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The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-23
ADJUSTMENTS.
ADJUSTMENTS.
pICHMOND THEATRE. -
THE GHOST,
THE, GHOST, ,s,s 5,
THE GHOST,
FROM PHILADELPHIA.

A DRAMATIC COMPANY OF TEN PEOPLE.
TWO PERFORMANCES DAILY.
MATINEE ut O'Clock. EVENING PEh6OhaI-
- ANCE commences Mt 8 O'Clock Z:
Matinee prices, Is and 90 cents evening prices,
GRAND MATINEE SATURDAY at 2 O'Clock, q
2 GRAND MATINEE SATURDAY. ut O'CLOCK, 4
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-23

REAL-EsTATE SALEs.-Frank j. Sampson,
lesl estate agent, No. 02l Hull street, Man
eae5ter, sold for $4,000, at & O'Clock A. NJ.
!esterd@.,, the beautiful residence on Por-
Ter street of DR.. J.. r. Chiles, which was
4vertssed to be sold publicly to-day. He
so sold few days ago the Cottage Home
!SF'sn near Powhatan station, Richmond and
gyanTilIe railroad, containing BAT acres, to
1'an Z. Sampson for $4,000. He also takes
Hck, crops, &C., Mt valuation.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-23
LOCAL MATTERS.
,rsy WEATHER YESTERDAY was clear

TrE MAlIS.-In the notice published yes
.criay the time OF leaving OF the trains was
riyrn instead OF the closing OF the northern
The northern mail closes at C:15 A. NJ.
md 7:l5 Y. N.
Mail for GordonSvillc, Charlottesville,
s.g,,nton. Lexington, Lynchburg, and be-
r"nI closes at 7:l5 r. NJ; arrives at s a. NJ.
VorIolk and Petersburg: Arrives, 1880
=. NJ: closes. l. NJ.
northern mail is sent and received BY
.r., chcsapeakc and Ohio railroad, closing
.. 40 \. NJ, and arriving at $50 Z. NJ.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-23
VIRGINIA CONFERENCE.
THEsEvENTH DAYS pRocEEDENGs

THE POWER OF THE PRESS DISCUSSED
THE NASHVILLE NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. OF
THE BIBLE socIETY-THE BROCK CASE
DISPOSED oF-RESoLUTIoNs ADOPTED IN
REFERENCE TO RESTORATION OF FRA
TERNAL RELATIONSHIP DIVISION
OF THE VIRGINIA CoNFERENCE-REPoR1
ON Observation-Disclosures SELECTED
AS THE NEXT PLACE OF MEETINGr-FINAI
ADJOURNMENT PROBABLE TO-DAY, &C.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-23

T1ILL,HRADs, s7 10 $40 pr reaza, ,st tilel
sDp1Sp.aseH PIN ss.ssss GSSlls M
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-23

HIGH WATER.-The river was FIVE feet
,s9ove its ordinary level yesterday OWING to
~e recent heavy rains In the mountains.
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-23
PUBLISHING INTERESTS.

The report on publishing interests was
taken from the table. The first resolution;
was adopted at the morning session.
Rev. d. M, Peterson moved that the se-
cond resolution be amended so as to request
the publishing AGENT instead of an itemized
statement, to send more explicit report Of
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-11-23

PROFESSOR POLLARD'S CELEBRA-
i TED JUBILEE SINGERS Will give 5TM TMo
GRAND CONCERTS at the Seventh -Strees Snks- III
tIan church on THURSDAY and FaiDA1 EVE
NINGS, November 23d and 24th- at O'Clock. ior
the benefit of Twenty ffth-Stree chnpei.
a. tSa dnnr l''' no 22-3t*
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11
Executive Ability.
American journal of Education.

AHerlCdu Jourudl vi EuuCdtiOU.
There is no place on earth where
higher order of executive ability is
demanded than in the school room.
The art OF turning off business
promptly and accurately should be
taught in Normal Schools. and cult
waited in all places. We have seen
muItitudcs of schools where more
time was wasted than employed by
teachers. In fact, Judging by their
actions, their chief business seemed
to be to try hoao not to do 1t. The
intervals between the questions or di-
rectlons at the recitation; the Qua
ker meetings that supplemented the
different exercises; the slow and easy
style OF every movement-all seemed
to invite to dullness and Indifference.
1t requires more wisdom and skill to
properly conduct good school than
to govern a State. We want more
heart, more brains, more skill, and
mere executive ability in our schools
than anywhere else, because it is
here that our children and youth are
to be prepared for every other station
IN life. The school room is no place
for drones. Cultivate executive abil-
ity. Thoroughly prepare yourself
for your work, and then turn it off as
though you loved it. When your
soul is not in your business, there is
nothing in it to make it valuable.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11
A Pertinent Question.
American journal of Education.

