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C0IFNOT TAW IN ADVANCE
"What They Say."
BT MB8. L. U. BIGOrHNET.
Wouldst thou know what troubles many 7
What annoys them night and day ?
Not a frightful myth, or robber,
But the spectre What they say."
"What they say." It hauata the maiden
When her hat or dress she buy3 ;
Goads the matron till she maketh
Husband's purse a sacrifice.
To the orator it clingeth ;
Daunts the statesman in hia dreswn ,
With the pulpit-ttachcr etealetb.
'Tween him. and his highest theme.
'What they say." Well, let them aay ;t,
Airy echo, licet cs dew ;
When they've breathed it, 'tis forgotten ;
They who h ecr, forget it, too.
Wouldst thou know what rules the million ?
Themis, with her ancient sway ?
Pomp and tramp of banner'd legions?
o ! the bubble ''Vv'hat they say."
IloniaitCc Incident in tbe Ufe
of President Johnson.
We were sitting in the pleasant parlor,
engaged in quiet and dreamy chat, and
gazing out through the open casements
jpon the smiling September landscape.
All that afternoon my good friend, Johu
Simmons, and I had been "fighting our
battles over again', and recalling recol
lections of pleasant friends I had Lnowu
iu Laureosvilic before the war, but who
wero now lorever absent from iheir once
happy homes. I had not seen Simmons
lor t-everiJ years, and having arrived in
Laureusville on the morning of this par
ticular day, on urgent business connected
with that part of South Carolina, I was
profoundly rejoiced to see his frank,
ciisery, hoi:c6t ficc, and to feel a hearty
grip of his ruuseukr hand when I entered
the home-liko and comfortable tavern of
which he wtu the hospitable host. I was
much fatigued traveling over these rouqh
roads, and at once accepted his invitation
to terminate iuy journey ior a day or two,
and recruit undr his genial treatment
After d inner, I lay upon the tofa in the
parlor, listening to JohVd quiet, rippling
talk, full of reminiscences of old friends,
and part ml " the tima watchio the" quick
and graceful action of ? .Mrs. Simmons'
Gnpers. as they fiew over the knitting
noedies thut she was busy with. Sho was
a very pleasant, bweet, low-voiced lady,
aud 1 had often envied my. friend John
his rare luck in finding so worthy a com
panion. "By the way," paid John, fuming to
me, after a pause, "I have becu for the
pa?t few days recalling a wll-:.igh for
'goUcn recollection, but which the events
of the last few months have brouaht back
freh and vivid to ray mind. Did I ever
tell you of it ?"
"Cannot fay you have," I answered,
"as I have co idea what ynu mean."
"Oh ! well, I mean to say would you
like to heer it ?"
"Certainly I would. Proceed !'
Mr. Simn:on3 glanced apologetically at
his wife, and then lit a cigar, first handing
me one, which I declined.
"Many years ago, when I was a young,
inexperienced fV.low, just beginning to
think of courting a swofitljonrf 1
the bcquintance of a young, energetic,
talented rt.an vcrv ouict and mia-su-
liiing. but exceedingly interesting ia his
appcaratice, ever: to ti.o i:iott casual gaza.
I v.-s at that time boarding with an eld
fr-ccd cf ray father's, Archie Bridy. Que
evening, about du.sk, ju?t oa via were
fitting down to s-uppcr, the door cf the
disiiug rcom. opened and two young men
entered, both of tl.rw travel-stuinc 1 uod
wry, having journeyed a long way on
foot. One of thotu vras the brother in-law
of Mr. Bridy, named Jauus Pmrers : the
other was the gentleman I have men
tionod. I felt attracted toward the latter
zt the first glance, by the modest and
gentlemanly dtv.ier.nor he manifested.
1 he brother-in-law explained the reason
why Ihey had made to unexpected a visit.
lhcv had beeu living in Kaleigh, r.orth
Carolina, where they had commenced to
kern a trade. Their instructor, however,
was a rough, unjust, brutal tyrant, ad
his conduct towards them, at all times
extremely bad, became at last so utterly
unbearable that they were forced to the
conclusion of leavir-g him. This vras ac
cordingly done, acd there they were, at
bit. Bridy's, on that particular evening,
. wr n r! innrcorA l.nf ,1
full ci energy.
