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Year: 1867

be at hand. The great need is that teachers
should be physiologically educated themselves.
first to be thoroughly competent to decide upon
the sanitary condition of their schools; and
secondly, to acquant their pupils with the
laws OF health. 1t is superlluOus TO say that
this branch of education is entirely neglected.
The problem of how to live is swallowed up in
the more important one of how to calculate.
The system is false, and requires reconstruction
Mathematics is not the sum and substance Of
existence. "The first thing in every efficient
man is fine animal" says Emerson.


Much of the wrong, apparent in the New
York public schools is undoubtedly owing TO
the local boards, composed for the most part.
of iliterate men, who owe their position to the
votes of the sovereign people, and who are
sadly incompetent TO discuss matters of health
and education.


In respect to ventilation, our sister City OF
Boston is making very vigorous efforts to re-
pair past wrong The new BOwdtch School
is remarkably well ventilated on the Robinson
system, each ventilatOr consisting of a rectan-
gular tube of four apertures, two admitting
fresh and two carrying off bad air. BY this
simple arrangement at the top of the building,
current of fresh air is supplied; but excel
lent as this method is, it is not perfect, being
imperative when the external and internal at
mosphere are of the same temperature, and in
capable of producing diifusive and acclimated
atmosphere. Five or six school-houses are to
be built during the next year; 5000 will be
built in the State during the next ten years.
Surely it becomes the Trustees of our school
fund to see to it that no more Black Holes OK
Calcutta disgrace the country These reforms
among others are needed:


1. A separation of primary and grammar
schools.


H. Introduction of ventilation in all the
schools now erected.


III. Construction of sufficient number or
new buildings to prevent Overcrowding.


~. The employment of first class archl"
tects, who will understand the subjects OF ven
tilation, heating, and Lighting.


Y. The purchase of healthy sites sufi1-
ciently large to admit of play grounds that are
not satires on the name.
Year: 1867

Further statements are made concerning the
management of the Paterson Amshousc, which,
if confirmed, should insure a lmg State prison
term for the author of the Outrageous cruelties
upon the helpless creatures under his charge.
Whipping dcfcnseless women with thongs and
sticks, starving children when their poor dole
of food had been stolen from them, and refusing
a candle to a mother who belieycd her child was
dying in her arms at midnight, appear to have
hoon common practices of the man whose Will
was law within the wan - ll.;s horrible place.
The extracts from affdayits which we publish
elsewhere tell their own sickening tale. We
commend this case TO the grand jury.
Year: 1867

When a Republican meeting at FRANKLIN
the capital of a County whose Whites were
unanimously Rebels-was broken up by muir
derous fuslade, The World told its readers
that this was a Radical riot On the same
principle, it should now denOunce the bloody
affray at Rogersvile as of Conservative origin.
We do not so insult the understandings OF our
patrons. Political passions IN Tennessee have
been lashed into frenzy; but we do not believe
either party is mad enough to fire vOlleys into
its own meetings nor attempt to pistol It's can
didates or champions. Even if we were knaylsh
enough to make such absurd assertions, we
should be restrained by our knowledge that
the public has too much sagacity to be deluded
by them.


The Franklin butchery was of Conservative
impulse and origin; that at Rogersyille must
be placed to the discrcdit of the Radicals.
They had no business at the meeting except as
quiet listeners. If they did not choose to hear
Etheridge-and we know that his harangues
are more vitriolic than those of any other live
man, Brownlow possibly excepted-they had
only TO keep ont of ear-shOt. No matter how
bitter how unjust, were Etheridge's words
that was not the time nor the place for contra
dction. As a presiding officer in legislative
body would say: "The gentleman from West
"Tennessee has the floor" and no one else
had a right TO it unless invited by the party
i'll possession.


We earnestly say to the sedate, considerate
Tennesseeans, of both parties, you must unite
To put stop to these disgraceful, murderous
collisions. You must not ask nor consider to
which party their authors belong but subject
them impartially to the sternest legal discipline
Unless you do this promptly, you will soon
bo involved in a fresh civil war, while Sc
cmity, order, industry, prosperity will flee
your State as though it were paguc-stricken.