Have the people any rights that
boards Of education and school di-
rectors are bound to respect? 1t is
fact well understood, that one of
the most serious evils in the opera
ton of our public school system, is
the frequent changes Of teachers.
The evil is by no means confined eto
the country school, where change is
the rule and permanently the rare ex-
ception. Our cities and large towns,
where every school might and should
be a model, are effected with this dis
ease of circumlocation. The diff,
Guilty, bad enough per Sc, is rendered
far more aggravating in many cases,
when its causes come to be under
stood It is pitiahle to see how lar
the average school board will allow
its prejudlces, or the private pj9ueS
of its members to interfere with the
best interests of the schools of the
public in the matter of the re-employ-
ment Of teachers and superintend-
ents. The fact that hundreds of
competent and faithful public serv-
ants are thus displaced every year,
for the most trivial causes, and from
the most incXcusable motives, goes
far to explain the comparative IN
efficiency of our schools. Pernun-
ency is one of the indispensable con-
ditions of success in the working of
our school system. This can never
be secured so long as the public acts
of school boards are determined by
frivolous and founded preiudices or
private motives,
No teacher or superintendent who
is competent and faithful, and whose
character is uneXceptionable, should
ever be removed from or allowed to
leave position, except fof good
cause. 1t is u crime against society
thus to sap its very foundations.--
School officers should be held to n
strict accountability for their acts in
this regard. 1t has been proposed
that they be made liable to punish
ment for such misconduct in office
The suggestion is worthy of serious
consideration.
The practice Of annually electing
teachers and the professors of some
Of our higher institutions, gives occa-
sion to this official malfeaSance, and
the first step toward reform in this
direction would be to make all such
appointments hold during good be-
havior,
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11

TIE question of Woman Suffrage
came up in the Legislature on Tues
day, on the joint resolution to submit
the amendment striking the word
male" from certain sections of the
Constitution, to a vote of the people.
There was quite lengthy debate
upon the proposition, the enemies of
equal suffrage interposing technical
objection to the joint resolution, be-
cause of the absence Of an enacting
clause, and final action was postponed
on the subject until Feb. 10.
1t looks from this distance as
though the plea concerning the en-
acting clause was a bubble, and
meant indirectly to defeat the sub
mission of the amendment to the
vote of the people. 1t was shown
by Mr.. Stone, of Mills county, that
the same objection was urged against
the negro suffrage amendment, and
that it was then decided that the en-,
acting Clause or formula "Be it En-.
acted" was directory and not manda.
tory, and that its absence was not
fatal to the amendment. However
they may view the amendment itself.
we think it beyond question that a
large majority of the electors of the
State desire its submission to a vote
1t has come to beconsidered a settled
matter that this would be done, and
that an opportunity would be offered
the people of the State this Centen
NAL year to express their preferences
on the subject. 1t would be we'll fo1
the opponents of the amendment in
the Legislature to bear this fact in
mind and cease factious opposition to
the will of their constituents.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11

One of the notable events of the
past week is the publication in the
papers of letter written by Jeffer-
son Davis to correspondent IN
Richmond, Va, in which the arch
rebel attempts to defend himself from
the charges made against him by
Blaine. Following the cue of Hill,
he vaguely charges the North with
cruelties to Confederate prisoners, in
this way weakly attempting to turn
the current of eXecration setting TO-
ward him as the facts of the horrid
atrocities at Andersonville and his
responsibility for their continuance, is
developed. The letter is full of i'll
concealed hatred of the Union, and
chagrin over the defeat of the Con
federacy. He defantly scorns the
idea of amnesty, which must be pleas
ant for those Northern members OF
Congress who were voting but few
days ago in favor of its indiscrimin-
ate application, and with an air OF
magnanimlty that revcrses the gen,
orally accepted relations Of the par
ties to the conflict says that "under
the mellowing influences of time the
Southern people have forgotten much
and forgiven much of the wrongs
they bore.'
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11
Gen. Sherman and the Presidency.

