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VOLUME III. . POMEROY, MEIGS COUNTY, OHIO, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 1860. JNUMBER 4G
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T. i. PLANTS. V PAIHB.
PLASTS & PAINE,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Pomeroy, O,
Office in Edward's Building.
. . BCRNAP. - P- B. 8TANBKRT.
BIB5AP& STAKBKRY,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law. Particular
attention paid to the collection of claims. Of
fice on Front street, at the head of Steamboat
landing, a few doors east of the Gibson House,
Poracroy, O. . . . 2-38-ly
SIMPSON fc LASLEY,
ttorneys & Counselors at Law, and general
fcollecting agents, Pomeroy, O. .Oflice in the
Court House. 2-5-1 y.
. B. . KNOWI.es.- C. H. OROSVKNOR.
KNOWLES fc GROSVESOK,
'Attorneys at Law, Athens, Athena Cauiiiyr.CL,
will attend the several Courts of Meigs County,
on the first day of each term. Office at the
"Gibson House." 2-lC-ly
MARTIN HAYS,
Attorney-at-Law, Harrison ville, Meigs Co., O.,
will promptly attend to all business that, may
te entrusted to his care, in the several State
Courts of Ohio,and in the U. S. Court for the
Northern and Southern Districts of Ohio. 3-3
W.R. OOLDRK. t. B. T9WN8KND.
fmT.nv.iv Ar. TOWlVSF.ND.
Attorneys at Law. W. R. Golden' s Office in
a thni n BTirl I.. S. Townsend's in Paeevillo,
Meigs Co., O. Prompt attention given to the
sollection Of claims, ana ocuer ousiness en
trusted to them. - 2-46-1 y
. .Dv.Tnn l.iMBRECHT.
Watchmaker & Dealer in Watches, Clocks, Jew
elry and Fancy Articles, Uurt sireei, dciow
the new Banking House, Pomeroy. Watches,
Clocks and Jewelry carefully repaired on short
notice.
W.A.AICRER, f
Watchmaker and Jeweler, and wholesale and
Tetail dealer, in Watches, Clocks, Jewelry and
Pancy Goods, Front street, below the "Reming
ton House,' Pomeroy. Particular attention
paid to repairing all articles in my line. 1-1
T. WHITESIDE, -
Manufacturer of Boots and Shoes, three
doors above stone bridge. The best of
work, for Ladies and Gentlemen, made to order.
McftUIGG Jfc SMITH,
Leather Dealers and Finders, Court st reet, three
doors below the Bank, and opposite Branch's
Store, Pomeroy, 0.
SUGAR RUN SALT COMPANY.
Salt twenty-five cents per bushel. Office near
the Furnace. 1-1 C GRANT, Agent.
- POMEROY SALT COMPANY.
Salt twenty-five cents per bushel. " 1-1
DABNEY SALT COMPANY,
Coalport. Salt twenty-five cents per bushel
for country trade. G. W. COOPER, Sec'y.
ISAAC FALLBR,
Clothier, Grocer and Dry Goods Dealer, first
store above C. E. Donnally's, near the Rolling
Mill, Pomeroy, 0. Country Merchants are re
spectfully requested to call and examine my
stock of Groceries, as I am confident that I
cannot be undersold. I-23
p. LYHAN, '
Painter nnil Glar.ier. back room of P. Lam
hrecht s Jewelry Store, west side Court street,
Pomeroy, O.
1-1
JOHN EISELSTIN,
Saddle,5 narneps and Trunk Manufac
turer. Front street, three doors below
Court, Pomeroy, will executa all woik en
trusted to his care with neatness and dispatch
Saddles gotten up in the neatest style. 1-22
M. BLAETNER,
Carriage & ' Wagon Manufacturer, S1&&'
Front street, first corner below the vfty
Rolling Mill, Pomeroy, O. All articles in his
line of., business manufactured at reasonable
rates', and they are especially recommended for
lurability: .' - 2-5-1 y
P. E. HUMPHREY,
Blacksmith, back of the Rank Building,
Pomeroy, 6. Farming Tools, Shovel
Plows. Mattocks, Hoes, &c, on hand and
made to order. Horse Shoeing and all kinds
Df Job Work done to order Jan. d. d-1
.B.ICHD. STEWARD.-; JOHN P. GILLIIAN.
STEWARD &. GILLILiAN.
This firm have located in the old stand of B. F.
Stivers, on Front Street, a few doors below
Nye's Saw-MilL Horse-shoeing, Ironing
AVagons and Buggies, and all kinds of jobbing
work done in a satisfactory, manner, at moder
ate rates. ' ; 3-31-1 j-.
. S. W. ROSS,
Painter, Glazier, and Paper Hanger, Pomeroy.
Paper put on at from 12J to 15 c'ts per bolt,;
according to quality. Orders left at Telegraph
Printing Office promptly attended to. 1 7-2m
WM. RUST,
Tailor, Front street, a few doors west of Court,
Pomeroy, O. Men and Boy's clothes made to
order, also, cutting done. As I have a No. 1
sewing machine, my facilities for doing work
are complete.' ' ' . . 3-20-1 y
' !- ; FRANK COOPER,
Stone Mason & Bricklayer. Residence in
John Lance's Building, near the Catholic Church.
Dressed and Rubble stone work executed in
the best manner also, Bricklaying Cementing,
&c, done at reasonable prices. Work war
ranted. : 3-2 1-1 y
A, KOHL,.
Dealer in and Manufacturer of TJmbrel
.as. He holds himself in readiness to
make Umbrellas to order, or repair old 1S
ones in the most substantial manner. He will
also buy. worn-out Umbrellas at liberal prices.
Shop on Linn street!, north of Smith's Shoe
Stere. , v
He would also inform the public that lie pre
pares a SALVE, which he will warrant equal
to any in use,' for the cure of Felons, Catarrhs,
Burns, Bruises, Sprains, Cuts, Salt Rheum,
Ring Worm, Rheumatism, . White Swellings,
and many other diseases of the kind. Price.
