Newspaper Page Text
VOL. L
TfSM SaMSM. SffilSiSil
is published, every Friday morning, in Macon, Ga. on the follow
ing
CONDITIONS :
“if paid strictly in advance - - $0 50 per annum.
If not so paid - - - -3 00 “ “
Legal Advertisements will be made to conform to the following pro
visions of the Statute :
Sales of Land and Negroes, by Executors. Administrators and Guard
-1 .ans, are required by law to be advertised in a public gazette, sixty
’ days previous to the day of sale.
These sales must be held on the first Tuesday in the month,between
the hours of ten in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at the
* Court House in the county in which the property is situated.
The sales of Personal Property must be advertised inlike manner for
’ :y days.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors of an Estate must be published forty
’ Jay*.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary foj
1 leave to sell Land and Negroes, must be published weekly for four
1 months.
Citations or Letters of Administration must be published thirty days
• —for Dismission from Administration, monthly, six months —for Dis
'“uission from Guardianship, forty days.
Sales for foreclosure of mortgage, must be published monthly, for
Junr months —for establishing lost papers, for the fidl spare of three
months —for compelling titles from Executors or Administrators where
a bond has been given by the deceased, the full space of three months.
Professional and Business Cards, inserted, according to the follow
ing scale:
For i lines or less per annum - - $5 00 in advance.
“ 0 lines “ “ - - - 7 00 “ *
“10 * “ “ - - $lO 00 “ “
£3?” Transient Advertisements will be charged sl, per square of 12
lines or less, for the first and 50 cts. for each subsequent nsertion.—
On thesw rates there will be a deduction of 20 percent, on settlement,
when advertisements are continued 3 months, without alteration.
L All Letters except those containing remittances must be post
paid or free.
Postmasters and others who will act as Agents for the “Citizen"’
may retain2o percent, for their trouble,on all cash subscriptions for
warded.
OFFICE on Mulberry Street, East of the Floyd House and near the I
Market.
Clje jpiufs Corner,
[For the Georgia Citizen.]
IDOLS OF LODE.
No. 4.
Th q II arp er .
BY T. 11. CHIVERS, M. I).
A Ilarpcr who had left his native* land,
A land above till other lauds lbr love—
And one who struck his Lyre with David's hand—
Sat down lamenting with his thoughts above :
Tell her my days are past—
That all my hopes have fled !
That song alone can last,
When those that sung are dead 1
Tell her my harp alone
Can soothe this slent grief,
Sinee that dear one is gone,
Who gave me such relief!
Tell her my song is sweet,
Because her heart was true—
Tell her that we shall meet
No more on earth—adieu!
I saw him sadly weep
The deep warm tears, that sorrow bade him shed,
And sink into himself, with silence deep,
And mourn about his long lost Lena dead
The Dove that builds her nest
In Golden Cedar, where, from morn till night,
The loved-ones meet—had more secluded rest
Than this same sad, this broken-hearted wight!
But now his soul is free;
And that sweet harp that he had often strung,
Hangs on the willow-boughs beside the sea.
Where never more shall that sweet song be sung !
And often, it is said,
At night, when other things are fast asleep,
The Sea-Nymphs moan about his lonely bed,
And Mere-Maids gather round his harp to weep'.
[errata—-in No. 3 of u Idols of Lode. n — ln the 4th verse
for immortality read mortality. In the 7th verse for pray
ed read played.]
ftliordlantf.
Scandal and Dress Making.
“Mrs. Smith had just come in from the kitchen to j
see how Miss Martin, the dress maker, progressed in
her task of making ‘‘auld claith look amaist as wcel
as new.” It was considered unpardonable extrava
gance in llivertown, to hire a sempstress for plain
sewing; and three tailoresses, four dress makers,
and one widow lady, who was handy at everything,
circulated at intervals among the better class of fkm- j
ilies, their semi-annual visits being regarded as quite |
delightful by the mistress of the house, tor gossip I
was then the order of the day. Miss Martin was a j
universal favorite in the Hamden and Smith clique, j
for she sewed for the Jacksons, the Barnards, and
the Millers, people of whom they saw very little ex
cept in the streets or at church. Miss Martin could
tell vouall about Miss Barnard'sXew-\ orklover; she
thoroughly understood the domestic economy ot the
Millers, and did not hesitate to say that Mrs. Jack
son had her own way completely, and as for her hus
band, it was too bad for n man like him to have to
put up with everything sis he did.
“This particular morning the conversation turned
upon Mrs. Jordan, and as Miss Martin had been em
ployed by that lady for a day or two previous there
was much to be said, and si variety ot questions ask
ed. It was at length settled by Miss Martin’s testi
mony, that the back parlor curtains were worsted
damask instead of silk ; that Mrs. Jordan always
wore a cap at breakfast, and never came to dinner
in her morning dress —('such airs !’ exclaimed Mrs.
