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Jfamiljj&ifor Published bt BENJAMIN G. LIDDON T. A. BURKE, EDITOR. Madison, ga.-. 'SATURDAY, SEPT. G, 1856. Why Woman should be Educated. A friend has kindly loaned us a copy of Bishop Pierce’s Address, delivered at the late Commencement of the Methodist Fo male Collego in this place, and which bears the above title. A careful reading lias confirmed us in the good opinion which we formed of it, when wo heard it delivered. The American people arc peculiarly fond of excitement, mid to such an extent has the tiling grown upon them, that some thing of the sort is now absolutely essen tial _to their happiness. They have had spirit-rappings, animal magnetism and psy chology; gold fevers and filibustering ex peditions; Mormonism, Millerism, Fou rierism, Socialism, and every other ism, conceivable and inconceivable, not forget ting Abolitionism and Black Republican ism, which now threaten the destruction of our government. But the subject which, among all these, hits excited us most, from one end of the Union to the other, is Woman’* rights. It has been the theme of populur orations, without num ber—of editorial diatribes innumerable, and of sermons not a few. Grandmothers with caps and spectacles, and pretty misses •with bright eyes and rosy chocks; hen pecked husbands, anxious to conciliate their better halves and arden, lovers, de sirous of appearing well in the eyes of fair inamoratas: tiieso have all been found oil tlicono side, while gentlemen who claim to lie botli independent and candid, occu py the opposite. These two great parties have eacli of them taken extreme ground. The one lias claimed for woman ontiro equality, mental and physical—an equality which fits her to compete with man in all tho walks of life. The other insists that her sphere is exclusively private and domestic, and that she is incapable of an intellectual dcvelop nnent sufficient to fit her either for public or. literary life; regarding her, in a word, as altogether useless and out of place eve rywhere except in the kitchen. Both of those parties, wo say, have taken extreme ground. There is a difference between the sexes, we think, and a very marked one. This difference is found both in their men tal and physical natures. The one was de signed to cherish and support the other. Man is like the sturdy oak, that can stand .■alone; woman like the ivy, which mast •cling to something or perish. As well might tho clinging vino support the de cayed and tottering oak, as for gentle wo man to hope to make her way th'ougb the world, after having taken her plnco upon the stngo of public life, without destroying tho delicacy of her nature. Woman’s true placo is home —there her empire is su preme, her sway unlimited. Let her fulfil the high and ho'y duties of wife, mother, •daughter, and sister, and her time will be fully and pleasantly employed. Woman owes her influence over man to the sensi tiveness of her feeling, the simplicity of her heart, and tho devotedness of her love; and whenever she succeeds in becoming tlio sharer of his rights, site will losejier hold on iiis affections. On tho other hand those who look upofi woman as incapable of high mental ■cultivation —as only fitted for household duties, and out of place every hero else, are quite ns much in error. A medium ground is the only safe one. There can he Dio denying tho fact that woman’s nature •jiecnliarly fits tier for the household, ami that therein are centred some of her love liest relations; but that she is incapable of Anything higher, does not follow. She anay lie unable, or indisposed, to take hold of tho higher sciences; hot there are, wo humbly conceive, fields in literature which she may occupy successfully. And then, ■what position is more responsible than that of the mother ? Is it not her peculiar .province to educate tho infant mind ? “ To watch The dawn of little joys—to sit and sec Almost their very growth.” AVo shall not stop to discuss the impor tance of educated mothers. AVe take it ■for granted that, no one will he so fool hardy, at this day, as to contend that edu cation —a thorough education—is not ab solutely necessary to lit her for the proper exercise of her duty. The subject is ably touched upon in tho address before us, from which we should like to make co pious extracts, if our space allowed it. AVe must content ourself with simply one ■or two: “Society,” lie thinks, “lias not only •denied to women the motives for strong mental effort, by