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JAMES N. 13 ETIIUNE—Editor.
W. S. REYNOLDS,
PUBLISHER.
TRRYI3,—-TVo Dollars per annum. i\'o nm t .
will be saterad iipou our boote unless th# money
i, paid in iidvnnc*.
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[Foh the (Jorsek Stone.]
Mj Childhoods Home.
Lot mo go once more to my childhood's home,
Th.ough its flowery maze* let me roam,
By the silver stream, ’neath the willow’s shade.
Wh ere in sportive hours,-1 have often strayed. I
Let me look once more on the locust-tree,
S.icred, dear father, to inoiu’ry of thee.
Whose clustering fl overs in wreathes I've made
To twine wijji my sisters’ silken braid.
Let me gaze on the slope where lightly and free
We sported, dear brothers, in innocent glee;
Or bathed mir fset in the murmuring rib.
That flowed from the,spring at the foot of the
hili. m
■’tV • *&***■ -> • ) V ’A
Let me go to ithe place c~ avy wathet-Vreposo,
‘Neath overshadowing boughs, heartsease, and
rose,
And fancy her spirit is lingering there,
To bless once more the child of her care.
‘NUTE.
Decatur, DeKalh Cos., Ga.
iit isct'ihiueouSs
[From the Constitution!! Union.]
TO THE HONORABLE GRAND JURY OF
THE SUPERIOR COURT OF COBB
COUNTY, GEORGIA.
Tits petition of Thomas Wayliind, of Ma
rie. ta. Georgia—S'/tow;.-. ih :
1. That your petitioner believes that
this Honorable body will listen with at
tention ami pleasure to-any petition from
a respi-’.idlile petit! liter, which pro|roses
an improvement in the I’ublic, Schools’
of Vrer.:9!:':, by Yitetins the. most simple
and easy of adoption; rendering all
State machinery for the purpose nnneu
assH'v, assuring tiie hesr kind of e luca
tion tiie people can afford to pay for, and
at the low.-st practicable price without
.danger of imposture and disappoint-
and at the same time adding soim‘-
riithing to the State fund fbr disbursent fi nt
t > citizens requiring aid in tlie schoolmg
of their children.
H. That vo ir petitioner from a
and thorougli acquaintance with the bus
iness of teaching in the public schools
of Georgia, and otherwise, has had am
ple opportunity of knowing the opera
tion of the Trustee School system in the
State, of ascertaining tiie cause of tiie
evils which every one sees, and he does
not hesitate to pronounce the whole svs
tern to ho behind, and opposed to, the
spirit of the age, and quite contrary to
all the approved maxims of political
ccOTiomV an I of h niinn conduct for en
surin - tile efficient performance “f busi
ness; and yonr Petitioner is ready to
suggest to your iioru-rabie body the
remedy.
51. That your Petitioner disavows any
motive hi making this suggestion
foovtmd trie, advantage which entires to
him as an Amcipan citizen claiming
cquel rights with men in other avoca nui -
of life, viz: his privilege of demanding a j
free, just and unprotected competition in
the business of teaching, which he re
gards, as inferior to none in honor and
useful 1 ness, and when restored, as it
iiHiv he, to snch a competition as is prev
alent in other pursuits mt- business, will
he a just ground of State pride. Your
Petitioner will show that this is not’ the ;
•ease now, as must he obvious when your i
honorable ho ly considers this tact, that \
the teachers f the public schools are j
(Cxem t from Rent; and your Petitioner
begs your honorable body to consider
and answer, why they should lie prdtcct
*d in this way more than anv-other class
of men ? Might there not with as much
reason he some srores and offices and
farms set. pp free of rent and tax ? Could
such a proposition he stated without ex
•citing ridicule and indignation, and why
should this he any more riductihms and ;
shameful than trustee schools tree of j
rent or tax ?
4. L’ljat your petitioner, in presenting !
this object, is conscious of higher consid- i
erations than mere personal advantage,
that his highest aim is the setting the ed
ucation of the people of Georgia on the j
ouly right principle, the principle ot,
Free Trade and personal rbk and res-1
ponsShility, and making Marietta, thro
your * co-operation herein, the salient!
point fro n which an entire revolution in
the business of, teaching shall emanate.
