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Year: 1864

NOTICE TO SCHOOL DISTRICT OFFICERS.
The Officers Of School Districts violate
the law under which they hold their office,
by employing Teachers who do not pos
sess certificate to teach in thel: respec-
tive Districts and Towns. AS | under
stand there are Teachers employed in one
town who hold certificates for another,
and others teaching without any certificate,
| again call the attention Of School Dis
trict Officers to section 107 of the School
Code, which expressly forbids this viola
ton, as follows:


No School District Clerk shall have power to
contract with teacher unless such teacher
shall have a certfc tie of qualification in force
at the time OF making such contract; and when
a district is composed Of parts Of two or more
counties. the Clerk Of said district shall not
have power to contract with teacher unless
such teacher shall have certific tc of qualf-
cation signed by the Superintendent Of the
county in which the school house is situated,
and in force at the time Of making such C IL
tract.


Officers employing a Teacher without a
legal certificate, in force at the time Of
making the contract, and continuing in
force beyond .he limit Of the contract, are
personally responsible 10 the Teacher for
wages during the time such Teacher is
destitute Of a legal certificate. Nor is it
sufficient that majority of the District
consent to hiring such a Teacher. Any
tay payer has right to stop the payment
of wages, out of any public funds belong
to such District, by legal process.


JERE. CROWLEY,


County Snn't Of Schools.
Year: 1864

T The pope, at latest dates, continued
to enjoy very good health, and had been
availing himself Of the fine weather to
show himself a good deal in public, and
even on foot in some OF the principal
tuoe.s Of The city.
Year: 1864

How TO Ger RID OF YouR CoRSs. Rub
them over with toasted cheese aand let your
feet hang out Of bed for night or two, that
the mice may nbble them If the mice do
their duty the remedy will be sufficient.
Year: 1864

Deacon Banchoft, though a very good
man in the main, and looked up to wilt
respect bv all the inhabitants Of the little
village of CenrervilIe, was rumored tc
have, in Yankee parlance, pretty SHARP
look out for the main chance, a peculiar
ity from which deacons are not always
exempt.


In worldly matters he was well TO DO
having inherited a fine farm from bis
father, which was growing yearly more
valuable. Il might be supposed that un-
der these circumstances the deacon, who
was fully able to do so, would have found
a helpmate TO share his house and name.
But the deacon was wary. Matrimony
was to him, in some measure, matter Of
money, and it was his firm resolve not to
marry unless he could thereby enhance
his worldly prosperity. Unhappily the
little village of Centerville and the town
in the immediatenricinity, contained few
who were qualified in This important par
licular, and Of these there were probab-
ly none with whom the deacon's suit
would have prospered.


So it happened that years passed away
until deacon Banchoft was in the prime
Of ife-forty FIVE or thereabOuts-and
still unmarried, and in all probability
likely 10 remain so. But in all human
calculations of this kind they reckon i'll
who leave widows out.


Deacon Banchoft's nearest neighLor
was a widow.


The widow Wells who had passed thro'
one matrimonial experience, was three
or four years younger than Deacon Ban
choft. She was buxom, comely woman,
as widows are apttO be. Unfortunately,
The late Mr. Wells had not been able to
leave her sufficient to make her indepen-
dent of The world All that she possessed
was the small old-fashioned house in
which she lived, and a small amount of
money, which was insufficient to support
her, and a little son of seven, likewise 10
be enumerated in the schedule of her
properly, though hardly to be classed as
productive" of anything but mischief.


The widow was therefore obliged to
take three or four boarders, 10 exc out
her scanty income. which of course, i'm
posed upon her, considerable labor and
anxiety.


II is not surprising that under these
circumstances she should now and then
bethink herself of a second marriage to
better her condition? Or again, need
we esteem it special wonder, if in her
reflection on this point she should have
cast her eyes on her next neighbor,
Deacon BanChoft? The deacon, as we
already said, was in hourishing circum-
stances. He would be able to maintain
a wife IN great comfort, and being one of
the chief personages in the village,
could afierd her a prominent social posi-
ton. He was not especially handsome,
or calculated to make profound impress
sisn on the female heart-lhis was true

but he was good disposilioned, kind
hearted, and would 10 doubt make a good
sert of husband. Widows are. take il,
Of they do me the honor 10 read this
story, trust they will forgive the remark
less disposed to weigh sentiment IN
second marriage than a first, and so, in a
widows point of view, Deacon Banchofl
was q desirable match.


