Rhine, Was making a last
despleratf effort to retrieve t(ie fortune of the
nation. St was in this extremity that the young
coopt stepped forward. His father had been a
constitutional royalist in the last days of Louis
XYI, add though the family) had never emi
grated, fit had never, on the other band, at
tached itself to the fortunes pf Napoleon. So
long as fee great Emperor pursued hie career
of conquest, so long the Tankerville* held aloof
from him. But now, when pe question was
not Nawtfeon, but the nation! the young count
felt thatTthe time had come when hi? country
demanded 1 bis services. In view of the dismem
berment of France, what wire lands, houses,
life itself? “ Save the nation I" was the cry.
thatros| to every patriotic lip! Women brought,
their jewels, teen brought jheir lives. .Fore
most among these were Henri and his wife. •
“Well,” said Adele, who had one of those,
«oid, seifish natures, that.could not understand,
bow anybody could do anything noble or he-,
roie, “a think yon and your husband mad. —
Bat gotfour own ways." j
“ I wish you were mad id the same way.—:
Wo arq mad as Leonidas was mad, as Tell was ■
mad, a# Bruce was mad, as every other hero,
was mld that baa died fori liberty. It is not
now a Question of the Emppror. Tt is a ques
tion offcountry. It is not whether Napoleon
shall reign, but whether France shall be dis
membered. It is whether t|e flag of the nation,
o iCWbI,
iUGH, ji..
", V
Y s
•.U .'I LYON -
Sing bird, on-green Missouri's pliln,
The saddest seng of sorrew; j
Drop tear!, Oh clouds! in gentlest rain
Ye fron| the winds can borrow j
Breathe opt, ye winds, year softest sigh.
Weep, flowers, in dewy splendor,
For him Who knew well how to dse,
Bat Defer to surrender. 1
Uprfse serene the August sun j
, Upon that day of glory j j
Upcurledtfrom musket and from j pin,
. The wgr-cloud gray and hoary
It gathered like a funeral pall,
Now broken and now blended,
When rang the bugle’s angry cal',
And mink with rank contended
Four thousand men, as brave an I true
'As e’ef went forth in daring,
Upon the foe that morning threw
The st|ength of tbeir despairing.
; They feared no death—men blesi the field
That patriot soldiers died on-f-
Fair Freedom’s cause was swordjand shield,
And el their bead was Lyon! '
Their leader’s troubled sonl look ed forth
From byes of troubled bright! ess;
Sad soul! the burden of the Noi th
Had pressed out all its lightn ;ss.
He gazed upon the unequal figl t,
His rduks all rent and gory,
And felu the shadows close like i light
Rouup his career of glory.
“General, coma lead us!” loud I hey cry,
Fromia brave band was ringii g—
“iJead ib, and we will stop, or die.
That battery’s awful singing,|
He spurred to where his heroes {stood,
Twice wounded—no wound Knowing—
The firejof battle in his blood {
And *n his forehead glowing.
Ob, culled for aye that traitor’s band.
And Inrsed that aim so deadly,
' Vhicb Smote the bravest of th<T land,
Andnyed his bosom redly !--
Serene lie lay while post him pressed
The battle's furious billow,
As calmly .as a babe may rest
Upoif its mother’s pillow.
5o Lyop died ! and well may flowers
His place of burial cover.
For Defer had this land of oar!
| A mere devoted lover.
Living! his country was his bride,
His Efe ho gave her dying;
- Life, fortune, love—he naught denied
To Her, and to her sighing.
Best, FatrioCijithy hill-side grave,
Beside her forWwho bore th so I
Long may the land thou died’t t to save
I Hermannered siars wave o’i r thee!
Upon jer history’s brightest page,
i Ancl on. Fame’s glowing poral,
She’ll tarite thy grand, heroic age,
Andp;rave thy name immoral.
THp LEGION OF HINOE,
that glorious tricolor which waved at Marengo
and Austerlitz, ehall be trailed in the dost, or
shall still bring tears to the eyes of Frenchmen
when they see it, in foreign lands, floating from
the mast head.”
We, wfll not dwell on the parting of husband
and wife. Natalie bore op heroically. Not
Lady Russell, when leaving her lord on that
sad morning of his execution; controlled her
self more nobly than did Natalie now. But
when the door had closed on ; Henri, when she
heard the clatter of his .horse's feet down the
street, then she flung herself bn. her bed, and
wept os if her heart was breaking.
