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BY AUTHORITY.
EDUCATION.
AN ACT to eatablish a general system of Edtrea
lion by common Schools.
See, 1, Be it enacted by the Senate ami House of
Representatives of the State of Georgia in General
Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by
rity of the same, That from and after the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, the funds
of this State heretofore known as the Academic and
Poor School Funds, be, and the same are hereby con- !
solidated, and together w ith the interest on one third
part of the surplus revenne, derived to this State
From the United States, and heretofore set apart for
that purpose, shall compote and constitute a general
fund for common Schools, for the State of Georgia.
Sec. 4. Ami be it further enacted by the authority j
aforesaid, Thai within ten days after the recent ion
of such notice, the School Commissioners shall as- i
setwise together, and elect from their number a Prcsi- •
dent of the Board, and a Secretary, and shall also i
appoint qjlteasurer, who shall give bond and secu
rity to the Commissioners for the time being, and
their successorsjn office, in such sums as they may
tig upon, conditioned faithfully to discharge his duty
as Treasurer. and should any vacancies happen in
such board of Commissioners, by death, resignation
or otherwise, the same shall lie filled by the board
Itself
Sec. f. And lie it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the School
Commissioners in each division, or a majority of
them, to lay ofT their respective counties into school
districts, conforming, as nearly as practicable, to the
present Militia districts; in the same, in a manner
■nwrffif suitable and convenient for the purpose contem
• plated in T ■ ■„ ,
1 Sec 6. And be it further enarten by lITc Mwtamt-y
aforesaid, That they shall apply for, and receive
from tfc© slate, their proportionable share of the gen
eral And for Common Education, and shall appor
tion and divide the same among the several School
districts in their divisions, in proportion to the num
ber of children in each, between the ages of five and
fifteen years, and shall make an annual report to the
Governor, of the number of School districts in their
rcspeclivetUvisions, the districts from which reports
,'isve been made to them, and the defaulting districts.
\ |e length of time a school has ho* n kept in each, and
ifiso the amount of funds received by themselves or
f feutmivr ES;he State; and from taxes raised, and
fl what mann*- the same has been expended, and
time number of chi Iren taught in each district, which
report the said C > nmissioners shall cause to be re
corded by the Secretary, in a book kept for that pur
pose.
See. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority
V aforesaid. That the Commissioners of each School
Idivision, shall, by this act be, and they are hereby
•instituted a body corporate, under the name and
I%V of the Commissioners of the Common School,
biß jarc made capable of suing and being sued, and
ihf Trustee* of the several school districts of each di j
vision shall also be a body corporate, under the name .
and style of the Trustees of the district schools, with
like powers as above, both of which said Corpora- 1
(ions, shall allowed and entitled to own real es
tate and other property, upon which to erect School
houses, and for other purposes connected with the
schools.
JJec. And be. it further enacted by the authority
f That the Trustees shall within 15 days
▼ ‘Xthcir appointment, proceed to ascertain the
vcf lA~of frogjyiuUi persons in their respective dis
| iJiJPoetwecn the ages of five an<pfifteen years, and
‘jE* the taro ic, totbc Commissioner* of Iht’ School ’
. ® aion to which they belong. They .hall also rc
| -Wc from the school Commissioners, or tie-ir Trcn-
I sorer the funds to which they arc cmilhsl under the
I taw, and oa the first Monday of Novcinlwr in each
I year, make a repost to the sai.f Coniniissioacr., sliow
int the amount received, the manner of its cxjtendi-
Iture. the nnmhcaof children taught in their district,
■ the length of time which n school has been taught,
•ind the compensation paid to teacher* and their
Snamcs. They sbsJl locate and superintend thcercc
®c<>n of suitable School Smses in their respective dis
the most convenient and suitable places for
ffl^V-f****" 1 * ® n< * “‘"Volart residing in the same.
‘i? jpploy and pay teachers and visit the schools,
has tmffiwica in the year.
IV aritsv IW. A'iid further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the Commissioners and Trustees
sender this aet, shall hold their office for twelve
- months, or until tlicir successors are elected, and re
ceive noeohipeiftation for their services.
Sec. 11. And be it furt her enacted by the authority
nforessid, That it shall lie the duty of the Governor,
annually to distribute to the Commissioners of each
* School division in the Slate, their proportionable
part of the Common School fund, which apportion
ment stu* b. made (by the last census, until the next
eworflTbe taken, and then by that) according to the
Tnumher of free white persons, between the ages of
I five and fifteen years, of which he shall give to said
j commissioners, in each division, immediate notice.