Some sagacious person, however, has
observed tina, 1t takes two to make
Year: 1864

All who have Friends and Relatives in the Army or Navy should take especial care that they be amply supplied with thes e Pills and Ointment; and where the brave $ oldiers and Sailors have neglected to provide themselves with them, no better present can be sent them by their Friends. They have been proved to be the Soldiers never failing friend in the hour of need
Year: 1864

g@@ The Cincinnati Gazette
takes Secretary Chase severely to
task for his management of the nation
al finances, and adds very justly:


"But the imposition of obligations
upon him should not attract attention
from duties which devolve upon Con,
gress, and which have been so infa-
mously neglected. Instead of levying
proper excise taxes, the lawmakers
have, by most unwarrantable delay,
defeated the prime objects of their
Legislation, and laid themselves open
to the imputation that bribery has
caused their procrastination. Instead
of revising the whole revenue system
aud securely providing for the public
credit, they are wasting their time. in
political cabals and presidential fill,
clustering. In nothing can they have
it said of them that, as a body they
have well and faithfully done their du-
ty. 1t was known before they assem-
bled in Washington that the perma~
nent income of the government must
be greatly increased; yet they heed
lessly omit to make sure the basis of
credit that must be had to enable the
fiscal affairs of the country to be safe
ly and satisfactorily managed. Evil
hasso much power to perpetuate itself
that an improvement in our national
legislation can scarcely be hoped for
before its shortcomings recoil severely
upon those who elect the men that
compose it,"
Year: 1864

The New York New Nation, the
Fremont organ, is doing good SER
vice by telling some tales out of
school. In it's last number it says:


"But what is to be thought of an
Administration that is afraid of its
friends, of the presses that helped to
put it in power? 1t argues something
rotten in Denmark. The raid of the
Administration against the press of
the country was not intended so much
for the disloyal journals as the loyal
or Republican ones; but the latter saw
its purpose and got out of the way
1t was deliberately contemplated at
one time to pounce down upon cer-
tain Republican journals, and to
thrust into the National forts two or
three ofthe principal Republican pub
licists of the country, if not more, and
the execution of this design was only
delayed in waiting for public opinion
to harden sufficiently to make it safe
for the Administration to enter upon
SO hazardous an experiment. Public
opinion, however, did not rise to that
pitch of induration to justify the moves
ment, and the scheme was, Fortunate
ly for its projectors, abandoned. In
deed, public opinion by degrees rescu-
ed the Republican press from the dan
gers of Administrative intolerance, and
that press is beginning to reassert its
right ofspeech with decided success.


1t was not until the said papers
found themselves in danger that they
defended the inalienable right of free
press and free speech. The papsss
alluded to were the New York Tri-
bune and Beecher's New York indie.
pendent.
Year: 1864

sF The quarrel about General
Blair's liquor bill in Congress is be>
coming very interesting. 1t will be
remembered that some time ago Blair


made bitter attack upon Chase and


the corruption of his agents on the
Mississippi. The retort of these peo-
pie was the production of orders said
to have been made by Blair for imense
quantities of liquors to smuggle through
the lines to the rebels. Blair declares
and it seems has succeeded in proving,
that these orders are deliberate for
geries. This puts Chase and his asso-
ciates in bad box. If these people do
not scruple to issue forged papers to
ruin mans character, what faith
can be put in the genuineness of the
greenback currency they are issuing?
Year: 1864

Es5 Farmers continue to report the
wheat crop as immeasurably lost. One
said to us the other day, not a third
of a crop would be gathered-some
even 60 so far as to say not over an
eighth. One of our largest farmers
of this county told us the past week
that he was ploughing up one hundred
acres of his wheat ground sowed last
fall, There was scarcelya a spear left
aliye
Year: 1864