The following letter was written
by Gen. Sherman to a member of the
Ohio Legislature. 1t is marked with
the soldierly frankness Of its author:
ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, Feb. Dear Sir
Your kind letter is just received,
and, though l thought everybody
knew my general opinion on the
points of your inquiry, I cannot hest
tate to answer you in such a way as
to admit of no misconstruction. |
never have been, am not now, and
never will be, a candidate for the
high office of President before any
convention of the people. | shall al
ways prefer to see that Office filled by
one of the millions who in the civil
war stood by the Union firmly and
unequivocally, and Of those | notice
many names willing and capable,
prominent that Of General Hayes,
now Governor of OHIO, whom we
know as a fine officer and gentleman
III CNSly SSllSS. w llot, iioNN >
wish to be misunderstood as presum-
ing to advise anybody in the choice
of the man. My wife and family are
strong Catholics, but | am not. That,
however, is nobody's business. I
believe in the common schools, and
don't stop at the little matters that
seem to be exaggerated by the press
in some quarters. However, these
schools are cxtravagant, and indulge
in costly buildings and expensive
teachers, so as to be too heavy bur
den on the tax payers. This tendency
ought to be checked, which may
easily be done without making it a
political question. Self-interest will
regulate this, and make these free
schools to all, and capable of impart-
ing the rudiments of good English
education. Yours truly,
w II SHERMAN
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11
Woman as a Soldier.

Mrs. Pauline Swain, of the For
Dodge Messenger, proposes to NEE
squarely, and without evasion, the
argument of the opponents of Wo
mans Suffrage, that women being
untitled to perform military duty in
defense of the country, are therefore
not entitled to the privilege of vot
ing. In communication to the Des
Moines Register, Mrs. Swain recog.
nizes the obligation resting upon all
citizens to perform military duty, and
to the question: Can woman be-
come a soldier? answers without hes.
itation. that she thinks she can; init
mating that if this is the only obsta-
Gle In the way of her citizenship, it
may as well be removed Immediately.
She says:
We believe not all the duties of the
soldier are performed on the battle
field nor are all the dangers of war
there encountered. War has many
requirements equally important with
fighting strength, and the work of
the hospital and the commissary de-
partment are of these. Think you,
how long could war be sustained
without these, and then say in the
war for the Union who were more
efficient in the work that must be
done than woman. Had she not then
part, and a brave and heroic part in
the work of sustaining the Union, of
preserving the government? Only
the work then was humane, bene-
ficient, a generous gift. When the
law confers citizenship upon woman
and holds her, as it should, amenable
to military duty, this work will be an
obligation, an exaction. 1t is now
solemn duty in humanity; 1t will
then be solemn duty in law. And
it is proper and right that the women
Of America should be recognized as
WOIhlIlS ldClOIS III lIllS UldllUcT ny
the laws of the land. We do not cx-
pect any Joans Of Arc, nor do we
need them so long as we have SO
many Napoleons. But we will haye
many Florence Nightingales and
Margaret Fullers, brave women who
need no call to duty save that of dis
tress and suffering. And if some
weak sister were sometime found
tagging, and the strong arm of the
law were to be lifted up to point out
her duty, that should not count
against woman as a soldier, gentle
men, or will we be obliged to court
the necessity of sometimes drafting
men against the soldier man. We
do not state that woman is less hui
man than man, but only equally SO
with him. So we say. make her a
soldier, and let her show her muscle
for herself.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11
State News.

