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The Dying Boy*
The following poem waa published, as “we re
* member, many years ago, in the Albany Arg'u*,
and was written, it is said, by J. H. Bright. foTo
our feelings and associations of tho„ught, it is one
of the most touching poems in the language.
JV. Y. Independent.
It must be sweet in childhood to give back •
The spirit to its Maker; ere the heart
Has grown familiar with the paths of sin.
And shown—ta garner up its bitter fruits. ‘
I knew a boy whose infant feet had trod
Upon the blossoms of some seven springs,
And when the eighth came round and called him
out,
To revel in its light, he turned away,
And sought his chamber to lie down and die.
Twas night, be summoned his accustomed friends,
And in this bestowed his last requests:
‘Mother, I'm dying now 1
There is a deep suffocation in my breast
As if some heavy hand my bosom presa ;
And on my brow
I feel the cold sweat stand ; •
Mv lips grow dry and tremulous, and my breath
Comes feebly up. Oh ! tell me, is thi^.death 1
Mother 1 your hand—
‘Here, lay: it on my wrist,
And place the other now beneath my head ; *
And say; sweet mother, say, whSu I am dead.
Shall I be missed f
‘Never, beside your knee,
Sliall I kneel down again st night to pray,
Nor with the morning wake, and sing the lay
You taught to me .;
Oh ! at the lime of prayer,
When yon look around and see a vacant seat.
You will not wait then for my coming feet—
You’ll miss me there!’
‘Father, I'm going home!
Tor the good home you spoke of: that bleas’d land
Where it is oue bright summer always, and
Storms do not come i
I must be happy then, —
From pain and death you say I shall be free,
Tliat sickness never enters there, and we
Shall meet again!’
•Brother ! the little spot
I used to call ray garden, where long hours
We’ve strayed to watch the budding things and
flowers,
Forget it not!
Piant there some box or pine:
Something that lives in winter, and will be
A verdant offering to my memory
And call it mine.’
‘Sister ! my young rose-tree,
That all the spring hath been my pleasant care,
Just patting forth its leaves so green and fair,
I give to thee;
And when its roses bloom
I shall be gone away—tny short life gone :
But will you uot bestow a single one
Upon my tomb ?’
‘Now, mnnrer, ri.„ ,
Yon sang last night; lam weary, and most steep.
Who was it called my name! Nay,do not woep;
You’ll all come soon!
Morning spread oe’r earth her rosy wings,
And that young sufferer, cold and ivory pale,
Lay on his couch asleep. The gentle air
Came through the opening window, freighted with
The savory labors of the early spring:
He breathed it not ; the laugh of passers-by
Jarr’d like a discord in some mournful tue,j >
But marred not not his slumbers. He was dead ?
A Child’s Belief in Giants,
Someone in describing his school-bov’
days, relates the following anecdote, which
aptly illustrates the firm faith some chil
dren seem to have in the actual existence
and personal identity of the giants, dwarfs,
goblins and fairies, who figure so conspicu
ously in most of the nursery tales.
“ Among my schoolmates was a curious
little fellow, as grave and serious as an
old man, but quite possessed by tho usual
love of his age, fairy books, dud especially
tales of giants. . Giants, to him, were the
great features of these; you would have
thought that there was nothing else real in
the world, and that everythingelse existed
for their sake, to set them off, as it were; a.
giant, in bis idea, was the very perfection
of all that was human. From the parlor
of the “manse,” we could hear him in his
own bedroom, as he sat reading “Jack the
Giant Killer,” aloud, in a clear and sonor
ous voice, with the solemnity of a chapter
in the Bible. “And Jack #ent on, ami
came to a house where the giant he had
heard of was sitting, at the door, eating
his supper,” and so on. Os a Sunday, by
way of change, it wa6 the “Pilgrim’s Pro
gress,” where Giant Despair and Doubt
ing Castle, were the prime passages ; the
scenes of the prisoners in his dungeon, and
ot the giant’s conversation in bed yvith his
wife, were-dwelt upon with indescribable
Zest; the monster being, all the while,
evidently regarded with favor, as a kind of
injured hero, rather than otherwise. When
the little boy first eame to school, he was
put in the youngest form; he did uot seem
at all humbled or bewildered, however, by
the new scene of contusion, but sat pon
dering over his book in his accustomed
grave manner, looking about him uo\y and
then, as ifhe saw nothing extraordinary.—
One day, soon after little Brown’s coming,’
his class was called op to read their lesson,
and he appeared at the head of it. A bov
who was reading, came to the word cha
grin, and was stopped to tell the meaning.
