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To the General Assembly ot’ Geor
gia.
Gentlemen :
A bill having been introduced into the
lower House of the General Assembly, by
Mi'. Bigham, of Troup County, which is
intended to abolish the Association known
as the “Typographical Union,” we, the
undersigned, members of the above named
Association, in the city of Atlanta, beg ■
leave to present to the consideration of
your J ionorable Body, the objects and prac- |
tical workings of our Association, and also '
to protest, in the name of that divine right, J
freedom of conscience and of action, against I
the passage of any law having for its object j
the nullification of our rights as free, white, !
American citizens.
The object of our Association may be |
briefly summed up as follows :
Ist. To establish and maintain a rate ofj
wages for our services, sufficiently remu
nerative to enable us to defray the ordinary ■
expenses of living, and save something for
the time of sickness or death.
"2d. To prevent, by ail honorable means
in our power, young men from palming
themselves off upon proprietors of news
papers, v, ho are not skilled in their business,
by reason of not having served a sufficient
length of time as apprentices; to effect
which object our by-laws require, that to
become a member of our Association, a
youth shall have served an apprenticeship
of al least four years, and shall be at least
twenty years of age.
3d. To provide money for defraying the'
expenses of such of our members as may
become sick and disabled, and have not the |
necessary, means to enable them to take'
care of themselves.
In short, gentlemen, to sum up in a few
words, we are merely an association of
printers, with the object in view of pro
tecting and sustaining each other, by regu
lating the {nice of our own labor, (and we
appeal to the past and present history of
our Association as proof that we have never
made an unreasonable demand,) and re
lieving the wants of such of our members
as may be in indigent or distressed circum
stances.
If this be a crime of sufficient magnitude
in the eyes of your honorable Body 7 as to
demand the abolition of our Society, be it
so; but at the same tFme we have the right
to question the justice of the law which de
prives the members of our Art from setting
a price on their own services, while the
members of all others are in no way inter
lered with. The owner of a negro may ad
vertise him tor hire, and may demand his
own price for the services of his slave,
w hich, if the applicant refuse to pay, he can
keep him at Imme. Even if the negro be
hired Im- a certain length of time, at a cer
tain price, al the expiration of that lime the!
owner may demand an increased rate of
wages, and it' it is not paid he may take
him away.
Ihe owners of drays in all cities liavf a
certain rate of wages for the services of their!
drays and drivers, if which is not paid by |
the party using them, they can refuse to I
allow more service to be rendered for the)
party so refusing.
The proprietors ot newspapers through
out the entire country hold their periodical !
Conventions, al which they regulate the
subscription price of their papers, and their
rates for advertising; and all those who re
fuse to pay the price asked are struck from I
tlair subscription list and excluded from!
their columns. Is this system not as abso-)
lute ami tyrannical (?) in its workings as !
that of the Printers’ Unions'? We believe
it is. Ami yet who is bold enough to say !
that they have not the right to set their
own price on their own papers?
Are we, printers, then, less worths of
setting a price upon our own labor than the
owners of slaves and drays upon their pro
perty, or proprietors of newspapers upon
their subscriptions or advertising ? Surely
the good sense of your honorable Body will
at once decide that we are not.
There are but tiro Printers’ Unions in
this State one in Savannah, and the other j
here; the tinnier has a membership of
about twenty, tin* latter about forty: and
can it be possible that their acts are of such
importance, or their influence for evil so |
great, that it should require the strong arm
ot the Legislature to abolish them? We
claim to be quiet, law-abiding citizens, and
that we have violated no law;»and we can-!
le t believe that even Mr. Bigham will vote)
tor the pa-sage of such an unjust measure,
alter he has examined both sides of the
question.
Proprietors sometimes object to our so
ciety, l>ut we will now proceed to show that
it benefits them : It is a fact that needs no
proof, that the most finished or skilful
workmen are to be found in Printers' I n
ions. I is the true interest of employers
to < ne 'mage, rather than attempt to* de-'
sttoy, these organizations. For instance:
a Propru tor wishes to employ a workman
competent to perform a particular kind of
wm k he has only to make his wants known
to 'h ■ I r. s', lent ot the I nion, and he will
im ibly be supplied with, or referred to.
men ot integrity and known ability in their
profession.