Sec. li. And lx it further enacted by the authori
. if aforesaid. That no moneys received from the State
by the Commissioners for School purposes, shall lie
expended for any other purposes, than for paying
teachers and purchasing books and stationary for
children whose parents are unable W furnish the
ime,
See. 13. And be it further enacted by the authon
tf aforesaid, That after these schools shall have gone
foto operation, no Trustee# for districts shall be. al-
funds from the Commissioners,
” unless they shall have made a return signed by a
maioritv of their number, showing the amount re
ceived bv them, and how the same has been expend
ed ifcet a school has been kept in iheir districts,
at ic'wt three months in the year preceding, or then
“ £ Bec"’ U And fc- ; t further enacted by the authority
Aforesaid That all moneys not drawn by any such
defaulting district shall Is- added to the amount to be
distributed the next year, and a|>|)ortiontd among all
> such divisions.
■MMSKAnd be it further enacted by the authority
. ‘ should the Commissioners, in any
5-ti2on fan** apply for, anddistribute the fund re
as directed by this law> that shall be subject
masuit for damage., m the instance of the trustees
of any district in such division, in any court of law
in this State having jurisdiction, and the amount of
damages so recovered, shall lie collected out of the
private,pro|>crty of such commissioners, and not
from the gubool. .
: rr CHF.Rciad.4;^ i 4 her enaek *d b y iheauthor,, y
■_ „ , hat it... Jj*lte person* between the ages
fifteen lie allowed to be tauht
as scholar* in the rt*f3ttqre districts in “’lnch they
reside, or iB ease tlieirfcFiunn may make it inconve
nient in the adjoining district, by making applica
tion to the Trustees thereof, who may prescribe.
■ though no one ..vet the a-e ot fifteen years and under
twenty-one, shall be excluded from said Schools.
See IB Arid be it further enacted l>y the authority
i sfnresaid That in tliose eoumies wliere the iuhabi
l ‘thinlv settled, the commissioners may, if
think it be refuse to lay otf the same into
.MZP i Hw-rieis but they shall employ a suitable
fifTeaehe.rs who shall under their directions,
ufl ehsch->oi not longer than three morphs in anv one
or neighborhood, so that every section of such
1 C .ball receive as nearly a* can be, equal ad-_
• - from said fund; and it shall be the duty of
-sinners of anv such county in which the
itineratin' 7 astern may bethought best to mentmn
itmerau g rta \ report, and so far as relates
I, of Baker, thcCoromiasionersshallcon-
| fine themselves to the three Military districts of said
’ county.
See. 19. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the Commissioners and Trustees
i elected as aforesaid, in the foregoing act, before they
j enter upen the duties of their offices, shall take the
following oath l>efore any Judge of the Superior
Court, Justice of the Inferior Court, a Justice of the
Pence, in the county where they reside, viz : 1 A. 8.,
j do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully perform all
j the duties required of me by law, as Commissioner
i of Common Schools, or Trustee of Common Schools,
, as the case may be
JOSEPH DAY
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT M ECHOLS,
President of the Senate.
Assented to. 2fth I 1 oember, 1837
GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor.
AN ACT,
i To amend an act, to establish a general system of
education by common schools —assented to gfith
December, 1837.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
| Representatives of the State of Georgia in General
I Assembly met, ami it is hereby enacted by the autho
| rity of the same, That the second and third sect ions
j of the above recited act, be, and the same are hereby
! repealed; and in lieu thereof, that each county in this
; state, shall be considered and known ns a common
I school division; and that on the first Monday in
. March, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine,
! and on the first Monday in January, of every year
| thereafter, or so soon after the above mentioned days,
i as the same can be conveniently done, the justices o
| the inferior court of each county in this state, shall
by order, entered upon the minutes of the court, ap
point five fit and proper persons as commissioners of
common schools, in the division wherein such justi
ces may reside, and shall within ten days, thereafter,
cause a certified copy of such appointment, to be de
livered to them, which shall be sufficient notice of the
same. And such commissioners shall continue in
office one year, or until their successors shall be ap
pointed.
