InlUc Same ana hf tlio Aui riarity
. (if thn Co inmonweallii ot rcrfii.
i sylvan la.
ANDREW G, CURTIN,
fO VEHNOIi OP TBS SAW COMMON ! WALT IT.
A PROCLAMATION. -,
"Whereas, for some time past it j iaa been
known that persons, professing to bef igents of
other-States, bare been busily tampri ing with
-our citizens at boms and in the arifi r t endov
A’nrihgjpby false representations, to iti l|ice indi
viduals to enter or re-enter the sertAV from
Ahose States, and remonstrances have been in
■vein 1 made against the continuance'of this pal
try system, of seduction ;
: And whereas, information has noV been re
tired that one of the regiments of Pennsylva
nia has'enlisted almost bodily as from another
State ; and it appears to be necessary to take
some public means to pnt our citizens on their
guard against the arts by which results so dis
astrous to the men and their familii s may be
effected in-others of her regiments r?I ich Penn
sylvania has delighted to honor;
• Hbnf, therefore, I, Andrew G. Ci} f n. Gover
nor of the Commonwealth of Penn I; Ivnnia, do
issue this, my proclamation, addn Sued to nil
•citizens of the Commonwealth, bu i especially
and emphatically to her veterans 5 I the army,
cautioning them against allowing ti lemselyes to
seduced from her service. By. enlisting in
wgiroents of Other-States, they their
families at home of that generous; and liberal
aid which our law has provided for them as a
right, and riot as a charity ; they fjll not enjoy
the right of suffrage which an 'Jpproaching
iimendment of the Constitution w( (give to our
absent volunteers ; they cut the! selves loose •
from the ties which bind them to their homes,
and which bind Pennsylvania to g ve them con
stant care and assistance in the fir td—an obli
gation which our State has never t selected. I f
wounded or sick, they will no longfr be fostered
by our agents, arid received tppjause and
consideration, as men who have dine honor to
Pennsylvania ; they bring the hiitory of their
regiments to an abrupt close ; thfiir names will
no longer be entered on our rolls t all the glo-'
j jiVuß recollections of their valor Aid sufferings
will Tie sickened by the fact tb }t they have
abandoned their native State; des‘Tted the great
Commonwealth under whose banter they have
earned for themselves and for her. the highest
reputation for courage and all thei martial vir
tiiesj and that they have done tl « under in
ducements which are in fact unfoß ided, and at
the very time when their friends a-,d neighbors
mt home were preparing for themjijnnties pro
bably larger than those offered bother States,
and certainly much larger, if the iipport affor
ded their families be taken into amount.
I therefore appeal to our nobleilplunteers not
to abandon the Commonwealth. "She has been
proud of the glory which their d "urse hitherto
has shed abundantly on her. A{ a mother, she
hos a right to the honors to be nin future by
bcrnbiJilren, Stand by her, ana she will stand
by yon; and yon will have the tf cheat reward,
iu the grateful affections and sympathies of
families, your friends, your, teighbora, and
your fellow -citizens.
Brit if yon leave her for the st twice of other
States, you throw atvay all these —for ikeir peo
ple will regard you merely as nOrjeharies, and
when they hake fulfilled ibeirbargaina, will
leaveyou and your families, to - j)ifc for your
selves. Recollect yohr homes ol i your fami
lies, and your friends, and ,ihe 1 tinners which
the Commonwealth, first bestow id. upon you,
which you have .carried so gloriof ily upon many
a bloody field, and which, defac d by shot and
shell, but still bearing the namj. of the battles
in which yon have been disting isbed, she has
provided for receiving at the,ch ie of , the war,
, and preserving as holy relics of .our patriotism
nnd devotion to the cause of an common coun
try. These things are worth' n bre to you and
to your children than money. ; Do not grieve
and disappoint your friends Joy abandoning
them all. < ■
I take this occasion to enjoin rriporj all magis
trates, district attorneys Jjiy-t ,bAl*r officers, ft
strict vigilance in enforcin'® tl laws* of this
Commonwealth, against all ,pe» ana who shall
within this State attempt to rc-c. nit volunteers
fw other States. , , , -* 5 \ '
■[t,. s-3 Given under my bfluiland the great
seal of the State," at HarrisV fg, tfee twenty
fourth day of February, i(j- he year of our
-Lord one thousand -eight ho dred and sixty
dour, and of the,Commonwealth the eighty
eighth, . A 0. CURTIN.
Bn Slifer, ■
Secretary of thikT imtoonwealth.-
(Credit ok .the Draft . A treat mistake is
hieing made with refference ta he credit on the
(trait, and many districts, aCajT having expend
ed large sums of money to fis£ up their quotas,
will find that they hare notin icality furnished
n soldier, to secure exempts l ion the present
call. The error is n this manner
Agents arc now in this city i rons nlf/parts of
,the,State, looking after the v. terans who have
jqst returned on furlough. 'ljiese agents make
it.a huisncss to bargain veterans, pay
ing each soldier a certain suD. ;of money to al
low : hitnself to be credited te a’certain district,
when that veteran has already been credited
end received a bounty. Thojocnlity of the en
listment of the veteran—wl.flre he was first
credited—cannot be and waf tot changed when
he re-enlisted. Hence the < ;ong of tempting
these men into allowing tl;e"p .names to be cred
ited to the localities only nffr ■ offering bounties.
