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Newspaper Page TextCAMPBELL A ARMSTBOUC, Editors and Proprietors. £71)22 j72Z3222iaa ©W*©!* published weekly, in the Darien Rank Building, Three Dollars per annum, payable in advance, or Four Dollars if not paid before the end of the year. No subscription will be received for less than a year, nor will any paper be discontinued until all arrear- | u<ws arc paid. The paper wi’i uotbe sent to ai^ person out of the j state, until the subscription money is paid in advance, or satisfactory reference given. | Advertisements conspicuously inserted at the ; usual rates. Those sent without a specification of the , number of insertions, will be published until ordered | oul, and charged accordingly. j ^ales of laud and negroes, by Administrators. Ex- i tfillers, or Guardians, are required by law to beheld I the first Tuesday in the month, between the bouts often in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, at I the Court-House in the county in which the property ! is situated. . 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Publications will always be continued according ! to these, the legal requirements, unless otherwise or- ! dered. All business of this kind will receive prompt atteu- ! lion at the Federal Union Office. Fetters on business must be post paid to entitle.j them to attention. gToT w. fish, .lllorHcy at Laic, MACON GA. j \ 67 ILL attend the Superior Courts of the conn- j \V lies of Bibb, Baldwin, Wilkinson. Washing- ' ton. Twiggs, Pulaski, Dooly, Macon and Houston. Any professional business entrusted to his care, | shall be attended to with all promptness and fidelity, j Jan. 22. 1846. If—34 j W. T. * A. II. COLQUITT W ILL PRACTISE LAW ill tlm severalcoun ties of the Flint circuit. W. T. Coi.qLiTT, La Grange, ) A. H. Colquitt, Moron. ) (Office in Macon.) Dec. 3,1815. if—2(5 LAW NOTICE. . SAFFOLD & J. HI. BOLING, To aL practise in the Courts of DALLAS and , LOWNDES, and in the adjoining counties also in the Supreme Court. Address Sallold Holing, at Pleasant Hill, Dallas county, or Hayneville, Lowndes county, Ala. Dec. Hi. 1 845. 6m— 27 AADKEIVS A GARTIIELL, JUtornVes at Law. H AVING formed a copartnership in the practice of the law. will attend the Courts of the North* •rn Circuit, end in the Supreme Court when sitting it Mdledgcville. CJarnett Andrews, ? Lieius j. Gartrell. $ Jan. 12, J846. If— 32 Thousands of C/iildren Die annuaUyJrom ! WORMS! Symptoms of Worms.—Picking the nose; hardness ‘ and''fulness of the abdomen; paleness of the cotinte- ' nance; variable appetite; foetid breath; pains in the ! stomach: grinding of the teeth during sleep; slimy j stools, with occasional griping pains, particularly a- bout the navel: short dry cough; emaciation of the ! body, and slow fever. A SAFE AND EFFICIENT Ileiiiedy for Worms ; MAY BE FOUND IN DR. WOODRUFF’S Worm Specific. >hHE proprietor of the above Medicine does not j wish to claim for it any more merit than it is really deserving of. He might say many things i:i its favor; he might even attempt to puff it into notice; hilt as he is satisfied that a really valuable Remedy needs no pulling, and despising the practice, he is content to present some of the Testimonials of those persons who have tested its virtues, believing they will be sufficient to convince any one who can be convinced, of its value as a remedy for worms. He j will only add, that it has an advantage over many pre- i p.irations for worms, from the fact that it can be given 1 with perfect safety to a child of any age; nor is it ne- I ce-sary to give any other medicine with it or after it. , as it operates upon the bowels, carrying away the worms and cleansing the bowels of all unhealthy se- cretious at the same time. A trial of it ice think icill \ nice satisfaction to any one. It may not cure every { rase, but such is our confidence in it. that we are | willing to warrant its benefitting in every instance, or [ the money will be refunded. Certificates and Statements of its Effects, j Georgia, Muscogee County. Dr. Woodruff: Dear Sir,—1 have had a negro child that has been sick for some time. Not knowing what was the mat- ; ter with it, we had pretty much given up doing any j tiling for it; however, as a last resort, we concluded j to try some of your Worm Specific, thinking it prob ably might be worms that had reduced it so much; j accordingly, wo commenced giving your Specific, | (which, by the bye, you have rightly named.) when, astonishing to tell, it commenced passsng worms, and j continued doing so for several days, until it had pass ed more than lico hundred, some of them a foot or more in length, others twisted and knotted together iu hard halls, so that they could not he separated without cutting them apart. Knowing that a worm medicine so valuable as yours has proved to be, would he used by hundreds, if they only knew of its virtues, 1 have concluded to give you this certificate, so that all may know where to find a medicine that can be i relied on. JOSEPH SIHPPEY. | Columbus, July *29, 1645. Remarkable Cure of Tenia, or Tape Worm. This is to certify, that I have made use of Dr. Woodruff's Worm Specific in my family in several cases, with the happiest effect. In one case it brought aw ay some fifty worms, of the kind