- Shoemaker, of the De Wid Observer,
recently alluded to Vic Woodruff as a
"prostitute." Mrs Woodruff immediately
commenced suit for libel, at the same
time giving Shoemaker chance to retract,
which he did absolutely and completely,
and so the libel suit is dropped
The GAINESVILLE stu says that some
evilminded person recently MANNED a fine
mare colt belonging to Mr.. Shaver, of
that place, by cutting a fearful cash, with
an axe, IN its flank, eight or ten inches
long and three inches deep. The perpe-
traitor Of so cowardly deed should be
mailed to the stabledoor by his ear.
The Cerro Gordo Republican says
that man by the name of Carlton, living
IN Worth county, was frozen to death
Jan. 2Sth He went to Northwood to
make final payment on his farm, and re-
turning toward his home was ovcrpowered
by the storm and frozen to death beside
the road. His horses, having left the
road, were found standing by the fence
the next day. Mr. Carlton is described as
sober, industrious man.
Harry Booz, one-armed boy, 10
years DID, in the employ of the B. Il NJ
RR, at Ottumwa was shot in the fore
head and instantly killed on Monday even
ing, by a companion of his own age
named Carroll Jones. No cause is known
for the terrible affair, except that Jones
was intoxicated He processes to know
nothing of the tragedy. The boys have
been on friendly terms.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11

j. Is. GRINNELL is in charge of the
Iowa Central Railroad as Receiver
A few days since, one of the conduc.
tors on the road received from the
eN-sheep farmer the following laconic
note:
SIR;-For using profane language to
your equals, and threats unbecoming a
gentleman, your services ON the Central
Railroad of Iowa will be dispensed with
after this date.
Upon which the Burlington Hack
eye makes the following pointed COM
ment "That is right; he shouldn't
have used profane language to his
equals. If his feelings were so strong
he could not repress the emphatic
expression of them, he should have
stepped out on the platform and
whanged away at the brakeman"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11

MORRISON, of Illinois, Chairman
of the Ways and Means Committee,
and Democratic leader of the House,
the same who, in his biography in the
Congressional Dictionary, omitted
any allusion to the fact that he had
served in the Union army, presum-
ably in Difference to the prejudices of
the Confederates On the floor of the
House, gave another manifestation of
his desire to please his rebel asso-
ciates on Friday last. The debate
was upon the application of VIM. r.
Duncan, of Tennessee, for pension.
1t came out that Duncan had enlisted
in the Confederate service in order
to procure the discharge of crippled
brother who had been arrested and
confined in rebel prison at Knox
vile as Union guide, and that he
deserted at the first opportunity after
securing the release Of his broth
er, and joined the Union army,
where he was wounded. Morrison,
in the course of the debate upon the
granting of pension for disability
to Duncan, said, that "any man who
had entered the service on such con-
ditions as this man had done, and
had broken his faith, acds q scoundrel,
and not deserving of pension" Con-
sidering that the faith broken was to
the enemies of the country who were
trying to destroy the government,
this remark of Mr.. Morrison was
pretty tough for man whose sympa-
thies were professedly with the gov
eminent. 1t virtually shows that Mr..
Morrison-and we suppose he is a
pretty fair specimen of the Northern
Democrat-cannot see any difference
between deserving from the Confed-
crate or the Union armies, or rather,
that he regards man who played a
ruse upon the rebel authorities, to
get his brother out Of prison, ga
scoundrel." Doubtless this speech
of Morrison's pleased the Confederate
Democrats on the floor of the House,
but how do Union men and patriotic
citizens regard it? 1t is but a speci-
men of the doughfacism daily exhib-
tied by the Democratic majority in
the House.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11

AMONG the rules promulgated IN 3
recent general order for the govern
ment of the employees of the lows
Central Railroad, by Hon. J. b. Grin
nell, recently appointed receiver Of
that road, is the following. 1t is not
too much to say that it will prove a
sore thorn in the flesh of the average
railroad employee:
"Any person in the train service
carrying intoxicating drinks STEALTH
ly for others, or any employe using
the same, will be dismissed for this
oflense as well as for the use of pro
fame or ungentlemanly language to
the patrons of the road"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11
THE following from the Iadepe7

The following from the Na0epen-
dent is appropos to the present dis.
cussions of capital punishment:
"Those who believe unjust convic.
tons in courts are rarity, if not an
utter imposslbility, may learn les
son Just here. Gov. Tilden has par
doned John A. Rose, sentenced in
1878 from Erie County to Auburn
Prison for twenty years, for an
infamous crime. He is now
found to be innocent. VIM
Kellchner, sent from New York
to Sing Sing for fifteen years.
convicted of robbery, has also been
pardoned, his innocence being estab'
lished. Charles Mason, sent to Au-
burn Prison from Niagara County
for life, on the charge of poisoning
his wife, has been in prison tor seven
years, and now goes out a pardoned
man, as he, too, by the confession OF
another party, is found to be limo
cent. Mason, Rose and Kellchner-
innocen9 men deprived Of their liber
ty for years, and stamped with the
infamy of the criminaH Suppose
these men had been executed! How
many innocent men are now suffering
penalties for crimes which they have
never committed? How many have
been executed for crimes never com.
mitted, and are beyond all restitu-
tion.?"
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11
Glre Br'lleti'l,
State Treasurer.

