VOLUITIE XIV.- -NUMBER 44 BM POTTER ,TOT:TRNA.L. PCIIIIMIED BY • DI. W. MeAtrney, Proprietor. $l.OO PR YEAR, INVARIABLY IN ADVANCE. • * * *Devoted' to the cause of Republicanism, tke interests'of Agriculture, the advancement lineation, and the best good of Potter maty. Owning .no' guide except that of Principle., it will en , lmtv:•r to aid in the work of 'more fully Freedamizing our Country. ARVERTISCILENTS inserted at the. folloWing rates, except where special bargains arc made., 1 Square [lO lines] l insertion, -- - i; 50 1 - " “. 3 ; - "... - - $1 50 Bleb subsequent insertion less than 13, 25 1 Square three months, 2 50 1 ." sir " 400 1 " nine "h 50 1 " one , year, 604 ' 1 Column six months, 20 00 1 II lL (I 10 00 u U " -- - - ,-I - - 700 1 " - per year. 40 00 i " " is •2U 00 Aikministrator's or Executor's No ce, 200 Business Cards, 8 lines or less, p r year 5 00 .Bpecial and Editorial Notices, pe. ' e, 10 '. * * *All transient advertiseincnts must be paid in advance, and no notice will be taken if advertisements from a distance, unless they are accompanied by the money or satisfactory reference. * * *BlankS, and Job Work of all kinds, at tended to promptly and faithfully. . BUSINESS CARDS: EIMALIA LODGE. No. 312, V Ai M. STATED Meetings on the 2tl aid 4th Wedne sdays of reach month. Also Masonic gather ings on every. Wednesday Eveuing. for work aid practice, at their Hall in Coudersport. TIMOTHY IVES, W. M. „ • fawner. riAvcm, Seey. JOHN S. MANN, ATTORNEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW. Coudersport, Pa., will attend the several Courts in Potter and M'Kean Counties. All businoßs entrusted in his care gill receive prompt attention. (Mice corner of West . and Third streets. - ARTIIER G. OLMSTED, ATTORNEY A: COUNSELLOR, AT LAW Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all bushiest. entrusted to his care. with promptnes , and fidt. ity. (Mee on z•ioth-west corner of Main and Fourth streets. ISAAC BENSON ATTORNEY AT LAW. Coudersport, Pa., will attend to all business entrusted to him,:with care and promptness. (Mice on Second sear the Allegheny Bridge. F. W. KNOX. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport. Pa.; will regularly attend the Courts iu Potter and the adjoining Counties: 0. T. ELLISON, PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, Coudersport, Pa.. respectfully informs the citizens of: the, vil lage and vicinity that he will pro:npl re spond to all calls fur professiOnal services. UIIicN I on Main st., in blilding, formerly oc cnßied by C. W. Ellis, Esq. C. S. & E. A. JONES, DEALERS IN DRUGS, MEDICINES, : PATNTS Oils, Fancy Articles, Stationery, Dry Good: Groceries, &c., Main St.. Coudersport, D. E. OLMSTED, DEALER IN DRY GOODS, READY-MADE Clothing,, Crockery; Groceries, &c., Main st., Coudersport, Pa. • ____.- COLLINS SMITIL DRALER in Dry Goods. Groceries. Provisions. Hs.rdware, Queensware, -Cutlery, and all Goods usually found in a country Store.— Coudersport, Nov. 27, 1861. M. W. MANN, DEALER IN BOOKS S:'STATIONERY, MAG. AZIKES and Music. N. W. crirner of Main tad Third sts.. Coudersport, Pa. COUDERSPORT HOTEL, D. F. G;LASSMIRE, Proprietor, Corner o- Main and Second Streets, Coudersport, Pot ter Co., Pa. A Livery Stable is also kept in conned! .on with this Hotel. M ARK GI LLON, TAlLart—nearly opposite the Court House— will make all clothes intrusted to him in the latest and bes't styles —l'rices to suit the times.—Give him a call. 13.41 ANDREW . SA,NBERG &. MO'S. TANNERS AND CURRIER.—Hides tanned on . the shares, in the best manner. Tan, eery on the east side of Alle;any river. Coudersport, Potter county, Pa —Jy 17;6t I. .J. OLMSTED. : ... ... S. O. KELLY OLMSTED & KELLY, DHALER IN STOVES, TIN & SHEET IRON WARE, Main st., nearly opposite the Court House, Coudersport, Tin and Sheet Iron Ware made to order. in good style, on short notice. Ulysses Academy Still rstaitis as Principal, Mr.E.R.CAMPBELL, Preceptress, Mrs. Nurrit: JONES GRIDLEY ; As. mist:int, Miss A. E, CAMPIIKLL The expenses per Terni are : Tuition, from 55 to $6 ; Board, from $1 50 to $1.75, per week; Rooms for self boarding from $2 to $4. Each term commences upon. Wednesday and continues Fourteen 'weeks. Fall term,Ang.27th,lB62; Winter term, Dec. tOth, 1862 ; and spring term. March 25th, 1863: • Q. R. BASSETT, President. IV. W. GIIII)L EY, Secey. July 9, 1862. UNION HOTEL, COUDERS.PORT, POTTER COO TY, PENN A. S. ARIISTII.OIIiG "UAVING re fi tted and newly furnished the 'IL house on Main street, recently occupied by ft. Rice, is prepared to accommodate the traveling public in as good style as can be had in town. Nothing that can in any way in ersese the (Worts of the guests. will be ne glected. Doc 11,1.661 ; , ' 1 i, I , 1 I I I • • ,' i i • , , I, , - '''' 1 ' . . , tI I. I--- - . • . • _ , - Allittkilr I 1 i '`..., L 4 00 I I , . • ~ . Is. :t• , , 1 ...