25 cents per Box. Jan. 3, 1860.3-ltf- :
THOS. H. DAWSQN
Holds himself in readiness to repair Accordeons
and Flutinas. Keys inserted, and instruments
put in good order. Charges moderate. By
leaving orders at George Ioachim's Store, a few
doors above .Donnally's, .they, will receive
prompt attention, v .. t ,, 3-30-tf
-To Teachers. The Board of School Ex
aminers for Meigs County will meet on the
first Saturday of . each month, .at the Court
House, in Pomeroy, for the examination of
Teacher.' - v
Examination to commence at 10 o'clock A.
M., and continue till 4 J P. M.
8"No Teacher need apply at such exami
nation who has a certificate valid for three
months from the date of said application. '
By order of the Board. -
Jan. I860. H. C. WATERMAN, Clerk.
JOHN ELBEN, M. D.,
HOMCEOPATniST, AND HYDROPATHTST,
tenders his professional services to the
citizen of Pomeroy and vicinity.
OFFICE, in John Geyer's Building, (for
merly Jacob Neitzling'g.) on Sycamorestreet
learly opposite Lowry's Tin Shop, Pomeroy, o'
Office ILouns-Till 9 o'clock A. M from 1
to 3 o'clock, and from 7 to 8 o'clock P. M.
Glfioe Prescriptions, from 25 cents upward
for CiiBh. June 2, !57. tf ' '.
PIANOS! PIANOS!
I WII.I. furnish Pinn3 or Welodoons as low ((per
sons can buy th-.'tn in Iho cilii'S. I will pui up,
tune, and keep in ordernll Pinnosor .Melodenn
trt wo, sii'l guarantee them for two years. Timu
iven on good security. 1 deal in the following
fiiakc of 1'ianns:
J. efe C. FISHER. New York:
HA M.KTTAIM VIS. Boston;
1IUKTSMAN & HINE. Bull.:
BOA RDM AN AGRAV.Alb.;
(CHICK.b:KIG. Koston;
And GEO. A. PRINCE'S Mi;lo.lcon.
Give bio a call, or wrr-tp to me before von bny.
All letters nddressiwl to P. BRUKER, Pi'.iinTov, 0..
will nioi-t with pi.iMi pt attention.
Oct. ID, IS'iO ll lv.
PUBLISHED BY
T. A. PLANTS & CO.
Office In first story of "Edwarhs' Bcilding," neai
the '"Sugar Ron Stone Bridge " Ponierny, Ohio.
All Business of the Firm Transacted by
V. E. MCLAUGHLIN, Business Malinger.
To whom all applications for Subscription, Adver
tising and Job Work should be marie, at the office.
TKK.MS OF SUBSCKIPTIOy
in advance: : : : : : : : $1.5(1
If paid within the year, : ; : : .: 2.nn
If not paid within the year, : : " : 2.50
"TTr'Ne paper will be discontinued until all arrcar
ugus arc paid, except at the option ef the publishers.
RATES OF ADVERTISING:
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I.ernl advertisements charged at rates allowed by
1 w. from which 15 per cent, will be deducted for
advance payment.
Casual or transient advertisements must bo paid
for in ml vnnce.
A(lvrtisoments not having the number of inser
tions marked on copy, will be continued nntil for
liil, nml charsed accordinely.
THE LAW OF KEWSPAPERs.
-1. Subscribers who do not give express notice to
the contrary, are considered as wishine to continue
their subscriptions.
3. If subscribers order the discontinuance of their
papers, the publishers can continue to send them un
til all arrearages are paid.
3. If subscribersfleglect orrefuse to take their pa
pers from the oflice to whieh they are directed, they
are held responsible till they settle their bill, and or
der the paper discontinued.
4. If any subscriber removes to another place
withont informing the publisher, and their paper is
sent to thte formcrdirection, the subscriber is held re
sponsible. '
5. The courts have decided that refusing to take n
newspaper from the oflice, or removing nnd leaving
it uncalled for, is prima facie erideuce of intentional
fraud.
TELEGHAPH JOB OFFICE
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In connection with our Newspaper Estab
lishment, we have a complete Job Office. We
are therefore prepared to execute
PLMi AMD ORNAMENTAL JOB WORK,
Such as Posters, Programmes, Bills of Lading,
Uir Heads, Business and Visiting
Cards, Blanks, &c. at
City JPrioos.
We call the special attention of this commu
nity to the above proposition, and desire an in
vestigation of our work and prices.
T, A. PLANTS & Co.
HIRAM a. DANIKL. WM. P. RATHBCRN.
DANIEL & RATHBTJRN,
BANK BLOCK, Pomeroy, O.
Collections made and promptly remitted; Busi
ness paper discounted; buy and sell
Exchange, Gold and Siiver
Coin, Uncurrent Money
Land Warrants, &c.
FOKEIG-N EXCHANGE
For' sale in sums to suit. We are prepared to
draw - direct on London Liverpool, Swansea,
GlasgoWj Dublin, Belfast, Paris, Amsterdam,
Baden-Baden, and other cities in Europe, Also,
Australia. .
Monev inheritances collected in every part
of Europe.'
Money received on deposit, and interest al-
lowedon time deposits, at rate agreed upon.
Jan. 17. H-3-ly
M ARBLEWORKS
THE undersigned would respectfully an
nounce that he has become the proprietor
of the "Premium Marble Works," of Racine,
and will coutinue the business under the su
pervision of Mr. J. L. Wallar, at Racine,
with a branch at the house formerly occupied
by Judge Irvin as a law office, at the west
end of Sugar Run Bridge, in Pomeroy. Bv a
prompt attention' to business and the produc
tion of ' superior work, he. intends to merit,
and hopes to receive, a liberal patronage from
the citizens of Meigs and adjoining counties.