He trusts that in the city of Marietta
shall he sot the example of the best
schools at tiie least expense, capable of
accommodating the wishes of every class
of the pe-qde.
5. That your petitioner, in objecting
to trustee schools, disclaims all feelings
of disrespect much less of animosity,
ajjaius the Trustees themselves. He
has had much to do w sh them, grid can
testify as to their good intentions, their
kindness, their unobtrusiveness and in
telligence; and lie certainly regards
them generally as some of die best por
tion of every community. Your peti
tioner never regarded them as having
any attachment fur their office, and as
only assuming it to fill the gap of pub
lic duty, because almost no one else could
be found to fill the heartless, bootless of-
VOL. 2.
lice. And youppeti>>ner believes that
no class of citizeiw will he more ready
to lend a hand to extinguish these schools
when ip is made clear In >w much better
oft’ the people wonld be without them.
And your petitioner furthermore dis
claims all disrespectfid'feelings towards
his brethren, the teachers, of these pub
lic schools. He is piusdons to icmove
the stigma ot i ife.ridritv which the ap
pointment of Trustees or Guardians river
them implies, and to restore them to the
tfee and independent management ot
their own business at. their own risk
To all m teachers the extinc
tion of tlieSßTYnst.ee Schools will bring
Freedom and better chance of self cul
ture, of settling in life by marriage and
accumulating property and investing
their capital in buildings an i cabinets of
art and Literpture whio’i will react ben
eficially up, in pupils ami parents in’ ele
• anting tlie4tifhWinifwHTC'rit’ Instruction.
They only will object who have not lear
ned self-reliance, just as prisi ners long
incarcerated, are content, with their fate
and dont wish the prison doors open.
6. Your petitioner wishes to call your
attention to the fact of the new era
which has opened on the world since
these Trustee Schools were established.
What might have been useful then, is
f-’tile now. The science ot political
econoni ■ lias disclosed to us since that
time its doctrines, of demand and supply
and Free Trade. Nor do we need to he
reminded of these in regard to any oth
er vocation, so completely and generally
have they gone into effect and preva
lence. X 1 1, it is only in these Trustee
schools where theo'd notions reign, and
where people have got to Jearn that ed
ucation is a marketable tiring, like cab
c.o, ami that there need be no m o o fear
of a full supply of teachers, books, ami
buildings, and every thing requisite to
the accommodation of the people in eve
r nook and corner of the land-, than
airy ear of a frill supply ot shoes or hats
reaching thorn. Wherefore, then, should
ail this apparatus on T ustees he contin
ued ?
7- Now your petitioner might admit
to vottr honorable body that ’ft., these
Trustee Schools inflicted no harm upon
a iv one, and it it could he proved on the
contrary that, tlio.v were in the best pos
sible condition; th t the system of edu
cation pursued in them was admirable
in lvspfct to discipline, continuity, and |
strong developemenb ot character, that
men sought an incumbency in them f r
honor and emolument { that the people
were so highly ilel.ghti.-d with them that
fhev were always thronged by willing
-tmloiits; that there wav no difficulty in
raising funds to keep the buildings in
repair or make them stro ger or more
suitable; if it could he shown that the
people were bcuehtted by them in the
highest degree; it Trustees any where
can he found to say that the system is
perfection, then indeed your petitioner
would have very narrow ground to stand
upon ;, tneu we might begin to think
there was some merit in socialism, and
that as txfucatim could bo furnished to
the people in defiance of all the conclu
sions of political eemiony, and in the
best possible manner also, food and .cloth
j jug. and medicine, might he supplied to
them in a similar maimer by 13 >ards ot
Trustees. Then indeed a negative
might be put by your honorable body on
his petition, lint lie is eoiiti lent that
the evils flowing from these Trustee
school's are utolerahle. Whv else was
there a school delegation to Marietta two
years ago to consult on this subject with
the view nj providing some remedy tor
the evils that inve.-t the system. And
why else does this matter make one <li>-
I tinct groan in everv Governor’s Mes.
sage, as a sort of representative groan of
the agony which is felt in every parents
heart.
