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The school Salaries.
WuEEL1Na, w. VA. Dec. 2s.

WHEELING, w. VA. Dec. Is.
Editors IntcUigemccr
Having read recent articles on Free
Schools, i will briefly refer to portion
of tho practical workings OF the same.
The principals OF the schools, in addi-
tion to their lRbOrs, as teachers, make
up the quarterly reports to the State
Superintendent; and ihand the same to
the District Superintendent. For this
they receive one thousand dollars an
nually. The District Superintendent
forwards the reports to the State Su-
perintendent, for which he receives iif-
teen hundred dollars, office rent and
fuel.
Cannot the principals forward 10 the
State Superintendent direct2 If it is
best to forward by a circumhighbend-
twistical route, the principals could
forward TO the Clerk of the Board OF
Education, and this paid officer for
ward to the State superintendent. This
would dispense with the fifth wheel,
and save the fifteen hundred dollars in
addition 10 the other incidental pens.
es of the Office. Aud six times this
amount in lost time, hunting the Super.
intendent on business growing out of
odious and tyranical rules, as the Su-
perintendent is not TO be found one
hour in twenty-four in what he is
pleased to call my Office.
If fidleness is the parent of vice it is
evident that the superintendent has to
encounter great temptations. With the
exception of forwarding the quarterly
reports, the balance or the year he
can appropriate. to exercise on the
streets. And concoct such rules as in
his opinion is best adapted 10 create the
belief that my Office is Indispensable.
And by way of variety, can apprOpri-
ate one or two months, in securing the
election of such members of the Board
of Education as he may have reason TO
believe, are orthodox on the principal
of reciprocity.
The iifth wheel being incorporated in
the school law, the Board OF Educa-
tion, appropriates fifteen hundred dol
lars out OF the school funds annually
lor the same.
It is but fair to say that portion of
the boards opposed this waste of public
money.
The most etfectual remedy for the
above evils is TO abolish "my office" or
reduce the pay to such amount as to
virtually abolish ii. THE PEOPLE.
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scmENcIs Avn wAsnBURNE.
A Fight for thc Leadership OF Tho
HOuSe.

A Washington correspondent writes:
There is a contest in progress between
Messrs. Schenck and Washburne as 10
which of these two gentlemen shall
have the leadership of the party In the
House. II has always heretofore been
the understanding and custom OF that
body that the Chairman of the Commit
tee on Ways and Means sho"ld, by vir-
the OF that position, lie the recognized
leader OF his party in Congress. But
when, on account of the uncertainties
and disabilities OF i'll health, old age
and other circumstances, which rem
dered the duties devolvinR upon the
head of the Committee on Ways and
Means two heavy and full of RESPONSE
bility to be trusted to the late Thaddeus
Stevens, Il was thought advisable to
make division OF tue Committee, as 1t
originally stood, and out of 1t take the
Committees on Appropriations ana
Banks and Banking, to the former oil
which Mr.. Stevena.was designated as
chairman, while Mr.. Schenck was hp'
nointed as chairman of the original
committee, then, as an act OF courtesy
sImply TO the Pennsylyania veteran.
he was still allowed 10 retain the Ieau-
arship of the House until his death.
Now. since that event, the privilege
would fall back, according to the OLD
ami estnbltshed order, to Mr.. Schenck,
huI MIR. Washburne, who has preceded
AIr, Stevens as chairman OIL the Com-
mittee on Appropriations, assumes TO
have become successor to the party
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TENNESSEE.


MEMPHIS, Dec. 27.
A negro named Lewis Street, shot an
other named @. Cox, on the Pigeon
Roost road, yesterday, killing him in
stantly. Street was firing pistol reck-
lessly, and Cox asked him to quit,
when Street turned and shot nim
through the head. He was arrested and
lodged in Jail.
On Christmas, a negro named John
Bell, murdered and robbed another
named George Biggs, near Bartlett, bn
the Memphis and Louisville Railroad,
and then placed the body on the track,
where it was run over by train. He
then proceeded to the house of William
Miller, set gin house on fire and con-
cealed himself behind rose bush with
an axe, and afterward confessed for the
purpose OF killing Miller whom he came
out. He was discovered and traced in
the snow by the citizens, black and
white, and hung to "A tree.
George X. Rutter, President of the
late Tennessee National Bank. was ar
rested yesterday by an officer from
Nashville, on the charge of embeZZling
school funds ofthe State TO the amount
OF near three hundred thousand dollars.
Some rich developments are expected
in conjunction with the matter, involv-
ing officials high in authority. He was
taken to Nashville last night for trial.
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GOou Advice.