It mas an eventful winter. - A battle was
fought almost daily, j Like a lion in the toils,
Napoleon turned first oh one and then on an
other of bis foes, and always unexpectedly.—
In the brightest days of bis intellect he bad
never been so terrible as now., Henri was fore
most in all these battles. Once he saved the
Emperor’s life. The cross of the legion of
honor soon decked bis breast. IHe received the
decoration from Napoleoq’s own band, on the
very day that he heard Natalie had presented
him with a son. But the genius of the Empe
ror and the valor of his troops were of no avail.
Treachery was at work at Paris, while Napo
leon was absent in the Campaign. The capital
was surrendered. Napoleon wo« forced to ab
dicate.
Every one knows what followed. The Bour
bons came back, forgetting, nothing, os was
said, and forgiving nothing. ,
Ah 1 my bleeding country," Henri would
cry to his young wife. At other times it was,
“ Oh I for one hour with the pld Emperor.”
At last the nation could bear it no longer.
Napoleon landed ; the army rose in his favor;
the king fled; a constitution was proclaimed.
Once more the young coant buckled on his
sword. N
“ Again I say, go,” was his wife’s heroic
parting, “ and again and again. I will stay at
home and pray. I think, sometimes, it is harder
for women than for men. You have the ex
citement of the campaign. But we can only
wait and wait, from one dreary day to an
other ; we can only pray and pray through
the sleepless hours of nightr Do not suppose,
because I say this, I would keep you back.—
Go, and may God crown you with victory: or
if not: ”
“If not,” said her husband, interrupting
her, “ I stay on the battle-field.”
Alas! it was a prediction. A few days later,
when the old Guard, at the end of that terrible
bottle of Waterloo, closed up their ranks, and
to the demand to lay down their arms, replied,
“ The Guard dies but never surrenders," Henri
de Tankerville, fighting with the bravest, and
fighting longest almost of all, sank under a
dozen wounds.
h. p.
Did his wife regret what she had done?
" No, no,” she cried, in answer to the cruel re
proaches of her sister, “fl would send him
forth again, if I could. I would rather be the
widow, a thousand times over,” she added, with
flashing eyes, "of a soldier who had died for
his country, than the petted wife of one who
had failed France in her hour of need, fur such
would be either a coward or traitor.”
Nor did she ever think otherwise. In' after
years,-rich and titled suitors solicited her hand ;
but she lived faithful to the memory of her lost
Henri. Her chief consolation was to take her.
child, as soon as he was able to understand her,
and showing him the cross of the legion of
honor, which his father had won in battle point
afterward to the portrait which hung over head,
and bid him emulate the heroism and patriot
ism of the departed.
“It is a prouder inhsritance to you, darling,”
she would say, kissing him passionately, “than
if ho had left you a throne. Think how your
heart will glow, in years to come, when you
see men pointing to you, and saying, ‘His fath
er, too, was one of the grand army.’ ”—Peter
son’t Magazine.
A WEAPON OE DEATH,
A Whiskey bottle mounted on a gun char
riage, as a field piece, is the latest conceit of
Binniuger the great, who is welcome to this ad
vertisement we shall give him. The design is
an excellent one and highly appropriate. Nev
er cannon hnlimbdred, or, columbiad brought
to bear, that has equaled Whiskey as a weapon
of death.
Talk of long range guns—three, four or five
miles. Why, Whiskey' once killed a brave
young fellow on the Pacific const, and the same
shot went clear across the Continent and killed
the sailors boy’s mother, in, Maine. That’s a
range that will do to talk of.
We are in the midst of war and preparations
of war. Ah immense activity prevails in the
invention and manufacture of the weapons, of
death. ■> 1
Rifle factories are busy and. huge forges
groan os the columbiads take shape beneath the
hammer. Yet cot a weapon shall go forth in
this war more distructive to the armies of the
Government and Rebellion alike, than that
which is before us in the similitude of a cannon
mounted upon a tiny truck— Whiskey.
The list of the “killed and missing” before
the war is,over, will be something fearful to
contemplate, and what a,list of “ wounded” will
come back to us, all to down to this des
troyer that will follow the camp and more than
decimate every company of the brave fellows,
who will meet no fiercer or more relentless foe.
It will entrap and slay them singly, guerilla
fashion; it will muddle the brains of the field
officers, and whole ranks will be mowed down
as the penalty.
