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BY AUTHORITY.
EDUCATION.
AN ACT ffi establish a general systen of Educa
tion hy common Schools,
Sec, l. He it enacted by the Senate and House of ‘
RejHv.'.’ ntntiws of the State of Georgia in General j
Assembly met, ami it is hereby enaciw by the autho- !
rtty of the same, That from and after the first day of j
January, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine, the funds !
of this State heretofore known ns the Academic and
l >f >or School Funds, be, and the same are hereby con
solidated, and together with the interest on one third ’
part of the surplus revenn*'. derived to this State
from the Unitea States, nnd heretofore set apart for j
that purpose, shall compose and constitute a genera! i
fund tor common Schools, for the State of Georgia.
See. i. And be it further enacted by the uuthority
aforesaid, That within ten days after the reception i
of such notice, the School Commissioners shall ns- |
semble together, and elect from their number a Presi
dent of the Board, and a Secretary, and shall also
appoint a Treasurer, who shall give bond nnd secu
rity to the Commissioners for the time being, and
their office, in such sums ns they may
fix upon, conditioned faithfully to discharge Ins duty
as Treasurev, and should any vacancies happen in
such board of Commissioners, by death, resignation
or otb-rwise, the same shall be filled by the board
Sec. f. And be it further enacted by the authority
That it snail be the duty of the School
Commissioners in each division, or n majority of
them, to lay ofl* their respective counties into school j
districts, conforming, as nearly as practicable, to the j
present Militia districts, in the same, in a manner
most suitable and convenient for the purpose contcm- ‘
plated in this act.
Sec. 6 And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That they shall apply for, ami receive :
from the state, their proportionable share of the gen- ;
eral fund for Common Education, and shall appor- j
lion and divide the same among the several School i
districts in their divisions, in proportion to the num- j
ber of children in each between the. ages of five and
fifteen years, nnd shall make an annual report to the
Governor, of the number of School districts in their j
respective divisions, the districts from which reports j
have been made to them, and the defaulting districts,
the length of time a school has been kept in each, and
also the amount of funds receiv ‘d by themselves or
treasurer from the State; nnd from taxes raised, and
in what mai n** * the same has been expended, and j
the number of chi Iren taught in each district, whieh j
report the said C nnaisMoners shall enuse to he rc- ;
corded by the ft cretary, in a book kept for that pur- j
pose.
See. 7. And be It further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the Commissioners of each School j
division, shall, by this act be, nnd they are hereby
constituted a l*dy corporate, under the name and
style of the Commissioners of the Common School,
and are made capable of suing and being surd, and ;
the. Trustees of the several school districts of each di- j
vision shall also lie a body corporate, under the name
and style of the Trustee.s of the district schools, with
like powers as above, both of whieh said Corpora- j
lions, shall be allowed and entitled to own real cs- .
late and other property, upon which to erect School I
houses, und for other purposes connected with the j
schools.
Sec. 9. Anil Ik- it further enacted by the authority j
aforesaid, That the Trustees shall within 15 days j
after their appointment, proceed to ascertain the j
iv.mber of free white persons in their respective din- •
tricts, between the ages of five oral fifteen years, and ,
return the same to the Commissioners of the School j
division to which they belong Tiny shall nlso rc- j
reive from the school Commissioners, or their Trcn- !
surer the funds to which they are entitled under the i
law, and on the first Monday of November in each
year, make a report to the saiil Oommissioaers, show- I
ing tic* amount received, the manner of its expendi
ture, the number of children taught in their district,
the length of time which a school has been taught,
and the compensation paid to teachers and their j
names. They shall locate and superintend the erec
tion of suitable School houses in their respective, dis- j
tricts, at the most convenient and suitable places for
the inhabitants arid scholars residing in the sain'*,
shall employ and pay* teachers and visit the schools, >
at least twice in th* year.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted by the authority 1
aforesaid, That the Commissioners and Trustees j
under this act, shall hold their office for twelve j
months, or until their successors are elected, and re
ceive no compensation for tlieir services.