CHRISTMAS, 1865.
Strong drink is curse to any nation.
II leads TO almost all kinds of crimes,
and 10 shame, degradation and misery,
not only in the present, but in the
future. The man that iudulges in II, If
he has family, will disgrace them as
we'll as himself; his once loving bride
that. blonmed at his side, in beauty and
splenCor, now grows pale and weak by
sorrow, veXation and loss oil sleep; the
abuses, oppression and harsh treat
ment OF once loving husband, but
now perfect sot: instead OF n k md
protector, TO comfort, provide for, and
love her In time of need, he now is
found any where than where he should
be. Go, If you please and enquire of
the wife, where her husband ia, she
answers al cannot tell-he is down
street somewhere-you will likely
find him at some of the saloons, drunk"
On then observe fenF stealing down
her cheek and hear the heavy sigh
escaping from the bosom OF the heart
broken wife, Hs she luuliS on her pTattl-
ing little babe; and then enquire, how
long has he been down strcet"-the
answer is "all day." and another tear
Is chasing the first as she again tries to
stop the heavy sObs and signs forced
from her throbbing heart, She says
that he is spending her living for
whisky, that he wrings from her hands
the last penny she can earn. and drinks
1t up. and she cannot help it. When
she starts with him, he eludes her
grasp, turns "A corner, goes to the same
saloon and is secreted in some dark
cell, and she Is left 10 go back alone
the best way she can. Then the tears
fall thick and fast, and the
breast swclls with the throb-
bing heart that almost mells TO
to tears for the Husband she so dearly
foves; but ah, that hardened husband
is not thinking ofthese things, he thinks
only of whisky, whisky, until he has
widowed his beautiful wife, beg2ared
his children, and filled n drunkard's
grave and a drunkard's hell. Oh! that
God would send some uutried arrow i,
dipped III power divine to the heart of
every such a one; and that it may have
the conquering power over all; that sa-
looms may be shut up forever and
drunken men be seen no more in time
to come. a. GREdORY.
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EUROPE.
LoNpoN. December 2s.

LONDON, December IS.
The London Times and Standard in
their editorials on the proposed Con-
ference to settle the questions at issue
between Turkey and Greece, condemn
the conference as useless:
A dispatch from Athens, dated last
Thursday, says the Foreign Minister OF
Greece has officially declared that his
government is ready to make any sac
ri1ce tor the maintenance of her rights
and independence.
The following dispatch, dated Con-
stantinople, Dec. 26th, has been receiv-
ed: The provinces are entirely tranquil.
Ihe turkish commander kiamil, has
arrived before Syria.
The Star this morning condemns and
the Standard approves of the recent ac-
tioh OF the British authorities at Nan
kin.
Sir Richard Maynes, who made HIM
self notorious not long since by break
ing up Sunday meetings in Hyde Park,
died yesterday.
PARIS, December 2s.
January 18th.
The CO1LStit'ttiOnnel, the semi. official
organ, publishes a telegram from vi.
emma, announcing that the Porte will
decline TO adhere 10 the proposed con-
ference, If the terms OF his ultimatum to
Greece in the matter of Crete or inter-
questions are mooted.
QUEENSTOWN, December 2s.
The steamship Columbia, which has
been reported missing, has arrived here
under sail, having lost her propeller.
BRUSSELS, December IS.
The Independence ReL1c snys the
prospects ofn conference are reassuring.
MADRID, Dec. q.
The government Is taking measures
10 reduce the budget for the ensuing
year.
Emilio CASTELAR,, the we'll known Re-
publican, says the republic has been |
formed already in Spain, as the |
Republican party carried all the great |
sities In the country, except in Madrid,
n the late elections.
VIENNA, December IS.
The Grecians are fleeing from Tur-
xey on account of the threatened war.
several families of Tugitives have been |
.eceived by the people of Koumania. |
They have been warned, however, that |
hey must preserve absolute neutrality |
Il case OF war, on pain OF expulsion.
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Prayer by Rev. VIM. NJ. Mnllenix, OF
the NJ. Z. Church.
A message from the Senate returned
chapter 40, collection of comfy Levies,
and chapter 81, sale of land tor tnxes,
each with amendments. ~
The observation-disclosures were disa-
greed TO, and both were referred to IA
conference committee composed on the
part of the House of Messrs. Ferguson
OF CabeIl, Pinnell and Stuart.
The bill concerning contested elec.
tions coming up in its order, was laid
on the table on motion of Mr.. Mann.
Mr.. Mahon submitted n report from
the conference committee on chapter
l49, of offences against morality and
decency. Adopted.
The Senate returned the bin relating
to the East FairmOnt Gas Coal Com
pany disagreeing to House amend
ments and asking conference commit
tee. The speakers appointed on the
part of the House, Messrs. Fleming OF
Harrison, Smith and Ferguson OF Ca
bell.
A message from the Senate announ-
ced disagreement to the conference
report on chapter 10, offree schools and
asked new Committee of Conference.
Agreed to and committee on part OF
House: Messrs. Ferguson OF Cabell,
Howes and Smith. Recess till p. N.
The House reassem bled at 2P. II. The
new Conference Committee on the Free
school chapter IS, submitted their
report and it was agreed TO.
A. Joint resolution was received from
the Senate fnstructints onF mem bers oil
Congress to solicit the donation of the
proceeds of the sale of Government
property at Hrrpers Ferry to the school
fund of West Virginia.
The House took a recess till O'Clock
p. NJ, and upon reassembling Mr.. Fer
gus0n, of CabelI, submitted Il conference
report on chapter 81, of the sale OF land
for taxes, which was adopted.
Chapter 30, OF the Collection of Taxes
was returned from the Senate with
amendments which were cOncurred in
Adjourned till 10 A. NJ. tomorrow.
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NORTH CAROLINA.


