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Year: 1867

CENTRAL LEE AS A TEACHER-The
Educational Association of Virginia
recently appointed a committee TO
prepare an address on their behalf
"urging hearty cooperation with
teachers in matters of instruction, dis
cipline, &c" The committee in their
report, drawn by General Lee, come
TO the following sensible conclusions ::


!. The parent after committing his
child TO the teaching of another. should
continue TO manifest an affectionate
interest in his improvement, by con
slant inquiry and encouragement


2. The supplying Of young persons,
while absent from their homes, with
needless money, and the permission
to contract debts, are to be rcprobat-
cd, as tempting TO a sinful prodigality
and multiplying the dangers Of con
tracing habits of vice


3. The proper authority Of teachers
must be firmly sustained by parents.


4. Every young person should be
Informed by his parents that he must
give diligence to profit by his studies,
or else must be compelled to make
himself useful to society by actual la
Dor in some humber sphere.


And last, an unworthy parent can
not reasonably expect the teacher,
against the current of his wrong ex.
ample, TO form his son into a worthy
man.
Year: 1867

SINGULAR FACT The "Youth's His
tory Of the War says; zone singular
fact in connection with the death of
Mr. Lincoln was that no coroner's in
quest was ever held on his body; no
legal evidence taken as 50 the manner
of his death, nor was single person
accused of connection with il ever
brought into a court OF law, nor is
there TO this day any legal testimony
Whatever as TO the manner of his
death, the cause Of y, or who killed
him
Year: 1867

A young lady writes from San Fran
cisco her experience of the preaching
of one Of the fashionable clergymen Of
that city, which is worth reproduction.
She.says 81 went to hear him preach
last Sunday night He is certainly
one Of the best elocutionists on this
coast. And saeh gestures they are
so graceful. He is said to live finely
keeps seven fine horses But who
would keep slow and poky ones,
should like to know, II they were able
to afford bcttcry'
Year: 1867

WYOMING, DEL, March 18th, '67.


MIR. EDITOR Il beg leave, through the
columns of your valuable paper, to introduce
the subject of schools subject of Importance
to all but especially to those who are parents
and guardians. Now, we only state general
and acknowledged truth-when we say that the
common schools of our section are not so good
as they ought to be; are not so good as are the
schools in many other sections OF our country
especially in the North. Why is this? is a
question that very naturally arises; an impor-
tant question, too, if VIC would improve our
schools. The improvement, | think, is not to
be made by change of system, as some have
suggested upon which our schools are now
conducted; but the improvement, L think,
ought to be made in the conduct of those
schools. The reason they are not so good as
they ought to be lies directly in our teachers
and indirectly and principally in the parents
and patrons. Very many of the teachers are
not competent to teach; and Tany of those
their duty. Then the remedy is plain-em-
ploy good teachers; and Just here is where the
duty Of parents and patrons comes in. But they
may reason that they do employ the best teach
ers they can for the pay they are willing to
give no doubt they do. But it is a well known
fact that the meagre salaries given teachers in
our district>schools are not sufficiently large to
secure the talent that ought to be introduced
into those schools The lowest amount for
which schools can be kept for the year, lin
many places for less time,) is the amount they
vote to raise on school election days. What
is the result? They are only able to employ
inferior tcachers-persons, in many cases, Ell
ther so mentally ignorant they can not, or SO
physically lazy they will not, do anything else,
And. in many cases, young men teach who are
competent and industrious, yet do not do their
duty as they ought because the pay they are
getting does not furnish sufficient incentive to
do so. They turn their attention to more
promising field-become students of law, ply
sizes, divinity and such like. They reason, land
correctly, too, whatever may be the.evil re-
suit, that the district pays them as little as it
can. and, therefore, they will do as little as
they can. They improve their own minds and
prepare themselves for something higher, at
| the expense of their sacred trust.


