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BY 11. STYLES BELL. Trrm of Mnbsrrlplion. THE ilcnAi.D is printed on n large imperial sheet, with new type, at S3 per year, in ad vance, or S4 at the expiration of the year.— No subscription received for a less term than one year, and no paper discontinued until all arrearage* are paid, except at the option of the 1 publisher. \ fCf ADvraxwonfeNTs published at the usual BY AUTHORITY. EDUCATION. AN ACT to eatablish a general system of Edtrea lion by common Schools. See, 1, Be it enacted by the Senate ami House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by rity of the same, That from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, the funds of this State heretofore known as the Academic and Poor School Funds, be, and the same are hereby con- ! solidated, and together w ith the interest on one third part of the surplus revenne, derived to this State From the United States, and heretofore set apart for that purpose, shall compote and constitute a general fund for common Schools, for the State of Georgia. Sec. 4. Ami be it further enacted by the authority j aforesaid, Thai within ten days after the recent ion of such notice, the School Commissioners shall as- i setwise together, and elect from their number a Prcsi- • dent of the Board, and a Secretary, and shall also i appoint qjlteasurer, who shall give bond and secu rity to the Commissioners for the time being, and their successorsjn office, in such sums as they may tig upon, conditioned faithfully to discharge his duty as Treasurer. and should any vacancies happen in such board of Commissioners, by death, resignation or otherwise, the same shall lie filled by the board Itself Sec. f. And lie it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the School Commissioners in each division, or a majority of them, to lay ofT their respective counties into school districts, conforming, as nearly as practicable, to the present Militia districts; in the same, in a manner ■nwrffif suitable and convenient for the purpose contem • plated in T ■ ■„ , 1 Sec 6. And be it further enarten by lITc Mwtamt-y aforesaid, That they shall apply for, and receive from tfc© slate, their proportionable share of the gen eral And for Common Education, and shall appor tion and divide the same among the several School districts in their divisions, in proportion to the num ber of children in each, between the ages of five and fifteen years, and shall make an annual report to the Governor, of the number of School districts in their rcspeclivetUvisions, the districts from which reports ,'isve been made to them, and the defaulting districts. \ |e length of time a school has ho* n kept in each, and ifiso the amount of funds received by themselves or f feutmivr ES;he State; and from taxes raised, and fl what mann*- the same has been expended, and time number of chi Iren taught in each district, which report the said C > nmissioners shall cause to be re corded by the Secretary, in a book kept for that pur pose. See. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority V aforesaid. That the Commissioners of each School Idivision, shall, by this act be, and they are hereby •instituted a body corporate, under the name and I%V of the Commissioners of the Common School, biß jarc made capable of suing and being sued, and ihf Trustee* of the several school districts of each di j vision shall also be a body corporate, under the name . and style of the Trustees of the district schools, with like powers as above, both of which said Corpora- 1 (ions, shall allowed and entitled to own real es tate and other property, upon which to erect School houses, and for other purposes connected with the schools. JJec. And be. it further enacted by the authority f That the Trustees shall within 15 days ▼ ‘Xthcir appointment, proceed to ascertain the vcf lA~of frogjyiuUi persons in their respective dis | iJiJPoetwecn the ages of five an<pfifteen years, and ‘jE* the taro ic, totbc Commissioner* of Iht’ School ’ . ® aion to which they belong. They .hall also rc | -Wc from the school Commissioners, or tie-ir Trcn- I sorer the funds to which they arc cmilhsl under the I taw, and oa the first Monday of Novcinlwr in each I year, make a repost to the sai.f Coniniissioacr., sliow int the amount received, the manner of its cxjtendi- Iture. the nnmhcaof children taught in their district, ■ the length of time which n school has been taught, •ind the compensation paid to teacher* and their Snamcs. They sbsJl locate and superintend thcercc ®c<>n of suitable School Smses in their respective dis the most convenient and suitable places for ffl^V-f****" 1 * ® n< * “‘"Volart residing in the same. ‘i? jpploy and pay teachers and visit the schools, has tmffiwica in the year. IV aritsv IW. A'iid further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners and Trustees sender this aet, shall hold their office for twelve - months, or until tlicir successors are elected, and re ceive noeohipeiftation for their services. Sec. 