called Ascaridrs; but its most remarkable effect we exhibited in another case, a girl of rather delicate health, who complained pretty constantly of her abdomen, Being satisfied i that she had been troubled with worms of some kind, we administered the Specific, and to our astonish ment, it brought from her a number of peices of Tape ] Worm, from two to six or eight inches in length!! .Since that time, her health is considerably improved' and I have no doubt but that the Mediciuc has reliev- i ed her of that much to be dreaded worm. The Spe cific is in high repute in this place, and is without | doubt a valuable remedy for worms. JOHN J. LITTLE. Wiiitesville, Ga., Jan. 10, 1845. From Dr. J. 1\. Turner. Pine Valley. August 6, 18*5. Dear Sir,—I have tested your Worm Specific tin- | til I am fully satisfied of its virtues. But a few days since. I prescribed it in a case of Irritative Fever lrotn Worms. 1 he child had been very sick for two i «.r three days, high fever all the lime, for which I g ive your Specific; less than a bottle cured the child pirfcthj. The parents now set a high estimate upon it—it is an excellent Remedy for Worms. Respectfully, &C. From Dr. IF. McClendon. Dear Sir,—I have sold some ol your Worm Spe cific, and far as it has been tried iu my knowledge, it !-' excellent, and well deserves its name, Specific. Respectfully, &c. Roanoke, Ala., July 21, 1845. Berrien PostOlfice, Ga , August 8, 1845. Dear Sir,—I have sold several bottles of your T v mm Specific, and as far as I have heard from it, it produced the most salutary effect, giving almost immediate relief. 1 have used it myself, and have iu \, f given one dose but that had the desired effect, and hi ought airay Worms. Yours, most obediently, A. WlllTTEN. “J" For sale by MARTIN E. EDWARDS, Milleilgeville, Ga. Also by tile fullowiug persons—J. R. Simpson & °" II S. Beeinan, Mt. Zion, Hancock ' ouuty; Moses Daniel, Invintoii, Wilkinson county; rancis S. Johnson, Clinton: A. R. Jackson & Co , i onion; Hurd & Hnngerford, Monticello; and in the most of the counties of the Slate. April 13,1816. 41 I VOL. XVII.] vii.j.k, crorli.i, ji jli* ii, AG KIOULTUBAL. From the Genesee Farmer. IMPROVEMENTS IN AGRICULTURE “Tiie great truth that animal manures are nothing else than the ashes of the food produced from our fields consumed nr burned in the bodies of men and animals, lias given the chief direction to all modern improvements in agriculture.”—Lubig. The above remark deserves the profound consideration of every practical farmer.— After an animal has attained his tpatuiity, and adds nothing to his weight in the course of a year, it is obvious that the mat ter which escapes from the body must he the same in quantity as that which enters it. A very notable portion of the food of all warm-blooded animals passes out of the lungs in the form of air and vapor, during their ceaseless respiration night and day, just as wood passes out of a chimney when burnt in a fire-place. The combustion of grass, bay and grain in the system of the cow, horse, or sheep, is not so complete as that of fire applied to the same substances in the open air. In the latter case, nearly all 1 lie combustible ingredients—carbon and hydrogen, united with oxygen and ni trogen—are expelled into the atmosphere In animal combustion, a larger portion of carbon, hydrogen; oxygen and nitrogen re main with the ashes contained in the food, taken into the stomach, and voided \yith the solid and liquid cxcietions. That portion of cultivated plants which escapes into the air through the lungs of man and the domestic animals, growing plants can regain by their roots and leaves, and thus re-organize into animal food. But the case is different with the ashes or earth ly pot tion of all plants. If these minerals are taken from the soil in crops and not faithfully restored, by replacing on our cul tivated fields all the sails contained in the excretions of the human family and of do mestic animals the injury will be great. Nearly one-third of all the food grown on the globe is raised by the Chinese. For thousands of years this wonderful people have cultivated successfully the bread-form ing plant. For a long period their wheat fields have been fertilized almost exclusive ly with the ingredients of wheat, d .-rived ftom its combustion in the human system. In other words, they manure their fields with night soil alone. The manufacture of corn, wheat, barley, oats, bay, potatoes, pork, beef, butter, cheese, wool, can be reduced to an exact science. The laws of chemical affinity, of vegetable and animal vitality, are uniform and easy to be understood, so far as success ful agriculture is concerned. One of:hese laws is, that no man nor vegetable can pos sibly make anything6ut of nothing. Anoth er is, that one simple substance like carbon cannot be transformed into another simple element like nitrogen. Clay cannot sup ply the place of sand, nor sand of clay. Suppose you have the materials to pro duce fifty good crops in your now fer tile soil; when those materials are woiked up and sent to distant parts, where will the largely increased population of the State go for food and • ’othing] Do you say to the West? Hut what right has the present generation to consume and destroy the fer tility of Cod’s bountiful