Call and examine his stock before purchasing
elsewhere. J. V. SMITH.
Sept. 7, I860. 35-tf . , .,
ALFRED NESMITH,
(Late of the Firm of Stevenson, Bowen & Nesinlth,)
NO?W W ITU
M. WILLIAMSON, & CO.
Wholesale Dealers and Jobbers in
D RY GOOD S,
425 Market & 414 Commerce Sts. .
Vi,!iVisSN' 1 B-t, 4th 4 511 North M.
March lf '59. - - - -
CHOICE CLOTHING.
Z. L- EISNER
H
AS just received a fine lot of .
Um AND B0r$ CtOTHmGt
Consisting of Dress, Business and Overcoats,
of the latest styles and of every quality. Pants,
Vests, Shirts, Cravats, &c, on hand, at prices
that -cannot fail to suit, either at wholesale or
retail. ' r ' ;.
Store under the "Gibson House," Pomeroy, O.
Sept. 28, I860. 38-6m - ,
SAW & PLANING MILL.
DAVIS & BBO., Mason City, Va..
1vE.AI.ERS in Lumber in the rousrh. and Manufactu
t rrs of Floorinp. Ceiling and Weatlierhoardine.
Pinning; of all kinds done, and lumber sawed to
order; also keep constantly on hand Sash, Boors.
Blinds, Lath and Shi.i?les. Our cash jirices for
dressed Lumbar art; as follows:
Yellow Pine Flooring per thousand - - 5J6 flu
White " , " " - 2-2 50
Celling - - - - - - 20 (K)
Weatherboardinsr per hundred feet - 1 23
All orders addressed to Pomeroy P. O. will receive
prompt attention. fmay 15, 'UU. 19-ly.
LANDS FOE SALE.
THE undersigned offers FOR SALE, on rea
sonable terms, and in lots to suit, pur
chasers, all the lands in Meigs' county, and ad
joining counties, belonging to the estate of Xa
huni Ward, late of Marietta, Ohio, deceased.
Title indisputable. WM. S. WARD,
; : Executor on the estate of - , ;
Marietta, O., May 30, '60. 23 Nahum Wabd.
OHIO STATE
UNION LAW COLLEGE
LOCATED AT CLEVELAND, 0.
SESSIONS commence on the 25th day of Au
gust, 1-jt.h day of December and 7th day of
April. Students may enter at any term with
equal profit. The College is authorized to
confer all degrees. Upon graduating, students
receive the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and
may be admitted to practice without further
examination. For Circular, address
Dec. 0, 18-r;. 40-1 y M. A. KING.
A. SEEBOHM,
DRUGGIST AND APOTHECARY,
DEALER IN OILS, PAINTS, BRUSHES,
Varnishes, Dycstuffs, jfterfumery,
and Fancy Articles,
Front Street, Ponreroy, Ohio.
Prescriptions carefully put up. Jan. !). 2-2i
REMINGTON HOUSE.
V. 13. KIH K LD AR IP E 11
At the Iwad of Xtmmboiit Landing,
Front Street. Vomerov. Ohio.
From the New Yori Evening Post.
REMEMBERED.
Somewhere within the spirit land,
Where God's immortal children dwell,
A wholly and united band,
Is one I long ago loved well
One who thro' all my early clays
Was faithful, beautiful and dear;
But God's good ways are not oar ways
No human love could keep her here. .
O'er her clear eyes a shadow crept,
And slowly dimmed their loving light,
And tho' I held her close and wept,
There came a dark and bitter night;
The ladeii clouds were pilled aloft
And loudly winter winds did rave,
And winter snows fell fast and soft,
They fell upon her new made grave.
And now when many years have past,
When I have older, colder grown,
There comes to cheer my heart at last
A smile as sweet as Annie's own ;
Like stars that shines thro' Autumn skies,
And brightened all the misty air,
Such smiles for weary hearts arise
To win them from distrust and care.
. Still in the watches of the night
, Those visioned eyes may come to me,
Still may there beam from them a light,
A glance which I alone can see.
Remembrance of the dead can make
A living love more fond and near,
And may be for her sweet sake,
That these blue eyes have grown so dear.
Iftisccllang.
WHY MY GKAJiD-DAlGHTER LEFT
SCHOOL.
WRITTEN FOR THE TOCSIN, BY AN OLD MAN.
I suppose one reason I am so lonsr
getting through life is because I was
born in a slow tige, before childhood was
abolished, a.nd it became customary for
infants to leap out of the bib and tucker
into brocade and stove-pipe hats. I
have been eighty-three years on life's
journey, come next Michaelmas, and I
have not as yet had a fair view of Stvx,
save when, from the delectable mountains
$f the soul's serenity, I have beheld its
rolling tide, golden with the glories of
my setting sun. Well, I always was a
slow horse ; there is no telling but still
another score of years may roll round
before I stop growing old.
There was not as much competition in
my day (for now is my evening,) as there
is now. ' Competition,' they say, 'is the
life of trade,' and it is, no doubt ; but it
has already proved itself the death of
the trader, ninety-five cases in a hun
dred, in the dry goods trade ; and expe
rience will show this rule to hold good
in every pursuit turned into a steeple
chase or a hazard. This is simply an
old man's opinion.
With the single exception of a sober
and temperate life, this age develops
competition on the mad-housc plan, in
every department. Look, for instance,
at our primary institutions of learning.
In my day, applications of birch and'
ferule were deemed indispensable in the
process of teaching the young idea how
to.shoot. That was a mistake, no doubt.
It was one of the evils of mv time.
against which, however, no crusade need i
now be waged, seeing that a far greater
incentive to juvenile activity has been
found in the ambition to excel, so nat
ural to every mind, especially the young,
who are generally inspired with it, be
the object good, bad, or indifferent.
