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Year: 1866

| In a former article we stated that the OBJ
ject of Common Schools was to place the
advantages of Education within the reach
of every youth in the State, and that the
reason why SO many are growing up in
ignorance, was not the fault of the School
system, but was, in part, owing to the
want of interest upon the subject, among
the people themselves. Several ways in
which public sentiment might be awakened
and improved, were pointed out to the rea-
der. In Republican form of government
like our own, it is essential to educate the
whole people-for its greatest benefits are
manifest where it is most widely diffused
But education, to become general, or uni
versal, must be systematized-its benefits
the common right of all. This plan, in
some form has been found necessary in
every Northern State of our Union. Had
the Southern States adopted similar plan,
and thrown open to all the wide portals of
knowledge, the "Great Rebellion" had never
existed. The few can never rule the many
unless the many are kept in ignorance. In
all the South there has never been a sys-
TEN of Common Schools The rich were
able to school themselves, the poor did
without it. We believe very many in our
own State do not appreciate the school
system as they ought to. They do not
comprehend its advantages, hence we fire.
quently hear them denouncing it as hum
bug, and school taxes as unjust. Now,
Mr.. Taxpayer it pays to educate the people
the whole people. Thrift and prosperity
follow in it's train. To be sure it costs
much to keep open the schools for all, but
it costs more to bring them up in ignor-
ance 1t costs considerable to build school
houses but no more than it does to build
.jails, penitentiaries and poor houses We
venture the opinion that the proper educa-
tion of all the children would reduce the
poor tax of the next generation nine-tenths,
and materially lessen State and county ex-
penses Your farms are worth more to
youth for being in an intelligent commun-
ity Every acre of your real estate would
appreciate in value, were your directors to
erect new and commodious school build
ing within a mile of your premises Yes,
it pays to educate. Intelligence pays
better interest in the end, than your 1905.
Give your children education, and they will
succeed in life without that pile of green
backs" you are boarding up for them. Keep
them at the Common Schools


ALPHA BETA.
Year: 1866

DANGERS OF HAsTY BURIAL In debate
10 the French Senate, on the petition set
ting forth the danger of burying those who
are not dead by hasty interments Cardinal
Donnet, Archbishop of Bordeaux, rected
three cases of living persons supposed to
be dead whom during his experience as a
priest he had saved from burial In two
cases there was complete restoration Of
life-One of the persons SO rescued, lady
of distinguished family, is now happy
wife and mother A fourth case, told by
the Archbishop, accounts for his own long
sustained attention to the subject. He
said


"In the summer of 1926, on a close and
sultry day, in church which was exces-
sively crowded, young priest who was
in the act of preaching was suddenly seiz-
ed with giddiness in the pulpit. The words
he uttered became indistinct, he soon lost
the power of speech, and sunk down on the
floor He was taken out of the church and
carried home All was thought to be over
Some hours after the funeral bell was tolled,
and the usual preparations made for the
interment. His eyesight was gone but if
he could see nothing like the young lady
have alluded to, he could hear and | need
not say that what reached his ears was not
calculated to reassure him. The doctor
came, examined him, and pronounced him
dead and after the usual inquiries as to
his age and the place of his birth, &c, gave
permission for his interment next morning
The venerable bishop in whose cathedral
the oung priest was preaching when he
was seized with the fit same to his bed
side to recite the De Profundie The body
was measured for the coffin.


Night came on, and you will easily feel
how inexpressible was the anguish of the
living being in such a situation. At last,
amid the voices murmuring around him, he
distinguished that of one whom he had
known from infancy. That voice produced
a marvellous effect and superhuman effort
Of what followed need say no more than
that the SEEMINGLY dead man stood next day
in the same pulpit. That young priest,
gentlemen, is the same young man who is
now speaking before you, and who more
than forty years after that event, implores
those in authority not merely to watch vigi-
lently over the careful execution of the legal
prescriptions with regard to interments, but
to enact fresh ones in order to prevent the
recurrence Of irreparable misfortunes
Year: 1866

HOLDING FAsr.-A young man was taken
by his uncle as clerk in his employ
After filling this Office for year or two,
he had the offer, from wealthy relative,
of collegiate education. The offer was
tempting, he was found OF books, he would
be free from the drudgery OF business, he
might be minister of the Gospel, for he
was pious youth, Upon the other hand,
he had just begun to be OF use to his en-
ployer, who had borne with his failings
and blunders patiently, he displayed great
aptitude for business, and had won the es-
TEEN and respect of all about him.