Smith,) —that Mr. Jordan often passed whole eve
nings out ot the house —and here Miss Martin
became quite mysterious, and could not be pre
vailed upon to give any information with regard to
the employment of said evenings.
“‘He haint joined the Odd Fellows?’ said Mrs.
Smith, throwing up both hands.
u ‘No,’ was the concise reply.
“ ‘You don’t say he goes to that shocking ten-pin
alley?’
u *Kot that ever I heard ot,’ vouchafed Miss Mar
tin ; and then, urged by her listener, she at length
disclosed that she believed quite too much ol his
time was passed at Mary Butler’s.
“ ‘Of all things!’ exclaimed Mrs. Smith, rocking
back energetically upon the kitten’s tail, which sent
forth a piteous yell, as the door opened to admit Ad
eline Mitchell. * ‘Oh, Adeline, I’m glad to see you,’
Mas the greeting. ‘What do you think Miss Martin
says ?’ Mr. Jordan is absolutely half his time at Ma
ry Butler’s.’
“ ‘Perhaps not quite half,’ mildly interposed the
informant; and if you’ll never tell —but no, I’ve no
right to tell such things and Miss Martin industri
ously waxed a needleful of silk.
“ ‘Ah, come, go on, we’ll never mention it, you
may depend,’ said Adeliue Mitchell, with breath
less eagerness.
“ ‘Positively V
e\ er that is, only to Harriet Harden ; you’ll
let me tell her, won’t you ? but it shan’t go a step
further,’
l hen—but I guess I’d better not, after all.’
u ‘Ob, do, now.’
“ Ive seen him give her letters, and she’d blush
terribly, and hid them in her pocket as quick as
thought. I hen he always calls her ‘Mary,’ which
is quite too familiar to suit me, and worse than all,
Mrs. Jordan’s found it out.’
“ ‘You don’t say so!’
“ YV hat did she do ?’
“ ‘lt was only last night —(now’ if you ever whis
per this I shall never forgive you.) I’ll tell you
how I happened to hear it. I was sewing in the
dining room, (as she will call it; I shall say sitting
room,) and as I’d got the sleeves basted in and the
hooks and eyes on, thought I’d get her to try on the
waist, so I just stepped to the back parlor door, but
as I got there stopped a minute, for I thought I
heard high words, and the first I heard was—‘You
spend quite too much of your time at Mrs. Butler’s,
and 1 won t allow it any more!’—then he said some
thing I could not quite understand, and she answer
ed ‘No, I’m not naturally inclined to be jealous ; but !
1 shall put a stop to this, I assure you.’ Then they
talked lower, and so I just walked in, quite uncon
cerned, and there they stood by the fire-place. Just
as I opened the door, he tried to put his arm round her
waist, to make up, 1 suppose, and she pilshed it away
—there, like that,’ and Miss Martin, suiting the ac
tion to the word, gave Miss Adeline a somewhat un
gentle repulse.
“‘Well, I always said, from the first, there was
no good in their acquaintance. You remember
w hat a time Mrs. Jackson made a year ago about it!’
said Mrs. Smith, appealing to Adeline Mitchell.
“‘Don’t 1 though—ifthey did pretend to be such
good friends afterwards ? I've always thought the
Jacksons took her up because she happened to get
a little money about that time. To be sure, she
runs there now every day of her life ; but I’ll war
rant Mrs. Jackson would like to put a stop to it if
she could.’’
“Suddenly, Miss Mitchell recollected that she had j
promised to run in and see Harriet a little while that
morning.
“‘Oh, stay to dinner,’ said Mrs. Smith, ‘and we
can talk it all over. I’m most through in the kitch
en, and then I’m going to cover cord for Miss Martin;
I’ve got nothing in the world to do.’
“But Miss Adeline was alreadv tying on her bon
net. ‘ ’ |
“ ‘ We’er going to have pot-pie,’ urged her hostess.
“‘And apple-dumplings,’ suggested Miss Martin
w hose choice in dessert had just been consulted.
“Blit the love of gossip prevailed over that of ap
ple dumplings, and Miss Mitchell disappeared just as
Mrs. Smith was summoned to the kitchen by the J
hired girl’s announcement that ‘the crust was riz.”
° l
.1 Torn Shucking.