“You ?” “You ?” “Yon ?” said the master,
to one after another. /‘You, Graeme
Brown, what is the meaning of chagrin,*”
Graeme looked down for a moment, and
up at the ceiling. “Give an example,”
said, the master,
Graedie'Brown opened oat immediately,
as if quite at home, and in.a solemn, inea- I
sured sort of tone —“If one giant tirw a
man in a garden, and caught hold of him, ;
and was going to eat him; and ifanoth- i
er giant was looking over the wall, and j
came and took Jhe man away, then the j
first giant would feel chagrin”
All the other boys laughed at the illna- j
tration. “ Quite rigfct,” said the master; \
“bat wbat in thovworld,, boy, made you
; think of giants, eb f” 4 4 4/
The boy stared up intshfs face with faf
greater “astoaishmeat. v“Mr. Gow,” ex
claimed he as solemnly as before, in a sort.
“No,” said Mr. Gow t , almost taken
aback, and, as Graeme thought, naturally
ashamed at having to confess Iris ignorance.
“ Well, Mr. Gow,” Continued he, “ I’ve
lent it to a bov, but I’ll lend it to you,
whenever he’s done.” # . .
“Why, the boy’s mad l” ejaculated the
schoolmaster, unable to restrain his laugh
ter —“perfectly mad j Go out to play, and
don’t let me hear you talking of such non
sense again - ! Ila! ha! ha I giants indeed!”
said he laughing to hiinseltjevery now and
then, but so taken with the idea, that it
kept him in good humour for the rest of
the afternoon.
Uncle Benjamin’s Sermon.
A correspondent of the Boston Post
furnishes the following, which he calls
“ Uucle Benjamin’s Sermon,” and which,
he remarks, “contains many wholsesome
truths:” .
Uncle Benjamin’s Sermon. —Not many
hours ago I heard-Uncles Benjamin discus
sing this matter to hisTSon, who was com
plaining of pressure. . 4 -
“Rely upon it, Sammy,” said the old
man, as he leaned itfibri his staff, with his
gray locks flowing in the breeze of a May
morning; “murjnuring pays no bills.” I
have been an%bServer at times these fifty
years, an j I neversawa man helped out of
a hole by cursing his horses. Be as quiet
as you can, for nothing will grow under a
moving harrow, and discontent harrows
th* mind. Matters are bad, 1 acknowl
edge, but no ulcer is any better for finger
ing. Tho more you groan the poorer you
are.
Repining at losses is only putting pep
per into a sore eye. Crops will fail iu all
soils, and we may be thankful that we have
not a famine. Besides, I always.took no
tice that whenever I felt the rod pretty
smartly, it was as much as to say, ‘llere-is
something which yon have got to learn.’
‘Sammy, dou’t forget that your schooling
is not over yet, though you have a wife and
two children,”
“Aye,” cried Sammy, “you may say
that, and two apprentices into the bargain,
and I should like to know what a poor man
can learn here, when the greatest scholars
and lawyers are at loggerheads and can’t
for their lives tell what has become of the
hard money.”
“Softly, Sammy, I am older than you ;
I have not got these hairs and/this crook
ed back without some burdci/s. I could
tell you stories of the days o/ continental
money, when my grandfather used tojituffl
a sulky-box with bills t< pay,|pj j
ing, or a wheat fan, ad
used throns foe-, pins, ■
•cy.Hv in the garret. Yon/jj
■vhat youTSTfTlear.j i Yon
soven things. i
Frist; that von have saw!) too 1
spent too much. I never taught yon to be
a miser, butT have vau wive vour
i -liar %a‘nothin ’ when you might b-nv
laid one-naTT Tor ellai rw
ibr a rainy day.
