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70 VOL. I WAYNESBORO, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, DECEMBER THE WAYNESBORO NEWS, PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY MORNING, BY S. A. GRAY & li. J. BLOUNT,’ EDITORS AND PROPRIETORS. TERMS, Two Dollars in advance, or Three Dollars if payment be delayed until the end of the year. ADVERTISEMENTS, will be inserted on the following terms: One Dollar per square, of 12 lines or less, for the first insertion, and 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. To yearly advertisers a liberal discount will be made. All advertisements not marked with the number of insertions required, will be continued until for bid, and charged for. Three Dollars will be charged for all announce ment of candidates for office; in advance. [For the Waynesboro News.] Leaves from a Law Office. Inscribed to C. A. T., JE D. BY A BRIEFLESS BARRISTER. Darkneeg is spread upon the hills, and the winter wind is sighing mournfully through the tall, solemn pine trees. Upon the sum- mit of the night the cold and distant stars And walk through cities in the sky. On streets of gold. IV With Orange flowers I should wind, A garland fair. And witli golden fillets bind, Each Angel’s hair. gal—pointing—forever pointing his cold fin- upon the subject (I have had some little, ger to the sea. At first I thought I had Sirs,) warrants me in saying no system of come upon the fossil remains of a score of Common School Education that recognizes ledgers, but discovered that some were acts such a distinction, can operate efficiently in of the Brittish Parliament during the reign Georgia. I go even farther than that, Sirs, of the Brittish Parliament during the reign Advertisements from strangers and persons, payable in advance. One square, for six months. One square, for twelve months, Legal or business cards per annum, transient $8 12 10 00 00 00 Contracts can be made on liberal terms. Legal Advertisements. Sale of Land and Negroes, by Administrators, Executors or Guardians, are required by law to be held on the First Tuesday in the month, between the hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the after noon, at the Court House in the County in which the property is situated. Notice of these sales must be given in a public gazette 40 days previous to the day of sale. Notices for the sale of personal property must be given in like manner 10 days previous to sale day. Notices to the debtors and creditors of estates must also be published 40 days. Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary for leave to sell Land or Negroes must be published for two months. Citations for letters of Administration, Guardian ship, &c., must b. published 30 days—for dismis sion from Administration, six months, for dismiss ion from Guardianship, 40 days. Rules for foreclosure of Mortgage must be pub lished monthly for four months—for establishing lost papers, for the full space of three months— for compelling titles from Executors or Adminis trators, where bond lias been given by the deceas ed. the full space of three months. Publications will always be continued according to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered, at the following BATES:— Citations on letters of Administration, &c. $2 75 *• dismisssory from Admr’on ’• “ “ Guardianship Leave to sell Land or Negroes, Notice to debtors and creditors, 4 4 1 Sales of personal property, ten days, 1 sqr. Sale of land or negroes by Executors pr. sqr.5 Estrays, two weeks, 1 For a man advertising his wife (in advance) 5 50 00 00 00 50 00 50 00 are faintly gleaming, and Death is standing on the grave of the flowers, pointing his wrinkled finger to « the land of the leal.’— Alone I sit, witli Time and Silence, and mem ories are stealing upon me « like music in a dream.” The bright eyed, blushing, beauti ful Minnie Woodville is before me, and her soft and silvery voice is answered by the Angels. How artless, how innocent. The wild birds know her footsteps, and chant their matin and their vesper hymns at her coming. Ah! Minnie, not many summers with their sunshine and roses have passed over you, and yet at times methinks I see a sweet, sad, thoughtfulness in the depths of your “ bonnie blue eyes.’ How I have won dered what it meant. Mayhap some beauti ful dream is unfolding its myriad mysteries to the half waking eye of your wandering fancy. See, Minnie, see ! a Temple rises, witli « chrysolite arch and emerald dome.” Gorgeous paintings adorn its brilliant walls, and beauty blushes beneath the light—the dazzling light of golden chandaliers. Listen! It is the sound of «merry marriage-bells— silver bells." The bride and bride-groom come. Mark the stillnoro ! I mocks the muffled breathing of a sleeping world. Watch those dark eyes downcast—hear the sweet confession. Her soft, white hand is trem bling in another’s. She whispers, and lo! roses bloom upon her dimples. The proud, lofty-browed man is a worshiper, and joy sits upon his brow. Ah!it hath passed away. Look up, Minnie, look up. You were dream- ing. (Enter George and Ben.) DEVERENX. Gentlemen, I