which the ambition of men U roused to action, but it positively otfers the temptation to rest in inglorious mediocrity, as the more respectable and attractive. Tlie love of admiration is na tural to the human heart; nor is tho pas sion stronger with women than with men, save that the former aro more dependent for their personal influence on their person al attractions. This common instinct of our mature seeks itsgratification in those inodes, whieb observation and experience teach to be tike most direct—the best adapted to popular use. While, therefore, girls are made to believe that there is more power i i a curl than in a thought—more witchery in complexion than in language—more at- 111 811111 flilltlo traction in graceful motion than in general knowledge, just so long the conventional notions of the world repress intellectual development and foster frivolities of char acter. The grave—the good —the great, are all parties to the policy, which assures the female world that dregs, figure, grace as to their persons, light conversation, frothy commonplaces, vapid inanities abont beaux, courtship an<? marriage, are about nil that is expected of them, and that she who excels in these tilings is the belle of the hour. Even wise men, in their gal lantry, talk nonsense to women, as though politeness required them to condescend to those of low intellectual estate. Under the fallacious views which prevail, the young people, in nil their social intercourse and at every festal gathering, seem to have conspired to ignore knowledge, taste, ideas, worthy of our lational nature, and to have resolved the charms of society into idle prattle, as unmeaning as the chattering of swallows. This abominable fashion does gross injustice to both parties. Men de grade their intellect in compliment to the fair, and the fair are betrayed, by the com pliment, into unworthy estimates ot them selves. This stylo of address, though in tended to please, is actually an insult; ns it implies an incapacity to appreciate any thing more sensible and exalted. Instead of listening, well pleased with the twaddle of their obsequious admirers, I wisli that w omen would resent this imputation upon their good sense, and compel the lords of creation into more rational conversation. I would as soon look to find tho Garden of Eden, with its fruits and flowers, on the icy shores of the Cireum-polar Sea, as to expect tho emancipation of tlio female mind from tlio disabilities of the ruling fashion, unless wo.nen themselves pioneer the reform. But, ladies, in resenting the indignities which are perpetually offered you in life’s daily walk, you must learn to discriminate. Amid the crowd of attend ants who wait upon your smiles, ther.o aro some, with whom thero lias been a long, long famine of ideas. There is but a hand ful of meal in the barrel, and n little oil in tho cruse, and no prophet in tlio land to bless the scanty store. ‘They givo you all—they can no more, though poor the oll'ering he.’ Spare, these and keep your wrath for him who voluntarily makes a fool of himself, because bo is talking to a woman.” lie insists on tho sound, thorough and extended education of woman, ns actually necessary to fit her for the high and holy duties which she is called on to perform as wife and mother. An. uneducated woman is not a help meet for an educated man. “ liCave woman untaught—her mind unde veloped, unenriched—and you bereave marriage of its significancy, and make her whom Heaven intended as a helper, com panion and friend, a more convenience and a toy.” Is it less important that tlio mother he educated? “To her guardianship God commits tlio new-born spirit in its cradled infancy. Tlio heart expands in tho light of her love, ns a flower in tlio sunshine. * * * Slio moulds tho warrior and the hero—she inspires the patriot and the ora tor—she gives to genius its noblest im pulses, and to virtue its loftiest aims. To tho hallowed ministry of her love, the world is indebted for its happy homes — home, for its sweet nttract’ons—childhood, for its guardianship—man, for his happi ness and repose—sickness, for i ';s solace— tho dying chamber, for tlio last earthly light that beams nqiid its grief and gloom —tlio grave, for tho sweetest memorials that bloom upon its pulseless bosom ; and heaven itself, for thousands of the count loss multitudes who shall swell the an thems of its eternity. “Now, must all tiieso high, holy tasks bo abandoned to tlio intuitions—tho un tutored sensibilities of untaught