11. And be it furt her enacted by the authority nforessid, That it shall lie the duty of the Governor, annually to distribute to the Commissioners of each * School division in the Slate, their proportionable part of the Common School fund, which apportion ment stu* b. made (by the last census, until the next eworflTbe taken, and then by that) according to the Tnumher of free white persons, between the ages of I five and fifteen years, of which he shall give to said j commissioners, in each division, immediate notice. Sec. li. And lx it further enacted by the authori . if aforesaid. That no moneys received from the State by the Commissioners for School purposes, shall lie expended for any other purposes, than for paying teachers and purchasing books and stationary for children whose parents are unable W furnish the ime, See. 13. And be it further enacted by the authon tf aforesaid, That after these schools shall have gone foto operation, no Trustee# for districts shall be. al- funds from the Commissioners, ” unless they shall have made a return signed by a maioritv of their number, showing the amount re ceived bv them, and how the same has been expend ed ifcet a school has been kept in iheir districts, at ic'wt three months in the year preceding, or then “ £ Bec"’ U And fc- ; t further enacted by the authority Aforesaid That all moneys not drawn by any such defaulting district shall Is- added to the amount to be distributed the next year, and a|>|)ortiontd among all > such divisions. ■MMSKAnd be it further enacted by the authority . ‘ should the Commissioners, in any 5-ti2on fan** apply for, anddistribute the fund re as directed by this law> that shall be subject masuit for damage., m the instance of the trustees of any district in such division, in any court of law in this State having jurisdiction, and the amount of damages so recovered, shall lie collected out of the private,pro|>crty of such commissioners, and not from the gubool. . : rr CHF.Rciad.4;^ i 4 her enaek *d b y iheauthor,, y ■_ „ , hat it... Jj*lte person* between the ages fifteen lie allowed to be tauht as scholar* in the rt*f3ttqre districts in “’lnch they reside, or iB ease tlieirfcFiunn may make it inconve nient in the adjoining district, by making applica tion to the Trustees thereof, who may prescribe. ■ though no one ..vet the a-e ot fifteen years and under twenty-one, shall be excluded from said Schools. See IB Arid be it further enacted l>y the authority i sfnresaid That in tliose eoumies wliere the iuhabi l ‘thinlv settled, the commissioners may, if think it be refuse to lay otf the same into .MZP i Hw-rieis but they shall employ a suitable fifTeaehe.rs who shall under their directions, ufl ehsch->oi not longer than three morphs in anv one or neighborhood, so that every section of such 1 C .ball receive as nearly a* can be, equal ad-_ • - from said fund; and it shall be the duty of -sinners of anv such county in which the itineratin' 7 astern may bethought best to mentmn itmerau g rta \ report, and so far as relates I, of Baker, thcCoromiasionersshallcon- | fine themselves to the three Military districts of said ’ county. See. 19. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners and Trustees i elected as aforesaid, in the foregoing act, before they j enter upen the duties of their offices, shall take the following oath l>efore any Judge of the Superior Court, Justice of the Inferior Court, a Justice of the Pence, in the county where they reside, viz : 1 A. 8., j do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully perform all j the duties required of me by law, as Commissioner i of Common Schools, or Trustee of Common Schools, , as the case may be JOSEPH DAY Speaker of the House of Representatives. ROBERT M ECHOLS, President of the Senate. Assented to. 2fth I 1 oember, 1837 GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. AN ACT, i To amend an act, to establish a general system of education by common schools —assented to gfith December, 1837. Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of | Representatives of the State of Georgia in General I Assembly met, ami it is hereby enacted by the autho | rity of the same, That the second and third sect ions j of the above recited act, be, and the same are hereby ! repealed; and in lieu thereof, that each county in this ; state, shall be considered and known ns a common I school division; and that on the first Monday in . March, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, ! and on the first Monday in January, of every year | thereafter, or so soon after the above mentioned days, i as the same can be conveniently done, the justices o | the inferior court of each county in this state, shall by order, entered upon the minutes of the court, ap point five fit and proper persons as commissioners of common schools, in the division wherein such justi ces may reside, and shall within ten days, thereafter, cause a certified copy of such appointment, to be de livered to them, which shall be sufficient notice of