In all eaces, such .oredita wf: be disallowed by
the Provost .Marshals in tl • several districts.'
The people will at once set (lint if the double"
credit wefo allowed, the Government would get
no soldiers, while the people would be enor
mously tirxed- , *
This is an important «:>ject, and we trust
that great care will be take? to prevent the in
jury likely to result through, it, from becoming
general,— Jlarrisbwff Telegraph.
Tge EsiisTRENT of Yet^baks. — Some time
since Captain J. Herron Pctjter addressed a let
ter to Col-J. F, Bumford, <|. A. Provost Mar
shal General cf PennsyJvniia, inquiring as to'
the right of crediting the ,'eterans re-enlisting
to certain districts in the £ ate. Colonel Bum
ford didi not reply to that i itter, but referred it
to the Provost Marshal General at Washington,
from which -Department the following reply
was directed to be issued s
War Deparjk sst,
Provost Marshal General's Office;
Wasihkgtos City, b. (!•, Feb. 28, 1864.
Capl. J. Hrrron Foster, Provost Marshal 22d
Putrid, Penn’a. —Sir; Yoi > letter of the 28tb
ult., asking what assurance can be given nom
tnitteeg in paying bounties p veterans that they
will, receive credit for, bus been received.
It it not in the poicey.a f the Provost Marshal
Oeneralto give ang ami ranee of the kind; as
tilt. n>eo art; already enlijtea and mustered into
the service. This tolls are in tha custody of
the Adjutant General, and no thcmgS can .fie
made in them without producing 'conTufeion nnd
errors. The veterans have tiirertdyfeceiced frbe
eminent bounty and enlisted by Virtue of it
, i Very respectfully,.
Your obedient serv’f,
HENRY E.MAYNADIER, -
, Captain D, S. Army.
—We notified the people on this subject
some weeks since, so that the districts suffer
ing from such credits have no right Jo sympa
thy. Thousands of dollars have been lost in
this way—paid by districts for veterans who
have been already credited to the Government
liererafter it must be plainly understood, that
the veterans were credited to the Government
before they returned home on furlough, and
that two credits cannot be made for one soldier.
—Harrisburg Telegraph,
THE AGITATOR.
M, H. COBB, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.
WEX.X.SBOKOXTGB, PENN’A:
WEDNESDAY, ; : : MARCH 2. 1864.
From tho Washington Chronicle.
BEWARE OF THE BOGI
Whert party leaders display unwonted regard
for and devotion-To principles or the joommon
welfare, they will hear watching. It will he
remembered that, up to the very eve of his fa
mous, or rather infamous, coup d'etat, Louis
Napoleon exhibited a.daily increasing zeal in
the work of .enfranchising the .French people.
So, down to the very withdrawal of Jefferson
Davis,and his compeers from the Congress nnd
the departments, none were louder in their lau
dations of “ the palladium of our liberties”—
the Constitution—or more zealous in their ad
vocacy of popular rights. It is common for
men when meditating treason, either social or
political, to distinguish, their last moments bf
formal loyalty by extraordinary devotion to the
object they are about to betray.
These facts are brought to mind very often
now-a-daye, and particularly on perusal
Congressional proceedings. .Among the increa
sing multitude of schemes for obstructing ;the
difficult but still mensurable progress of public
affairs by the opponents of the Administration,
one of the most remarkable is that concocted by
Mr. Dawson, of Pennsylvania. Eager to show
the fervor of his regard for the gallant men who
man our ships of war, ha proposes to pay them
in gold, or its equivalent. is recently that he
found material for a harangue in this novel'ffTo
positjon. On the face of it, the proposition
certainly betokens a most generous regard for
the men who fight our battles on the sea, and
along our rivers; and were such a generous re
gird and appreciation consistent with the record
made by the faction to which that gentleman
belongs, during the years of this war, and for
many years previous, it would become no man
to go behind the proposition in search of un
worthy motives. » •
But the proposition is not nt all consistent
with the record made by Mr. Dawson and his
fellow factiohists. Bor years he and they have
been most servile apologists for and strenuous
advocates of a system which can exist onlv
through the cruelest abasement of tbe soul and
the bitterest degradation of honest labor. They
have connived at the wholesale robbery of mil
liotys of men and women, ast well as at the per
petuation of the condition which puts one man
at tbe mercy of another, and constitutes him a
fit satject for robbery.- When the autberats of
this system demanded more room for it to ope
rate —more room for a system,which operated
to make dependence instead of independence
the unvarying reward of labor—neither Mr.
