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COURT AFFAIRS.
January Terra 1556.
GRAND JURORS.
David Bratton, Mechanic, Warriorsmark.
John N. Ball, Mechanic. Huntingdon.
Ralph Crotsley, fume:, Cass.
John Davis, Jr., farmer, Morris.
John Hawn, farmer, Walker.
Collins Hamer, farmer, Pui ter.
William Johns, farmer, Cromwell.
Jacob Lane, laborer, Cromwell,
John F. Lee, farmer, Jackson.
John Myerly, farmer, Tod.
William M'flvain, mason, Franklin.
Rudolph Neff, farmer, West.
Isaac Oatenkirk, farmer, Brady.
Daniel Piper, tanner, Potter.
Levi Pheasant, farmer, Union.
John Rudy, farmer, Jackson.
Levi Smith, farmer, Union.
Jacob Shivly, farmer, West.
Andrew Sharrer, farmer, West.
Anthew J. Tay len, saddler, Dublin.
John Whittaker, gentleman, Huntingdon.
John Walter, farmer, Morris.
Math. P. Campbell, farmer, Union.
David Zook, farmer, Brady.
TIUVEIZSE JUROB.S.—cntsT wEER:
William Adams, tanner, Warriorsmark.
Alexander Appleby, fanner, Dublin.
James Allen, tanner, Potter.
Geo. W. Barkley ; laborer, West.
David Bowman, tanner, Shirley.
Geo. Branstetter, fanner, Warriorsmatk.
Julio lia:%or, Jr., tanner, Tell.
Jolla Corbio, Sr., fainter, Walker.
Joseph Grove, farmer, Shirley.
I3enj. GI tanner, Penn.
David Heck, farmer, Clay.
James Hiletna.n ; fainter, et omwell.
Jacob H. [sett, iron master, Franklin.
Thomas Irvin, farmer, Union.
Robert Johnston, tanner, Jackson.
Samuel Johnston, farmer, Hopewell.
David Kutch, blacksmith, nanklin.
Abraham Kurtz, farmer, Hopewell.
George Keith, farmer, Tod.
John Lyon, iron master, Franklin.
Henry Lower, brick layer, Huntingdon.
Benjamin Lille, fat men, Tod.
Isaac Lininger, cabt. maker, Huntingdon.
Peter Myers, tailor, Shnley.
John INleMahan, fanner, Barree.
James Magee, farmer, Dublin.
Joseph McCoy, Esq., farmer, Walker.
John McCartney, .Lllllll2l', Henderson.
Samuel Morris, farmer, West.
Jas. Maguire, gentleman, Huntingdon.
Joseph Norris, farmer, Purist.
Alexander Park, farmer, Hopewell.
Joseph Park, fat trier, Clay.
David Patterson, carpenter, Dublin,
John Potter, farmer, Hendei sun.
Isaac Peiglltal, funnel, Penn.
Alexander Rouse, laborer, Franklin.
George Rudy, fmmer, Jackson.
John Rupert, farmer, Clay.
Johua. Shove, farmer, Clay.
Michael Starr, farmer, Cromwell.
Wm. Summers, grocer, Huntingdon.
James Simpson, jr., farmer, Brady.
Aaron Shore, farmer, Clay.
*John Thompson, Esq., blacksmith, West.
Henry Walker, merchant, Porter.
Benj. F. Wallace, fanner, Morris.
Joseph Isenberg, fartner, Morris.
TRAVERSE .TU ROBS.-SECOND WEEK
David Black, carpenter, Huntingdon.
Jackson Biiggs, laborer, Tell.
Josiah Cunningham, farmer, Barree.
Amos Clark, merchant, Toil.
Thomas Cisney, farmer, Tell.
Nicholas Crum miller, Tod,
James Ewing, fanner, Barree.
George Eby, Jr., merchant, Shirley.
Samuel Fouse, farmer, Union.