Having thus acknowledged the superi
ority of the modem method of inflicting
the rudiments, I hope to be saved the
mortification of seeing 'fogy' annexed to
what I frankly confess myself old.
Evils are as inseparable from systems as
are shadows from substances : for every
good thing may be abused. But, while
teachers are ever willing to admit that
youthful brains are sometimes overtaxed
and weakened, through abuse of the
graded system, they are evidently . very
loth to own that such has been the result
under their own administration. This
is as natural as for a tippler to own the
truth of all you can say to him, provided
you will only apply it all to his neigh
bors who take a glass a day more than
he. Every organism in nature in
stinctively displays its own perfections ;
and man but obeys a universal law when
he seeks to hide his effects.
Still, when young minds are injured
by overtaxing them, it has been done
under the administration of some zealous
teacher ; and if the following, which is
'founded on fact,' should rceall to the
mind of any reader scenes in which he
has played a part, let him rest assured
that this old and slightly trembling hand
is not impelled by the least spark of ac
rimony. There is now so much talent
engaged in teaching, and the competi
tion in that branch or industry has, by
the general diffusion of knowledge, and
also by woman's entrance into it, become
so intense, that it is hardly to be wonder
ed at that the pupil's brain is simply
looked upon, by the ambitious pedagogue,
as a mill in which a medley grist of
spelling and reading, primary sounds
and ctimological definitions, mental and
higher arithmetic, physical geography
and grammer, phylosophy and astrono
my, equations, roods, sections and tri
angles, with a discord of flats, a smatter
of parlcz vous, weis nichts, non sperro ma
fuggir, or ad captandum a daubing of
colors, etc., without regard to the injury
it may do to the gearing, is to be ground
out. And I feel rather inclined to pity
than censure one whose situation and
standing in his profession depends upon
his ability to set youthful brains on fire.
With these few preliminary remarks I
proceed to my short narative.
Several weeks ago, 1 begun to be
waked up, night after night, by a person
quietly undressing and going to bed, in
the room adjoining mine. Sixty years
ago, I should never have known it ; but
the slumbers of age are light and watch
ful wary, for the soft tread of the sable
angel is on their path ! I grew curious ;
and, curiosity keeping me awake, I soon
learned, by various carefully made
noises, that said person sat up, every
night, in said room, till twelve o'clock,
and, at times, into 'the small hours.'
! Knowing that Ihf little attic chamber in
question was occupied by my grand-
daugbther, Lizzie t , 1 began to
wonder what might be the occasion of
iier midnight vigils, I suspected 'yellow
jacket literature' (if my phrase is incor-er-f,
remember it is a new one, and it is
hard to learn old dogs new tricks,)
having heard that novel-reading was the
besetting sin of modern young ladies;
and I was beginning to compose, mental
ly,' a homily against this vice, to be de
livered some morning at the breakfast
tible,- 'Autocrat' fashion. I was going
to divulge my life-long experience ; re
veal the great number of young ladies I
had known, 'in my day,' who had im
liined extravagant and pernicious views
of life through the-perusal of fictions ;
how very many had shattered their
minds, and a still greater number sown
the seeds of consumption, and reaped
premature death, by setting up till mid
night in cold rooms, wandering through
the phantastic mazes of the exciting
story, with icy feet and throbbing
temples. At this knot in the ptrins of
my discourse, I would turn searchingly,
half-knowingly, on the face of my grand
child, and make the application by a
glance, without a single inuendo.
I had already got through the 'seventh
ly' of my imaginary discourse, and was
vigorously occupied on the application,
one night, before sleep had paid his ac
customed visits to my old lids, when I
thought I could distinguish sounds as a
pencil passing, with its quick, jerking
motions over a slate, making figures. I
listened there f she made a dash !
Strange novel reading that novel read
ing on a slate. A pen scratching over
the paper ! I was convinced ; Lizzie
was studying, not reading novels ; and
I discarded my 'application, forthwith,
as inapplicable.
1 now began to look upon my errand-
daughter from a very different stand
point. 1 besjan to regard her with that
species of tender reverence which age
experiences toward the buds of genius,
whose unfolding beauties he may not be
hold, arid whose ripe and lucious fruits
he may never hope to taste. Her words
became significant, her thoughts pro
fundities. In her dull eyes (always dull
in the morning, after her protracted noc
turnal application) I fancied I could see
the.smoldering fires of scintilating genius.
I began to map out a glorious career for
my dear relative ; and almost wished
that I might live my long life over again,
just to write her biography.
Still, my admiration'for my fair grand
child was not unmingled with apprehen
sion. What would he the consequences
of her midnight brain labors? Doubt
less her brain was a vigorous one ; but
is it not a fact that even an Iron bar may
be bent? Nay, would hard study,
duringthehourwhich nature has allotted
for repose, be much less deleterious than
soft llovei-rcading ? True, the , results
could not be identical, but, so far as un
dermining the constitution, and injuring
the delicate cerebral structure is con
cerned, would they be any less di5as
trous ? And, oh! what irreparable loss
to herself, to her friends, and to the
world would it be. if her intellect should
be blasted, or its light even so much as
dimmed I Such considerations occupied
my mind, and I began to think that my
friendly interference was as much needed
as if her midnight hours had actually
been given to novel-reading. But it was
plain that there was no preaching need
ed. All that was necessary, was a sci
entific essay on the' physiological evils
of night study that was all. Accord
ingly, I actually began this labor of love ;
but before it was completed, eveuts pre
cipitated my design, and revealed facts
which, to me, seem of very grave im
port. Three weeks ago, last Tuesday morn
ing, .Lizzie rose unusually late, having
studied till past one, the night previous.
Her eyes were more swollen than usual,
and she was hoarse. The night had been
chilly, and checked circulation had in
duced a cold.