Sec. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Governor; !
annually to distribute to the Commissioners of each
School division in the State, their proportionable !
part of the Common School fund, which apportion
ment shall le made (by the last census, until the next
census be taken, and then by that) according to the j
number of free white persons,’between the ages of
live and fifteen years, of which he shall give to said ,
commissioners, in each division, immediate notice, j
Sec. I*2. And be it further enacted by the authori
ty aforesaid, That no moneys received from the State j
by the Commissioners for School purpose*, shall be j
expended for any other purposes, than for paying j
teaclicrs and purchasing books and stationary for J
children whose parents are unuble to furnish the ,
ante.
Sec. 13. And be it further enacted by the authori
ty aforesaid, That after these schools shall have gone j
into operation, no Trustees for districts shall be al
owed to receive any funds from the Commissioners,
unless they shall have mad j a return signed by a j
majority of their number, showing the amount re
ceived by them, and how the same has been expend
ed, and that a school has been kept in their districts,
at least three.months in the year preceding, or then
ending.
Sec. 14. And be it further enacted by Inc authority
aforesaid, That all moneys not drawn by any such
<U faulting district sliail be added to tlic amount to t>”
distributed the next year, and apportioned among all
th"districts in such divisions.
Sec. 15. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That should the. Commissioners, in any J
division, fail to apply for, and distribute the. fund r>-
ceived as directed by this law, tlial shall be subject j
to a suit for damages, at the instance of the truste.es j
of any district in such division, in any court of law 1
in this State having jurisdiction, and the amount of j
damages so recovered, shall be collected out of the j
private properly of such commissioners, and not j
from the funds of the School.
Sec. 17. And be it further enacted by the, authority
aforesaid, That all white persons between the ages
of five and fifteen years, snail !>e allowed to l- taught |
as scholars in the respective districts in wliieh they ;
reside, or in case their location may make, it inconve
nient in the adjoining district, by making applica
tion to the Trustees thereof, who may prescribe, j
though no one over the age, of fifteen years and under ;
twenty-one, shall be excluded from said Schools.
Sec. 18. And lie it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That in those counties where the inhabi
tants are thinlv settled, the commissioners may, if
they think it ‘best refuse to lay off the same into
school districts, but they shall employ a suitable
number of Teachers who shall under their directions,
teach school not longer than three months in any one
district or neighborhood, so thatevery section of such
county shall receive, as nearly as can be, equal ad
vantag £ from said fund; and it snail be tae duty of
the Commissioners of any such county in v.’.sicn the
itinerating system may be thought best, to mention
•h same in th -ir annual report, and so far as relates
| county of Baker, the Commission': rs.-hallcon-
iisraa uumsußsr mmwwsmmm*
. fine th cm selves to the three Military districts of said
rounty
See. 10. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid. That the Commissioners nnd Trustees
: elected as aforesaid, in the foregoing act, before they
! enter u|M>n the duties of their offices, shall take the
following oath before any Judge of the Superior
Court, Justice of the Inferior Court, a Justice of the
Peace, in the county wherethey reside, via : 1. A. 8.,
j do solemnly swear, t*'at I will faithfully perform all
j the duties required ot me hy law, ns Commissioner
of Common Schools, orTrusteoof Common Schools,
I as the case may Im\
JOSEPH DAY
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT M. ECHOLS,
President of the Senate.
Assented to, ‘26th December, 1837.
GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor.
AN ACT,
I To amend an net, to establish a general system of
! education by common schools—assented to ‘26th
Decemljer, 1837.
See. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate ami House of
: Representatives of the State of Georgia in General
| Assembly met, nnd it is hereby enacted by the. autho
rity of the same, That the second and third sections
j of the above recited net, be, und the same are hereby
! repealed; and in lieu thereof, that each county in this
state, shall be considered nnd known us a common
! school division; and that on the first Monday in
March, in the yenreighteen hundred and thirty-nine,
nnd on the first Monday in January, of every year
j thereafter, or so soon after the above mentioned days,
I ns the same can be conveniently done, the justices o
j the inferior court of each county in this state, shall
j by order, entered upon the minutes of the court, ap
! point five fit and proper persona as commissioners of
common schools, in the division wherein such justi
ces may reside, and shall within ten days, thereafter,
enuse n certified copy of such appointment, to be de
livered to them, winch shall be sufficient notice of th<T
same. And such commissioners shall continue in
I office one year, or until their successors shall be ap
pointed
Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, Thut if the said commissioners, or any of
them, shall be unable at any time to procure the ser
vices of a treasurer, ns contemplated in the fourth
section of the above recited act, it shall, nnd may be
i lawful, for the president of such board of conunis-
I sioners, to net as treasurer, who shall give bond nnd
| security to his excellency the governor, and his suc
| eessor for the faithful discharge of his duty, ns trea
surer. Ami the said commissioners, within ten days
; after their appointment, shall by order entered in the
i minutes of their board appoint for each school dis
trict to be laid out agreeably to the fifth section of the
above recited net, three trustees, nil 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 be made.
Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the jus-
I tices of the inferior court of any county, shall not
i 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
| monts, the said justices of the inferior court shall
themselves discharge the duties of commissioners in
their division; and unless said commissioners shall,
I within one month after their appointment, select nnd
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 peace may appoint, shall discharge the duties of
j trustees, in any district in which such appointmert
shall have been omitted; and the commissioners’ ap
i pointinent hy the court, may fill by election any va
cancy which may occur in their board, during the
year; and a majority of commissioners, and of the
trustees, shall be competent to perform the duties rc
-1 cpiired of them resjvertively.
See. 4. And be It farther 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 w hat 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 be taught.
See. 5. And be it further enacted, That the justi
ces of the inferior court, in the several counties, in
this state, be, ami they are hereby authorized, at
their discretion, to levy an extra tax in their respec
tive not exceeding fifty percent, on the gen
eral tax, which shall be added to the common school
fund of saic 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, forextru taxes.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the trus
tees of any county academy, be, and they are hereby
authorized, to pay over to the commissioners of com
mon schools, any funds in their hands.
Sec. 7 And be it further enacted, That his excel
lericy the governor, within the month of January
i next, be required to cause so much of the above re
j cited act, as this act 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. And be it further enacted by the authority
aforesaid, That the eighth, twentieth, twenty-first,
■ and twenty-second sections, and so much of the ninth
j section as refers to the notice to be given by a justice
! of the peace and free holder to the trustees of their
♦ lection, and so much of the sixteenth section, as re
! f#*rs to the balances in the hands of trustees of acadc
* mies and their treasurers be, and the same is hereby
J repealed.
| JOSEPH DAY,
Sneaker of the House of Representatives.
CHARLES DOUGHERTY,
President of the Senate.
Assented to 29th December, 183 ft.
GEORGE R GILMER, Governor.
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- offer to contract for delivery at Darien, or
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quality, sawed to any dimensions that may be
required, and at low prices. They will have
on han 1 at their depot in this city, a good sup
ply of lumber of various sizes.
WOODBURY & STACKPOLE.
Darien, Jan. 22,1839. 3w
Justices Court for 1830.
j 4 COURT, for the 271st District, will Vie holden
i at the Court House in the city of Darien, on the
4th Monday of each month—to wit
Monday 28th January, 1839.
Monday 25th February, “
Monday 25th March, “
Monday 22d April, “
Monday 27th May,
Monday 24th June,
Monday 22d July,
Monday 2fith August, “
Monday 23d September, “
Monday 28th October, “
Monday 25th November, “
Mondav’ 23d December, “
A pannel of 7 Jurors, will be drawn at each term
after the first. NJJLSON w CARPE \TER.
Justice of the P-ace for 271st District,
Darien, January 29st, 1839.
mssrasr*’ .j
OF everv description executed at the of
fice of THE DARIEN HERALD.
DARIEN, <iKtHtC.IV, TUESDAY MORNING, MARCH 20, 1839.
S)OC*Vg.
From the Southern Literary Messenger.
YOUTH.
“ There was a time whan mellow, grove and stream,
The earth, and every common sight
To it it- did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,—
The glory and the freshness of a dream!
It is not now as u has been of yore,—
The things, which 1 have seen, 1 now can see no
more!”
Wordsworth.
I.
