Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1873-03-25

MEETING OF THE CONvKNTION LAST NIGHT.
meeting of the delegates 70 make arrange
ments fer the emancipation celebration 70 take
Place on the 18th of April, was held last nj ht
at Union League Hall; DIR. j. L. Y. Bowen IN
the chair aud Edward Turner secretary pro ten.
Credentials from several districts not repre-
scnted we're handed in and the members as
sigutd seats.
The chair announced the committees as fol-
lcvs:
o. A,yn,sers.r,s-y =; N. wilkerson, lease n.
ST ner, c. A stewart, samuel Proctor, William II
% SfEsT d !. Scfi.gsH ASs o
III, y " FTs ss Aaron Ea..sll, VA Free
w Taomss. ". ii. Parker, j Branson, Edward
Green. G; II; B, 'ton, AnIhsny Hickman, Isaac
9 F,~Gss.m!ok hi = Cook, III. Cd Jones gshn \
smith, Johu II Brooks, W j. Wilson. Dr.. Robert
T. rreegsn, Logan Williams. Robert Ha,tOn,
WAT Lewis, W &. Marshall, Rsnjamin +, Dab
ney caIiip z. nrgsoT solomon ;, Morris, COrpeius
f,csyticn-Henry ye6nsoI, W. A. Talliferro.
R"eers c waS J. Bro%l. A. r WSImIes
Iebnsos. Isaac Lsndrick, Thon,s W. wTigh.. :.
Lrrvr irs, William II. Lee, Jerome A. Johnson,
DR.. y: Basc9m, EcbeTt ATmitead, Th"% m Gan
J b. Bliia,d, Isaiah Bcke.t- and VIM. ii Chase;
Chief Ma ial John T. johnson took the
conferred upon him. M doubt there were
manv present who would rather see some other
perSOn act as chief marshal; but they could not
all he officers. and he was ready and willing 10
60 into tie ranks. He remembered last year
that several, came to him and asked him ii he
a willing To turn out under Perry Carson as
chief marshal, and now there may be some who
WI ask Carson if he is willing to turn out
under j. II. johnson. Thus il is: all cannot be
n ted, and they are apt to lose their strength
hv divisions and chickering's. He hoped to see
hem oft fltaa Ia -,
I'ish friends on the Eth, (St Patrick's day.
who made not only creditable but a grand
display.
A Plea for the Pm bile school Teachers.
Editor SJor'-A clause in the school report
says; 1.-The salaries OF teachers shall be paid
monthly" and there seems to be no regularity
at all about the thing. Two months pay are
now overdue to many OF the teachers, and there
are cases of positive downright suffering i'm
consequence. Some of the young lady teachers,
fortunately, have a kind fathers care to fall
back upon, but others, instead, have mothers
deps nding upon them, and little brothers and
sisters looking to their salary for the necessities
of life. One instance comes to my knowledge,
N young lady whose father died not long
since, and to her salary does her mother look
for the payment of her rent and for bread to put
IN the mouths OF her little ones; and will land
lord be put OFF, and our children fed, like Elijah
of old, by the ravens? There nothing now
for "SY ring clothing" The whole thing is i'm a
snail. Teaching is said to be a noble vocation
Years are devoted to preparation for the calling
Then once installed in a school, faithfully does
the teacher daily trudge through all weathers,
peltlGg rain or driving snow, to her task no
let NJ for her, though the head be READY to split
from the stupidity of 90 little wrigglers, the
prescribed number, il makes no difference at
her post must she be, or stand the chance of
Losing the delightful privilege of teaching for
ray, somt whore in the distant future 1t is
di,couraging. Teaching is thankless task
n dogs lite. at best. with mothers coming
rate and furious, because their Children
perhaps have suffered punishment for acts of
disobedience they can by no possibility know
anything about, or to tell them to "bate
EN-, which If they should do, they would stand
a ialr chance OF being arrested by the police.
For my part don't see how they are enabled
20 retain their senses and whoese yer fault il ia
trust II viii be looked into, and that the self
sacfinclng teachers. may receive the little
erumb of comfort, in the shape of just dues at
the end Of each month. a SYNPATHIZER