the same. And such commissioners shall continue in office one year, or until their successors shall be ap pointed. Sec. k 2. And be it further enacted hy the authority aforesaid, That if the said commissioners, or any of them, shall Ire unable at any time to procure the ser vices of a treasurer, as contemplated in the fourth section of the above recited act, it shall, ami may be lawful, for the president of such board of commis sioners, to act as treasurer, who shall mnW rwu 1 to his excellency thegct\j*ogr Ed his suc cessor lor the faittitift uW mtrgc of his duty, as trea surer. And the said commissioners, within ten clays after their appointment, shall by order entered in the minutes of their board appoint for each school dis trict to be laid out agreeably to the fifthaection of the above recited act, three trustees, all of whom shall re side in the district for which they shall be appointed, and shall be notified of their appointment within ten days after it shall barnacle. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the jus tices of the inferior court of any county, shall not within one month after the time herein before fixed for that purpose, select and appoint five commission ers, as aforesaid, who shall accept their appoint ments, the said justices of tin* inferior court shall themselves discharge the duties of commissioners in their division; and unless said commissioners shall, within one month after their appointment, select and appoint three, trustees in each district or division, who shall accept such appointments, the justices of the peace, and such other person as the justices of the pence may appoint, shall discharge the duties of trustees, in any district in which such appointment shall have been omitted; and the commissioners’ ap pointment by the court, may fill by election any va cancy whiuti may occur in their board, during the year; and a majority of commissioners, and of the trustees, shall be competent to perform the duties re quired of them respectively. See. 4 And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the trustees of the school district, to col lect by subscription, such sums as the citizens of the district may be willing to subscribe, which shall be applied to supply an amount of money, in addition to what may be allowed by the state, so as to enable them to employ a suitable number of teachers in the district, provided there shall be no liability on the trustees for said subscription money, further than to transfer the said list of subscription to the teachers where such school may lie taught. Sec. 5. An l be it further enacted, That the justi ce* of the inferior court, in the several counties, in this state, lx*, and they are hereby authorized, at their discretion, to levy an extra tax in their respec tive counties, not exceeding fifty percent, on the gen eral tax, which shall be added to the common school fund of sate county, and paid over to the commis sioners aforesaid, by the tax collector, who shall give bond and security for the same, as in case of other bonds, for extra taxes. Sec. ti. And he it further enacted, That the trus tees of any county academy, l>e, and they are hereby authorized, to pay over to the commissioners of com mon schools, any funds in their hands. Sec. 7 And lie it further enacted, That his excel lency the governor, within the month of January next, be required to cause so much of the above re cited act, as this art does not repeal, together with this act to be published in the newspapers of this state, and also, to cause the same to be published with the acts of the present session. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted hy the authority aforesaid, That the eighth, twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-second sections, and so much of the ninth section as refers to the notice to lie given by a justice of the peace and free, holder to the trustees of their election, and so much of the sixteenth section, as re fers to the balances in the hands of trustees of acade mies and their treasurers be, and the same is hereby repealed. r JOSEPH DAY, Speaker of the House of Representatives. CHARLES DOUGHERTY, President of the Senate, Assented to 29th December, 1838. GEORGE R GILMER, Governor. ar-oia a’SßScsK&tt&ißt OF cvcrv description executed at the of fice of THE DAiUEN HERALD. Hay, Bricks and Pork. TONS prime Northern Hay, 2t) M. Bricks, 10 Bbls. Mess Pork, For by jan22 2w WOODBURY & STACKPOLE. GEORGIA LUMBER COM’P. THE subscribers, agents of said company, offer to contract for delivery at Darien, or elsewhere, of hard Pine lumber of the best quality, sawed to any dimensions that may be required, and at low prices. They will have on hand at their depot in this city, a good sup ply of lumber of arious sizes. WOODBURY’ & STACKPOLE. Darien, Jan. 22,1839. 