"With cn.aracf eristic energy, the com
panion of Powers proposed to Mr. Bridy
to finish learning their L us: peas under his
instruction. To this proposition he read
ily consented, aud the next morning they
fet to work. For some time, of course,
their lives wero not varied by any incident
calculated to break the monotony of their
business. But in a short period the
qualities of the two began to be perceived
iu 6uch a inamer as to present a" most
decided contract. Power?, the brother in
law of Bridy, was, in all respects, a very
ordinary man. He was not etrictly atten
tive to business, his work wa9 not well
performed ; in short, he was of no partic
ular account, except to fight chickens, and
race horses. In these essentials ho was
very good; and 1 do not know any better
EBENSBURG, PA. THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 1866.
judge of the merits of a good cock in all
South Carolina than this same James
Powers. But the other ah ! Captain, he
was made of different stuff, I tell you!
His habits were uniformly correct and
praiseworthy steady, reliable, and ex
ceedingly industrious. His firm, quiet,
decided manner, so full of resistless ener
gy and gentlemanly bearing, attracted
toward him the attention of many think
ing men, and I have frequently heard it
predicted that 'he would make something
yet that was famous.' His evenings and
epare time were spent in reading and iu
thought, aud his conversation was fell of
well digested reflection. At length, how-
ever, he
,:ot into
a very usual habit of
young men, aud did not pay quite so much
attention as formerly to read in sr." and
here Air. Simmons' eyes glanced with a
mischievous twinkle at hiswife, who, dear,
kind old ladv, was busily engaged in
knitting,
ing,. had
tnd, being rather hard of hear
not listened to her husband's
story. "He and 1 found ourselves des
perately in love with two young ladies,
and we visited them frequently, I can
assure you. Won't you take a cigar?
I declined again, aud pausing a little
while to light another one, John continued
his narration.
"I was deeply smitten with the charms
of the lady you seo knitting yonder, aud
he became enamored of her cousin. Miss
Sarah W., a most estimable and worthy!
girl, and, by thc way, not a little impressed
with my agreeable friend. We visited
these ladies very frequently; sat late,
talked long, and each une attended to his
own interests, now mind I tell you. Ah,
Captain, those were glorious days ! After
all there is nothing like courting, aud the
happiast time a man ever spends is with
his sweetheart. I could get sentimental
even at this old age; but you are young,
and I'll be bound know something about
those things yourself. I wouldn't mind
trying therj over again. I was successful
in my wooing, as you can see, for thtre
tits the same girl, though a little older;"
aud he pointed towards his wile with a
deep, 'loving look iu his bright, honest,
eyes. "But, poor fellosr, he wasn't, al
though it was no fault of the young lady's,
for she was willing enough, I tell you.
The trouble was with the mother, who was
disposed to be a little aristocratic. Upon
making-known hia wishes to her, she
became very indignant at Lis request, flew
into a violent passion, taunted him with
his poverty, ordered him out of her house,
and,- as a final, stuuning rebuke for his
presumption in asking the hano! of her
daughter, she screamed at the top of her
voice
'"i'ou want my daughter, doyoo? No,
sir, know what jou want; you want my
property.'
"And," laughed John, "perhaps it
would be in'eresting for you to know how
great was this property. It consisted of
two hundred. acres of the poorest land in
all South Carolina, four negroes (two of
them very old), eight hounds, one cow,
and a few chickens. The heirs to this
immensely valuable estate wero four
daughters, all of marriageable age, thus
giving to each, as her share of the per
sonal property, one negro, two hounds, a
chicken or 60, and a fourth pan of the
diiily lacteal yield of thc aforesaid cow !
No wonder the unreasonable presumption
of my young friend met with sj severe a
condemnation ! The old lady missed it,
though," he continued gravely, "and the
youug cue well, there are many hearts
that suffer, and yet throb on until time
makes them forgetful of the passionate
glow which once thrilled them tjthe core.
She afterwards married, was blessed with
as fine a family of children as ever called
womau 'mother,' and still lives not tar
distant from her early home.
"But my youug friend (for. whom I en
tertained an aifeetion that was mixed up
with great respect and admiration), though
mortilied, aud, for the time, disappointed,
was made of to) 'stern etulF to bo much
affected. His prids was aroused, and the
sensitiveness of his wounded feelings for
he was as sensitive as a girl made him
the resolute, energetic, lofty-reaching man
hs has since become. Not long after this
event, he paid up all his debts, took his
pack on hi back, boldly struck across the
mountains, and settled in a little, obscure
village, where his indomitable cuergies,
his comprehensive talents, and his kindly
heart, made him the idol of his neighbors,
nuu iuo itcijiisui ui ineir mguest puuno
trusts. And, Captain, that poor boy who
was thus disappointed in love who slept
l. . : a. .1. i. i . ?i- i
in tho same bed with me for uiauy a long
month who worked hard through the
day and studied until late at night, and
who didn't marry that young 'ady for her
mother's , property that poor boy, Cap
tain, is Andy Johnson, President of the
United States!"