RALEIGH, December %.
Senator Sawyer publishes letter
denying the statement recently pub
lished, charging Gen. w. T. Bennett
with having obtained his appointment
as Revenue Supervisor for North and
South Carolina, upon fraudulent re-
commentators, he also pronounces
as false the statement that Gen. Bennett
has been called to Washington TO
answer these or any other charges.
EEwBERNE, December IS.
Gov. Holden issued a proclamation
calling attention to the law providing
for the holding of the muicipal elec.
tions in cities and villages OF that State,
on the fist Monday in January.
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WASHINGTON.
MAsu1NaroN. December

WASHINGTON, December Is.
General Grant will leave this city on
Wednesday evening for Baltimore,
where he will remain until Thursday,
then leave for Philadelphia and spend
New Years day in the latter city, there
Gen. Grant will be the guest OF Mr..
Albert.
to certain newspapers which have as
sailed his recent speech. OIher Con-
gressmen are preparing speeches on
financial questions, among them Gen.
Butler who will oppose the resumption
of specie payment.
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MISSOURI.
ST.. LOUIS, December 2s.

OF. LUUISl DBCtIUDtE Zos
A Salt Lake despatch says, the Gem
trail Pacific Railroad reached AL miles
west OF Sacramento yesterday.
A heavy snow storm has been raging
here and in tho west since Saturday.
David Harmon, who escaped from the
Illinois Penitentiary in October last,
was arrested here yesterday and will be
sent back.
A Cheyenne despatch says that ~
head of horses and mules have been
run off by the Indians from the neigh
borhood of Laporte since Wednesday,
The Indians are believed to De from the
north, and belong 10 Red Clouds band.
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The Supreme Court of Georgia has
given Il decision sustaining the decision
of lower Court, which held that the
consideration of note given for bor-
rowed confederate money was a good
and valid one. The plea was the failure
Of the confederation; that confederate
money was an illegal money-not mon
ey or any other thing OF value.
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NEW HAVEN, CT., Dec. 2S.
~ train on the Shore Line Railroad
when near Clinton, yesterday, ran into
carriage containing E. +. Bowen,
prominent merchant OF this city, and
his son. Mr.. Bowen was severely in
iured and his son had one foot cut off.
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New York Cattle aInrhet.

