The Tipton advertiser. [volume] (Tipton, Cedar Co., Iowa) 1856-1962, 1864-02-25
TIPTON, IOWA, FEB. 25, 1864.

10 Keep poor little children shut up
in close ilI-ventilatcd school house, Sit
ting most Of the time upon hard benches,
without backs, SO high, too, perhaps, that
their feet can not touch the floor, is in
human. barbarous, and worse than We
treat our criminals 1t is more than the
grown. up teacher could bear, many Of
whom break down from over confne-
ment; and yet it is expected that the
"littlc innoccnts' are to be educated in
this way! i
With all our cnlig ghtenment, object
lessons, and SO forth, we have failed al
most utterly to understand the nature of
the organization to be educated, and con-
sequently have educated hundreds and
thousands Of children into their graves.
We welcome this inquiring into the
capacity of childhood for continuous men,
tai application, foreseeing most valuable
results to come therefrom. Meantime,
let US beseech parents and teachers to
consider how impossible it is to keep
children still, while their little hearts
pa|ptate with boiling blood, which goads
them on to action, ACTION, ACTION d.
Let them run, jump, climb, and thus re-
lieve pressure on the human valves,
which would otherwise produce injurious
if not fatal results.
In conclusion, we suggest that "three
hours school day. with recess of
FIVE minutes once in fifteen, is enough
for the best constitution to bear without
injury. "a word to the wise "-Phre.
nologicol Journal.
E@ The London Times at last con.
fesses that its hostility to this Republic
is based on jealousy of its growing power.
That such feeling existed in Great
Britain We all knew, but we scarcely cx-
pected to find it SO openly acknowledged
1t might pain US 20 hear that our dear
cousins over the water think we are ag-
gressive, and were in danger Of growing
too great, but who in the world supposed
we were such terrible fellows as we are
now painted? Says the Times:
"But while the Republic was overtop.
ping and overshadowing US, while it
stretched its limbs and raised it. tones to
the scale of giant, it was impossible,
but that our sympathy should be weak.
ened. We feel for men, not for giants,
for monsters, for madmen, for those al
together out of our rank and species.'
And again:
"Mr. NJ. Gibson cannot, surely, de.
mand from US that we should absolutely
wish the United States to retain their
integrity or now recover it, SO as to
make vast political unity of the kind
Mr.. Bright describes ? That rould Jt
to irish our o,cn aLassment and orr omn
destruction'
That will do to recolec the next time
the "leading Journal chooses to asser,
that England-and especially itself
have always been impartial spectators OF
this strife
These declarations of the Times are
elected by the speech of Mr. Miner
Gibson, which took pretty strong Amer.
lean ground, and which was obnoxious
to the Times for that reason. Mr. Glib.
son is President of the Board of Trade,
and not to be .neered down; so his op-
ponent had to resort to that argument
which an Englishman is never deaf to
selfintere.t But in appealing to its
home constituency on such ground,
the Times has told some truth for the
benefit of the rest of mankind
York Tribune.
rR- In glancing over the diary oil
events in the rebel publication styled the
"First Year of the War for Separation
we find it stated that the Dubuque Her.
aid was suppressed on the 18th of Sep
tember, 1861, because Of its sympathy
with the traitors! We also learn frou
it that Gen Zollicotfer, who was killec
near Somerset, KY, as is said by Col
Speed s. Fry, now Brigadier General
performed an exploit not parallclcd since
the age of Chivalry. According to thi.
account, Zollicoffer came upon Union
Kentucky regiment, mistaking it for one
of his own command He was recognize
ed as the rebel General, and cries Of
skill him." Immediately ran along The
ranks. One of his aids promptly drew
a pistol and shot the soldier who first re
cognized him dead where he stood. Tn,
General, seeing escape impossible, there
upon drew his sword and riding up t
the Union Colonel, struck off has head a
a single blow, and Immediately fell dea(
himself pierced with twenty bullets!
These items will be news to mos
northern readers, and there is just abou
as much truth in them as in the rest o
the statements. From this chronicle, W.
learn that whenever the rebels gained
victory they were always inferior il
numbers. Whenever we gained one, i
was because we outnumbcred them a
least. from three to ten times over Fo
instance, in the fight at Wilson's Creek
Mo-. where Lyon fell, the rebels ha
} 1900 men, and Lyon 1000! This is
+ fair example of its veracity. What won
L. der that the ignorant, who were surfeit
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