He asked the advice of his pastor in the
matter, and the sound old man, said to him,
"Thou art started in thy way, hold fast to
it," He took the advice, and held fast to
the calling in which he had commenced !;
he acquired property, and honor, and ease.
He has educated many young men for the
ministry, among them one OF his own sons;
he has been most liberal contributor to all
the benevolent enterprises of the Church
and the country he has served God, as
an elder in his Church, with fidelity and de-
votion he has lightened the load of many
burdened pastor wiped the tears of many
d uCoOldIC "luOW, pIO'l'eCu lOl many Iolh-
erless children and to many wavering,
undecided, volatile young man, has he re-
peated the words of his wise pastor, that
settled his own course. "Thou art started
in thy way Of life, it is good way, hold
fast to it."


1t is better by patient continuance in
we'll doing in one field of labor do life's
work, than to vascilIate, and change, and
change again. Respect usefulness, and
happiness are gained by steady and con-
sistent devotion to one calling which God
has marked out There may be eccentric
exceptions to THIS general rule, just as
there are comets in the celestial system
but the fixed stars are more useful than
the comets to mankind, and their steady
light, year after year, and age after age,
is better than the meteor blaze Of night.
N. Y Observer.
Year: 1866

BUsINEss-Bu Business is business. This
is the peremDtory maxim of many who
would be puzzled to define the word, and
yet feel that it stands for something quite
distinct from other occupations which they
pursue either for pleasure or of necessity.
A man may be pressed with cares, or alb
sorbed in entertaining studies, which have
nothing to do with his business. He may
meet the first bravely, and follow the other
methodically and yet both may be wholly
separated from the work of his life, that
ecial work which is involved in his vo-
cation or calling, and is expected of him
by the other bees in the hive. To that he
must give his best days, and the best
hours Of his day. Whatever other duties
he has to perform must, as rule, make way
for business. They must be attended to be-
fore or after hours, however important
Unless (as in case of accident, fire, and the
like) they are of so sudden and pressing a
nature as to Justify obviously the neglect
of the regular days work, they must wait
till the work be done You must feed your
masters pigs before you set down to youl
own supper.
Year: 1866

small thin paper boxes and their covers
are quite as wonderful and ingeniously
contrived as those that make the matches.
A long coil Of paper as wide as the box
is long revolves on wheel, one end being
in machine. Itfirst asses through rollers,
where the printing is done from thence to
the paste-boxes, where the sides and ends
only are pasted from thence to the fold
ing-apparatus, where the ends are nicely
folded and the whole box is pasted togeth-
er and drops into basket. A similar ma
chine is at work at the covers, and thus
144, 900 boxes per day are manufactured
Year: 1866

AN Irish glazier was putting in pane of
glass into a window, when a groom, who
standing by, began joking him, telling him to mind
and put in plenty of putty The Irishman bore
the banter for some time but at last silenced his
tormenter by ''Arrah, now, be off wild We, else
I'll put pain in yer head without any putty"
Year: 1866

"PAP, l planted some potatoes in our
garden, said one of the smart youths of this gen
Grafton to his father, and what do you suppose
came up?" "Why, potatoes, of course" No
sire There came up drove of hogs and ate them
all. The old man gave in.


DEAN SWIFT said, with much truth, ut is
useless for us to attempt to reason man out Of q
thing he has never been reasoned into"
Year: 1866

THE SKILL OF CHINESE LABoRERs-The
scaff,oding for the purpose of covering the
court is proceeding rapidly, the clief sup
ports being now completed, and the upper
part in process of being covered with light
bamboOs, placed about two feet apart
These act as supports for the mating,
which is all double, having lining formed
Of the miict stalk. Some Of these sheets
of mating are fitted on bamboo frames,
which are not intended to be moved, while
others are so arranged that by hallards,
they can be pulled open or shut like win
dow blinds, thus enabling the court to be
covered or uncovered, according to temper
aturc, rain, or other circumstances. The
Skill and ingenuity which the men display


is remarkable They move about on the
top OF this work, some forty feet from the
ground, with the agility of monkeys, and
run up and down the straight poles like
squirrels, using only their hands and the
soles nl their feet. A leg of mutton on the
top OF a greasy pole would stand poor
chance of remaining long an object of COM
petition among Pekin scaffold constructors.