Such a course of proceedings is, certainly,
productive ot' greater benefits to the em
ploy er than the method ot advertising tor
workmen. It is well known that our large
cities are infested with a careless set of
perambulating compositors—men w ho have
r served a regular apprenticeship,
through carelessness, and in consequence of
heme kept out of rcsp,\'tabie offices, never
.. quire an cxper'.en e which would entitle
'I i',o position of first-rate workmen.
'1 in - ma are always on the lookout for
rt'ymrnis, ami one n > sooner appears
t . 5i.:..11 army are on hand, persistently
nr im.; their claims. < hie of them is ejn
ployed, s, on pr< ves his incompetency and
;s iscli.irged. The employ er’s wont is
-tiy delayed, and he bt'eOinvs disgusted
with printers generally. Another adver
t s< nun; is prepared. with a train of eonse-
' quences equally unpleasant. Finally the i
employer becomes almost disheartened, and I
considers the “ Craft” a nuisance. If
he had secured the services of a first-class
workman at the outset, he would have had
a better opinion of the poor typos.
Senators ! Representatives ! If prin
ters are white men and freemen, defeat this
I bill 1 but if we are slaves, and have no
rights, pass it. We will not do Mr. Big
. ham the injustice to suppose that he is the
) author of the bill: it comes from some of
the Proprietors of printing offices in this
I State, who imagine that if Printers’ Unions
were abolished, they could get their work
■ done for less than they are now paying.
And now, gentlemen, we only desire to
add our earnest prayer that you will do
I nothing in regard to our Association in
haste, but that you will give our case a fair
and impartial consideration; and we feel
satisfied, that having learned fully ourob-l
jects, you will reject the bill in reference to 1
I us, introduced by Mr. Bigham, who, per-)
j mit us to say, must himself be laboring
under a grievous error in regard to a body
of men who have never, either directly or
indirectly, come in contact with, or injured
him.
And in conclusion your petitioners will i
ever pray, &c.
J. W. KEENAN,
B. F. BENNETT,
S. DeF. LINES,
R. CUTHBERT,
J. D. HOLMES,
S. W. GRUBB, '
W. WILSON, '
W. H. BAILEY,
M. J. CAPPELL.
I. B. PILGRIM,
J. B. LAWRENCE,
W. O. NELMS, •
W. G. KNOX, " fl
C. W. DEMING,* fl
C. F. MORGAN,
S. F. WILSON, <
W. J. MILNER,
JOSEPH COHRON,
J. C. REYNOLDS,
C. PRITCHARD,
T. J. MANGUM,
J. M. WEIGLE,
W. S. D. WIKLE, |
11. M. AKIN,
M. C. CABANISS,
GEORGE SHAW,
’ C. L. CLARK,
J. N. HOLMES,
C. K. SANDERS,
G. A. RAMSPECK,
p. a. Connelly,
Z BRI DWELL,
A. MILES,
D. W. D. BOULLY,
' L. 11. EL LETT,
H. N. EMLYN,
C. C. SEWELL.
Atlanta, April 13. 1863.
EXTORTION.—No. 3.
WHAT extortion is not.
I. Extortion is not the asking of high
\prices. High prices are incident to a con-1
■ ditiou of war, and they are incident to a
| condition of war from certain necessarv
reasons, all of which have been quoted as
an excuse for extortion. They are not an!
excuse for extortion, but for high prices—!
high prices themselves being, as we say,
land that in a majority of cases, no extortion
! at all.
They are incident to a condition of war,
because war diminishes production and in
creases consumption, and therefore raises
the price of labor. And it raises the price
of labor, because the laborer in turn has to
give more for the necessaries of life.
It,creates an inordinate amount of cur-)
rency, and in a war like ours shuts us in l
: from foreign products. It, therefore, hap
pens that a majority from whom we buy
have given a vast deal more themselves for
what they sell us. The expansion of the
currency* and ail these other reasons, in
ways that we need not stop to tell, creates
it as a fact, that the majority with whom
we deal serve us at a far higher cost than
in a common condition of the country, and,
therefore, at a far higher recompense.
The man who can buy goods only at an
enormous outlay, must either close his shop
or sell at a proportionate advance. And
the laborer who can support his family on
an enormous income, must make that in
come, or else defraud his creditors. These
are hard facts, and however they may be
theoretically explained, he is no extortioner
who bends himself to them and finds him
self exacting from others what they are ob
liged to exact from him in this altered con
dition of society. So it happens that the
vast majority of men are not extortioners,
though they demand the heaviest prices for
some ot the highest necessaries of life.