- , II I I , I oif' r - 4140 • • : . . , 1 , , . i I i -I 1 } , 1 ) 1 • 'RESIDE THE DEAD. I Now I dare to sena thee boldly; Haughty, pallid brow! . Thou hest ever met me coldly, Scarcely colder now: 1 Something in thy bearing chilled me— Not a smile from thee enthrilled me, Sadly passive brow I. might touch thee with my flnier— Touch thy bloodless cheek, Yet nn haughty flush would li4er— ' But the thoughtjs weah: • For thou liest dead before With - the pitiless grave chill o'er thee, Poor, white, frozen cheek! . In thy bosom's restless fever, • Longings st(de to thee; But In nil thy heart-throbs, nO t 'el. Leaped there one for trie: Yet, they say thy heart was tender, Melting in thine eyes of splendOr - Could it—could it be? _ Eyes of splendor!—yes, I kne4 l It, Ent, fur me, as cold As Ilenveu's light, with snow-Okes thre it, From n cloud of gold. Oh, those eyes for others brirnmg, • Met my own with scorn returning: • Cold—nh me, how cold When they told me thou vrert dying— Dying, young and fair 4 All my soul Went out in sighing One impassioned prayee - r . But the words shall not be-spoken, • Fur 1 know that uo sweet toke 4 BeekOned for me there. But thou He i st dead before me, Pale and voiceless 0ne,.1 With the shroud enfolded o'erthee, All thy scorning dune: Other hearts are madly breaking, And my own is prouuly achit4 O'er thee, silent one. I CUT OFF TUE BACK LEOS! OF Yowl Cu. Alts.-1 will tell vUU It secret wont: knovin:i.. A thousand out worth half as. much, have been patented add elevated into a businesi. It is this: If you cut off the Luck lugs of your chairs. 80 that the back part of the seat be two iuchrs lower than than the' frinit part, it will'greatly relieve the fatigue of.sittiug, and keep gout 8101Ie iu 1110011 shape i he, pribeipal fatigue in siting conies limn your sliding Lrward,aud thus st.ain ing 'the ligaments and u.usOes in the small of the back 'rlietexpei, lent I have advised will -obviate this ten ency,.and, Ws 1 have suggested, add g,relitiv to the comfort and healthfulness of Itlte sitting postare. The front edge of a caairshould nut be wore than fifteen high fur the average mail, nor more than' fourteen fur .the average woman. Tliti average chair is now seventeen ii.clieS; high,, fur all, which nu amount of slanting in the; seat can : wake comfortable Lewis's' Glimuustitne. • 1 A Gni LD'S SYMPATLIY.--,A childw eyes! those clear wells ut undefiled thunglit —[that tiu earth can be so!lbeauttful Full or hope, love, and • curiosity, they uieet your own. I wprayer, lOiw earnest; in joy, how sparkling; in syniiiatlty, how tender. The wan who never tried the companionship :if a little child, has care lijssly passed by one of the pkasures of life, as one passes a rare flower, without plucking it or knowing its'lvalue. A child cannot understand, y?u , think ; speak to it of the holy things of your reli• of your grief fur the lossluf a friend, of your ; love fur sonic one yutt fear will nut love in return ; it will take, it is true, no measure ursoundings of yowl. thought; it will nut judge how moult you should believe, whether your grief is i 4 ,itional In proportion to your loss, whether you are Worthy or fit to uttrack the love winch yon seek; but its whole soul wits incline to yours,mal engraft itself, as it were un the feeling which is your feeling fur the hour. ' Muggins was passing up the street with o . rienii, when lie ob.served a dot: that 'llan beenkilleill lying in :lie gaiter, Mug gins paused, gazed intently nio.lie defuurt and at last said : "There is ano ther shipwrock ?" "Shipwreck, ' , where n • Them is a bark that's lost forever." his wpaniuu gruWled and passed on. Hort near akin laughter is to tears was sitowni 'when Reuben, with a tingle stroke of - liis brush, turued a laughing child in ai painting to one crying; and our mo thers, without being great painters, have often brought us in like wanner frow joy to grief by a single stroke. _ 1 i A. wan who had been married twice to Indies both named Catharine,' adribed hin fiiendslaigainbt taking:dupli-Kates. • , . Men are generally like tumuli; they rattle prodigeously when, there is nothing in thew. Winter is almost hero". MEM Qedotea to the iliqcipies of Inte lictrioeNco, 44,3 14e bis3eit)irmtiort of bSoisql'itg, 7.i . 