It will do no harm for oar soldiers to be
warned of this in. time; for the appointed pow
er bo times to advise of the necessity that no
friend, to this enemy of bur troops; be placed
in command, where the Colonel or the General
of Brigade or Division, may be wrought upon
by whiskey and brave men pay the penalty.
An enraged gentleman, addressing, from his
chamber window, a youth who had been ser
enading his daughter half an hour said: “ Yon
are a great bore, and I think you intend to
keep on boring until you get water,” adding,
“here it is,” emptying a pitckorfull upon bis
head. ' , , i,
WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT.
It seems that this, legend of the nursery is
based at least upon historical truth. The Rev.
Samuel Lysbns bos published his proofs ; and
we take the following from a review of bis book
in the Gentleman's Magazine :
“ Richard Whittington was t!he third son of
Sir William jC bittington, of Psuntley, in Glou
cestershire, descended of a good and ancient
family, bat who were then in straitened cir
cumstances ; and Sir William -died, an outlaw
when Richard was only two years old. Trade
wai then, ns now,'a common resource for the
yootoger sonn of good families; and, as there
wees no roads and no stage-coaches in the days
le Third—and it is nnt probable
jpy, the younger json of a reduced
afford to have a horse of Ijis own
i improbability in the story that
iralk to London, and gladly availed
pack-horse on the way. Mr. Ly
iuccs what appears to him good
tiering that the story of the cat is
i. He has, at all events clearly
Whittington did marry bis master’s
d that he was three times Lord
ndon.
one of the most wealthy of the
ant princes/ of his day, and also
ost pious and most munificent.—
y lent large suras of money to the
roved by extracts from the rolls;
y of his burning the bonds may
He was a mercer by trade, (ind
wedding irolisseaux to the Prin
he and Philippa, daughters of Hen
jh. That he built the nave of West
bey is proved by the Royal Com
tbis purpose, a. d, 1415, printed in
v to Mr. Lysons’ volume. lie also
of .Edward tl
th4t a mere I
hofse, could
—there is n(
he set out to
himself of a
sons also ad
reason for b<
literally trm
proved that'
daughter, an
Mayor of L<
■** He was
great merchji
one of the n
He frequent]
king, as is p
and the stoi
also be true,
supplied the
rases Blanc
ry the
minster Abj
mission fur
the append!
ipel attached to Guildhall, and en-
Ihuroh of St. Michael, Paternoster,
) was buried; be also built and
built the thj
dotted the C
in which hi
glazed the windows of the hall itself; be found
ed and endowed a college, and be left money
to rebuild lhe prison of Newgate. Pennant,
after mentioning the rebuilding of Newgate by
Whittington’s executors, says: ‘His statue,
with the cat, remained in a niche to its final
demolition, on the rebuilding of the present
prisnn. It was destroyed in the fire of 16G6,
and rebuilt in its lats forpi.’ In 1421, Whit
tington began the foundation of the library of
the Grey Friars’ Monastery,,in Newgate street.
This noble building was one hundred and
twenty-nini i feet long, thirty-one feet in breadth,
entirely celled with wainscot, with twenty-eight
wainscot d< sks, and eight double Settees. The
cost of furnishing it with books was five hun
dred and fifty-six pounds ten shillings, of which
tour hundred pounds (equal: to four thousand
pounds of our present money) was subscribed
by Whittington. .The edifice still remains in
tolerable preservation, and forms the north side
of the great cloister of Christ's Hospital; hav
ing in two places an escutcheon with the arms
of Whittington. On the ordinances, or rules,
for the reg Ration of his college, is an illumina
tion representing Whittington stretched on a
tester bed, ibis body naked and emaciated with
sickness ; his bedside surrounded by his (four)
executors; his physician, and a group of twelve
bedesmen, recipients of his icharities. An en
graving by Reginald Elstrajck, who flourished
about 150(), professes to be(a • vera effigies, or
true likeness, of that most: illustrious gentle
man, Richard Whittington,(Knit.;’ and repre
sents him an his robes as lord mayor, with a
collar of SS, and his hand resting ton a very
pretty catj ■ It is pleasant to find such grounds
for believing this favorite story of our child
hood a true story after all; and that, to the de
lighted ears of a real flesh and blood personage.
Bow Bella once seemed to sing, or say, ‘Turn
again, Whittington, Lord Mayor of London.’ ’’
A REAL LADY.
“ Yes, indade, she’s a rale lady,” said an
Irish girl admiringly, wh|>m we passed the
other day in the street; “ her hand is as white
as pot cheese, and you wouldn’t know she was
in the hopse, she is so quiet.”