NEW YoRE. December IS.
Receipts for the week, 1000 beeves; 1895
sheep and lambs; 2l,Ull hogs.
BEEYE5---On Wednesday, of last week AT
the National yards where offerings com pris-
ell about 800, the trade was without ac-
uvity, butchers generally being lloerally
supplied, and hOldeB being anxious To
realize, accepted of prices 70 below those
current at the date of the last report; extra
steers disposed of at lIctisc; good 10 prime at
l5@l6I4c, and common TO lair at IOGg li13c.
During the balance OF the week, arrivals
were dfminutive, and little business trans
acted; prices underwent no change ofsiRnif-
and with moderate receipts. Prices quite
and steady: extra at lTc; prime at lG15 6l65Sci
fair to good at l56Il6ci ordinary at lScsi51zc;
inferior at lUGglsc-
SHEEP AND LAMRS-During the latter pe.t
of last week the market was nGIS- '.loIe eFttte- 5
lV active. common SiOUh whlch was In Ialr
snnnIy heaCy and good which was scarce,
Con IHtided prices OF date OF last report.
To-da the arrivals were moderate with q
fair demand, which WAS for good TO prime;
prices quite steady ut quotations; extra
sheared 79712c; common 10 good 5g6LIcI in
ferlOr IGItac,
TO the last report consequent on light aTris
walls the market WAS hrmer and L6I54C high
er, common 10 prime being 91xCJ lOc; these
prices were maintained during the latter
part OF the week, when the market though
quiet was trm to-day with the arrival OF $50
head at Comminipaw, and 800 head at l00th
street. The market was firm, holders de-
mandIng lOc. sellers Offering 91z9yj4c,
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CONSEQUENCES OF HEGLECr.

Those who indorse the stupid assertion
that .'CatRTrh will get well OF itselE,'' or Is
curable by suufanH or irhal .nE the nos
tTums in common use, will do well TO re-
member that the local dI5ease depends al
way IS upon IeTHICHtutiUe condition Of the blood.
Medical writers are wont to speak OF Ca
tarrh as q simple local Inflammation, and
10 Il its importance and rational treatment
are either wholly ignored, or receive but a
and thus Catarrh as surely predispOSes TO
Consumption as does the day pIecede the
night, and is in TACT the prelude TO that
Gi,esse IN eight cases out of ten.
The disease Is everywhere prevalent; peo-
pie resort to such means as always fall, then
HIve heed to the popular fallacy that IL Is in
curabie, and settle into a sort OF mental
apathy, encouraged by the BELIEF that the
family physician knows all that Is known
on The sub iect and thus mattersstand, while
the disease prog! esSes until hope Is dead and
lie becomes mockeIy, when comes the
sieEeoIyped and hackneyed advice of "a
- sea VOYAGE" "a return Of health in the
spring." e.c.; but, alas the country referred
TO Is that " ich lies beyond the confines Of
the fostering grave, and the spring is that
-eason W. Ieh blooms eternal when LIES fit-
Iul fever isOveF.
Let those who doubt this portrayal of Ca
fAIrh q1eAIIUE the poor consumptive, whose
sun OF lie Is going down at noon, or watch
its progress upon those who neglect Its time
ly and JuuiciOus treatment A little while
ard We mis- their coming; youth and health
have faded from lips and cheek. the light
from the eye has gore out, the hands are
IoldeuIy Peacsaely over the sill heArt-they
are gone.
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COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL.
mAxKErs By TELEGRAPH.
NEly YORK, December q

NEW YORK, December IS.
CorToS-Opened quiet and steady; closed
q shade flrmeT; sales z 100 bales al 25925I &c
for middlInK uPlandsi closing at 2514c.
FLOUR-CloSed At lO(al5c lower.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. at l62c lower.
Rye--Lower and dull At 81 500 So for west
ern. OatG-qulet and steady al 76%c In store;
7S1zc afiOat IOr western. COrn-DnIl at 81 OS
IN for old. and 9i905 for new mixed west
en-.
Provisions at 81 90 for
me,s, cash and February delivery. Beef
Steady with very moderate demand. Cut
steady; moderate inquiry: Lard-Duu at
1910 Tor prime steam on the spot; and lie
EGGs-DuIl ut 37@ssc.
DRY GOODS.
Tho failure of both of the well known
houses of Turnbull, Slade & Co., and La
throp, LudInRtDn q Co., has eXeTted an un-
market Is consequently extremely dnll;
prices, however are very drm for nli staple
styles OF cotton and woolen goods, but
there Is very little business doing. Other
failures and rumoTs OF failures in this and
adjacent cities are talked OF good deal in
buain, IS circles, but We only know OF one
which has failed for SiO'VVV'
MONEY AND STOCKS.
MoSEy-Market opened with less pressure
and up To 2 O'Clock loans were made at the
III q OF CURRENCY to the South continue
mi are more lnan counterbRlAnced
a., raosIpts from the West The demand I0F
money became very active after 2 o'clock
md inc market more stringent than any
nTeyious day since the present strIngency set
Ia. The suspension ofSterns, ThurDer a Co,
retail dry goods merchants, for $4,000 Is re-
ported and there was small probability OF
weatherinE their difficulties. Many borrow
erJ found II extremely difficult to get money
even Mt very dear rates. Before o'clock
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ROCHESTER,. n. Y,