Farmers are generally of this class. So
may merchants be, aecordino to the char
acter of their business. The farmer is a.
. man of universal an d wide-spread expense,
w ho bears the burdens of the limes as soon
. as they begin to press. And the merchant
I is a man ot direct expenditure, buy ing what
he sells, and of course unable to sell it
) moderately. One earns at the most heav v
■ rate, and the other merely passes from one
. hand to another. So that, in either case a
rise of price is inevitable ; and though it
may be extortionate, yet we rem h the truth
of our position, vv hich is. that high prices, in
I the naked fact of their existence, do not es
tablish extortion, but may be commenda
ble and necessary in our case.
WJHB SAFSMSS- BA IM MB a.
i IL Extortion, in the second place, is not:
1 11 rapacity, in the sense of violence to law.
Some men iniply that, and push oft the
whole controversy. The word arpaz is in
deed “a robber” in its original sense. But
the Scripture never intended to apply that
to the Pharisees. They covered their backs
far too well for any such severe vitupera
tion. 'Almost all the words of English de
rive their potency from someanterior sense;
and it is this figurative edge that gives all
the force and beauty to almost any lan
guage. The Pharisees were robbers, and
that before a very high tribunal. But they
were robbers like those of our days, who
“ make clean the outside of the cup and the
platter,” and are really aided in their
schemes by the law as it exists iti the com
! rnnnity.
11l Extortion, in the third place, while it
is not a violence to law, is not to be re
duced to the other extreme of a mere ab
sence of charity.
! Men are right when they say that busi
jness is one thing, and charity another.
Extortioners would be very glad to corn
; pound in their impeachment, that it shall
only be for the lack of almsgiving.
The victim of extort on has a right to be
treated differently ; and though there is no
human law to cover his case, yet the very
I struggles in the Legislatures to produce one,
! shows that is an affair of justice.
The extortioner who says:—Whatever 1
! abate- in price, is just so much given : what-i
I leave oft’of the market price of my i
Bvares, is just taken out of my pocket, and )
Fmade a present of to the community : and
i who goes on to argue : —I do not like such '
indiscriminate charity, and therefore I vvilL
act more prudently : I will charge indis ■
icriminately the full market rates, and then'
i I will bestow of my means to needy persons
, —is just going in the old round of the cru
Icifiers of our Saviour.
1. In the first pla e, it is untrue to na
ture. If extortion be a crime, men ask noti
charity, but justice.
2. In the second place, it does not answer
its end. I don’t re imburse a needy person!
to hand him in alms-giving what he demands'
' as obligai ion.
° . 1
3. In the third place, it does not provide'
;an example. 'l’he example, of the extortion
er swells the company of the unscrupulous;
and unless he sound a trumpet before him.
(a practice no doubt defended, by-the-bye,
for this purpose of example), the Shy locks
quote him, and most disreputable and mi
s irupulous persons build themselves up
under his countenance.
4. In the fourth place, it does not amount,
to anything; for it has often been noticed
: that when men have given themselves up
iso far like Demas as to yield to an argu-
I ment like this, they do not give lar<m!\
o fn J
even in the way of reparation. The gain is
a great enormous sluice like the race gate
of the distiller, while the alms are a little
precious drop like that which trickles fr< m
the edge of his alembic. They tithe mint, I
and aimise, and cummin.
The absence of charity, therefore, is not
the mark that it is to distinguish these gen
tiemen.
IV. Nor is it, in the fourth place, specula- i
tion.
I know not how speculation is to be de
fined ; but if it is buying to sell again, and
that without any set store house, and with
out any previous rules of business, the poor
refugees are doing it, and that wilh frequent
credit to themselves, and remarkable use-!
fulness. It is no harm to traffic un lersuch
circumstances. And while woollen cloth,
for example, in the most established manu
factory, is no great favor to the community..
because it would be made at any rate —the*
wool in a country being worked up neees-l
sarily at a time like this—the speculators
are a favor; that is to say, that class of
them that bring from a distance what is ex
posed to the enemy, or redeem from de
struction the actual necessaries of life.
Speculation, therefore, is not to be de
cried. And though speculating, in a bid
sense, (if there be a bad sense.) like horse-!
trading in a bad sense, is not a thing that a
man would like to say much for: yet spec-!
dialing,-in any sense that can be given it ofj
a direct, discritninating kind, must be eith-’
er something aside from mere buy ing or
selling, or else it is a mere desultory wav
of-doing that which may be templing imieed.
but which the best men may do and be en
tirely innocent.