5
j&ST We have been asked the question
what material makes the best bed com
forter ? Being inexperienced in such
matters, we reler the querist to tbe com
mittee on domestic manufactures of the
Hudson County Fair, who put what may
be styled an answer to the question in this
wise: "Best bed-comforter Misa Jane
Van Buskirk."
m m
CS?- "Mary, at what hour do you dine ?"
"As boon as you goes, sir ; them's missus'
order-!"
A Contrast
In the State Legislature a few days
since, a scries of resolutions with refer
ence to the Reconstruction of the llebel
States was up for consideration, when
Hon. Samuel C. Wingard, of Lycoming
county, a member of the House Commit
tee 6u Federal Relatione, gave the follow
ing caprtal description of the Democratic
party : .
; '-Vir, it is not my indention to scold the
gSEtlcmen with whom I sit so comforta
bly on this side of the House, and from
whom I receive so much personal cour
tesy,' although differing with them in
politics, and who still delude themselves
with the belief that they belong to the
old Democratic party. Of that old or
ganization, which once existed, I was an
humble member, voting for Buchanan and
Douglas but when the war broke out, I
followed thc great' Union party banner
and have never regretted the alliance.
In fact, I have found so many of the best
and wisest of the old Democracy with me,
that I-felt perfectly at home, and to-day,
if I were to go back in search of that
defunct institution, I should be like the
Hebrew woman 'weeping for her children
because they are not I should seek for
one half of them crouching under the
dirty, defeated rag of secession, and the
other halt (with many honorable excep
tions, some of wloui I recognizo here)
under the flag of the Knights of the Gol
den Circle, in active sympathy and co-operation
with slavery and heinous rebellion
which it engendered, or otherwise in open
hostility to the Government which has
brought us through eeas of blood to a
redeemed nationality
"Sir, it is no new thiog that gentlemen
upon this side oppose amendments to the
Constitution, although tho gentleman from
Westmoreland has shown how they have
favored certain kinds of amendments
Why 1 They say it is calculated to lessen
the respect of the people for that iustru
ineut, to change it. Sir, it is scarce two
years since it was proposed" to amend the
Constitution of this State so that her citi
zens, who had been freemen at home, and
heroic freemen in the field, should exercise
the elective franchise while facing the
fctorrn of war, as well as the patriots, or
coTjsjrds, or deserters, who" reuiainod-t
home; and we were told the same thing
then, and warned against tampering with
the Constitution. The election came, and
ono hundred and five thousand three hun
dred aud fifty-two freemen yes, free
tcfu'h' men, too, calling themselves Demo
crats voted to ruako white eoldiers, in
thia respect, no better than the blackest
Kthiope, above whose shoulder gleamed,
in peerless contrast, the sheen of the bay
onet. That, sir, was the first vote ever
cast in Pennsylvania iu favor of negro
equality, and it was cast without admix
ture by the Democracy. To them and
their posterity will belong the honor, until
our chronicles fade into dead language,
far back in the misty oblivion of the past.
"But, sir, I thank heaven a belter day,
from tho signs, appears to be dawning.
With the return of peace come also cou-
rtiition lor tho past and promise lor the
future. Atiu I am here to night with
words of encouragement and welcome to
our long-lost prodigals of the Democracy.
All we ask is 'true belief tud true repeu
tancc '
"Sir, I was gratified exceedingly last
week, in the other chamber, to learn of
that tyre of a Pennsylvania gentleman,
the Senator from Berks, who has been
one of the principal leaders of the war
peace party Jor the last four years, that
he endorsed the President. What a relief
to that gentleman and his confreres that
they have found new associations! With
what disgust must they look back upon
their old cabal of Chicauo! If Andy
Johnson were to honor this Legislature
now with a call, how would our Demo
cratic friends vie with cao'i other for a
place upon the reception committee !--How
would they press to touch the hem
of his garment ! They who, but three
yeara ago, cried, 'Away with him away,
with the military usurper away with the
drunkard away with the boorish tailor
i away .with all who support or defend
him with Lincoln, tho ribald jester
with Duller, the beast with 'Grant, he
slaughterer with irrepressible conflict
Seward with Stanton, thc tyrant, the
Nero of the Cabinet with Lincoln's hire
lings away with everything but Wood
ward, and M'CIellau, and slavery divinely
sanctioned if not divinely ordained !' Sir,
is there nothing in all this retrospect to
induce us to welcome the Democracy?