"Why, child !" I exclaimed, "you
have caught a bad cold ! Well, it is not
to be wondered at ; for-the night was
damp and cool, and the clock struck one
before you retired. You love learning
a little too well, Lizzie. You will find
that hours cut from sleep are cut from
life especially intellectual life."
" Why, grandpa !" did my retiring dis
turb you. last night? I tried to be so
still!"
" Bless you, my child ! I have lain
awake, night after night, listening to the
squeaking of your slate-pencil and the
scratching of your pen, for a fortnight
or more, thinking all the time, as I have
seen you rise, dull and sleepy, in the
morning, that I must warn you against
loving knowledge ' not wisely, but too
well. ' But now you see the effect.
Last night, I guaranty, you went to bed
with feet as cold as ice. "
" I thought they were pretty near. "
. "And head hot as an oven almost
hot enough to-bake the brain?"'
" You speak as if you knew how my
burning temples throbbed and ached."
" I do know. All that is necessary
to know that, is to understand the alpha
bet of physiology the laws of the cir
culation. Now, suppose you continue
your course, catching cold after cold,
how long do you suppose it will be be
fore you will be down with a fever? and
how much longer before you will settle
down into pulmonary consumption, un
der the same treatment? "I think, my
child, you had better abandon your night
study. The day is long enough. "
She seemed to feel the force of my
remarks : but she looked down, and with
half-dogged expression, said :
" I can't help it, grandpa. If I don't
study nights, I can t keep up with my
class."
" Class !" I exclaimed, in astonish
ment, new light bursting confusedly 0:1
my meutal vision. " I thought you
studied from pure love of it. You do
not mean to say that you are compelled
to study nights in order to keep up with
your class at the public school ?"
" Certainly ; nearly the entire class
have to do the same all but the very
aptest scholars. All have to get the
greater part of their lessons out of school
hours; for recitations take up nearly all
of that time. "
" You astonish me ! ITow many re
citations do you have in a day ?"
" On an average, about five some
times more. "
"But why do vou not drop some of
your biuates, and proceed with what you
can attend to ?"
" It's against tho rules. Every one
must keep up with the class, in all the
branches, or go down into a lower class.
We have now spelling, reading, arithme
tic, analysis, physical geography, and a
daily and weekly composition : and some
have extra branches, sometimes as
summed by themselves, sometimes im
posed by the teacher, such as astronomy,
philosophy, algebra, or botany. "
"Good heavens !" I exclaimed, "why
don't they add geometry, trigonometry,
mental philosophy, logic, geology, paint
ing, arcl.eolog3r, conchology, chemistry,
thj dead languages, and Egyptian hier
oglyphics, by way of variety !"
"You shan't make fun of our school, "
said Lizzie, archly, playfully endeavor
ing to close my mouth with her hand
for she is perfectly at home with me,
which I always like to have young peo
ple be.
" And how do the scholars like it?"
I proceeded.
" Oh, the willing ones take it well
enough lazy ones grumble. "
" And, among the willing ones, are
there any that study late o'nights be
sides yourself?"
"They have to many of them.
One of them will observe, in the morn
ing, " I studied till one, last night; "
another will add." " and I till two, "
while a third will positively boast of
having studied, slept, and cried, by
turns, till three o'clock in the morning.
There is Pauline Q , one of the
brightest pupils in the school, she
studied until daybreak, one night last
week, and then she was unable to master
her questions in analysis, and had to
hurry off to school, at half-past eight
in the morning without her breakfast,
to get aid from the teacher, which is
never rendered dunnz the
rendered durinz
regular
school hours. "
. "And how is it? do those 'willing'
midnight students ever have headaches? "
" Headaches? yes ! Sick-headache,
neuralgic headache, and every descrip
tion of headache is as common in the
school as fever in a charity hospital,
during the month of August! There
is hardly a scholar but has it, more or
less. Some of the girls have the sick
headacho so often that they scarcely
mind it, but keep on with their studies.
Indeed, many of them have more or
Ies3 headache almost all the time.".
"Studying with the sick headache!"
I muttered. " Cruel ! criminal ! barbar
ous ! And cold feet is another preva
lent sympton, I presume. "
"Yes I'd like to know how you
can guess so straight. "
" The easiest thing in tho world,
cTiild. You -sec, there is only just
enough blood in the body, as a general
rule, and when there is too much of it
in the head, there is too little in the
feet. The great secret of health, is, to
preserve an equal circulation of the
blood, and just in proportion as anything
disturbs it, it is a cause of disease. "
" W!ijt, grandpa ! you have taught
me more physiology in two minutes
than I havo learned out of books iu as,
many years. " .
" Well, and what do the teachers
think the result of- such a course will
be?1' j
" I do not know ; they never say any
thing about it. "
"l)o they never tell you how injurious
it is to force a sleepy brain to labor,
when nature is striving for repose ?"
" Our ' physiology ' tells us that. "
" True. Here Cutter says (page 379).
'The idea of gathering wisdom by burn
ing the ' midnight eil is more poeti
cal than profitable. The best time to
use the brain is during the - day. '
Again, on page 374 he says, ' At any
time of life, excessive and continued
mental exertion is hurtful ; but infancy,
and early youth, when the structure of
the brain is still immature and delicate,
permanent mischief is more easily pro
duced by injudicious treatment than at
any subsequent period. ' And again,
on page 369 : 'The elose student and
the growing child need more sleep than
the idler and adult. " And yet again,
on page 372 : l- When the cerebal organ
has been temporarily debilitated by pro
tracted intellectual efforts, it is ineffec
tual to attempt any consecrated mental
exercise. ' Besides a thousand similar
things that this and all other physiolo
gists have said on the subject. Do the'
teachers ever tell you to exercise?"