Gen. Thomas is Military Commandant of the
district which includes Tennessee. He is cap
able, firm, wise, loyal and large souled. We
wish he were under orders to keep the peace
in that State by arresting all murderous dis
turbcrs al whatever cost. Unless some outside
authority should be interposed, We apprehend
that the approaching election will be signal
ICED bv a hundred outbreaks of the ferocious
spirit eyinced .. fi~"llin and at Rogcrsylle
Year: 1867

A resolution in favor Of teaching the metric
system of weights and measures in all public
schools and academies was adopted in the
State Teachers Association after a good deal
of debate in the course Of which Mr. Clark of
Canandagua put himself Oh record as an
enemy of the decimal system, which ho said
had no existence in nature. If he meant that
nature does not count by tens, ho might have
gone further and said with equal truth
that she does not count at all.
But the objection that decimal system is a
purely artificial one has no force. Travelling
by railway is purely artificial method of To-
comotion, nature having supplied us with moth
ing for that purpose but legs. Would Mr..
Clark therefore require all mankind to go
a-foOt
Year: 1867




The donation of public money to sectaran
institutions is a growing abuse which we nope
the Constitutional Convention Will hnd some
means of checking. It's very safe to lay down
rule that no appropriations shall be voted by
the State except to establishments which are
entirely under State control. We find no tault
with any of the charitable and religious lnstl-
tutions whose participation in the public lar
cesses has of late aroused so much comment !;
we make no doubt that they are in general
useful and deserving; but the fact remains that
tbey are all more or less sectarian in
their character more or less under the
influence of some particular denomination
1t is objected that most of them are open 10
persons of all creeds That does not mend
the matter; on the contrary, 1t increases the
probabilities of proselytism. We have no Dusi-
ness to tax the whole community for the sup


port of establishments which a majority OF the
community does not sanction. Take almost
anv of the schools or asylums which were
awarded donations by the last Legislature ;
put it to the popular ballot whether they shall
receive assistance from the State and we
venture to say that the vote will be three to
one against them. In former times the money
raised in the State for purposes Of education
was distributed among various religious
bodies for the support of their denominatlonal
schools. 1t was soon found that the funds
were misappropriated; instead of going to the
schools they practically went to the churches.
The consequence was the creation of the pres
ent common school system, the cardinal idea
of which is that no denomination ought to be
allowed, either directly or indirectly, to put It's
hand into the public money chest or to tax
people of a different creed for its benefit.
Now, however, we are rapidly being driven away
from these safe mOOrings by stress of politics.
A donation of one or two thousand dollars to a
religious school is a cheap and easy way OF
buying a great many votes. 1t is not only a
wrong to the public, but it is demoralHng


alike to those who give and to those who re-
ceive. When political chicanery and coTup-
ton get into our schools and churches, 1t Is as
well for us to think of reform. Let us stop
the whole business at once let the State open
as many charitable and educational establish
ments as may be needed and if the Presby-
terians, the Methodists, the EpiscoDalians, OF
the Catholics want others under their own
supervision, let them pay the bills themselves
Year: 1867

AS there is no longer doubt that the Party of
Action under the leadership of Garibaldi and
Mazzni, will soon make movement against
Rome, the Italian Prime Minister, Baron
Ratazzi. has offered to garrison the City of
Rome with national troops, to protect it from
the threatened attack. 1t is doubtful whether
the small Papal army will alone be able to
suppress a revolutionary movement, as Carl
bald can undoubtedly collect large force
of volunteers. According TO the Franco
Italian Convention of September IS,
1884, the Italian Government is bound
neither to attack the Papal territory nor to al
low an attack from abroad. But no provision
is made fOr tho outbreak of insurrection among
the people of the Ecclesiastical States. Should
the Papal Government decline the prohered
aid, and the insurrection break out first within
the Papal territory, the Italian Government
may use this as pretoxt to Temain neutral
In Rome it is feared that if an Italian garTi-
son is once admitted it will afterward be diff
fiCult to get rid of 1t; and it is felt, moreover,
tIat France and the other Catholic Powers
will never permit the total overthrow of the
POpes temporal throne.
Year: 1867

portation of COolie labor, unless carefully
watched, will result in Slavery, and we are
glad to hear that the Attorney General has al


ready taken steps to prevent any violation OF
the laws If the Coolies in America are pro-


tected by the Government, and allowed far
opportunity to settle, they may become valu-
able though small class of laborers in the South
but if we permit them to be treated as seris'
the traffic will become enormous, and the
United States might in a few years rival Cuba,
which yearly imports some 10000 Cinnamon and
holds them in hopeless degradation and poverty.
Year: 1867