I feci like erecting an altar to my country
here, and inviting the Senate to join us
while we sing the invitation hymn which
has brought thousands to a better fold
'Come ye sinners, poor and needy, weak
and wounded, sick and sore Yes, sir, I
would go farther. I would call around it
the North and the South, the loyal and
the disloyal Norman and the loyal and
disloyal Southron. I would elevate the
effigy of the murdered President. I would
try by military or civil law more than two
leading thievea and murderers of the re
bellion, and, if convicted, as they should
be, I would execute them in the midst of
the people, and' high over all I would un
furl the healed, preserved, victorious flag
of the Union, that whosoever should look
upon it and desire, should be forgiven of
all political sin.
''Sir, will gentlemen vof e fcT the amend
ments to this resolution endorsing the
President, and vote against the resolution
itse'J ? .If they do, they will present the
anomaly cf blowing hot and cold, for
mere is not a word in the resolution which
the President has not frequently avowed.
The Democrats, whose new-fledged lore
of him has been hatched in the nest of the
dove of peace, after years of vituperation
of the man and his measures to say that
they now endorse him, while they are un
changed in their opinion of thoic meas
ures, is fulsome sycophancy, wi.ich I would
be loth to attribute to the geutlemen cf
this side of the House."
Election of County Superinten
dents. The following wise and timely remarks
on the subject of the election of County
Superintendents, taken from the official
column of the Penna. Scliool Journal,
are commended to the careful considera
tion of all School Directors :
On the first Monday of May next, the
directors of the several counties of tbe
Commonwealth will be called upon to
elect Superintendents for their respective
counties, to perform the duties cf that of
fice for the three years ensuing. The
office has now bean in operation twelve
years, and its good results are apparent to
all who are unprejudiced. The director,
teachers, and thc people now understand
what kind of men are needed to stand at
the head of, and direct the educational
interests of the counties of the State, and
as it as supposed that such men asjire re
quired, are to be found in every county,
none but the best men should be selected.
A County Superintendent should be in
scholarship equal, if not superior to any
of the teachers of his county. This is
necessary, in ordor that he may be able
to exauiiue them in all the branches that
may be requirjd to be taught, aud also
that he may intelligently inspect all the
schools in the various departments of
science pursued. Without this superior
ity, he cannot command the confidence
and respect of those with whom and for
whom be is to act. He should be thor
oughly versed ia the elementary depart
ments of the sciences that are required to
be taught in our common schools. It ia
not enough that he bo a superior scholar,
as that expression is usually understood ;
ho should be perfectly familiar with the
elements, as well as with the higher de
partments and more abstract sciences.
He should be a practical teacher, or he
should have been such within a few past
years. This the law requires, as pointed
ly as it does that he be a man of learning.
The words of the act are the directors
shall select "ono person of literary and
fccientific acquirements, and of skill and
experience in tho art of teaching." A
person, therefore, who has never taught,
or who has not been closely identified
with the common school system for the
last eight or ten years, should not be se
lected. Such an individual's thoughts have
been upon other subjects, and whatever
his literary attainments may be, he is not
the man to put in charge of our educa
tional machinery. Our eytcm is a pro
gressive one, aod it has made sreat ad-
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vauce ana secured great results while he
has been standing still or retrograding in
school aHairs. Such a man cannot take
hold of thc system us it now is, and carry
it forward as it should be conducted.
The County Superintendent ought to
be an earnest, energetic, zealous, working
man, who has kept jace with educational
improveuieat of the age, a man who un
derstands the history of our system, and
who has read, to some extent, the history
of school systems of other States. While
he should be cautious to not introduce
new things, because they are oew, he
should also make use of all real improve
ments lor the benefit of the schools. He
should not be a politician, in the general
acceptation of that word ; that is, he
should not be a man who, by his active
participation in party strife, and petty
political wrangles, ha3 rendered himself
odious to those who do not belong to his
party. Tbe doings of this officer are to
influence all parties oipon a subject of
vast importance to the well-being of the
State. He is to operate with the youth of
the Commonwealth, not of a party; and
he should therefore be a man in whom all
have confidence as a person of honesty of
purpose, how much soever he may differ
from them upon questions of State and
National policy. It he be a working, in
triguing politician, he cannot secure tho
confidence, and good will, and co-operation
of all classes.
In order that the Superintendent may
be able to do the greatest amount of good,
he must have the confidence aud support
of the teachers of hia county ; without
this, he will to a great extent be power
less. They must feel that he is their
friend, to whom they can go with all their
troubles aud difficulties, and find a sym
pathizer. That, although he is often
obliged to refuse their requests, they I
know tuat ne does it from a sense of du
ty, rather than from a desire to wound
their feelings.
