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Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

A WORD TO SUPERINTKNDBKTs N
SCHOOLS AND TBAcHBRs.-It will be ye-
membered that the General Assembly a.
its last session exhibited it's desire for ,
higher grade OF attachments among the
teachers of our schools, by providing
that, at the teachers institutes holden
in each county in the State, the Secre-
tary Of the Board of Education, aided
by two or more practical teachers, should
examine all persons, presenting them
selves for examination, in the courses o,
study prescribed by the Board for Nor
NAL Schools, and give certificates to such
persons as pass satisfactory examina
ton, which certificates shall entitle the
holders to the right to teach in any
town in the State for the period Of five
years. The examinations to be held st
the Normal Schools, established by the
act of last fall, are also with a view to
granting certificates which shall be good
throughout the State. The object Of
this legislation was to secure better
class OF teachers, teachers Of more
thorough preparation, for our district
schools. The need of the Legislation
grew ont of the fact that the examins'
ton OF teachers by town superintend-
ents has never been so rigid as 1t should
have been, an applicant scarcely eYeE
being refused a certificate.
We hope this action Of the General
Assembly will arouse towns and super.
intendents TO the necessity OF more
searching and critical examination oil
every candidate for certificate. In this
work there should be no laxity, and no
mistaken clemency shown TO inCompe'
tency. II Is not enough that candidate
can Tread and write and cipher" VITA
tolerable fcility,-very many OF The
scholars in our common schools can 10
that. One who aspires to the office Q:
teacher should understand the reason o.
what is taught, should go behind tne
books and the rules and grasp the prin-
ciples from which the books ana The
rules spring. Unless be does this ne can
be of no service to the scholar. Inc
teacher who hears a recitation from the
book, and is satisfied If the scholar tt
beats the words Of the author, has only
done what anybody who can read can
do,-and ifthat is all desired 10 teachets
the qualification is not difficult to nna'
We regret to be obliged to believe that
quite too many teachers really Know
very little OF the studies they pretend 70
teach and under such instruction
scholar might go through textbook
and really know nothing about II, ez.
cept TO repeat its rules from memory oi
work out its examples by rule.
The remedy for this evil is In the hans
of superintendent of schools 10 ever
town. If they refuse certificate thtls
is no appeal, aud incompetency VIII "
obliged TO seek some other field OF laooI
than the school house, where minus alo
moulded not only for life but for 'lme
as long as mind shall endure. WIN sOs
superintendents from this time forwaLu
magnify their Office" and naks tne
ordeal, through which candidate mus
pass before certificate is granted LeA
test of capacity to impart iastruc.ioas
and shed light on every study puFsueN
In our schools a. Grsen Aosssats Frseo.s-s-.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

sion. 1t is Iumored that his veto Ii
written. Senator Hendricks of Indians
said he did not See why he could no.
slgn the bill, with q protest. Mr. Mar.
shat ofIlinois, democrat, slgsed the re.
port OF the conference committee on ,he
bill, Tuesday. Some said that the bill
weuld come back on Thursday, others
were certain that II will not get back till
Friday. The President told Repub-
licsn member that he would not keep
the bill an hour, but he talks so wildly
at times, that no dependence can be
placed on what he says. Thad. Stevens
says that Congress will adjourn this
week,
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

CoSsB6nepr PoLIgIos.- A Hartford
correspondent Of the Tribune gives the
following statements relative to the po-
litical situation in Connecticut, as
recognized from central point:
$50 far as the gubernstorial issue ia
concerned, the Republicans are especially
ssnguine. I'll true they have great
dead TO fight. Democratic James K.
English, with his income of $50 600 per
anpum, is understood to have declared
TO his friends tina. be would win the
day, II 1t cost him his entire fortune
and the way his money has been made tu
ay during the past fortnight il proof
enough that be meant it Bot the man
Who beat English at the last election can
do 1t again. In the stainless poli:ical
aad military record Of Gov. Jose,,h &
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