make you wel- come. Accommodate yourselves to the rude ind simple comforts of a man who leads a Their rosy cheeks, then seemed to me, Like Minnie’s own; And all around, I looked to see, Come Minnie come. VI I watched their thoughtful faces when. The hero sighed; Or on the battle-field of men, The gallant died. VII High above me, fretted gold, In arches hung; And, from every curtain fold, A seraph sung. VIII Before me stood a shining throne, Erect and high; And there in silence, sat alone, The Deity. of many beautifully copied. My attention was soon attracted by a book-shape covered witli a royal, undressed Stag skin. I exam ined it, and found upon its large title page of thick coarse paper, the following super- scription : “ THE PRECIOUS REMAINS OF My Lady JANE GREY.' Dec. 237, 1554. I say no system, based upon such a distinction, deserves public countenance and support. This odious discrimination is not confined to one particular feature of the system, but its dis tinctive characteristics are traced through all its varied ramifications. The Magistrate re turns them to as poor children, the Clerk of power to use, enjoy, and dispose of the fund they respectively receive for educational pur poses in sell manner as they may see fit and proper. The plan for each county to be de vised by tb Grand Jury thereof, with the Ordinary, nd if the Grand Jury and Ordi nary fail o refuse to devise a plan, then said fund to be used and employed under exist ing laws. Providel that in all cases the said fund shall be used for instruction of children in the elementary branches of education. And Court certifies to the same fact—the Grand | provided further, that portion of said fund to Jury assess the tax, designating the fund Here I found a dialogue between the gif- ife of single wretchedness. BEn. Alaek-a-day that found you witli that marked copy of the Port Laureate. I should have and mutilated You have been •eading " a dream of fair woman,” you Lo- us-eater. I heartily wish Tennyson had lied in infancy, or you had never been born. Your taste is vitiated. Marod reminds me if my horse. GEORGE. Yes, both arc troubled with the string-halt and that sorely. DEVERENX. You got that from Black- vood’s Magazine, and Aytoun never did like lie gifted and original Alfred Tennyson, be- cause he happened once to say that Christo- her North (father-in-law of the present cd- tor of Ebony.) was unfit for a Teacher of moral philosophy. GEORGE. Well, Warren, the author of 1 Ten thousand a year,” said the same thing, ind so say I. The man who wrote the 1 Isle of Palms,” and described the cave of Jalypso, had too much fancy for the abstract ciences. Ben. Abstract! That is an abstract dea. I like old John Wilson, (I do not mean o intimate that he yet lives in the flesh, for is earthly tabernacle lias been dissolved,) nd imagine I see him now—his long hair treaming in the wind—along “the banks ind braes o’ bonnie Doon.” GEORGE. I’ll drop the question, for I am heartily sick of your panegyrics upon the Etrick Shepherd and North. I like both bet- er than your sage reflections. We were peaking, if I remember me, of Tennyson.— Ben, give us a trifle from the muses. Ben. I am profoundly grateful for the honor you intimate is due me, but I think I aw Deverenx on Pegassus this afternoon.— Iis features wore an expression of unuttera- le melancholy, and ho seemed “Like one who treads alone, Some banquet hall deserted.” : think he returned from that protracted and nysterious visit with the print of prunella omewhere about him. By Jupiter, I should mile if “ the girl witli dark eyes and tresses” she designates her, had given him tho slip- er, GEORGE. He says she called him an Infi- lel. How is it Deverenx ? Do l speak that which is in truth, a fact? But give us the L. S. DEVERENX. (Sorrowfully.) Gentlemen, ou will find a rough draught of something n the blank leaves in " Loring on Husband nd Wife.” GEORGE. (Reads.) I list to the distant church-bell’s chime. Yet am called an Infidel; Ind tread the solemn watch of Time, A lonely Sentinel. II n years agone, I often dreamed, Of worlds afar; ind though the light each sparkle seemed, A silver star. III : thought I’d build a Temple high, Like men of old; IX The guardian Angels bowed in prayer, Where meteor’s whirled; And floating planets, nestled there, Each a world. X Upon a Parian tablet traced. The cross I saw; And on a distant altar placed, The tables of the law. XI The work sublime, I thought to scan, Witli eager eye; But learned alone, that fallen man, Was made to die. XII A thousand Temples built to save, Are filled witli prayer; Yet man moves onward to the grave, The child of care. XIII Soon his locks are white with years, That come and go ; And down his furrowed face, the tears, Of sorrow flow. XIV He laughs anon—anon must weep, And well he may; For soon his brainless head shall sleep, Beneath the clay. Then the marble stone shall tell, His worthless name; And some unlettered Peasant spell, His chiseled fame. XVI This truth alone, is worth the rest, Distort it as you may; Man’s blessing is—he may be blest, In world’s away. BEn. Just