Sec. k 2. And be it further enacted hy the authority
aforesaid, That if the said commissioners, or any of
them, shall Ire unable at any time to procure the ser
vices of a treasurer, as contemplated in the fourth
section of the above recited act, it shall, ami may be
lawful, for the president of such board of commis
sioners, to act as treasurer, who shall mnW rwu 1
to his excellency thegct\j*ogr Ed his suc
cessor lor the faittitift uW mtrgc of his duty, as trea
surer. And the said commissioners, within ten clays
after their appointment, shall by order entered in the
minutes of their board appoint for each school dis
trict to be laid out agreeably to the fifthaection of the
above recited act, three trustees, all of whom shall re
side in the district for which they shall be appointed,
and shall be notified of their appointment within ten
days after it shall barnacle.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the jus
tices of the inferior court of any county, shall not
within one month after the time herein before fixed
for that purpose, select and appoint five commission
ers, as aforesaid, who shall accept their appoint
ments, the said justices of tin* inferior court shall
themselves discharge the duties of commissioners in
their division; and unless said commissioners shall,
within one month after their appointment, select and
appoint three, trustees in each district or division,
who shall accept such appointments, the justices of
the peace, and such other person as the justices of
the pence may appoint, shall discharge the duties of
trustees, in any district in which such appointment
shall have been omitted; and the commissioners’ ap
pointment by the court, may fill by election any va
cancy whiuti may occur in their board, during the
year; and a majority of commissioners, and of the
trustees, shall be competent to perform the duties re
quired of them respectively.
See. 4 And be it further enacted, That it shall be
the duty of the trustees of the school district, to col
lect by subscription, such sums as the citizens of the
district may be willing to subscribe, which shall be
applied to supply an amount of money, in addition
to what may be allowed by the state, so as to enable
them to employ a suitable number of teachers in the
district, provided there shall be no liability on the
trustees for said subscription money, further than to
transfer the said list of subscription to the teachers
where such school may lie taught.
Sec. 5. An l be it further enacted, That the justi
ce* of the inferior court, in the several counties, in
this state, lx*, and they are hereby authorized, at
their discretion, to levy an extra tax in their respec
tive counties, not exceeding fifty percent, on the gen
eral tax, which shall be added to the common school
fund of sate county, and paid over to the commis
sioners aforesaid, by the tax collector, who shall give
bond and security for the same, as in case of other
bonds, for extra taxes.
Sec. ti. And he it further enacted, That the trus
tees of any county academy, l>e, and they are hereby
authorized, to pay over to the commissioners of com
mon schools, any funds in their hands.
Sec. 7 And lie it further enacted, That his excel
lency the governor, within the month of January
next, be required to cause so much of the above re
cited act, as this art does not repeal, together with
this act to be published in the newspapers of this
state, and also, to cause the same to be published
with the acts of the present session.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted hy the authority
aforesaid, That the eighth, twentieth, twenty-first,
and twenty-second sections, and so much of the ninth
section as refers to the notice to lie given by a justice
of the peace and free, holder to the trustees of their
election, and so much of the sixteenth section, as re
fers to the balances in the hands of trustees of acade
mies and their treasurers be, and the same is hereby
repealed.
r JOSEPH DAY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY,
President of the Senate,
Assented to 29th December, 1838.
GEORGE R GILMER, Governor.
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quality, sawed to any dimensions that may be
required, and at low prices. They will have
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WOODBURY’ & STACKPOLE.
Darien, Jan. 22,1839. 3"^
Justices Court for 1839. *
A COURT, for the -271st District, will be holdr*
at the Court House in the city of Darien, on the
4th Monday of each month—-to wit
Monday 28th January, 1830.
Monday 25th February, M
Monday 25th March, li
Monday 22d April,
Monday 27th May,
Monday 24th June,
Monday 22d July,
Monday 2bth August,
Monday 23d September, *
Monday 28th Octol>er,
Monday 25th November, “
Monday 23d December, “
A pannel of will be disown at each terpi
after the first. N^i>,oN W , CARPENTER,
Justice of the Peace for 271 st, District.
Darien, January 29>t, 1839.
DAIMEN, UEOUBIA, TUESDAY MORMNU, MARCH 19, 1839.
For the Herald.
THE LEAF.
Emblem of Life—alas! how frail,—
In spring, *tis vigorous and green,
But ns the autumn winds prevail,
9 It withers, and no more is seen.
So ‘tis with life—from early dawn,
How soon to manhood wo ascend ;
But then old age, with haste comes on,
And to the tomb we soon descend.
Short fleeting time marks every day,—
“There’s no abiding city here,”
Soon are we swept from earth away,
And every breath is fill’d with care.
While then the tender leaf puts forth,
And silent speaks u joyous day ;
Wisdom proclaims a happier birth,
Where joys shall nevermore decay.
While thus the morn of life appears,
May 1 secure these lasting joys,—•
Nor wait ’till autumn’s with’ringcares,
Consume my life in glilt’ring toys.
C a Urol.
saagK3a2>a&sKa>
THE FATHER.
lIY .WHS. L. It. SIGOURNEY.