Oh! give us hark the happy time
In life’s young hours,
When roving in a fairy clime,
’Mill fadeless flowers,
The heart leaped up in its young delight,
At the meanest thing that hails its sight;—
When we saw a beauty, in the days of yore,
And heard a music we shall hear no more, —
In the Heaven above, and the Earth below, —
In the rain-bow’s arch—in the river’s flow,—
In the flowers that flush in the steps of Spring,
The fountain’s gusli, and the butterfly’s wing;
When the sen, and t he earth and the star-gemmed sky
Were filled with a brightness and melody,
Ere the corking cares of life had sway,
Or custom had chased the charm away!
U.
Oh! it is not now as it was of yore,—
The sjh‘ll hath departed forever morel
The rose still gladdens the face of Spring.
Still the butterfly glances his golden wing:
The bow still gleams in the Heaven above—
The emblem eternal of Peace and Love!
The waves still leap on their march to the soo, —
The fountain still gushed in melody:
Yet tho’ their Ime be ns bright, nnd ns sweet their tone,
We see not—we hear not—ns once we have done, —
For, the charm is now broken, —tho fairy spell gone!
t)h ! give us back the happy time
Iu life’s young hours,
, When joyous we roved in a fairclime,
’Mid fadeless flowers!
111.
The charm is broken, —the fairy spell gone,
And wiser and muldcr the hearth hath grown !
We’ve learned to onweavo the cunning woof
Os the bow, that spanneth yon star-wrought roof;
We hear no more in the thunder-tone
The angry voiceof th’ Invisible One;
The lightning leaps on its dazzling path
No longer the fiery sword of his wrath!
We have lifted the veil 1 und the cold halt. ,*f Truth
Hath broken the vision that gladdened our youth,
And its golden dream, yielding lo reason’s proud
sway,
In life's sadder wisdom hath melted away 1
But what tho’ that dream were deceitful and vain 1
Oh! who would not wish to live o'er it again I
We’ve entered the garden,—we've plucked from the
hough,—
We’ve tasted the fruit, —arc we happier now 1
Oh ! give me back the happy time.
In life’s young hours,
When joyous we roved in a fairy clime.
Mid fadeless flowers.
ELIA.
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From the London Lilcrury Gazette.
THE PLAY AT VENICE.
Some years since, a German Prince ma
king a tour of Europe, stopped at Venice
for a short period. It was the close of
summer, the Adriatic was calm, the nights
were love)j r , the Venetian women in the
full enjoyment of those delicious spirits
that in their climate rise and fall with the
corning and the departure of this finest
season of the year. Every day was given
by the illustrious stranger to researches
among the records and antiquities of this
singular city, and every night to parties
on the Brenta or the sea. As the morning
was nigh, it was the custom to return from
the water to sup at some of the palaces of
the nobility. In the commencement of his
intercourse all national distinctions were
carefully suppressed. But as his intimacy
increased, lie was forced to see the lurking
vanity of the Italian breaking out. One of
its most frequent exhibitions was in the
little dramas that wound up those stately
festivities. The wit was constantly sharp
ened by some contrast of the Italian and
the German, some slight aspersion on Teu
tonic rudeness, some remark on the histo
ry of a people untouched by the elegance
of southern manners. The sarcasm was
conveyed with Italian grace, and the of
fence softened by its humor. It was obvi
ous that the only retaliation must be hu
morous. At length the Prince, on the
point of taking leave, invited his entertain
ers to a farewell supper. He drew their
conversation to the infinite superiority of
the Italian, and above all of the Venetian,
acknowledged the darkness in which Ger
many had been destined to remain so long,
and looked forward with infinite sorrow to
the comparative opinion of posterity upon
a country to which so little of its gratitude
must be due. “But my Lords,’ said he,
rising, “'we are an emulous people, and
an example like yours cannot be lost even
upon a German. J have been charmed
with your dramas, and have contrived a
little arrangement to give one of our coun
try, if you will condescend to follow me to
the great hall.” The company, rose and
followed him through the splendid suits of
a Venetian villa, to the hall which was fit
ted up as a German barn. The aspect of
the theatre produced first surprise and next
a universal smile. It had no resemblance
to the gilded and sculpured saloons of their
own sumptuous little theatres. However
it was only so much the more Teutonic.