The New-York State Teachers Association,
at Auburn, on Thursday, discussed the question
of the physical education of woman with a
great deal of common sense, and 1t was well
said that female teachers need careful train
ing and strengthening of the body hardly less
than Of the mind. The Association got great
deal Of amusement" out OF visit to the
State Prison from which we should judge that
nedacogues have curious ideas of fun.
Year: 1867

The Republican Congress Committee have
recently added to the number Of speakers sent
to the South, and yet more lab)rcrs arc needed.
We especially want funds to employ colored
men of influence in the interiT of the States.
The cities are easily reached, but thorough
canvass should be made of tie plantations. 1t
is the opinion of Southern mn that the best
and most economical method IF pushing on the
canvass is to see that the cobred leaders have
full opportunity of speaking % their people
Year: 1867

We are again told by Cabb dispatch that
nubllc opinion in Berlin regards a war between
France and Prussia as imminent. No new con-
flicts have recently taken place between the
two Powers, and nothing has occurred which
could account for such a wanike condition of
things We see nothing in either this or in
any other dispatch to change CUR opinion, that
for the present war betweenthe two Govern
ments is highly improbable.
Year: 1867

An American vessel in Bremerhaven, Ger
many, has got itself into trouble by harboring
deserters from the Prussian army. AS the YES
sci was undoubtedly In Prussian waters we do
not see how the captain could for moment
hesitate to comply with the demand for the
surrender of the fugitives
Year: 1867

The President, it is said, will certainly re-
lieve Sheridan, but none Of the other district
commanders Mr.. johnson is as foolish as
he is obstinate. He has no enemy in the world
whom he ought to dread as much as himself.
Year: 1867

A Boston religious paper proposes to abolish
the annual boat races between Yale and Ilar-
ward, for tho reason that they destroy good
feeling between colleges, interfere with studies,
and foster dissipation. But the same objections
Year: 1867

A correspondent of the Germantown
telegraph gives the following sensible
advice "A majority of farmers do not
attach Importance enough to the sub
ject of saving and making manure and
compost. To thenf manure and labor
are what capital and credit are to the
merchant. They think they can afford
to pay five or six dollars per cord for
manure, and it does seem high price ;
but one thing they can do, they can
take better care of what they have, and
prevent the waste of what is the most
valuable part. Many hog pens are
built on sloping ground, the manure
sinking away to some drain and lost.
Now with proper care the manure OF
every hog raised and fattened is worth
twenty dollars to put in corn hill. 1t is
better not to let hogs wallow in the
manure as most of farmers do, with the
view that hogs will work fine the coarse
trash generally thrown in the pen.
Make tight board floor to the pen to
prevent the leakage of the urine and
manure, then throw in the absorbents,
such as weeds, straw, shavings, sawdust,
leaves, chip dirt, briers, and in fact al
most fine hickory brush, clean the sty
ont once a week, and throw the manure
into a square pile, exposed to all the
rain that falls, and in dry time keep
the manure moist by the addition of wa
ter, or cover with damp earth to pre-
vent the "blue blazes." By this ar
rangement with ten hogs and plenty of
material, farmer will make near two
hundred dollars worth of manure ready
for the land in good condition, and have
better hogs than if he allowed them to
wallow at pleasure in the mass.
Year: 1867

A Michigan correspondent of the New
York Farmers Club furnishes the fol-
lowing items on clover.