Yes I nm lie, —who look’d and saw decay
Steal o’er I fir the ador’d too much—
It is a fearful thing to love wliut death may toucuT
J\frs. llemans.
I was in the full tide of n laborious and ab
sorbing profession—one of which imposes on
intellect an unsparing discipline, but ultimately
opens the avenues to wealth and Jpme, I pur
sued it as one determined on distinction, —as
one convinced that mind may assume a degree
of omnipotence over matter nnd circumstance,
and popular opinion. Ambition's
were strong within me, nor was itsVarccr tin
prosperous. I had no reason to complain that
its promises were deceptive, or its harvest tardy.
Yet 11s my path was among tile coinpetions
and asperities of men, a character combining
strong elements might have been in danger of
becoming indurated, had it not been been soft
ened and refined by the domestic charities.—
Conjugal love early fixing an object most ami
able and beautiful, was as a fountain of living
water, springing up to allay thirst, and to reno
vate weariness. I was anxious that my home
should be the centre of intellectual and polish
ed society, where thought should expand un
chilled, and those social feelings which are the
life-blood of existence, flow forth unfettered
by heartless ceremony. And it was so.
Hut my present purpose is to delineate a
single, and simple principle of our nature, —
tile most deep-rooted and holy, the lore of a
father for a daughter. My province has led
me to analyze mankind; and in doing this. I
have sometimes thrown their affection into tne
crucible. And the one of which I speak, has
come fortli most pure, most free from drossy
admixture. Even the earth that combines
with it, is not like other earth. It is what the
foot of a seraph might rest upon, and contract
no pollution. With the love of our sons, am
bition mixes its spirit, till it becomes a fiery
essence We anticipate great things for them, —
we covet honors, —we goad them on in the
race of glory;—if they arc victors we too
proudly exult, —if vanquished, we are prostrate
and in bitterness. Perhaps we detect in them
the same latent perseverseness, with which we
have waged war in our own breasts, or some
imbecility of purpose with which we have no
affinity ; and then, from the very nature of our
love, an impatience is generated, which they
have no power to soothe, or we to control. A
father loves his son as he loves himself, —and
in all selfishness theieis a bias to disorder and
pain. But his love for his daughter is different
and more disinterested; possibly he believes
that it is called forth by a being of a higher
and better order. It is based on the integral
and immutable principles of his nature. It re
cognizes the sex in hearts, and from the gen
tleness and mystery of woman-hood, takes that
coloring and zest which romance gathers from
remote antiquity. It draws nutriment from
circumstances which he may not fully compre
hend, from the power which she possesses to
awaken his sympathies, to soften his irratibili
ty, to sublimate his aspirations; —while the sup
port and protection which she claims in return,
elevate him with a consciousness of assimila
tion to the ministry of those benevolent and
powerful spirits, wito ever “bear us up in their
hands, lest we dash our foot against a stone.”
I should delight longer to dwell on this de
velopement of affection for who can have
known more perfectly in its length and breadth,
in its depth and height? I had a daughter,
beautiful in infancy, to whom every year add
ed some new charm to awaken admiration or
to rivet love. To me it was of no slight im
port, that she resembled her mother, and that
in grace and accomplishment she early sur
passed her cotemporaries. I was desirous that
her mind should be worthy of the splendid
temple allotted for its habitation. I decided to
render it familiar with the whole circle of the
arts and sciences. I was not satisfied with the
recommendation of her teachers. I determin
ed to lake my seat in the sacred pavilion of in
tellect, and superintend what entered there.—
Hut how should one hurried beneath the pon
derous tones and Syciphean toils of jurispru
dence, gain freedom, or undivided thought, for
; such a minute supervision? A fathers love
can conquer, if it cannot create. I deprived
mysejf of sleep: I sat till the day dawned,
gathering materials for the lectures that I gave
her. I explored the annals of architecture and
sculpture, the recesses of literature and poetry,
the labryrinthine and colossal treasure house
of history,—l entered the ancient catacombs
of the illustrious dead, traversed the regions of
the dim and shadowy past, with no coward
atep, —ransacked earth and heaven, to add one
gem to her casket. At stated periods, I re
quired herto condense, to illustrate to combine,
what I had brought her. I listened with wrm
’ der to her intuitive eloquence; I gazed with
intense delight upon the intellect that I thus
embellished—upon the Corinthian capital that
I had erected and adorned. Not a single acan-
thus leaf started forth, bul l cherished and fos
tered it with the dews of a father’s blessing.