3"^ Justices Court for 1839. * A COURT, for the -271st District, will be holdr* at the Court House in the city of Darien, on the 4th Monday of each month—-to wit Monday 28th January, 1830. Monday 25th February, M Monday 25th March, li Monday 22d April, Monday 27th May, Monday 24th June, Monday 22d July, Monday 2bth August, Monday 23d September, * Monday 28th Octol>er, Monday 25th November, “ Monday 23d December, “ A pannel of will be disown at each terpi after the first. N^i>,oN W , CARPENTER, Justice of the Peace for 271 st, District. Darien, January 29>t, 1839. DAIMEN, UEOUBIA, TUESDAY MORMNU, MARCH 19, 1839. For the Herald. THE LEAF. Emblem of Life—alas! how frail,— In spring, *tis vigorous and green, But ns the autumn winds prevail, 9 It withers, and no more is seen. So ‘tis with life—from early dawn, How soon to manhood wo ascend ; But then old age, with haste comes on, And to the tomb we soon descend. Short fleeting time marks every day,— “There’s no abiding city here,” Soon are we swept from earth away, And every breath is fill’d with care. While then the tender leaf puts forth, And silent speaks u joyous day ; Wisdom proclaims a happier birth, Where joys shall nevermore decay. While thus the morn of life appears, May 1 secure these lasting joys,—• Nor wait ’till autumn’s with’ringcares, Consume my life in glilt’ring toys. C a Urol. saagK3a2>a&sKa> THE FATHER. lIY .WHS. L. It. SIGOURNEY. Yes I nm lie, —who look’d and saw decay Steal o’er I fir the ador’d too much— It is a fearful thing to love wliut death may toucuT J\frs. llemans. I was in the full tide of n laborious and ab sorbing profession—one of which imposes on intellect an unsparing discipline, but ultimately opens the avenues to wealth and Jpme, I pur sued it as one determined on distinction, —as one convinced that mind may assume a degree of omnipotence over matter nnd circumstance, and popular opinion. Ambition's were strong within me, nor was itsVarccr tin prosperous. I had no reason to complain that its promises were deceptive, or its harvest tardy. Yet 11s my path was among tile coinpetions and asperities of men, a character combining strong elements might have been in danger of becoming indurated, had it not been been soft ened and refined by the domestic charities.— Conjugal love early fixing an object most ami able and beautiful, was as a fountain of living water, springing up to allay thirst, and to reno vate weariness. I was anxious that my home should be the centre of intellectual and polish ed society, where thought should expand un chilled, and those social feelings which are the life-blood of existence, flow forth unfettered by heartless ceremony. And it was so. Hut my present purpose is to delineate a single, and simple principle of our nature, — tile most deep-rooted and holy, the lore of a father for a daughter. My province has led me to analyze mankind; and in doing this. I have sometimes thrown their affection into tne crucible. And the one of which I speak, has come fortli most pure, most free from drossy admixture. Even the earth that combines with it, is not like other earth. It is what the foot of a seraph might rest upon, and contract no pollution. With the love of our sons, am bition mixes its spirit, till it becomes a fiery essence We anticipate great things for them, — we covet honors, —we goad them on in the race of glory;—if they arc victors we too proudly exult, —if vanquished, we are prostrate and in bitterness. Perhaps we detect in them the same latent perseverseness, with which we have waged war in our own breasts, or some imbecility of purpose with which we have no affinity ; and then, from the very nature of our love, an impatience is generated, which they have no power to soothe, or we to control. A father loves his son as he loves himself, —and in all selfishness theieis a bias to disorder and pain. But his love for his daughter is different and more disinterested; possibly he believes that it is called forth by a being of a higher and better order. It is based on the integral and immutable principles of his nature. It re cognizes the sex in hearts, and from the gen tleness and mystery of woman-hood, takes that coloring and zest which romance gathers from remote antiquity. It draws nutriment from circumstances which he may not fully compre hend, from the power which she possesses to awaken his sympathies, to soften his irratibili ty, to sublimate his aspirations; —while the sup port and protection which she claims in return, elevate him with a consciousness of assimila tion to the ministry of those benevolent and powerful spirits, wito ever “bear us up in their hands, lest we dash our foot against a stone.” I should delight longer to dwell on this de velopement of affection for who can have known more perfectly in its length and breadth, in its depth and height? I had a daughter, beautiful in infancy, to whom every year add ed some new charm to awaken admiration or to rivet love. To me it was of no slight im port, that she resembled her mother, and that in grace and accomplishment she early sur passed her cotemporaries. I was desirous that her mind should be worthy of the splendid temple allotted for its habitation. I decided to render it familiar with the whole circle of the arts and sciences. I was not satisfied with the recommendation of her teachers. I determin ed to lake my seat in the sacred pavilion of in tellect, and superintend what entered there.