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Teachers Notice.

ICdCIItT NUUICt.
Y,HE Board of Examiners will Ehold meet
ings for examination of Teachers, at
woodsield, as follows.
Saturday, May Is, -
29,
June l9,
+" August Il,
Exsminat ions to commence at 8 o'clock A. NJ.
By order of the Board.
mch2td. JAS o. AMOS, Clerk.
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NATIO NAL HOTEL
Main Street, Barnesville, Ohio.
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n UESTS will find the best accommodation
VI a: this House, and no pains will be spared
to make them comfortable.
Hacks leave the Hotel every morning for
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The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-13
THE ATTORNEY GENERALSHTP.

The latest complication of the present cam
paign is the disturbance caused by the effort
to oust the Hon. Benjamin II. Brewster from
the position of Attorney-General of the Com
monwealth The matter as it stands is not
creditable to either party. 1t is firmly
believed by the most thoughtful of the Repub-
lican managers that Mr.. Brewster is great
impediment to success in October, and
that gentleman himself cannot but be aware
that he is decidedly unpopular in the party,
and that his continuance in Office is but so
much aid to the enemy. Hon John Covode,
whose letter to the Attorney has
already been much commented on by the
press, is the Chairman of the State Cen
tral Committee; he was chosen to that
position on account of his supposed fitness,
and there is no doubt that his letter expressed
the wishes not only of the Governor but of
the members of the committee and all the
prominent Republicans of the State. Mr..
Brewster has not published reply to this
letter, but it is well known that he has writ
ten one in which he explicitly declines to re-
sign his office. OF Mr.. Brewster's ability
as lawyer we have nothing to
say, but it is well known that, as politician,
he is one of the most unpopular men in the
State; and his present action appears to be
nothing but a selfish determination to main
tain his official position in defiance of the
wishes of his party, and at the risk of having
that party defeated.
This difficulty would never have arisen if
Governor Geary had adopted straightfor-
ward and manly course towards the Attorney
General, and a personal request from him
would certainly have produced Mr.. Brewster's
resignation, for he could not have retained
his office with any self-respect after such a
request from the Executive. Governor
Geary, however, temporized, and engaged
Mr.. Covode to invite the Attorney-G General
to walk out The Attorney General,
however, declines to acknowledge
Mr. Covodes authority, and now there is
nothing that the Governor can do but to take
the matter into his own hands, and appoint
some person acceptable to the party to
the Attorney-Generalship over Mr.. Brewster's
head.
1t is a settled thing that Mr.. Brewster must
vacate, and it would be much more credit
able for him to do SO without causing further
trouble about it,
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-13
DARING ATTEMPTTO RoR
HERRING'S PATENT
FRANKLIfIT BANKERS CHEST.

PERRYvMLz STATION, PENNSYLVANIA RR.l
June IL, 1919.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-13

HonRrBIE The Mobile Register, which
still indulges in an occasional outburst of the
old-fashioned Southern spirit, closes its ac-
count of the recent riot at that place with
these words:-''The negro policemen, several
of whom were wounded, behaved with much
credit, doing their full duty We may now
expect to see the Register read out of the De-
mocratic party by the Age and the World, and
to read thrilling account of the tearing out
of its Office by the Indignant chivalry of
Mobile. Shades of Taney, Calhoun, and Andy
Johnson! How, in the name of a white
mans government, could a niger policeman
behave himself with any credit at all, or per-
form the most insignificant part of his duty /?
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-13
TO THE POINT.-Says the New YORK WoyId.-

To THE PoINT.-Says the New York World
"The people of the United States are plundered OF
twenty millions of dollars year by the tariff on coal
ana OF twenty-three millions OF dollars year by the
tarh on iron. Forty-three millions OF dollars wear
mus goes straight from the pockets of hard-working
people lnIO the pockets OF only these two classes of
monopollsts and the Congressman who Conspre to
pass the laws which authorize the plunderng"
To which responds the Tyibune:-
zone OF the most extensive and successful OF
those 'mOnopolists is Mr.. Asa Packer of Carbon
county, who has amassed twenty millions of dollars
10y ms operations in COAL etc, and whom the World
ID Tying 10 make Governor Of Pennsylvania. We do
not charge him with making this fortune by robbng
the poor; but the World clearly does Ought it not
either to stop supporting or stop defamlng him ?"
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-13
MEssRs. FARREL, HERRING Il Co.,
No 6?9 Chestnut street, PhiladeInbi,