Philip Hooper, laborer, Springfield.
Solomon Houck, just, of peace, Tod.
Henry H. Hudson, carpenter, Clay.
Andrew Hagie, farmer, Cromwell.
Samuel Hess, farmer, Henderson.
John Hagan, farmer, Barree.
Valentine Hover, farmer, Porter.
Jacob G. Jones, teacher, Tell.
John Kelly, fanner, Dublin.
Silas Lang, farmer, \\Talker.
Jacob Lowniecker, carpenter, West.
David Miller, farmer, Tod.
Sohn Neely of James, farmer, Dublin.
Benj. F. Patton, met chant, Warriorsmark.
William L. States, farmer, Penn.
John Ridenhour, jr., farmer, Penn.
Thomas Smith, farmer, Jackson.
Solomon Sharp, farmer, Brady.
Aaron M. Shoop, farmer, Tell.
John Snyder, shoemaker, Walker.
John Vandevandcr, laborer, Brady.
John Wilson, wagon maker, Cromwell.
Thomas Whittaker, farmer, Porter.
Thomas D. Walker, carpenter, Porter.
Daniel %Weight ' farmer, Franklin.
John Zentrniie, farmer, Franklin.
10,000 lbs. Pure Tallow Candles,
m ( I : y IJLD and Dip, for sale at wholesale
Huntingdon, Nov. 21.-3 t
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Romance of the Post Office
"Ten Year Among the Mail Tags ; or
Notes from the dairy of a Special
. h.ge.m. of
tits Post Office Department," is the title of a
I forthcoming work by J. Holbrook. The New
Yu, k Post which has some extracts from it,
says that Mr. Holbrook ( who has been art en
ergetic special agent of the Post Office De
partment for the last ten years) has produced
a book illustrative of his career as a special
agent, replete with amusing incidents, which
have for the most part came under his person
al observation, and contained much valuable
information for the benefit of those who write
and receive letters. Many of his narratives
of the detection of mail iobberies, whether
committed by post office clerks or old-fash
ioned foot pads, are of exceeding interest,
which is by no means lessened by the fact
that they are substantially true, (the author's
regard for the feelings of relations or friends
of detected letter thieves having frequently
induced him to suppress or alter names,) and
are told with a native humour and a skill of
construction which mark the author as a man
of no mean literary pretensions. We sub
join a few extracts. The following possess
a dramatic interest :
THE INVALID WIFE
Not the least painful of the varrious duties
connected with the detection of clime is the
sometimes necessary one of revealing a hus
band's guilt to his wife.
I anticipated a severe trial of my feelings
in making such a disclosure doling the pro
gress of a recent important case where the
mail robber was in possession of a mail-key,
by means of which he had committed exten
sive depredations. He was at length detec
ted, and has lately entered upon a ten years'
term in the State prison.
On his arrest he manifested much solicitude
for his wife, fearing the intelligence of his
situation would over-power her. "She is in
feeble health at best," said he, "and .1 ant
aliaid this will kill her."
It was necessary-, however, that I. should
see her in eider to get possession of some
funds, apart of the proceeds of the robberies,
which her husband had committed to her
keeping. Furnishei! with a written order
from the prisoner, and leaving him in the
Marshal's custody, I proceed to call on the
nivalied, racking my brains while on the way
to her residence for some mode of communi
cating the unpleasant truth which should
disclose, it gradually, and spare her feelings
as much as possible.
On my arrival at the boarding house the
note was sent to the lady's room. It read as
follows:
"illy clear Susan: Will you hand to the
barer a roll of notes whi(dt I left with you.
The lady soon made her appearance. She
was young, rather prepossessing, and evident
ly in delicate health. Finding that I was
I, , rntir of the notes, she addressed met, ex
pressing treat surptise that her husband had
sent a request so unusual; awl with an air of
independence observed that she dui not "know
about paying over money unaer such circum
stances to an entire stranger."
