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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.