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The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1868-01-16
COMPROMISE.
We find an editorial in the N, Y. Ot


We find an editorial in the n. Y. OBJ
server, which concludes as follows
Would II not be possible and wIso to hold a
National Convention, not of politicians, but OF
patrlets philanthropists and statesmen, TO dellb-
erate on the condition Of the country and ign0r-
log all the commands aud demands OF partiSan
politicians, to devise some plan for the concllia-
ilon of the different classes OF our citizens North
and South, and for the rellofof the country from
its presentstateof turmoil and strife and suffering
Such result can be reached only by some Kind
ofcompromlse, and odlOus as the word has been
made BY tho hue and cry Of party, We hesitate
not 70 say that there never was time when II
was more ImpeFatlvely demanded than OF present,
The article speaks of suffering in the
South, and instead of ofadviSing the lazy,
whisky drinking, tobacco chewing reb-
els 10 60 to work, 1t desires compro-
mise by which tho negroes, the only
loyal people in the South, may be COM
PEELED to work for and support these
lsEy.traitorS,
The Observer is kind Of religious
paper, or rather compromise paper,
1t has q religious department Snd sec
ular department. II isa kind Of com
promise between God and the devil, the
latter gentleman having much the lar
ger share in the arrangement. This
class Of papers always has something to
fling at men who are firm for the right.
They are called politicians, with a
Sneer Whom Stephen was murdered by
a mob he did net compromise, but died
calling upon the name Of the Lord. Such
men are now called politicians, aud such
adherence to principle is called the
dirty pool of politics.
Let the Observer, and all such relig-
iouSC) papers, get up another Philadel'
phia convention, and attempt another
compromise between good and evil,
between right wrong, between satan
and God, and then let them "observe'
the result God is able still to make
the wrath Of man TO praise him.
We detest and abhor thatcwSed word
compromise. In the mouths of pro.
fessors Of Christianity 1t has done more
harm to the cause Of true religion thar
all the open attacks Of the Evil One
Let justice be done. and the Hsaven'
will not fall. The doctrines taught b.
the heather philosophers, should puI
such Chnstian(i) teachers as the Obser
yer to shame. Let Us have no more
compromises with the devil, o.
any Of his agents
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CONGRESS ADMONIsMED.

The Ironton Journal has a conserva-
tive editorial, in which we find the fol-
lowing:
Our contemporary, the Register, lasb week,
gave Congress a thorough beratlng, large part
of which Ia deserved But We are inclined to
think that that body hns made the discovery
that 1t has been carrying things too far. That
power Is too temporary to admit of 0Verbearance
and unreasonable legislation.
Now we should not be surprised to
learn that members Of Congress, after
so "thorough a berating" from the
press of Ironton, begin to feel ridiculous
and cease their "overbearance, ,"(O and
resign, and come home.
The Journal says;
The truth Is, we have had too much of the Niger
and Congress begins to see II.
Ofcourse. And the Journal "begins
to see 1t" too, for in the same paper
we find the following:
In our lastwe referred to a squib going the
the rounds of the papers, stating that 'Ironton
had but one Literary SOcietv-that of the coored
people" Our remarks were far from being In.
tended TO reflect on the negroes. But we do
think, and tried to so express 1t, that with the
talent and material that exists In our city, the
white people, of which our contemporary, we be-
lleve, claims to belong, should be ashamed to
have ii known abroad that thev are out-done by
the blacks in any enterprise of that character.
Mr.. Nasty can never permit the
"cussed niger" to get ahead of the
"proud Caucasian" and it is evil
dent from the above that the
Journal fears some such dire calamity,
and hence it wants Congress to back
down, and hand the faithful negroes
back to the traitors who want them
again to work for them for nothing
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harvest; you have no right to risk the harvest
which this great lavish martyrdom gained by your
hapless confidence In anv man, however beloved.
have sat 90 miles in railroad car, and on seat be-
hind me was half idiot from Anderso nvllle. |
have lived one night under roof where 1t took
IS months of q mothers fondest care to win back
intelligence unto the wreck which Libby Prison
had sent her for her eldest boy, and with such
memories and such martyrdom, God forb Id that
any one of US should have any word nspoken,
any effort unmade that would save this hapless
nation, save II from thrusting the harvest these
young martyrs actually earned into hands that
are not irrevocably pledged to reap 1t to the ut
termost. Loud applause.
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Notice.

