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lamplighter; and of the bell-ringer,
if they have one.
Each University has four depart
ments, Law, Thelogy, Medicine and
Philosophy. The last includes ail
knowledge not embraced in the first
three departments. How few of our
institutions, with their high sounding
titles, deserve the name of Unioer
sities.
Modern History—England,
It was said in 1810 that George
3rd the King, had lost his reason.—
Most probably this was a fiction ; as
he never appeared to have any to
lose. But at any rate his son George
4th was made .Regent until the in
sane Monarch gratified his subjects
by dying. It is conceded that this
was the best act of bis life. His
reign was marked by the war with
Napoleon which ended in 1815; and
the war with the United Slates,
(1812 to 1815) the cause of the latter
being the claim on the side of the
British that they had a right to
search neutral vessels for the put pose
of impressment. By the treaty of
Ghent both nations admitted that
they had been fighting about noth
ing, for the right of search was
waived.
1816. —Great dissatisfaction was
rife among the masses. The wars
had brought about about an unusual
poverty; and the popular orators in
flamed the poorer classes—who had
to work against the higher classes
who did nothing, yet noted in
wealth. The common people also
complained that certain towns which
were allowed representation in the
House of Commons, had, since the
apportionment of representatives,
lost almost all their inhabitants;
while certain large towns (not inclu
ded in the old apportionment) had
no representation at all. In 1819, a
mass meeting was held near Man-.
Chester. The King’s cavalry charged
upon the assembly and killed 400
persons. Laws were passed for pre
serving the public peace, which
.stifled, but did not extinguish the
popular dissatisfaction..
1820. —George IV was crowned.—
He “ made a bad beginning ” by prose
cuting fjis wife Caroline, for violation
of the marriage vow. His harshness
had driven her away from England,
and when she returned expecting to
share the cornation the peoples
hearts were on her side. Lord
Brougham was her counsel: his
speech is regarded one of the greatest
judicial efforts. She was acquitted,
but not allowed to bo crowned.
1829. —O’Connell agitated thelrish
people, by preaching to them their
real and imaginary grievances.—
. Wellington, then minister, made
terms with the disaffected party ; and
the Catholic emancipation Bill was
jjassed, allowing catholics to hold any
offices in the realm.
THE GEORGIA COLLEGIAN.
1830. — William 4th, brother of
George 4th, succeeded. During his
reign political agitations disturbed
the countries of Europe, and the con
tagion extended to England. The
people were seething with indigna
tion at the disregard oftheir clamors-
In 1832, the Reform Bill (of Broug
ham) passed—which deprived the
impopulous towns of their repre
seritation and conferred it upon the
manufacturing and populous towns.
This made p'eace. For several years
the Reform party ruled in the ParlL
ament; until it was succeeded by
the conservative Ministry of Sir
Robert Peel.
1837 —Victoria, niece of William
IV, ascended the throne. We shall
speak next of her reign.
Book Notices.
The Luck of Roaring Camp and
other Stories , by F. B. Harte, (Fields,
Osgood & Cos., Boston) is one of the
few books of which Americans may
be proud. The New Electic has
called the author “ the rising Dickens
of America,” and t hese sketches vin
dicate the title. Not that Harto is
the equal of Dickens, or is similar in
all respects to him. But he gives
good promise of one day achieving
something comparable with Pickwick
The first sketch illustrates the idea
that a single baby "regenerated a
gathering of dissolute miners. When
we see so strong an influence for
good ascribed to an infant, wo can
but wondor at Dean Swifts inhuman
proposition to eat babies for food.—
Harte, true to nature, does not paint
his villians as irredeemably bad, but
as capable of some noble actions.—
There never was a rascal as totally
vicious as those you find in novels.—
The man who has educated as many
orphans as any other man in this
State is a gambler. Harte, then, is
righi in cutting aloose from prece
dent and painting men and women
as mixturosof good and evil.
Free Russia, by Wm. H. Dixon,
(Harper Bros.) is one of those books
which gratify our curiosity to know
something, of tho people, the rulers,
and the customs of foreign nations at
the present time. We have barely
glanced at tbe chapters that describe
how the present Emperor has lifted
the peasants from serfdom to citizen
ship ; but that glance convinced us
that they were entertaining and in
structive.
The Hammer and the Anvil, by
Spielhagen (Segopoldl & Holt) is the
master piece of this German master
of fiction. The author has about the
same merit compared with his rival
Auerbach that Bulwer has to Trol
lope or Collins. His plot is interest
ing, and tho philosophy inculcated is
grand and profound, “not Hammer
or Anvil, but Hammer and Anvil is
the true word, for every man is both,
in every moment of his life. With
the same force that the hammer
strikes the anvil, tho anvil strikes
the hammer; and if Nature obeys
the great law of action and reaction,
and is thereby cosmos and not chaos,
then should man study to understand
it, and shape bis life in conformity
to it.”