Another evil affecting our schools is the fire.
quent changing of teachers. They are often
employed for a quarter of three months, only.
They do not expect to stay longer, and for that
reason, IL no other, take but little interest in
the pupils; or, if they do take an interest,
they can scarcely become acquainted with the
disposition Of each, Ia thing essential to sue
cessful teaching) in so short time. II, then,
a district has teacher they like, though he
has short comings lit would be strange, in.
deed, if he had not, being human,) they had
better keep him if he be willing TO stay. What
if he do demand an increase of one or two hun


dred dollars year-give it to him rather thar
change. Let him feel that he is being paid
Year: 1867

and then demand of him that he do the work
Let the members of the committee (who should
be competent men, visit the schools and in
struct the teachers as to their will and the will
of parents and patrons; let them show, by their
presence and precepts, that school teaching and
schools are worthy of regard. 1t would be en-
couraging to both teacher and pupils, and no
earnest teacher would object to it. Indeed,
how many teachers are entirely in the dark as
to the will of parents, or, as is often the case,
they learn it first by some stormy, mean
abuse. Then let us be willing to pay literally to
the support of free schools, and thereby secure
and retain higher grade of teachers.


JUNIUs.
Year: 1867

There is considerable good sound sense Ia
the following: "A woman is either worth
nothing or great deal. If good for nothing.
she Is not worth getting jealous for; if She be
true woman, she will give no cause for zeal.
ousy; a man is brute to be Jealous of a
worthless one, but a double one to cut his
throat for either of them ~ '''
Year: 1867

During steam voyage, on sudden stop
page OF the machinery, considerable alarm
took place, especially among the female 1,s pas- s
sengers. pos


What is the matter? What is the mat
ter For Heaven sake tell me the worst -
exclaimed one more anxious than the rest


After short pause hoarse voice from the
deck replied:


Nothing, madam, nothing; only the bot
tom OF the vessel and the top Of the earth are
stuck together"
Year: 1867

A boarder at a certain boarding house, on
being asked how they lived there, replied that
the hash was rather doubtful but the beef was
bully. The dubious Endorsement failed to at
tract new boarder.
Year: 1867

with two g's is not gentleman, aud the people
will never make him President II is Just 80
In our time. Those who sneer at the equal
rights OF men in Christian and Republican Ame-
rica, though they may pretend to be fashionable
and genteel to the masses of the people, are only
vulgar fellows. (Applause.) Let me say TO
you that patriotism, liberty, justice, humanity,
Christianity everything that is pure and noble,
all good pulsations of the human heart, all that
iR beautiful in woman, all that s lovely In human
character is to-day in America on the side of
the men who are lighting for united country,
and for the equal rights of all men, of every
cline and race. (Applause.) And 1t is our
glOrv and our pleasure to struggle on and fight
out that battle. Ere a few briet months are
passed we shall have united country, free
country, a country of equal rights, and can
stand before the world illustrating the beauty
Of democratic institutions. / trust all of us,
ladies and gentlemen, will contribute by word
be so honorable to the country and so glorious
to human nature. loud cheering.)
Year: 1867

A Missing Woman Found Brutally


Murdered-NO Clue to the Perpe-


traitors.


A murder of an apparently most atrocious
nature was perpetrated within the past three or
tour days in the usually quiet little village OF
Cornwall, near Newburg, on the Hudson. A
woman who went by the name of Mary Blake
who has resided in the village for ABOUT seven
or eight months, was missed on Tuesday morn
ing last, and no cause could be assigned for her
disappearance. Dlligent inquiry was insti-
tuted, but without obtaining the slightest clue
to her whereabouts, and general search was
made yesterday morning. Her inanimate body
was found on the margin OF small stream
about five hundred yards IRON her place
of residence. The creek runs parallel
to the roadway leading TO the steam.
boat landing, and her head lay In the water.
Abundant traces of blood were found on the
road, and it is presumed that her murderer or
murderers attacked her while passing that Way.
After being assailed she had been dragged off
the road and down the bank in the direction of
the creek, where her corpse was ultimately dis
covered. A post mortem examination was
made by Drs. Ely, of Newberg, and Eaton, OF
Cornwall, when it was ascertained that brutal
assault had been ,perpetrated upon the victim,
the weapon used being undoubtedly bludgeon
or some blunt instrument. The skull was frac-
tuIed by a blow which had been delivered
behind the ear, and fearful wound
had also been inflicted on the
face, crushing in the nose and breaking the
bones. Either Of the wounds, in the opinions,
of the medical gentlemen present, was sufficient
to have caused death. She was repuied TO have
been married to an old man named Murtaragh.
but she has not lived with him for several wears
past. She leaves two children, little girls, aged
respectively four and eight years, and was her
self fabout thrty-fve years OF age at the time of
her death. No probable motive can be assigned
for tho commission of so wanton and inhGman
an atrocity but it ls hoped that some facts tend
ing to reveal the murderer may beelcited at the
investigation which will be held before Justice
Brewster. The unfortunate woman was in an
advanced state of pregnancy, which tends 10
give the murder still more foul and diabolical
aspect.-N. Y. Herald.
Year: 1867