NUMBER S4.
The Superintendent should bo an easy,
ready speaker. It is of importance that
he be able to present the cause of which
he is for the time being tho exponent, ia
such a way as to interest and instruct an
intelligent audience, and arouse the people
to an. appreciation of" the importance of
thc cause which he represents.
Men should be selected for the position,
who are' willing to give all the time to the
duties of the office, that is requisite for
the best iuterests of the schools in the
county: men who will watch with sprl!.
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care the interest of the cause of education,
and to ever ready to act with, or rather
to lead the friends'cf the cause, whenever
good can be accomplished. No man should
be elected, merely because he is worn out
in another profession, or because he. can
use the superintendeney as an introduction!
to something, more lucrative, or that will,
after awhile, briug him more prominently
btsforo the public. Disappointed politi
cians, worn out clergymen, or physicians,
or attorneys, or gentlemen of leisure, are
not such men as are needed to take chaTjre
of the Common School System of this
Commonwealth.
Let the best men be elected that can bo
found in the several counties of the State,
and our noble school system will be safe
in their hands, and a s'teady advance will
be made from year to year. But on tho
other hand, if party strife, or personal
favoritism, or local differences enter into
and determine the electiou in any of the
counties, in such localities we may expect
to see the -schools poor, the people unin
terested, and the whole system unpopular.
Tne TuSrcTAtlsintic Cable,
The preparations for laving the Atl&ntio
cable, during the coining summer, have
bean recommenced in England, As before,
the Great Eastern, commanded by Cap
tain Anderson, will be employed j Mr.
Canning and Mr. Clifford again to be
entrusted with the mechanical task of
laying the cable and the mysterious De
Sauty agaiu in charge of the electrical
department. The new ca'jle is identical
iu construction with the last, except its
outer wires, which are galvanized, will be
closely covered with Manilla hemp, and
that it bears a ttrainof from fifteen cwt.
to a ton more than that of last year.
About one hundred and sixty miles of the
cable have been made, and the manufac
ture will soon proceed at the rate of one
hundred mi!e3 per Week. Early ia June,
the Great Eastern will leave Valentia
with the new cable on board and agaiu
endeavor to lay it in the Atlantic loNew
fouudhind. If this effort be successful,
the great steamer, having taken in a sup
ply of coal, will return to thc mid-Atlantic,
to grapple for the last lost cable; tho
locality can be ascertained within a quarter
of a mile. Two other vessels will bo
provided with scientifically constructed
grappling apparatus, which, it is calcula
ted, will bring the cable to the surface if
it once be laid hold of. The attempt will
be to grapple it in three places, at inter
vals of about two miles. When recovered
more correctly if recovered a messago
will be sent through this old cable to
Valentia, to test iu electrical condition,
and if this be good, ic will be spliced oa
to that part of tbe old cable which re
mained ou board tho Great Eastern, after
last year's failure, acd tho mammoth
steamer will then proceed back to New
foundland, trying to lay a second Eub
Atlantic telegraph. Of course, many
casualties may interfere with these ar
rangements and projects, but, at present,
what we have here stated constitutes the
cable programme for l&GG.
5 c .
S"A joke is told of Horace Greely,
who occupies a part of each day at the
Bible House building, in preparing the
secoud volume of his "History of tho
American conflict." Coming out on the
street, one afternoon, more abstracted aod
slovenly than usual, he unconsciously fell
in with a crowd cf vagrants, who were
being taken from the Toombs to Black
wcll's Island. Noticing, at length, the
company he was keeping, ho endeavored
to get out of tho rough lot, but a police
man not having seen him join the crowd,
and thinking he was a vagrant trying to
escape, seized him by the collar and
marched him to the Mat, amid the jeers
or thc unfortunate wretches who believed
him to be one of them. Mr. Greely pro
tested again and again that he had several
editorials to write for the Tribune, and
must not be detained ; but this declaration
caused the po!iciuan to declare that the.
"old covewas crazy," and must go to the
lunatic asylum. The boat, full of male
factors, had already steamed out into tbe.
river, when some one on the vessel reo
ognized II. G. mad as a hornet, and
using some very strong expletives by this
time and released him from his disa
greeable predicament, greatly to the de
light of the perplexed editor, and to the
profound mortification of the over earnest
policeman.
If, as literary men assert, German
poetry is a problem, may it not be cor
rectly styled a llager-rhythm V
t-The fact that this Republic is no
longer in its infancy is abundantly proved
by its ability to stand a-loan.
figy Thoughts on the next election
Va-gearye.
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