Weekly Calaveras chronicle., 1867-05-11

COUNTY SuPERINTENDENr.-On Monday
last the Board Of Supervisors appointed ].
II. Wells. Esq. of Fourth Crossing. Super
intendent of Public Schools of this county,
to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resig-
nation of F. o. Barstow. The office of
County Superintendent is an important one,
and the qualifications of those who aspire to
the position should be closely seemed before
Q selection is made. The duties of the office,
if properly attended, are onerous. and it be-
hooves those who are intrusted in educa-
tional matters-and who is not !. to see that
the responsibilities of the position are not en-
trusted to incapable hands. The Board
could not have made a better appointment
than Mr.. Wells. He has been engaged in
teaching in this county since 1861, and
wherever he has tanght he has given the
highest satisfaction. During the time he has
been engaged in his profession. Mr.. Wells
has passed four different examinations. re-
eeiving each time a first grade certificate.
Since 1862 he has been a member of the
County Board of Examiners. having been
appointed by Robt. Thompson and retained
in that position by his successors. Mr..
Wells has been prompt in attending the va
rious State and County Institutes which
have been held since he entered the profess
sion of teaching. been constant in his nppli-
cation to perfect himself in its requirements
and has ever exhibited lively interest and
taken an active part in all measures calculat-
ed to promote and disseminate education.
He stands in the front rank o. teachers, and
his reputation rs an enthusiastic, successful
educator, is well established. Nr. Wells
qualifications for the position he has been
appointed to are eminently good. His long
experience in school affairs has gained him a
clear insight into the duties and requirements
Of the Office, he is finely educated. q young
man of good abilities. and one whose moral
character is in every particular unassailable.
We understand that his name will be pre-
sented to the Convention for q nomination.
Should he receive it and be elected, Calaveras
will have what she has some time needed-a
real. live county Superintendent.
MEAxxEss.-The Sacramento Union and
Bee. in recent issues of those papers, copied
an item from the San Francisco Call, 10 tb.
effect that Hon. WIN. Highly bad entered into
. combination with Couness for political
purposes. As the Gail is little, pusillani-
nous, dirty, fence-straddling sheet, and not
published in this District. we paid no atten-
tion to its fslsehoods and should not have
done so had not professed Union Journals
reiterated them. The Sacramento papers
knew they were giving place to . lie when
they published the item referred to but
their natural propensity to misrepresent and
falsify is so strong, and their enmity towards
Mr.. Highly so great. that they could not for.
bear giving publicity to q falsehood which
they knewwould be prejudicial to his inter-
esss. The sneaking, cowardly Thugs have
not sufficient courage and manliness to make
an open attack upon any one. nor indepen-
dence enough to advocate the claims of .
particular candidate for any position but
assassin-like. they think to attain their OBJ
jects BY stabbing in the dark those whom
they know they cannot subvert to their own
base purposes We understood the Union.
thoroughly, before now, and have previously
taken occasion to express our opinion in re-
lation to that blackmail institution but we
h.l 1okS
authorized to state that Mr.. Highly has en-
tered into no combination with John Connes.,
or any one else, for political purposes, but
presents himself before the people as q can
didate for reelection, standing solely upon
bis merits. II the conductors Of the papers
referred to above were white men, we would
ask them to retIact the statement they made
in regard tothe matter.
that political guerilla, the San Francisco
CaH, is bothering its brains to find out the