But vou must hear of the corn-sliucking. The
one tit which 1 was present was given on purpose
that I might witness the humors of the Carolina
negroes. A huge fire of light-wood was made near
the corn-house. Light-wood is the wood of the long
leaved pine, and is so called, not because it is light,
for it is almost the heaviest wood in the world, but
because it gives more light than any other fuel. In !
clearing lands, the [fines are girdled and suffered to
stand ; the outer portion of the wood decays and ;
falls off; the inner part which is saturated with tur- {
pentine, remains upright for years, and constitutes ;
the j lanter’s provision for fuel. W lieu a supply is j
wanted, one of these dead trunks is felled by the j
axe. The abundance of light-wood is one of the
boasts of South Carolina. Wherever you are, if you
happen to be chilly, you have a fire extempore ; a
bit of light-wood and a coal give you a bright blaze
and a strong beat in an instant. The negroes make
fires of it in the fields where they work, and when
the mornings tire wet and chilly, in the pens where
they are milking the cows. At a plantation, where
I passed a frosty night, I saw* fires in a small inclos- i
ure, and was told by the lady of the house that she j
had ordered them to be made to warm the cattle.
The light-wood fire was made, and the negroes j
droppedm from the neighboring plantations, sing-1
ing as they came. The driver of the plantation, a ;
colored man, brought out baskets of corn in the j
husk, and [tiled it in a heap ; and the negroes be
gan to strip the husks from the oars, singing with
| great glee as they worked, keeping time to the mu
j sic, and now and then throwing in a joke and an ex
i travagant burst of laughter. The songs were gen
erally of ti comic character ; but oneot them was set
■to a singularly wild and plaintive air, which some of
our musicians would do well to reduce to notation.
These are the words :
’ “Johnny come down de hollow.
Oh hollow !
Johnny come down de hollow .
Oh hollow!
I )e nigger-trader got me.
Oh hollow!
De speculator bought me.
Oh hollow •’
I’m sold for silver dollars.
Oh hollow!
Boys, go catch the pony.
Oh hollow !
Bring him round the de corner.
Oh hollow !
I’m goin’ away to Georgia.
Oh hollow!
Bovs, good-bye forever!
Oh hollow !
The song of “Jenny gone away,” was also given,
and another called the monkey-song, probably of
African origin, in w hich the principal singer person
ated a monkey, with all sorts of odd gesticulations,
and the other negroes bore [tart in the chorus, “Dan,
dan, w ho’s the dandy I” One of the songs, com
monly sung on these occasions, represents the vari
ous animals of the woods as belonging to some pro
fession or trade. For example—
“De cooter is de boatman —”
The cooter is the terrapin, and a very expert boat
man he is.
“Dc cooter is de boatman.
John, John Crow.
De red-bird dc soger.
John, John Crow.
De mocking-bird, de lawyer.
John, John Crow.
De aligator sawyer.
John, John Crow.”
The aligator’s back is furnished with a toothed
ridge, like the edge of a saw, which explains the
last line.
When the work of the evening was over, the ne
groes adjourned to a spacious kitchen. One o cm
took his place as musician, whistling, and heating
time with two sticks upon the floor. Several ol the
itt all tilings—Neutral in Nothing.”
MACON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE, 21, 1850.
men came forward and executed various dances, ca
pering, prancing, and drumming with heel and toe
upon the floor, with astonishing agility and persever
ance, thongh all of them had performed their daily
tasks, and had worked all the evening, and some
had walked from four to seven miles to attend the
corn-shucking. From the dances a transition was
made to a mock military parade, a sort of burlesque
of our militia trainings, in w hich the words of com
mand and the evolutions were extremely ludicrous.
It became necessary for the commander to make a
speech, and confessing his incapacity for public speak
ing, he called upon a huge black man, named Toby,
to address the company in his stead. Toby, a man
ot powerful frame, six feet high, his face ornament
ed w ith a beard of fashionable cut, had hitherto stood
leaning against the wall, looking upon the frolic with
an air of superiority, lie consented, came forward,
and demanded a bit of paper to hold in his hand,
and harangued the soldiery. It was evident that
loby had listened to stump-speeeches in his day.—
lie spoke of “de majority of Sous Carolina,” “de
interests of de State,” “de honor of old Ba’nwell
district,’, and these phrases he connected by various
expletives, and sounds of which we could make noth
ing. At length he began to falter, when the cap
tain, with admirable presence of mind, came to his
relief, and interrupted and closed the harangue w ith
an hurrah from the company. Toby was allowed
by till the spectators, black and w hite, to have made
an excellent speech.— Bryant's Letters.