Yet while the outpoured riches of a mascu
line understanding were thus incorporating
themselves with her softer structure, 1 should
not have been content, unless she had also borne
the palm of female grace and loveliness. Was
it therefore nothing to me, that she evinced in
her bloom of youth, a dignity surpassing her
sex, that in symmetry she restored the image
of the Medicetui Venus, that amid the circles
of rank and fashion, she was the model —the
cynosure I Still she was saved from the vanity
which was the destroyer of till these charms,
by the hallowed prevalence of her filial piety.
It was for my sake that she strove to render
herself the most graceful among whmeti, —-for
my sake , that slit: rejoiced in the effect of her
attainments..- Her gentle and just nature felt
that the “husbandman who had labored should
be first partakerof the fruits.” Returning from
those scenes of splendor, where she was the
object of every eye, the theme of every tongue,
when the youthful bosom might be forgiven for
Inflation front the clouds of incense that had
breathed upon it, to the inquiry of her mother,
if she had been happy, the tender and sweet
reply was : “Yes—because I saw that my dear
father was so.”
Sometimes, I was conscious of gathering
roughness from the continual conflict with pas
sion and prejudice, and that the tine edge of
the feelings could not ever ho utterly proof
against the corrosions of such an atmosphere.
Then I sought lily home, and called my bird Os
song, and listened to the warbling of her high,
heaven-toned voice. The melody of that mu
sic fell upon my soul, like oil upon the troubled
billows, —and all was tranquil. 1 wondered
where my pcrlubations had fled, bill still more,
that I had ever indulged them. Sometimes,
the turmoil and fluctuation of the world, threw
a shade of dejection over me—then it washer
pride to smooth my brow, and restore its smile.
Once a sorrow of no common order had fallen
upon me; it rankled in my breast, like a dag
ger’s point; I came to my house, but I shun
ned all its inmates. I threw myself down, in
solitude, that I might wrestle atone with my
fnTTalUf Ifldl'm'lli* “PProaehed,
hut 1 heeded not. A form ol
the sofa hy my side, hut 1 regarded
Thou iny hand was softly clasped, breathed
upon, pressed to ruby lips. It was enough, I
look my daughter in my arms, and iny sor
row vanished. Had she essayed the hackney
ed expressions of sympathy, or even the usu
al epithets of endearment, i might have desir
ed her to leave my presence. Nad she tiller
ed only a single word it would have been too
much, so wounded wad my spirit within me.
But the deed the very poetry of tenderness,
breathing, nor speaking, melted “the winter
of iny discontent.” Ever wnsslie endued with
that most exquisite of woman’s perfections, a
knowledge both when to be silent and when to
speuk, and so to speak, that the frosts might
dissolve from around the heart she loved, and
its discords he turned to harmony.
Thus was she‘iny comforter and in every
hour of our intercourse, was my devotion to
her happiness richly repaid. Was it strange
that I should gaze on the work of my own
hands with ineffable delight? At twilight I
quickened my homeward step, with u thought
of that countenance, which was both my even
ing ami morning star; as the bird nerves her
wearied wing, when she heurs from the still
distant forest the chirpings of her own nest.
I sat in the House of God, in the silence of Sab
bath meditation, and tears of thrilling exulta
tion moistened my eyes. I gazed upon tny
glorious creature, in the stainless blossom of
unfolding youth, and my whole soul overflow
ed with a father’s pride. 1 said, what more
can man desire 7 I challenged the whole earth
to add another drop to my cup of felicity.—
Did I forget to give glory to the Almighty, that
his decree even then went forth to smite down
my Idol ?
I came from engrossing toil and found her
restless with slrange fire upon her cheek. —
Fever had lain rankling in iter veins, and they
had concealed it from me. I raved. I filled
my house witli physicians. I charged them
wildly to restore her to health and to trie. It
was in vain. I saw that God claimed her.
His will was written upon her brow. The
paleness and damps of the tomb settled upon
her.
I knelt by the bed of death and gave her
back to her creator. Amid the tears and
groans of mourners, I lifted up a firm voice.
A fearful courage entered into me. I seemed
to rush even upon the buckler of the Eternal.
I likened myself unto him, who on Mount
Moria, “stretched forth his hand, and took tin:
knife to slay his son.” The whole energy of
my nature armed itself for the awful conflict.
I gloried in my strength tosufler. With terri
ble sublimity, I stood forth, as the High Priest
of my smitten and astonished household. I
gave the lamb in sacrifice, with an unshrinking
hand, though it was my own heart’sblood, that
steeped, and streamed over the altar.
it was over she had gone. She stayed not
for my embraces. Site was permitted to give
me no parting token. The mind that I had,
adored, shrouded itself and lied. I knew that
the seal upon those eyes must not be broken
till the trump of the Archangel.