as I expected. The ted lady Jane, and old Roger Ascham, upon the quaint question: “Was Cain’s Julius born witli teeth”—the hapless daugter of the Marquis of Dorset—or Duke of Suffolk, if you choose (for he was afterwards Duke of Suffolk,) assuming the affirmative, GEORGE. Well suppose she did « assume the affirmative.” Bex.. my Roger wilted. GEORGE. I have never regarded the lady Jane as a prodigy in learning. She was cer- tainly precocious of talent and a linguist, but the brilliant daughter of Sir Thomas Moore, as well as lady Burleigh, were her equals in erudition. The truth is, as some writer has said, “ that lady Jane is remem bered more for the sad story of her elevation and catastrophe, than for her attainments in letters. Ben. Yes, Northumberland's Queen Ma ry, and George III. are now sitting side by side in the hottest cell of his Satanic Majes ty, playing at hotcockles. DEVERENX. Gentlemen, you speak wildly. I pray you be more composed. GEORGE. Ben’s animation proceeds from the thirteenth hot Irish Whiskey punch, and it’s scarcely one o’clock. Ben. Silence! You unmitigated concate nation of Epicurian hyperboles, until I re plenish my pitcher. Cyrus, the bowl, boy, the bowl. Devereux, fill to a sentiment, and let us no longer " vex with mirth the drow sy ear of night.” DEVERENX. The Waynesboro News and the belle of Burke. Ben. (Shouting vociferously.) Huzza, huz za, huzza. George, do honor to your genius and—your taste. Join me in a bumper. George. (Earnestly.) Could I think the noble lady would pardon me, I should pledge witli becoming reverence, this cup to her, whose words of late, filled the soldier’s heart witli pride, and pointed him to glory. BEn. Three cheers for the Burke Guards —their flag will be a talisman to lead them on to victory (omnes) Huzza, huzza, huzza. DEVERENX. Gentlemen, the small hours are upon us, and we must sleep and wake be fore the cock crows thrice. thus raised for the use of the class thus des ignated, and lastly the State tenders bet- bounty, preserving the classification to the last, in the insulting appellation she lias giv en to the fund appropriated to their benefit. This very principle, now under discussion, (so crippling to previous systems of General be distributed to Chatham connty shall be expended by the Justices of the Interior Court through the school commissioners of said county. See. 3. Be it further enacted that the re ceiver of tax returns of each county shall re quire of each tax-payer when giving in his j taxable property to return under oath the Education for the State) appears to have im- | number of his children between the ages of Tiger clawed him, and he has been swindled in a horse swap. DEVERENX. Sir, men of high moral tone,, seldom, if ever, visit the haunts of crime, and reckless dissipation. The meretricious glare of fashionable improprieties may, for a time, deceive and captivate the ardent and impulsive man. But in the fine language Bishop Bascom, (as I now remember it,) “ ever and anon, among human vicissitudes, the soul of man will break loose from the low and perishable about it, and assert its own eternity.” The world is prone to mag nify the faults of the wayward and wander ing. Why, for a single sin, deny to the hap less every virtue? He who sits alone amid the splendor of of eternal Temples, hath an eye of pity and compassion for the weakness es of fallen humanity. And believe me, Sir, the worst men are not the reckless. I have seen genius—proud, bold brave, daring, gen erous and free, sacrificed to the Pharisee, who despised the moral obligation of a com mon bond for the protection of a common brotherhood. Give to me for my friend, the plain and honest man—free to confess his faults, and too proud to conceal them. Sir, I had rather sit alone, like Gain’s Marius, amid the desolation of some deserted eity. Whose fallen columns and mouldering archi traves, arc but typical of my fate, than re cognize the wretch whose words are lies, and whose smile is treachery. BEn. George, did you know that Cain’s Julius Cassar was born with teeth. I mean the fellow tliat crossed the Rubicon—defeat ed Pompey at Pharsalia, (you remember I Lucan wrote a poem about it) and was after wards assassinated by Brutus in the Senate chamber at Rome. Some people call Rome the “ Seven-hilled City,” for short. George. I confess my memory fails me, BEn. Deverenx, I wish you good I noted not the lapse of Time. Our are growing dim, and George already eth. Rouse thee, sluggard. Lift night, lamps sleep- thine hands on high, for lo ! “ how doth the city sit solitary that was free of people. (Exe- unt.) Tiie door hath closed behind them with a slam, and footsteps are heard upon the sand. They grow fainter—fainter—faint- er. Thought alone now hears them, are gone. Sie transit gloria mundi. Sylvania, Ga., Dec., 1858. They COMMUNICATED, Can a Free-School System, Adequate to the Exigencies of the times, be devised in Georgia. NO. I. if I ever saw the fact recorded, tliat the story of Richard III. witli your authority. Ben. Well, I’ll give it you. I am aware Do favor us Some Weeks ago curiosity