8. That, in order to present this reme
dy with greater effect to your views,
vour petitioner will proceed to specif)
some ot these flagrant, evilsand in do
ing so lie is confident that Iris statement
is out a reverberation ot soitn Is fain liar to
your honor body. And iti the first place
what is more c ’Hiinon than to hear in
Georgia, language like this, from men j
arid women. “1 was just beginning to |
learn when my teacher was changed.’’
| This perpetual change is the head and
front of the evil. It is obvious to every
oue that in order to have perfection in
j any tra !e or calling there must he on
; tiiinitv. 13->tli Teachers and pupils suf
i for for the waritrof thus continuity. The
! teachers wander about so much that
! tliev make almost no progress in self
! culture arid successive acquirements,
i and so much do pupils suffer- from these
I changes, that what education they get
is rather in spite of the Trustee school
j system tluit by aid from it. It getn-r-
I ates perpetual change by making a tea
cher’s office look like an office in the
gift of the people:- one which mere cliil
j (lien think they can vote up or vote
down accenting to their liumor or c. p
rice. The vocation ol teachers in these
I schools is such a perfect dog’s life that it
; is only tolerable by moving abeHt from
.place to place, in the vain hope of tind
! ing the next school something better. —
This is Very adverse in eed to any aeen
’ initiation ot property or ot aecomplish
ments to facilitate his Settlement in life
and Iris [irogresS in his profession; so
j that both his education as well as that of
COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, YAM 4, 1854.
pupils, remidsoneof tiie stunted oaks of
China which are changed about in poor
soil to he made objects of curiosity, and
which are sold in Pekin at their full
growth, at about a foot in length. If a
teacher will be content with this system
| and live under it, and not try to emerge
j from it into some other pursuit, ho will
be infallibly stain pc 1 by it an inferior
I man. And is it of no consequence tons
as a people that successive generations
of our children should be comimtte ■ jo
these inferior men? to suffer from
schools rather than ho advanced hv
then)?
The second evil which your petitioner
would mention to your honorable body,
is the lack of responsibility which there
is in these Trustee schools. The evil is
inherent in the system Boards make,
serenes—“ What is every body’s husiy
ness is no, body’s Uu*iui£l ■ The oilh e
of tiie Trustee is barren, it is animated
by nil funds to disburse The office is
scarcely more than nominal, and all res
ponsibility is gladly devolved upon *ff;o
teacher, who in his turn shifts all lie
can upon the trustee, and thus between
the two. the public rue trounced. To re
alize this evil fully let. your honorable
body think lbr a moment lmw a work
shop, or farm, or store wonld thrive un
der such kind of management. What
could ensue but chaos, frust ration and
disappointment ? Well, these very con
sequences follow in -thee trustee schools.
That the teacher is this irresponsible
person is seen from the fact of his ten
ure being so insecure, resting as it often
lines upon rlie caprice of had children.
Nearly a century ago in England the
judges w.ere made independent of the
ciown in order to insure greater resp n
sibilify, au-1 the administration of tin
law lias been improving ever since.—
Teachers, under this system, are doomed
to an Arab sort of life, and are not un
frequently living in a single state, arid
when living in the married state, are
doomed .to the same itinerant, migratory
life, a-state most adverse not only to the
acquirement of property and learning,
lint ot those moral qualities wli-eh
sjifiugfroin perfect responsibility. How
• little’cofiHiJe'iice we have in a citizen in
any other v,,cation of life who has no
fixity of dwelling, no settled state. We
naturally the! more confidence in the cit
izen who lias risked Iris all in his profes
sion, and is identified with ourselves in
tiie yt el fare of our community'. Tiie
trustee teacher is generally a transient j
‘man, tike a transient dentist or pedlar, j
who, it any damage is done, is off’ and i
gone, safe from iudeinniiy and letribu-i
rion. Your peiitionoi feels it almost im- j
possible to exaggerate the evil cause- ;
qiiencos that flow from this want, of res- j
pon-dbiiiiy on the part of teachers. It ;
frustrates all the cuds designed by the
laws-r tiie diffusion of education', and
contracts, and shuts it up as much as
could lie possibly devised. It is like a
snag in ihe Mississippi hindering navi
gation; people go round these schools
and a old them just as the boats do the
snag. Let your petitioner remind your
honorable body what a vast business can j
he don.) without the intervention of inn- j
nev by the mere exchange of labor. It t
is op niiig the home tra ie which en j
riches nations aud communities, and it]
is making teachers responsible moil by j
opening unlimited competition which j
will educate them. Tne trustee system !