— Hut how should one hurried beneath the pon derous tones and Syciphean toils of jurispru dence, gain freedom, or undivided thought, for ; such a minute supervision? A fathers love can conquer, if it cannot create. I deprived mysejf of sleep: I sat till the day dawned, gathering materials for the lectures that I gave her. I explored the annals of architecture and sculpture, the recesses of literature and poetry, the labryrinthine and colossal treasure house of history,—l entered the ancient catacombs of the illustrious dead, traversed the regions of the dim and shadowy past, with no coward atep, —ransacked earth and heaven, to add one gem to her casket. At stated periods, I re quired herto condense, to illustrate to combine, what I had brought her. I listened with wrm ’ der to her intuitive eloquence; I gazed with intense delight upon the intellect that I thus embellished—upon the Corinthian capital that I had erected and adorned. Not a single acan- thus leaf started forth, bul l cherished and fos tered it with the dews of a father’s blessing. Yet while the outpoured riches of a mascu line understanding were thus incorporating themselves with her softer structure, 1 should not have been content, unless she had also borne the palm of female grace and loveliness. Was it therefore nothing to me, that she evinced in her bloom of youth, a dignity surpassing her sex, that in symmetry she restored the image of the Medicetui Venus, that amid the circles of rank and fashion, she was the model —the cynosure I Still she was saved from the vanity which was the destroyer of till these charms, by the hallowed prevalence of her filial piety. It was for my sake that she strove to render herself the most graceful among whmeti, —-for my sake , that slit: rejoiced in the effect of her attainments..- Her gentle and just nature felt that the “husbandman who had labored should be first partakerof the fruits.” Returning from those scenes of splendor, where she was the object of every eye, the theme of every tongue, when the youthful bosom might be forgiven for Inflation front the clouds of incense that had breathed upon it, to the inquiry of her mother, if she had been happy, the tender and sweet reply was : “Yes—because I saw that my dear father was so.” Sometimes, I was conscious of gathering roughness from the continual conflict with pas sion and prejudice, and that the tine edge of the feelings could not ever ho utterly proof against the corrosions of such an atmosphere. Then I sought lily home, and called my bird Os song, and listened to the warbling of her high, heaven-toned voice. The melody of that mu sic fell upon my soul, like oil upon the troubled billows, —and all was tranquil. 1 wondered where my pcrlubations had fled, bill still more, that I had ever indulged them. Sometimes, the turmoil and fluctuation of the world, threw a shade of dejection over me—then it washer pride to smooth my brow, and restore its smile. Once a sorrow of no common order had fallen upon me; it rankled in my breast, like a dag ger’s point; I came to my house, but I shun ned all its inmates. I threw myself down, in solitude, that I might wrestle atone with my fnTTalUf Ifldl'm'lli* “PProaehed, hut 1 heeded not. A form ol the sofa hy my side, hut 1 regarded Thou iny hand was softly clasped, breathed upon, pressed to ruby lips. It was enough, I look my daughter in my arms, and iny sor row vanished. Had she essayed the hackney ed expressions of sympathy, or even the usu al epithets of endearment, i might have desir ed her to leave my presence. Nad she tiller ed only a single word it would have been too much, so wounded wad my spirit within me. But the deed the very poetry of tenderness, breathing, nor speaking, melted “the winter of iny discontent.” Ever wnsslie endued with that most exquisite of woman’s perfections, a knowledge both when to be silent and when to speuk, and so to speak, that the frosts might dissolve from around the heart she loved, and its discords he turned to harmony. Thus was she‘iny comforter and in every hour of our intercourse, was my devotion to her happiness richly repaid. Was it strange that I should gaze on the work of my own hands with ineffable delight? At twilight I quickened my homeward step, with u thought of that countenance, which was both my even ing ami morning star; as the bird nerves her wearied wing, when she heurs from the still distant forest the chirpings of her own nest. I sat in the House of God, in the silence of Sab bath meditation, and tears of thrilling exulta tion moistened my eyes. I gazed upon tny glorious creature, in the stainless blossom of unfolding youth, and my whole soul overflow ed with a father’s pride. 1 said, what more can man desire 7 I challenged the whole earth to add another drop to my cup of felicity.