MEssRs FARREL. HERRING Il Co.,
No 6?9 Chestnut street, Phiadelpbia
Gents:-A persistent but unsuccessful effort was
MADE on the night OF May 20, 1862 to drill the
banAers cnest received from you few months ago.
From facts that have come to our knowIe ioa 81 t
evident that the attempt to open it was renewed ON
sunday evening following. Finding all efforts IN
drill useless, the effort then made to break the
lock. The hamlnering was heard by parties in the
neghborhood for several hours, but supposlng it TO
ARISE from the railroad men replacing defective
rail, excited no alarm The tools with tbe evcot,o
OF the drills, Were left 1t is evident that thew were
rot only prepared. but perfectly familiar with the
construction of your Chest. VIC
That they failed is another evidence that vorr
Bankers Chests are what you claim for them, R,r
glar-Proof. D0R-
Respectfully yours,
6loAp J, BALsBACK. Agent
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-13
THE LIGHT or "THE SUM-"

The New York SIN is in a very bad way.
Sensationalism has become altogether chronic
with it, and when all its efforts at creating a
hubbub through its news columns are foied
by the stubborn dullness of these piping times
of peace it does its level best to make up for
the deficiency by startling editorial propo-
sitions. 1t has Just made the astonishing
discovery that on May II, 1889, President
Washington addressed a note to Vice-Prosi-
dent Adams, ''asking his advice as to the best
manner Of doing the honors of the White
House"-which, by-the-by, was not then in
existence-''and in regard to the Presi-
dents social relations with his fellow-citizens
and visitors" From all of which the Sun
deduces the alarming fact that President
Grant is guilty of very grave otfense in de-
serting the capital for single day, without
taking the precaution of installing Vice
President Colfax in the White House as
responsible substitute"
Such an idea as that of delegating the Pre-
sidents full powers to the Vice-President
during a temporary absence of few days
duration never, of course, entered into the
head of any mortal man save that of the astute
genius who Eliminates the world through
the columns of the Sun, and the same bril-
liant genius is entitled to the sole credit of
devising scheme for diminishing the number
of Presidential aspirants by showing how the
Constitution requires the President to SO de-
legate his powers, or else forego the privilege
of crossing the threshold of the White House
from the beginning to the end of his four
years term. 1t would be just as logical and
Just as reasonable to insist that the Queen OF
England must witness the coronation OF the
Prince of Wales as King pro temp0re when
ever she might choose to take a run down to
Balmoral in summer, or that Louis Napoleon
must set up Eugene as Regent of France
whenever he might wish to drop down to
Biarritz during the dog-days President
Grant has earned little recreation, and Just
now his absence from Washington does not
interfere with the proper administration OF
the Government to any greater extent than
| would the total eclipse of the Sun with the
edifcation of its readers.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-13

A MATTER OF TASTE. The New York Itmcs
IS satisfied with Secretary Robesons changes
IN the names of the vessels of war with
which Nlce-Admiral Porter took such unpar-
donable liberty, although the worthy Secre-
tary has made confusion worse confounded
by christening several third time. Nevada
Osceola' and Wyandotte may be an improve
ment on Neshaminy, Neosho, and Napa, but
the Improvement is SO slight that it does not
compensate Tor the utter confusion which has
been created by several of our sbips of war
bearing three distinct and different names in
side Of as many weeks.
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-13

JEFF DAVIS is in Glasgow. If the people
of that city are pleased by his presence in
their midst, it is to be hoped that they will
nersuade him to remain there during the
neriod of his natural life
The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-13
BOARDING..