is the great stumbling block in the way
of teaching the people. The itinerant
teacher can accommodate in the way of
bar.er those ouly who boat'd and clothe
him. And whom besides? The fixed
and settled teacher, on the contrary,]
feels the chords which hold the column- j
nitv together, ami can reach multitudes j
who are afraid to ventu.ie on an expense j
which they cannot liquidate by money,
although they might in some kind ot la
bor. And tins leads your petitioner to
specify particularly the g> eat increaieof
expense which trustee sclreols create. —
Here your petitioner is not afraid of a
hearty response, almost a shout ot ap
proval in bringing it to light and por
vingit. Is it not a univers.d ainl just
complaint, “every new teachers- bo ma
ny new books.'” It is no exaggeration
to estimate the expense of hooks to he
five times more than it needs he by this
law made system of schools , which ir
perhaps a better designation ot them
than to call them trustee schools, for the |
trustees are innocent ami are mere pas- j
ijivo e cecutionei s os the law. Worthy!
and excellent men! they little think
what harm, what infinite harm they are ;
doing from day to lay in keeping hack .
education from tiie people.
Now hooks are such a costly affair
under this old system that it is often a
reason for keeping children from school
altogether. Now your Retitionei need
hardly state that in case of resident and
settled Teactiers this evil would not oc-i
oii|. t The cost ot hooks ior the cduca
ti<m of a. whole family were the same
hooks adhered to wonld he a mere
trifle with what it now is. The Teach
ers in a town engaged in friendly com
petition would confer and regulate this
matter as men do in other business.—
Then too what a loss inflicted on store
keeners by unnecessary change of
hooks! Tliev order a dot of books, ami
before they are sold the man is gone,
and the hooks are so much dead loss..
Then again—frequently more than the
expense of bopj-o and schooling togeth- |
er, is tiie .unnecessary finery which
must he bought for siiowv examinations
j which is niiolh )r absurdity of this hoi
j low system. No test that can he relied
i on of the excellence of a school or of tne
| character and real endowments of pu
pils. They are get up to catch epheme
ral applause aid are usually nothing
j hut the- advertisement ot a qudeksss
] tpm that is pa ring awav. A school
should he open iv all time's without no
tice, like any other business, for the
examination of parents and visitors.—
Tire test of a good school is, hooks 1
brought home an,! the A, ttffjn them : and
a good consecutive reason of the learn ,
ing and the hojja within them rendered
by the children ! > questions ask( and by an v ]
one, at anv (i:e. : But to the point rif
expense. Not ot:-y in rogiir to the,
great, and unnoTtrarv e<*t'of lteok*. is
this law make system of schools most
object ion able, but the great Cost of ed -’
iication itself. The Soutlie ;, n people!
are so well acquainted with the subject j
of protect ion of manufactures that tliev I
iit-id only,to he reminded of it to recog- j
nizy at mice the increase of expen-,e its ]
the natural concomitant. The lowest!
price will, he reached that ig practica
ble by free competition and your Pe
titioner hesitates not to say that the
expense would he probably much less
than at present, because-a much larg
er'. number of pupils could be calculated
on. Just for example, as a store keeper
by enlarging Iris returns can afford to]
take a smaller per ceiHage-ofprofit. A I
very great proportion of he juvenile pop- j
iilafhni <d every cmiinmiiity are not at*
school, and really not because their par
ents don’t value real education, hut he
cause tliev are afraid of imposture
agajnst which the annual advertise
ments of Trustees afford no security,
indeed they are trusted no more than
the advertisements of quack medicines;
and furthermore because the ants of
these parents banimi: he reached in the
way of exchange of labor. No won
: dor the people regard the character and
I advertisements of Trustees as no gtiar
| aiitee oj- guide ior theni, for they See-ev
eivvvliere the Trustees turning from the
schools which-they alyeitise as lieiiig
siv-li a world’s ntarvel.an ! Bendingtheii’
chi! Iren to sothe other'schools indejiend
c-nt and r spnnsih'-,—just as the c hn
missioner of public <!el>t crack nj> fin
new stocks amlsell them awav from their
| own possession rjs soon as jpoSsiffie. —
‘Tills firing biures to file ’greater Cost ot
j schooling children,; and this top he i*
oliseTVed not wTfte-ilTTrrtiMg rlie ‘teacher
in these Taw made schools has no rent
or tax to pav, so that the law had better
lie expnngeTl as goon as jwrssible if it
makes education d.-ar instead of cheap.