WESTERN AND SOUTHERN FRBsHRTs.-
The latest accounts from the freshets In
Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee and
Georgia, represent the rivers as falling
slowly, bearing away great quantities Of
household property and an occasional
corpse. The total damage is estimated
at 100000. A Louisville Ky paper
of the 10Th contains the following:
The river last evening had come to
stand, having risen less than two inches
since a. m. During the previous forty
eight hours 1t had risen seven or eight
inches, making about sixty-three feet of
water in the channel at the foot of the
falls. This Is equal to channel depth
of thirty-nine feet at the head of the
falls, making an immense sea of swiftly
moving water and the highest tide we
have had for twenty years. The Ken
lucky river had fallen at Frankfort forty
inches on Wednesday night, and was
falling all day yesterday. This, as we
stated yesterday, will prevent the fur
ther entertainments OF the food, and we
confidently predict that 1t will be falling
here to-day. The river now bears the
appearance of q vast sea or lake, the
surface of its waters being nearly on a
level with its highest banks, and at this
point nothing but the roofs of the
houses can be seen. The lumber and
vast RATS OF the saw mills are all afioat,
and ara at the mercy Of the waves. The
losses of all persons along the water
courses are very heavy, to say nothing
of the privations and Inconvenience OF
thousands. From the steamer Indiana,
which arrived here yesterday, we learn
that the food from Evansville to Green
vile, Miss, is far greater than ever be-
fore known. 1t Is not food, but a del
uge Of waters, and the losses may be
estimated by millions. AT point below
Evansville, q prominent New Orleans
house loses 20 900 sacks OF corn. all Of
which was washed away by the q )od OF
waters. At Memphis the river is said
to be forty miles wide, its limits on the
Arkansas shore being evidently bound
less. At divers points along the Missis.
sippi, the people are living In their
houses In water to 2 feet deep, and
have In many cases built Temporary
platforms above the tide, awaiting Its
abatement, and wholly unconscious Of
the second food which is now on ltd
way to overwhelm them. Thousands Of
cattle, hogs, sheep and other live stock
are driven IL extremity by the food, and
are liable to be lost II not soon rescued
At various points, as the Indiana passed
by, droves of cattle were seen in water
up to their necks, subsistipg on the barb
and leaves ofthe cottonwood trees. The
food In the Cumberland is subsiding
Green river Is higher than ever before
known, and houses, barns, tobacco ware
houses, and other kinds of property
have been swept Of. In Evansville
Henderson, Shswneetown, Uniontows
Caseyville and other towns below, tn,
food has done great damage, all o
these towns being more or less over
flowed. Csseyville and Shswneetowu
are completely flooded, and 10 Shawnee
town many Of the houses are entirel,
covered, snd the Inhabitants have haf
to leave for the hills.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

REAL EsTATE.-Transactions in real
estate sppear to be quite lively. in this
vicinity. Besides the sales recently
chronicled by us, the following have &C.
Cured within 8 few days
John A. Sheldon, ESQ, has purchased
the residence o, Mr.. Freeman, corner OF
Washington and Wales streets, paying
therefor the sum of $500.
DR.. George Dutton has bought the
residence of F. A. shattuCk, Esq, on
Church street, paying therefor the sum
of 5000.
Mr.. Forest D. ellison has disposed OF
his new residence on Church street to
Mr.. Sweet, of the firm ofsadler & Sweet,
for $3.50. Also building lot sdjoin-
ing 10 James Lee for $500.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28
RUlLANp HERALD.
FRIDAY, MARCH a. 1867.
Tn, Coeli~ Tr.de In Caba.