The time is approaching when the
Republicans Of Iowa will be called
upon to make nominations for the
several State officers, to be filled by
vote of the people this fall. One of
the most important of these, in many
respects the most important, requlr-
ING the exercise of the wisest delib-
Grafton and good Judgment in the
choice of candidate, is the office of
State Treasurer. The incumbent of
this responsible position should be OF
universally recognized pure record
and high character. In the first
place, he should be a man of the
firmest integrity, with no stain upon
his personal or official record. He
should have sound judgment and wise
discretion; he should be familiar with
business, and prudent and careful as
habit, and last he should have in
dependence and decision of charac-
ter to withstand the pressure of sell
fish men and influences that may at
tempt to use him for their benefit.
We are firmly of the opinion that
these and other high qualifications
for the office named will be found in
the possession of Hon. GEO. w.
BEMIs, of this city, whom we take
genuine pride and pleasure IN pre-
senting as a candidate for State
Treasurer Mr.. Bemis has served
two terms in the Legislature, one in
the House, and one in the Senate, his
knowledge of public affairs, his ripe
judgment upon all matters of legisla-
ton, and his sturdy opposition to
what he thought wrong or unwlse,
winning for him a deserved position
Of influence, as well as the respect
and confidence of his associates
He has been a member and Treasurer
of the Board of Building Commits
sioners of the Insane Hospital, at
this city, ever since its organization,
except the interval during which he
was in the Senate. The character of
that work, and the fidelity and judg-
ment with which the great response
bilities connected with it have been
discharged, speak louder than words
of his conscientious performance of
public trusts.
The suggestion of Mr.. Bemis' name
in this connection by us is without
his knowledge, though we have as
surance that he will consent to accept
the nomination if rendered him. He
is in no sense an office seeker. Every
public office he has held has come to
him voluntarily, and without solicita-
ton or any action on his part. The
present movement to make him State
Treasurer is no exception to this rule.
1t had its inception among those who
know aud have tested his capacity
and integrity, and who fully appre-
ciate how well and honestly the State
will be served If he should be en-
trusted with the custody Of its re, e.
nueS.
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11

ROBERT TooMBs, OF Georgia, the
man upon whom Ainsworth and 9th.
er Democrats of the North were a
short time since attempting to force
amnesty, he at the same time con,
temptuously spurning it, recently
made speech before tho Georgia
Legislature, from which we give an
extract below. 1t shows how the
cause of official morality suffered
when Congress refused to make Bob
Toombs eligible to his former seat IN
the Senate:
ave got good many honest fel
lows into the first Legislature, but
will tell you how we got them there
will tell you the truth. The news
papers won't tell it to you. We got
them there by carrying the black
vote by intimidation and bribery, and
l helped to do it! l would have
scorned the people if they had not
done it! And l will buy them as
long as they put beasts to 60 to the
ballot box! No man should be given
the elective franchise who has not
the intelligence to use it properly
The rogue should not have it, fol
government is made to punish him
the fool should not have it, for gov
eminent is made to take care of him
Now, these miserable wretches-the
Yankees-have injected five millions
of savages into the stomach of ou1
body polite, and the man who says
he accepts negro suffrage, ! say, &C
cursed be he!. l will accept every
thing; / will accept Grant and EN-
pire before / will accept such Dem
ocratw
Buchanan County bulletin. [volume] (Independence, Iowa) 1869-1891, 1876-02-11

at was objected to Senator Shcr-
mans proposed alcoholic legislation
remarks the Cincinnati Enq"irer.
that the Congress has no business
with it--that it belongs to the States
1t is objected in the States that the
commonwealth has no business with
it---that it is the affair of the individ
ual. And there is large class of
people abroad in the land proclaim
ing that individuals have nothing to
do with it. Considering all things
it is no wonder that liquor bewilders
people"