— Did I forget to give glory to the Almighty, that his decree even then went forth to smite down my Idol ? I came from engrossing toil and found her restless with slrange fire upon her cheek. — Fever had lain rankling in iter veins, and they had concealed it from me. I raved. I filled my house witli physicians. I charged them wildly to restore her to health and to trie. It was in vain. I saw that God claimed her. His will was written upon her brow. The paleness and damps of the tomb settled upon her. I knelt by the bed of death and gave her back to her creator. Amid the tears and groans of mourners, I lifted up a firm voice. A fearful courage entered into me. I seemed to rush even upon the buckler of the Eternal. I likened myself unto him, who on Mount Moria, “stretched forth his hand, and took tin: knife to slay his son.” The whole energy of my nature armed itself for the awful conflict. I gloried in my strength tosufler. With terri ble sublimity, I stood forth, as the High Priest of my smitten and astonished household. I gave the lamb in sacrifice, with an unshrinking hand, though it was my own heart’sblood, that steeped, and streamed over the altar. it was over she had gone. She stayed not for my embraces. Site was permitted to give me no parting token. The mind that I had, adored, shrouded itself and lied. I knew that the seal upon those eyes must not be broken till the trump of the Archangel. Three days and nights I sat by the dead. — Beauty lingered there, in deep and solemn, and sacred repose. I laid my head upon her pillow I pressed my lips to hers, and their ice entered into my soul. I spoke to her of the angels her companions. I talked long to the beautiful spirit, and methought it answered me. I lien I listened breathlessly, but “there was no voice, nor any that regarded.” And still I wept not. The fatal day came, in which even that clay was to be no longer mine. The funeral knell, with its heavy, yet suppressed summons, came over me like the dividing of soul and body.— There was a flood of weeping, when that form, once so replete with every youthful charm, so instinct with the joyous movement of the mys terious principle of life, was borne in marble stillness from its paternal balls. The eye of the mother that bore her, of the friend that had but casually beheld her, even of the poor me nial that waited upon her, knew the luxury of tears. All were wet with that baltn of sorrow, to overflowing— all gave mine. The open grave had a revolting aspect. I could not bear that the form I had worshipped, should be left to its cold and hideous guardian ship. At the hollow sound of the first falling clod, I would fain have leaped into the pit and demand her. But I ruled myself. I commit ted her to the frozen earth, without a tear. — There was a tremendous majesty in such grief, f was a wonder to myself. I returned to my desolated abode. The si lence that reigned there was appalling. My spirit • ink beneath it, as a stone goes down into the depths of ocean, bearing the everlast ing burden of its fathomless tide. I sought the room where I had last seen her arrayed in the vestments of the tomb. There lay the books we had rend together. The pages bore the marks oi lier pencil. I covered my eyes from them and turned away. I bowed down to in hale the fragrance of iior (lowers, and felt that they had no right to bloom so fair, when she, their culirer, and their queen, was blighted.— I pressed my lingers upon the keys of her piano, and started hack at the mournful sound they made. I wandered to her own apartment. 1 threw myself on the couch where from in fancy she iiad slumbered. I trusted to have wept there. But my grief was too mighty, to be thus unchained. Il disdained the relief of tears. 1 seemed to rush as upon a drawn sword but still it refused to pierce me. Yet all this was when no eye saw me. In the presence of others, I was like Mount Atlas, hearing unmoved the stormy heavens upon his shouhlcjs. I went forth amid the jarring competitions and perpetual strifes of men. 1 adjusted their opposing interests, while I despised them and their concerns. I unravelled their perplexi ties. 1 penetrated their subterfuges. I ex posed their duplicity. I cut the Gordian knots ot their sell conceit. I made the “crooked, straight, arid the rough places plain,”—with an energy that amazed them and myself. It was like that, of a spirit, which has nothing to do with the flesh. 1 suffered the tumults of my soul to lire tithe itself out in bursts of stormy declamation. I exerted Iho strength of a giant, when it was not required. I scorned to balance pow er with necessity. The calculations of prudence, and the devices of cunning seemed equally pitiful, and despicable. I put forth the saint: elfort to crush an eimnot,as to uproot the oak of a thousand centuries. It. was sufficient for me always to triumph. While men unri vcllcd :il the seal with which l served them, I was loathing them in iny heart. 1 was sick of their chiclitincery, and their Sabbathless rush after empty honors and perishable dress. The whole world seemed to me “less than nothing, and vanity.” St ill 1 was sensible of neither toil nor fatigue nor physical exhaustion. 