The framework is secured only by ropes
and twine, and great economy is exercised
in picking up and removing the portions
that are in excess, several little boys going
round in the evening before the men leave,
and picking up the scraps that have been
cut off and thrown down. The Chinese
workmen display great expertness in
throwing materials from one to the other to
considerable height. | noticed this to-
day among the scaffold-men, and it recalled
to my memory having seen one of the ma
sons laborers taking a spade full of mortar,
and throw it, spade and all, to man on
the roof of house, who caught it without
dislodging a single particle of the mortar.
The paper hangers also are very expert III
throwing up sheets of paper, with one side
covered with paste ready for being put on
the wall. Their paper for room purposes
is very good, the satin pattern" being that
most commonly used. Paper of this kind is
not kept in rolls, as with us, but in squares
of about II by 10 inches. One man stands
by the table and applies the paste, and
then adroitly throws the sheet up to an
other one, who fixes it on the wall.-Pekir
and the Pekingese
Year: 1866

Fsosr.-Ws hal quite . frost last night.
Thoee who have examined into the matter
inform us that this vas the case only IN
low lands over which fogs were hanging
last evening. No damage will be done.
Year: 1866

A SKETCH OF SCOUTING STRATEGY.


One evening about an hour after the
sun had gone down couple of stout
men, dressed in soiled rebel uniforms,
ca .h holding in his hand good Aus
trian rife, tapped at the door of small
frame building near the C road in
Year: 1866




AN ACT providing for the election of Clerk Of the
Supreme Court.


Section l. BE it enacted Iy the General
assembly Of the State Of Iora, That Sec
ton 2646 of the Revision of 1860 be- and
the same is hereby repealed and the fol-
lowing section be substituted in lieu there
of: That at the next general election, and
every four years thereafter, Clerk of the
Supreme Court shall be elected by the
qualified electors of the State, whCse term
of office shall commence ON the first Mon
day Of January after said election, and
continue four years, and until his success
sor shall be elected and qualified-the
present incumbent to hold his Office until
his successor is elected and qualified, un-
less removed by the Supreme Court. The
Judges of the Supreme Court shall have
power to fill by appointment all vacancies
in the Office of Clerk of the Supreme
Court, and the person so appointed
shall hold his Office until the lst
day of January succeeding the next gen.
eral election thereafter, and until his sue
cessor is elected and qualified.


Approved March Both, 1866.
Year: 1866


AN ACT providing for the election Of Reporter Of
the Decisions OF the Supreme Court


Section L. BE it enacted by the General
assembly Of the State Of Io,ca, That Sec
ton one Of Chapter twenty-five, of the
laws of the Tenth General Assembly, be,
and the same is hereby repealed, and that
the following section be substituted in lieu
thereof:


Sec. 2. At the next general election. and
every four years thereafter, there shall be
elected, by the qualified electors of this
State, Reporter Of the decisions of the
Supreme Court, whose term of Office shall
commence on the first Monday in January
next after said election, and continue four
years and until his successor shall be
elected and qualified. The present incum-
bent to hold his Office until his successor
is elected and qualified, unless removed by
the Supreme Court.