Ane,npt to Escape from Castle 1Aunder.-
Night before last an attempt was made by
the citizen prisoners In Castle Thunder to
escape from ntinement, which. but for the
vigilance OF the militiAguard on duty, would
have proved successful. Thtse prisoners
were confined in an apartment which over
looks the rem alley, the back part of which
consists only Of three planks, boarded up,
and the whole tcgether measuring about
two and q half or tnree inches in thickness.
With couple Of small pOcket-knive two
of these planks were cut through, and con-
siderable progress was made with the third
before the sentinel nearest by overheard
diately the entire police force was aroused,
and on ascertaining the locality in which
the operations were going on they set to
work to change the quarters Of those con-
fined therein to another and more secure
part of the building. This IL the first at.
tempt at escape which has been made for
some months back
Year: 1864

Coming Doaon.-Fresh butter was offered
in the Second Market yesterday at eleven
and twelve dollars per pound, with few
buyers. Conscious that those in the cOun-
try who make bu4er for sale are at no ex-
pence this season of the year to feed their
cows, people are determined not to submit
to the extorti0naie demands Of holders, and
they will therefore still have to lower their
prices two or three dollars per pound before
The article can readily be disposed Of Eight
aud ten dollars are the figures it will have
to be sold at, and those who bring it to
market had as well come down to them ai
once.
Year: 1864

AN ayaricious man g out West" is re-
ported to make practice OF always RI
ding n the last seat Of railway train'
to save the interest on his fare until the
conductor gets round TO him.
Year: 1864

MA NIGGER.-A Junior partner in q
Boston firm concluded to raise a substi-
tute for the draft, and applied to a stout
darkey who was standing on the opposite
corner, when he received the following
response Lor bless you, Ize got eight
hundred dollars at home to buy a white
man wild, if dis chile gifts grated"
Year: 1864

SIX THOUSAND of such "actiVe preach.
sss" IS Tying, Bellows and Beechcr are
enough to raise hell and rebellion in any
government on the face Of the earth
We've got a few Of that stripe in this
neck Of the woods, who follow as close to
the heels Of the bell-weathers of the flock
as their feeble abilities will allow. II
they don't get badly singed in the next
world then there Is no virtue in hell. Gre,
and future punishment is sheer humbug.
--TAurora Times
Year: 1864

WHILE discouragiDg reports reach us
from various portions of the southern and
southwestern parts of the State, of in
juries to the wheat crop, owing to the un-
favorable weather of the last two months
LIN many counties giving promise of a
very slender yield at the next harvest
appearances in our county for good yield
were never moro encouraging. But few
pieces are injured by frosts, and rapid
growth is taking place under genial suns
and warm rains.
Year: 1864

PENsYLvANIv ELECTIoN.-In Pensyl
vania the democrats carried the late elec-
ton by majority of fifty thousand votes
This act shall forever commemorate the
Keystone State. The rebuke that it has
given to the intolerance and fanaticism in
the country is most crushing, and the in
huence of this noble work on the fall elec-
tions cannot be otherwise than most
charming. Well done Pennsylvania
Year: 1864

As the people Of Massachusetts, do not
scruple to wash their dirty linen in the
face Of the nation, they must expect to be
severely criticised by all who are not Of
their way of thinking. The Boston Com
monwealM not long since stated that
there was township not far from Plym-
outh Rock the inhabitants Of which were
so supremely Ignorant that they did not
know The name of the Deity except as a
curse; the Boston public institutions in
spectors charged conduct on the part of
officers who bad the care of the prisoners
and paupers which would have disgraced
the Hottentots; and now it appears by
che report of another commission that the
lunatics in Massachusetts, are treated with
persistent and most shameful cruelty
There are over one thousand insane per-
sons held in confinement by the public
authorities of that State who are yet with
out the slightest benefit of hospital treat
.ment. Drs. Hitchcock and Stover and Jo-
siah Quincy were the commissioners who
have laid the facts connected with this
disgraceful matter before the Legislature.
Among the instances of cruelty they cite
is the following:


"Under the inclined roof Of an out
building connected with poor-house, a
situation where the inmates must have
suffered intensely from cold in winter and
heat in summer, the commissioners found
u man and woman confined in what were
in fact cages, on the opposite side of a
narrow passage-way that led to a small
window in the gableend Of the building
There was no ventilation, and tho walls
and ceiling were foul with excrement. The
commissioners were informed that these
poor creatures have been kept there fol
years, with only the variety of being trans
ferred from one cage to another, when II
was necessary, in the language of their
keeper, I" to clean them out"


just think of this condition of things
in State which has the hub Of the uni
verse for its chief city.-N Y. World.
Year: 1864

youth and maturity arising from the banefu habits
Of self-abuse. To which Is added observations or
Female Diseases, and other Interesting matter othe Ut
Importance the married and those ats
marriage, who entertain doubts of physical ability
enter that Sent to any address in sealed wrap
per, on receipt often cents or four stamps


We devote entire time and attention to the tire
ment Of the various private diseases OF pr
vse report Our Dspensay rs the only institution efthe
kind in America which has been tablshed by special
charter this fact should give preference over the
various quacks Of doubtful character be foun in al
rOecitias
Year: 1864

The Raleigh Confederate, to show that there is
really no scarcity of provisions and no danger of
starving, says: a.i. a


The third tithing district embraces the counties
of Carteret, Craven, Onsow, Duplin, Sampson,
Wayne, Johnston, Jones, Lenoir and Greene
According to the census of 1850 the population
of these counties numbered in the aggregate one
hundred thousand. Allowing for the addition by
reason OF the increase of population within the
last decade, and subtracting the losses by war, by
the running off of slaves, and by the occupation of
the enemy, and of those who have gone to the
army, and will still estimate the figures at sew
enty five thousand.


We have lately conversed with friend who
has access to the statistics furnished to the Depart
ment from that district and we learn that there
has been received in tithes Of food and forage
within that district, to the value ofive millions of
dollars, of which three millions may be estimated
for articles of food valued at fair prices in times
of peace. We further learn that the crop of pota-
toes alone pays all the expenses of gathering the
thes, and leaves the remainder nett profit for the
benefit Of the army. This table shows then, that
within the area of ten counties and for pOpula-
ton of not more than eighty thousand or seventy
i've thousand, there are thirty millions of dollars
worth Of food, or four hundred dollars worth of
food to each mouth-men, women and children
to which Is to be added the original allowance of
fifty bushels of sweet and fifty of Irish potatoes,
one hundred bushels of fifty of wheat
twenty of peas, &c, to be reserved by each farmer
and to this is again to be added the numerous ar
tcles of household supply, of poultry, game, fish,
eggs, butter, lard, vegetables &c, not tithei at all


Why, with this state of things, should there be
any scarcity of food TO any one in the third dis
trict, much less any danger of starvation These
figures cannot be over the mark, and they are un-
der it, to the extent that auy unfair practice with
holds the tenth of any article due to the govern
ment.


We will be glad if Tithe Quartermasters will in
form us, for the public benefit, of the receipts in
their various districts, of different articles that
we may work out exactly how much of food there
is in the land; and if necessary, the names of
those who have it; for the tthe law will tell US
this If it does turn out that there is no real
scarcity, then excuse will reuain for the dis
honest extortion which reduces the poor to the
necessity Of begging.


Then it will be incumbent on those having au-
thority to impress, to protect the community
against extortionate prices
Year: 1864

APPRENTICESHIP - Reform Needed. We
call attention to and endorse th9 following from
the Macon Confederate:


Among other things Of reformation in our now
order Of things, there is subject which should
receive more especial attention than the inaugura
tion of some hcalthfu system Of apprenticeship.
II we are to be truly independent VIC must cdu-
cate and train mechanics from the youths Of tho
couotry; aud this education aud training can never
be efficient aud attain excellence under the present
loose system Of apprenticeship which prevails at
the South. There ought to be established certain
terms Of apprenticeship, sufficient TO make those
learning trades masters of their various arts in
stead Of turning them out upon the world jackleg
work men, who know nothing Of what they profess.
In our own business, that of printing, we do not
fnd good printer in five Of all who travel mas
tiers Of the art. Most Of them have acquired an
iukilug or insight into the business by working
short while and then starring out IN defiance OF all
obligations to their preceptors and their best
interests as MISUNDERSTANDING a. soon az
they set up four or FIVE Thousand cns reprint,
that they competent worknen, and must,
therefore, in justice to themselves, command the
wages due pru6cients Of the art. We have been
greatly annoyed by such workmen. In all candor,
we believe that the old English rule Of demanding
pay for teaching boys the printers trade nSGssd OF
paying them for their inefficient services, is good
one, and would be the means of turning out bet
ter and more intelligent class of printers.