The curtain drew up. The surprise rose
into loud laughter even among the Vene
tians, who have seldom been betrayed Into
any thing beyond a smile for generations
together. The stage was a temporary
erection, rude and uneven. The scenes
represented a wretched and irregular street,
scarcely lighted by a few twinkling lamps,
and looking the fit haunt of robbery and as
! sassination. On a narrow view some of
the noble spectators began to think it had
a kind of resemblance to an Itallian street,
and sonic actually discovered in it one of
the leading streets of their own famous city,
lint the play was on a Herman story, they
were under a German roof. The street
was notwithstanding its illomened simili
tude, of course German. The street was
solitary. At. length a traveller, a German,
with pistols in a licit around his waist, and
apparently exhausted by his journey, catnc
heavily pacing along. 11c knocked at sev
eral of the doors, but could obtain no ad
mission. lie then wrapped himself up in
iiis cloak, sat down upon a fragment of a
monument and soliloquised. “Well, here
have Iconic, and this is my reception. All
palaces, no inns, all nobles, and not a man
to tell me where I can lie down in comfort
or safety. Well, it cannot be helped. A
Herman does not much care, campaigning
has hardened effeminacy among us. Hun
ger and thirst, heat and cold, dangers of
war and the roads, are not very formidable
after what we have to work through from
father to son. Loneliness however, is not
so well, unless a man can labor or read.
Reade, that’s true come out Zimmerman.”
11c drew a volume from his pocket, moved
nearer to a decaying lamp, and soon seem
ed absorbed, lie had till now been the on-
ly object. Another soon shared the eyes
of the spectators. A long, light figure
came with a kind of visionary movement
from behind the monument, surveyed the
traveller with keen curiosity, listened with
apparent astonishment to his words, and
in another moment had fixed itself gazing
over his shoulder on the volume. The yes
of this singiila'r being wandered rapidly
over the page, and when it was turned they
were lifted up to heaven with the strongest
expression of wonder. The German was
weary, his head soon drooped over his
study, and he closed the book.
“What,” said he, rising and stretching
his limbs, “is there no one stirring iu this
comfortless place ? Is it not near day !”
Ho took out his repeater and touched
the pendant, it struck four. Ilia mysteri
ous attendant watched him narrowly, the
repeater was traversed over with an eager
gaze ; hut when it struck, delight was min
gled with the wonder that had till then fil
led its pale intelligent countenance.
“Four o’clock said the German, “in my
country half the world would be thinking
of going to the day’s work by this time.
In another hour it will he sunrise. Well
then I will do you a service, you nation
of sleepers, and make yon open your eyes.
“He drew out one of his pistols, and
fired it. The attendant form still hovering
behind him, had looked curiously upon the
pistol, hut on us going off, started hack in
terror, and with a loud cry thut made the
traveller turn—
“ Who are you? was his greeting to the
intruder.
“I will not hurt you was the answer.
“Who cares about that? wus the Ger
mans’s retort, us he pulled out the other
pistol.
“My friend,’ said the figure. “Even
that weapon of thunder and lightning can
not reach me now. But if you would know
who 1 am, let me entreat you lo satisfy my
curiosity a moment. You seem a man of
extraordinary powers.”
“Well then,’said the German in a gentle
tone, “if you come as a fi'icrtd, 1 shall be
glad to give you information; it is the
custom of our country to deny to
those who will love or learn.’
The former sighed deeply and murmur
ed, “and yet you are a Teuton ; hut you
were just readinga little caseof strange and
yet most interesting figures ; was it a man
uscript ?”
“No it was a printed book !”
“Printed, was it printing ? I never hoard
hut of writing? ’
“It is an art, by which one man can give
lo the world, in one day, as much as three
hundred could give hy writing, and in a
character of superior clearness, correctness
and beauty ; one by which books are made
universal and literature eternal.
“Admirable, glorious art ?” said the in
quirer. “Who was its illustrious inven
tor?”
“A German.”
“But another question. I saw you look
at a most curious instrument traced with
figures, it sparkled with diamonds, hut its
greatest wonder was its sound. It gave
the hour with miraculous exactness, and
the strokes were followed by tones superior
to the sweetest music of my day.”