Mex, 10 the African slave trade there
isro trafSc in human beings SO abhor-
ent as the Coolle or servant trade which
is extensively carried on in some parts
Of the world, and especially In the
island Of Cuba, where 1t Is rapidly In
trssipg-ship loads Of these persons
are constantly arriving. The question
10 b.irg agltated whether something
should not be done in bthalf Of so many
unfortunate beings. 1t is claimed by
Cubans that they have no other alterns-
tive than to entice them TO their shores
row that the negro trade is defunct, and
that unless the Asiatics are introduced
TO do The field labor, the island will be
rulned. II their services are 80 indis-
penslble, 1t should be done In more hu-
name manner, and the government
should give them proper attention. In
many respects the traffic Is worse than
ihe slave trade. Those who bring these
persons into Cuba, hire them out on con-
tracts, so-called, which are nothing but
a substitute for bills of sale, and the
general treatment they receive on the
plantations and elsewhere, is no better
than the cruelty that was practiced
with negro slaves. The task-masters
and oyerseers would wish to see them of
q humiliating disposition, submissive to
the caprices and exsctions OF their mas
tiers, as the black race have seemed to be
BY nature, but this is not their case, for
Asiatics are not Africans; Coolies are
free born men and therefore can never
feel like slaves, nor will they like them
submit to the lash. These considera-
lions are not needed and this Is the rea-
son why continual disorders prevail and
which frequently lead to murder and
assassination. An entire gang often
abandon q plantation rather than to
take retributive justice into their own
hands. There is no one to vindicate
their rights when their masters are
wrong, OK explain their complaints In
the absence of proper regulations, and
there is nothing to restrict the tyranny
OF ignorant and barbarous overseers.
1t is a Spanish rulers duty by ancient
law to defend them, but the language OF
the Chinese is worse than Greek to him.
That functionary resides at the Capital
and the Chinaman is far beyond commu-
nication with him, and the Coolie has no
alternative but to run away, and If he
does he is either hunted by the blood
hounds, put in the stocks or logged,
Should he succeed in making his escape,
he becomes criminal, Is caught sooner
or later and doomed to hard labor for an
indefinite period on the public works OF
the government. All this is Of common
occurrence in Cuba without any kind of
inquiry or investigation being made as
to the complaints or conduct OF the
Coolie or his master. This Is in brief a
description of the manner in which the
hbor contracts are carried out in Cuba,
and they call it coloniziDg the Coolies.
The man never sees his country again,
and the only consolation he has is that
which his peculiar creed affords him In
death.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

LitteL's Lisng Age. Littell and Gay, 80
Broomfield street, Boston, So 90 per
year.
We are In receipt of the weekly num-
Der for March Esd, which has several
fine articles. Early English Text ;
Monuments TO Martyrs; Ancient Writ
ing Materials; a Religious story, emit
tied Midnight Dawn; Gibbons Memo
ries; Du Challlu's Travels; Earthquake
I'M Algeria, and other interesting
variety.
TIE Childrea's HO,g. ?. S. Arthur Il Co,
Philadelphia, 81 % per year. Five
copies, IS, Eleven copies, $40.
This magazine for little folks is edited
by 7. s. Arthur, whose writings are
In almost every household in the Hand,
and their moral tone gives assurance to
all that the "Children's Hour" will be
welcomed gladly by its youthful read
ers.
Demoresfs Young Asseyiea. w. Jennings
Demorest, 47S Broadway, New York :
$3.50 per year.
Here we have another excellent mag
azine for the young, with variety Of
miscellaneous tales, music, biography,
with a fine engraving, and cuts for home
amusement. 1t contains many good
things.
The Bankrupt La'S, passed March, 1867.
Popular edition. James Porteus, as
Bible House, New York.
We have here, in convenient form,
the new bankrupt law in which a large
number Of persons are interested in hsv-
ing for reference. 1t will be sent free
by mail to any person sending 20 cents
to the publisher.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

large membership 10 their COMMUNITY
An association OF Ike purposes ana
sins should be among the prominentin'
situations OF Rutland, aud other large
towns 10 the State, and although they
have pos the wealthy citizens like Ben
nlugton to furnish them with Tree
library and hall, yet II the young men
would take an earnest and active Inter
est in such q society, it could be well
sustained. Ia not Rutland behind other
towns OF its size in many similar local
organizations,
lion. A. p. Lyman and John ii,
Flaqg, ESQ, announce 10 circular that
they are prepared to conduct proceed
ipgs in the United States Courts under
the Bankrupt law.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

The Evils OF GossIPs.-I have &uowD
country society which withered away
all to nothing under the dry rot OF gos,
sip only. Friendships, once as firm Is
granite, dissolved to Jelly, and then run
away to water, only because OF this
love, that promised a future as cndur
Ing as heaven and as stable as truth
evaporated into morning mist, that
turned TO days long tears, only ID,
cause of this q father and son were
set foot to foot with the fiery breath o.
an anger that would never cool again
between them, only because of this; and
husband and his young wife, each
straining at the heated lash in the be.
ginning had been the golden bondage o.
God. blessed love, sat mOurnfully by
the side of the grave where all their love
and all their Joy lay buried, ana only Be.
cause Of this. | have seen faith trans.
formed only to mean doubt, hope give
place to grim despair, and charity take
on itself the features Of black mslevo-
lence, all because of the spell words Q.
scandal and the magic mutterings 0.
gossip. Great crimes work great wrong
and the deeper tragedies OF human life
spring from its larger passions; but
woeful and most mournful are the On.
Catalogued tragedies that issue from
gossip and detraction; most mournful
the shipwreck often made OF noble ns-
lures and lovely lives by the bitter
winds and dead salt waters of Islander
So easy to say, yet so hard to disprove-
throwing on the innocent all the burden
and the strain OF demonstrating their
innocence, and Furnishing them as guilty
If unable to pluck out the Stings they
never see, and to silence works they
never hear-gossip and SANDER are the
deadliest and the cruelest weapons man
has ever forged for his brothers hurt
Al tie Year Round.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