women ? Ncvcn, unless wc mean to arrest tho im provement of the world, extinguish tho hopes of humanity, blight household joy, and restore tlio reign of night. The notion that tho aflections arc contracted, the sen sibilities indurated, by knowledge, ami that high mental training would unsex woman, giving her a heart of stone for a heart of flesh, deserves to bo placed alongside of that modern discovery of some French philosopher, that tlio earth is receding from the sun—growing colder—and will become a ball of ice, uninhabited nml un inhabitable. AA’hat! high cultivation un veil modesty—dethrone love—ossify ten derness—wear oft’tlio downy bloom of fe ninlo character—convert tlio American fair, tlio loveliest of Eve’s descendants, into Amazons? AYhv, knowledge consti tutes tho chief difference between savage and civilized life! AY here do wo find tho noblest sentiments—lie refinements ot taste—the most unsold Ii impulses—bene volence, with its wine and oil—love, bear ing the burdens of age, cheering the sor rows of childhood, making home glad with its music, and all life radiant with its charm? Not among the ignorant—the vulgar; but amid the arts, habits, com forts and laws of well-educated human be ings. The power to think and the power to teel go together. A superficial head and a frivolous heart lie side by side. The shallow soil makes a barren field that never teems with tlio generous harvest— the very grass withoreth ‘beforo it grow eth up—wherewith tho mower filleth not his hands, nor ho that bimlcth sheaves his bosom.’ A vain, silly, giddy woman has no head a-, and cannot think--no heart, and cannot feel. In tlio garden of her soul there is neither bud nor blossom—flower nor fruit. But the modest, intelligent, refined woman ‘opens her mouth with wisdom, and in her tongue is tlio law of kindness she looketli well to the ways of her household, aud eateth not tlio bread of idleness. Iler children rise up and call her blessed—her hns! and also, and he praiseth her.’’ Sensibility and wisdom, delicacy and strength, are not incompatible. AVo man’s heart is her glory and her crown; but her emotional nature will not lose its tenderness in the light of knowledge. The sun-flower, and not the night-blooming ccreus, is the type of her soul and its sen sibility. Does tlio brook cease to run, be cause the day-beam comes down to lave in its bright waters, making the pebbled bot tom reflect the glory of the sky ? No, no. Nor will the radiance of learning repress the genial current of woman’s gushing emotions; but rather, in the gladness of their flow, they will flash with superadded charms. Educate her worthily and wise ly, and the very instincts of her being will rise to the dignity of sentiment. The vine, which is wont to creep and soil itself with the dust of earth, will be lifted up— twining its tendrils around the elevated mind, will unfold its blossoms in beauty, and emit a fragrance sweeter than ‘ the balm of a tlioiiAiml flowers.’ Educate her worthily and wisely, and the affections, which else had grown rank in wild luxu riance, all pruned nml trained, will hang their ricli clusters in sunshine, and, if you will allow me the language of heathen my thology, the juice will be nectar for the gods. Educate her worthily and wisely, and every American home shall have its priestess and its altar, where patriotism shall learn its earliest lessons and religion hum its purest incense. The generations to come, blazoned with the heraldry of virtue, shall proclaim tlio sanctity and the success of her mission, and, by the blessing of God, a world reformed shall be the ap pendix to her life’s precious poem of love, tenderness and truth.” Superior Court. ■ The fall term of Morgan Superior Court has been in session during tlio week— his honor, Judgo Hardeman presiding. Among tho gentlemen of the bar from abroad we notice Judges Cone and Fi.oyd, Solicitor General Lokton, Col. Junius AYint.fiet.d, and Messrs. P. B. Robinson and G. 0. Dawson of Greensboro, A. 11. 11. Dawson of Savannah, Hon. E. Starnes and Col. 11. 