Three days and nights I sat by the dead. —
Beauty lingered there, in deep and solemn, and
sacred repose. I laid my head upon her pillow
I pressed my lips to hers, and their ice entered
into my soul. I spoke to her of the angels her
companions. I talked long to the beautiful
spirit, and methought it answered me. I lien
I listened breathlessly, but “there was no voice,
nor any that regarded.” And still I wept not.
The fatal day came, in which even that clay
was to be no longer mine. The funeral knell,
with its heavy, yet suppressed summons, came
over me like the dividing of soul and body.—
There was a flood of weeping, when that form,
once so replete with every youthful charm, so
instinct with the joyous movement of the mys
terious principle of life, was borne in marble
stillness from its paternal balls. The eye of
the mother that bore her, of the friend that had
but casually beheld her, even of the poor me
nial that waited upon her, knew the luxury of
tears. All were wet with that baltn of sorrow,
to overflowing— all gave mine.
The open grave had a revolting aspect. I
could not bear that the form I had worshipped,
should be left to its cold and hideous guardian
ship. At the hollow sound of the first falling
clod, I would fain have leaped into the pit and
demand her. But I ruled myself. I commit
ted her to the frozen earth, without a tear. —
There was a tremendous majesty in such grief,
f was a wonder to myself.
I returned to my desolated abode. The si
lence that reigned there was appalling. My
spirit • ink beneath it, as a stone goes down
into the depths of ocean, bearing the everlast
ing burden of its fathomless tide. I sought the
room where I had last seen her arrayed in the
vestments of the tomb. There lay the books
we had rend together. The pages bore the
marks oi lier pencil. I covered my eyes from
them and turned away. I bowed down to in
hale the fragrance of iior (lowers, and felt that
they had no right to bloom so fair, when she,
their culirer, and their queen, was blighted.—
I pressed my lingers upon the keys of her
piano, and started hack at the mournful sound
they made. I wandered to her own apartment.
1 threw myself on the couch where from in
fancy she iiad slumbered. I trusted to have
wept there. But my grief was too mighty, to
be thus unchained. Il disdained the relief of
tears. 1 seemed to rush as upon a drawn
sword but still it refused to pierce me.
Yet all this was when no eye saw me. In
the presence of others, I was like Mount Atlas,
hearing unmoved the stormy heavens upon his
shouhlcjs.
I went forth amid the jarring competitions
and perpetual strifes of men. 1 adjusted their
opposing interests, while I despised them and
their concerns. I unravelled their perplexi
ties. 1 penetrated their subterfuges. I ex
posed their duplicity. I cut the Gordian knots
ot their sell conceit. I made the “crooked,
straight, arid the rough places plain,”—with an
energy that amazed them and myself. It was
like that, of a spirit, which has nothing to do
with the flesh. 1 suffered the tumults of my
soul to lire tithe itself out in bursts of stormy
declamation. I exerted Iho strength of a giant,
when it was not required. I scorned to balance
pow er with necessity. The calculations of
prudence, and the devices of cunning seemed
equally pitiful, and despicable. I put forth the
saint: elfort to crush an eimnot,as to uproot the
oak of a thousand centuries. It. was sufficient
for me always to triumph. While men unri
vcllcd :il the seal with which l served them, I
was loathing them in iny heart. 1 was sick of
their chiclitincery, and their Sabbathless rush
after empty honors and perishable dress. The
whole world seemed to me “less than nothing,
and vanity.” St ill 1 was sensible of neither
toil nor fatigue nor physical exhaustion. 1 was
like one who in his troubled dream of midnight,
treads on air, and finds it strangely sustaining
him.
Mills ■i',iV l jV| ifit-’ht I went to iny daughter’s
in-avr I iJ in'.- (IliU'lristev J” unutterable
bitterness. While the stars lookeif tWl’frj r Mk
me, I spoke to her fondly and earnestly, as one
who could not bedenied. I said —Angel! who
art mine no longer, listen to me. Thou who
art raised above all tears, cause one tear to
moisten iny burning brow. Give it to me, as
a token that thou hearest me, and thou lias not
forgotten me.” And the blasts of winter,
through tlie leafles boughs, mocking replied,—
dire il to me—Give it to me.” But I wept
not. Ten days and nights passed over mo and
still 1 wept not.
