The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1866-09-18
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aASsoNdn-cOn OF human virtue.
1shall take no pains to ,undeceiYe him.
,Itis the won't of a certain class OF
men to cry, "wolf, wolf, . .Astop thief,
stop thief,0 to divert the pursuer from
their own track. But Charge nothing
lpf this, kind upon the book sellers OF
our city, who as a class are probably as
upright as most of their feI eIl0w citizens.
II Is =, ah easy matter, however, to. lm1
| peach mems motives and certainly If
were so. disposed, I might say, that
the booksellers of this city are much
more liable TO the mpiltation ofsvenal-
ity, in this connection, than any body
keise. - For itnl this matter of a change
\ OF books, IL is well known that they are
deeply interested, not perhaps in the
loss that they might sustain BY books
on hand rendered unsalsable by such a
fchange; for in this respect, could such
books not be otherwise disposed OF. the
| Pu bishers themselves would probably
Save them harmless. But in conse-
quence of the equal exchange. they
might lose in all several thousand dol.
lars, in the shape of diminished profits.
tOittch ipolttd go, Of course, into. the hands
llof the public. Now, aul. sure lido not
know; but this perhaps IS iesat- Is tEe
matter. For it would seem that j. *.
Ia is notthe' only @ohe-ofi his class who
sheen exercised on this subject. IOne
of them indeed, very much I presume
to his. own grief, has allowed the sifIgu-
lar honor to be thrust upon him by the
Board of Education (2) of being placed
on committee of three, (0h, may. 1t
not pr6v8h committee of de4thB who
are to determine whether if would be
wise and expedient to make the pro-
posed changeror not. De gitsti6us non
ldiSputGsada Which means, it may
ibe presumed, u gust is coming. and
stand from under. If not, 1 must refer
your readers for u better translation to
the s.oilyH agent Otthe Cincinnati Pub-
fishing House, who is a clever fellow.
and can perform such feats of sleight-
-of-hand and lofty ground -tumbling as
feet, six inches in his boots, could ever
dream of. When this remaFkable7Ve-
MUS comes upenkthe stage, Signot Biitz
retifes to the shade, and even Stackpole
himself disappears in shame and con-
fusion. AZ al events, we are all on
pected child does n6fdie in the 6o1nt1e
i(2l perhaps 1T will not be any fault of
our good friend the bookseller.
iaAnd nowslet us see what the Priici-
pals and Superiptendents did propose
to do The list of, text books in ourcity
schools is bstantially the same as that
which was used under the old law; and
is Ruth0rizediand enjoined by the new
Board until "a revision can be made. In
the use of this list there is not perfect
uniformity throughout our schools.
But the difference is not very great.
This repaney wasintgoduce sever
al years ago; SO that the present Princl-
pals, and the new Board of Education,
are not TO be held responsible for 1T,
The truth is. that there has heen h,it
one ar two huihot5zed! an, ns,eS n, yo1r
text books for several wears past, and
the object of the Supegintendents and
Principals lnetheir late action on the
iisf Sa,.tlu .iistu III srto
and parfiy with "a oiay, ~; 1trTf, ,t5t,
most i'm nroged cl,s nf y text s hnoi.s vii !,
no loss Inc a decided eesin 10 the ,,nbIic,
in every respect.i Z and when this is
made to appear, as it viii 6e ifthe sub
Board ii will fbe seen who are the 't,,Slst
cont etei tn ICES and " ,5I1e, the l1est
Friends or rhs T,II1It,. or g to1rLins d
5I'ins this naIticI,li,,.f - ?
Nors1gqs.iE f,s vSjiIT fsorrtessbon Sient T
X n u lhs,es T,ro5,oseii III ,SSfse !, ssrSS a..
,tiiI' fart,5 NJ, tts, 1850
lfnended list ATtaTi - "a, rai,,l and no ]
tient comma Tison NJ vi4yvs derived frp,,,
q a.. ~. Iass Z, tI,o ss,,So
a;nt7anSs,,t and ,,1,,
II, 5 to- y, ii
now on file With the IeIefSsS of tbe Hoard
H,,I III, Loo sI ~, ~,
tiOT1 rfNf the ROnFd on Tho "a
Observation-Disclosures, TIE rscoD1 y
tion. yvas oo,Iehed in the ;forTn of :, natl
lion and ttsE nressefi ,ste & ~,
snectfnI IanUnave. J'he S5I,r,art,1ta,1iI a.
enI and some c,fs tile ri'cf,1t,Is were
present. and 4 reeafeE 'toTsay we're bstliy
snubbed, and that, itoo,' without the.
slightest proyocation equalization, and
given to understand that "they were
not the advisers but the servants of the
iBOarCl.'' II would simply ask-eDo the
laws of England prevail in this couti1
try 3}i4 Of course the whole Board
was not responsible for this, dis
courtesy, although it passed unre-
buked, as 1 think it should
not have done. Having been put down
in the category, and Hlseryants,o the
petitioners We're not; of course, invited
10 give their. opinions; nor did the OBJ
trfude them except in the form Of peti-
ton as. aforesaid, the right to do which
they had, supposed in their simpli lefty
was still held sacred in this Ian b. this
boaSted land of liberty. The subject
was hastily disposed of by references to
special committee, of which as before
Atatedr-tEe ltsttbits. lone Of them
Was3 bookseller!i The iboard1 had a
perfect right of course, 70 give the petit
ton this direction. The only obi iectibn
was as W the. spirit and offensive man
ner IN which ~ was done. Nor could
ks4l 'lY. SttAhEtA 90 W 1e44e COl4r
position of the committee, save that in
relation to the bookseller, de gltStiblts,
De-. In2 this nlatGAF it Is thought, the
people, that Is TO say, tsthe working
men that we read about, had an inter
est las we'll as the booksellers. sla !a.i
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on tfis N Sbie6t ,5,sy.5
stet II, ,,t s,i
tbs OCCASION; one Of them, hS iga9 clever g