16,11.411111 qqa!_litetbs. COUDERSPORT, POTTER CODETY, OCTOBER 29, COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT. Examinnticrns.—These were partly oral,. and partly written. When the class war small, they were mostly oral ex cept map and outline drawing and work ing problems in Arithmetic. When the class was large, the examination Orthog raphy, Arithmetic, Geography and Gram mar was written, in Reading, Mental Arithmetic and Theory of Teaching , it was -oral. It is my custom to make a few suggestions to teachers before com mencing, to examine a class, after which a printed list •of questions in Orthogia. j phy, • Arithmetic, Geugrohy and Gram mar is placed before each applicant.— These questions are carefully prepared so as to embrace us much as possible of each branch in a swell space. , No ques tion is so worded as to admit of a mono sylabic }es or no as answer, but each aug. gest a principle or topic which is to be elucidated, and much pains is, taken to exclude everything so easy as to be jitter Ile, or so difficult and puzzling as to be unjust. Nor are all these questions equally difficult, but they advance from the plain and simple to the abstruse and courpiteated, so that he who performs all that to required of hint fairly earhe the highest grade of certificate. As soon as they receive their lists of questions all are bet to work,. the oral examination com mencing at the same time us - uaily with the Theory of Teaching. Each teacher is called upon separately for oral exam inations and though all are at liberty to listen, no one is obliged to suspend his written examination. After each one has been thoroughly examinciti in the Tho ury of Teaching, a similar 'course is pur sued with Memai Arithwetie - aud Read. L will now state what I conceive to be souiti of the advantages of this course: Ist. The oral examination is"confined to those branches best intended to, interest and •;.rnstruct an audience.. Theory of Ttuching is especially appri.priatte lur this put pose. When the teacher is an Cape rienced one Directors and parents minim fail to be beuefitted .by his l views on the nece,sity uf good' order in Schoul and the Meatus of securing it, the need of parental cu eperat jolt, the. adaptatiOn of a course of at udy to the natural order of mental develupwent ;mete than by any reei• tenon in Arithmetic or Grammar howev er ready or correct it may be. When the teacher is a beginner a! thorough ex• animation in this department affords an excellent upfortunity for conveying much useful instruction. 2d. Written exami nation in the more difficult brunches ben efits the' teacher.. question lies be• tore the teacher, and he need not answer till he fully etaprehends it but free from einbarassineut he can collect ail. his knowledge in relation to the subject' and proceed at his leisure. !Ile renders ii pe• cuiiarly acceptable to the. didident. In talking all are inure or less careless in the choice of language but in writing time is given to select such works and phrases as exactly_ convey the meaning intended, and he Who writes a !Yingling definition does's6 becatse he eau give no better one. It. therefore pruu.utes accuracy in the use of language. It, also checks that loquac ity with which some teachers by giving a great deal nut called fur, s rive to conceal some real deficiency. The care necessary to present a neat and legible. manuscript is excellent drill for ueatuess in black board exercises and illustrations. 3d. The whole examination can be made more thorough. This is very evident, as no one is waiting fur another to ;eche.