eaitb, to the seri ous injury to those who ate to succeed them? FATTENING HOGS Mb. Camak:—I believe that I ant under a piotnise to give some account of my me thod of fattening pork. You will perceive that the plan pursued differs but little from Mr. Farrar’s, and were it not for my prom ise I should hardly trouble you with it at all. Mr. Farrar crnslied liis food before cooking it, which I doubt not is a good plan; but for those who have no means of crushing the food, this may come in as a substitute. This may seem like an improp er time to offer an article upon this subject, but I think otherwise, for turnips enter largely into the account—they cannot be grown to advantage unless the land is well prepared, and now is the time to prepare the land. Having two boilers holding (together) ninety gallons, set up in the usual way, in a brick furnace, my next object was to pre pare vats or troughs (l use the latter on the score of economy) in which to soak the corn before boiling. The length of time neces sary to soak the corn varies with the tem perature of the weather, it must, however he soaked until it is sour, after which it may be boiled soft in half the time requis ite to boil bard corn. The experiment was made upon twenty-two hogs, of different a- ges, being about three bushels of this corn, with as many turnips (tops and all) as the cauldrons would hold at two boiling, i. e. 11 bushels at each boiling (morning and noon) and a filling up of turnips. The feeding troughs were prepared by splitting pino logs of any convenient length and burning out the ll.it sides to a sufficient depth.— To prevent the hogs getting into the trough a small pole was firmly fastened over the centre of the trough lengthwise. These hogs were not closely confined, but were all fed together, and had the use of a lot containing an acre and a half. Forvariety, pumpkins, potatoes, cabbage leaves, S&c., were substituted for the turnips, making it an invariable rule to have the whole well cooked and mixed together with a pestle or some other convenient implement, ad ding a handfull of salt occasionally. The turnips thus consumed were grown upon three-quarters of an acre of laud. Six weeks was the time allowed for fattening these hogs; and their average weight was 2<12j pounds. Before the adoption of this plan, (with the same number of hogs and about the same age,) I have generally fed fattening hogs about eight weeks, with an additional daily allowance of corn, of at least otic fourth, and by reference to iry book I find their average weight for several years has been about 225, 227, &.C.; but once in ten years have they exceeded the weights of last season, and then they were alt two years old. Two of my neighbors tried the piar. last season, and were well pleased with the result. My boilers and troughs, have made a similar saving iu feeding work oxen, beef cattle, and milch cows, but 1 will not trespass further by giving you a detailed account of the same. AS I always feel willing to contribute my mite so 1 doubt not other gentlemen will cheerfully communicate any inhumation they possess, when called upon to do so.— Now I am very much in waut of a corn and cob crusher, and when I spend my money I would like to receive an equivalent for it. I would, therefore, respectfully request Mr. Farrar, of Putnam county and Maj. Rose of Meiiwether county, to give us such an account of their crushers as they may deem important or interesting. My object is to get an efficient, durable machine, and I make the request public that others may profit by the information 1 may receive.— Mr. F. and Maj. R. are designated because they are the only persons within my knowl edge, who have them in use, though any in formation on the subject will be thankfully received come from what quarter it may.— These gentlemen will confer a favor by res ponding to this call. Let us know the cost of your crushei? By whom are they built?— What sort of gearing is best adapted to them? How much power do you employ to drive them—two or four horses—what amount of work will they accomplish with such power? What is your opinion of their durability, and can they easily be put out of repair? After the trial you have given them, would you recommend their use to a man who wishes to practice true econo my? And now’, Mr. Editor, indulge me with a few questions on another subject. Will some gentleman, having experience in such matters, put us upon the best plan to cov er drains, in the absence of stone or tile?— Several of my neighbors are interested in this question, and in covering with pun cheons and brush, we may not be pursuing the best plan. The experiments already made answer admirably, so far, but the tim ber has been laid but a short time and it may decay soon or the drains choke up.