Second ; that."ydn- Jiave aMpffiite.-ffi’doh
upon credit. i always toldT<ryKHbiMi
a shadow; there is a an ha&jH^PTbl!S|H
which casts the shadow; but a simlrPbefy
may cast a larger shadow, and nO wfUfj
man will follow the shadow any further
than he can sec* the substance. You may
! now loarn that you have followed a shadow,
| and been decoyed into a bog.
i Thirdly; that yon have gone in too
•niuch haste to be rich. Slow and easy
wins the race.
Fourthly ; that no course of life can be
depended upon as always prosperous. I
am afraid tho younger race of working
men in America have a notion that nobo
dy will go to ruin this side of the water. —
Providence has greatly blessed us, and we
have become presumptuous.
Fifthly; that you have not been thank
ful enough to God for his benefits in past
timys.
Sixthly ; that you may be thankful our
lot is not worse. We might have famine,
or pestilence, or wars, or tyranny, or all to
gether.
And lastly, to end my sermon, you may
learn to offer with more understanding,
the prayer of your infancy,‘Give us this
day our daily bread.’ ”
The old man ceased, and Sammy put on
his apron, and told Dick to blow away on
! the forge bellows.
Professor Morso,
The author of the magnetic telegraph,
delivered a speech recently at St. John’s,
in which he gave an interesting reminis
cence of his early telegraph troubles. The
bill for establishing a line, he says, was be
fore Congress, laid passed the House, and
was on the calendar of the Senate, but the
evening of the last clay had commenced
with more than one hundred bills to be
considered before mine could be reached.
Wearied with anxiety of suspeuce, I con
sulted with one of my Senatorial friends ;
he thought the chance of reaching in so
small, that ho advised me to consider it as
lost. In a state suspence of I must leave you
to imagine, I returned to my lodgings to j
perparations to return home the next
day. My funds were reduced to it fraction
of a dollar. In the morning as I was about
to set down to breakfast, the servant an
nounced that a young lady desired to see
me in the’ parlor. It was the daughter of
my excellent frieud and College class mate,
the Commissioner of Patents. She called,
she said, by her father’s permission, and
the exuberance of her own joy, to announce
the passage of the telegraph bill, at mid
night, the moment, before tho Senate ad
journed.
This was the turning point of the tele
graph invention in America, As an ap
propriate acknowledgement for her sym
pathy and kindness—a sympathy wiiicli
only a woman can feel and expres§—l j
-promised* that the first despatch bl’ iha L
first line of telegraph from WjMMfctjjMMHi, i
Balt inn vo, should i.*e hMtitayjfl
w,hieh^M|j|
THE CHRISTIAN INDEX.
the line was completed, and everything
being prepared, I apprised my young
friend of the fact. A note from her en
closed this despatch ; “ What hath God
wrought!” These were the first words that
passed over the electric wires, on the first
completed line in America. None could
have chosen more'in accordance with my
graph with the name of its author. It phi* -
All Sorts of Minds-
There, is’a strong disposition in men of
opposite minds to despise, each other. A
grave man cannot conceive what is the
use of wit in society. A person who takes
a strong common-sense view of the sub
ject, is for pushing out by the bead and
shoulders an ingenious theorist, who
catches at the lightest iftid faintest analo
gies; and another man, who scents the
ridiculous from afar, will hold no com
merce with him who feels exquisitely the
’.find, feelings of the heart, and is alive to
tlothing else; whereas talent is talent, and
mind is mind- v in all its branches! Wit
gives to life one of its best flavours, com
mon sense leads to immediate action, and
gives'society its daily motion; large and
comprehensive views cause its annual iota
tion; ridicule’chastises. folly and impru
dence, *and’ keeps men in their proper
sphere ; subtlety seizes hold of the fine
threads'of truth; analogy darts away in
the ■ sublime discoveries; feeling
paints all the exquisite passions of man’s
soul, a/d rewards him, by a thousand in
ward Visitations, for tho borrows that come
frouywithout. God made it all! It is all
goo/l We must despise no sort of talent,
thyy all have their separate duties and
ij/es—all; the happiness of man for their
ybjeet; they all improve, e'xalt and glad-j
rl e n 1 i fe. — Sydney ‘Smith.
The Merchant’s Clerk and the Plow
boy.
The young man who leaves the farm
field for the merchant’s desk or the law
yer’s or doctor’s •office, thinking to dignify
or ennoble his toil, makes a sad mistake.