Sacred Music,
“It is good to sing praises unto our God ; for it
is pleasant, and praise is comely.” The voice of joy
and the shout ot gladness are the proper welcome
of a great and gracious sovereign. The loyal heart
will exult in the presence of his king. So exults
the saint in the presence of Jehovah. “Great is the
Lord,” lie exclaims, “and greatly to be praised.” —
His heart leaps forth in songs of gladness, and re
joices in shouts of triumph. “I will extol thee,” he
| cries, “my God, O King! and I will bless thy name
jor ever and ever. Every day will I bless thee : and
I will praise thy name for ever and ever.” As the
exultation of his soul increases, and he feels how
poor, how faint, how worthless are his own powers
of juaise, lie calls on all the saints, on all the world,
on “everything that hath breath,” on all creation, to
j swell the shout, and “praise him,” their God, “ac
j cording to his excellent greatness.”
Thus David felt, and his bursting heart spake out.
“O clap your hands,” said he, “all ye people! shout
unto God with the voice of triumph.” “Sing praises
to God ; sing praises ; sing praises unto our King,
sing praises; for God is the king of all the earth ;
sing ye praises w ith understanding.” “Make a joy
ful noise unto God, till ye lands ! Sing forth the
honor of his name, make his praise glorious.” “Let
the heavens rejoice, and let the earth be glad : let
the sea roar, and the fullness thereof; let the tic-lAI
bo joyful, and all tliut L. tl ”
Let heav’n and earth with rapture leap,
Let seas their voice employ ;
Let cv’ry height, let ev’ry deep,
Let fields and woods exulting keep
A jubilee of joy.
In such work no power of the human soul should
be unemployed. Everything that can excite the
sacred merriment of the heart —everything that can
swell the sound of joy must be brought forth.—
“Praise him,”therefore, lie exclaims, “with the sound
of the trumpet; praise him with the psaltry and
harp: praise him with the timbrel and dance;
praise him with stringed instruments and organs :
praise him upon the loud cymbals : praise him upon
the high-sounding cymbals : let everything that
hath breath praise the Lord.”— Rev. B. F. Hatfield.
MARRIED MEN.
A pleasant and popular French writer, in a little
broshure published a few years since, amused him
relfwith one of the follies, inconsistencies, and anoy
ances of married men, and sketches, with a lively
pen, portraits of some specimens of the married
man, presenting traits that are universally, and not
merely locally true. He passes very rapidly over
the evanescent endearments and devotions of the
honev-moon, and then paints the male individual,
when he lias passed from the ardor of the bride
groom to the indifference of the husband.
“When the lady exhibits herself before him with
anew cap or bonnet, saying :
“How do I look ? Does this become me ?
The husband replies —“very well —charming—
delightful” —without raising his eyes from his news
paper.
The lady, perceiving that her husband has not
even looked at her, retires in a pique, registering an
internal vow that she will never consult his taste
again, but thenceforth follow her own fancies.
When the gentleman accompanies his wife to a
party, he deposites her in a corner of the room,
where she may amuse herself as well as she can,
while he pays his court to some other lady, or per
haps to several other ladies, privided they be young
and handsome. The essential point of attraction
in the object of attentions is, that she is not his wife.
If he dance, it is not with his w ife, as that w ould be
in excessively bad taste. Afterwards he sits down
to whist with some fascinating partner, and the min
utes glide rapidly and noislessly away. lie enjoys
Himself without a thought that his wife may not per
haps be as agreeably employed. The latter ap
proaches the card-table and says in a low tone :
“My dear, isn’t it time for us to think about reti
ring ?”
“Yes—yes —in a minute —(Diamonds trumps
again ?) Go and dance a little and then we’ll go.”
“I don’t want to dance —I’m tired.”
“Then go sit down and rest yourself.”
The lady is silent, but retires. At the end of halt
an hour she returns, and though she finds her hus
band deep in the mysteries of pasteboard and coun
ters, she says:
“My dear, it is very late ! Are you ready !”
“Yes—yes—in five minutes—not more than five
minutes—l shall be at your service.”
These five minutes last a good hour longer; and
then our married man flings down his cards in a pet
and rises from the table muttering :
“What a bore not to be able to do what you like!
To have somebody always at your shoulder, who
forces you to go when you w r ant to stay. Women
havn’t the slightest spark of gentlemanly feeling !
Ah! when I was a bachelor, I had my way. What
fools w r e are to tie ourselves up so. Come now T .”
And the gentleman offers his arm and retires
with Ills lady. In the streets she asks :
“Shan’t we take a carnage ?”
He answers —“acarriage! nonsense ? It’s only a
step, Besides, it will do you good to walk. Come
along.”
Old Style Hymns • —The following verses are correct
specimens of the hymns sung in Congregational churches be
fore the day of Dr. \\ atts, and which were gradually made
to give place to die hymns now in use as the taste for harmony
and beauty increased in our churches. The following verse
should be deaconed off and sung one line at a tithe:
“ Tis like the precious ointment
Down Aaron’s beard did go:
Down Aaron’s beard it downward went,
His garment skirts unto.’’