COUNTRY BOARDING FOR GROWN PER
~ SONS-Fifteen minutes ride of the city by rail De-
sirable location Address Ii. H., EVENING TELEGRAPH
Office. 3 10 6J'
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Concerninn Pr.ma Donnas.


The Pail Mall Gazette SAYS: Prima
DOnnas do certainly receive i'm
mense salaries; but ii must not be for
gotten that their eXpenses-abOve all,
travelling expenses and outlay for
dress-are very great. They are for
the most paTt charitable, even to eX-
cess. They are surrounded at the
theater by attendants of all kinds,
WhO-eXpect money for the most tri-
fling services; their addresses are
known to all the begging-Ietter
writers; and when one of the princi-
pal mendicants of the metropolis fell,
not long since, into the hands of the
police, it is a fact that the name of a
celebrated German pTima donna was
found at the head of his list of prOba-
BILE benefactOrs. Then think of the
number Of occasions on which prima
dOnnas are asked to sing gratuitOusly,
and in many eases actually consent to
do SOL "It is 50 little trouble for her
to sing" it is argued. But it is still
less trouble for 4 millionaire to write
a cheek, in spite of which he is rarely
ready with a check for a large
amount as the pTima donna of high
ItPult - Win HG Csoig NoAiN cItiBic
notes. Nevertheless, after making
due allowances for the prima dOnna's
inevitable expenditure, the fact re-
mains that she is exceedingly well
paid. Indeed, no OneamOng women
receives a larger income, apart from
property, except she be IN empress or
a queen. There is this difference,
however; that the income of the sove-
(barring revolutions is for life,
while that of the pTima donna is only
for the life of her voice; which, how
ever, in the ease Of q happily consti-
tuted prima donna, may fairly be
reckoned at twenty-five years, say
seventeen to fOrty-twO.
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the Levant Egypt, East Indies, Bra
iii and the various cities on the River
Plata. The day is not distant when
Italy and the United States viii, with
regular steam communications, be
brOughtnearer and nearer, aud new ac-
tivity will thus be impartedt to the de-
velOpment of the natural resources Of
both countries. italian shipyards are
now continually sending abroad mo-
del vessels of eight hundred to three
thousand tons, while but a very linz
tied number Of small craft were built
ten years ago in the few insignificant
yards Of that time. The country
which of all maritime nations gave
the greatest navigatOrs and discover
ers, and constructed the first clad YES
sci Ca galley clad with lead, by Admit
raj Doria), could not neglect this I'M
portant branch Of industry. The cul-
ture of cotton forms, since 1861, a great
part of Italian industry. Cotton is at
1 present cultivated on a large scale in
all the Neapolitan provinces, in Gala
bria, Sicily, Tuscany, and in various
/ parts of the former POntitical states.
A company of English capitalists was
lately organized in London for the
culture Of the staple in the Island of
Sardinia. The Italian crop of last
wear was estimated at 60, 600, 900 francs.
Public education is not neglected by
the Italian government and people;
where heretofore ali was ignorance
and superstition, public shoots are to
| be seen in large numbers in everyeity,
town and hamlet. In Naples alone
more than 10000 children Of both
sexes received g~ratuitOus instruction,
an increase of 1000 Overlast year; and
schools for adults are everywhere
equally well frequented by the work
inc classes"
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CHLNESE LAROR-