I want to bet three dollars no man
ever matched himself against the devil
but what he got beat. ....-#


Aim hi, if you strike low. The man
who undertakes tew jump three hum
dred and seventy-fve feet ahed will GER
tainly make good try.


never knu a man who was alwus
anxious tew repent of his sins before he
had committed them who didn't want
the sharpest kind of watching.


l never bet emmy stamps on. the man
who is always telling what be would
have did if he had been thare l have
notised that this kind never got thare.


Faith don't appear to me tew be en-,
nything more than tip-top good sense
and the faith there is i'm this world now
won't keep man from falling to the
bottom of a well if he let's go NV the
curb to spit ON his hands. --5


l kant think ov emmy talent now that
is so apt, to descend from father to son
untarnished as the gift of exaggeration
s9 A man may have perftk right to be
born single. but doubt whether he has
a right to continue on so. Is
Year: 1867


personal antagonism, and finding that
some hard feeling was entertained. he
had purposely avoided any meeting with
Sharpley. and that he deepley regretted
the accidental meeting of the afternoon
that had ended so disastrously. The
dead man, he said, he had never seen
before in his life; he had fired into the
crowd of his assailants; he had no per-
sonal feeling against any of them, and
his only purpose was to save his own
life. -ls iv q.


Samuel M. Sharpley was confined at
the Station house apart from Kelly and
and Leon, and he seemed much moved
by the death of his brother, and excited
by the events of the day. He stated,
apparently as an excuse for beginning
the difficulty in so public a place, and
when SO many ladies were present, that
he had no idea that either Kelly or Leon
would resent the accusation, and that if
he had had any such thought, he would
have asked them to the stage of the
then empty theater to fight the dispute
out. In reference to his own firing, he
said he saw his brother fall, and that he
then could not control himself, and his
only thought was revenge.


The deceased, Thomas Sharpley, had
been but short time resident of this
city, having formerly lived Philadelphia,
where he was engaged in business as a
broker. He was thirty-one years of age,
and leaves widew and two children
In this city he appears to have been en-
gagged in gambling. being part owner
of faro bank, maintained in fashion
able resort in Twenty-fifth street. He
was a man of considerable means. and
seems to have been a man Of pacific
character, and is stated not to have been
engaged in an affray of any kind be-
fore that in which he lost his life, and
to the cause of which he was an entire
stranger.
Year: 1867

Near the close of the 39th Congress
the Radicals appropriated eight hundred
thousand dollars to transport freedmen.
The question was asked, why use the pub.
lie money to pay the travelling fares of
negroes, while the white people are re-
quired to pay their own fares2 And
again, why use such large amount of
the public treasure to transport the color
ed laborers from the soil where they are
the most needed, and where they can be
employed to the best advantage for. them
selves and the property owners s


No reasonable answer could be given,
except that the Radical leaders had de-
termined to force negro suffrage upon all
the States. and they appropriated this
great sum of money for the purpose of
colonizing negroes into those places
where their votes are needed to secure
Radical success.


Negroes come up on almost every boat,
with government passes, and are distrib-
uted over our State, to take the places of
our laborers here, and to vote, if Mr..
Sumner can & his infamous bill through
Congress. 1t would be better for the
negroes and the public, We're the freed
men to remain at the South, where they
are accustomed to the work of that sec
ton, and where good wages are offered.