— Can you instruct us a little, Mr. Editor? Respectfully, Joel Hurt. Crau-foril, Russell Cn. Ala. [Southi rn Cultivator. MISCELLANEOUS, [for tiie federal i-mox ] Homespun Varus. The Examination at Independence Academy. During the first years of the settlement of Jasper county, yvIicii schools were not so common as at present, and when the peo ple were not altogether as well informed as they aie now, in that pleasant region of Georgia, our veritable narrative takes its date. A young man lrotn the “old settle ments,” or to be more explicit, from the celebrated Dooly distiict, iu Warren coun ty, (where as is well known, the 4th of July is celebrated on the day, when the crops are laid by and people are at leisure, which some times does not occur for a month or so after the regular anniversary of our In dependence,) made his appearance in the neighborhood not many miles from Hills boro’. Ho was mounted on a stout bay horse, which together with his saddle and bridle, formed a complete inventory of all his earthly effects,save and except his wear ing apparel, which consisted of a suit of “mixed,” which lie had on, and a few shirts and pantaloons stowed away in his saddle bags. The wide world was before the friendless youth, and he had set out to seek in it a fortune, altho’ he had no settled idea of how it was to be accomplished. He was willing to turn a hand to almost anything, overseeing, teaching school or playing clerk in a store. While in this mood he was ac costed by a gentleman named Jarvis, who proposed to him to set up a school in the “settlement.” The neighbors all agreed to it and Mr. Collier was duly installed as rec tor of the “Independence Academy,” rath er a high sounding name for a little tene ment of logs, coveied with clapboards, with a horizontal slit, the whole length of the building by wav of window, and a cliirnnev built ot sucks and mud, surmounted by a half dozen little balls of clay, for ornament or some other purpose. The school was soon filled with scholars, and having sold his horse, Collier began in his imagination to add his tuition money to the price of his horse, even before the “quarter” was out, and felt himself on the broad road to riches. But there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, and the tuition monoy was uot so certain of attain ment as he had fondly supposed. One of the patrons of the school, a Mr. Straw- bridge, a cross grained man, hail a son, in the school, who had attained that age, when boys begin to imagine themselves irresista- ble to the larger girls. Young Strawbridge one day took a faucy to indite a “love let ter,” to a rosy cheeked girl in the school, who lie called his “sweet-heart,” and the unfortunate missive, instead of reaching its proper destination, was accidentally drop ped and fell into the hands of the teacher. Collier had considerable ideas of discipline, and thought “a little hiakory oil,” would perhaps turn the attention of the young Lo thario from the girls to his books, and ac cordingly, called him up and administered a dose on the back and shoulders of the lov er, in the presence of the whole school. The senior Mr. Strawbridge was outraged at the act, and his better half became per fectly rampant with rage, while they held a family caucus to determine when atn! how the school master was to bo punished for the indignity. The “ciphering book” kept by th eson, was discovered to contain a mistake in the addition ot a sum, and in Collier’s own handwriting. This was enough. The way to revenge was now plain and easy. Mr. Strawbridge reported all over the neighborhood, that the teacher was incom petent and ought to bo turned off. The hue and ciy about the ignorance of Collier in creased, until his chance for remaining seemed had. But his frieud Mr. Jarvis proposed by way of settling the matter, to call a meeting of all the patrons of the school, on the next Friday evening, and have the school master examined. The plan was unanimously agreed to, and the whole neighborhood was rife with the news of the expected examination. The day of trial came. The young school master was at his post, undergoing all the throes that a martyr feels; his agony could not have been greater if he had been iu court, under a criminal prosecution and a- waiting the verdict of a jury to decide on his honor and life. To relieve his awful suspense, he walked down to the spring, but no relief came. The thought ol his friendless situation, persecuted by a vindic tive man of influence, forced itself on his mind. With the timidity of a youth who had not measured himself with men, suffi ciently to be aware of his own resources, he felt that his limited education, would be come apparent before the scrutiny of well informed men, especially as he supposed they would all feel inclined to expose and bear him down. If he lost his situation, with out friends, money,ur reputation, where was he to go? What was he to do? All was dark before and around him, no ray of hope came to cheer his despondence. He was passing, poor youth, that ordeal which all men must pass iu some shape or other, once in their lives. That fiery ordeal which once gone through leaves a man of feeble powers, a mere wreck borne on the stream of life, without energy or will to guido his course; or it nerves a man of strong charac ter, to gird on the armor of self-confidence, and battlo with equal hand in the stormy scenes of life. No man, hut who can look back on such a period in his history, and date his declension from it, or can maik it an epoch from which his course was in the ascendant. Raising his down-cast eyes, he saw the dread committee on their way to the school house, and was astonished that he did not feel alarmed. But his mental suffering had been too intense to last and had passed off, and given place to a