Desiring not to mot tify her unnecessarily
by making explanations in the presence of
others, l requested her to step into a vacant
room near at hand, and after closing the door,
I said in a low tone.
"It is extremely painful thing foe me, Mrs.
11 , but as you do not seem inclined to
comply with your husband's order, I must tell
you plainly that the money was taken from
the mails by him. There is no mistake a
bout it. Be has had a mail key which I have
just recovered, and has made a full acknowl
edgment of his numerous depreciations. 1 beg
you to bear !his dreadful news with fortitude.
No one will think less of you on account of
his dishonest conduct."
I expected to see the poor woman faint im
mediately, and had mentally prepared my
self for every emergency; but, a moment after,
I should have been more likely to have fallen
into that condition, if astonishment could ever
produce such an effect; for as soon as I had
finished what I was saying, she stood, if pos
sible, mote erect than before, and with some
fire in her eye, and one arm "akimbo," she
replied, in a spirited manner:
"Well, if he has done that, he's a darned
fool to own it—l wouldn't!"
She gave up the money, however, soon af
ter, and although the recklessness displayed
in the speech above quoted seems to make it
probable that she was implicated in her hus
band's guilt, it afterwards appeared that this
exhibition of "spunk" was due to the im
pulses of a high-spirited and excitable nature
which sometimes, as in the present 'instance,
broke away from control, and went beyond
the bounds of decorum.
On the subject of unjust complaints against
the carelessness or culpability of post office
clerks, the following illustration will be found
of interest:
THE BITER BIT
A lady of very genteel and respectable ap
pearance called one day on a prominent New
England post master, with a letter in her
hand, which she insisted had been broken
open and resealed. She handed the letter to
the pose - Master, who examined it, and ap
pearances certainly seemed to justify her as
sertion. further declared that she well
knew which clerk in the office had broken it
open, and that he had previously served sev
eral of her letters in the same way. Upon
hearing this the post master requested her to
walk inside the office, and point out the per
son whom she suspected.
Such an unusual phenomenon as the ap
pearance of a lady inside the office produced,
as may be supposed, a decided sensation a
mong the clerks there assembled. Nor was
the sensation diminished in intensity when
the postmaster informed them that the lady
was there fur the purpose of identifying the
person who had been guilty of breaking ope n
her letters!
The announcement at once excited the
liveliest feelings of curiosity and solicitude in
the mind of almost every one present, and
each one, conscious of innocence, indulged in
conjectures as to who that somebody else
might be, whom the accusing angel (?) was
to lix upon as the culprit.
All their conjectures full wide of the mark.
After looking about for a moment, the lady
pointed out the last man whornauy one in the
&Alice would have suspected for such an of
fence—one of the oldest and most reliable of
their number.
"That is the person, said she, indicating
him by a slight nod of the head; "and if he
persists in making so free with my letters, I
will certainly have him arrested. Why my
letters should always be selected for this pur
pose, I cannor imagine; but if any more of
them are touched, he will wish he had let
them alone."
This direct cliarge, and these threats, pro
duced a greater commotion among the fellow
clerks than in the mind of the gentlemen ac
cused. Waiting for a moment after she had
spoken, he bloke the breathless silence that
fulfowed her words, by saying calmly, "Mrs.
, 1 believe'?"
"That is my name sir."
"Have you concluded your remarks, mad
am?"
"f have sir, for the present."
"Then madam, I will take the liberty to in
form you that your husband is the pet son on
whom you ought to expend your indignation.
He has at different times taken several of
your letters from the office, opened and read
them, and after re-sealing, returned them to
the letter box, having made certain discov
ies in those letters to which he forced me to
listen, as furnishing sufficient ground for his
'xiurse, and justifying former suspicions! He
course, jusutymg tormer
earnestly requested me never to disclose who
nad opened the letters, and I should have
continued to observe, secrecy, had not your
accuation forced me to this disclosure in self
defence. If you wish to have my statement
corroborated, I think I can produce a reliable
Witness.''
