Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1856-06-14
Cause of Education.
RICHMOND, VA, May 24. 1856.

/ In respectful compliance with The re.
quest of the Presidents and Professors Of
Washington, Richmond, Randolph, Ma
con, aud William and Mary Colleges, |
beg leave to invite the Professors of the
University, of the Colleges, and of the in
corporated Academies of the Common
wealth, and of the county and town Su-
perinlendanls OF Primary and Free
Schools, to assemble in Richmond on the
23rd day of July next for the ends nam
ed by the Colleges which have moved up
on the subject Of Education.
As have been thus appealed to, ven
lure to express my full appreciation of the
plan proposed, and Of the objects had IN
view; and | invoke the friends of improve
ment in pu5.ic instruction TO render tins
effort all the assistance in their power.
( No interest is of more importance than
that of our schools, and If agriculture,
public works and other matters Of popu-
| lar concern can combine and concentrate
public sentiment 50 as 10 bring ITO bear
upon legislation, and so as to secure the
| benefits of order and system and legal au-
/ lh0ritv, surely he cause q! education may
hope to find friends enough to form con-
cert of action chich lrU be felt. |, there
! fore, appeal not only to those whom | am
requested TO invite. but to all who take an
interest in the highest Of all improvement
1.-the mental Improvement of our people
Ito take an active pant in the proposed
Convention. ! dare, without authority,
to say, that our metropolis of Richmond
will favor it equally with any other which
could assemble, and that lis citizens will
extend to those who convene every faciii'
ty of cordial and hospitabe reception.
respectfully ask all the journals in The
State, which are favorable TO this canse,t
give it al least one insertion, continuing
10 puJHSh the dag nao,ed until the Con
venlion meets. HENRY A. WISE.
TO the Friends of Education in Virginia.
Terrible Treatment gf u CdiH,---Ar
Leeds, England, peculiar group of men
dcants recently attracted attention, con.
sisting of a mother, one child walking,
and TWO children in her arms. One Of the
children carried had been evidently got
up TO excite sympathy ii displayed lie
painful peculiarly of deformed trunk,
from which both It's legs had been Topped
off. The child was crying bitterly. A
party Of females got around her, seized
the poor child, and unoosed several
wrappers in which its lower limbs were
enyeIoped. The emaciated legs of the
poor child and its puny arms had been
tightly bound over the chest. The arms
fitted into cavities on each side of the
body, and the doubled legs liued into de-
pressions in the stomach. The indigna-
ton of the spectators was intense at this
evidence of barbarily.
A policeman was called and the mother
given into custody. She was taken be-
fore magistrate on the following day,
and, on the evidence then furnished, was
sent to prison for three months. The
three children were taken to the Leeds
workhouse in a dreadful stale from ver-
min, and their clothes had 10 be burnt.
The child who had been 50 cruelty tor
tured for Pdbiic exhibition, was placed
under proper medical attendance but the
shock to his system had been TOO severe,
and he died. AT the inquest mass OF
evidence was submitted. The surgeon
al, ,l, u n