Dawson ribrhis’ friends hastened to demand a
certain and adequate compensation for honest
s :rvice. ’On the contrary, they ignored the
principle involved, and voted unlimited field for
the diffusion of slavery.
■But the question takes on still another objec
tionable aspect. Why pay in gold, or its equiv-’
nlent, when the public evidences of- debt are as
available to satisfy judgments and mortgages,
and to lift minor evidences of debt, as gold it- -
self? One hundred dollars in greenbacks will
satisfy a judgment for one hundred dollars as
fully, and as legally, as so much gold." So, for j
all business and legal purposes, jpaper Is "as good ;
ns gold.
■ The matter, then, draws itself into the domain
of simple purchase in the markets. It is plain
that here a gold dollar will purchase more than
a paper one. But why make- distinctions in
labor? Why not propose that the man who
makes your coat or your boots shall also re
ceive from yon gold or its equivalent ? Or the
.women who make clothes for sailors and sol
diers—why not propose a similar payment of
gold, or its equivalent, for such labor ? ' What,
in good part, produces the present depreciation
of paper? Is it.not because of the inflation of
the circulating medium ? If that medium were
suddenly expanded half as much more, would
not gold sell for still more thjn it does to-day ?
The object is now to prevent any greater infla
tion of the currency, and so prevent further ap
preciation of values. Were onr soldiers and
sailors paid in the equivalent of gold, it would)
not reduce the price of a single article of pur
chase, or a single necessary of life. "So long as
the extraordinary financial strain continues,
the cost of things roust appreciate to a certain
point. But the appreciation of values can ne
ver, in a free-country, exceed the appreciation
of wages. In this country no working man
Starves because flour is ten dollars a barrel.
He strikes for a corresponding-rise in wages,
, and not in vain. .
But gold is ho longer n circulating medium.
During the last war with Great Britain, it occu
pied substantially the same position. In 1837
it again almost disappeared, save from brokers’
windows. So the financial situation isnot un
THE TXO«A
precedented.. And if it were, there is that
which is equally unprecedented! in the demands
of the times.
But wo forgot." Neither Mr-. Dawson nor his
friends care tha toss of ft copper about justice
to labor. They desire to bring tha jcurrcncy
into discredit, apd thus assure Jefferson Davis
-that, altliough absent, he ia never forgotten.
- ■ ’ :m. n. c.
EDITORIAL ICOBEESBOKDEBTCB.
- Washington,' February 25,1864,
•, If yon will go into a large school-room during
the mid-day intermission, you may got a fair
idea W the condition of things in the House of
Representatives during a session. ' If there be
no school-room convenient, wait until next May,
and kick over one of your liveliest beehives.
You may gain a tolerably just idea' of “the
House in session,” in that way. But- if you
wish to ieam something of primeval chaos, you
can nowhere do it so weiras in the galleries of
the House after the morninghour. There, it is
not ari'upusual thing to see a hundred forms
uprise,, a'hundred arms . outstretched, and to
hear a hundred voices crying, in all gradations
of sound, from thunderous bass to piping fal
setto, "Mr. Speaker!” Of these one hundred
cries the Speaker can recognize but one. When
this recognition's made, the remaining ninety
nine subside into differing degrees of quies
cence; but he mustbeaman of mark, who can
command a hearing even after recognition by
the Chair.
Looking over the turbulent sea of honorahles,
one may see every form of bead and face, and
every expression of countenance. Nearly front
ing the Speaker, on the main aisle, you may no
tice a “ square built” man, with brown hair,
low, broad forehead, and a not unpleasing face.
If there is anything positively wrong in the
contour of that face, it must be in the under
jaw, which is massive and firm ; too massive,
too heavy, for the npper.face. You might not,
probably would not, pick this man in a crowd;
and really there are few public men who would
be distinguished in a crowd. But having your
attention drawn to this face; you would study it.
This man has great firmness and tenacity of
purpose. The lower face indicates great ener
gy, and considerable intellectual strength. The
face pleases, yet repels. You feel that the
owner is wilfully conscious of power. He is
self-poised. He is all self-assertion, lie can
not be intimidated by trifles. If ho enlists for
the right, he will fight a good fight. That is in
the constitution of the man. If he gets-wrong,
■ his obstinacy will cause him to make a heavy
battle for the wrong. Ho Is not a diplomatist,
but a bold, frank, unconcealed enemy, if an
enemy at all. . He does not care to be thought
better than he is; he cares little whether the
world gives him credit for even the good'that is
in him. When you examine his head, you see
that it.is broad at the base, but not high. . In
deed, it is rather fiat on the top, showing
eiency in the moral faculties. 110 is no splitter
of hairs on questions involving nice distinctions
of morality, either in publicor private business.
His intellect is clear, but not cold, because he
baa strong passions. He is an impetuous man.
Opposition does not discourage, but inflames
him. That is Jame| Brooks, of the New York
Express, and one of ,'the most dangerous sympa
thizers with rebellion in the North. More dan
gerous than. Fernando Wood, (though not as
able,) because Fernando Wood carries the seal
of villainy on his forehead, and he who runs
may read.