“That was a repeater !”
“Now, when I had the luxuries of the
earth ut my command I had nothing to tell
the hour better than the clepsydra and the
sun dial. But this must be incomparable
from its facility, of being carried about,
from its suitableness to all hours and from
its exactness of time. It may assist naviga
tion, astronomy. What an invention !
whose was it ? he must be more than
man.
“He was a German.”
“What, still a barbarian ! A German !
I remember his nation. I once saw an aux
iliary legion of them marching towards
Rome. They ware a bold and brave blue
eyed troop. The whole city poured fourth
to sec those northern warriors, but wo
looked on them as gallant savages. I
one more question, the most interesting of
all. I saw you raise your bnd with a small
truncheon in it; in moment something
rushed out that seemed a portion of the fire
of the clouds. Were they thunder and
lightning that I saw 1 Did they come by
your command 1 Was that truncheon a tal
isman, and arc you a mighty magician ?
Was that truncheon a sceptre commanding |
the elements ? Are von a God ?
The strange inquirer had drawn back
gradually as his feelings rose. Curiosity
was now solemn wonder, and he stood ga
zing up in an attitude that mingled awe with
devotion. The German felt the sensation
I of a superior preccnce growing on himself
as he looked upon the fixed countenance of
this mysterious being. It was iu that mis
ty blending of light and darkness which the
moon leaves as it sinks just before morn,
j There was u single hue of pale grey in the
! East llmt touched ils visage with a chill
light, the moon resting broadly on the hor
izon was setting behind, the figure seemed
as if it was standing in the orb. Its arm
was lifted towards heaven, and the light
came through its drapery with the mild
splendor of u vision. Blit the German, ha
bituated to the vicisitudes “of perils by
flood and field,” shook oil'his brief alarm,
nnd proceeded calmly to explain the source
of his miracles, lie gave a slight detail of
the machinery of the pistol, and alluded to
tho History of gun powder.
“It must he a mighty instrument in the
hands of man for either good or ill,” said
the form. “How much it must change the
nature of war ! how much it must influence
the fates of nations ! By whom was this
wondorous secret revealed to the traders
upon the earth ?”
“A German.”
The form scented suddenly to enlarge, its
feebleness of voice was gone, its attitude
was irresistibly noble. Before it had utter
ed a word, it looked as if made to persuade
and command. Its outer robe had been
thing away; it now stood with an antiqne
dress of brilliant white, gathered in many
folds, and edged with a deep border of pur
ple ; a slight wreath of laurels dazzlignly
green, waff on his brow. It looked like
the genius of Eloquence.
Stranger, it said, pointing to the Appc
nines, which were then beginning to be
marked by the twilight, ‘eighteen hundred
years have passed away since I was the
glory of all beyond those mountains Eigh
teen hundred years have passed into the
great Hood of eternity since I entered Rome
iu triumph, and was honored ns the leading
mind in tho great intellectual empire of the
world. But I knew not of these things. 1
was a child to you, we were all children to
the discovciers of these glorious potenccs.
But has Italy not been still the mistress of
the mind ? She was then first of the first;
has she not kept her superiority ? Show
me her noble inventions. I must soon sink
from the earth —let me learn still to love my
country.”
The listener started back ; “who, what
arc you ?”
“I am a spirit. I was Cicero. Show
me, hy the love of a paitriot what Italy now
sends out to enlighten mankind.”
The German looked embarrassed ; but
in a moment after he heard the sound of a
pipe and tabot. lie pointed in silence to
the. narrow street from which the interrup
tion came. A ragged figure tottered out
with a barrel-organ at his back, a frame of
puppets in his hand, a hardy gurdy round
his neck, and a string offlancing dogs in his
train, Cicero uttered but one sigh—“ls
tliis Italy!” The German bowed his head.
The showman began his cry.—“llaree
show, fine rarer, show against tho wall !
Fine Madam Catarina dance upon the
ground. Who come for degalaulee show !’