BurrBR Market At St. Adams,
which is the great butter mart of Yer
mont, on Wednesday, sales we're made
at 20 to 30 cents for fall made batter.
Prime lots OF fall production are scarce
and the large amounts OF common and
fair grades in market and yet In the
hands Of producers will tend to keep
prices down until the opening Of the
season,
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

A NEW NossAL soaooL - johnson
Academy has become a Normal School,
the Board OF Education having accepted
the Offer of it's trustees s, H, Pearl ia
the Principal.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

THApDRus STsvEEs.-The following
is the leader Of Congress viewed from an
English stand point:
A gsunt, wierd, tall old man has
risen in his seat, the man WHO is often
called the leader of tho House. If to
be voted down on half the questions of
the day, to be admired, wondered st, lis
tened to with strained attention, and
then resisted in argument, and beaten on
appeal, be leadership, he has it, but not
else. Deep eyes, hidden under A cliff of
brow, the strong nose OF a pioneer of
thought, shut, thin lips, face pale with
the frost of the grave, long boRy, en-
phatic llmbs-these cover the uneasy
ghost which men call Thaddeus Stevens.
The great days OF bis power are past.
Perseus has slain his dragon, and now
he would uncleau the fair Andromeda
for whom he has fought, binding her
brows with the stars. The new version
is sadder tbaa the old, for he will not
live to see the glory for which he has
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28
A Nkv RAILROAD CHARrRR w.x-v,

Hhu hAihRoAD CHARrBR WAITED,
ID. w. Robinson publishes notice
that an application will be made TO the
special session OF the Legislature for q
charter for railroad from some point
on The wsst line of the State, in the
soSn OF SALISBURY or BsnniagtoD, to
Ahe town ss Woodford
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

WrNDHAM CoUSrY.-The following is 8
table OF the population OF Windham
County in 1850, arranged In the order Of
the largest nonulatjop
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28
DOR SALE.

DOR SALE.
A good house, barn, and six acres s 81
one mile from RUTLAND village, on tue nSsgrGR
lesdin 2 to Woodstock Rnqu ne OF n rIsn 80.
SenSef 'N''''' VI ~ L2dksH
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

wrought. YET 10 drop metaubors
which are dangerous will.of.the.y,sns
he Is wonderful even In his decline, nsv
after day he comes, compelling Biz poor
body, by the might OF the strong sou%
that Is IN him, 70 serve him a little
longer He looks so weary Of this con,
fusion which we call ii e, and yet SO !e>,
Dilute 10 commend 1t still, He is Alsrlc
the Scourge, whose mission is TO caaSteu
this terrible, turbulent South tin She
shall yield. II the means proposed are
odiops to her, they are none the worse
for that thinks this relentless Hun
Let her pride be broken Has not she
broken hearts OF ours, ave and honor
which Is more than hearts These ar
long arrears 10 settle, SO when tha
Blaine Sherman amendment comes back
he will none OF II, II j. not iair 20 say
as some OF the papers have dons thai
the radicals were false who voted
against Stevens on this issue, Ii was
not at all test-vote, As is shown in the
fact that the cOpperheadS were with
him.
Errstic, domineering, hard, sabt,e
Stevens is yet so heroic, he wears ssch
crown of noble years upon him that
ones enthusiasm, and ones reverence
cling to him. In the galleries we do not
well follow him. All those stillettoe.
Of pitiless wit which have made his
caustic tongue so dreaded are IN.
sheathed from the soitest tones OF his
voice, and are quite lost to US, But tho
| saTdOniC light of his face, and the laugh
! OF the members reach us.
Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1867-03-28