We confess to sharing the poor girl’s admi
ration for the “ rale” lady, even tp the “ white”
hand, provided its pressure is soft and kindly,
the brow iabove it indicative of pure thoughts
and womanly aspirations, and the heart be;
neath the rich drapery generous and sympa
thetic. lit is a pity to think that there are so
fex women of the real lady stamp; they are
recognized anywhere by the inherent tact and
exquisite grace which is part of their birth-,
right, and as they are always perfectly attired
with the same instinct of true artistic taste,
are-good and beautiful to look at, as any other
admirable work of God or man. One thor
oughly bred lady is a better educator of taste
and manner than a dozen teachers at enormous
salaries; every color she wears, every combi
nation she suggests, every movement she makes
is a jess, whose effect may be seen and noted'
in future) generations, if we could only pene
trate beneath the surface of things.
How easy it is to recognize her presence in a
car, a steamboat, or wherever there is a public
assemblage 1, How her quiet self-possession
contrasts with the fidgety of the
majority! o£women Her dress seems to adjust
itself without any trouhlje; its colors are so
well chosen as to present no remarkable fea
tures, and nothing to remember but its perfec
tion, She is as charming an object for contem
plation as a lovely landscape, a fine picture, or
anything else which, satisfies one’s ideas of
beauty and fitness, j .
A vulgar fine lady is a« different from this
as can well be imagined $ her presence is rec
ognised by her show and pretension. Her col
ors are the brightest, and Arrayed so os to pro-,
dace the most glaring contrasts. Her exag
gerated robe is always spread out to its utmost
amplitude, and she exacts the sacrifice of
every' other person’s comfort to her conve
nience.
The vulgar woman is economical to mean
ness, excepting when the object is her own
personal gratification, and then she can be ex
travagant enough; the genuine lady on the
contrary, is liberal wheat others are concerned,
and if she finds-it, necessary to exercise econ
omy, dues so in her personal expenditures.—
j She Joe* not indulge in large outlay for pastry
andperfumes, and oat her seamstress and wash
erwoman down to starvation prices, or perhaps
neglecp to pay. them at all. She surrounds
herself with beauty, because she loves it, and
can properly afford the luxury, but not at the
sacrifice of justice, or even generosity.
1 i ~
QUALIFICATIONS FOB PBOVIBIOHAX.
* | CEETIFICATEB.
| TO COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS.
It desirable that a uniform standard of
qualifications for Provisional Certificates shall
be observed in every part of the State. To that
end, the following instructions have been pre
pared!;
1. Moral Character is the first qualification
of a teacher; and admission to the profession
is not! to be based on the .mere absence of open
objection in this respect. Positive knowledge
of propriety of conduct, is to be a pre-requisite.
In the absence of satisfactory evidence on this
point! the certificate should be withheld till re
liable] information is procured; and in case of
ascertained delinquency, it is to be refused en
tirely! no matter what the other qualifications.
2. Scholarship, to secure a Provisional Cer
tificate, must be of as high a grade, in the
branches included, as the supply- of teachers
in the county will afford. In the numerical
scale! No. 1, (see note at the foot of the form of
certificate,) is to represent attainments equal to
a Professional Certificate ; No. 5, will indicate
such |a degree of deficiency as should prevent
the issue of any certificate whatever ; while the
Nos. |2, 3, and 4, will designate the various dif
ferences of qualification within the range of al
lowable Provisional Certificates. Few coun
tiesfhowever, should now be so low in the grade
of their teachers, ns to be compelled to employ
any worse than No. 3, except perhaps in geog
raphy and.grammar; and whatever the maxi
mum of deficiency allowed by the examining
officer, no certificate should be issued with num
bers (greater than that maximum.
The numbers in the respective branches
should represent, at least, the following degrees
of scholarship:
Orthography —s. Failure to spell the majori
ty of the common words proposed, with total
ignorance of the rules of orthography,
4. Ability from practice to spell common
words correctly, but failure in some of the more
difficult and rarely used words, with ignorance
of the principles of orthography.
3. Ability,'from practice, to spell correctly
all the words of the language in general use,
without any knowledge of the principles of or
thography.
2 V Ability to spell correctly all the words of
the language, with some knowledge of the gen
eral principles of orthography.
1. Ability to spell without hesitation, any
word in the English language, and to explain
and apply the principles which govern its or
thography.
