The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1856-05-09

Miss - Benedict, ASST Teacher in Int
Dept.
Miss Margaret Gilbreth, Teacher in Pr.
mary Department.
Miss NJ. Wadsworth, Asst Teacher in Pri.
mary Dept.
I The Directors take pleasure in recon.
mending these Teachers as being well quail
/ fed, efficient, and worthy the confidence Of
the public, and also bespeak the Jealous CO.
/ operation of parents and guardians. Upon
the interest which they manifest, and the
punctuality and obedience which they re-
| quire Of their children and wards, depends
/ in great measure, the success Of the
! School.
The School year is divided into four terms,
of eleven weeks each, beginning on the first
Monday of September, md ending about the
middle Of July, thus giving n vacation of a
few weeks in the most oppressive summer
weather The fourth term of the present
year has just begun, and the prompt attend
ance Of pupils is desired and expected.
The Teachers are paid from two sources;
LIST, the fund received from the School Fund
Com'r; and I'd, assessments upon the pupils.
The first is barely sufficient to pay the teach
ers for six months, and consequently If the
people desire the School to be continued
through the year, the deficiency must be
made up by assessments. This plan was
adopted by their predecessors, and as the
Directors see no better plan, they IRE en-
deavoring to carry it out on the following
rates for each pupil:
Primary Department, 81 90 per Term.
Intermediate s. ! IS I"
Grammar School, SO 4"
High /" rs g
With this assessment, punctually paid, the
School can be carried on successfully, and az
one-third the tuition per scholar charged By
private schools.
The Directors have no doubt that, if their
efforts, and the labors of the Teachers, are
seconded by the hearty encouragement and
cheerful cooperation Of the citizens, our
Public School can be made permanently use
full, thoroughly practical, and highly credit
able to the city.
GTW We went down to Quincy on Wednes-
day, on the Ben. Campbell, returning yester-
day. 1t was the intention of number of
our citizens to have made q May party to our
sister city, bat the weather was SO unpropi
tious in the morning that but few set out
However, with the Brass Band aboard, the
trip was pleasant enough, and we conclude
that some of them enjoyed themselves pretty
well, else we don't know why they should
have set up so late encouraging band of
fddlers and kicking around the floor, while
we were trying TO coax little sleep to visit
our eyelids. Capt. Heaight did everything
to render the trip agreeable, and that the day
was not as shiny and soft as we would have
had it, was not his fault. But we had beau
iful day to return in, and perhaps enjoyed
hat the more on account Of the rough day
preceding It.
The river is gradually spreading out over
its banks, and large bodies of bottom land
are oyerfowed for the first time since the
great food Of 1851. And still the river is
rising, and the prospects of damage are
greater than many interested parties can con-
template with much qualification.
Quincy is improving her streets somewhat,
but we saw very little building, at least com
pared with what we are accustomed TO see
1T home The improvements that have been
made in this respect We conclude to be in the
southern part of the city, where we did not
go, though we secured over the rest of the
town pretty thoroughly. Quincy is q fine
town, and we are always pleased with it, but
there is not the rapid improvement and
heavy, driving business that we see at home,
her railroads, age, and extended reputation
notwithstanding. But whoever wants to take
pleasant trip to apleasant town, We would
recommend to go down to Quincy on the
Ben Campbell. under the auspices Of Capt.
Heaght, and his obliging Clerk, friend Hoey
STAMPEDE AT THE PENITENTIARY-A Con-
Wet KILLED We learn from the TT. Madi-
ison Argus, that a rush was made by the
prisoners in the Penitentary at Fl. Madison
on Tuesday, to make their escape over the
wall. Five of them succeeded In getting
over the wall, though one was killed and an
other wounded by shots fred by the guard.
The five who succeeded in getting off were
subsequently re-captured and committed TO
their cells.
The prisoner killed was Stewart, who was
sent there for breaking open the Hardware
store of Baldwin & Evans, Of our place.
rT-0 One of the deck hands Of the Cone
WACO was drowned at Burlington on the 9TH
The Gazette says that be went down within
fifteen feet Of the boat and that no effort