11. Gumming of Augusta. ---* • • Political Speaking. Col. Thomas I’. Saffoi.d, the democratic Elector for this district, addressed the peo ple at the Court House, on Tuesday, during the adjourn men t of court for dinner. On Wednesday, Hon. N. G. Foster, the present Representative from tiiis Congres sional District, addressed his fellow-citi zens at, tho same hour and place, in favor of the American candidates and On Thursday, at tlio same hour and place, lion. I.inton Stephens, of Hancock, spoke in favor of tlio Democratic nomi nees. Something of n Storm. It is tho universal opinion in this com munity that it stormed a Jetr last Sunday. AYo have a distinct recollection that, all day long, it “ blew great guns,” ami rained us if tho windows of heaven were opened; but had it. been otherwise, our walk down town on Monday morning would have con vinced us that there had been something in tlie wind. Such a demolition of fences, and gardens, and shade trees, don’t often greet one’s vision. Tlie weatiierwise hereabouts aro divided in opinion ns to tlio cause of tlie deluge. Some aver that tlio rain-king took a sudden fit of woeping over his niggardliness for the past three months; while others con tend that it was an effort to drown us, as a punishment for our continual complain ings. AVo incline to neither opinion. It is quite clear to us that Old Plnvius felt disposed to do the tiling up handsomely, but had got out of practice and went too far. However, we ore quite ready to forgive him for it, every tiling looks so bright and handsome since. Snell delicious weath er as wo liavo had all this week is some thing to be thankful for. Health of Charleston. Last week wo copied from our Augusta exchanges several paragraphs relative to A’ellow Fever in Charleston—among them one which reported a largo increase of that disease. A friend writes us that tlio sto ries aro all false. ‘ Tho City,” lie says, “ was never healthier than at present. Our citizens are returning every day from their summer resorts, and no ono here thinks of yellow fever. In fact, there isn't sickness enough in the city to kill half a dozen people !" “The Diamond Merchant.” AVe trust that none of onr readers have filled to read the beautiful story, which wo are publishing on onr first page. “ AVild, romantic and improbable as this tale will appear to European readers,” says tho authoress, “it is nevertheless strictly true; having been drawn from the archives of the Turkish Empire, and rela ted by Perous«e Hanoume, the lady secro tary of tho Sultana Aznie, for the purpose of being communicated to me, during my residence in Constantinople, in 1830.” It is taken from a volume entitled “ The Ro mance of the Ilarem , by Miss Pardoo. It is only one of a number of most beautiful Eastern stories which it contains. Tlie work may be procured at tho Bookstore, in Madison. J3?”Hkxry M. Law, Esq., of Savannah is lecturing on “Oratory.” He has late’y been in Griffin, Atlanta and LaGrange, and in all those places tho papers speak of him in tho highest terms, lie will probably visit Madison in a few davs. Suicide of Doct. Ramsay. AVe learn from the Savannah Republi can that this nnfonunate man committed suicide in tlie jail at Conecuh co. Ala., on AYcdnesday, the 27 th nit. He had been arrested and lodged in jail there on a charge of forgery, preferred by the U. S. Government. His friends in Georgia desired tiiat lie shonfd stand his trial at home, and proceeded to Alabama with the necessary papers and a U. S. marshal to demand him. The authorities in Alabama refused to give him up, whereupon Ramsay managed to poison a cup of coffee with some pods of Jamestown weed which lie had procured. He lived some time after lie was discovered in a dying state. The Republian adds: “An appropriate end to a reckless and abandoned life. ‘the way of tlie transgressor is hard.’ ” A Rich Love-Getter. A French writer has remarked that it is so rare and precious a talent which is re quired to write a good love-letter, that it is difficult to find ten good models of this kind of writing in the French language, so prolific in this department of 1 teraturc. Talvi, tlie authjjr of Ifehisc, says, “For a love-letter to be what it ought to be, we must begin it without knowing what we are going to saj-, and end it without know ing what wc have said.” The “gentle swain” who penned the following missive to his sweetheart ha« gone even farther than Talvi requires, for lie has rendered his so that neither himself nor any ono else, now that tlio letter is written, can tell wlmt he meant to say nor what ho has •aid. By way of premise we will state that this is a bona fide love-letter, picked up in tho street and handed to us by a friend. If it isn’t a rich one, we’re no judge: Aprii, 20th, 1850. Miss Catherine Respected Mbs — Would that my pen was tiped in the dies of a rainbow, and plucked from the wings of an angle and weded with tlie prais ot an infints wit. Miss