Reading —s. Inability to read without fre
quently miscalling the words or hesitation in
pronouncing them, with ignorance of punctu
ation. ,
41 Sufficient readiness in naming the words,
but,with disregard to punctuation and want of
vocal modulation, :
3. Faculty in enunciation, with considerable
knowledge of punctuation and power of vocal
modulation, but without knowledge ofUhe ele
mcritary sounds of the language and principles
of elocutionary reading.
2. Ability to read readily in a clear voice,
with correct pronunciation and modulation,
with faculty in the use of the phonetic sounds
and some knowledge of elocution.
I. Ability to read passages in different styles,
in prose and verse, with such facility and com
majnd of tone, inflection, emphasis,) &c., as to
render the true sentiment-of the author : and a
satisfactory knowledge of the principles and
rules of elocutionary reading.
Writing —s. The bare ability-to commit words
to paper legibly, but withoutbeauty or uniform
ity) ol character, or proper position of" the per
son, and correct holding of the pen.
4. Power to writs with'some facility and uni
formity of character, but without proper posi
tion, or any knowledge of the elementary forms
involved in the letters.
- 3. A good and uniform had, with correct po
sition of person and pen, but without knowl
edge of the elementary forms of the letters.
2. A beautiful baud, with propriety of posi
tion and a full knowledge , of the elementary
forms of the letters.
|l. A beaotiful hand and great facility of ex
ecution, with propriety of position of the per
sop and band, and a knowledge of the reasons,
therefor; and the ability to, delineate the "prin
ciples” of any standard system of penmanship,
and to make a correct classification of the let
ters, and in addition, to bo able to represent,
rojpidly and accurately, letters, diagrams and
th’e figures of objects, upon slate or black
board, I
; Mental Arithmelic —5. Totab unacquaintancc
with this, as a separate department of mental
discipline in arithmetic.
1 4. Some readiness in giving the correct re
sult to an ordinary question, but without the
power of giving any account of its solution.
|'3. Considerable facility in the Primary men
tal arithmetic and (accuracy of solution, but 1
without the power of instantaneous reproduc-1
tioo or repetition of the question proposed.
■ 2. Proficiency in the processes of the Prima
ry mental arithmetic, with the power of prompt
reproduction, accurate solution and satisfactory
explanation. !
j 1. Power to apprehend instantaneously, re
produce promptly, solve intelligibly and explain
clearly, any problem within the ordinary scope
of mental analysis.
W ritten Arilhmttc—s. Failure in the princi
ples of notation, numeration and of the four*
primary rules, or any of ithem.
j 4. Considerable proficiency in notation and
numeration and the four primary rules, but in
accuracy and want of readiness in their combi
nations in fractions, reduction, proportion and
interest.
; 3. Respectable faculty in solving questions in.
the ordinary rules and combinations of written
-arithmetic, without ability to satisfactorily ex
plain the principles involved.
1 2. Faculty iu solving all ordinary questions.
Bates of Advertising.
Advertisements will be charged $1 persqaare of 1#
lines, one or three insertions, and 26 cents for every
subsequent insertion. Advertisements of less than 10
lines considered as a square. The subjoined rates 'Till
bo charged for Quarterly, Half-Yearly and Yearly ad
vertisements ; I
{ 8 vottrss. 6 nosing. IS >oktb»
! $3,00 $4,50 $6,00
6,00 6,60 8,00 .
7,00 8,60 10,00
Square, - ( -
2 do. i
3 do* *
8,00 9,50 12,50
15,00 20,00 80,00
i column, • { •
4 do. .
Column, - . 25,00 36,00 60,0 f
Advertisements not having thennmber of insertiot t
desired marked,upon them, trill be published until or*
dere’d ont and charged accordingly.
Posters, Handbills, Bill-Heads, Letter-Heads andsll
kinds of jobbing done In country establishments, ex.
ecuted neatly and promptly. Justices’, Constable's,
and other BLANKS constantly on hand. .
with considerable ability to explain and apply
principles.
1. Ability to solve any problem In common
arithmetic, to explain the principles of the va
rious prooessess and abbreviated modes of op
eration, and to logically show how results are
produced; with a good knowledge of book-keep-'
ing.
Geography -I—s. Entire absence of knowledge
of the science, as derived from books.
4. Some knowledge in the local details of de
scriptive geography, without accuracy in the
definition and use 'of terms.
3. Correctness in the definition of the terms
of descriptive geography, and sufficient knowl
edge of the relative position of countries and
prominent localities, with faculty in map-draw
ing otrthe black-board.