al fear that your reply to Charles
Vinans about clover may mislead those
who have not been in the habit of using
plaster. You say six or eight bushels is
as good as one hundred. Now, / have
found that half bushel is sufficient, on
clover, if applied every Spring. Two
bushels of clover seed to fourteen acres
is not heavy seeding, but rather light.
Nv rule is two bushels to ten acres, but
many recommend peck to the acre.
Glover seed is raised extensively in this
fegion. The general practice is to cut
the first growth for hay about the lst OF
July, and let it grow again for seed. 1t
is then fit to cut the forepart of October.
We cut it with a reaper, leaving it in
large gavels. The yield is from one to
six bushels per acre. | would recon-
mend Mr.. Vinans to SOW on the six acres
which he proposes to manure highly
for clover next spring, either barley or
wheat; for think if he sows the clover
alone, the weeds will grow up and choke
as much'as crop of grain. l would
SOW the clover seed before the last
dragging, and then SOW one bushel of
plaster per acre about the time the
grain was coming up. Let him try
this plan, and if his land is sandy he
will be surprised at the result. The clo-
yer will grow up after the grain is cut,
and blossom, and if the season is moist,
it will fall down. The man who would
manure his land for clover in this State,
would be laughed at, we expect, unless
by clover itself. We don't think much
of barn-yard manure; clover and plaster
are our great fertilizers; if we use them
properly, our land grows better every
yaarO
Year: 1867




Now that the grape crop is off the
vines, is good time to 60 ameng them
with knife in hand to cut out the
superabundant runners. AS to what
should be cut away at this season, we
name two leading items: 1st. All the
green vines of this seasons growth
which have not hardened into ripe wood.
I'd. Old vines which have passed their
prime, and which can be replaced by
younger and more vigorous wood.


The fist description named for cutting
away, viz: the green vines, would not
stand the winter, and are easier cut out
now than they would be in the spring
after they were winter killed. The
second item, that of very old wood, can
be taken out to make room for better
vines for next years bearing.


Having disposed of these two kinds Of
vines, those which are to be left for fur
ther consideration may be shortened
somewhat and fastened to the stake or
trellis, so the winds will not whip them
to pieces during the winter, or if they
are to be laid down and covered, that
operation may be attended to at once.


1t will be found better on several ac-
counts, to do up considerable portion
of the pruning in the fall, rather to put
it off until in the winter or the early
part of spring.
Year: 1867

This community was thrown into an
intense state of excitement on last
Thursday evening, when it became
known that Miss Antoinette Cline, a
beautiful and highly respectable young
lady of sixteen, had been outraged by a
negro, not more than q quarter of 4
mile from this city, about sundown of
that day, as she was on her way home,
. short distance from this place. Miss
Cline observed the negro approaching
her, and becoming frightened ran, but
was soon overtaken by the scoundrel,
who threw her to the ground and ac-
complished his hellish purpose, after
which he quickly fed. The young
lady, when discovered, was taken to
the nearest house, and as soon as she
was able to state the facts parties start
ed in pursuit of the villain and succeed
ed in capturing him on Saturday last,
and was fully identified by Miss Cline.
The negro calls himself Ed. Jones, and
says he is from Georgia. He was COM
mitted to Jail for further examination,
which took place on Monday last before
Justice Simmons, who committed him
for the action of the Grand Jury.
Year: 1867

The next Legislature of Maryland
will be unanimously Democratic, and
there will not be single radical hold
ing civil office anywhere in the State.
This condition of affairs is unprecedent-
sd in the history of the nation, and
shows how sweeping is the reaction
AGAINST radicalism wherever the popular
vote is uatrammeled. Maryland, like
West Virginia and Tennessee, has felt
the bitterness of radical despotism, and
has proaued under the tyranny of a
minority. Her citizens, like ours, have
been illegally driven from the polls and
have seen the iniquitous workings of a
partisan registration. Bat the people
now hold sway and the result is as
stated above. We have faith that the
citizens of West Virginia will yet assert
their rights and their power, and
although it might be too much to pre-
diet that the result will be precisely as
in Maryland, yet We knOr that when
that time comes, radical victories in
West Virginia will be far uore rare
than Democratic ones now are. God
speed the day.
Year: 1867