My brain was heated to agony. The visual
nerves were scorched and withered. My heart
was parched and arid, as the Lybian desert.—
Then I knew that the throne of grief was in
the heart—that though her sceptre may reach
remotest nerve, ami touch the minutest cell
where the brain slumbers, and perplex every
etlici'ial ambssador from spirit to sense, —yet
tlie pavillion where her darkest drogs are
wrung out, the laboratory where her consum
ing fires are compounded, in the heart—the
heart.
J have implied that my intellect faltered.
Yet every morning I went to the scene of my
labors. I put my shoulder to the wheel, car
ing not, though it crushed me. I looked at
men fixedly and haughtily with my red eye
balls. But I spoke no word to betray tlie
feelings ut iny vitals. The heart strings
shrivelled and broke before it yet tlie martyr
dom was in silence.
Again, night drew her sable curtain, and I
sought my daughter’s grave. Methought its
turf-covering was discomposed, and some
half-rooted shrubs that shuddered and drooped
when placed in that dear assemblage of the
dead had been trampled and broken. A hor
rible suspicion took possession of my mind.
I rushed to the house of the sexton, ‘ Hus any
one troubled my daughter’s grave ?’ Alarmed
at my vehemence, he remained speechless and
irresolute.
“Tell me, I exclaimed, in a voice of terror,
“who lias disturbed my daughter’s grave.”
lie evaded my adjuration, and murmured
something about an injunction to secrecy.
With the grasp of a maniac, I bore him to an
inner apartment, and bade him satisfy my
question. Trembling at my violence, he con
fessed that the grave had been watched for
ten nights.
“ Who has watched iny daughter’s grave?”
Reluctantly he gave me the names of those
friends —names forever graven upon my soul.
And so, for those ten long, wintry nights,
so dreary and interminable, which I had east
away amid the tossings of profitless, delirious,
despairing sorrow, they had been watching,
that the repose of that unsullied clay might
remain unbroken.
Anew tide of emotion was awakened. I
tlirow myself down, as powerless as the
weaned infant. Torrents ol tears flowed.
The tenderness of man wrought, what the se
verity of heaven had failed to produce. It
was pot tlie earthquake, nor the thunder, nor
the tcmptesl that subdued me. It was the
still, small voice, f wept until tlie fountains
of tears failed. Tlie relief ol that hour of
weeping can never be shadowed forth in
language. The prison-house of passionate
agony was unlocked. I said to God, that he
was merciful, and I loved him because my
angel lived in bis presence. Since then, it
would seem that iriy heart has been made bet
ter. Ils aspirations are .upward, whither she
has ascended, and as 1 tread Hie devious path
of my pilgrimage, both tlie sunbeam and the
thorn, point me as a suppliant to the Redeemer
of Man. that I may be at last fitted to dwell
with iter forever.
The Portland advertiser says, whilst our
militia have generally acceeded with alacri
ty and with cheerfulness to the orders
which called them out, there, have been a
few who have been suddenly seized with
diseases that never before developed them
selves,'and these offered as excuses for not
dearing arms. We have heard of one most
amusing case which comes under this head,
and that is a man in one of tfic towns of a
neighboring county, who was very suddenly
afflicted with near-sightedness. On his ex
amination before the surgeon of the regi
ment, and in his eagerness to make the
correctness of the complaint apparent, said
to the surgeon, why sir, my sight is so bad
I can’t tell whether that pig yonder is a
pig or a cow'.
VOL- *• NO. 9.
the gate Mrs. maclean—l, e. l.
To the Editor of the London t'imes i
Hut—As ( find there is some painful sur
mises in reference to the melancholy death
ol Mrs. Maclean,! presume to request your
insertion of the accompanying letter. Ik
i is probable one of thc-two she wrote the
night before her decease ; for though w-'h
out (Into, it came to me as a ‘ship |mtr,’
and not by private hand, and I did.nofre
ccive it until I had rend the tnourirfol in
telligence in your [Hiper. It is unnecessary
to direct attention to ils.eheerftil and hrul
thv tone ;tomeit is evidcnee v that -for the
first time during a life of labor, rttvxiety, and
pain, lor such hers undoubtedly was, her
hopes of case and happiness ivere strong
and well grounded. A tflVsteifiouieffispmi
salion oi I’rovideuce has derived literature
and society, of one of its bright us l..orntf
rnents. She will be lamented by iniliions,
to whose enjoyments she so largely, e. ituri
bulcd ; Iml to her private iVionds'tfii lyrs
is one to which language can give no ade
quate expression.