ToHN WYANT, whose residence Is unknown,
ID but who Is supposed to reside In Vlnton Co.,
Ohio, is notified that Margaret Wyant did, on the
oath day Of December. A. D., 1867, file her petl-
Common Pleas within and for the county of jack
son and State of Ohio, charging the said John
Wyant with being guilty Of Extreme Cruelty tC-
ward her, said Margaret Wyant, and asking that
she may be divorced from the said John Wyant.
which petition will be for hearing at the next
term OF said Court.
Dated this 16th day of January, A. D., 1858.
MARGARET WYANT.
By James Trip. her Attorney.
Jan Is, 6s-6w
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NEw-YoRK, Jan. 1867,

NEW-foRk, Jan. 1857.
To tie Editor Of Standard
DEAR SIR:--Ths follow
ing Is . condensed statement Of the prizes TO our
Disabled Soldiers, for the best Leh-Hand Bust.
ness Writing, offered by me, and now awarded
shall esteem It favor II you will publish the
Awards, for the information Of your readers.
Respectfully,
Yours, &C., WV. ORLAND BOURNE
FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS IN PRIZES TO Dis
ABLED SoLDIERs.- few months since, the ed
itor Of the SoIdseTs Friend New-York, offered
I'VE hundred dollars, In teu prizes Of fifty dollars
each, for the best specimens Of business penman-
ship by soldiers and sailors who had lost the If
right arms In the late war The prizes were to
be awarded, In autograph let ters, by ten OF the
distinguished officers of the Army and Navy.
The awards have been made, and are as follows;
THE GRANT PRIzE.-B. d. Pa liner, Ninth Kan.
Sas Cavalry, Lawrence, Kansas.
The FARRAGur PRIzR.-Captaln selden Clo-
bridge, il6th N. Y. Infantry, Albany NY.
Tux SHERMAN PRIzE. B. Fisher, li3d
Pa, Infantry, Aurora III.
TnE SHERIDAN PRIzE, Morgan Bumgardner,
9th Iowa Infantry, Mechan icsvilIe, Iowa.
The HOWARD PRIzE.-GeorgVB. La Rue, 9th
Ohio Infantry Cincinnati, Ohio.
THa MEADE PRIzE.-Capt. Francis X. Burger,
Ath Pa. Infantry, N Y. City.
THE HANCOCK PEIsE.--J. Q. Crosby, 18Th
Mass. Infantry, Washington, D. c.
The GEARY PRzE.-Capt. John NJ. Thompson
40th Pa, Infantry, PerrysVllle, Pa.
TIE HOOKER PRIEE.-Charles II. Post, i73d
NY Infantry, N, Y. City
THE LOGAN PRizE-Lt J. K. Byers, l2lst ia.
Infantry, sAeketts HarbOr, N, Y
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burning eff ohm Rogers at Smith6eld,
England, and long string of verses,
among which was this:

among which was this:
II leave YOU here little book,
Fer you TO look upon,
That You may SEE your fathers face,
When he Is dead and gone"
Here was a picture of the martyr,
with his face beaming amid the flames.
His wife stood near, with her "nine
small children, and one at the breast. "
About this time the American Spell
Ing Book, by Noah Webster, was intro
duced. There was also book called
the United States Spelling Book,
There were no reading Books except
the New Testament and the English
Reader, and the Introduction to the
English Reader. There were several
arithmetics, but all of them had merely
rules laid down, with no analysis or ex.
plauation.
What was done in these primitive
schools-how they were conducted-the
progress made in the different studies
&c, will appear in my next number
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Communicated. !