— Each teacher can employ all his time in writing except while hers under oral ex amination A greater amount 'uf each branch being Inaught before the class the results are more reliable. In fact, were the examination all carat, but little inure time could bit spent on the whole, thanis now employed ou,one-half the branches. Average Quo lijications.—These are, on the wnule, a haetion below those of last year. This is nut the ease with iudi vidual teachers. A large number of the teachers re examined tl is year Show sonic ptogress, and several have wade comenda ble improvement'. Many . young men hithertu engaged in teaching. have joined the army, some of whom were the bright est ornaments to their profession. Soule experienced teachers. mostlyfetnales.. have also given up teaching. A slight reduction in wages and shortening of the school term probably contributed to 1116 result. The deficiency thus caused could only be supplied by employing beginners, to which feet the retrograde in average qualifications is to be attributed. Fethale Teachers —The proportion of female teachers is nearly the same as last year. Their average success foi the year is a little better than the male teachers. This iii; doubtless, owing to the greater facilities for attending sclionl furnished to'girls in agricultutal regions, than to buys. Ido not hesitate, however, to re• commend their wore general euipluyineut in the county. ANNUM, REPORT . OF TLIE - '`,All Districts 'ex,..:ein AbliMt haveSuw titers well at Winter schools: • i 2,inze of afrlll77lCli r %Ng Schools.-±The Sniutiter schools gett!i4aily,.commence in Mity,lbut it Some Diltitricti•they de not commence tilt the first Monday in June. When a Di-trict is Ito haVe four nintiths Silittitter and four ' Mouths 'Winter. school the first of June . .iS probably theltnost suitable tithe i to.contuence the Summer schOdl, but when each term is to b'e but three months; I Would prefer July; Au. ,-, • , gusf and September for the Summer and NOMnber, December and January! for the -*jute'. Schools (leaving October for, ut 1 vac tton. This Would allow the sae tea her to be:, employed for both terms . — Me tl people wish the Sun wer seht'ol to coil Mence in. May'..l In the case of a two inottlis school. I can assign- no, good reaS i ott for this reference, b,ut in the case of a three mouths 'School„ there are; some rea .ons aSsigited whieh,.whettler geed or out Certainly operate strot.gly. August is untatlered a fart more p,ti,fitable Month ter children to be 'employed ar home than Mu.: . In this month south of the haying dlid tuust . _of the !haryesting is diMe -- Some pito can easily . be •.•pared front •iSprit ' , work." are very, useful at this time. It isi 'vainly iu 'picliing. berries which abound in August; that such chil dren ,are made useful. To one net ac tjuaitited the couditien alto': County, it I May scent strange that g.alliering berries' .41 - tould become .of, auffcient - impel-Lance! that parents, would':, keep; their c'Olerett • , from school fur thatl purpose but such is ' the fact. 7 1 I About the tinte'df the first -settlement, 'heavy tornado passed 'over this dounty prostrating a large! Marion. of the (forest', in some - sections,' and the 'fires in tI e wouds which are so common i tow n sr tow 'countryt continui.l.l;to- loge ,through the 4 ,-'witidfall" as it is'ealled,l prevent tug its becottaug again cor red with- timber, the whoie'vast extent is covered with is lux, Uriant growth of bilityis. The Blackberry forms by far the largest portion, but there is considerable adthtxture of the vairieties of Raspberry. , The berry sear.oni . cow ! menses the last of .July -and lasts Am( six ,i .Weelts, and it ;s1 nu uncommon thing for a girl of twelv63 ears to pick and dry .0 bushel of ,Illuekberties, - ivorth from four sto six dollars. , NVdiett they are not de. signed fur market the , s carcity.pf culti lvated fruit. 