We have given our own trade illustratiOn
Of the imPerfectiOn Of the. mechanic arts at the
South, as impaired under the loose aud very OBJ
jectionaple system prevailing among as. Ii would
be to the gencral welfare, not only Of mechanics
themselves, but of the country, ifsuch system of
apprenticeship were enforced by speeai act Of our
Legislature as would make it legally obligatory on
the part of masters and apprentices TO serve sui-
cient number of years as would ensure proficiency
and expertness in the various arts and trades cho-
sen b. The youths of the country.
Year: 1864

Besides tho election of Governor, about the re-
suit OF which we have no apprehensions, q new
Legislature is to be chosen at the next election
in August. We trust that the people will be
awake to the great importance of having true and
patriotic men to fill the Legislative Halls-that
they will choose man of doubtful loyahy-no
man who refuses to say what he is for und whom
he is for or who pretends TO be for anything or
anybody that may be acceptable to the particular
crowd in which he may happen for the moment to
be. Let us have no political wcatEercocks, no
trimmers, no demagogues. This is not the timo
for that species of animal The times demand
mcn-true men, fearless men-men who are for
tho Independence of the COntederacy, at what
over cost, for no cost can be equal TO that Of sub
jugation submission. Let us have ono who
encourages the enemy aud discourages our own
soldiers and people by talking about Convention
to enable North Carolina to take her own affairs
into her own hands, to withdraw the keystone
from the ARCH 50 that the whole Confederate struc-
lure may tumble to the ground Let US have no
nran who proposes forever TO blast the fair fame of
North Caroiua by basely deserting her sister
States of the Confederacy and attempting to patch
up separate peace with the yankees-a thing
which cant possibly be done and would be mex.
pressibly base if it could be done. Let Us send no
one to the Legislature who is for any of these
things, who is for any who is for them.
Let US send no one who is not decidedly aud open
ly against them all. ...


There is another thing we would beg the friends
Of the Confederacy to guard against, that is,
against having too many candidates, whereby trlc-
ky men may perchance creep into the Legislature.
No matter how strong the true Of a county
may be- we would earnestly urge them to run no
more candidates than they are entitled to have
members. Give no occasion for dissention among
themselves, no chance for bad man to be snug
gled in. In this time Of trial, manifest
their patriotism as well by standing aside as by
obeying their country's call when uttered. Let it
be the boast Of some good and competent men that
they do thus stand aside rather than create dssen
sion. Where this is not done, and the persuasions
Of friends cannot reduce the candidates TO the
quiste number, public meetings, conventions of
the people, should be held, to give fair direction
to the peoples votes that they may not be scat
tered among too many. But VIC hope this will not
be necessary. We look for patriotic spirit
among those who wish to be canddates.-Fdyette-
uiIle OGserUer.
Year: 1864

How SALT LAKE CITY is COMMANDED.
A correspondent Of an Eastern paper who has
lately visited Salt Lake City, thus speaks Of
the chief city Of the Mormons The Mecca
of the Mormons occupies one-fourth of the
bottom of huge saucer, the remaining three
fourths being at present partly arabic land
and partly desert. The Wasatch Mountains
form the sides Of a saucer, and, with portions
of another range, encircle the city, shutting
it in from the outer world with wall too
high for even the odor of its sanctity to es-
cape over the mountain tops. Approaching
from the west, you cross the Jordan, have
the Great Salt Lake to your left and the city
spread out in quadrilaterals before you, more
like huge map than an actual city. High
up, and away to the right, occupying what is
geologically termed "a bench, is Camp Doug
las, the big guns of which frown down upon
the city, three miles off, to remind Brigham
Young that though he is ''boss" Of the saints,
Uncle Sam is the bigger boss Of both saints
and sinners