JhnuhTy otil, loOo' J
BRo. MACKLEY:-Please say to the
friends OF Temperance, through the
Columns of your paper, that have now
entered upon my field of labor, and
commenced my laborsin the great Tenn
perance reform. / have been lecturing
to full houses at Cardington for several
nights past, and as a result, there seems
to be quite feeling on the subject of
Temperance, and yesterday ! succeeded
in organizing a splendid lodge OF Good
Templars. Eighteen Charter mem
bers, and host ready to join at the
next meeting. My Head Quarters is
Columbus, Ohio, Post Office address,
Box 207.
trust we are entering upon bright
er days in this country for the Tenn
perance cause. But mere anon.
Yours for the good of the cause,
7. ]. DowNEY,
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A CARD. Il take this method of in-
forming my clients that during my absence at
Columbus, all the business Of the Office will be
attended to by my partner. And all persons in
debted TO me are authorized to pay him.
IwII be at home about every three weeks.
Jan s6s-4w. LEVI DUNCAN.
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Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-26
VOL. Al: No.: "a.
MiGfellanepns.
TELEGRAM.


Office of the Mouth--at one end Of the
line. Office of the Stomach-at the other
end of it.
Inquiry-Mouth to the stomach-"Arc
you ready for breakfast ?''
stomaeh-''Yes: what are you going to
send?"
Mouth-"You win see. Prepare"
The table bell rings; body hurries; drops
into chair; mouth opens, and as quicklyas
possible, cup of coffee at temperature of
I35 degrees of Fahrenheit. 1t burns the
whole asophagal track, as it passes it, and
when it gets into the Stomach, burns it,
and the Stomach contracts aud shriyels, and
cringes, finally creeches, and the
Mouth says-''H 'Halloa! what is the mat
ter2''
Stomach-"Matter? Enough, should
think. Do you not know that cannot en-
dure slush at l40 to l60 degrees of heat p
Mouth-"0, Never mind. Here comes
some beefstake, with hot fried potatoes,
hot rolls and poor butter; some salad with
vinegar, some buckwheat cakes with molas-
ses. These win heal it.
Stomach Stop What earthly use is
there in sending these down all at one time?
They make hodge-pOdge.
Mouth-"Here comes some more coffee.
Stomach Hold on wait Give me
some waterl"
Mouth-"Water! water! when you can
get coffee? You must be crazyl Water
has no nourishment in it. One wants water
only when one is dry"
Stomach-''I am thirsty Give me some
water ~
Mosth-"Cannot do it! They haven t
any water up here. IF they have it, it IS
hot, and doubt if they have any of that.
Persons DO not ike water; and you, O
Stomach, are eccentric; stop complaining,
and get ready to take some more feed
take the good the gods provide, and be
content Are you content? am in a hurry
Up here, time is money, l have to furnish
you with material out of which strength is
to be gotten for the body uses to- day, and
| have ten minutes allowed for that purpose.
Now the afterpart is your lookout, not
mine. Take noticel Are you ready? Here
comes apple pie, fried chicken, tripe,
tomato eatsup, boiled ham, minute pud-
ding, corn bread and cucumbers, pepper,
salt, gravy, mince pie, another cup of
cofee-so look out 70
Stomach-''Look out o, murderl What
am l to do Dol | must grind away at il
like a.horse in bark mill, till 1 am worn
out Under such condition of things as
this, / shall break down in a fourth part of
the time which l might work; then the
Mouth, and for that matter the heart, too,
will be still, and 1 shall be at peace. y
T11rS of life
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SUBSCRIPTION TERMS, sc.