stern determination to face his persecutors, as he supposed them all to be, with the bearing of a man. Let the worst come, they could but prove, what he already felt to he too true, that his early opportunities of education had unfortunate ly, nut been such as he could have wished. This was no fault of his; the straitened cir cumstances of his parents would not permit them to give him a liberal education. He had deceived no one, but had told them frankly, at first, the difficulties under which he labored. He met them with a calm, as sured expression of countenance, there was no timidity in his look, no wavering in his clear gray eye as it met theirs. There was that easy assurance of manner, blended with modesty and politeness, which never fails to prepossess one its favor. The examining committee had taken their seats, soon all the benches were filled with the neighbors around, their wives and daughters and all the pupils of the school; the little log academy was filled. An awful silence ensued, just previous to the exam ination. The old ladies began to sympa thise with the persecuted young man, and the young ones, seeing his smooth face bear no unmanly traces of alarm, caught the con tagion and it soon went over the room. Col lier saw by a glance the change of public opinion, and this made him fuel a momenta ry trepidation, lest he might forfeit it. The first trial was a sum in simple addi tion, set by an old gentleman in spectacles. It consisted of five long rows of figures. The elderly ladies leaning over, looked on the mighty host of numerals, with as much r, sped and admiration as they would on a similar number of militia men drawn up in column, and trembled for the young man. The young ladies looked on him with a soft pity, and feared the figures would prove “too many for him.” The scholars who had not progressed so far in arithmetic, thought it was “a gone case.” But Collior practised in this elementary department of mathematics, fooled up the amount in a space of time that seemed incredible to most of his audience. A murmur of appro bation passed round the room, like the sub dued whisperings of the wind among the branches of pine trees. “1 know’d the boy hail ‘the come out in him,’” observed old Mrs. Jarvis, the landlady of the schoolmas ter, with a triumphant air and just loud enough to be heard some distance round. “Y-a-s” whispered the better half of the persecuting Mr. Strawbridge, “but its got to be seen if the sum is done right, yet don’t holler before you get out of the woods,” she continued in a lower voice, with an angry jerk of the right shoulder, which seemed designed to elbow somebody off the bench, althnuol) L-.i - l 1—-ei- intentlon, and her angular movement had no other bad effect than knock a biscuit out the mouth ol a child, who was sitting in its mother’s lap. But tiie squealing of the lit tle gentleman was soon hushed, on the pro visions being restored, and ibe-committee set to work laboriously to see if Mr. Col lier’s calculation was cotrect. What had been the woik of a few moments to him, cost the committee nearly a half hour to sat isfy themselves of its correctness, but at length ihey were satisfied. Mrs. Jarvis and her party, smiled very complacently in the direction of Mrs. Strawbiidge and her party. Mrs. Strawbridge looked indignantly at the pine pole rafters over Mrs. Jarvis’ head, and remarked vety allegorically, “ when the sun shines in the mornin, it aint no sign that it wont cloud up and rain ’fore night.” “All thats easy enough, now lets try a little further on,” said a member of the committee. “Do you understand Reduction?” “Yes sir.” “Well, how many gallons of peach bran dy, are there in 5 tuns and one hogshead? “That’ll stump him 1 reckon as how,” was heard over in Mrs Stravvhridge’s cor ner. But without taking up the slate, the schoolmaster answered readily “1323 gal lons.” “How do you make that?” asked the com mittee man. “First multiply by four, the number of bogheads in a tun, and add in one boghead, then reduce the whole to gallons according to the rule of wine measure. “Well now did you ever?” asked sever al ladies of each other enquiringly. “It comes nat’ral as pig tracks to the boy,” in terposed Mrs. Jarvis. “Try him in Fractions,” Mr. Peeples. “If ^lbs. of sugar cost 14-75ths of a dollar, how much will one pound cost!” Collier took up the slate and was not long in reply ing S cents and a fraction of S-21 over. “Are you good at Discount, Mr. Col lier?” “Only tolerable, sir.” “Now I’ve got a horse that I will let Mr. Jernagan have for §225 cash in hand, or ifl credit him, he may take him at nine months time, for S230. Mr. Jernagan takes him on time, will I make orlose by selling on time?” The schoolmaster ciphered the matter out and determined that Squire Peeples would lose just SO 47cts 3 mills, by selling on credit. “Well 1 recon we have had enough ’rilh- metic” interposed Major Jarvis. “But you can try on if you want to. I am satisfied myself.” The whole committee seemed of the same opinion, except Mr. Strawbridge, who felt chagrined that he had not been a- ble to expose the teacher. Mr. Collier try this sum if you please. “As I was going to St. Ives I met 7 wives, every wife had 7 sacks, every sack had seven cats, every cat had 7 kits. Kits, cats, sacks, and wives, how many were going to St. Ives? “Why that’s a riddle Mr. Strawbridge,” observed one of the audience. “Riddle or no riddle. 