prompted me to ransack a small, dark garret, which had long remained to the simple-hearted people of the district a terra incognita. Strange stories were told of mid-night orgies there. How, standing on the comb of the steep roof, had been seen a Messrs. Editors :—This question is now pressing anxiously upon the public mind, and some of the best intellects in the State are engaged in attempting a satisfactory solution. The subject has been brought before our General Assembly, now in session, strongly endorsed by Executive sanction, and a Bill is now before the Legislature in answer to his recommendation. It is not my purpose, in the present article, to discuss the merits of this Bill, but to consider some of the dif ficulties in the way of an equal and practical operation of a School System for the State. That there are difficulties in the way, our past legislation upon the subject furnishes ample evidence. His Excellency in his “ Message," attributes the failure “ to a lack of funds and of competent teachers," but in one humble opinion, an ample supply of these two auxiliaries will fail to remove the chief difficulty. The unequal manner in which population is distributed over the State has doubtless presented itself as a serious obsta- cle to those who sought to devise a General System to be equal in its operation. But time and experience Would either remove the difficulty or furnish means to meet the exi gency of the case. The great defect of our present Common School system, and the fact, of all those which preceded it, is the odious distinction made between the children of the rich and the poor. It proved fatal to all which preceded it, and the public reprobation pronounced upon the present system, for the same cause has rendered it totally inopera- tive and inadequate to meet the wants it pressed itself most forcibly upon the mind of the Governor as a fatal error. For in pre- conting this subject to the Legislature, his views, which I regard as eminently wise, pat riotic and statesman-like, are clothed in the following terse language; * * * "let every white child in the State have an equal right to attend and receive instruction in the pub lie Schools. Let it be a common school, not a poor school system. Let the children of the richest and the poorest parents in the State meet in the school-room on terms of perfect equality of right. Let there be no aristocracy there, but an aristocracy of color and of conduct. In other words, let every free white child in Georgia, whose conduct is good, stand upon an equality of right witli any and every one in the school room.” This covers the entire ground I have as sumed, and presents the very gist of difficul ty. To those who may be disposed to re gard this as a trivial objection, I present the following important fact for their considera tion. In those communities where the children of the rich largely preponderate in numbers, how happens it, that the poor do not avail themselves of the benefits of the Fund provided for their use? That there are neighborhoods presenting just such a state of things, no one who lias given the subject his consideration, will for a mo ment question. Why; Messrs. Editors, I need not go farther than my own county to furnish myself witli abundant evidence of the fact. And Sirs, it is a source of gratification and pride to me, to be able to say, our coun ty in her educational resources is far in ad vance of many of her sister counties who can boast of their High schools and Collegiate Institutions, both male and female. She can boast of no less than six large flourishing schools of considerable repute, in different sections of the county, while the remaining portions are occupied by schools of minor im portance, contributing not a little to the ed ucational improvement of the rising genera tion. But even in this county, witli all its advantages and resources, there are children, of parents too poor to educate them, who have never been to school a day, tho’ living all the time, convenient to one. Now Sirs, no satisfactory solution of the difficulty in the way, presents itself, other than the one I have offered. It is not only objectionable in itself, but repugnant to the genius of our government, and at war with the letter and spirit of our political institutions. The re cognition and practical operation of such a principle would do more to sap the stability and permanence of our republican institu tions, than almost anything I can conceive of. It is not at all surprising to me that a system thus fettered in its operation has failed to accomplish the good its devisers contempla ted. Will our Legislature grapple with this difficulty ? But I have already protracted this number much farther than I contempla ted. In my next I shall consider some oth er difficulties, growing out of our peculiar institutions, and should my time, and the pressure of other engagements permit, shall offer some interesting State statistics bearing upon the subject. OLD BURKE. December 7th, 1858. From the Federal Union. Education Bill. The Conference Committee reported an tall and solemn figure—whose