Catherine, your mind is as gentle as tlio first storing of an inlint dream, Your steps are as soft as the silken footed Zepra failed with wings of perfume from tlie newborn para dice. Yon aro tlie gingerbread of my walking Vision and Cherry bounce of my recollec tion. Your lips are like risen rose-buds moisfend in tho honey dew of affection. Miss Gather!no hear I give you a few lines of poetry, Hear take my heart—t’will be safe in thy keeping, While I go wnud'ring o’er land and o’er sea; Smiling or sorrowing waking or sleeping What need I care so my heart is witli thee? It matters not where I may now be a rover, I care not bow many brigiit eyes I may see; Should Venus herself come and ask mo to love her I’d tell her I couldn’t—my heart is with thee. When the first summer bee, Over the young rose shall hover, Then, like that gay rover, I’ll como to thee. In search of new sweetness. For the A’i si tor. “Do AVomcn Reason ?” Mu. Editor—l have frequently won dered if tlie sterner sex consider us reason ing persons, or creatures who are governed only by impulse, and can givo no other why or wherefore for their actions than—■ because. I have heard several “over-gal lant gentlemen” express their opinions, and liavo read many discussions on this important subject; but se’doni have I been so much pleased, as with tlio remarks of Mr. Joiixie Jonquil, for lie lias been honest enough to express his views in such a manner that we can easily understand them, and also imagine why lie has conde scended to enlighten tho public. Had tlie gentleman given us reasons to support bis assertions, I should liavo considered it my duty to prove that lie is mistaken; but as lie only asserts that women do not reason, I will only g ve, at this time, what I con sider his reasons for thinking as lie does. But first, let mo assure you, there is no danger of the learned gentleman’s “getting into hot water;” and if he docs, it will not hurt him, for it is utterly impossible for any one of us to raiso sufficient intellectual steam to scald one so completely clothed in tlie armor of self-complacency as our friend Mr. Jonquil. I expect, however, that lie is perfectly justifiable, for, if his landlady lias given him cold tea and burnt biscuit, who will censure him for asserting that “women put on fire in a hap-hazard way”? If he lias received a lecture for stepping on a lady’s dress and tearing oft' ono of her Honnces, who would think lie did wrong to imagine the tight shoe on her foot in stead of his own ? But in pouring out Ids vexation, he should have been more care ful, and selected things for which we can not givo ft reason. Now I think any one whose heart is in the right place , could ac count for our wearing small bonnets. Sir you know wc would not look well without something on our heads; yet if wo had them entirely covered up, we conld not keep them cool. Look at the generations which have gone before us. Onr mothers woro big bonnets, and what has been tho result ? They have been considered hot headed, unreasonable creatures. AYe wish to remove these erroneous ideas, and this is our reason. AYhy does lie say “ women do not rea son—that’s beyond all question. No use to talk to her after her mind’s made up. Dear, enchanting, unreasoning creature, sad and many aro the scrapes you fall into from want of reflection, and vexing some times are your arguments—which are no arguments at all." Thero is only one way in which I can account for it, and that is suggested by his own words. ’Tis my opinion lie'has been trying to persnade some fair lady to become Mrs. Jonquil, and she with provoking obstinacy has refused to listen to his entreaties; hence he knows from sad experience that “ it’s no use to talk to her after her mind’s made up.” No donbt her arguments were vexing. See, Mr. Editor, lie commences the para graph I have quoted, by alluding to “ i comen"; but after a few words he speaks of “ her," and “ dear creature," instead of “ them'2 and 11 creatures." “Ont of the abundance of the heart the pen writeth.” I presume Mr. Johnie Jonquil is a critic, and will find many errors in these lines, but as he thinks “The clear errata column Is the best page of all the volume,” ire will, no donbt, thank mo for thus giv ing him an opportunity to exercise his rea soning faculties. Piif.be Penfeatiier. Greensboro, Geo. For the A'isitor. •‘Do Women Reason?” Good gracious! my dear Editor, what a fluttering amongst the fair sex that little squib of mine seems to have produced! l’m sure I had no