Behind James Brooks sits, a man whose head
and face indicate great benevolence of heart.
The head is large, the forehead high, and prom
inent in the center, the brow and nose Grecian
in contour., With a better and more versatile
intellect than Brooks, you at onco feel that the
impetuosity of the latter will carry him further
into public notice. This man shows culture
and fineness of feeling, rather than force. lie
would be found binding up wounds, rather than
giving them. As you pursue the study of his
face, you arrive at the conclusion, that while he
is quite fallible, he is not the man to plot a
wrong. Convince him of the right, and be will
adhere to it to the end. 'When the wrong be
comes defined to hia mind, no man will more
scrupulously avoid it. This man will not suc
ceed ns a politician. lie lacks daring, has no
great and vaulting ambitions, like Wood and
Brooks; them, ho has a conscience,
This man is James T. Hale.
I might prolong these studies until the sub
ject was exhausted. But time and space ad
monish to brevity. So good night. M. 11. C.
W.vsbibgton, Feb. 20, IBQ-{.
If I nm to credit common report, there is
now in this city a very wonderful man indeed.
This is Mr. C. 11. Foster, of Salem, Mass., in
whose presence aro said to occur most over
whelming demonstrations of occult power, and
intelligence. Mr. Foster is a young man, lately
returned from the tour of Europe, where ho was
honored by the patronage of crowned heads,
pripces, dukes, marshals, nobles of all grades,
and by the most notable scientific and literary
men of the continent and in Great Britain, As
he produces tho most positive evidence of such
patronage, I conclude that plain republicans
may venture to go and see him, without dam
age. At all events, his rooms are now crowded
poorly with patrons, representing all the pro
fessions, and every class of respectability and
position. Unfortunately, or otherwise, as peo
ple may View the fact, none but the well-to-do
can afford the costly luxury of an interview
with Mr. Foster.
y I am informed by men and women, whose
veracity will not be questioned when they are
known, that the demonstrations of power and
intelligence in Mr. Foster’s presence, are ut
terly ioexplainahle by any laws now known in
the domain of science. I hare seen and talked
with sev?rql qool, clear-headed, intelligent per
COUNTY 'A-GIT ATO R.
sons; who have visited Mr. Foster, and their re
port is—“ very wonderful and very satisfac
tory?! ‘ '
The order .of proceeding''aeems very simple.
Mr. F. prefers that visitors should write the
names of persons on slips of paper at home,
and so roll or fold them up that no one can read
what is written. These slips ;nrr laid;, before ‘
Mr. F., and he selects, seemingly at random, a
roll, which he tosses to the visitor. Before the
latter opens tjie ballot, the name therein is gen
erally written by Mr. F,, or dictated through
him. But sometimes a still more marvelous
thing happens, to wit—the name, or the initials,
are seen to appear in bright red, and well
formed capitals, upon his arm. A variety of
messages usually follow, some in the nature of
extraordinary tests, end some of a general na
ture. -
■ One gentleman, who went to see the “ won
der-worker,” two days ago, received a rather,
singular demonstration. He had prepared a
series of questions, bn a clean sheet ol*white
paper, leaving a wide margin upon one side, up
and down the sheet, Upon which to register such
answers os migh t-be received. This paper he
folded carefully before leaving home, and gave
into Mr. Fetter’s hands. The latter closed his
fingers upon it a moment." and then threw it
down before the visitor, remarking that there
seemed to be no reply. The visitor put the pa
per in his pocket, and soon after returned home.
On taking the paper nut, just as he received it
from Foster, folded precisely as he folded it be
fore going, he fdnnd,| occupying the entire blank
space'up and down) the page, a finely drawn
oak leaf, —draiwn in) pencil. .
“Now the visitor never lost sight of the paper
while Mr. Foster h eld it, nor was it unfolded at
all until he returned.
How came the drawing upon the inner sur
face of the sheet?
That is a question I do not propose to an
swer. I only know that I saw the drawing, and
listened to the gentleman’s story as above rela
ted. His veracity is entirely above suspicion;
and he is very unlike the sort of men who can
be humbugged by any common hocus-pocus.
I mention these facts, because they are cre
ating considerable stir hereabout, and because
Fosteris all the rage among the ion. I under-
stand! that he declines to theorize, but-leaves
the visitor to carry pff the facts and construct
any theory he pleases.
One thing is certain : Ihai investigations are
being prosecuted by a class of men who will not
grope blindly, ignorant of scientific laws, and
who will escape the charge of a too credulous
habit of mind.
The air, at present, is redolent of spring.—
Daring the past week, however, we have had
extreme cold and high winds, the mercury sink
ing lower than at any lime in twenty-five yeSrs,
in this city. Its lowest declension was zero,
where it stood at daylight at the crisis of the
cold term. The Potomac was frozen over for
the second time this season. M. H. C.