He passes, by “that step, from indepen
dence to vassalage. He barters a natural
for an artificial pursuit, and'he must be the
slave of the caprice of customers and the
chicane of trade, either to support himself
or to acquire fortune. The more artificial
a man’s pursuit, the more debasing is it
morally and physically. Tojest con
jtrast tire mfiagbftnjt’s c 1 erk, -Aikthe plow-
Übuy. Tiiti former mmy anyei|j: t fliost <•>;
pljfem tr ufosl?, ‘i it l.iN, gander 1:
a m:ui’S te ‘Wjg Bps* i
A good story is toldfoiiTTO*. Hopkins,
["mbFe of college management On oile oc
! caeion there had been a good deal of noi.se
| made in one of the colleges by the blowing
; of a tin horns, which it. was deemed advi
sable should be stopped, A direct edict
to that effect would probably have done
but little good. The doctor knew it and
had recourse to a speech. “ I have noticed,
young gentlemen,” said he, “ that in one
of the college buildings, there has been a
good deal of noise and tooting ot horns..—
Now, Ido not know as is any wjong in
blowing a tin horn—but in this case it is
rather annoying to persons of ‘delicate
nerves, and is apt to prejudice those pass
ing by against the statw of discipline in
the college. Now, as I said, there is no
particular crime iu blowing horns, but
neither is there any particular merit in it;
it does not prove anything as to a man’s
ability. Anybody- can toot, toot, toot,
toot, after a little practice. Indeed, I recol
lect a number of my fellow students when
l was a-t college, who used to be continual
ly tooting, and one thing I have noticed
about them, and that is, that these same
persons have been tooting.”
It is said that tooting went out of date
at Williams College about that time.—
Amherst Express.
How to Care Corns.
Never let tiuvtliing harder than your
linger nail ever touch acorn; paring it,
certainly makes it take deeper root, as
cutting a weed ofF at the surface. The
worst bind of corns are controllable, as fol
lows :
Soak the feet in quite warm water f>r
half in hour before going to bed, then rub
the corn with your linger for several min
utes, with some common sweet oil. Do this
every night; and every morning, repeat
this rubbing in of oil with the linger, bind
ou tile toe during the day, two or three
thicknesses of buckskin, with a hole in the
centre to receive the corn; in less than a
week, in ordinary cases, if the corn dues
not fall out, you can pinch it out with the
finger nail ; and weeks, and sometimes
months will pass away, before you will be
reminded that y oll ha.d a corn, when you
can repeat the process. Corns, like con
sumption, are never cured, but may be in
delinitely p stponud. The oil and soak
ing, soltens and loosens the corn, while the
buckskin protects it from pressure, which
makes it perhaps to be pushed out, by the
undergrowth of the parts.— Hall's Jour.
A Fountain of liL> u d,—h little to the
south of the town of Virtad, in Central
America, is a small cavern { grata), which
Uuring the day is visited by the buzzard
and yolHanes, and at night by a multitude
vl an ne purpose of feeding
uiootl.yfußfciifelonl l d .here
B IMfe^
whicli
it keeps reddened with a small How ot ii
quid that has the color, smell, and tase ot
blood. In approaching the grot a disa
greeable odor is observed, and when it is
reached there may he seen some ot the
apparent blood in a state of coagulation.
Dogs eat it eagerly. The late Don Rafael
Osejo undertook to send some bytties of
this liquid to London for analysis ; but: it
corrupted within twenty-four Injurs* bttjyfc
ing the bottles.
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COTTON-SEED DRILL |
ALL PLANTERS have realized the want of a
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on every kind of land, and at the same time be so
simple in construction and operation that it could be
used by negroes without liability ol getting out ol
order. ‘ A Drill which ice think posse.-ses all these
j qualities, we now otter to the planting community.
L After a thorough trial for the last two years in diit -,-
■rent hands on all kinds of land, we would state some
-of the advantages to be derived from their use.
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enough, in planting one hundred acres, to pay lor
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2d. The saving of labor in planting—one horse
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drop the seed and cover from seven to nine acres
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] 3d. The great saving of labor in. chopping out, i
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by gentlemen of the first standing in our suction ol !
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Certificates.