" Yes; but I'd like to know how any
body 13 to get much time for. it. We
generally have to be there at eight, or
half-past, so as to get aid from the
teachers ; at noon we catch the half
hour after dinner for the same purpose;
then, if any one fail, he is compelled to
remain after school, to study and recite ;
and after all that, he will have lessons
that will take him the night to get, and
perhaps not get them after all; but have
to go to studying again as soon as they
rise in the morning
or go before school
time to set aid. Beside "
" That's useless, besides being wicked.
The pupil will gain more solid in
formation, such as will stick by him
through life, during the term if he ab
stain wholly from night study. "
" Well, besides that, I was going to
say, Mr. 1) . the principal, dis
courages the idea of his pupils working.
He says when a child goes to school,
he should make a business of it ; that
the pupils should devote their whole
time to it, and not bo required to work. "
I mused : "Go at half past eight in
the morning 3 hours in the forenoon:
study the half-hour at noon 3-J hours
afternoon 7 hours ia school per diem.
Then an indefinite number of hours
of hard, unassisted study out of school,
sometimes till one, two, or even three
o'clock, A. M. Then go to bed, with
head aching with heat, and feet ditto
with cold ; chase ' tired nature's sweet
restorer, ' catching two or three hours
of troubled slumber, and rise in the
morning with sick-headache, cold,
hoarseness, sleepy and morose, to bolt
a breakfast that will hardly slay down
however fast you bolt it, and go through j
the same mill over and over again. Is
that whatyou call 'getting an education,'
now-a-days ?" j
" llather too highly colored, grandpa ; ;
but still, ' more truth than poetry. ' " i
I bit my lip, heaved a sigh, drummed j
with my fingers on the arm of my chair,
looked off into space, and said nothing.
I felt my utter inability to do the sub
ject justice. Truly and well has Hig
ginson denominated this process " The
Murder of the Innocents I"
Lizzie went to schGol, as usual, and I
had a forenoon's talk with my daugter
on the subject. She admitted all I could
say ; and yet, a foolish, unwarrantable
ambition seemed to make her willing to
sacrifice the health and mind of her
child, rather than that she should " seem
to be behind the rest. " My daughter
has as tender a heart as other mothers.
I know she has ; but O, the responsibil
ity of those hundreds of thousands of
parents who are no wiser than she !
Lizzie did not return till shortly be
fore six o'clock in the eveninpr. She
the forenoon, and in the afternoon she
had sought aid from her teacher, which
was peremptorily refused, it being then
in school hours ; and tho consequence
was another failure, and retention, with
" a talking to," after dismissal. She
had no appetite had not tasted food
since breakfast but she had a headache,
and with its aid she began her weari
some evening task of getting lessons.
Her two little brothers were, playing,
quietly, yet the little noise they made so
disturbed her now toneless nerves and
distracted brain, that, between complain
ing, crying, and trying to concentrate
her thoughts on her books, she passed
her evening accomplishingnothing. At
ten, her mother ordered her to bed ; be
coming positively frightened. I had sat
up beyond my usual hour, anxiously
watching the progress of events, and
what was my painful surprise when, on
retiring. I saw light in my grand
daughter's room, streaming through a
small crack in the door 1 Her ambition
had ever made her disobedient. I went
to bed, and said nothing, knowing that
her disobedience would cost her dearly
enough without the mortification of an
exposure. I was awake until past
midnight, but heard no squeaking of the
pencil, no scratching of the pen all was
profound silence. Housed by growing
anxiety, I at last committed the now
pardonable act of peeping through the
key hole. There she sat, her head rest
ing on her arms, which were crossed on
the book before her, asleep, and the
light burning. I returned to my apart
ment and tapped lightly on the stove
pipe which passed from my room into
hers. After a number of taps, each
louder than the preceding one, she
seemed to start out of a dream, for she
exclaimed. " That is a relative conjunc
tion. " Then after several ohs ! and
ahs 1 she said, " Oh it's you, grandpa !
Please don't tell mother that I diso
beyed ! I didn't want to fail again. I
couldn't keep awake, O, my head!"
"No, no, child ! but go to bed and cover
up, or you will catch your death of
cold. " She did so. In the morning
she had no appetite, though she had now
fasted four and twenty hours, which
showed the alarming state of her vascu
lar system ; but she had a cold that de
served of abstinence, and headache that
it would have required a fortnight'3 sleep
to dispel. She hurried off, however, be
fore eight, to get aid from her teacher ;
but returned at recess, her indisposition
compelling her to desist. Her head ached
so, she could scarcely open her eyes.
She went to bed, and has not risen yet.
Her cold and headache matured into a
slow nervous fever, in which her shat
tered mind wandered through her school
scenes parsing, reading, compasing, spel
ling, demonstrating now elated by im
aginary commendation, but more often
terribly dejected; as that awful word
" failure " rung upon her maddened sen
ses, or begging her mother in pitioiis
tones not to punish her for her disobedi
ence. For a sennight, we watched her
wasting form, her feeble breath, her
small, quick pulse, her flickering vital
ity, with the most anxious solicitude.
At last the fever took a favorable turnj
and three days ago the physician pro
nounced her out of danger.
This morning, I saw tho first faint
smile that has illuminated hor wan fea
tures sinco she vas taken down. She
laid her hand in mine, and said, " Grand
pa, I have left the school. "
I was heartily glad of it, and sat down
to tell my friend, the gentle reader, why
she left it. If the moral of my story is
not sufficiently plain; I am unable to
point it out.
The Mayor wants to see 'Thee.
A young man, a nephew, had been to
sea ; and on his return, he was narrating
to his uncle an adventure which he had
met on board a ship.
" I was one night leaning over taffrail
looking down into the mighty ocean,"
said the nephew, whom we will call
William, " when my gold watch fell
from my fob and immediately sunk out
of sight. The vessel going ten knots an
hour ; but nothing daunted, I sprung
over the rail, down, down, and after 1
long search, found it, came up close under
the stern, and climbed back to the deck,
without any one knowing that I had
been absont."