The lady did not reply to this proposition,
but made a precipiate retreat, leaving the
clerk master of the field and was never after
wards seen at the post office.
The following anecdotes are illustrative of
the amusing incidents which occasionally
come under the eye of post office clerks:
&little bright eyed, flaxin haired boy was
one day observed to enter the vestibule of the
post office at Washington, with a letter in his
hand, and to wait very modestly for the de
parture of the crowd collected about the de
livery window. As soon as the place was
cleared, he approached the letter box and
carefully deposited his epistle therein, linger
ing,
near as to watch over the safety ofthe
precious document. His motion attracted the
attention of the clerk stationed at the win
dow, whose curiosity induced him to examine
the superscription of the letter just deposited
by the little fellow. The address on the let
ter was simply, "To my Dear Grandmother,
Lousiana;" doubtless some good old lady,
whose memory, in the mind of her innocent
grundschild, was redolent of cake and candy,
and all the various "goodies" which grand
mothers are generally so ready to supply, to
say nothing of the various well-anent offices
of kindness to which their sometimes blind
affection prompts them. "Look here, my
little man," said the clerk, "what is your
grandmother's name, and where dose she
live?"
"Enwriv."
"Why, she's my grandma, and lives in
Louisiana."
"Yes, I see that on the letter, but it' will
never get to her if her name isn't put on, and
the place where she lives•"
"Well, please put it on, sir."
"But I shall not know what hes name is
unless you tell me."
"lArhy, sir, she's my grandma—don't you
know hei? She used to live at my house."
After the display of considerable ingenuity
on the part of the clerk, and a good deal of
innocent evasion by the child, the old lady's
name and pact of residence weie finally as
certained, and added to the address; after
which the little one went on his way rejoic
ing in the assurance given by the clerk that
now his "dear grandmother" would certainly
receive the important epistle from. her dar
ling.
The fo.licwing is contributed by "Dave,"
of the Columbus (Ohio) post office:
During my tetm of service at the general
delivery cf this office, it was my custom ; up
on receiving dead letters ft om Washington
city, to make a list of the names of the per
son to whom they were addressed, and stick
it up in the lobby of the office, with a notice
"Call for Dead Letters."
One day an elaborate specimen of Erin's
sons, whose brawny fist and broad shoulders
seemed to denote a cousti notion with au eye
single to American railroads, lounged into
the office, and up to the board containing the
aforesaid list. He looked at it a moment,
and burst into tears. I spoke to him through
the window, and asked him what was the
matter.
"Oh Mr. Post Master, I see ye have a
daid letter for me. I spec!. me sister in Ire
land's daid, and it is not a wake since I sint
her a tin pound note to come to Ameriky
wid, and kin ye tell me how long she's been
daid, Mr. Post Master 2 "
I asked him his name, found the "letther,"
and after a request from him "lade it, sir,
and rade it aisy if you plaze," opened it, and
told him not to cry ; that his sister was not
dead but that it was a letter written by him
self and directed to Michael Railer ty, Boston,
Chicago.
"And is Michael daid, Mr. Post Master P'
"No, I guess not," said I.
"Well, who is daid, sir'?"
I explained to him that letters not taken
from the office to which they were addressed
within a cettain time, were sent to what was
called the Dead Letter Office at Washiordon
city, and from thence, if containing anything
valuable, to the perbous who wrote them.
"God bliss ye for that, sir, but :Michael
lives in Chicago."
I told him I would not dispute that, but
Boston and Chicgo were two distinct cities,
and that the letter was addressed to both, and
that Boston being the first named, it had
HUNTINGDON, DECEMBER 26. 1855.
TO MY GRANDMOTHER
THE DEAD LETTER
been retained there, and his friend had not
received it.
"Sure and I thought Boston was in Chica
ao I that's what ye calla laid letther, is it ?