'renders . l their; nu incuttSidera• ble, addition to the Itrintry. ' In suite lo alities the NYtiortleberry abounds and lime berryicking is still . More lucrative.las this berry is very hi g hly prized and iwill:bear ' tran , purtin . v , to a considerable distanee. I have louwM a school in the iWhortleberry regide witlra roll of t tvetrty five natiles.dwindltqto four regular atten dants durit.tg the picking !.season. IThere are many DistrictOvhere an attempt to place the •commencetnent of Slimmer li-eltuuls later than the middle of Aluv wili [not meet general favor, but I do not lies I hate to strongly recommend that nn Suitt- M i er school be comMenced sootier than the I first 'Mummy in'Juue. , I i There is another :reason for -Contincne -1 ing schools early which opera,es • with Seachers, most oVtlietu wish to attend ome Aca'demy at least one term in 'a year. and the Fall tertii is considered ,best fur that purpose. This term in such an In- Stitution inthis vivinity aUtnittencesfrunt the middle :•of August . to the first ;.if Sep tember. To give a, teacher of 'Summer tichooi this upportuCity, his school Should dertaioly clime with; the first. week Of Au &And, and as the Week of the Fourth of I July is sometimes wholly given te.holi I days it' should cutuatetuie the tirst of I .Itiv. . , i , j As I have devoted considerable' space fo the•reasons•for.cOntitioncing schOols nr May, it will certainly be proper to briefly mention sortie of the reasons for, cont. Mencing• them later. The ,schu4l year dominences the first Monday in (June, a't.d the County, Superintendent, t has it large amount of business to transact con. dectud with the clue of one year and the begintsinu of another : to nlost of ,N,layi and June may Iprofitably be (*toted It to these labors; be added nearly the visitation of the •Smirker schools. very utucli . of this!''tvork most be hastily 'and 'even itOperfectly-perfOrmei. In this County: the weather of May is far less favorable for swill childreti to at tend school 'than Jiine, July, August or Septeui . ber. ~ No cne'can 'entirely lay off his winter cluthit.g before the first 'of June,isniuler clothing- if prepared earlier, would hardly be vit on a child before thi4 perioilL A 'suit of .elothes" Whielt has Pfotected a boy ihrouth five or of the coldest months of 'th, year, not generally con'sideretl an appropri ate dress in, which 'to begin attendance at! a Sunonerschoul and ;for this reason al,.ne litany a child loses the first tiaonth of the term ,: . T Finally will mention w hat laaa al- •ready been hinted 'at, the benefittof liar. itig the commencement', of the fivinter term as near as possible to the clone of the summer term. 'By thie.arranieutent, a short vacation between !'the, terms, the same, iteaelter uiuy be employed for both. It used argnment to show thet a teach or vrith his plans and organization fitted! and " with a full knowle4e . of the acqutremftits cud needs of. his scholars, can itiakel a term more successful than one by' about all these labors are yet to be perfnrined. Altid what is still.more iut porta}tt, that himrty parental co operation co essential to Ids success ,and whichi it titici. take a stranger a half terieto se• egtei thel faithful teacher brings to his ' aid Ole first day of his-second term. . benefit: t of bringing the summer andi i 'winter school so near together that thVilseem pk.itte . orie_terni.witli a proper inter -al. bf zest in the middle become. morel evident When we consider its effects or, t tie school. 1 After:three or four months of fatthfUl application scholars need a sea son tf recreation, and a 'vacation. of suf . ; tieieit leiwth to lost vtgorof itiindis ben .l efien I.To continue it - longer than is t. oecOsarY for this purpose'not only wastes tittie!lbut !tenda directly to divert. the mind frotitistddy. A suitable intenal having irate Narked, the school take up their ;mu• tititit.ished tasks. , The first month i of the salon. er term .proved scat eely suf. to tend', their energies to their la bur,llliut. this dace accomplished; it is ac• cout i nlished for the winter also. 4f I: I,ae ! Jing Around.—This practice pre vaili3jiti ; all Liitticts except Abbott, and it 0.1111(11)e difficult to stlate..accu.ately its 'l.ctiliar effects. , sitice: it is-impossible to ell What 'would be the condition of the 'cllyuis under the' oppo site practice in all P acei-whe i re it has not been tried.