NEWSPAPER LAws.-We would call the special
attention of Post Masters and subscribers 10 the
IsQUIRER to the following synopsis Of the News
paper laws:
/. A Postmaster is required to give notice by
letter, returning paper does not answer the law
when a subscriber does not take his paper out Of
the Office, and state the reasons Tor its not being
taken; and neglect to do so makes the Postmas-
ter rePsoasible 70 the publishers for the payment
2, ANY person who takes paper from the Post
Office, whether directed to his name or another or
whether be has subscribed or not is responsible
for the pay.
3. II a person orders his paper discontinued, he
must pay all arTeaFages, OF the publisher may
continue to send it until payment is made, and
collect the whole amount, Whstker q De taken from
che office or not. There can be no legal discoRtn-
uence until the payment is made.
4. IF the subscriber orders his paper to be
stopped at certain time, and the publisher con
tinues to send the subscriber is bound to pay for
it, i he tukes Il out Of he Post 06ice. The law
proceeds upon the ground that man must pay
for what be uses.
S. The courts have decided that refusing to take
newspapers and periodicals from the Post Office,
or removing and having them uncalled for, is
Prim0 Jdcia evidence Of intentional fraud
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-26
SINGULAR CASE OF sOMNAMBUL-
ISM.

The Toronto Telegraph records most re-
markable case of somnambulism: A gentle
man doing business on oung street, VINO
is also something of horse fancier, made
what be thought an excellent investment in
horse flesh. On going home in the even
ing with his new purchase, he entertained
his family with details of the operation. He
retired to bed with his mind in decidedly
horsy condition, and it is therefore not
singular that his slumbers should have been
disturbed with the nightmare. In the mid
die of the night he got up in his sleep, went
to the stable and took CIT his new horse,
mounted him and started on good round
pace to the city. He continued his nocturn-
al equestrianism through the streets for con
siderable time His singular appearance
and actions attracted the attention of pol
iceman, who, thinking some insane circus
rider has broken loose, or that John Gilpin s
spirit had returned to earth, took him into
custody, and with great fear and trembling
conducted him to one of the station houses.
Shortly afterwards the gentleman was thor
oughly aroused, and great was his astonish-
ment at finding himself in such singular
predicament During all bis riding he had
been in somnambulist state, required a
great deal of argument on the part of the
policeman to convince him that he had been
engaged in such unreasonable and peculiar ex-
ereise. Ofcourse he was liberated at once.
This VIC conceive to be one of the most re-
markable cases of fsomnambulism on record,
and but that it is substantiated by the most
reliable authority, it might be doubted.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-26

PAY YOUR SMALL DEBTs. Pay your
small debts. You do not know how much
good is frequently accomplished by adopt
ing this principle 1t was honest old Ben.
Franklin, we believe, how, as matter OF
experiment, followed up q small amount
which he paid to a tradesman. In a very
little while he ascertained that the money
Maid the trades man had passed from hand
TO hand until the number of bills OF nearly
similar amount settled with it reached some
fifteen or twenty. 1t may not be possible
to do as Franklin did, and trace up the his
tory of a small amount of money in the way
of debt paying; but it may be set down as
fixed fact that the prompt payment OF small
debts is the initiative step towards paying
cash for everything. Generally speaking
these small debts are due to persons who
need all the little capital they cancommaud.
To such, they are of immense importance;
and it may be said of the person who allows
these trihing obligations to remain unpaid
while having the means to discharge them,
that he is not, in the true sense Of the word,
an honest man. unless, by express contract,
a time for payment has been fined, and that
time not arrived. Pay your smalldebts, aud
your big ones too. If you would be happy
and comfortable, sleep soundly, eat heartily,
and enjoy the peace of mind which only men
with good consciences are supposed to enjoy,
pay your small debts.
Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1868-06-26
HAVE A CARE AND BEWARE.

There's boy, seldom coy, has a toy
Which consists Of quiver and bow;
By repute he's acute, rather mute, and can shoot,
And his aim is at random, trow.
1t Is clear, he's queer little dear, and hear
That his ARROWS are swift in their flight;
Have care, and beware how you dare anywhere
Meet the youngster by day or by night.
Now he brings meath his wings silken strings,
pretty things,
And he calls them his true lovers knot,
Which he tries TO disguise he ties up his eyes,
Then he's blind as bat every jot;
But find, though he's blind he's inclined Oft TO
bind
Maidens hearts with his gay "cords Of love-"
So beware, have a how you fare when you
dare
To commune with this boy as you rove.
With glance of romance he'll advance and en-
hance
All the virtues that be may possess;
On his knees he will please; by degrees be will
tease,
Then he'll hatter and soothe and cares;
So again, to be plain, if you design to retain
In your service this cherub, say,
Have care, and beware, or he'll dare cen to
bear
You in triumph to hymen one day.
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9petrg
AN ANSWERING HEART.
BY JOHN G. wHIrriER.