ROCHESTER,, N. L., Dec. -,
The Kellogg house and contents,
Post Office and News rooms building
at Bath, Steuben county, New York,
burned this morning. Loss fifty thou
sand dollars,
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DURHAM, Canada, Dec. IS.
Pattersons woolen Mills were des'
troyed by fire last Saturday night
Loss twenty thousand dollars.
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CONSULTATION FREE.
TAKE NOTICE.

Patients are hereby Informed that aiIeI
tIie firSt visit they can take thc treatmenmL NJ
intsTTr ption TO their usual VOCATION. ts
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NASAL CATARRH
AND ITS EFFECT UPON
THE SYSTEM

CHtarrh,cOusisiS of Inflammation beGinnips
behind AND n little above the veil OF the pal.
ate. ami extending upward into the nose
and air cavities of the face. 1t creates per-
ing as II something was sticking in the up
per and back part Of the throat As the dis
case becomes chronic. the matter concreteE
INTO hardened Jumps, Tho matter Eecreted
becomes purllorm, the breath is onensive,
and the voice assumes n nasal twang, while,
on rising in the morning. great effort is re-
Il often n feeling OF pressure across the lower
psn OF the forehead, causing headache, diZ-
memory,
the sense of smell becomes impaired. the
eyes are weak, and, as the Inflammation ex-
tends up the custaceIan tubes into the inter-
nal ear there Is partial deafness with throb-
bling, humming or ringing noises in the ear.
In sleep The Catarrhal matter is uucon-
seiously swallowed, which, in time, de-
ranges the stomach and impalrS digestion,
causing dyspepsia and n multiplicity OF dis
cOEdHnI symptoms, which are often mis-
taken for other diseases. To the foregoing,
add the TACT that every breath OF air drawn
surfAce, fostering with Catarrhal matter, and
who can deny the assertion that TO neglect
CHtATrh Is to inrfte Consumption.
Consumption Is the one prev TalllnE disease,
at the present day, with which the young
and middle-Rged die. And yet very seldom
do the lungs reeeive the primary shock It
into Chronic CataTTh, from W hich the su est
feels no alarm, unIil, step by step, 1t reaches
Lne lungs Wnen hl attetnpIS at cure arg ut-
lie better than blind experiments.
with every incentive to enjoyment and
usefulness, there are hundreds all around us
dying in the morning OF lie, OF Gonsump-
lion, who can look back six months, n year,
or longer, as the case may be, TO n time when
IL was ''bur cukHTTh." Neglected at a time
when IprUperty trsdtedD n cure was possible,
silently and almost impercepubly II has
transformed the bright, ruddy features OF
youth into the dull, wan listleSsneSs OF pre-
mature age. as II has drunk up the vitality
from the blood and fluids OF the wasted
frame, and now, when hope is dead. and the
life foIceS Oae by one are ebbing away, the
mind turns mourn fully back ward TO Hwhat
might have beeD." ana uemPlingIy forward
to what soon must be,
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PITTsBURG, Dec. 2S.
Weather cold. River 4 feet inches,
nj stand. Mercury 36o.
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ppMHMRER THE TIME.

mig 11oHrHILL d REID can be con-
shifted nom Monday noon. Jshus, n,n a. ,he -"
I'll Saturday noonI January 't"' ~
MoLURE HOUSE.
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PREPARED DS DIR. e n. JA CRSON
PHILADELPhIA,.PA
Thirty-fve years since they were tir,t in
troduced into This country from Germany
during which time they have undoubteIfir
performed more cures, and benefited kuifef.
ing humanity TO n Create extent, LIInn any
other remedies knO Rn to the public.
These remedies will etft ctuaIly cure Liver
Complaint, JHundics, DyspensiH, Chronic or
SsesSs Of Ise Kd sIi 5
ses arising from "A UIsonIeIpd IIVUr
stomach or IntekA tines.