Another—a sort of address to whales, and other big fish,
as well as tom cods, flounders, sculpins, eels, and other small
fry:
‘‘Ye monsters of the bubbling deep,
Vour Maker’s praises spout:
Up from the sands ye codlings |>eep,
And wag your tails about.”
(Drigirail
For the Georgia Citizen.
EDUCATION.
CONTINUED FROM LAST NUMBER.
“ Fourthly. If we may justly assume that Man
chester affords a fair average of the state of educa
tion in England, we find a painful and mortifying
contrast to some States on the Continent, wheth
er we consider the number of children who regular
ly attend school, or the kind and efficiency of in
struction which they receive.”
“’While in Prussia, and some other German
States, all the children between the ayes of 7 and 14
of every class, are bound by law to attend school, and
really do attend', not two-thirds of those in Man
chester receive even nominal instruction, whereas in
the above mentioned counties, schools are carefully
established in every place and confided to the care
of a teacher who is brought up to the profession,
and is not to undertake it till he has undergone a
strict examination of his qualification and knowledge.
The education of the lower classes in this country,
is, with few exceptions, in the hands of ignorant and
uneducated men, who are often destitute of all fit
ness for the employment, and have entered upon it
only as an easy mode of getting monev, or in con
sequence of some accidental circumstances, or bodi
ly infirmity. In those counties we also find the sub
stance of the instruction far better than in England,
for there the scholars in every elementary school are
instructed in religion, the German language, the
first principles of arithmetic, of drawing, and natu
ral History, Geography, general History, (especial
ly that ot their own country,) Binging, Writing,
Gymnastic exercises and simple handicraft trades.
“No school is complete which does not give in
struction in all these various departments; in many
schools, this is really done; and none are tolerated
but where, at least, religion, reading, writing and
singing are taught in an efficient maimer.
‘Tn Manchester, and in England, in general, the
education ot the lower classes is. on the, other hand
considered as finished if they learn reading, writing
tmd arithmetic. But even these are often very im
perfectly taught; while the true cultivation of the
mental powers, the amelioration of morals, the ele
vation of the character, instruction in the truths of
morality and religion—in a word, the more valuable
objects of education are wholly neglected and forgot
ten.”
”1 have,” says he, “the more pleasure in commu
nicating to you this testimony of foreign and im
partial judges, to the excellence and grow th of the
highest intelligence, the mental freedom and ener
gy in our country, because all, from the king to the
child at school, have cause to rejoice at it. If among
thousands of teachers, and hundred thousands of!
scholars and students, there should be here and
there one who, in the superabundance of joy at his
new liberty, jumps too high, and falls upon his nose,
let him beset upon his legs and admonished; the
complaints of the mice and moles, on the other
hand, that people walk and dance on their head,
may be quietly laid ad acta , or let them be advised
to seek safer dwellings, where every body lives un
der ground in the dark. The dangerous principles
of Jacobins and Radicals, originated in ignorance, or
false over-refinement; genuineedueation of the mind
and heart is the best, the most comprehensive, and,
in the end, the only effectual remedy against these
destructive evils. They w ill never be subdued bv
negative remedies.
“Some persons think that the freedom of the press
affords the best education, and supplies its [dace
w ithout trouble. I cannot by any means agree to
this opinion. In the first place, it is assumed, and
very unjustly, that every man can read ; and, sec
ondly, that only what is worth reading will be prin
ted, and put into the hands of the people. With
out a right education, however, the judgment form
ed of what has been read will often prove incorrect, 1
and what is objectionable will obtain a greater as- :
cendency than that which is good. The liberty of,
the press, too, chiefly concerns Journals and news
papers, which by no means contain the w hole stock j
of wisdom and virtue. What numerous and just i
complaints are made, for instance, in England, of the
scandalous unstamped [ apers —nay, even those of
a better class frequently indulge, w ithout restraint,
in the passions of the moment. If the House of com
mons passes u law which displeases the editor of a ;
high Tory paper, lie very coolly calculates the ■
strength which his party would have for a civil war, i
and designates this devilish remedy as natural and
useful. If the House of Lords does not please the j
Radicals, their papers talk of expelling all the Lords, j
nay, even the king, and of the desired overthrow of
all existing institutions. This proves that freedom ;
of the press certainly exists in this sense, that every
one can print what he pleases; but if the idea of free
dom is not perfect, except where it leads to no abu
ses, then even the English are not yet possessed of
this highest degree of liberty of the press. With
the spread of education and know ledge, the false ex
citement of those abuses will subside, and true free
dom will be established, developed and confirmed
by the press better than before.”