Faith and I thought it was Bridget and not
the letther, was Maid."
CHEATING THE CLERGY-AN INGENIOUS TRICK.
Our ccllection of "outside" delinquencies
would be incomplete were we to omit the fol
lowing case, which was investigated by the
author not long ago, and in which nct a little
ingenuity of the baser sort was displayed.—
It will serve as a specimen of a numerous
class of cases, characterized by attempts to
defraud some correspondent, and to fasten
the blame of the fraud upon some one connec
ted with the post-office. We could give
many instances of a similar kind did our lim
its permit.
A person of good standing in community,
who laid claim not only to a moral, but a re
ligious character, was visiting in a large
town on the Hudson liver about midway
be
tween New 'lot k and Albany. This person,
owed a clergymen, living in New Haven
Connecticut, the sum of one hundred dollars;
and one day he called at the house of another
clergyman of his acquaintance in the town
first mentioned, and ; ecuested to be allowed
the privilege of writing: a letter there to his
clerical creditor, in which the sum due that
gentleman was to be enclosed. Writing ma
terials were furnished and ho prepared the
letter in the study of his obliging friend, and
in his presence.
After he had finished writing it, he said to
! the elerg,yman, "Now as the mails are not al
'• ways safe, I wish to be able to prove that
I have actually sent the money. I shall
therefore consider it a ; - rreat favor if you
will accompany me to the bank,,whet e I wish
to obtain a hundred duller note for some
i small trash that I have, and bear witness that
1 I enclose the money and deposit the letter in
the post office."
The reverend gentleman readily acceded to
his request, and went With him to the bank,
! where a bill of the required denomination
I was obtained and placed in the letter, which
was then sealed with a wafer, the cleigytnan
all the while looking on.
They their went to the post office,
.(which
was directly opposite the bank,) and after
calling the attention of his compaition to the
1 letter and its address, the writer thereof drop
ped it into the letter box, and the two persons
I went their several ways.
The letter arrived at New Haven by due
course of mail, and it so happened that the
• clergyman to whom it was addressed was at
the post office, waiting for the assoi ting of the
mails. lie Saw a letter thrown into his box
and called for it as soon as the delivery win
gdow was opened.
1 Upon breaking the seal and reading the
letter he found himself requested to ‘.Please
find one hundred dollars," &c., which request
i he would cheerfully have complied but for
one slight circumstance, namely, the absence
of the bank note !
I This fact was apparently accounted for by
a postsctipt, written in a heavy, rude hand,
entirely different from that of the body of the
letter, and reading as follows:
"P. S.—l have the liberty to borrow this
I money, but I send the letter, so that you
I needn't blame the matt what wrote it.
(Signed,) PosT-BoY."
1 The rifled document was immediately
shown to the postmaster, and in his opinion,
as well as that of the clergyman a daring rob
bery had been 2onarnitted. The latter gee
tleman was advised by the postmaster to pro
ceed at once to New York, and collier with
the special agent, and at the same time to
lay all the facts before the Postmaster-Gener
al. Ile did so and it was not long before the
agent had commenced the investigation of
the supposed robbery.
In addition to the postscript appended the
letter bore other indications of having been
tampered with, which at first sight would
scene almost conclusive on this point. Upon
the envelope were two wafers differing in
color, one partly overlapping the other, as if
they had been put on by different persons at
different times.
Notwithstanding these appearances, there
were circumstances strongly conflicting with
the supposition that the letter had been rob
bed. The postscript was an unnatural affair
for no one guilty of opening a letter for the
purpose of appropriating its contents, would
stop to write an explanatory postscript, espe
cially as such a course would increase the
chances of his own detection. And'in the
present instance there had been no delay of
the letter to allow of such an addition.
By a visit to the office where the letter
was mailed the agent ascertained that it
must have left immediately after having been
deposited, and the advanced age and excel
lent character of the postmaster, who made
up the mail on that occasion, entirely cut off
suspicion in that quarter.