— Theliritain reason for adopting this system of bearditt , teachers seems to he that •it matte's the burden of school tax less °tier unsilitts it is generally easier tp board t: teacher' rite week than to pay the price 1 1 of a l week's buraili in addition to "the an. nual school tax. Though these visits are fore d, us It Were, on the; teacher, yet he wayand i may , often does, make them useful by becO nini! acquainted With his patrons and muktng them acquainted with his plans and [Necuring their :ea-operation. Most teatthersi however, - consider .'boarding arotlind'l a veliy.objectionable one. It is, inched;,`' la very conducive to health to lia%'. t il tn4ertnittunt abiding place, to be conttnutily changing diet, sleeping apart- Meat; 4., and female teachers find it DO fa n i glied iiiiidsliip to be obliged to walk to theutterAnosti limit of a large district af ter il• flu i. , u in 6 dav's labor in the school m. '. 1- roo The (;.I..itation. which weighs most liett i ilvitgaittit it, is that it throws litany dill bolt ies in the way ut any regular centre I ofs tidy for the daily.recitetions . .or - g - etierall ituptoveMent. The true teacher will.l under anv circumstances,. find time to i maka Careful preraration . for the melte , tionl of each day befut e attempting to hear the claSses melte ; but to him whosehotne j makes daily Migrations and whose time 1 wiii, MA in todhuol is considered the right -1 fulAarelPerty bf the family ,whose guest he happens to bc,a general course of study Seenls W'ell nigh impossible.. l lt sounds extOmely well in suelteases to hint about,i thel , tuiduil,ht oil," but ito business so exhustS the nervous energy as teaching, l tind for such. exhaustion sleep is the only rettitt i tlyi,' • and he who sacrifices his hours orateeri:to study, will hardly be able to meet the trials of the following day with . Ithat' pleasant Iserenity Which alone can in sure. 1 sup'eess. V 1 ie . fl'ai..-.j—This county his furnished ! its full Auota of volunteers fur the defense jof the Union and it can not be otherwise ' than, attiong those brave amen there should be Many whoSe services the cause of edit 6..titi l n Could ill afford to Spore. ; Still the interest fill goodthe work continues un- , I •.' - , abated, and the opinion seems to be gen leral,lthat whatever else We May be called anon tal sacrifice in this:crisis of our na i ItiMuil extstence.the count:on schools must coutioue in fa I. vigor. : - I • Pr ojiissional Trainina of Teachers .The jgreat want of the system among it, is reliable school* of easy . accei,s fur the prekrat!iun of teachers. ; The instruction whi 1 11 al teacher receives iu woSt acade mies in.?ltis" Vicinity dues . very littla. to war s ffiProf. ting hint fur his duties. . Coo er 'of th t State NUrtnal School: at l i Edit born. while in Uhrses-. Academy threr his Whole energich into the Work of plepaing teachers of 'con, won kitools for'. lit 4r duties. The good Work thus eon . % 'nen i ced has been nobly c tried - fur warp. . by Ithe present Principal..MrlCatup bell,, for ; which his experience as. School. Guelph:Slane': in New York has peculiarly I ffited (hint. II ant acqnaintad with no other similar institutioni not open to ob. jeetibu il i n this respect.l I cannot allow this opportunity to pass .without urging upon all such institutions a wore careful attention to the wants of those teachers fron(whom they receive so large a si.nre of their, 41a:renege. Fur, too little imp.:, ta nte isjgererally attached ?especial pre partition for j, teaehers. ! . Evert - among I tester errs, theniselves apathy in this respect lis qu i ite comuron, and amongthe people 'mere learning is too often supposed to 1 qualifyli young person fOr teact.iiig, espe } 0:0 if the pebitioo he aspires to be io a 11 l'Eamsl-$l.OO PER ,&PINUM. "bitckwood school." Public opininn in this respect very much needs iostrietion, and until there is a strong and lively 9.0 lief pervading the public mind that the teacher needs professional training- isi much as the doctor, lawyer, or miiiistet; it is idle to hope for any marked improts. went in the profession. . illfficuities.—l cannot refrain frame bringing to public notice the practicnef some neighborhoods in regard to theiik schools. It often happens that their aid several applicants for the saute school,and each family or clique desire the Board; to hire their favorite, but the Directors aftei a careful inyestigation,enaployilid onelii their opinion best qualified- to' discharge: the important duty of training the young. Of course somebody must be disappoint -I.ed, and those who are. niaoy times cons• mence spreading as widely as possible the impression that the teacher selected by the. Board' is incompetent. or'unworthy of ' his re. poosible position. Should they tail to create public opinion in general. 