So much for the report of the Commissioners on
Education in England, and of their statement in re
gard to the effect of the ir system, and that adopted
by many of the German States.
On comparison it will be found that we, the peo
ple of Georgia, have now in use and everyday prac
tice, the very same system as that above described
by the commissioners as faulty, and tar worse than
the system adopted by their neighbors.
Also, we have the opinion of Von Raumer of the
“Freedom of the Press,” being the means of afford
ing education to the people without trouble. That
opinion of his, I apprehend, on examination, will be
applicable to many, very many, of the [tresses in this
land of boasted learning and freedom.
And here, I may as well mention, that the object
I have in view is, to give the opinions of several em
inent men on the subject of education, for the ex-
press purpose of show ing the effect and success of
the different plans of imparting instruction to youth.
This 1 do, in the hope that the result may be favora
ble to the establishment of the main question, viz :
Have the poor a right to relief ? If so, to w hat
extent, and in w hat manner shall that relief be ex
tended ?
If the main end of all society is the protection
of the helpless, and the increase of the total sum ■
of civilization, happiness and virtue, it seems to me
that it is impossible to deny to the poor this right; j
nor to the rich the corresponding duty.
General Education.— This to be enforced by
sanction of law; competent teachers to be prodded,
who shall receive moderate salaries for their services; j
these salaries to be paid by the government. Nothing
can be predicated generally or in the abstract; each
case must depend on the circumstances immediately
surrounding it. It is certainly heartless and stupid
to look, with indifference at distress, ignorance, pov
erty, and the consequent growing evil of prejudice
which affect all classes of society tow ards each oth
er, when means of affording proper relief under
legal sanction may be devised, (without falling into
the extravagancies of some system of poor’s taxes)
to exact something from those rich who will give no
thing voluntarily; and it is equally certain that the
funds so obtained might be usefully applied w ithout
increasing idleness or vice; but to the contrary, to the
lessening of iynorance and prejudice, and the in
crease of knowledge, temperance, industry, virtue, &c
And at present, in view” of this object, I should be j
in favor of the adoption, at least in part, of two
resolutions I find in the last number of the Citizen,
for the South to act on, Ac. which reads as follows :
“ Resolved, That we should extend our colleges
and other scholastic institutions by confering on them
new donations and privileges, exercising discrimina
tion in the selection of professors and teachers, in
order that we no longer have occasion to resort to
northern institutions for the education of our sons
and daughters, whose minds are likely to be there
poisoned by denunciations and anathemas against
their parents.
“ Resolved, That we create and patronize an es
tablishment for the publication of all elementary
books of education.”
And while I am engaged in giving you the vari
ous and different opinionsof learned persons residing
in different States aud sections of country, it may
not be amiss to remark, that some of the learned
beads of Georgia may find that they are passed by
in silence. Should some of our Judges and Govern
ors complain at our course, we answer for it now, that
we will then, if not before , take occasion to accom
modate them.
Letter from S. Clark explanatory of his mode of
teaching:
Sir :—lt being your request, I briefly state the
general principles upon which my school is conduct
ed.
The school is divided into as manv classes as we
nave umereiit exercises, and a desk furnished for each
exercise. At the first desk or station we attend to
spelling, reading and English Grammar; at tliesec
ond to writing; third mental Arithmetic; fourth, to
written Arithmetic; fifth, to map Drawing; sixth, to
Geography and History.
A number of monitors equal to twice the number
of exercises, is selected to assist in teaching, one
half ot’ whom are on duty at once and keep their
stations until the class of monitors comes round, at
w hich time the monitor w ho had been on duty comes
into the class, and from the class takes his turn.
This is done at all the stations. In the course of
six hours each of the monitors attends one recita
tion at each of the stations, under the immediate di
rection of the master, and the scholars attend to two
recitations at each station under the direction of the
monitor. This arrangement affords a pleasing vari
ety, and many valuable advantages in giving instruc
tion, and saves about nine-tenths of the expense for
books.”
Bo Mr. Editor, we are not only presented with a
practical plan of imparting instruction to youth, but
a plan which embraces economy; an absolute deduc
tion of nine-tenths of the expense for books. It ap
pears to me that many parents might save at least 3
or $4 per year per scholar on this plan, over that i
now adopted by many of the pretended or professed 1
school teachers of our country. OBSERVER.
(to be continued.)
Gleanings from the Mexican War, Ao. 3.
RICHARD BEVERLY; THE TEST.
PART IV.
(Concluded.)
“Confidence was the bearer of the palm; for it looked like conviction
of desert,
And when the strong is well assured, the weaker soon allow it.”
Tapper. !