1 was like one who in his troubled dream of midnight, treads on air, and finds it strangely sustaining him. Mills ■i',iV l jV| ifit-’ht I went to iny daughter’s in-avr I iJ in'.- (IliU'lristev J” unutterable bitterness. While the stars lookeif tWl’frj r Mk me, I spoke to her fondly and earnestly, as one who could not bedenied. I said —Angel! who art mine no longer, listen to me. Thou who art raised above all tears, cause one tear to moisten iny burning brow. Give it to me, as a token that thou hearest me, and thou lias not forgotten me.” And the blasts of winter, through tlie leafles boughs, mocking replied,— dire il to me—Give it to me.” But I wept not. Ten days and nights passed over mo and still 1 wept not. My brain was heated to agony. The visual nerves were scorched and withered. My heart was parched and arid, as the Lybian desert.— Then I knew that the throne of grief was in the heart—that though her sceptre may reach remotest nerve, ami touch the minutest cell where the brain slumbers, and perplex every etlici'ial ambssador from spirit to sense, —yet tlie pavillion where her darkest drogs are wrung out, the laboratory where her consum ing fires are compounded, in the heart—the heart. J have implied that my intellect faltered. Yet every morning I went to the scene of my labors. I put my shoulder to the wheel, car ing not, though it crushed me. I looked at men fixedly and haughtily with my red eye balls. But I spoke no word to betray tlie feelings ut iny vitals. The heart strings shrivelled and broke before it yet tlie martyr dom was in silence. Again, night drew her sable curtain, and I sought my daughter’s grave. Methought its turf-covering was discomposed, and some half-rooted shrubs that shuddered and drooped when placed in that dear assemblage of the dead had been trampled and broken. A hor rible suspicion took possession of my mind. I rushed to the house of the sexton, ‘ Hus any one troubled my daughter’s grave ?’ Alarmed at my vehemence, he remained speechless and irresolute. “Tell me, I exclaimed, in a voice of terror, “who lias disturbed my daughter’s grave.” lie evaded my adjuration, and murmured something about an injunction to secrecy. With the grasp of a maniac, I bore him to an inner apartment, and bade him satisfy my question. Trembling at my violence, he con fessed that the grave had been watched for ten nights. “ Who has watched iny daughter’s grave?” Reluctantly he gave me the names of those friends —names forever graven upon my soul. And so, for those ten long, wintry nights, so dreary and interminable, which I had east away amid the tossings of profitless, delirious, despairing sorrow, they had been watching, that the repose of that unsullied clay might remain unbroken. Anew tide of emotion was awakened. I tlirow myself down, as powerless as the weaned infant. Torrents ol tears flowed. The tenderness of man wrought, what the se verity of heaven had failed to produce. It was pot tlie earthquake, nor the thunder, nor the tcmptesl that subdued me. It was the still, small voice, f wept until tlie fountains of tears failed. Tlie relief ol that hour of weeping can never be shadowed forth in language. The prison-house of passionate agony was unlocked. I said to God, that he was merciful, and I loved him because my angel lived in bis presence. Since then, it would seem that iriy heart has been made bet ter. Ils aspirations are .upward, whither she has ascended, and as 1 tread Hie devious path of my pilgrimage, both tlie sunbeam and the thorn, point me as a suppliant to the Redeemer of Man. that I may be at last fitted to dwell with iter forever. The Portland advertiser says, whilst our militia have generally acceeded with alacri ty and with cheerfulness to the orders which called them out, there, have been a few who have been suddenly seized with diseases that never before developed them selves,'and these offered as excuses for not dearing arms. We have heard of one most amusing case which comes under this head, and that is a man in one of tfic towns of a neighboring county, who was very suddenly afflicted with near-sightedness. On his ex amination before the surgeon of the regi ment, and in his eagerness to make the correctness of the complaint apparent, said to the surgeon, why sir, my sight is so bad I can’t tell whether that pig yonder is a pig or a cow'. VOL- *• NO. 9. the gate Mrs. maclean—l, e. l. To the Editor of the London t'imes i Hut—As ( find there is some painful sur mises in reference to the melancholy death ol Mrs. Maclean,! presume to request your insertion of the accompanying letter. Ik i is probable one of thc-two she wrote the night before her decease ; for though w-'h out (Into, it came to me as a ‘ship |mtr,’ and not by private hand, and I did.nofre ccive it until I had rend the tnourirfol in telligence in your [Hiper. It is unnecessary to direct attention to ils.eheerftil and hrul thv tone ;tomeit is evidcnee v that -for the first time during a life of labor, rttvxiety, and pain, lor such hers undoubtedly was, her hopes of case and happiness ivere strong and well grounded. A tflVsteifiouieffispmi salion oi I’rovideuce has derived literature and society, of one of its bright us l..orntf rnents. She will be lamented by iniliions, to whose enjoyments she so largely, e. ituri bulcd ; Iml to her private iVionds'tfii lyrs is one to which language can give no ade quate expression. 