Speculators may be, and probably are.;
in a disproportioned number of cases, ex
tortioners; but they are so, like farmers
and merchants, by something not actually
necessary in speculating themselves.
\ . In the fifth place, extortion is not hold-\
iuy back articles, to sell them another time.
Ail men do this. In tact, if the vast ma
jority ot men were not doing this each week
and month, the market would be druuged.
and things would bring nothing at onetime
and overwhelming prices at another. All
men bring their wares into market at some
favorite season.
j
: And if by holding back is meant holding
back for a higher price, all men do it. He
would be considered an idiot who would
hurry his grain into mill, and sell, no mat
ter what it would produce him. Holding
back is useful to the farming community,
and if it throw the crop in the end upon a
scarcer time, it is useful to all the commu
nity. No mere time in effecting a sale can
be the great characteristic of extortion, but
only, like everything else, an instance of it,
when the nature of the holding back, or, in
brief, the nature of the price, is marked by
this great species of iniquity.
VI. In the sixth place, extortion is not
raising the price by artificial means.
If the farmer thinks the price too low,
and if by artificial means is meant remon
strating against it and trying to sell higher
why, here again is an act which the purest
conscience may enjoin. Or even if a man
buys up products that have become a drug
in the community, and lays them away,
what does he do but relieve a glut that is
creating depression, and provide for a time
when there may be a want: nay, actually
heightening the price when it becomes ruin
ously low, and providing to lower it when
it shall have become high, so that—
\ 11. In the seventh place, there is no
form of business that is actually extortion
ate; but the nature of that crime must be
found in the way that a business is pursued.
Ihe forms of business have been regulated
I ■ -
j by law, and the forms will usually be found
'to be innocent. We defy any one to indi
i cate a practice of the business class that is
: thoroughly protected by law, that the pu
; rest minded citizens have not been engaged
i in. In fact, the market price might just as
;wcll be called a piece of extortion as
holding back; for the market price, as we
'shall presently see, can be an instance of
■ the error, just as well as the longest post
i ponement in the sale of what we produce.
The old chess player, exhibited half a
'century ago, was believed to have a man in
i it: just as every body believes that there is
extortion in the pursuits of business. But
! they opened every door, and turned it
I round, so that the audience could even see
.through it. There was never a corner of
! the desk that had not a door, and every
door had been opened to the stare of every
one. Everybody believed that it had a man
in it, and yet nobody could conceive where
that man could be placed, when every square !
inch of the room in the automaton had been !
laid bare to an inquisitive assembly. But ;
one t here was in it: The fellow' <iot out of one i
place into another. When one narrow box!
was laid bare, he had leaned into the next. I
And so. in this grand automaton of busi
ness, there, is no one form that is fixed for
the transgressor. lie lodges in all of them.
And as we open doo 1 ’ after door, it does but
facilitate his escape. Plain men believe
that ho is there, but, wearied out with the
wonders of the search, they allow themselves
to be bewildered, and give up making the
assertion that he may be lin king in one of I
them. Alamby. )
I Will Give NojSiiiig.
“ There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and
there is that witbholdeth more than is meet, but it
tendeth to poverty.”—[ZVor. xi: 24.
A minister, soliciting aid towards his
chapel, waited upon an individual distin
guished for his wealth and benevolence.— i
Approving the case, he- presented to the
minister a handsome donation, and, turning!
to his three sons, who had witnessed the
transaction, he advised them to imitate his
example. “My dear boys,” said he, “you
have heard the case; now what will you
) give. ? ” One said, " I w ill give all my pock
ets will furnish”; another observed, “I
will give half that I have in my purse”;
! the third sternly remarked, “1 will give
! nothing.”
Some years after, the minister had occa
sion to visit the same place, and, reeollect
ing the family he had called upon, he in
quired into the actual position of parties.—!
He was informed that, the generous father
was dead ; the youth, who had cheerfully
given ail his store, was living in affluence;
the s<>n who had divided his pocket money,
was iu comfortable circumstances; but the
third, who had indignantly refused to assist,
land haughtily declared he would “give
’nothing,” was so reduced as to be support
led by me two brothers.