Captain , the friend of Beverly, was a man of inde
fatigable perseverance and nerve. The plot in which his ser- ■
geant was involved, was so clearly unfolded by the passports,
and the evidence of the complicity of the Frenchman with the
Alcalde and others, who originated the scheme, so transpar
ent, that lie at once hastened to arrest the parties. Although
his own command was three leagues from the city, be found
no difficulty in securing a sufficient detail front the Governor
of the place, who held a large force always in readiness for
the purpose of protecting private property, and enforcing if
necessary, by anus, the regulations of the American authori
ties. The only arrest made was the Frenchman, as it after
wards appeared that the Mexicans, whose signatures were
upon the paper, were too disereet to remain in Monterey, du- !
ring the operations of the areli-actor of the scheme. Subse- i
quent developments, evinced that the man arrested, carried the 1
passports upon his person, and that the other parties vamoos
ed as soon as it was determined that their names and influ- ;
ence were essential to the success of the scheme.
|
We have seen that the elder Cordova, although at heart as
deeply implicated in the plot as any other, bad from pruden
tial motives, or other cause, withheld his signature. It ap
peared strange to the Captain, that there was no evidence of
the connection of this grave senior with the seheme, and so
strong was this impression rivetted upon his mind by the pre
vious statements of Beverly, that it was not until after mueh
reflection, that he determined not to make an arrest in that
direction. The thought which induced this resolution was j
from an apprehension that his friends’ prospects, which looked i
promising, might be prejudiced by an effort to involve Cor
dova, without the slightest positive evidence in the case.
The Frenchman secured and the charges preferred, the
Captain rejoined his friend, at which time the different let- I
ters were translated by Beverly.
“ These will be necessary” said the Captain, when the read
ing was finished, “ to confirm the statements which I have
made in respect to the passport, and so wc have also in his
own handwriting, the proof against Cordova 1 lam rejoiced
at this. We shall proceed against him.”
“ I have thought with your permission, Captain,” rejoined
Beverly, with sometrepidation, for the exultation of the officer
induced the belief that he would find the Captain sternly
opposed to Ins plan for suppressing the solitary proof against
Cordova. “ I have thought that we might leave the Spaniard
liis good name, without prejudicing the interest of our own
army. At worst, he was only an accomplice. lie no doubt
felt that he was moved to second the efforts of the arch-fiend in
this business, by a patriotic impulse. lam satisfied from my
own knowldge of the man, that he could not have been a lead
er in this scheme, but only followed after his patriotism was
invoked. J udge of him leniently. Place yourself in his posi
tion, and how could you have resisted an appeal to your love
of country, enforced not alone by the villainous and venal
| Frenchman, but by names high in authority and influence.
Suppose he has detailed the successes of the secret agent to
our people, when they had been disclosed to him, at the in
stance possibly of his own son, who spoke the judgment of
i Santa Anna on this point, how would you have condemned
the traitor, who could so far forget his obligations to his
Coon try -and kindred, lie had a name and influence to be
maintained among his own people, after the invading army
shall have been withdrawn. Should he receive a proposition,
coming to him under the authority and circumstances we may
suppose the Frenchman's plan brought, with indiflerence,
would not this very coolness derogate from his influence
among his own name and people ? I might have destroyed
■ this letter, the only evidence of his connection with the plot,
but preferred to submit my purpose to you. Cannot the
I Frenchman be made a sufficient example in the ease, to ter
! r ‘fy ev *l doers ! Let us not harbor vindictive feelings. I sub
j mit to your judgment, what good can be accomplished by the
1 punishment of Cordova, tiiat may not be attained now that we
’ have secured the person of the chief actor ?”
” I must confess,” rejoined the Captain, “that I cannot
j conceive of any additional good to result from the punishment
j of the Spaniard, yet I doubt if either of us uuder the circum
i stances, can assume righteously the province of the tribunal
i appointed to determine in such cases. My conviction of duty
lis clear and distinct. The evidence is of a strong character——
| beyond doubt the Spaniard was a party to the whole scheme.
\ ou may assume his defence if you please, before the proper
tribunal. Ido not feel competent to decide the points you
have raised in his defence, simply because I cannot persuade
myself that I have any right so to do. We ought not to with
hold an item of the proof. Let us not burdeu our own con
sciences, but give the court to be appointed, the w hole corres
pondence. This is not only the safe policy, but is rendered
doubly imperative on the simple ground of duty.”
The hopes of Beverly, as to feis generous gift of the life of
Cordova to his own daughter, were slow ly dissipated one af
ter another, under this common sense appeal to his convic
tions of duty. lie felt the force of the reasoning, but his
heart was loth to yield the surrender of the letter in question,
it was the unconditional surrender of the key to the pent up
and restrained odhfidcnce and affection of Isabella, for he felt
j that he dared not approach the woman, whose father his own
act must consign to infamy, and perhaps death, llis bosom
heaved under its own painful agitation, and his heart seemed
torn and lacerated, and welling up with life-blood from lu
own inward chafings.