1 have the honor to bo, sir, your oblig. If j v ,- Anna -My-tw lljtr,. ‘ The Rosary, 12; Gloucester renrl illil'llr-'. dm “My dearest Mrs. Hall- I ion ut one of my earliest epislh •|Y tit ■'i to pics. and as a ship i- jn.~ Lsui.fi ng, f •.eilj wniftw* 1 though it can only he a li „ fi^.-- I call lull you my whole Voyage ol tfil'oe words—six weeks’ sea-sickness -bull on now as well as possible, mid have been er since I lauded. The castle ia.-t-vt rv unfih: building, and all the robins largo anil cool, while some would he pretty even in. F.ug latul; that where lam writing is painted.a deep blur, u itli some splendid engravings ; indeed line prints spent ijuiLc.a.passion jyith the gentlemen here. Alt . Mnelcnja’s libra,- n is fitted up with book cases of African mahogany, and portraits of distinguished authors ; 1, however never approach• it without due preparation and humility, so crowded is it with scientific instruments, -fHfrAcinicH. chronometers, liivametors,, gas ■:mn..isisr*>--iitiiif of which may he touched by hands nrolancT^(ffflSbKlifL sides lilt: batteries are dashed against by the waVPS on the fourth is a splendid land view; the hills arc covered to the top with what wo should cull weed, but is here called Inish. This dense mass of green is varied by some large handsome white houses, belonging to different gentlemen, and on two of the bights are small forts built hy Mr. Maclean. The cocoa-trees with their long fan-like leaves are very beautiful. The natives seem both obliging and intelligent, and look very picturesque, with their line dayk figures, with pieces of the country cloth ilung round them ; they seem to have an excellent car for music ; the hand plays all the old .pop ular airs, which- they have caught from some chance hearing. The servants arc very tolerable but tiiey take so many to wotk. Tliff prisoners do the Bcotiririg, and fancy three men cleaning a roorn that an old woman in England would do in an hour ? besides I lie soldier who stands hy, his bayonet in bis hand. All my troubles have been of a house-keeping kind, and no one could begin on a more plentiful stock of ignorance than myself; however, like Sinbad the sailor in the cavern, I begin to see ligiit. I have numbered and labelled my keys, their name is Legion, and every morning I take my way to the store, givo out flower, sugar, butter, &c.,untl am learn ing to scold if I see any dust, or miss the customary polish on the tables ; I am ac tually gitting the steward of the ship, who is my right-hand to teach me how to make pastry; l will report progression in the next; we live almost entirely on ducks and chickens; if a sheep be killed, it must be eaten the same day; the bread is very good, palm wine being used for yeast, and yams are an excellent substitute for potatoes. The fruit generally is too sweet for my li king, but the oranges and pine-apples arc delicious. You cannot think the complete seclusion in which I live, but I have a great resource in writing, and I atn very well and very happy; but i think even more than I expected, if that he possible, of my English friends. It was almost like seeing some thing alive when I saw ‘The Bucattier’ and ‘The Outlaw’ side by side in Mr. Maclean’s library; 1 cannot tell you the pleasure it gave me. Do tell Mr. Hall that every day I find the books of gems greater treasures, I refer to them perpetually; I have been busy with what I hope you willlike—-essays from Sir Walter Scott’s works, to illustrate a set of Heath’s portraits ; I believe they are to appear every fortnight next year. Give my kindest love to Mrs. Fielding and Air. Hall, and believe ever, “Your truly ufiuctiounte, - -I'’ l “L. E. (Lindon*) Mci.k . “I shall not forget the shells.” [The name had been written ‘L. E. Lon don ;’ but the word Landoti’ was erased* and that of‘Maclean’ (substituted.] ‘You see how difficult it i. to 1 . ve of!’an Id custom.’l Sing Sing Prison. —Iff tw in the 2 i ult and the 35hist inclusive iff p. • tiers cove been discharged by cxp’-i'nlL n ( setiii „ce, two have been pnrdened, ..ml ouc h.is tlicd. There are non in tlic prison, at HingS.: l ., I‘M men, and 52 women —811 in all. DksthvGtion tub Pavilion. *he splendid hotel at Niagara Falls, called the Pavilion, was entirely destroyed by fire on the niglu of the 10th inst. The furniture was principally saved, but the large stock of provisions, wines, liquors, &<'. was 1 u* stroyed. The house “'its kept by j Cfirv-tier, owned by the ‘Pity <d Company,’ aetl cost about $10,000.. .tJMjKMi insured, part in this city and part An Lon jiHsaifl