" William," said his uncle, slightly
elevating'liis broad brim and opening
his eyes to their widest capacity, " how
fast did thoo say the vessel was going?"
" Ten knots, uncle."
" And thee dove down into the sea,
and came up with the watch, and
climbed up by the rudder chains"?
. " Ye?, uncle. "
" And thee expects me to believe thy
story?" :
" Of course. You wouldn't dream of
calling me a liar would you, uncle?"
' William, " replied the uncle,
gravely, " thee knows I never call any
body names; but William, if the Mayor
of the city were to come to me, nnd say,
Josiah I want thee to find the biggest
liar in all Philadelphia, I would come
straight, to thee and put my hand on thy
shoulder, and say to the, William, the
Mayor tenuis to s?e tlieV
BA clergyman observing a poor
man in the road breaking stones with a
pickax, and kneeling to get at his work
better, made tho remark: " Ah, John, I
wish I could break the stony hearts of
iuy hearers as easily as you are breaking
those stones. " The man replied:
" Perhaps, master, you do not work on
yivr I'vcs.
EXAMINATION OF TEACHERS
The following questions were pro
pounded for written answers at the Ex
amination of Teachers held atTupper's
Plains, on the 17th inst.
ARITHMETIC.
1. Explain why federal money is the
simplest class of compound numbers?
2. There are two fields: one is 40 rods
square, and the other contains 4D
square rods; which is the greater, and
how much?
3. Add together , 3J, 2, 16-3:1,
and of J off?
4. ""Find the sum of 5,1408 and 6,08;
also their difference, their product and
their quotient?
5. By working 8i hours per day, it
UltfAJUi&jlAv.iiiq, perform aj qh of work;
how many days, of 6J hours each, would
it take?
6. What per cent, of $1,280, is 5.12?
7. What principal will, in 2 years and
4 months at 6 per cent, amount to ?399?
8. I start with 51,000 and increase
my capital 15 per cent, every year; what
will it be in 4 years?
9. A works 8 hours each day; B re
mains idle the first three days of the
week and works 9J, 10J, 11J hours re
spectively on the other three; if their
wages, for the week, are 39.50, what
is the share of each?
10. A boat in crossing a stream 80
y'ds wide, drifted with the current 70
y'ds, how far did it go?"
GRAMMAR.
1. Name the parts of speech, and do
fine each.
2. Write sentences illustrating the use
of the transitive and intransitive verbs.
3. Neither will he be taught wisdom.
Parse the sentence.
4. The poor rustic warms his heart
with glowing gratitude. Analyze the
sentence, and parse each word.
5. My cousin with her sisters have
returned. Correct the sentence if neces
sary. 6. Of all the saws I ever saw saw, I never
saw a saw saw as this saw saws. Parse
the sentence. What ia the object of the
first verb? .
9. Write correctly the following sen
tence: He said how he had jmght to
have saw that man which was in town
yesterday.
8- What kind of words compose a
language? Define each.
9. Write sentences with than as a
preposition.
10. Him that was dead set up and be
gan to speak. Correct and parse the
sentence.
GEOGRAPHY.
1. Why is Geography so called ?
2. Name the grand divisions ia the
order of their size.
3. : Where is Paget's sound, and into
what does it open ?
4. Name the Western States and their
capitals?
5. Name the States that border on
the Mississippi river.
6. Between what countries is the Bal
tic sea, and. into what does it open ?
7. Of what countries is the Chinese
Empire composed ?,
8. " Where does the Amoor river rise,
in what direction does it flow, and into
what does it empty ?
9. Which zone contains the most,
and which the least land surface ?
10. In what directions, on what
bodies of water, and near what islands,
capes, and coasts would you sail in
going Irom ildinburgh to Calcutta I
Whither Has He Fled t
'We have on record a speech delivered
not many weeks ago by Gov. Henry A.
Wise, of Virginia, in which that always
moderate and pious gentleman made the
following declaration: "T will never
remain in the Union twenty-four hours
after Lincoln's election, so help me God!"
This solemn and fervent vow was re
ceived with cheers by the intelligent
citizens of Princess Anne County, who
well knew the Governor and his fidelity
in keeping every promise. But now,
the melancholy contingency which was
to cause the departure of Mr. Wise out
of the United, States having arisen, his
many friends at the -North are anxiously
inquiring, to what part of the earth has
he betaken himself ? His devotion to
the South , forbids us to believe . that he
can have crossed the briny deep to Eu
rope, at a time when tho sunny section
of his nativity may at any moment need
his trenchant arm to point with his sword
the road of her conquering legions as
they march Northward to camp in New
York. This destination, then, being
placed out of the question, many believe
that he has retired to Coney Island,
which clam-producing region has been
formally dissevered from the United
States by the decree of Gov. Gil.' Davis,
bearing date last Wednesday morning.
JV. Y. Times.
From the Kaan ville (Tenn.) Patriot, Nov. 13.
Abraham Lincoln in Nashville Great
Rnsh of Citizens to Wait upon Him.
Somebody walked into the office of
the City Hotel yesterday morning, as
quite a number of somebodies do every
morning, and in turning to the register,
found inscribed there, in what appeared
to bo an intensely Black Republican
hand
"Abraham 'Lincoln, Springfield,
III'
In fifteen minutes it was all over the
city that Old Abe was in town, on his
way to South Carolina to persuade the
people down there not to secede; and
in the course of the morning he was
''called upon" by a large number of our
citizens, very few, if any, of whom dis
covered the sell until the sale was com
plete and the money received.
The name of the ingenious individual
who invented tho joke has aot trans
pired. BgGaribaldi writes to Mr. John An
derson of New York:
" I shall feel greatly obliged by your
expressing my sympathy for the Amer
ican people, the granduer of whose ele
vation I admire, and which arose from
the same revolutionary cause as that in
which thejltaliansare now struggling for
liberty."