NEW MUsIC.-The publisher, II. l..
Story, Esq, of Burlington, has our
thanks for the following pieces Of new
music:
Brother, Don't Go OFT To-Hight-song
and Chorus, dedicated to the Good Tenn
plays OF Vermont. Words by W. Dexter
Smith, Jr.; music by George NJ. Clark.
Autesss F3o7sTs-Polks, by D. j.
Heineberg.
.AlDt< Polka, by D. B. Worley, the sec
ond Of series of Cherished Friends,
l2 beautiful melodies for the piano
BuRLNeToN.-At meeting OF the
several fire companies on Tuesday even
ing the following board Of engineers was
elected
Chief Englueer-P. d. Ballou,
lst Assstant-B. B. Smslley.
I'd Chester Hildreth.
Sd Charles T. Ward.
4th II. Z. Wing.
George White, charged with rob-
bling and burning the postotice at Col
chester, wss brought before Justice Hol-
lenbeck on Monday, .nd before examin-
alton made full confession OF his guilt,
White is bright, active looking boy Of
II years old, and not long since was en-
ployed as clerk in Mr.. Liscum's store
in Burlington. He was committed for
trial.
&C. W. G. Pattee was brought before
Recorder Read on Wednesday, on charge
of selling liquor, and fined $40 and
costs.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-03-28
The Uributtf..
For Associate Justice Of the Supreme Court.
ORSAMUS COLE,
A SOBER SECOND rHoIGHr.

Up to a very short time the South has
been defiant and refused to accept any
terms under which the law making pow
er Of the Government saw fit to receive
them back into the Union. Since the
passage of the Reconstruction Bill over
the veto of the President, things have
somewhat changed and from almost every
one of the ex-rebel States tidings, of a
submissive character come tous. The
leading men of the South are beginning
to understand that the terms offered by
Congress are the mildest they will ever
be able to obtain, and hence such men as
ex-Gov. Brown, of Georgia, are urging
the people to "accept the situation
This is the natural, benefcient opera
ton of the Reconstruction act of Con-
gress, so fiercely denounced by the Presi-
dent and Copperhead Congressman and
journals, as an act to organize helP' in
the South, to destroy Liberty. and to
whelm the whole land in anarchy and
military despotism. The indications now
are that the majority of the ex-rebel
States will promptly and cordially reor-
ganize ON the basis proposed by Congress.
What patriotic heart does not swell with
gratitude and Joy at the prospect?
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-03-28
Restoration of Rebel PrOperty.

The New York I1lbmaes special Wash
ington dispatch says that Gen. Saxton, in
his testimony before the Judiciary Com
mittee concerning the restoration of pro-
perty to rebels in South Carolina, said he
acted upon direct orders issued from the
War Department by the President of the
United States. The amount of this pro-
perty was very large, as it consisted Of
houses, lands, &c, which had been aban-
doned by the rebels. All the property in
the hands of the Treasury Agents seized
during the rebellion, and which has been
turned over to General Sa ton, was also
surrendered to the rebels by order of the
President
The committee have gone very fully
into this question, and the evidence thus
far elected shows that hundreds of mil
lions Of dollars worth of property have
been turned over to leading rebels with
out any warrant of law
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-03-28

A STRANGE PHENOMENON. "A gentle
man brought into our Office yesterday a
boiled egg, from which the shell had
been removed, which exhibited remark
able phenomenon. The egg was boiled
hard, and on the surface appeared letters
like the impression of type. They were
plain to be seen, and were found there
when the shell was taken off Three
other eggs of the same lot, after being
cooked and opened, exhibited similar
appearance.
We understand that these eggs had
laid for some time wrapped up in news
paper, and exposed to the suns rays
The membranous lining of the ;shell of
an egg, as every one knows, is composed
largely OF gelatine, while the white of
the egg is composed of albumen, both of
which are used by the photographers in
making their prints. These eggs were
small and had thin shells, and the suppo
sition is that the sunlight produced a
chemical action of the gelatine and albu-
men, whereby the print in the paper was
transferred to the white of the egg. It
is somewhat singular phenomenon, and
if any person can give us any further
information on it we shall be happy to re-
ceive Oscego IN " Times.
The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-03-28
ANOTHER VETO VETOED.

The veto on the Supplementary Recon
struction Bill was given to Congress Oh
Saturday, and passed by both Hous-
es over the veto in less than an hour af-
ter its reception A special dispatch to
the Chicago Tribune, in relation to the
veto says, ''it appears from two or three
sentences in the opening paragraph of
the message, that neither the President
nor Attorney General have read the bill
since the last three amendments of the
House were added thereto, as there is an
entirely incorrect statement made as to
its scope with respect to the punishment
for -,a.-:pr,- -