The organ struck up, the dogs danced, the
Italian capered round them. Cicero raised
his broad gaze to heaven : “These the men
of my country—these the orators, the po
ets, tho patriots of mankind ! What scorn
and curse of providence can have fallen up
on them ?’ Ashe gazed, tears suddenly suf
fused his eyes, the first sunbeam struck n
cross the spot where he stood, a purple
mist rose around him, and lie was gone !
#
The Venetians, with one accord started
from their scats, and rushed out of the hall.
The Prince and iiis suit had previously ar
ranged every thing for leaving the city, and
they were beyond the Venetian territory by
sun rise. Another night in Venice, and they
would have been on their way to the other
world.
From the London Court Gazette,
NEW-YEAR IN THE COUNTRY.
PART 1. —THE HONEYMOON.
“Dear llariiy, how delightful this is—really,
quite a picture—the sunny skies of Italy, with
its marble palaces and its silver lakes, have
nothing that can compare with one of the old,
ancestral hails of dear, delightful, smiling
England.”
“And yet you admired Italy, and grew quite
eloquent on its ruined faces, and failing tem
ples, and classic pillars. I think you were
even guilty of the sin of poetising.”
“Ah, but Iliad never seen your country-seat,
with its magnificent range of trees, and its
green parks with the tame deer, and the while
cottages of your contented peasantry; and, in
short, are you not her, and do I not like any
place with you, dear husband!”
“My own Laura! and so you are pleased
with this our first New-Ycar in the country.
1 wonder if it will be the same this time ten
years ?”
“Can you doubt it 1”
“You'know it has been our family’s custom,
to spend thcNcw-Year here from “ mo
1,1 “Ah! how pleasant 1 mid I hope we shall have
no intruders on our Impptncss-on calls from
country neighbors—to annoy us with congra
tulations they don’t feelj and affect a sympa
-1 thy with pursuits they can’t understand.”
There was something pleasant in all this
pretty interchange of affection —lor Mrs. St.
Aubyn was a bride, and felt all the enthusiasm
she affected. In a well-assorted union, the
first few months of marriage front the spring
time of the heart—and Mr. and Mrs. St. Audyn
flattered themselves that, however dull the
time and however few the visitors, there would
be nothing du 1 to them in a ‘Now-Year in the
Country.’
Mrs. St. Aubyn had been the belle of the
season. No party was perfect without her.
No bill went off with eclat unless her figure
enlivened the scene; and, worse than all, no
men were to be met where she was not.
When change, or rather the despotism of love,
threw her in the way of Harry St. Aubyn,
himself one of the best matches of the day,
VOL. 1. NO. 10.
they both fell in love, lived upon chicken and
sighs for a considerable time, talked sentiment
like a French milliner, grew most lugubriously
pale and very thin, and finished by dashing ofl’
toGretua in a coach and six, returning totown
iu triumph, the hero nnd heroine of the season
—made mistress of Harry St. Aubyn’s vast
estates, accumulated during his minority, can
we wonder at the lavish nffectiondispluyod by
both bride nnd bridegroom ?
“And how beautiful,” said Mr. H. St. Aubyn,
as they continued the conversation which our
digression has interrupted, “how beautiful will
lie the long winter evenings, with vour sweet
guilnr and your sweeter voice! We shall
never know a dull hour.”
“Yes! and then there will be that hateful
season, when all our timo must be passed in
town in ball-going nnd Almacks, and fetes
champetres; and 1 shall be”
“So admired, dearest.”
“And you will be”
“Quite jealous, if that pretty face smiles on
any one save me.”
“Dear, dear Harry, shall I sing to you my
last new song?”
And then the light-hearted bride, after run
ning carelessly over the strings, sang the
following—necti we say she was rewarded
with an affectionate kiss ?
BONG.
We part—no, on my word we must—
I really wod’t allow
That day by day, with Clarence Gray,
You smile, and sigh, and vow !
Os course, I know, to lose your beau
Will cut you to the core—
But send me all my presents buck:.
We part, to meet no more !
The days we spent with Lady Ghent,
The maarpte, the rout, the ball—
Our evening walks, our morning talks,
He's now forgotten all.
/ shall be very happy, but
Your happiness is o’er ;
Oh, no, I cannot break my word—
We part to meet no more !