And here We would respectfully ask
by whose authority has the valuable
property on Pearl street, owned by the
town, and purchased for colored school
been used for the benefit Of these row.
ing freedmen, who will never work Sc
long as the government consents to fur
nish them with passes to travel over the
country?
Year: 1867

LOVE OF BEAurY.-Onc element of re-
ligion is love of beauty. Religion is
something more than taste, refinement, or
any polished propriety of cultured class {;
but it is inseparably connected with taste.
propriety and refinement. The religious
act is the beautiful act the religious spir-
it is the beautiful spirit, the religious life
is the beautiful life, and the religious
character is the beautiful character; and
GOD. with whom all religion begins and
ends, is tho Infinitely Beautiful One, and
we do not know Him as he is and love
him as we ought, until we SEQ him as the
perfection of bcauty-the One altogether
lovely.
Year: 1867

Many awakened sinners wonder that
they obtain little light or comfort, when
the trouble is that they are only half
hearted in seeking the pardon of sin and
the renewing of their hearts. The fol-
lowing is very significant:


A farmer, who had long neglected the
house of God, and INDUCED in the use of
profane language, one day lost bank
note in his barn. He searched for it in
vain. At length he said,


"That note is in the barn, and will
search for it until I find ii"


Accordingly he went to the barn, and
carefully moved the hay and straw, hour
after hour, till he found the note. A few
weeks before this he had been awakened
to sense of his need of Saviour, and
had earnestly sought to live better life.
His anxiety increased. A few weeks after
he lost the nete, he sat by the fire musing
on the state of his soul, when he turned
to his wife, and asked,


"What must one do to becomes Chris.
tian 2" "You must seek for it, she re-
piled "as you sought for the bank.note." :"


1t was ga word fifty spoken" He fol-
lowed the direction; and, through the
mercy of Christ he found the "pearl Of
great price," and reoiced in the hope Of
the glory Of God.
Year: 1867

Poets may sing of the blOssoming May,
Faint with the odour Of lily and thorn,
When greener the woods grow every day,
And the soft skies smile on a spring new born
Poets may sing of the golden June,
With its passionate rose under the arch
Of summer heaven in the sultry noon
But mine be a carol for windy March.
Windy March with its frohc gales,
Filling the woods with musical roar,
While over the sea seud wet white sails,
And the foam breaks fast on the rough lee


shore.
Wild free wind, from the far Southwest,
Come, freshen the lands which the summer


shall parch,
GLADDEN. our hearts with thy swift unrest
Wake the world to the music of March.


Richmond Eclectic
Year: 1867

OF which there were two, one inside the other:
Those INSIDE sat down, but those outside stood
up. IN Spout seven or eight minutes shudder
was observed to pass over the frame Ofa woman
IN the inner circle. She gradually became quite
conyulsed, sobbed and rubbed her hands NO
lPntly for space OF hye or six minutes, then
threw her arms around like an electrified bull
frog. The crowd commemorate to get frightened.
One medium made mysterious passes over her
and down her back, but all to no avail. The
agitation increased. Two more tried their
mowers with no better success, until a mulatto
medium cried out ''She Is under the influence
of the spirit OF a Catholic priest.n This woman
then made a lot of passes, among which was the
sjgn of the cross, that succeeded In restoring
epnsoiuusness. The clairVoyant stated the priest
Vas irving to convert her, but she had struggled
with him successfully, 1t was afterwards asceE
Year: 1867

The public most respectfully invited to call
ana examine the most superior assortment of AS
SiMERE PANTS and VESTS ever exhibited in
large stock of CASHMERE SUITS, together with
Drap de Etc and assorted Linen Suits. Duck Suits
OF various colors Our CLOTHING and FUR
klsHlNG GOODS are the very best that can he
found and will sell at the lowest prices


p. WALLACH-
my 305t Odeon Hall Clothing Rooms
Year: 1867

NEW YORK, Sept 30-Quite large
number of our leading citizens called
on Gen. Sheridan at Fiftieth Avenue
Hotel, yesterday about noon. The
General accompanied by his staff,
visited the Park. A Committee of
the citizens of Brooklyn, headed by
General Roberts. waited on him on
his return, and invited him to visit
the city tomorrow. The invitation
was accepted and the arrangements
for his reception by the returned
soldiers and sailors, of this city, this
evening, have been completed.


The Worlds special says that the
Secretary of the Navy has caused to
be prepared legal opinion showing
that in the recent conflict of jurisdic-
ton in Pennsylvania between the
State Court aud the naval authorities
the local Court has no authority to
compel a return to the writ of habeas
corpus issued IN behalf of a person
who Is In the naval service. The Su-
preme Court in several cases has de-
cided that the State Courts have no
jurisdiction in habeas corpus over
any one In the military or naval SER
vice.