habit was re- j was devised to supply. My past experience Educational bill which after a short explana tion by Mr. Lewis of Hancock, and a reply by Mr. Kenan, Was put upon its passage. The yeas were 94, nays 28. To be entitled an act to provide for the edu cation of the children of the State between certain ages, and to provide an annual sinking fund for the extinguishment of the public debt. Sec. 1. The General Assembly of Geor gia do enact that one hundred thousand dol lars of the net earnings of the Western and Atlantic Rail Road shall be annually appro priated to the purpose of education as herein- after specified. Sec. 2. The fund set apart in the first section of this act shall be added to the pre sent school fund of this State and divided out among the several counties thereof accor ding to the return of all the white children thereof between the ages of eight and eigh teen and that each county hereby, have the eight and eighteen years, and it shall be the duty of the Grand Jury of each county at the next term of the court after the tax re- ceiver lias completed his digest to examine the same and if any of said children are left out of the return then the said Grand Jury shall make every effort in their power to as certain the names of those omitted, and have them added to the list. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, that in or der to augment said educational fund, what ever fund may be in the Treasury not other wise appropriated at the time of such appro- priation over above the expenses ordinary and extraordinary of the State Government shall be added to the fund hereinbefore set apart for edicational purposes, and distribu- ted in the same manner. Sec. 5., 3e it further enacted, by the au thority afor said, tliat the Inferior Court of each county shall, upon a recommendation of the Grand Jury thereof assess such a per cent upon its State tax as they may deem right and proper, if any, to augment said ed ucational fund for said county, and the ordi nary of each county shall be the treasurer of said fund and shall give bond to the Justices of the Inferior Court, in the sum of double the amount apportioned to his county, and the ordinary of each county shall be the treasurer of said fund and shall give bond to the Justices of the Inferior Court, in the sum of double the amount apportioned to his county, and the several ordinaries shall make out and present to the Grand Juries, at the Spring Term of the Superior Courts, a full account current, of all the receipts and ex penditures, stating items and amounts left over from previous years, and shall make oath iu the truth of their accounts, and a false oath therein shall be punished as perju- ry. Sec. C. Be it further enacted. That the tuition of those children, entitled to partici pate in tins fund, who shall attend school out of the county in which they reside, shall be paid out of the fund of the county in which they reside. Sec. 7. Ie it enacted, That the Governor be and he ishereby authorized, to draw his warrant on he Treasury for such sums, as may be in tie treasury, subject to distribution under this act, in favor of the ordinary of each county, on the third Monday in Novem ber of each year, Provided : the ordinary shall have first furnished the Governor witli the number of children in his county be tween the ages aforesaid—the number taught the elementary branches of an English edu cation, the number taught the higher branch es of education, the rates of tuition in the elementary and in the higher branches—and all other facts and statistics which 1 is Excel lency may require said ordinaries to obtain and return and which lie may deem useful ;in aid of future legislation. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, That the several Ordinaries, as a means of collecting of the teaches or trustees of schools and academies the in formation and statistics con templated in this act, shall have the power to withhold the fund apportioned or due any teacher or trustees until his terms or requisi- tions for information are complied with. And no teacher shall participate in the benefits of this fund for any instruction ren dered until he shall obtian the cetifircate of a board of examiners, appointed for the pur pose, by the Justices of the Inferior Court, of his qualifications to teach the branches of education contemplated by thisact, and also of |good moral character—and the said board of |examiners shall make oath, in every instance, to dischargefaithfully their duties and de- 'cide impartially. Sec. 9. Ie it further enacted, That the |Governor shill be hereby authorized and re- Iquired, as far as may be practicable, to sub- |stitute other State bonds, bearing same rate ’of interest, fir those now in the hands of hold- |ers, and that he issue the new bonds and ar range them upon such a schedule, and pay able at such a period or periods in the future as that, by providing annually a sinking fund of certian amount, the whole principle of the |public debt (the interest being semi-annually paid as now provided by law,) shall be ex- [Concluded on fourth page.]