This is to certify that I planted one hundred and
sixty acres of cotton wi'h Randall Mercer’s 1 hint
ers and i consider them superior to anything of tin
kind I have ever seen or tried. The saving of seed
alone wo<dd pay for the nw bines in a season or two.
and 1 think a hand can do one.third more hoeing than
he could in cotton planted the common way.
8. L. BARBER.
Lae county, Ga., July loth, 1555.
Messrs. Randall <b Mercer. —Gkxtlemex: In reply to
yours of this date, lean say with satisfaction, that 1
have used your Cotton Seed Drills on the I’m in of D.
A. Vason, Esq., with great success 1 consider them
to be of great value. They are a saving of aboutoae
third of the labor of cultivation, about, two or t,ll've
bushels of seed to the acre in planting, and a great
saving of labor in planting, as th-y open the fui-’ow,
drop and cover the seed with one horse and hand J
think them worth one hundred dollars a piece to any
planter that plants full crops of cotton. As for m> sf
1 would not plant a crop of cotton without them fur
any- consideration In the bounds of reason. Yours,
very respectfully, A. J. BARKSDALE.
Lee county, Ga., July l tth, 1855.
I have used Randall A Mercer’s Cotton Planter two
s- asons, and consider Diem of groat valu- to the farm
er I have seed enough each year to pay for tin-
Planters; then 1 have at least ne-lhird the labor ni
cultivation, as the cotton is sowed in so narrow a init
that with good plowing there is but little hoe work
needed. Tltere is also a saving of hands and hors sin
planting. I should sav they were worth one hundred
dollars each, and recommend every farmer to use
them. 8. D. MoLENDON.
Lee county, Geo., July 9th. 1855.
jvgjTT hve been overseeing; for Mr. S. D. McLendon
the present year, and fully concur in his statement.-
above. ‘ DAVISSON WARREN.
jt Messrs. Randall and; Mercer. —Gentlemen; In reply to
yours, 1 will only say 1 have used three of your Cos ton
Beed Drills, aud consider them otjjreat. value, from the
fact that in tin. as,, of them 1 saved IVoiii .
se< “d to each acre planted, And ai...... <>:i
■jHpbf the labor of ou*ti&sijn| notrCquni -g on- I -di
UPWsMteuch hoc work as the old Vay of planting -;,)><>
got considerable saving in the labor of . i
never expect, to plant cotton'without, them, if 1 can
so g“t them at any price. I have planted eight acres pc.
Hp.ay to catch Drill. They are simple, easily m n.ag, !,
Hffiind there is no difficulty about getting a good .-tan i
” Very respectfully, yonrs, jW. F lIAMRICK.
Lee county-, Geo., July 12tb, ‘fSSX.
Col. J. H. Watson.- -Dear Sir: I can recommend
your Cotton PI; inters (Drill) in (he highest terms. J
have tried them on nil my land except new ground,
and I think they will do in that. They will do in a
mountainous country as well as in a level. If I had
not bought, I woul 1 travel to vour shop, which is 75
miles, and pay fifty dollars a piece for them. It saves
one-third of the work, one hand c>n plant as much as
two, and one hand can chop out three acres, while oue
hand cm chop out one acre after a common plow.
Yours respectfully, K. BRASWELL.
Thomasville, Thomas county, Ga.
Col. J. 11. Witso<i ~ Sir: This to certify that,! have
used Randall & Mercer’s Cotton Seed Drill of vour
manufacture, and am so well pleased wjlli them that I j
would recommend all planters who have not tried j
them, to give them a fair trial. Where the Drills are j
used there is a great deal of labor saved iri cultivating j
a crop, owing to its being so uniform in the drill; the ;
plowingein be done much b>-tter, and with greater do- i
spnteh, consequently, the hoe work is lighter, as good j
plowing supersedes Die necessity of a grov deal of
hard hoe work. K. BRASWELL. i
Dougherty county, Ga., July 14th, 1-55.
This is to certify that l use 1 one of Rnnd rl it Her |
eer’s Ootton-Seed Drills last year in planting-my crop ‘
and was well pleased. I have used live of Uc-m the j
, present year, planting my entire crop, and am still - ot
ter pleased. There is a * iving of between two and
three bushels of seed to the a ore in pi inting, “besides I
one horse and one hand with these TANARUS) ills does the work !
of three hands and two horses. Then there is a saving
of one-third of the hoe work, the cotton being in so j
straight and narrow a row. I consider them worth j
one hundred dollars each to any planter, and reeom- j
mend all to purchase and use them.