The objections made by some fastid-
ious and over sensitive persons against
the Introduction of the Chinese as la
bOrers will all fall before the necessity
Of the case. Labor must be had to de-
velOp the rich resources Of our album
dant and fertile lands. And they who
have the lands and need the laborers.
viii employ them if they are found
efficient, though they should be all
heathens, idOlaters, atheists or Chris
tians. Men will not ask what are
their opinions, but what is their eff
cheney for labor. We understand
there is a class which is reliable, and
will perform its contracts, SO the plant
ers perform theirs. If such as these
are introduced, the competition with
negro labor will rapidly ~supplant it.
Our cOlored people should take warn
ing and regard their contracts more
faithfully than they have been too Of
ten in the habit of doing. One sig
nificant fact stated by travellers who
have observed Chinese labor in Cali
fOrnia is that much of ii is skilled and
to be found ain paper and powder
mills; in the boraX works; in the hop
plantations, fruit orchards and vine
yards; following the reaping machines
on the farms, and working the salt
pits on the coast" This may result
in encouragement to a variety of man.
ufactures and %thegrowth of our South
ern cities. Nature abhOrs all vacu-
ums. The o~vercrowded and dense
population of China must flow in and
fill up the vast Southern American
waste. In the natural course of things,
now hatfacilities for travel are opened
to the Pacific coast, population must
equaliZe, and the hundreds of mil
lions of impoverished and starving
drudges Of the other side of the world
will come over to our land flowing
with milk and honey, and where the
rewards of labor are comparatively
great. Arguments will not prevent
it, and it would. seem more a war
against Providence than a dictate of
reason that we should resort to them.
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G.; A. A. Hartman, Murfresboro; II. NJ.
AGREE, GAINESVILLE; J.. a. Grant and NJ.
Mccarthy, Pulaski, and T. f. Mitchell,
E~dgeield.
A dispatch from Paris TO the Nash
Vile Banner saws: at is rumored that
Emerson Etheridge will be a candidate
for the State Senate from this district.
His objection is to the present suffrage
and Senter candidates."
BY a recent action of the Warren
County Agricultural and Mechanical AS
ISOLATION, it was resolved to hold their
next annual fair, commencing on Thurs
day, the 18th day Of October, and continu-
ing three days.
Mrs. Neiley j. Barrett, residing
near Meanwhile, was raped by a negro
named Dave Williams, on Sunday night.
Two attempts at the same character OF
outrage on white women, in the same To-
cality, have been frustrated within a
week. The negro scoundrels are in
prison.
The Cleveland Banner says the
moderate and liberal Republicans, the
Conservatives and Democrats, of Bradley
county, have agreed upon the following
ticket for the coming election: d. w. G.
Senter, Governor; A. s. Upton, Superin-
tendent of Public Instructions; A. A.
Pearson, Senator, and James Ware, Rep,
resentative.
The candidates for Governor spoke
at GAINESVILLE on Thursday. The crowd
was large and attentive. Senter has got
Stokes underline hook, and says whatever
he pleases, to which Stokes seems not to
have the spirit to reply. There never was
a more searching and personal attack
upon any candidate in Tennessee than
that made upon Stokes by Senter to-day.
1 win give you the particulars in a letter.
Stokes stock is down to ten cents OF the
dollar,
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EIirtinn.

1t used to be an old schoolbOy max
i'm that no real gentleman could be
refused by a lady, because no gentle
man could presume beyond his line
of encouragement. A foTtiOTi, no
lady would or could give more en-
cOuragement than she meant. What
are we to say then of our tiirtS if this
maxim is true? Are therereally "nO
gentlemen T" and "nO ladies', y accord
ing to the famous formula of the
kitchen? Perhaps it would be said so
if gentlehOOd meant now, as it meant
centuries ago, the real worth and vir-
tue of humanity. For flirting with
intent is a cruel, a false and a heart
less amusement; and time was when
cruelty and falsehOOd were essentially
sins that initiated all claims to gentle
hood. And vet the world would be
very dull without that innocent kind
of nonsense which often goes by the
name of firting-that pleasant some
thing which is more than mere ac-
workmanship and less than formal
lOverhOOd-that bright and animated
intercourse which makes the hours
pass so easily, yet which leaves no
bitter pang of selfreproach, that in
definite and undefinable interest by
which the one man or the n woman
becomes a kind of microcosm for the
time, the epitome of all that is pleas
ant and of all that is lovely. The
only caution to be observed is, not
to 90 too far.
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Old Grant Picked In.