2. General accuracy in descriptive geogra
phy, and its definitions; respectable aetjuain
tence with 1 the astronomical relation- of the
earth to the solar system '; and sufficient knowl
edge of physical geography ta account for cli
mate and production and map-drawing. -
1. A sound general knowledge of deserip- .
tive, physical and mathematical geography,
with facility 1 in presenting illustrations to the
eye, in accounting for physical conditions, nat
ural productions and in suggesting the histori
cal associations of interesting localities.
Grammar ,—s. Entire ignorance of grammar
as a science, with the habitual use of incorrect
language.
4. Knowledge of etymology without skill in
the syntactical relation of, words, but with com-'
parative propriety in the use of the languages
3. A sound knowledge of grammar, as inclu- I
ding orthography, etymology, syntax and pros
ody, with the power to compose, capitalise, j
punctuate and paragraph correctly; an ac-. ]
quaintance with jthe nature and"methods of or- '
al grammar and ability to instruct therein, and
the habitual use of grammatical language.
2. A sound knowledge of the elements of
grammar, with facility in explanation and in
struction ; familiarity with the laws of written
composition, and a respectable knowledge of
the logical analysis of sentences, and the use
of correct language.
1. General knowledge of grammar as a scl- '
ence, with facility in logical analysis, acquaint
ance with the derivation of words, skill in the
various styles, habitual use of correct language,
and facility ip explanation.
Other Branches— lt is recommended that
candidates for the provisional certificate, be not
examined in branches other than those above
named, which constitute the courses; enjoined
by law. There may be exceptions to this rale;
bat it is to be borne in mind, that the ol jeet of
the law evidently is to sectire, by proficiency in
the enumerated studies, a solid foundation for
higher acquirements.
111. Professional skill consists in a knowledge
of ths theory of teaching, derived from treat
ies or lectures; and the practice of teaching,
based partly on instruction, bat chiefly on indi
vidual experience. In the former, the candi
date is to be questioned and proficiency marked
at the examination, as in any other branch;
but in the latter, though practical questions
will necessarily be put at the examination, the
candidate’s standing is not then to be designa
ted by number. This is only to be done after
visitation! of the school and observation of the
practical failure or success of the methods em
ployed. ! _
Theory of Teaching—hi Ignorance of the
fact that there is a science of teaching. ,
4. Recognition of the fact that there is such
a science, with somg knowedge of its princi
ples and relations,to the human mind, but de
rived wholly from experience in the school.
3. Considerable knowledge of the theory of
teaching, embracing modes of organising the
school, classification, methods of construction,
school teachers’ responsibility,
&c., derived from standard works on education,
with evidence‘of attendance on district and
county institutes.
2. Satisfactory knowledge of the theory of
teaching from the perusal of standard works
and periodical, or from Normal instruction,
and the study ot mental science; with a knowl
edge of the Constitution of the United States
and of this State, and of the school system of
Pennsylvania, together with membership iu
the local organizations for the advancement
of the profession. , ,
1. Knowledge of the chief Iheoriea of teaoh
iug'and methods of _ instruction that have been
promulgated, with reasons for the preference
of such as the candidate may have adopted;
proficiency in- mental and moral science,, as
relating to modes and means of culture.; fa
miliarity with forma of government, and the
school .systems of. other States an I
and active membership iu the. local
professional organizations.
Practice of Teaching —s. Failing to effect
proper attendance, order, or progress, iu the
school. . t
4. Medium attendance, order, and progress
but without satisfactory qualification or regu
larity of method.
3.-Good attendance,, order and progress,
with sufficiently good classification and meth
ods of instruction, but without neatness in the -
school-room and grounds, or high moral tuuo
in the pupils.
2. Satisfactory attendance,,order, progress
and methods, with well kept school-house and
‘ grounds, and improved moral tone in the school,
but little interest on the part of the commu
nity.
1. Large average attendance, perfect order,
satisfactory progress', neatly kept aebool-bodse '
and grounds, high moral tone -in the schools,
and due interest manifested by the community.
It cannot be oxpectnd that exactly the same
combinations of qualification that are here
grouped together, will always or even often bo
found to exist. But a -general similarity in
1 each of the grades may be expected; and con
ditions of knowledge or experience Equivalent
to those now described, cun be adopted in their
stead, in the awarding of certificates.
Ttros. 11. IJi«ROWs,
Supt. Com. Schools.
School Department, Jl*y, IPfiJ,.