thought of offending the clear creatures, and had I foreseen sncli a result, would have sooner committed ma trimony than published what I did. But “ what’s writ is writ; would it were wor thier!” Dear little Susie SxowDßOPComes down upon me unmercifully. She would, I verily believe, pummel me with a broom stick, if she had a chance, and deem it a j meritorious action. Softly, fair Susy— hard words are not arguments. You only spoil your pretty face, without touching \ tlie matter at issue. But, Mr. Editor, I liavo no intention now of replying to Miss Susy. I see too that Piieue Penfeatiier lias entered tlie lists. The more the merrier. She will finish, I suppose, what Susy has begun— my demolition. Well, for the present, let them liavo it their way. AVlien they are through, I’ll try again, and it may be that I shall introduce a few more points. At any rate, I have no intention of beating a precipitate retreat. If fairly vanquished, I shrill die as peaceably and with as much dignity as possible. Yours to command. Joiixie Jonquil. Madison, Geo. For the Visitor. Politics in the Pulpit. A Plea for the New England Clergymen Politics were initiated into the pulpit of America in tho month of May, 1634. The Rev. Mr. Cotton can hero enter his claims to immortality: Massachusetts may here record her boast. Tho one may say, “On my broad bosom first trod that glorious son of mine, who gave additional lustro to the forum of the House of God, by fulmi nating there his philippics against tlie cle. ment of Republicanism in these western wilds.” Tlie other may say, “It was my voice which, first of all American Pulpit Orators, was heard on tiiat notable elec tion day—ringing clear and loud above tho tumults of the freemen of Massachusetts, when I bade them stay the progress of po litical freedom, anil begged them, for the sake of God, ‘ to check the democratic ten dency of their times' But they were ‘ bent on cxe rCising their absolute power,’ and reversed tho ‘ decision of my pulpit' —tho decision of Religion and of God. - ’ {See Bancroft, vol. l.p. 364.) “But although on that day my voice was drowned, and my efforts were una vailing, yet posterity shall gratefully award me honor for my perseverance in the cause of God. For when my fellow citizens met again, one year after, to frame for themselves ‘a icrittcn Constitution,' and to carry on the work of Civil Liberty, I rose again and throw my whole influ ence, as ‘a Puritan clergyman’—as ‘tlie son of a Puritan Lawyer’—as ‘ an aroired enemy to Democracy,' to redeem my peo ple from tlie error of their ways, and to persuade them to govern themselves by tlie Lairs of Moses." See Bancroft, vol. I. p. 365. “ Ami for ton long years, by the exer cise of all my powers, in preaching an oc casional ‘■judicious sermon ,’ did I try to keep alive the political power of the patri cians of my land, in opposition to the en croaching power of the common people.” (P- 366.) Tims may Massachusetts and Rev. Mr. Cotton claim the honor of having been tho first to initiate politics into tho American Pulpit; and thus may it be seen that with unerring judgment, with infallible stead fastness did that '■‘■Pulpit Politician" op pose the accursed progress of freedom. But this is not all. Tho land of tho “ three thousand Anti-Xebraska ” clergy men of New England have other ancestry of which to glory. '‘The liberties of Massachusetts seemed contending against the power of the English Government.” The people were determined to maintain their rights. Opposition arose. Party spirit ran high. Excitement reached its maximum. Tho election day came round. Louder, and still louder, became the hur ried tumults of that busy day—when !o! in broad outline swept through the bewil dered crowd the majestic form of the “pious Wilson." His indignant soul dis dained the earth. Fired with religions fury against the heaven-cursed wishes of the people for Liberty , he could not bind himself to earth, but “ climbed a tree" and from bis celestial height harangued the freemen of that Colony, and almost per suaded them to abandon Liberty forever, as he.preached to them “of the Levy of troops for the Pequod War" — “of respect to Magistrates"—“of the distribution of Total Lots" —“ and the assessment of Pates." (p. 389.) Oh ye of the Sunny South! who write bitter things against the clergy of New England, go back to the history of these infant Colonics, and learn your great in debtedness to these early Puritan Fathers who taught ns the way of God more per fectly in