The election returns from Massachu-
setts show that the reaction against the
Radical party, which manifested itseii
in Connecticut some months ago, Is
steadily progressing. There are various
causes which have combined to bring
about and accelerate this political rev.
olution, but there is one which is proba-
bly, more potent than all others, though
it has not been so much discussed
Among the latest items of news which
reach us are the statements that 1.-THE
wages of the operatives are to be re-
duced this week in several of the larg,
est cotton factories in Rhode Island
that "if the times do not improve an
entire or partial suspension OF work
must soon occur by the concentrated
action of manufacturers"-that 1.-THE
large woolen mill of Edward Harris,
known as the Harris Woolen Company,
Woonsocket, will commence to run on
three quarters time next Monday, ana
some portions of the machinery will be
entirely stopped until there is a more
encouraging prospect for its produc-
tions," and that "the Lippitt Wooden
Company have run but two-thirds OF
their looms for several months, but at
present are running fifteen of eighteen
sets of machinery"


As it is in Rhode Island so is it else
where. The South does not raise the
cotton and other crops which made her
once so prosperous, nor does she buy the
cotton and woolen goods and hardware
she was once accustomed to buy, to the
great enrichment of the North. Under
her present government revival of the
material prosperity in the South is im-
Lossible, and no one can tell how long
the present condition of things may not
last. With ruin to the South comes
inev table disaster to the North. The
people of the latter have q thousand in
terests that are inseparable from those
of the South. If, therefore, the "better
times" which the Providence Journal
family hopes for, do not speedily come,
there will be more closing Of factories,
more discharging of operatives, more
poverty and distress among the working
men, and stronger and tiercer reaction
against the revolutionists, who are so
blindly and desperately dragging the
country to ruin.
Year: 1867

A correspondent of the Scientific Amer.
iaan says he has tried the following
method of keeping potatoes for years
with complete success, though in some
instances the tubers were diseased when
taken out of the ground: dust over
the floor of bin with lime, and put in
about six or seven inches deep of pOta-
toes, and dust with lime as before. Put
in six or seven inches of potatoes,
and lime again; repeat the operation
until all are stored away. One bushel
of lime will do for forty bushels of po-
tatoes, though more will not hurt them,
the lime rather improving the flavor
than otherwise.
Year: 1867

We invite the attention of our readers
to the article which we copy this morn
ing frem the Uorld, relating TO the
effect the recent elections will have
upon the Presidential contest next fall.
The argument is stated with the JyOrIGs
usual clearnssS and elegance of dictiOn,
and is as sound as it is clear and well
put


The sudden popularity of General
GRANT in radical quarters and the vari-
Gus movements for his nomination to
the Presidency that have taken shape
since the election, are very significant.
The radicals seem to think that the per-
sOnal prestige and popularity of the
General will blind the eyes of the peO-
pie to the principles involved in the
contest, and that, amid the hurrah and
excitement attending the candidacy Of
a military chieftain, they may induce
the people to ignorantly sanction the
policy of reconstruction which has been
so sternly rebuked this fall. 1t seems
to be well settled, however, that even if
General GRANT should be nominated by
that portion of the Radical party that
Is willing to hide the principles of the
party behind the availability of the
candidate, there is another and more
honest body of Radicals who will insist
upon the nomination of representa-
tive man and will refuse to support any
man who is not openly and cOnspicu
oOsly an advocate of the peculiar dog
mas they hold. To this class, GRANT
will be far from acceptable and, in the
event of his nomination by the political
schemers, it is reasonably certain that
second candidate to suit the views Of
the GREELEY and PHILLIPS school will
eput forth In the triangular contest
that would thus ensue, there can be
little doubt that the regular Democratic
candidate would receive q plurality of
The electoral votes.


The haste of the frightened radicals
to nominate GRANT is a very plain con-
fesSion of the fact that they acknowl-
edge the defeat of the political meas
ures for which they have been contend
Ing. The late elections have settled,
beyond the shadow of q doubt, that
negro suffrage, whether North OF South,
Is abhorrent to the wishes of the peo-
pie, while, at the same time, the radi-
cal party is so irrevocably committed
10 the doctrine that it cannot now re-
trace its steps. The only consistent
Platform that the radical convention in
1906 can adopt is thus repudiatsd in ad
vance. The verdict of the people has
already been rendered in opposition to
z the principles which the convention
Will be compelled to avow. 1t is there
lore justly questionable whether GRANT
will be willing to assume command Of
the already routed army, and it is still
more problematical whether, even IN
der GRANTS leadership, the people cln
be, in few short months. whesdled ill.,
to an endorsement of the political dog
mas they have so emphaticslly rebuked
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