An interview was then held with the cler
gyman who witnessed the mailing of the let
ter, and fiorn him were obtained the facts al
ready stated. Concerning the writing of the
document, and its deposit in the letter box in
a perfect state, after the money had been en
closed, he was ready and willing to make
oath, and had he been called upon he would
have done so in all sincerity and honesty.
In reply to art inquiry whether he used
more than one sort of letter paper, informed
me he had butane kind in his study for sever
al months, and at my request immediately
brought in several sheets of it. A compari
son of this with the sheet upon which the ri
fled epistle had been written showed that the
latter was a totally different article from the
first. The shape and design of the stamp,
the size of the sheet, and the shade of the pa
per, were all unlike. Moreover, the waters
used at the bank where the hundred dollor note
was obtained, and the letter containing it,
sealed, were very dissimilar to either of those
which appeared upon the "post-boy" letter.
From the consideration of all these facts, I
was satisfied that a gross and contemptible
fraud had been perpetrated by - the writer of
the letter, and lost no time in proceeding to
the village where that personage lived. 1
called upon the postmaster, and made some
inquiries relative to the character and peen-
!=MMI
niary circumstances of the person in question.
From the replies made it appeared, as I have
already stated, that his reputation in commu
nity was good.
I thought it might be possible that in so
smal; a place I could ascertain whether he
had lately passed a hundred dollar note, as
he would have been likely to have done, if it
was true that he had not enclosed it in the
New Haven letter.
Calling at the store which received most
of his custom, I introduced myself to the pro
prietor, made a confident of him to some ex
tent, and learned that on the very next day
after that on which the aforesaid letter was
mailed its author offered him in payment for
a barrel of flour a hundred dollar note on the
Sank from which a bill of the like denomi
nation had been obtained, as before mention
ed, in exchange for the "small trash." The
merchant could not then change it, but sent
the flour, and changed a bill which he sup
posed to be the same, a few days afterwards.
Armed with these irrisistible facts, I pro
ceeded to call on the adventurous deceiver of
the clergy, who had attempted to make one
member of that body second his intention to
cheat another. "Insatiate archer ! Could
not one suffice?"
"Alt. T ." said I, after some prelim
inary conversation, "It's of no use to mince
matters.—The fact is, von did not bend the
money in that New Haven letter. You of
fered it the day after you protet:.ded to mail it
at Mr. C,s stole. You see I've found out all
about it, so I hope you not deny the
truth of the matter."
I then gave him his choice, to send the
hundred dollars promptly to his New Haven
correspondent, or Allow me to prove, in a
public manner, the facts in my possession.
Being thus hard pressed and finding him
self cornered, he confessed that he had pre
pared the letter which was received at New
Haven—postscript, double wafers and all—
before he left home, and that while crossing
the street horn the bank to the post office, he
substituted this for the one he wrote in the
clergyman's study .141 promised to send
the money, and pretended to have suffered
severely in his feelings on account of this
dishonest act.
There is no United States law providing
for the punishment of such an offence, but
public opinion and private conscience make
nice' distinctions than the law can do, and of
tea meet out a well-deserved penalty to those
who elude the less subtle ministers of justice
In the present instance, the foregoing story
was made public by direction of the Post
master Gen end ; and the author of the nick
unable to sustain the indignation and con
tempt of the community in which he lived,
was compelled to make a hasty retreat from
that part of the country.
Educational Meeting'
Agreeably to appointment, the School Di
rectors, teachers, and a number of the citi
zens of Tell township School district, met at
Gosorn's school house ; on the afternoon of
the 14th DOC. The meetirip• was called to
order by Mr. Barr, the Co. Superintendent.
On motion, Mr. A. M. Shoop, President of
the board of directors of Tell township, was
elected Chairman, and Mr. G. B. Gosorn,
Secretary.