W\T 11. OWENB.
Dougherty county, Ga., July 16, 185 ft.
Messrs. Randall $• Mercer: —ln reply !o yours of the 5.1,
inst., in reference to vour CoMon S -eil Drill. I am hippy I
say that afer planting a portion of my present crop in th.
old way. I was eimhled In obtain one of your Drills, with i
which I finished.’ It is (he tle-i-leralnni and long sniig'r
after. Man and varied have h-en the atteinnls of intelii
gent miu <s In attain w'-attna have accomplished, lull nil!
orilv partial success. Tins leaves nothing to he desire lin
Cotton. See l Drill. It deposits tlie seed uniformlv and cm
liiinoiislv in a straight a .1 narrow line as yon wish, saves
sib-ail one-half ilte labor in planting'and ahum one-third “
the line work in cultivaiion. It is almost needles* to add
that lam delighted wjih your Drill. Yonrs r-sn•'•rfmlv.
J. E. MERCER.
Lee county, Ga., August lOili, 1855.
Messrs Randall A Mercer —Gentlemen; I ued one of vm r
Colton Seed Diilb I lie pasi sprina, an I I feel four-fold p-ml
for what it eii-l me. To yive your Drills a fniririal, 1 ptnt
ed e’ erv oilier rmv with the Brill, ami ihe intervening row
-1 planted ns well as ever rollon was planted li.-f.av your
Brill earn- into use. Tue resuit ivas. that hi the row plant
ed w ith vonr Brill I got n more perfect stun I, an I I I'd and; i;
®rew off much hetter besides I realized a ar-mt saving in
I'e labor of working over wv cotton the two first times. 1
shall rmitiiiurt to use them as long as I plant rottmi. I re.
main yours, &c., JEsSK COCK.
Messrs Randall & Mercer. —G •rilleinen : I have used eight
of your Cotton-Seed Drills, manufactured hv J. 11. Watson,
on Col. Joseph BondV F wvltowu idantatitm. lam mueli
pleased with them, having realized great savins of seed, or
labor in planting and chopping mu, and the hands at the first
silling could go over at least one-third more in a day, an I do
hetter work than in cotton planted in the best wav 1 co Id
plant with colter and block. I have no hesitation in giving
it as my opinion, tiia’ in the use ol your Drills there is a
savins of flue-th rd of the labor of cultivating a cotton crop.
’ Col. Bond Is pleased with them and will e miione their'use
Yours, respe • fully. JAMES CHEEK.
Fowlmwn,Gao.,July Dili, 18 5.
This is to certify that I have used two of Randall ‘c Mer
cer's Cotton Planters, and have no hesitation in sayina that
they will do. The savine of labor in planting is an object,
the saving of seed is an object, and the cotton stands in such
a narrow drill that it may almost lie kept dean win,.nit the
lines. There is nothing to equal them in planting union.
WM. B. REYNOLDS.
Lae county, Gen., July Isf. 1855.
I have used Randall <fc Mercer’s Cotion-SeeJ Drill, w hich
I purchased of (Nil. J 11. Watson, and think tiny are the
(test machines now in use, I am satisfied there is a gr-ai
waving in seed, and a crwfter raiine in work. I nin folly
satisfied there is one-third of the line work saved. Try them,
and anv reasonable man will he satisfied they arc w ortli more
than three times tiie price they are sold for,
PHILIP WEST.
Lee county, Ga., Ang. 23d, 1853.
February 14, 1856.
Having obtained from Me. srs. Randall & Mercer
oi? u=tT State of Geor
gia ft.lll these Dtllls, ! s.tn -now ywyMsa v,> suiiidy
all demands, l aving nnub* arrangements fbr tfe-iv
m;mui'ciiuv m Baltin fa and Milivdgeville. My
price is sls 0U cash, driiveied at either I’almyta or
Miiledgi ville. Money sent at my risk, by mail, if
the requisitions o! the Host < >li;ce Di pailgn-nt aic
complied with. Any further information “desiicd
call be obtained by addressing me tit Iter at I’almvra
or Miiledgeville. ’ J. li. WATSON.