her window opens to the bay,
On glistening light or misty gray,
ana there at dawn and set Of day
In prayer she kneels;
Dear Lord"' she saith, "t0 many a home
From wind and wave the wanderers come:
only see the tossing foam
Of stranger keslf-
Blown out and in by summer gales,
The stately ships with crowded sails,
And sailors leaning Ger their rails,
Before me glide;
lhey come. they 60, but nevermore,
spiee-laden from the Indian shore,
] see his swift winged Isidore
The waves divide.
20 Thou. with whom the night is day
And One the near and far away,
Look out on yon gray waste, and say
Where fingers he.
Aliye, perchance on some long beach.
Or thirsty isle beyond the reach
Vi man, he hears the moeking speech
Of wind and sea.
so, dread and cruel deep, reveal
The secret which thy waves conceal,
And ye, Wild sea birds, hither wheel
And tell your tale:
Let winds that tossed his raven hair
A message from my lost one bear
Some thought ofme, last fond prayer
Or dying wall
Come, with your dreariest truth shut out
The fears that haunt me round about;
o, God cannot bear this doubt
That stiles breath.
The worst is better than the dread
Give me but leave to mourn my dead
Asleep in trust and hope, instead
Of life in death
II might have been the evening breeze
That whispered in the garden trees,
II might have been the sound of seas
That rose and fell;
But, with her heart if not her ear,
The old loved voice she seems to hear;
81 wait to meet thee-Be of cheer,
For all is well
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things how many masters we have. Last
year, Of the whole number employed, nifty
nine had had no experience, and seventy
had taught less than one year. Tins year
we employed forty-fye raw recruits and
seventy-two who had not seen one year
service. Each year about SO per cent. of
our teachers seek EN- loyinent in some other
occupation Their places are filed by young
men and women who labor with us for
short time, many of them zealously, with
determination to succeed, and then, when
they are prepared to teach-quit the protes-
sion. Now why this constant change? Sim
ply because the term Is too short, and wages
not sufficient to offer an inducement to keep
men in the profession. The same change
will go on until we increase the length OF
the school term and pay more literally.
And while this change goes on while we
employ teachers who win only teach until
something better offers, we need not look for
that perfection of our educational system
intenden by the fathers of the same.
We therefore, again suggest that one Of
the means, calculated 10 promote imprOre-
nlent, is more aid from the State. A more
equal distribution Of the school tax of the
State would greatly lessen our burdens and
aid US to increase our term. This would
check the draft annually made on our most
competent teachers and help us to build up
stronger profession. We again ask the
respectful attention Of the Legislature,
! through the school Department to change
in the number of school Directors in each
district Experience shows how difficult it
is in our rural districts, to have a quorum
at any stated meeting. The full board
rarely meets; meetings are called and busi-
ness is postponed again and again for want
of sufficient number of Directors present.
They receive no pay and many have little
or no interest in the work There can be
but little doubt, that three members in each
Board, President, Secretary and Treasu-
rer, paid for their services, would do the
work much more efficiently
Still we will work on, believing that in
the end we must succeed. We want more
earnest heart work We believe in labor as
| blessing and not as curse, and we know
that sooner or later all will see that intelli-
gence only fits man the better to fulfill the
duties of life. Thus far too much attention
has been paid TO the LaUes of the human
flower; the leaf memory has received much
care, while upon judgment and reason grow
ing in the region of thought much less care
has been bestowed, and those still more
| fragrant, springing from the very heart of
the blossom and in which are the seeds of
life, have been, too often almost wholly neg
| lected." The heart needs more culture
To this the true teacher will ever turn his
thought and attention, remembering, that
he is training, not for life only but for eter-
nifty. H. w. FISHER,
County Superintendant