And thus did Ihe two young dreamers whilo
away the time, und in the plentitude of their
affection deem that all the succeeding ones
would be like “their first New Year in the
Country.”
Part II. — Ten Years After Marriage.
Time has dealt gently with our hero and
heroine, and as they sate, at the end of the
season, in their well-appointed mansion in
Ilalgrave Square, you would scarcely have
dreamed that ten years had passed over their
heads. The lady’s pretty feet were peeping
from the velvet slippers which enclosed them,
but in her countenance there was something
which put to (light all the reminiscences of the
smiling bride of ten years ago; and ns she
speaks there is a decision in her tone which
tlicn it (fortunately) wanted.
“Really, Mr. St. Aubyn, it’s quite absurd.
The Duke has asked us to spend the New-Yenr
with him, amid the festivities ofW Castle;
and instead of going there, I ’into be dragged
to our dull country-sent, because it has been
your custom to do so!”
“I tell you, madnin,” —(ho never said Laura
now) —“ that go to Aubyn Mall I will; but you
seem to have forgotten your penchant for tho
place during the honey-moon.”
“Without any company to enliven us?” put
in the lady.
“But shall not I be there?” and as he spoke
he mimicked the tones of her voice.
“Not a prospect worth admiring,” continued
the incensed lady.
“What! have you forgotten ‘the magnificent
range of trees,’ and its ‘ green park with its
tame deer’?”
“And its hum-drum conuntry neighbors l”
rctoted Mrs. Kt. Aubyn.
“Ah! hut you forget itspretly white cottages’
audits contented peasantry ’*
“A nasty, dull, foggy place!” and Mrs. St.
Aubyn’s pretty cheek looked prittier under
lilt-influence of her rising color.
“What! in ‘ dear delightful, smiling Eng
land’ ? ”
“Really, this is too provoking—to have my
words thrown in my teeth in this way; but
I’m determined X won’t go! ”
“And I’m determined that I will go.”
“It’s shameful —I, who never crossed you.”
“Except about a ‘Ncw-Year in the Coun
try.’”
“I, who brought you a fortune ”
“And spent twice as much the first year ! ”
“W’ho made your house the most fashiona
ble in town ? ”
“Notwithstanding all these numerous obli
gations,’’returned Mr. St. Aubyn, leisurely
rising, and murmuring with the most provoking
culrnnlesH —
‘Pray, Goody, please to moderate;’
“notwithstanding all these obligations, you
will find that you will spend the next as you
have spent all the last New-Year’s days—in
the Country.”
Sale of Bachelors.— lt is rumored that the
legislature of Tennessee has passed a law mak
ing it the duty of the Sheriff of each county
annually to make out a list of the Bachelors h)
his county, and notify all of said Bachelors who
are in a healthy condition, that the law requires
them to get married within two months from
the time of their notification, and thatat the ex
piration of this time, all of said bachelors who
have failed to comply, with the requisitions of
this law, shall be set up, and sold at public
auction by said sheri/t; to the highest bidder,
an l that no persons shall be allowed lo bid but
old maids.
It is furthermore rumored that a sale was re.
ccntly had at Jonesborough under this law at
which forty old bachelors were sold who from
long exposure to cold by sleeping alone, had
dwindled down to such complete shadows, tl-,t
the more sprightly oid maids who purchas; and
them, carried them home on their shoulders.,
It is also whispered about that the editor if
the Tennessee Sentinel, a good brother Demo
crat bachelor, was auctioned oft'at that sc’r,
and purchases by a very clever stiperanuatcd
miss, about forty-five years of age. We most
heartily wish them great joy. Perhaps if the.
Mayor and Aldermen of our town would pass
a similar law, theymight be able, by the sale of
bachelors, to raise a fund to pave our side
walks. — Alabama Republican.
Miss Shirreff.—While this lady was
singing at her benefit recently at Baltimor'.
the ballad of “Whistle and I’ll come to the ,
my lad,” a young gentleman in the pi ,
who was completely entranced, unconsci
ously whistled loud enough to he heard 1 \
the whole house. The audience testified l y
applause its admiration of the romplimcm.