October 25 omo 48
“MERCER U N I V ERSi’i V T
rEM'lfciLii, UKEENE COIGVIA, GEORGIA.
st(Jl>u-:s.
The Studies in this University art.
A Theological Course of three years, designed so
those who arc preparing foi the Gospel Ministry;
A Collegiate Course of four ycare, equal to that of
i other Colleges in the country;
’ A Scientific Course of three years, including, with
! soma additions, all the studies ol the Collegiate Course
except the Ancient Languages;
An Academical Course, including whatever is neeet
i ssry to prepare for admission into College.
AIMS VSSIOX.
| The regular time for the admission of Students, is at
| the opening of the Fall Term, the last Wednesday in
I August.
j Candidates for admission into the Collegiate Corns*
| tunsl sustain a satisfactory examination on Geognq hj;
! Arithmetic; English, Latin and Greek Gminntiir; Ca-at ;
j Virgil; Cicero’s Select Orations; and Jacob’s Greek
Reader; and must be at least, fourteen years of age.
Candidates for admission into the Scientific Coin ft
must sustain a satisfactory examination on Geography;
Arithmetic; English Grammar; trinqde Equations in
Algebra; and two books in Geometry; and must, be at
least sixteen years of age.
Clonrsc i’ flmiv
IN THE COLLEGIATE DEPARTMENT.
FIIEfcHMAN CLASS.
FUtfiT TKItKI. 1 SECOND TERM
Livy, ‘Livy, cent mu ed,
Xenophon’s Anabasis. Cicero lie Offieiis,
Greek and Raman Antiquities. Herodotus,
(Smith’s Dictionary,; j Alsrehra, completed,
Andrews’ Latin Exercises, Geometry,(! ootids’, 2 boolft
Arnold’s Greek Prose Cornpo jßlietoric.ronfint/ed.
sition, j
Algebra, (Day’s,) • j
Rhetoric, (New man’s,)
Andrews and Stoddard’s lAt in Grammar is used.
SOPHOMORE CLASS.
FIRST TERM. SECOND TEEM.
Horace, Satires and Epistles, ‘Horace. Art of Poetty Si Odes,
Demosthenes on the Crown, Cicero De Oratore,
Geometry, completed, J Homer’s Iliad,
Plane,Solid,and Spherical. ) Plane & SphericalTrigonotn •
| etry, (Loomis’,)
ISurveyine, (Davies*.;
‘Conic Sections,(Bridge’s.’
JUNIOR CLASS.
FIRST TERM. SECOND TERM.
Cicero De Oratore, continued, Andrian of Terence,
Xenophon’s Memorabilia, Prometheus of aEschylns.
Differential and Integral Cal-Natural Theology, (Paley’s,
cuius, Nal. Philosophy,continued,
Nat. Philosophy.(Olmsted’s,) Chemistry, (ISiiliman’s)
Rhetoric, (Blair’s,) iLo“ic,(\V hately’s.i
SENIOR CLASS.
FIRST TERM. SECOND Ti. 1(4! .
Astronomy.(Olmsted's, ! :Botany.Piiyriologt A Geology
Intellectual Philosophy, (Up Moral Philosophy (Way lamps)
item’s,) {Butler’s Analogy, ****
Evid oiCbristianity.fPaley’s) Polit’l- Et-otu my.(Wayland’s)
Elein’tsol Criticism, (Kaines’d Amerii-atiConstitiiuon,
Gorgias ol Plato, i or
Juvenal. {lnternational Law.
r— ■■
EXIMENSI-Ifc.
‘Tuition Pecs. Spring Term. Fall Term.
i.\ Theological Skminaky, Nothing, Nothing.
In Coli.eoe, - ♦ $26 U 0 .Jig 00
Scientific Course, • 25 Ol) 15 00
In Aoade.v y
Preparatory Class, - 25 00 16 o 0
Second “ - • 20 00 12 00
Third “ - - 15 00 900
Elementary “ - - 10 HO . 600
Room Rent, - • 600 400
Contingent Expenses, - - 200 100
These expenses are required to he paid in advance.
From Students who lodge in the College buildings,
fifty dollars will be received as full payment for the
tuition fees, room rent, and contingent expellees ol the
y- ar *
The price oI Board in the village is §lO per month
of washing, room rent, and fuel, §3.