Advices from North Carolina state that the
Rebels will.undoubtedly make another efibrt to
drive Gen. Peck’s forces out of the s f a(e.
They have three iron-dads nearly ready to
move down the Neuse, Roanoke, and Tar Riv
ers, Our late raid troubled them-greatly, by
destroying a vast amount of commissary stores.'
It is said that Gov. Yance demands the expul
sion of the Union forces from the State troops
in confederate service. Hence, it is theorized,
the Rebels will abandon Virginia and plan
their next battle-field in North Carolina. \
The battle of Olnstce, Fla.; was fought on
the afternoon of the 29th inst. , Onr troops, un
der Gen. Seymore, met the enemy, 15,000
strong, 55 miles beyond Jacksonville and Tal
lahassee Railroad. The battle was liesperately
fought during three hours, and then, at sunset,
onr forces, overpowered by numbers; retired to
Sanderson, taking with them the greater part
of the wounded. The 7th Connecticut, 7th
New Hampshire, 40th. Massachusetts, 48th
and 150th New-York, and Bth United States,
were engaged. Col. Pribiey of the Bth Uni
ted States was left dead upon the field. Col.
Reed, a Hungarian officer, was mortally wound
ed. All the officers of Hamilton’s Buttery
were wounded. Col. Guy Henry of the 40th
Massachusetts had three horse? shot under him,
but escaped unhurt.
A dispatch from Memphis", dated Friday, ro
asserts tho statement that Selma, Ala., is in
possession of Gen. Sherman. The reports
from Gen. Smith’s co-operating column of cav
alry are not favorable. Strnglers say- that the
Rebel forces nnder Forrest, Bhoddy, Lee, and
Adams have been concentrated against him,
and that at West Point Miss., a severe battle
had been fought, in which Smith was driven
back. Smith’s reverse is attributed to tho slow
movement of one of thp brigades, which de
layed the expedition eight days. A report
that the entire expedition was slowly falling
back toward Memphis was discredited.
There is news of importance from tho Army
of the Potomac,-bdt it is merely the announce
ment of q forward movement. On Thursday
night about 100 Rebels crossed near Raccoon
Ford, but speedily returned witboutdoing dam
age. About a dozan took the occasion to de
sert, and come within our lines. A reconnois
sance made from Fairfax to Wulf Run, on
Thursday last, found a strong force of Rebel
cavalry at that place. It was reported, but
without confirmation, on Saturday, that a por
tion of Gen. Lee’s army was moving down on
the west side of the mountains toward Harper’s
Ferry.
Tbo Richmond Enquirer of the 27th says
that if Grant defeats Johnston, Georgia and
Alabama are qpen to him, and Mobile will fall
without a struggle. The Examiner says : The
fate ot Mobile is inevitable in the affair of Grant
and Johnston, and the enemy wofild naturally
await the resolution of that crisis rather than
incur a needless hazzard in attacking Mobilelat
this time.
A Washington dispatch says that Gon. Sher
man never intended to go to Mobile, and is npw
iq a safe position. ' .
WAR MEWS.
[For the Agitator.!
COMMON SCHOOLS.
■ Since the tenth of "June last, all the schools
in the county, except those that have been tem
porarily suspended, have been visited an aver
age of an hour and a half each. Frequent,
storms and the bad state of the roads during
the winter, have somewhat interfered with the
progress of my visitations. I spent one week
at Harrisburg, attending the State Convention
of county Superintendents; and lest this week
may be deemed by some'misspent time, and so
much lost to the schools, I insert here an ex
tract from a letter received from the State Su
perintendent :
“If the teachers and directors complain that
it (the convention) will take you from your du
ties, you can free yourself from all blame in
the case, by saying that you go in compliance
with the requirements of the Department, and
for the purpose of preparing yourself more fully
for the discharge of yoor duties in yonr'county,”
The proceedings of this Convention will pro
bably be published in the February number of
the School Journal, and will contain much that
is important and interesting to directors and
teachers.
From the character of many of the school j
houses in different parts of the county, I judge I
it will be necessary to levy taxes for “ building !
purposes” for several years to come. I know i
directors do not like to inenr the responsibility
of raising heavy taxes these " war times” but
let them only take care that the money be judi
ciously expended, and they will be sustained.