The number and variety of stories
which are told of old Jesse Grant, the
individual to whom we are indebted
for our present stable government, are
past computation. Here is the lastOne:
A young man over in CovingtOn, the
other day, met and accOsted old Jesse,
although ignorant as to who he was,
and requested him to furnish him
with change for a FIVE dollar bill. He
aeceded, and while making the neces-
sary transfer, being 10th to lose an
opportunity for making himself
known, he took occasion to say,
" Young man, do you know that you
are talking to the father of the greatest
man in this country?" He was i'm
mediately informed by the party adj
dressed that he was not aware that he
stood in the presence OF one who had
that proud distinction. "Yes," re-
sumed the g%arrulous Jesse, handing
over the desired change, 81 am the
father of the most illustriOus hero this
country ever produced" The young
man looked at him for q moment with
an expression of grave establishment
on his face, and then exclaimed,
'FWhat, you don't tell me that you
are the father of Stonewan Jackson!"
The parental author of our President
turned upon his heel and walked away
supremely diSgusted.-GRcimdH En-
QlNrer.
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IL beam, and carries 100 tons; the
third is q steam launch, 80 feet long,
and 13 feet beam. The three steam
are of steel, and will be MASTER
pieces of shipbuilding. 1t is almost
needless to add that the vessels will
be sent piecemeal, and accompanied
by efficient shipwrights and expert
eneed engineers. Sir Samuel purposes
making his first great depot about if
teen miles south Of GOndOkOrO, well
known as the spot from which the un-
principled traders perpetrated their
raids against the ObbOs and LatOOkas,
and other tribes on the upper branches
of the great river. Thence, in direct
line to latitudeS' 81, is a distance of
about eighty-five miles, and as the tor
tuOus river is difficult for navigatOrs
between these two points, the second
of which is to be the grand depot, Sir
Samuel will set his pioneers to work,
and have a perfect highrOad made.
AT a distance of three days march,
pickets will be placed throughout the
country, and the various stations Sir
Samuel will found for the exchange of
his merchandise for the local produce
will be protected by the military.
The object of the pickets will betO en-
able constant communication to be
carried n T%elegraphs would not be
practicable, as the savages would steal
the wires. 1t would lead me into too
wide a field of explanation, were l to
dilate on the hopes entertained by Sir
Samuel Of future commercial rela-
tons with the White Nile districts.
But the fact of Sir Samuel being very
sanguine may be some little guaranty
to the adventurous and speculative,
although thoughts of immediate COM
mercial relations should be laid aside
a premature. At the grand depot Of
latitude 3 32, the camels and dom
keys and other baggage bearers will
have a reprieve. The greater portion
of the baggage viii be taken by boats
up the then n~avigable river, and the
three steamers also will be put to-
gether, and commence their curse
towards the Albert Nyanza Lake, on
the shores of which Sir Samuel con-
templates eating his Christmas dinner
with Lady Baker, Lieut.. j. A. Baker,
r. n, aide-de-camp to the expedi-
ton, and DIR. Maurie, of the Royal
Geological Society, who will have the
advantage of having once before trav-
eled as far as GOndOkOrO.
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The Direct land Tax at the south.

There is some talk of enforcing the
collection of the direct land tax in the
South. The Southern States share
of this taX-whieh amounted to
twenty millions among all the States
was six millions; of this sum only
about three millions has been payed
into the Treasury-from the Southern
States. 1t will be remembered that
when this amount had been collected
President Johnson sent a message to
Congress, setting forth that in view of
the poverty produced in the South by
the war, it would, in many instances,
be ruinous to that section to enforce
the collection of the tax at that time,
and recommending that it be sus-
pended for some time, so as to allow
the industrial interests of the South to
recuperate. 1t is stated that the limit
of suspension fixed by Congress has
now passed, and the law providing
for the levying and collection of the
tax comes into full force again. 1t is
argued by those who urge this pro-
eeeding that the industrious of the
South have greatly improved in the
interim; that the crops are abundant,
and that there is no longer any excuse
for delay on the score of poverty.
Whether the Secretary of the Treasury
will act upon the advice rendered him
in this matter remains to be seen.-
Washington Correspondent Of the Near
York Herald. .JulgI4.