Individual enterprise in free compe
tition will do any business cheaper |
than a law m-ele machinery for tlie i
purpose ‘ldris is universal experiehce
with the fewest possible exceptions.—
And your Petitioner will maintain that
it®is as much out of the sphere of gov
ernments to sup|tly buildings free of
rent to a teacher as to supply workshops
and offices aiid store buildings free of
rent to other worthy citizens. And it’tlie
I state attempt it tor any plausihleTeasnns
it. will infallibly make education more
expensive and difficult to the people.:—
| d’hese transient,’ law made, privileged
| teachers ca not afford to teach us cheap
|as the independent teacher. This is ev
ident again from anologv to other things,
and by sticking to tiie truth that educa- !
lion is a thing in the market of as uni
versal want as flonror meat. The more
; capital can he accumulated and invest-;
i ed in all business the cheaper tlfe arti- j
| cle can ho afforded. Thu itinerant i
j teacher is not the man to accumulate
lmt lie is doomed to poverty the very
law which give him his building free of
rent and tax—*a rolling stone gathers
no moss’—‘three moves are cqm\l to i
a lire’ are homely truths worthy of ap
plication to teachers. The pnbli'c would
he greatly benefited by teaches being
rich instead of poor, just as we get
glass and woollens and everything
cheaper and better from tliiise/factories
w!:e e Tie giva’est. capital is invested in
tlie business. But this Trustee school
system is a ‘dog in the manger system’
it neither thrives itself, nor lets any
other ‘school thrive from the general
[ distrust it creates. The present gener
! ation lias scarcely a conception of the
| greatness which Georgia would attain
!by her schools, as well ashy her Rail
| Roads, Factories and Fann<, if they
1 were left.entirely to individual entor
i prise. And this leads your Petitioner
! to another great evil connected witluthe
increased expense of these law-made
schools, and that is their continual infe
riority from generation to generation.—
This necessarily follows from the inferi
orit.v of the teacher'; he can buy. no
* cabinets of literature or art for he has
noplace to keep them. Perfection In
every art and calling is gained by an
affection for it, by devotion y f intellect,
and saving of capital, by gradual im
provements loft behind by former gen
erations, all the movements in every
department animated bv the. love of
property and distinction. When vre
turn from this view of these most miser
able Trustee schools buildings, w.itli their
damaged walls and broken windows,-
mutilated, unsuitable and wretched fur-
j nitlii'4, which it amounts .to torture to
use, ton! mscriptutiis everywhere, (lie
effervescence of spite, defiance, and dis-
I Kidiitc morttld J wolfs almost useless; no
decent privies, fences broken down, <fec\,
Ac., not a single object of comfort ,or
relief or improvement for the eve to
(Ueil on, is it any wonder the art of ed
ucation is almost lost, that school if? open :
only one .halt the. .day, .that children
dont learn, that the l*eml is sic’- and
die heart faint. When we think of a!
w 11 -established factory with its solid
erections and appropriate departments
i at a well arranged business, whereupon
every spot the eye can iix, it finds
animation, “emus, information, en
lightened economy, tendency to defined
ends, and the ere at result of all—a
mauntaefure perfect and unsurpassable,
and then turn and to think of one of
the e wivmhed Trustee seim its where
there is positively . less provision for j
the comfort ol the pupils,than there is in a
Penitentiary for its convicts, what an
imputation on the people who made the
law ! and upon those who allow it f o'con
tinue without lepcal w hen the evil is j
pointed out-! BothTeaetiers and pupils j
lose all their energy in such wretched j
places, and inferiority is aferotyped upon j
them both. Is it any marvel that chil- j
dren cm over,set a school, can get the up
per hand? There is .nothing affection
ate, natural or domestic ah mt ir. -
Young people are quick to discern the
governing capacity and are as restive
under these little oligarchies as their
fathers would be. Can they reverence
what is inferior? what is not self sup.