Approved March 3Oth, 1866.
Year: 1866

Local PoLITIos.-While dining at popular 81
loon the other day. we were amused by two gentle
men engaged in discussing politics. One patriotic
gentlemen, who had rushed TO New York shortly
after the breaking out of the and assisted tn
Union cause by selling wild cat" feet in the New
York market until LEE surrendered, hurled the fol-
lowing clineher at his opponent: "The Southern
people five years ago detei the government to Keep
them in the Union; they defy the power of the
government TO keep them out Of the Union" His
plucky opponent, who had aided to crush the Re
belion by filling fat Federal office returned the
following shot-"And for four years you fought to
keep them in the Union aad now you want 10 fight
10 keep them ont of the Union. President JOHNSON
has been fighting all the way through the to
bring them back into the Unon.n The retort of
the other came bitter and President JOIN
son, | scorn your President Copperbead, and
entitled to no credit whatever" And | = replied
tine official, despse your Congress nest OF
traitors and entitled to credit Having COM
peted the business which called to that localt Y.
we rang the bell for the attendant freedman, and
called tor Credit FOR two;" then requesting him in
pleasant tone TO place memarandam OF our ow II
refreshments ''behind the looking glass accepted
of cigar and toothpick. and returned TO the sane
tum. with impression that freedmen know how
10 keep saloon.
Year: 1866

FASHIONABLE DINNERs.-Wisdom
and fashion are seldom company for
each other. Hospitality, meant to be
kindly and genial, becomes, under the
influence Of fashion, fatiguing to one
party and oppressive to the other
Measured by the standard of common
sense, must we not regard it as fool


ish sacrifice of personal comfort for a
whole family to be subjected to fatigue
duty for days before and days after a
dinner party? And for what end p
Ostensibly to give pleasure to certain
number Of friends, the guests on the
occasion, but the real etfectis to make
them sick. Instead of, "Do let me
send you some more of this mock tur-
tie, . ssAnother piece Of piei" ''Sir,
some of this truff1e," II must insist on
your trying some of this nice melon" +"
the language of sincerity would run as
follows: ssShall I send you fit of the
collie, sir?' Pray let me have the
pleasure of giving you a touch of the
gout;'' 'ssir, let me help you TO a sick
headaehe;" "madam, yon surely cannot


refuse crop of pimples and blotches


on that fair face ofyours."
Year: 1866

The New York Herald submits, for
consideration, the following novel plan
of restoring the Union


But, in spite of all this, there is still
mode by which the South can secure
representation in our national councils,
not only with the consent of the Jaco-
bins, but with their enthusiastic appro>
baton and assistance. One distinction
the Jacobins are ready and anxious to
make, and it is the only one which has
not yet been presented to them by the
Southern people. IF the comments Of
the Jacobin orators and organs upon
the recent interview between President
johnson and the negroes be attentively
considered, and if the speech of Chief
Justice Chase, when inroducing Fred.
Douglass to Washington audience, be
carefully weighed, we shall find clue
which will enable US TO clear up this
whole imbroglio.


It is the color Of the Southern dele>
gates which is so obnoxious 10 the
Jaco6ins in Congress. They do not
care for a Southern representatives.
record or his character; but if he be
white man they at once decide against
him. They hold that the only truly
loyal men at the South sre negroes,
who raised provisions to keep the rebel
armies in the field, and did all the hard
work upon those rebel forts and bat
teries, to capture which so many Of our
gallant soldiers sacrificed their lives
This being the Jacobin theory, the
South has only to conform to it and
there will be no further trouble.


Let fine, likely lot of big, ,strapping
negroes--eaeh with a face as black as
ink, eyes and teeth as white as snow,
hair as woody as a poodle's, and
mouth as large as the Mammoth Cave,
be selected and sent to Washington in
place of the white delegates, who have
no chance Of entering the Congressional
halls. Let these negroes be magnifi-
cent two thousand dollar fellows, with
shin bones that follow Hograth's line
of grace and beauty. and heels that
project so far that they have to put
their shoes on hind side before. Dless
them in the gaudy colors they SO much
admire, and let their coats be adorned
with splendid brass buttons and their
ears with specimens Of dollar jewelry
To such delegation the doors Of
Congress will be Immediately opened
Sumner will welcome them on behalf
of the Senate, and Stevens on behalf oi
house. All the Jacobins will be de-
lighted. These delegates can take the
oath without any conscientious or other
scrupIes. The Union will be restored
THE South will be represented by hel
loyal and intelligent men. And if the
expenditure for cologne and assafedita
to perfume Congress daily, in order tc
subdue the odor proceeding from the
Southern delegation, shall happen to
increase the national debt beyond al
human calculation, no real friend to
progress, humanity, and universal free,
dom, will utter single useless word O
protest.
Year: 1866

In THE WRoNG PLACE. An old
Methodist, very great at responses
which were. not always appropriate,
but always well meant, went one day to
hear popular preacher. The preach
er, usually lucid, was rather perplexed
and felt it himself. He labored
through the first part, and then said !.