The County Superintendent stated briefly
the object of the meeting; and proceeded to
examine the applicants present. During
the course of the examination, he intersper
sed the exercises with remarks that were
highly instructive to both applicants and
parents. After the applicants fur schools had
been duly examined and commissioned, the
meeting adjourned to meet at 7 o'clock in the
evening.
EVENING SESSION
The meeting was called to order by the
President ; and by request, Mr. Barr, explain
ed the object of the County Superintendency,
and the beneficial results likely to be produ
ced, if the duties ~ef the office be properly
discharged as contemplated by the Act of
Assembly, creating the office. He spoke of
the causes that prevented him from visiting
all the schools, and of tile utter• impossibility
of all the duties pertaining to the office being
fully discharged for the small compensation
allowed by the Directors of Huntingdon coun
ty. He also showed the advantages of a
good common school education, and the great
progress made in this particular, within the
past few years, in the State of Pennsylvania.
He closed his address by urging upon all pres
ent, the necessity of devoting a portion of
their time to the interests of the common
schools, in their vicinity.
J. G. Jones, (teacher) then took the floor,
and urged strongly upon the school directors,
and others interested in the welfare of the
common schools, the necessity of taking im
mediate action, in order that the compensa
tion allowed the County Superintendent may
be sufficiently increased, so as to enable him
to relinquish all other business and devote
his whole time to the common schools of the
county.
J. S. Briggs Esq., said that his views with
regard to the County Superintendency, had
changed very much of fate; and although this
is the first visit of the County Superintendent
to Tell township, yet-he could distinctly see
the beneficial effects of the office upon the
schools of their nistrict, although they had
not been visited by the Superintendent. Ho
said they formerly had too many teachers,
and the great difficulty directors had to con
tend with, was to make proper selections
from among so many applicants ; but now
the difficulty is to get a sufficient number of
competent teachers to supply all the schools.
He said under the present arrangements ; di
rectors are able to judge at a glance, from the
certificate of the applicant, what branches he
is capable of teaching and prevents directors
from being imposed upon by incompetent
teachers. He said it was the duty of Direc
tors to take active measures to give the Coun
ty Superintendent a fair and reasonable m
pensation for the labor he had to perform.—
lie
held that if the office w.is necessary—as
it has proved to be—then the compensation
should be such as to enable the Superinten
dent to discharge his duty as the law directs.
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Superintendent to devote his time to the du
ties of his office would not be felt by the cit
izens of the county, and that the benefits ao,-
erning from his frequent visits to the school::
would far overbalance the cost.
Mr. J. G. M'Clure said that he bad been
teaching in Tell township for a number cf
years, and that his school had been but rare
ly visited by the Directors, and he believed
never by the parents. •
He said there was no doubt but the visita
tion of the schools by the Superintendent,
would result in much good, and change in a
great measure the character of the schools.--
He felt satisfied that the present brief
of the County Superintendent, to Tell towu
ship, would be of more real benefit to the
schools of the District, than any effort the Di
rectors could make for their advancement.—
Notwithstanding the advantages resultin:: , ;
from visiting the schools, he was perfectil
satisfied that no man could visit all the
schools and spend the time necessary, for tht3
absurdly low compensation allowed.
said he was of the opinion that met qualitit-.
by education to discharge the duties of such
an office, should be properly compensate,i,
and he hoped the Directors would before the
meeting adjourned take the necessary step
to have a Conveution of Directors called, for
the purpose of increasing the salary of the
County Superintendent.
Remarks were male by Directors arid
others, as to the propriety of increasing the
salary of the County Supe.rintendaut when,
on motion, a vote of the house being taken,
it was unanimously agreed to urge the Direc
tors to make an effort to raise the salary.
Tile Secretary of the board of school Direc
tors, then prepared a request to the State Su
perintendent, on the part of the School Direc •
tors of Tell . District, urging him to call A.