We want substantial, comfortable houses, well
finished and painted, but neither fanciful nor
extravagant. I remarked, as the result of my
first month’s observation of schools and school
houses; “ There does not seem to be enough
attention paid to the arrangement of desks and
seats.” Five months more in the school room,
have only served to confirm this opinion. Al
low me to make a few suggestions to school di
rectors es to the arrangement of school furni
ture ; Long desks and scats, extending around
the room, next to the wall, are abominable.—
They serve as runways to mischievous boys,
while the teacher to occupy the
center, over the stove, and to keep constantly
turning round like a top, in order to keep “ an
eye” to the conduct of the pupils. As a ren
eral rule, the seats should face the tenclier’s
desk, and they should be made long enough to
accommodate only two pupils. The best kind
of a teacher’s desk, consists of a chair and a
table, with a drawer, lock and key. These
should be placed on a platform;- six inches in
height, at the end of the room opposite the en
trance and the stove. The, teacher does not
need to be as near the fire as* her scholars ; for
she is more actively engaged than they are.—
The teacher’s desk should be so placed, that the
necessary noise occasioned by scholars running
in and warming themselves by the fire, will not
interrupt recitations. The wall of the school
room, back of the'teacher’s desk, should con
tain no windows; it should he reservei for
blackboard surface. Light enough can be ob
tained through side windows. I regret to say
that many of these particulars have been disre
garded in the construction of school bouses, in
the past. Will directors be more carefnl in the
future? These suggestions will be found to
correspond with the instructions of the “ Penn
sylvania School Architecture,” page 32. A
copy of this work has been sent to every dis
trict in the State, and wav designed to he kept
as the property of the school district, in the
hands of the Secretary of the board. ’
There are now two hundred and forty-one
schools in the county. I have no hesitation in
saying that the educational interests of the peo
ple would be far better provided for, if there
were'but twd hnndred. Less teachers am] less
taxes —less number of schools and larger and
better houses—houses better filled and teachers
better paid,—these are the maxims by which
the actions of school officers should be gov
erned. But it will he nrged that vety small
children cannot go so far to school. The reply
is: ray small children ought not to go to school.
True, the school law admits into the common
schools children at the ago of five. But very
few children are benefitted by going to school
at that ngc ; and I think none ever become any
better scholars for the tuition they receive so
young. They cannot study,—it can hardly be
said they learn. They are merely taught ; and
they scarcely remembefi a single idea from one
terra to another. They get false notions of
schools, for the reason that they are not capaci
tated to go forward in the path of knowledge
with alacrity and pleasure; and as they grow
up, thejy become disgusted in what they cannot
excel ;]and thus it is that wo have in our schools! j
so manly thoughtless, heedless, mischievous boys |
and girls, who eventually ripen into blockheads j
or rogues. Children learn to be bold, impu- j
dent and ungovernable, if sent to school too'
young. Better keep them at homo for a while, ]
even though they should be a little green and
awkward on entering school for the first time.
They will bo the more studious for it—and. will
eventually become the better Scholars and the |
more useful men and women. j
By the time this appears in print, I shall
have sept to each district Secretary not already
supplied, blanks for affidavit and annual dis
trict report. Directors are 1 reminded that the
Department will not receive affidavits for the
Stafc appropriation, unless a five cent revenue
stamp is affixed and cancelled by the President
of the board.
JKSW The spring session of the county insti
tute will bo held at Osceola, March 15, IG, 17
and 18. It is appointed at this time, to accom
modate Hon. C. H. Coburn, State Superinten
dent, who is expected to be in attendance. I
Y. A. ELLIOTT. Co. Sup’t.
Cherry Flatis, Pa. Feb. 24, IBG4.
A Strange Phenomenon,— The Trumpet pub
lished at Elizabethtown, this county, relates
the following singular phenomenon;—
An unnatural phenomenon took place in Ra
pho township, three miles east of Mount Joy
on Thursday last, at the residence of Martin
Inly. Ills daughter, aged 18 years died a quar
ter before So’elock. After the usual ceremo
nies were attended to, towards morning the at
tention of the mother Was drawn to the corpse,
when she discerned something unusual on the
lips of the deceased; 'attempting to remove it,
apparently a voice seemed to say, let it remain.
Astonishment caused an examination, and tlje
fact was, there appeared in the middle of the
lips and teeth, a complete rose hud ready to
open, on the left side of the bad a full bloomed
rose (what florists call a double levy rose). On
close examination it was ascertained that the,
bud and rose were a hard substance to the touch,
and in appearance like ivory. It was percepti
ble that from the first and last nights of the
phenomenon it enlarged. Thoughts were en-‘
tertained that the remloval of the body to the
burying-ground (which was in a hearse and
oyer a iqilo of rough Jroad) might cause a sep-
ination, but the bud aud still remained as
■when first seen, only increased perceptibly j B
size. Ths rose and bud was as white as ivory
and supposed equally hard. ’
, Many persons were eye-witnesses of-ths fact.
/The rose was very natural, and those not know
ing the Tact, felt satisfied that it was a natural
rose and bod placed there as an ornament; and
reports caused many to witness the fact. The
disease of the deceased, was measels, a relapse
took place attended with a cold, which caused
her death. —Lancaster Examiner,
Op General McClellan’s report, tha Cincin
nati Gazette speaks in no smooth terms: “It
is the whimpering plea of a lubberly lout, ac
cusing others of the nuisances in which he
has been detected. It is no military report}-
No such document ever emanated from a soldier. -
And it is false as a military history."
Mercantile Appaiscment
FOB TIOGA COUNTY, FOR THE YEAR ISM.
Class. Tax.
biossbuko.
A L Bodine. gro. 14 $7 00
John U Martin, gro.