1 have the honor to bo, sir, your oblig. If j v ,-
Anna -My-tw lljtr,. ‘
The Rosary, 12; Gloucester renrl illil'llr-'. dm
“My dearest Mrs. Hall- I ion ut
one of my earliest epislh •|Y tit ■'i to
pics. and as a ship i- jn.~ Lsui.fi ng, f •.eilj wniftw* 1
though it can only he a li „ fi^.--
I call lull you my whole Voyage ol tfil'oe
words—six weeks’ sea-sickness -bull on
now as well as possible, mid have been er
since I lauded. The castle ia.-t-vt rv unfih:
building, and all the robins largo anil cool,
while some would he pretty even in. F.ug
latul; that where lam writing is painted.a
deep blur, u itli some splendid engravings ;
indeed line prints spent ijuiLc.a.passion jyith
the gentlemen here. Alt . Mnelcnja’s libra,-
n is fitted up with book cases of African
mahogany, and portraits of distinguished
authors ; 1, however never approach• it
without due preparation and humility, so
crowded is it with scientific instruments,
-fHfrAcinicH. chronometers, liivametors,, gas
■:mn..isisr*>--iitiiif of which may he
touched by hands nrolancT^(ffflSbKlifL sides
lilt: batteries are dashed against by the waVPS
on the fourth is a splendid land view; the
hills arc covered to the top with what wo
should cull weed, but is here called Inish.
This dense mass of green is varied by some
large handsome white houses, belonging to
different gentlemen, and on two of the bights
are small forts built hy Mr. Maclean. The
cocoa-trees with their long fan-like leaves
are very beautiful. The natives seem both
obliging and intelligent, and look very
picturesque, with their line dayk figures,
with pieces of the country cloth ilung round
them ; they seem to have an excellent car
for music ; the hand plays all the old .pop
ular airs, which- they have caught from
some chance hearing. The servants arc
very tolerable but tiiey take so many to
wotk. Tliff prisoners do the Bcotiririg,
and fancy three men cleaning a roorn that
an old woman in England would do in an
hour ? besides I lie soldier who stands hy,
his bayonet in bis hand. All my troubles
have been of a house-keeping kind, and no
one could begin on a more plentiful stock
of ignorance than myself; however, like
Sinbad the sailor in the cavern, I begin to
see ligiit. I have numbered and labelled
my keys, their name is Legion, and every
morning I take my way to the store, givo
out flower, sugar, butter, &c.,untl am learn
ing to scold if I see any dust, or miss the
customary polish on the tables ; I am ac
tually gitting the steward of the ship, who
is my right-hand to teach me how to make
pastry; l will report progression in the
next; we live almost entirely on ducks and
chickens; if a sheep be killed, it must be
eaten the same day; the bread is very good,
palm wine being used for yeast, and yams
are an excellent substitute for potatoes.
The fruit generally is too sweet for my li
king, but the oranges and pine-apples arc
delicious. You cannot think the complete
seclusion in which I live, but I have a great
resource in writing, and I atn very well and
very happy; but i think even more than I
expected, if that he possible, of my English
friends. It was almost like seeing some
thing alive when I saw ‘The Bucattier’ and
‘The Outlaw’ side by side in Mr. Maclean’s
library; 1 cannot tell you the pleasure it
gave me. Do tell Mr. Hall that every day
I find the books of gems greater treasures,
I refer to them perpetually; I have been
busy with what I hope you willlike—-essays
from Sir Walter Scott’s works, to illustrate
a set of Heath’s portraits ; I believe they
are to appear every fortnight next year.
Give my kindest love to Mrs. Fielding and
Air. Hall, and believe ever,
“Your truly ufiuctiounte, - -I'’ l
“L. E. (Lindon*) Mci.k .
“I shall not forget the shells.”
[The name had been written ‘L. E. Lon
don ;’ but the word Landoti’ was erased*
and that of‘Maclean’ (substituted.]
‘You see how difficult it i. to 1 . ve of!’an Id
custom.’l
Sing Sing Prison. —Iff tw in the 2 i ult
and the 35hist inclusive iff p. • tiers cove
been discharged by cxp’-i'nlL n ( setiii „ce,
two have been pnrdened, ..ml ouc h.is tlicd.
There are non in tlic prison, at HingS.: l .,
I‘M men, and 52 women —811 in all.
DksthvGtion tub Pavilion. *he
splendid hotel at Niagara Falls, called the
Pavilion, was entirely destroyed by fire on
the niglu of the 10th inst. The furniture
was principally saved, but the large stock
of provisions, wines, liquors, &<'. was 1 u*
stroyed. The house “'its kept by j
Cfirv-tier, owned by the ‘Pity <d
Company,’ aetl cost about $10,000.. .tJMjKMi
insured, part in this city and part An Lon
jiHsaifl