Convention of the Directors of Hunting,do
County, at an early day, which was atte6te,.:
by the President, and approved of by tnc,
citizens present. •
By request Mr. Barr gave a brief lecture
on the ail of teaching. Brief remarks upoll
the same subject were matie by Messrs. J. C
Jones, J. S. Briggs, and others.
On motion, the following resolutions wel,,
unanimously adopted :
WHERAs, we, as School Directors, Teachers
and citizens of Tell township School Distikt . ,
feel under many obligations to J. S. Barr, tiro
County Superintendent, for his thief, but to
us, profitable visit and honing that he wai•
see the cause in which he is so assiduously,.
engaged in, prosper and flourish under hi.;
direction. Therefore,
Resolved, That we will use our influence.,
to have his salary sufficiently raised, so as to
enable him to relinquish all other business,
and devote his whole time to the common
schools of the county.
Resolved, That we hold a township eduva•
tional meeting at Gosorn's Sehool House, acs
INlessts. Jones, Book and J. S. B:iggs EN.,
be appointed a committee to make the re
quired arlangernents.
Resolved, That a copy of the pror...eedings
of the meetille: be prepared by the Secretary,
and published in all the comity papers.
On motion adjourned.
A. M. SHOOP, Pres't.
G. B. Gosoß.N,
An Item for Ladies
The ladies dress in Greenland consists of a
seal-skin stookiug, with the fur next to the
foot, of such length as to reach above the
knee. Over these. is drawn a pair of seal
skin boots, with their fur outside, so that the
boot is in truth a seal-skin of double thick
ness, with the fur outside and inside too.—
The pantaloons are of seal-skin, soinethine , in
the form of old-fashioned knee breeches.—
A jacket of seal-skin, fur inside, fits close to
the body. The outer habiliment is a loose
jarah of calico. Around the neck is a ruff of
doa's fur but underneath this is a white or
black handkerchief tied snug to the neck.—
The dress when ornamented is finite a hand
some one, as it is the best of the Bloomer
ME
FOUR MONTI-IS EDITORIAL EXPERIENCE.-
Mr. I. IJ. Buckman, who, four mouths ago.
_ vt , alt,, lUUI
started The Balance, a neat and spicy little
paper, in Mansfield, 'Toga county, retires
perfectly satisfied with h is brief experience.
He says:
"We have been weighed in the balance,
and our side of the scale has come down
thump. We commenced wittrnothing,, and
retire four hundred dollars worse off. Our
aspir?tions have been knocked into "pie."—
Our love for the human family materially in
jured; but we retire with the best feelings to
the whole biped race ; politicians in particu
lar."
FARMING IN ILLINOIS is exceedingly profi
table. A farmer who bought 90 acres of land
from the Central Company recently informed
an officer of the Company that he had :his
year realized a profit of $23 per acre from
his crop. It is said an agent of a Vermont
Emigration Company is now at Chicago, ma
king arrangements for an exodus of 150 to
200 families next spring. Farms for 100 fam
ilies of this Company have already been
bought. This party are about establishing a,
flouring mill and a manufactory of agricultu
ral tools.
A SEAFARING WomAN.—The Philadelphia
Ledger, of Dec. 18th, sa3 s that while the ship
James Ray was lying near Quarantine, on
her return to poet, one of the sailors was dis
covered by the mate to be a female in dis
guise. She confessed the trick, and sta
ted that she belonged to Lowell, Massachu
setts, and was married and had a child about
two years old. she was married at 13, and
is now only 17 years of age. She had been
to sea befo: , and was as active in clambering
the rigging, as the most expert of the '•old
salts." The captain of the ship designs sen
ding her home.
THE editor of the Boston Liberator ehlls_
upon the ladies of the North to make use of
nothinq, that is produced by slave labor. He
needn't expect, says the Louisville Journal,
them not to use cotton. They will not expel.
so old a friend from their bo:!_„.;_.