politics than we were willing to follow. Go read of pious Davenport of Rhode Island, and his modest charge, in his political pulpit, to the judges of that Colo ny, when he commanded them in the words of Moses— “ Judge righteously! and the cause that is too hard for you , bring it unto me, and I will hear it.” Oh my countrymen, how have ye departed from the glorious sim plicity ot the olden time! Ye never now do carry your hard civil cases (when too hard for yon) to be judged by the minister of the Gospel. Spurn not now the legiti mate descendants of Massachusetts’ twin born sons of greatness. Let these 3000 spiritual great-grand-sons of Cotton and of Wilson; yea, let Parker, Beecher, and their kindred spirits, yet be heard for their “ fathers' sake." The Mantle of In fallibility has fallen down to them; and you can yet hear “ the voice of the god," as they cry out against “ accursed institu tions" and the freedom of freemen —the Lights of the South." Sat. Madison, Geo. [COMMUNICATED.] A Tribute of Respect. Once again have our ranks been broken by the rude and ruthless hand of death; and one who was never known but to be loved and respected for his virtues, has been called “ to that bourne from whence no traveler returns.” Young, and just launching his bark upon the tempestuous ocean of life, with nothing to daunt his courage, but everything promising success, he bid fair to become a good ci .izen and an ornament to society. In commemoration of the virtues of our loved and csteemod friend and classmate, Dan'ikf. McDougald Peabody, of Colum bus, Ga., we, as the organ of the Junior Class, do hereby adopt the following reso lutions : Pesolccd, That tho Junior Class of Em ory College has received, with the deepest sensibility, the announcement of the death of our late associate and classmate. Pesolccd, That we tender our heartfelt sympathies to the.family and friends of tho' deceased, and sensibly feel, ns they have lost one “ near and dear to them by the ties of nature,” wo at the same time have lost a friend who rejoiced with us in prosperity, and sympathised with us in misfortune’s “dark and dreary hour.” Pesolred, That the Junior Class, from a desire of showing every mark of respect to the memory ot the deceased, will go into mourning for one month, by tho usual mode of wearing crape upon the left arm. Pesohed, That a copy of tho above res olutions be sent to the family of tho de ceased, and also to the Columbus Enquirer, Times & Sentinel, Constitutionalist, South ern Christian Advocate, and Madison Fam ily Visitor. S. J. SAFFOLD, AV. 1). TUTT, H. L. AVILSON, J. A. PECK, S. J. WINN. Committee. Emory College, Oxford, Ga., Sept. 1,1836. £: Pue.be Lamwell’s reply to Johnie Jonquil came too lato for this issue. It shall appear next week. Pen-and-Scissorlngs. A Washington despatch says, “I ven tore the prediction that the first important information received from Kansas official ly, will be that Gen. Lane is in irons. Mark this.” Major Barbee, the talented Virginia sculptor, was, it is stated, dan gerous’y sick in Florence at last accounts. .... Wistar's Wild Cherry Balsam, a sci entific combination of the active principle in tho AA'ild Cherry Bark and Tar, is doing wonders in the way of alleviating all lung disease.’.. It seems to cure those obstinate cases that nothing else will reach... .The American Banner, of Columbus, Miss, re cords the death of Judge John Moore, for merly of Lexington, Ga., in the 77tli year of his age... .The Bank of Athens com menced operations on Monday last The grand jury of Bibb county consider the City Court of Macon unnecessary, and ex press their opinion that it would be well to discontinue it....1f yon would sav e twenty dollars in physicians’ fees, and twice that amount in time, buy a dollar bottle of Perry Davis’ Pain Killer for family use; you will never regret it Lola Montes lias returned to San Francis co from Australia A dog, which had lost tho whole of its interesting family, was seen trying to poke a piece of crape through the handle on a door of one of the Philadelphia sausage shops The expense of Congress for the current year, it is said, amounts to $2,678,000. Adjournment of Congress. —At length we have tho grateful news that the Extra Session has been brought to a close. On Saturday anew Army Ap propriation Bill (that is to say, tho old one with the Kansas Proviso a little shortened) was introduced, passed, and sent to tho Senate. The latter body struck out the Proviso and passed the bill. The House concurred; and so the session ended. jJSTMr. Heald, tho young English man of fortune who married Lola Montez shortly after her separation from tho King of Bavaria, died at Folkstone, England, last month, of consumption. Congressional Washington, August 27.