1846. [NO. 5. lets see him do it.” Collier took the slate and went to work multiplying wives, sacks, cats and kittens together, in all good faith, and before he had filled one side ofthe slate quite full of figures, Mr. Strawbridge look ed very wise and said, “the scholar has got his dose now, if there’s any thing in signs.” Collier turned over the slate and ciphered away, while large drops of perspiration dropped from his forehead. At last he re ported 'the amount, with the look of one who feels a certainty of being right. “Not exactly Mr. Collier, try it agin.” Collier looked over his whole calculation very earnestly and found no error, and hand ed the slate to the committee to examine. “Its no go,” said Strawbridge, and Mrs. Strawbridge was in ecstacies, Mrs. Jarvis looked disconcerted. A sudden thought struck the schoolmaster. “Mr. Strawbridge, please say it over again.” Mr. Strawbridge repeated, as I went to St. Ives, I met, &c., See. “As you were going to St. Ives, you met seven wives,” thought the teacher aloud. “O yes now, I see into it, you were going and they were coming. There was only one going to St. Ives, that was you, the rest were coming from there!!” And the laugh was turned against Mr. Strawbiidge. Mrs. Jarvis held up her head once more and re marked “I thought he’d come right side up, after a while, and what’s more, riddles is one thing and cipherin’s another.” The committee now proceeded to exam ine Mr. Collier in all the elementary branches of education, among the rest spelling. They made him stand up be fore the assembled multitude and spell “by heart” Michilimacinac, Chichimicomico, Chevaux de frise, Phthisic, and every other long or hard word in Webster. Mr. Straw- bridge had been as far from home as Louis iana once in his life, and suggested that Mr. Collier could’nt spell Tuckapaw. “A-t-al-t-a-ta-kea-ku-pas-pas Tqckapaw,” replied Collier as readily as if he had been in that region all his life. “Well spell Chewarvvar then.” The teacher reflected a moment, and said that was the name of a State in Mexico, and he thought it was spelled Chihuahua. “You know Geography too don’t you ?” asked Mr. Strawbridge, in a lone of ill con ceited impatience. “Yes sir.” “Well gentlemen ’spose some of you thaL’s higher larnt take the book and try him thar,” and Mr. Strawbridge sunk back on the bench in a brown study, and paid little attention to the questions and an swers on geography, as it was a subject lather beyond the range of his acquire ments. His attention was aroused, howev er, by the volubility of the teacher in re plying to some of the interrogations. Like all men when they get on a subject they understand well, Mr. Collier descanted with some prolixity on the shape and mo tions of the earth. Most of the company listened in mute astonishment, and some around where Mrs. Jarvis sat in breathless admiration at the vast amount of knowledge displayed by the teacher. It is not impos sible that the very same wonder occurred to them, that was excited by the Village School Master in Goldsmith’s time, “Iioyv one little head could carry all he knew.” Mr. Collier had fairly vanquished his ene mies, that was obvious, and his reputa tion was now on a firmer basis than ever. When one begins to grow popular the feel ing is very contagious among his admirers. More than one young lady who had thought liis face a very plain one the day before, now saw that it was decidedly good look- hl S\ 'I looelior Jroiv :i Kail From liis pocket —it was the custom in that region then for teachers to play “town ball” and “cat” with their scholars during “playtime”—and hold ing it between his thumb and forefinger, proceeded to describe the motion of the earth on its axis. “I have just described to you the annual motion of the earth round the sun, which produces the seasons— spring, summer, autumn and winter; this gentlemen”—turning the ball over, “is its motion ou its own axis, which it describes once in twenty-four hours and causes day and night.” “What what’s all that nonsense,” said Mr. Strawbridge, starting up from his rev erie. “How’s all that stuff about the earth turning up side down once a day 7” He saw that the school master was gaining ground on him in the estimation of the neighbors, and made this last onslaught like a stump speaker who finds his argu ment exhausted, without knowing exactly how he was to proceed in proving the falsi ty of the stories which he heard for the first time probably. “I was proceeding to elucidate Mr. Strawbridge,” said the teacher composed ly. “The opinion is now universally conced ed l believe, that the earth revolves ou its axis once in twenty-four hours.” “Turns clean over?” asked Mr. Straw- bridge with indignant incredulity. “Yes sir and by that means day and night succeed each other.” “And when it rolled over what the na tion would become of all of a fellows stock ? .why my mules would land in Hali fax ! and my bogs and cows would land up in some unknown country !” “But sir”— “But sir what?