& cat’ng house, 14 700
J C Erwin, •14 700
J P 3fonell, groc’jr, 14 700
Smith & Swan, boot
and f»hoo 14 7 00
JMos<liurgG{:iB«Co.l3 10 OO
Stephen Bowen, gro-
cery, 14 7 00
Mrs 0 Ltulloran, gro
eery, 44 7 00
Salt Company of On
ondaga, . 14 7 00
80. In Blow Tsp> It 7 On
James Gernon, 14 7 00
BROOKTOLD.
Wm-Simmons,
14 7 00
corntoTOX
G F Baker, groc’y, 1-4 7 off
WmVife. grocery, 14 700
Bennett 4 Willson, 13 10 00
S S Packard, 13 13 50
T 'V* Tiiomas, 14 700
CHARI ESTOX.
L Cummings, 14 7 00
T\'m Adams, 34 ,700
CT.T3TEB,
Thomas Stone, Jr. gro-
cery. 14 7 00
Wm O Bristol. 14 700
J U KusUmorc, 14 700
DQ MAR.
J 9 Cole 4 Brother, 14
IXERJ-lEID,
G W Brown, groc'y 14
J Stoddard, 14
ELXLAXD.
Parkbnrst Sc Co., 33
10 00
FAR3HXGTOS.
Hiram Merritt, 14
CAINES.
A V On",
S X BUlings,
14 7 00
14 7 W
JACKSOTf.
M K Retain, 14 700
David Chmcher, gro
cery, 14 7J)O
KXOXVTLLK.
J & Son, 14
J Boorman, 14
O Vlioach, groc’y, 14
Giles Robots, bard- .
warp, 14 7 00
VT D Knox, eating
liow-c & grocery, 14 7CO
J 1£ Stubbs, 14 7 (!0
Ll 5 Reynolds, * 14 700
Gc»> Abbott, groc'y,l4
C Parkbnrst, drags 14
Job n Potter, groc'y 14
B II Clark, groc’y, 14
C 9 Mather 4 Co. • 13
X&J \V Tubbs, 13
Vr G Miller, drugs, 14
Joel Adam*, Jmot and
shoo, 14
James Kinsey, hard-
7 00
7 00|
7 00
7 00]
lOOO:
10 0U
7 U 0
ware, 14 7 OC
£ I) Welis, cabinet
dealer, 14 T CO
LIDERTT.
Abraham Fnlkrod, 13 10 00
X,»rl**r A Moore, '33 10 0C
Kiitbarr Boot, 13 10 Of
Sami Hartman, gro-
eery, .14 T CO
O R Shcfßrr, groc'y 1 £ 7 ou
Bemh.irU Seelemnp 14 7 00
jnpr*LETnniT.
S Bennett l4
31C Putter, 14
Notice l*» hereby given thal
Commissioner's Office in lIVI
March m\t, between tho lion
which time ami place all persor
appraisement will be heart), am
are deemed proi>rr anti Just: ai
p‘‘ar at sud time and place wii
defence, before me.
TOMmro. March 2,I?Cf.
AdaiinHtialor’i) Notice.
LETTERS of Administration de InnU non having
been granted to the subscribers on the estate of
Kara Davis, Into of Mansfield, deceased, notice is
hereby gixcn to thoso indebted to said estate to make
immediate paymen*> and those having claims to pre
sent thorn properly authenticated for settlement to
the subscribers. WARREN S. DAVIS,) ~w .
. JOUN A. HOLDEN,
Mansfield, March 2 ; 1851-tit.
ESTRAT.
CAME into the enclosure of the subscriber in Del
mar township, on the 14th of February, a Black
Cow, with no artificial marks; the owner is requested
to prove property, pay charges, and take her away.
Delmar, Eeh. 25, ,1851-31* AMOS TYLER.
LIST OF LETTERS remaining in the Post
OfHpe at Wellsboro, Feb. 29,15G4:
Bonnell,'Francis S. Knapp, Mrs. Wm.
Borden, Mrs. Lucretia Knapp, Miss
Earnum, David Little, Edward R.
Clement, Mrs-Mary A. Mark?, George
Carpenter, James D. McDonough, Ml?* Anna
Cloason, Miss Emma Martin, Mrs, B.
Makar, Mrs. Masy
Doolittle, A. Beam, Zemon
Dibble, John r Steward, Ed. If.
Darlfc fc Cbauncey Steel, Wm. H.
Evans, Miss H. L, Towner, Joseph
Firman, Charley H. 1 Weodficld, James
Furman, Levi Willard. Miss Jane A,
Furman, Miss Eleanor Webster, 0 P
French, Mrp.Sarah, E. \YUson, Misa Anna 2>
How, Terry Wilson, Mrs Adalino 2
Holland, Mrs Finely Wilson, Mrs A D
Impson. Ernest
Persons calling for any of the above letter?, wils
ploaso say they are advertised.
, HUGH TOUNG, P, M.
CAUTION.