—80th Houses have appointed Committees of Conference on the army bill. The House has passed a resolution to adjourn to-morrow (Thursday) but the Senate has not acted upon it. Washington, August 28.—1n the Senate, Mr. Crittenden introduced a hill amending the Kansas-Nebraska act, placing the legislative power in the bands of the Governor and Judges, in stead of the Legislature—Congress to have supervisory power—debated, buj no action. The Committee of Conference on tho Army bill were unable to agree. The House again adhered by four majority, and tabled the motion to re-consider. Washington, August 29. —Tho Sen ate to-day adhered to their amendment to the Army bill. Mr. Crittenden’s bil{ was discussed. A memorial was pre sented from the Texas Legislature, ask ing Congress to intercede for Judge Ter ry, now in the custody of the Vigilance Committee of San Francisco; which was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. In the House there was nothing done. Washington Aug. 30. Senate. —The following Executive appointments have been confirmed by the Senate: Benj. R. Bitbewood, Collector for the port of Beaufort, S. C. Win. J. L. Engle, of South Carolina, Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A. David Camden Deleon, of South Carolina, Assistant Surgeon, to thegrado of Surgeon, U. S. A. O. A. Rittsfield, of New Orleans, as Superintendent of Steamboat Investiga tions, Fourth District. George R. West, Consul for the Bay Islands. Cool Shooting. —Under this heading, the Crockett (Texas) Printer, of tho 20th inst., has the following : Two men, named Rigsby and Robbins, at a whiskey stand, in the northeastern portion of Grimes county, got to quarrel ing; both had rifies; Rigsby up with his and shot Robbins, who fell mortally wounded, but as Rigsby turned off curs, ing him, Robbins took aim as he lay dying on the ground, and shot Rigsby through the heart. Both died almost immediately, revenged even in death. Saturday Evening Post. —The Rich mond Dispatch says: The Saturday Evening Post, a Philadelphia paper, ex tensively circulated in Virginia and other Southern States, is engaged in publish ing Mn. Stowe’s new abolition novel- We warn tho public against this incen diary sheet. The sale of it iii Virginia ought to be suppressed. Wo earnestly call the attention of Southern men to the abolition literary wares, which are peddled so extensively in our midst.— The New York Uerald, says it has reason to believo that, from the Potomac to tho Rio Grande, the South is full of book stores, containing literary works, biogra phies, novels, periodicals, newspapers, Arc., of the most incendiary kind. Kansas Correspondents. —Mr. Ely Moore, a gentleman formerly well known in New York, writes concerning the in formation published in tho abolition papers of New York city : “The truth is, neither the Times nor Tribune has any correspondent in this place. This I know to be so. Tho correspondents of those pnpers live in the city of New York, and undoubtedly are attached to those respective offices.” Literary Piracy. —Tho Westminster Review for July, contains a thorough ex posure of the impudent literary piracy which Dr. William Smith, in his “Latin English Dictionary,” has com mitted upon the labcrsofour countryman Prof. E. A. Andrews—a piracy tho more censurable because Dr. Smith, after avail ing himself of Prof. Andrews’ work, and appropriating it under his own name, has the effrontery in his preface to disparage the work which he had found so useful. An Honest Flag. —An old Califor nian arrived in San Francisco, the other day, fresh from the mines, and dropped in at a Republican Club Meeting. A patriotic individual had the floor and among other good things said, “we go in for free speech, free-soil, and Fre mont !” “ D n your free monte,” said tba miner, getting up in disgust, “ that’s what broke me the last time I was in San Francisco.” He soon brought up at a Democratic Club, and looked in to see wbat was the row. Over the presi dent's chair was a banner, with an in scription painted on it. “Buck and Break ” read the green one. “ Well that * honest, anyhow,” said he. “If that flag had been hung up when I was here last, I never would have bucked agin the tigtf in the world.”.—True Californian.