• The above anecdote is a striking iilustra
I tion of the words of Solomon. Men of
i property should contribute largely; they
should recollect that they are responsible
to God for the use they make of their for
tunes, and He will hereafter call for the ac
count.
Beauregard, Ripley, Rhett, Yates,
and nearly all the garrison of Fort Sumter
are the same men who u ere the chief actors
in the bloodless reduction of Fort Sumter
in April, 1861, and who have now so glo
riously and successfully repelled a formid
able attack upon this famous fortress, while
in their keeping.
■ ♦ ♦
The high price of cotton in the
North, ranging from 75 cents to 81 per
pound, has induced holders in England to
re-ship it to New York. About 4 000 bales
in one week, were recently sent from Liv
jerpooi to New York.
THE CHILDREN’S COLUMN.
Answer to ‘Riddle No. 3:’—A Pair
of Cotton Cards.
THE HEART’S BLOOD.
“ I’ll not forgive Fred as long as I live,”
said Dora angrily, as she came into the ,
parlor, holding up before her mother the
fragments of a beautiful little sola, a piece |
of the set of furniture her uncle James had
given her a few days before.
“ Dora, my daughter I ”
Well, I mean just what I say,” contin
ued the excited little girl. “ Fred came ;
rushing into the summer-house just as he
always docs, and trod on it with his great
boots; and vvhen I spoke to him about it,
he said he did’nt care a bit, and wished he
had broken the chairs too.”
“ Think before you say more, my dear.
Perhaps you vexed Frederick by your
manner of speaking.”
“ I only told him he was careless and:
u gly, an d so he was. It’s too bad. No,
I will never forget nor forgive it;” and asj
she turned over the pieces of the. ruined toy I
in. her hands, her face grew daik with re- 4
vengeful feelings. I
Hark, Doi a I Listen : some one is
knocking, I’m sure.”
Little A illie, a three year old younger
brother, stopped playing with his blocks on j
the floor, and looked at the d<-or as if ex
pecting a visitor.
“ What do you mean, mamma? I don’t)
hear anything,” said Dora.
“ Have you forgotten, my daughter, that !
there is a door to your heart? You have)
opened it once this morning, and let in an j
evil, hateful thing. No picture that could
be made of it would be too dark to repre
sent what is now in your heart.”
Dora hung her head, for she began to
understand her mother.
“And now, it you will listen, you will
hear One, your best Friend, at the door.
He is knocking gently. Dear little daugh
ter, let Him in. He has a message for you,
and it is, ‘lf ye forgive not men their tres
passes, uei'her will your heavenly Father
forgive your trespasses ;’ and that word
‘men’ means everybody, even Freddy, who,
you think, has offended yon so much.”
Dora’s heart was softening. The tears!
came into her eyes. She opened the door
of her heart a little way. Willie, who had
been listening, came, and putting his chub-!
by arms around her neck, kissed her, but
said nothing. Her heart s door swung wide
open now, ard Jesus entered.
“Yes, mother, I anil forgive Freddy,”
sobbed Dora. “1 was as much to blame I
as he, and 1 know 1 spoke spitefully, or he
would have felt sorry when he did it.”
“ Then my darling, thank that dear
Friend who has found the. way into your
heart wilh his lov-e, and go now to Freddy
I and make up with him.”
Dora laid away the fragments of the>
) sofa, and went out with sunshine in her!
face and joy in her heart, for its door was
closed again, and her Friend was within. !
“GIVE US THIS DAY r OUR DAILY ,
BREAD.”
In a miserable cottage at the bottom of.
a hill, two children hovered over a smoul- i
dering lire. A tempest raged without—a)
fearful tempest, against which man and
beast were alike powerless.
A poor old miser, much poorer than!
these shivering children, though he had
heaps of money at home, drew his ragged
cloak about him as he crouched down ati
the threshold of the miserable door. He
dare not enter for fear they would ask pay !
for shelter, and he could not move for the
I storm. !
“1 am hungry, Nettie.”
“So am 1 ; I've hunted for a potato pa
ring, but can’t find any.”
“ What an awful storm!”
“Yes the old tree has blown down. I
I guess God took care that it did’nt fall on
i the house. See, it would certainly have)
killed us.”
“ If he could do that, could’nt he send us'
bread
“ I guess so; let’s pray ‘Our Father,’
and when we come to that part let vs stop
till we get some bread.”