Charges have been made against
General Swayne, at the head of the
Freedmen's Bureau in Alabama, on
the ground that he is running his Of
fee in the interest of himself as a
candidate for the United States Sen
ate IN that State under the Recon
struction Law His Chief Clerk. one
Keiffer. is the Chairman of the State
Radical Central Committee.


There is no reduction of the public
debt for September. A rumor is cur
rent in semi-oficial circles that the
fifty million dollars of new three per
cents will soon be reissued. The
gold reserves of the Treasury will be
maintained, and the gold will not be
sold hereafter unless the Treasury
is in need of currency to meet its daily
obligations. 1t is the belief of Mr..
McCulloch that the revenue receipts
Year: 1867




Go with us to the public houses, where a
number OF young men are assembled. All
Is life and gaiety. A few among them NAV
be young and tiwld They approach the
counter, and wine, rum, and brandy. are
called for. One or two may stand back, and
say, no, gentlemen, we DO not drink please
excuse US. immediately the rest turn and
begin to taunt their friends who refuse 10
drink, saying they are afraid of getting


ught, OF the 'old man, and some whis-
per audlbly, well they are mean fellows
they are afraid they will have to spend
cent Here you see two very sensitive
nerves are touched-COurage and Clever
ness. Their bosoms swell with pride rath
er than bear these filings of their connan
IONS, they step up to the counter and ioin
~ the Ieyelry. The ice is now broken. the
v;dnaj vbo ~of1 X 1ie6 lse drama performed 9th
along the public street without shame.


Such Is the manner in which thousands
OF our promising young men are lead away
by false ambition and thousands more
will follow in their path unless they learn
the meaning Of courage.


We have IN our mind number of noble
hearted, goodmeaning men who do not po-
sess, strength enough to face opposition.
leatieI tilaI De calieu mean tney VIII IoH0W
up these habits of drinking until their ap-
petites become uncomfortable.


We advise you young men, when you are
in company and solicited to drink intoxica-
ting liquors, to say frankly and decidedly
that you do not indulge in such things, and
you command their respect, and they viii
be forced to admit that your courage is sufi-
cient to bear all their taunt and not yield
the right. Those who stem the tide always
meet opposition but never despair-press
onward. Our only hope of rescuing the
race from this brutal slavish passion, rests
with the young. Win you, young friends,
have courage, true, high, and God like
courage, to face this growing evil and ban
ish it from our land.
Year: 1867

We can sing away our cares easier than
we can reason them away. Sing In the
morning The birds are the earliest to sing
the birds are more without care than any
thing else that | know Of. Sing at the
evening. Singing is the last thing that rob
bins do When they have done their daily
work when they have flown their last flight
and picked up their last morsel offood, and
cleansed their bill on a napkin of bough,
then on a topmost twig they sing one song
of praise | know they sleep sweeter for
it. They dream music for sometimes in
the night they break forth in singing, and
stop suddenly after the first note, startled
bv their own voice. o that we might sing
evening and morning, and let song touch
song all the way through.


As was returning from the country the
other evening, between six and seven
O clock, bearing a basket of flowers, | met a
man that was apparently the tender of a
mason. He looked brick and mortar all
over He had worked the entire day, and
he had the appearance of man that would
not be afraid of work He was walking
with 1.-THE step, and singing to himself as
he passed down the street, though he had
been working the whole day, and nearly the
week. Were it not that my good thoughts
always come too late, l should have given
him a large allotment of my flowers. If he
had not been out of sight when the idea oc,,
CURED to me, l should have hailed him and
said. "HRve YOU worked all day 2" "Of
course have, he would have said. "And
are you singing ?" "0f course [ am. "
''Then take these flowers home and give
them to your wife, and tell her what a bles-
sing she has in you


0 that we could put songs under our bur
dens Oh that we could extract the sense
of sorrow by song Then these things
would not poison so much, Sing in the
house. Teach your children to sing, When
troubles come go anthem with songs. When
griefs rise up, sing them down. Lift the
voice of song against cares Praise God by
singing that viii lift you above trials OF
every sort. Attempt it. They sing In
heaven; and among Gods people upon
earth, song is the appropriate language oi
christian feeling. -Beechcr.