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LI ISTORY 7
FRANKLIN COLLEGE.
CLASS OF 1822.
The first three on the list of gras
duat.es for this year, died before
reaching the prime of life. These
three were Paul Coalson, Wm. 11.
Jack, who resided in Elbert county,
and Robert A. Jones, who lived and
died in Clarke county. The last two,
while in College, were members of
the Demosthenian Society. Paul Coal
son, however, was a Phi Kappa.
Heretofore, no notice has been ta
ken of the organization of the Phi
Kappa Society, which was done in
1820. Homer V. Howard, who had
been in Athens but a short while
from Princeton, was considered at
that time by the students, as its real
founder and leading spirit, backed by
John D. Watkins—neither of whom,
however, graduated here. Judge J.
11. Lumpkin, was ihougbt to have
written their Constitution. (I am no
Phi Kappa, hence can speak only
what was thought.) Several members
of tbe Demosthenian Society, believ
ing that the object of College Lite
rary Societies could be attained much
better by two societies than one,
withdrew from their own association
and enlisted under the banner of
Howard. At first, the Demosthe
uians ridiculed the Phi Kappas, and
everything connected with it. But
soon, when such men as George
Young, George Scott and J. P. Wad
dell, connected themselves with it,
this ridicule was changed into rival
ry, and the most bitter enmity arose
where formerly harmony had pre
vailed.
Up to this time, the Demosthenian,
founded in 1801, was the only society
here. The Phi Kappa was organized
with closed doors, and have never do
parted from this law. Heretofore
the Demosthenian was open to all;
bat finding, afier the appearance of
her rival sister, that secrecy was pop
ular, and that new students flocked
to its banner, she underwent a tho
rough change, an-d from thattime has
always been a secret society.
At first the Phi Kappa met in the
upper story of the Philosophical La
boratory, which was then called the
New Chapel, divine service being held
there. Not long did the Society
meet there, but soon fitted up a hall
in the attic of tho Old Chapel, which
has long since passed away.
The Demosthenian, wishing to ex
cel in all things, her fast growing ri
val, built a hall very near the Lnbo
ratory. Soon there sprung up a Phi
Kappa hall just in the rear of cur
present Chapel. It was an unpre
tending square wooden hall, yet
much better than the one the Demos
nian Society possessed. This all hap
pened in two or three years. Nei
ther society now occupies its old hall,
but each has a large and commodious
one, situated in the front Campus,
and amply suitable for all purposes.
But to return. Paul Coalson was
born in Burke county, August I9th,
1799. After preparing for College
under Dr. Church, at Eatonton, he
enterod the University and graduat
ed in 1822. During his Junior and
Senior years, ho devoted his leisure
moments to the study of law under
Judge Clayton ; and shortly after his
graduation he was admitted to the
bar in Athens.
In the ear!}* part of 1825, Mr. Coal
son marriod Miss E. G. Blackshear,
of Thomas county. Much later in
the same year, he moved to Thomas
county, and there continued to prac
tice till his death, in May, 1830. He
stood very high among his fellow- ’
lawyers, and was blessed by the pos
session of the love of his friends and
the respoct of hisfellow-citizens. An
honest man, he was always a desira-*
ble companion. Conscience was his
guido, and ho would never take a
ease that was wrong in principle, or
that would in any way oppress those
upon whom the hand of misfortune
had been laid, or who needed protec
tion against the avarice of man.
Col. B. F. Haideman belonged to"
this class, but did not graduate. lie
was born in Oglethorpe county, in
1802 ; entered the half advanced So
phomore class in 1820. Ho was a
member of the Demosthenian Socie
ty; and while still a Junior, was elec
ted to tho position of Anniversarian.
The Commencement that his class rose
Senior, there were not enough mem
bers of the preceding class to speak
exhibition day, as there were only
three; so the Faculty decided that
each society should elect two Juniors
to speak that day. Col. John Billups
and Col. H. were those whom the
Demosthenian Society elected.
In March, 1822, only a few months
before his class graduated, he was
compelled to leave College on account
of ill health. After leaving Athens,
he was admitted to the bar in Lex
ington. Twice was he Solicitor Ge
neral of the Northern Circuit; once
by Executive appointment, and once
by election, and several times tbe Se
cretary of the Georgia Senate, in
1842, he married Miss Arabella Har
ris, daughter of Judge Harris. In
three years, she died, and he has re
mained single ever since. He is now
living in Athens, much respected and