And the New York Herald tries to
publish the letter in the original Italian,
and makes almost as many blunders as
there are words.
Remarkable Xastae ' 8agaelty in n
We have before observed in the col
umns ef the. Union theapporcBit exercise -of
reasoning powers arrriviog at a proba
ble conclusion, together with tie won
derful instinct possessed by a favoiitct
dog belonging to our friend on Wa
ter street. We have another story also
to relate of his sagaeily, whieh shows
his disposition in a very favorable man
ner, and the whole i corrohated by the
gentleman who wit&essed the transac
tion. A few days since, he was noticed re
clining upon the sidewalk, looking as if
asleep, yet an attentive observer wonhl
have noticed that something weighed
heavily upon hi mind, for even when ,
spoken to by his master he seemed un- "
finally left te- enjoy his soppe6j slum-'
bers. "Rolla," ho-wever, was only
playing ".possum that is, sleeping witU
one eye open, and the secret of his
tion was ere long explained to the loi
terers who were watching Mm.
Soon a small terrier passed alonji, '
and observing a piece ef meat in the.
gutter, straightway made for it, and,
with bis month wide open, was in the
act of seizing it, when, with a single
bound, "Rolla" had him by the nape
of the neck, and giving hire one shake,
away went the terrier, heels over head,
into the middle of the street. The cu
riosity of the spectators was now un
bounded, nnd quite a number of per
sons collected to watch the strange pro
ceedings still the dog retained Inn
gravity, continuing a faithful sentinel,
over the little piece of meat. Several
of his canine brethren in the meantime
passed that way, but net one of thciu:
would he allow to tench the seemingly
luscious morsel, so temptingly displayed. ;
The smaller ones he would serve in the ,
same way he had the terrier, while to
the larger of his companions he gave a !
shake of the head; as if saying, " Touch
not, taste not, handle not, " and his
dogged commands were obeyed in eich
ir. stance. ',
Finally, a large hog came grunting
along, one of the dirty, filthy specimens
of porkdom usually seen oh that street, r
and now was it that Rolla's eyes were ,
wide open, while a sort of tremor
seemed to agitate his body; even to tho
extremity of his tail. His hogship ap- '
proached turned over the meat with
his snout and finally took it into his
mouth, and no effort was made to restrain
him in the act by the sentinel who had
been so faithfully protecting his own '
species. But the instant the hog had
swallowed the meat, what a change
came over Rolla!; He jumped from- his :
resting place, ran into the store, then .
out again and up and-dowa tVi eUvwalW.
For a long time his master had no con
trol over him, he was so full of joy and
merriment; for, if ever a dog did laugh, i
and laugh all over, it was Rolla that
memorable morning.
But to conclude our story: n good
hog was lost to his owner that day, for
the meat the animal had partaken of was
poisoned, and had been dropped there
by a policeman for the destruction ot
the canine species, rather than hogs.
It may well be said that "Rolla is woriti
owninjr. " Peoria Dem. Union. ' A
Miniature Coira,
A writer in the Agricultural Cuzettt,
England, thus, describes the Brrtounn
eow, imported from Britanny, France,
one of which he has lately purchased:
" She stands three feet high, will calve
shortly, and promises to have a bag of -milk
nearly, if not equal to an Aldcrney. .
She is two years old. Two dairyman ,
have pronounced judgment upon her to
the effect that she is a perfect litfle won- '
der, and will be likely to pivfc -eight'
quarts of milk per day with ; hor 8rt ..
calf. These animals are just suited for. ..
gentlemen's families. They arc of dim
inutive sizo, hardy, and little cjtcrsj
and furnish pure milk for a family's.'"'
consumption. - : . '
Would not this breed bo tho very
tllinsr for our suburbon - residences, . -
where an acre or so of lawn is all that
can be afforded ? Our agricultural socj.
eties have been paying prcminms f r
the largest breeds; who will enfonra'e-'
importers to furnish us smaller animals,
say of convenient pocfat siae. EJ., Ag
ricultnrist. . ' .
To Ladles who have Danced ' -w ith the
Prince. . -.' V-0
What an event in crinolinedom- tor-s
have danced with the Prince of Wales 1
We are afraid he will have much to, an
swer for. Young men who wore form
erly considered paragons of perfection
by these young ladies, will doubtless
be subdued incontinently. A hand that ?
has been grasped, by a live Prince, will . :
not be bestowed on every chance comer, .
depend upon it. Have a enre girls
Don't carry your heads too high, or -at -'
least not so high that you may not have "
the pleasure of telling to your hildrpn .
" all about the Prince. " In short, don't
be so puffed up that one of these days'
somebody will point out a -withered" )d
maid, and somebody else will exclaim,"
incredulously, in your hearing ; What! : .
the Prince danced with , her I Well,
truly, there is no accounting fr taste !'
Not the consolatory "Oh, but she "was'
very, pretty once " will take the- fiting; ' '
from the rejoinder. '"It it jztosiiLUf-r
Fanny Fern.
- . . . " '". - - -- -- i
A White Woman among Satlve Afr cri) .
A Sierra Leon paper states th it .a
white woman, who accompanied her husi
band, a missionary, up the Cavalla rivet'
last Mav, excited the greatest ouriosltt
and admiration among the sable dwellers
in that benighted region, where a white
woman had never been seen. All want,
ed to touch hor, and great surprise was
expressed upon feeling hor hair. '' Tfie
king of the Nyinenio tribe called her
" very fine," and complimented her hus. ..
band greatly for selectin hor. And
when she told him he might see .other
white women who would surpass her, 1. 1
said that would either never be, or" clss
a very long time. Owing to Her pre,
ence, the attendance on prenebioz , vas .
extraordinarily large.- During her vis.it
at tho Mission ststion, hundreds went to
see her, who said they eould fell satis-'
fied to die now that they had seen such
a wonderful being as s white woman.