“ I am truly sorry for you my fr iend,” said the Captain, as
he saw the evidences of an inward struggle upon the face of
Beverly, “ act as you may in this matter, I must do my duty,
and therefore demand the letter.”
Without a word ofcr messmate obeyed the order of his su
pernn, aim was again tell alone, under far more disagreabic
reflections and emotions than those generous impulses, which
cheered him on a similar occasion, had engendered.
Beverly soon abandoned the Fonda , the scene of so many
conflicting emotions within a few hours, and with sorrowful
face, and deeply afflicted heart, sought the quiet of his own
quarters, lie started alone, and passing through the north
eastern garita of the city, plodded slowly and sadly through
the many scenes of interest contiguous to the main ro3d lead
ing to the camp. Along this road, when his heart was glad
dened and his hopes buoyant, he lias often spent hours in
studying its social attractions, and lingering upon the pictur
esquensss of its scenery, but now he moved along as though
uttteriy unconscious of the frequent scenes of beauty or inter
est on either hand. Ills thoughts were concentrated upon
one subject. In his heart he could not find it possible to mur
mur at the course of his officer.
Jsight had thrown its deep shadows over the airy tents,
when he reached the line of sentinels, who guard the ap
proaches of the camp. Passing these he escaped the notice of
his companions, and reaching his own tent, threw himself
carelessly upon his humble blanket and straw, and undisturb
ed reflected over his misfortunes. lie dreaded the curious
gaze of his companions who would he attracted by the marks
of grief as if written with iron into his face. It must not bo
supposed that Beverly, ever once amid his grief, regretted the
steps he had taken in reference to the disclosure of the scheme
of winning desertions from the American standard. In re
viewing this part of the affair, he never once wished to be able
“to take a step backwards.” With this statement in con
nexion with the reader's knowledge of the feelings of Isabel
la's heart developed to some extent in her letter to him, ac
companying the ps-.sports and other papers, there can lie no
uncertainly as to the correctness of the belief, we have always
entertained, that the regrets of our messmate were simply
founded upon the conviction that untoward circumstances,
which he might never explain, placed liim in a false position
before the lady. Should she ever regard him as the murder
er of her father, because be alone had the evidence of his con
nection with the spy, and secret agent 1 This was the pre
dominant apprehension, crushing in its import and signifi
cance.
His comrades had often smiled at what they were pleased
to call his presumption in hoping to succeed in his suite with
the supercilious heir to a name once high in the circles of the
Spanish Court. Many of those with whom he was most fa
miliar and communicative, had repeatedly warned him
agaifist the consummate flirt. All these circumstances haunt
ed him through the night like so many spectres, as he reflect
ed upon the varied surmises which would occupy his com
rades, when the light of day should direct attention to his
worn and haggard face. lie thought he could not tolerate
the often misnamed condolence of “ I told you as much “
! “just what you might have expected,” much more the de
risive declaration, “ precisely what he deserves.”
The familiar reveille called the slee ping soldiers to their feet,
and our hero assuming what calmness he could, answered to
his name,had then engaged himself with his mess in prepar
ing their breakfast. He entered into their cheerful spirits,
and his laugh at the merry joke rung as loud if not as earn
estly as any others.
In this way he worked against the influences which had pos
sessed him through the night,and direrted bis thoughts from
the agonizing theme. Occasionally a merry joker would
throw out some unhappy word, preguant with pain to Bev
erly, and it a cloud momentarily hung over his manly face,
his ow n forced smile as he joined in the chorus, dissipated its
gloom. But all this time the canker was within, the battle
was only intended to gain mastery over the indications of the
inward corrosion.
But we change the scene, and from the smouldering cams
! tires, around which owr friend and his companions were dis
cussing their morning meat hdp us to transit te ywa reader
Ito the Captain's wall-lent It is about ten o'clock in the day,
! and Beverly and hk superior arc again alone. Weshafl v*vy
briefly condense the statements of thse officer touching ifo ef
fort to arrest Cordova. It appeared that the detail were foil
ed in this search, for the several lues interveneg htTa
the arrest of the FVwhnaji and the search ander
gave the aged Spaniard, who was alarmed by the report tar
cuiated respecting the seizure of his associate, fitH to es
cape from the town, and it was deemed useless to purree twn
He had left his family behind bins, who it was expected *ouH
soon follow. After this ctaietnent, Beverly aesroeriv tmumed
NO. 13.