—I say the water would’nt stay in my well, when it .got bottom side upwards. Do you stand there and face me down with such nonsense ?” The teacher could scarcely restrain a strong propensity to laugh outright, at the ludicrous passion Mr. Strawbridge lashed himself into. “I only repeat sir the re ceived opinions of the learned men of all nations. I do not aspire to the distinction of having originated them.” “I don’t care whose opinions they are, it’s all a lie from Leginuing to end. Gentle men of this committee, I am astonished that men of your sense will stand here and swallow down all this foolish nonsense.” It is said that “laughing is catching,” and it seemed so on this occasion, a* the teach er's half suffused laugh, spread to first one aud then another, until every soul in the house save Mr. Strawbridge, his lady and a few particular friends, were in a roar of laughter. Oh! bo ! ho ! Eh ! he ! he ! cachinated the worthy Mrs. Jarvis as if she would burst her fat sides, although she knew as little about Geography as she did of Hebrew. But it provoked the Straw- bridges, and she was determined to laugh if it killed her. The balance laughed, be cause they saw somebody else laugh, or what is very likely because if they dcclin- ed laughing people might suppose them as ignorant as Mr. Strawbridge. “Gentlemen,” said Mr. Jarvis, “I move this committee retire to the spring and make up a verdict. They accordingly went down to the spring, took a drink of cool water and returned with the following re port : “ This committee have examined Mr. Tho’s. Collier on spelling, reading, writing, grammar, arithmetic and geography, and give it as our deliberate opinion that he lenoics as much as any of us, anel how much more, this committee are not exactly able to find out." All the committee concurred in this teport except Mr. StraYvbridge. He muttered something between his teeth, and liis wife forgetting the original .parties to the quarrel, imagined them to be herself and Mrs. Jarvis, and too humane to trust her flashing eyes on that lady, being indispos ed to murder, turned those burning orbs on the offending rafters as if she would scathe ‘.he hark from them. Mrs. Jarvis under stood something of the free masonry of eyes, and looked at her with one of her sweetest smiles, which caused Mrs. S.to almostchoke with rage. But as they sat on different sides of the house, there was no immediate danger of their (lulling each others caps. The young school master returned his heart-felt thanks to the committee, and the company, and suggested that as they had examined and found him competent to all the duties of a teacher, but one, he desir ed they should have evidence of his com petency in that respect. “What is that ?” asked Maj. Jarvis. “You have not tried if I am able to keep order in my school,^f there should be any unruly boys. And as Mr. Strawbridge seems hard to please, if you will strike a ring out doors, I will try and pacify him, and at the same time satisfy you that I can handle a grow n boy.” Strftwbridge looked things unutterable, but prudently said nothing; his wife rose up several times as if she was half a mind to act as a substitute for her craven hus band. The little boys were in a high glee at the idea of a fisticuff. But Maj. Jarvis put a stop to the matter. Slapping Col lier on the shoulder, lie said, “None of that now my boy. When you can talk a man down there ’s no use of fighting him, never come to that part of it until you are out of talk. You 're a brave lad, and mark my words, all of you. Collier will make his way through this world.” N. B.—The words of Mr. Jarvis were prophetic, as the school master afterwards studied law, and has attained eminence in his profession in another section of the State, and is an example of W’hat may be done by industry and perseverance. This story was received in substance from his own lips and has been wrought into a home ly tale, by liis permission. C ONG R E S S I O N A L . S PJE E C II OF ITlr. Seaborn Jones, of Georgia, On the Bill reducing the duty on Imports, and for other purposes. DELIVERED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA TIVES, THURSDAY, JUNE 18, 1846. THE TARIFF. On motion of Mr. Dromgoole, submitted by him in the temporary absence (he said) of the chairman of the committee of Ways and Means, [Mr. McKay,]-the House re solved into a committee of the Whole on the state of the Union, (Mr. Cobb, of Geor gia, in the chair,) and resumed the consid eration of the bill reducing the duty on im ports, and for other purposes. The peuding que^itm was on the substi tute presented by Mr. Hungerford. Mr. Seaborn Jones said he rose to ad dress the committee, in consequence of the indisposition of the chairman of the commit tee of Ways and Means, [Mr. McKay,] to explain the provisions of the bill before the committee, and to call the attention of the country to the policy indicated in it as the policy of the administration in the present posture of our aff airs. The recent estimates of the Secretary of the Treasury have not been before the committee of Ways and Means to have enabled them to report the necessary amendments. J trust the com mittee will indulge me for adverting to those circumstances which are an induce ment to provide revenue for carrying on the w’ar in which we are now engaged, and in pointing out those provisions which the committee propose to make in view of the emergency in which we are now placed,— The bill, as originally reported, was a peace measure; circumstances, known throughout the community and not necessary for ine to detail at this time, have placed us in a dif ferent situation from that in which we were when the bill was originally reported. We are iu a state of war, and it becomes ne cessary for us—as every prudent nation should do—to provide the sinews of war— the money necessary to enable us to carry on that war vigorously and effectively. I will not stop to inquire now into the injus tice of this war. i will not ask the com mittee to determine whether it be a war of aggression or defence, but 1 hope 1 may be indulged in a few remarks in answer to the remarks of my colleague [Mr. Stephens.]