Brethren, / have reached the con-
clusionof my first point"


"Thank God!'' calculated the old
man, who sat before him, profoundly
interested, in voice that was heard in
every part of the large church.


a The last part of that sermon was
harder to preach than the first.
Year: 1866

CoNTENT.-The fountain of content
must spring up in the mind; and he
whe has so little knowledge of human
nature to seek happiness-by changing
anything but his own disposition, will
waste his life in fruitless efforts, and
multiply the grief which he proposes to
remove. III IS @
Year: 1866

len can be had by producing proof of ownership
before Recorder Gastinel If not claimed within
ten days, IT viii be sold for account of the city.


CRICKET MATcH.--The match played yesterday
between married and a single eleven Of the
Crescent City Club resulted in the victory Of the
latter, ont only by four runs. There was a large
attendance Of ladies and gentlemen on the ground,
and the club received their guests in their usual
hospitabe manner.


1t is probable that the married men will try it
again, as they should do of course, and in that
event we may have to record their success. We
nave not room this morning for an extended report
Of the play The following is the official record
Of the match
Year: 1866

TIE FLAG is to be trusted asa
true Union paper without deceit
which no motive of interest can
turn from its course and which.
cannot be swayed by favor or In
timidated by threat. Itisa FIRST
class journal, and ought 10 re-
ceive the hearty support Of the
true Union men Of San Francis
co and the interior.-Stoektea
hdependens.
Year: 1866




board Of the future,
and will serve ~ q
beacon light on the
political paths Of
the nation. A large
number OF these ar
ticles are worthy Of
republication in
book form.-Los
Aagelcs Nssos.
Year: 1866

MOULD RESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCE


w to the tizens of this place that she has
just returned from San Francisco, where she
has purchased, and is now in the receipt of,
large and carefully selected assortment of
H~-
Year: 1866

LocUsr FRITrERs.-Egypt is afflicted with
swarms of locusts, but the evil is somewhat
mitigated by the discovery that they are eat
able, and locust fritters are now all the rage
among gourmands. They are thus prepar-
ed l.: '' Take the locust gently between the
thumb and finger of the left hand cut it in
two with a knife, and pour into the animals
inside small quantity of good rum (; let
them stand two days, and then cover with a
fritter paste, and fry them sprinkle with
sugar. and pour into the dish small guam
tity of Burgundy
Year: 1866

LUcKY.-A German paper relates the fol,
lowing story of one of the late battles:


A young soldier, in the midst of the tu-
multi of battle, thought he saw on the ground
a four -leaved shamrock growing. As such
q plant is rare, and is considered to bring
good luck, he stopped to take *; At that
moment cannon ball passed over his head
80 near that he must have been killed if he
had net been bending down. The man SO
miraculously saved sent this plant, to which
he owes his life, to his betrothed in Koenigs-
burg
Year: 1866

A HIGH TONED RICHMOND LADY.-An in
vestiSation into the charge made against Mrs.
Abrahams, now in custody in Richmond for
cruelty beating, roasting and torturing a
negro girl, shows that she had murdered four
of her slaves within three years, and that
her custom had always been to exercise
cruelties such as has seldom if ever been put
on record
Year: 1866

q ONE OF YOU CAN'T, AND WE PITY
- you. You have tried every remedy but the
ONE destined, by its intrinsic merit to supercede
all similar preparations. it is not surprising you
should be reluctant to try something else after the


many experiments you have made of trashy COM
pounds foisted on the public a certain cure but
Year: 1866

In the Prussian army all the young men
try to cat their hair so as to initiate the
Crown Prince A correspondent says that
inasmuch as the Prince has sort of average
Prussian face-what may be called repre-
sentative face-the vast number of lads and
men one meets with features, complexion,
mustache and whiskers like his, is somewhat
singular 1t is also the fashion for the boys
of the army to assume fine military scowl,
as if they were very anxious that some one
should ~ tread on their coat"