portant? And will your honorable
body s e this inferiority continue any
longer without renioiiMratiye and an
effort to put an end to the System which
praduees and perpetuates‘it ?
Your Petitioner could carry out the
view of these evils much virtliei but lie
presumes he has said enough for the
present and lie submits to your honor
abl. body that it is piobable, the aggre
gation of tiie evils has created such a
pang in thtf'hody politic that many look
to the Legislature ibf furtlie relief just as
the protected manufactures at the. North
used to-do year after year. And ‘furth
ermore ho submits that we should learn
from the experience of the past to dis
trust, all Legislative interference herein ;
and at all events try the system of com
petition ‘in sjchools which is found to
I work such marvellous good for the pub
’ lie in all other business. Your Peli
[ tioner submits to your honorable body
[ that the design of our forefathers may
still be “kept, oi diffusing education a
j widely as possible aiuong those families
I who find it most difficult, to pay for it,
(•but Hi?.t We should endeavor to at cons
| plisii ibis design by the maxims and
guidance of science and wisdom ; and
i he submits that this will be by abolish
! ing the Trustee school system, and by
• opening the business of Tuition lo an
unrestricted competition ; by selling tile’
Trustee property and adding the
proceeds (which would probably rfeacli
a quarter of a million of dollars) to the
State and county funds already in ex
isfeiiee for distrib ting aid to parents
needing assistance in the eduoa ion. of
their families. And that such parents
should he left perfectly free to choose
whatever school they please tor tins
purpose, Your Petitioner prays vow
honorable body to consider bis petition
with regard to the good, and it his sug
gestions however feebly urged are deem
ed reasonable and worthy of adoption,
that your honorable body will take those
measures which to you shall seem best
i for the discussion of subject by the
I people at large, and give instructions to
I our members of Legislature to move for
such action herein as that the stigma
of reproach which now attaches to the
public schools may be .effaced troui the
escutcheon of Georgia, and that a free
j career be opened to the competition of
I all for the best schools, that the spirit,
; intelligence, and enterprise of Teachers
I can reach by unrestricted competition.
I And your Petitioner will ever pray.
THOMAS WAYLAND.
i Marietta , March, sth ISo-L
A Free Gospel.— The Louisville Ex
! a m iner tells ;i story of a church member
| who had always been more remarkable
! for opening his month tosaj’ amen than
’ opening his purse. lie had on one oc
i casionTakeii his usu and place near the
! preacher's .stand and W making respoti
| ses with grcai animation. After a burst
■ of burning eloquence trohi the preachei,
; he clasped his hands, and cried out in a
! kind of ecstacv, ‘Yes, thank (md . 1 have
; been a Christian for twenty-five years,
and it -hasn’t tfost me 25 cents! ‘lfless.,
yr>ur stingy s<uil!’ was the preaches s j
euiphatie reply.
No*li! ‘ entxment. —‘When I die’ said
Pope to Swift, speaking of his lumie.y, ‘1
should bo ashamed to leave enough tor a
monument, it the/o-was a wanting tiien.l
ground.’
A man is under arrest in 17001011,
charged with pealing an umbrella. „H
is expected-to plead in defence the ‘cus
tom of the country.’-
The man who paid the bill with pleas
ure save it is easier to raise t- an cash.
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each nlis<*jihmt inn-ipon. .’ •
A Iffieral deduction’ wiii b made tor yearly
ii'lvortisciiumts.
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Tiik Ck.vt ano Tiik K voi.K.— Simon
Ilohlfast was not a iiboral-minded man.
l herc was r.o danger of -Ids ruining
himself by extensive charities. Still,
whenever then e was a collection taken
up at cliiirch, or at n/public meeting.—
; He would give something.