WHEREAS, my wife, SARAH WORDED, has
left my bsd and board without any just
cause or provocation, I hereby caution all persons
against harboring or trusting her on my account,
hs I shall pay no debts of her contracting after this
date. t CHARLES WORDEN.
East Charleston, March 2, 1884-31$
Administrators’ Notice,
LETTERS of administration haring bct-r granted
to the subscribers on the estate of Thomas B.
Hoodcnough, Into of Covington, deceased, notice is
hereby giren to those indebted to make immediate
payment, and ihoso having claims to present them
properly authenticated for settlement to *
BUTLER SMITH, \ A(W -
A. VT. WILSON, ’) Admrsfc
Covington, March 2>.ISG4-6t*
Administrator’s Notice.
LETTERS of Administration having been granted to tJ*
undersigned upon the estate of Horace Dam We* 1
Mansfield, decM, all persons indebted to said estate ate
quested to make immediate payment, and those havio?
claims against the same must present them duty
cutfd for settlement, to -A. J. ROSS, Athn' T ’
Mansfield, Jau. 27,18&4-dt.
CAUTION.
WHEREAS, my wife, ANNA, has left my he-l
and board without any just cause or provoca
tion ,* X hereby forbid aft persons harboring or tnj**'
iag hep on my account, as X will pay no debts oi
contracting after this date-
RICHARD ROBIXSO-V
Covington, fob. 17, 1364,-3t c
Molasses an* syeup-iuNo. i, articia
of WtU at fair prices at MATHERS <
- Cta4l. Tax.
luntSßpßo.
P D Parkharat, 14 700
Pan! Cud worth* 14 700
A Bobbins Jr. dx'gs 14 700
Fox ± Witter, 14 700
i S & U B Bnmsey,
eat’g house A gro 14 7 00
MORRIS,
T C BrOwa, groc’y* 14
jLUfsnnn,
t. Cummings, IB 10 OO
Wm. Adams, 13 10 00
U S Holden, groc’y 14 . 7ou
Martin King, prorl
»i«u, 14 700
E A Fuller, groc’y, 14 *7 on
C V Elliott, drugs, H 7 o<>
AJ4 E LI Webster, 14 700
J A Boss ACo 13 lo ou
Kiff A WcCleanon,
' —hardware, 14 7QO
SUSOJ,
QII Baxter ACo 14
03CZOLA.
II C Bosworfch, 14 7qq
17 C Stubbs, groc’y 14 700
V 0 Phelps, 14 ,7 00
Crandall &. Seeley, 14 7o>
ECTLA.VD.
0 L Strait,
O 7CO
TIOGA 8080.
S 0 Daggett, 13 10 00
>V T Urelf, groc’y, 11 7w
U H Jofmauii. " 14 7ou
S U Alford*,eating
bou-.LQ & groc'y 14 T Off
B\V Uiark, 13 lo ft>
£ A Sinead, hard;
warp, 34 700
T £ Baldwin, 11 1# 00
II £ Smith St Son,
bout and shoe, 14 700
•Toalish, 14 7 ft)
E C PUb, groc’y, 14 700
PS Tuttle, 13 10C0
Borden & Bennett,
drugs, 34 700
lIR Fish A Co. gro, 14 7 00-
UFAIAVeUs, 14 7 00’
TIOGA.
Jas Kelly, grocery, 14 700
WESTFIELD,
Im M Edgcomb, 14 700
Cbas Goodspeed, 14 700
Ambrose Close, 14 70d
K Knwon &Co 14- 700
•I U& 3 O Mutdock,l4 7yo
9A & X Buck, gro, 14 700
WZLLSHuRO.
Thomas Ilarden, 12 12 off
Jl* Bowen. 32 12 .V/
Jrrome Smith, 12 12 So
P H Williams; dr'gslA 7 00
C L Wilcox, 14 7 ft)
Illugh Young, books
and stationery, 14 7 ft)
W T Mathers, gru, 14 7 ft)
Q TV Sears, boot and
shoe, 14 7 OO
Wright 4 Bailey, pro
vMon, 14 700
Bullard 4Co 12 12 50
I A Hoy. drugs, 14 700
Wesley Pitta, eating
house k groc'y, 14 700
M M Converse, 13 10 ft)
Wm Townsend. gr>
eery & pru>iimn,U T Ob-
G Hustings 4 Co, gro
cery, 14 715{V
mV Rimljup, groc’y.l4 7Off
JI) Jones, groc'y, 14 7 Off
Wm Roberts, bafd-
ware, U ,7 OO
Michael Schwnrtzcn- !
liacb, brewery, 10, h CiO
* WART).
Fall Crook Coal Co, 14 700
it an appeal will be held at the
llsboro, (in the SOth day of
:ir» of 10 J\. M-. and 4 P. M„ at
ns aggrieved by the fore*joins
id such abatement? made as
iml all persons failing leap*
II be barred from making any
E. J. PURPLE,
Mercantile Appraiser.