1 the toinds,of the children in disaffected 1 families become poisoned, and the first 1 necessity for crossing their inclinetions--! the opportunity will not long be wanting —is seized-upon as a reasou fur "turning out" the - teach( r. When - the opposition does not go to such lengths, the children of the disaffected are taken out of echoed as soon as_they are not permitted to havi their, own way and others are urged to follow their example, Sometimes it is, not necessary that their "favorite" should . he rejected to stir up this factious oppo-. 'rition, for I have known a family to feel disaffected and continoe to make disparn-, ging remarks about the teacher because the teacher of their choice, who had no even applied, had not been hired. Many I very frivilous causes sometimes produce !trouble, such as a vague rumor prejudl t cial to the teacher,oreo unfavorable "first impres:ion." Parents .--uucler such cii-: eumstances often injnre the reputation of I their chosen servant .and undermine hist influence careless of the_fact they are tri fling with their own dearest interests. When will parents le — arn that the teacher, who must ofteh check the impatience spur the, indolence and restrain the way. %voidness of childhood, cannot be success• till without their heartiestsuppert I When will they learn that a blow ut the hartrit.. uy and success of their school hi a crust A ba; the futui e welfare of theirchildrenr. Whole number of scbuoill ouses in the_ county, 107; number yet unfit, 27; num- . ber built -during year, 9 ; number without apparatus, including bhickboard, 12. . . Whole number of Schools,ll9 ; num ber well classified, 78 ; number wbere.the Setiptures were read, 82. Whole number teachers examined,l4B; number provisional certificates granted, 137; number. applicants rejected, 11. Number of Schools. visited twice, 79; number visited once, 33; number not visited, 7. School Houses. =Very little change in the condition of the houses. Three new once - have been built to supply the place of old ones, but three have been built tti establish new schools which- ruust.be 're garded us unfit, ao 'that the nuwber re maids the same as last year. Of the houses built daring the year. one in He bron deserves especial , notice.. -It is a substantial structure of wood; 30:36 feet air lie ground, - and 12 filet story.: k nice row of seat 4 fur the 'little ones? is' very commendable. Upwards of $2OO - were donated by the euterprizing neighborhood towards defraying the expense oferection, to which fact it owes some of its praise worthy features.. Furniture a nd..-Ipparatus.--NO change in furniture worth mentioning, and none at all in apparatus. I.tri attempt is now being , made. to introduce Maps. Schools:—lt will be seen that I have reported three more schools than house.. Abbott, Elector, and Stewardson. have each, a school kept in a private house. dussifieution.- 7 --' When the , recitation is done in class and the books are nearly uniforw,the sclio6l is reported "ion Class. itied ;" but of the remainder very few ate entirely destitute ; of classification., Visits.--Schiaals not visited are those .not iu session during the year, or having oily one session and that it an Unusual season. Schools v;aited once, if they had wore than one 'session, were cloSed either temporarily or permanently *hen. I was in those districts. The average length of the visits fur the whole county is I . } hours. District Instittitei:—One wire formed in Homer and hold re g ular meetings cit • ing the latter part of winter. ; I cannot itive the membership but at the time •E utrencltA about fifty were present, a dozen. of whom were teachers. The; teachers, were called - together in Harrison, Sharon, and Roulette in January last but noper• inaueut orimnization was affected. S. Co. Superintendent. Lroion_is not always strength, am the saikir said when be saw the pura4i milt,• leg his rum and water. / BIE E 1118 ~: i 4 i. =!
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