‘lt. looked well to give sojnetldr g,’ lie’
said,yawl there was no fieed of letting
the public know how much you gave.—
j He jutted ostentation, for 1 is.p-.ir
Heal ttlys put a cent in h s pocket on
such occa ions. .People might think
from the rattling that it was gold, or at
least .-dvor. Mr Holdfast was about to
attend an. evening; meeting for a chari
table purpose. Jlc aceoniiuglv deposit
ed in- liis vest pocket, as be supposed,
the inaiai Jilmral sum.
: This. lio deposited in the box with an
air of conscious uj-bis-
face.
When he reached home, lie had occa
sion, to feel in his pockets and he dis
t-ove red a cent carefully laid away in a
recess. Ihe , eagle wis now nowhere to
be found 1
‘Good Heavens!’ exclaimed Simon,
‘l’ve*."one mid given away ten dollars to *
that cursed eliarlt ‘—an amount which
properly lai I out, would have served
for a thousand occasions of the same
kind!’
.Simon sat down qalte overcmne, buc
it couldn’t lie helped". - As an oiisett to
this extraganco, be has decided to reduce
the wage's of his, servant girl tili the
amount was made up.
A Oo.upkomisk.—The following, which
we find uiujgr the head of ‘A Compro
mise,’ (says one to whom the anecdote
i- new.) appears to u to illustrate pretty
well the relative position of life South aud
North.
One cold night, Quasliee awoke f <>ra
his sleep, amt addressed bis shivering,
bed fellow—
‘llallo, Sambo! I want half do caliber--
ing.’
‘He! Qimshee! you more nor half al
ready.’
•Tlimiu! Diiln tink dis niggtfr fol to
ax for wliat he got already, eh ? I want
t’udder half, too !’
vlimbo! jDcnlqnit: for I no see what
business I got in dis bed !’
‘No you won’t quit, neither, mv brud
dor ;you sarbe berrv well for to keep my
back warm; so jis keep quiet and lay
where you is, if you know what's good
for, you, you nigger.’
Life’s eiuihauiod cup but sparkles near
the brim l—r&y/'ftn.
The world is sevei'e on petty faults; but
soon forgets great one.
Religion’s the best armor in the world,
but the worst cloak.
He that never changes any of his opin
ions never corrects any of his errors.
Consider not what might hare been,
but what is n av to bo done.
The prettiest lining for a bonnet is a
sweet lace.
The man who used to roll in wealth,
now goes on loot in poverty..
The lady whose sleep was brokoii r has
had it mej ded.
The Deacon who took up a collection *
lias laid it down.
Pickpockets, like many politicians,go in
for the ‘right of search.’
| A ship going over Charleston bar,
with a negro p.lot on board, the eap-
I tain asked him ‘What watqr is the ship
inf
‘Fai t water, irtassa/
‘I know that, you black rascal, but
J how much water is there?’ cried the cap
j tain
| ‘pli, massh,’ says Sambo, ‘you t’ing me
bring tin pot f,r measure umP
A merchant fn this city suddenly en
tered his counting house the other day r
and found one of his elerks rea> big a large
hook in the air, with the end resting on
liis chin.
‘Why ain’t you at work, John I’he in-
quired.
‘I am, sir.’
‘Ton are! at whnt work?’
‘Balancing the Ledger, sir.’
An Irishman,” fresh from the sod, and
anxious to secure a humming bird,
caught a large bee instead ; it stung him,
when Pat crie 1 out-- .
‘llouly Moses! how hot its little fat
is.*.,” ‘
‘Dear Sir,’said a gentleman to a hard
drinker,‘do stop topjng or you. will wear
Vmt.the coat of vour stomach.
‘Then let it work in its shirt sleeves/
was the reply. * V
—’ —s
‘Jones, did you ever have any inter
est. in the public docks?’
‘Why, y-e-z, air, I stood in ‘era or.e*
about tbur hours!’
If von wish to hare a shoe made of
durable materials yon should make the
upper leather of the month of a hard
drinker, for tlmt-hever Ifets In mater.’
How often <lo wo Say au reviorf to
1 those we never viare to see again.