So they began, and the miser, crouching ,
and shivering, listened. When they paused,
expecting iu their childish faith to see some
miraculous manifestation, a humane feeling ‘
stole over his heart, God sent some angel '
to soften it. He bought a loaf at the vil- i
page, thinking it would last him many days, ,
but the silence of the poor little children |
spoke louder to him than the voice of many j
waters. He opened the door softly, threw '
in the loaf, and then listened to the wild, 1
eager cry of delight that came from the!
half-famished little ones.
“It dropped right down from Heaven,
did’nt it ? questioned the younger.
“Yes; I mean to love God forever, for!
giving us bread, because we ask him.”
“We’ll ask him every day, won’t we?
\\ hy, I never thought God was so good,
did you ?”
“Yes, I always thought, but I neveri
quite knew it before.”
“ Let’s ask him to give father work to do
all the time, so we need never be hungry
again. He'll do it—l ain sure.”
The storm passed—the miser went home.
A little flower had sprung up in his heart;
it was no longer barren.
In a few weeks he died, but not before
he h;i i given the cottage, which wa> his, to
. the poor laboring man.
And the little chtl Iren ever after felt a
sweet and solemn emotion, when in their
matim-1 devotions they came to these trust
ful words: “Give us this day our daily
bread.
, Charleston < ourier say s that
s “extortion is high prices extracted from the
- poor for the necessaries of life’, w ithout a
proportionate cost in the production.
'HE DEATH OF A LITTLE DAUGHTER.
Our Father sent an angel child
Within our home to dwell;
Os all her gentle, winning ways,
How weak are woids to tell! *
Her beaming eyes and tender glance
Ofc tilled our soul with joy;
She was our idol and our pride,
Though well we loved our boy.
An /often on my levered brow
hands were pressed,
Ai loving arts esjnyed
“sweet mother w T«t>c.
now, a ias! 1 miss the clasp
4 Os &mall dimpled arm,
> But.well I my loved one’s safe
] From future care or harm.
A
J The footsteps of m y darling were
r ',
In dreams I start, and fondly deem
I still their echoes hear ■.
... I vainly strive to cat eV tWe sound
' of infant laughter wild <
Withyearning heart my arms st r< t ch forth
*'S To clasp once more my child.
Oh’ who can tell the bitter pain.
The pang it cos t to part
What mingled memories haunt the brain
And rend my lonely heart!
At every step some trace 1 meet
Os her I’ve loved and lost;
Each passing hour renews the grief
By which my soul is tossed.
Ah, me ’. the little stocking lie?
Beside the empty
.JBp-gy
that
the iron-clad “Keokuk” was one of the most
powerful of her class, and her loss will be
a staggering blo,w to the enemy. She was
built last summer, and was thought to be
impervious to the largest shot or shell
capable of being thrown from the most
formidable fortification. Iler armament
consisted of two fifteen inch Dahlgrens—
one in each turret.
• -
’-g/"l*'rom present appearances, the next
grand clash of arms will take place in Ten
nessee, between llosencranz and Johnston.
J) AY T ON’S
SELECT SCHOOL FOR GIRLS,
AT LAFAYETTE, GA.
Elder A. C. DAYTOX President, and Teacher of Chein-
I istry, Botany, Mental Philosophy. Rhetoric, etc.
Miss LaURA 11. DAYTON’, Teacher of the Latin and
Greek Languages, Algebra, Geometry, etc.
Tunios; In the preparatory classes per term of five
months, - - " - slll 00
In the higher classes,2s 00
Board can be had, in good families, from twenty to
tws»ty-five dollars per month.
Ohly a limited number of Pupils will be received, as
our object is to give to each one the most thorough men
tal discipline.
The pupils should bring with them all the requisite
books, as it is difficult to procure them here,
Lafayette, February 9, 1868.
Atlanta Female Institute.
THIS Institution has not been taken for a hospital, as
has been reported, and I have the assurance of the Post
Surgeon that it will not be taken.
The exercises will be resumed on the second Monday in
January, 1868, and continue fair a scholastic term oi six
months.
Under the pressure of the times, we a-e compelled to
raise our rates of tuition. The charges, therefore, will bo
as follows:
Collegiate department, for six months, - >36 00
Preparatory “ “ “ - - 80 00
Primary “ “ * “ • • M *"0
Incidentals, - • - - - 60
Music and piano rent, same old prices.
One Laif of toe above charges mud be paid in advance
itn every instance. * J. K. MaYbU-N, President,