Coiumoiii'ciueitt Varatiotis.
Toe Commencement is held on the last Wednesday
in July.
There are two Vacations, dividing the year into two
terms, as follows:
First Term —from last Wednesday in August to De
cember 15th.
Winter Vacation —from December 15th to February
j Second Term —from first day of February to Com
j tnenceiaent.
Summer Vacation —from Cos tarn i ncement to last Wed
i nesday in August. O. L. BAIT] V,
Sec’y. of the Board ol Trustees.
August 21 v.j
Mksionarv Wanted !V
| pUK KEHOBOiII FOREIGN MINION COM.
| *■ Ml rTEE (t.rriies to procure n Inoiher and his
; companion, who will go on ti.e Mission to Centra) Af-
I i-ic.i, to fill the place occupied by the late Brother
I Dentmr ) aud ids wife, and make our re] ort at the next
l ses.-ion of the R.-hoboth Ast'Oeiafion.
Brother Dcntmrd and hi.-, wife, were sent out end
| supported by this bony; and now that they are no
i more, we desire lo find others w ho will fill ih-it j la
j ces, at)<l c UTy turward this work. <iur plan istcq io-
I vide well lor our mitemnniies while laborii.e, m.d (or
| their return at tlie end of three or lour wars, lo im
prove iheir health., ami to foster a niisslonai v .-i iiit in
the Chur. he?. *
The one hundred millions and more, of Africa, n tat
nave the Gospel. They are included in ihe nrn l.tr
of those to whom the tj.vior said, ‘Go pioadi the
Gos; -i.” Thts field of labor in ( entral Afiiea is a
promieutg one. The Kii>gs in the itm i ;or deeirt- n is
sionari. s, and oli-.-r them every iMuetOiei.t to settle
among them. Then “the word of God is not bound.”
The climate in tin interior, is not eo unhtnithv as
oas been g-lier.dly : .]>}.o. ed ; nun niissiorarits li try
go there with the prospect of or inary length oi iite.
Besides this, the p opj.*, unlike tlu-se on the coast, ate
partly civ iiized, and have some of the eonm.on ct mlorts
of life.
Bit*, were the climate ever so in alubrious, tlu foun
dations tor our missionary o|qu-i aliens mist I e Inid,
-uni the siijijioi ting <-l this stupendous building—this
.-ample,.which we intend to wrect, to the name of the
Alosl High— must be erected by the labor ot our vjiite
brethren. Ihe language timst. be.reduced to .writing,
dictionaries musi he made, g’-ammars const! luted, and
a pi ill . ; g-iieral operations fixed, betorc \ve ri.li dis
pense with I heir oni. When Ihix isucconiplisjjed tl en
Umay be practicable to carry forward the v. erk lay
the labor of colored men, who are better tilted hy na
ture to Southern climates. But cost what, it may. it
uioxt be done! Africa is a part of the world, and ti es©
cable sons, are a part of her “early creation.”
Let our young men and maidens, who have givcp
themselves to God, in solemn covenant, and are anxious
to do something for the *nvior, ask themselves, wheth
er this be not the field in which God will have them
work—let them hear the voice of tlieiu Lotd while he
savs “Go work to-day in mv vineyard. r ihe n oniir.g
of youth will soon pass, and flu- will come.”
“Go work to-day inhiy vinevardJJ-
The Committee will t-ike occasion in this communi
cation also to call the atusuion of the Rehol oth Asso
ciation to the propriety, of erecting suitable Grave
stones, over the remains of our fallen .Missionaries. let
all. the chore, :vB, individuals or f, lends, who favor this
object-, send up theireontribntions to the ncSt meeting
of our body at IVrry. We pm\e£ for and sustained
our beloved Den nurd and wife, while they lived • we
cherish their memory now that they are no mot e,’and
We will erect some monumental-stones, to -tell their
names, their virtues, and their work.
V ‘ Tc „ JACOB KING, Gh’n. of Com.
Auofiist 3, Sds 3|
FFM A LIAINSTITUTE ~
t OIA MBI S, (iEORGU, ’
WILLo)en Ist October next end close June 80th
1856. THUMAS B. SLAJ)£. ’
Au£. 30 2m 84 ‘