— I do not intend to misrepresent that gentle man; I state his position as I understand it, and I believe fairly. If I understood the gentleman aright, his position was this— that as we were at war, he was willing to aid in the prosecution of that war; he would throw no difficulties in the way, but he in tended to assail the administration for bring ing on this war; and in the course of his remarks, I think an unfortunate admission was made by him, for the correctness of the conclusions lie sought to deduce. He said the President had no right to know’ where the western line of the L^nited States is— that it is an open line Mr. Stephens explained that he had not said that the President had no right to know but he contended it was an open line, as it was. Well (continued Mr. J.) the President of the United States was certainly bound to know something about our line; and I un derstood the gentleman to say distinctly it was an open line. I think 1 heard him re peat the same thing this morning. But he said “he thought the line ought to be the Rio Grande.” New, on what basis did he come to this conclusion?—what data had he before him by which he arrived at the conclusion that the Rio Grande “ought to be the line?”— Surely, by the history of Texas, by the his tory of Mexico, and the history of the war between these two nations, and the results of that war—surely, by the declaration of Texas in her constitution, that her boun dary extends to the Rio Grande—surely by the extension of her laws over the whole territory to the Rio Grande; these were the reasons. I presume, which brought the gen tleman to the conclusion that the Rio Grande “ought to be the line.” Then sure ly, the gentleman will excuse the President for coming to the same conclusion with himself. Surely, the President, who is placed in a situation where he is bound to know the western boundary of the United States, docs know the line. It is a part of his official duty. Mr. Stephens interposed, and said those were not the reasons which brought him to that conclusion. lie thought the Rio Grande ought to be the boundary because it was a large river and a natural boundary. Mr. Jones (continuing) said the gentle man was too good a lawyer to believe that that was a legal reason. Mr. Stephens (in his seat)—I did not say it as a lawyer. Mr. J. (continuing.) What “ought to be the line” is the line which justice demands: not because it is a large river or a small one—because it is an arid desert or a fertile plain, and therefore it may be considered a natural boundary—but what justice aud right require to bo the line is what it “ought to be.” Perhaps we ought to have the Fro zen Ocean for our northern line; but does that furnish us a good excuse for seizing all the intervening’ country, in violation of the rights of other n^ons? Perhaps we ought to go south to the isthmus of Panama, be cause the whole continent ought to be ours; but is that a justification for our going for ward, and taking possession of this whole territory, without regard to to the rights of other nations? I say the gentleman must have recurred to history to have known what “ought to be” the line, speaking in his capacity as legislator, and that he ought to excuse the President for coming to the same conclusion with himself. But I will consider it as an unsettled line, and until the line is settled the President, as the President of the Udited States, was l ound to protect the whole territory claim ed by the United States, and no man can question that we claim the Rio Grande as the western boundaiy of Texas, and now of the United States. The honorable gentle man from Texas [Mr. Pillsbury] ably and successfully vindicated the claim ol Texas, in the remarks he submitted to the commit tee a few days since, and Mr. J. would not go over the ground which be bad taken.— That claim was purchased by the blood of her sons, and sealed by their victory; and no better title has any nation to her territory than that which was required by Texas to the Rio Grande. But the gentleman for him self doubted not but the boundary could have been settled by negotiation; and he went on to say, that if it could not be set tled by negotiation, “it ought be fixed by the sword.” Well, when he thinks the boundary could have been settled, and the Rio Grande obtained, by negotiation, ho stands in a fearful minority. There is not one man, I think, in one hundred in this country who believes it; I have'no doubt there are some. The gentleman has pre sented himself as one. But what are the facts in regard to our attempts at negotiation? Upon our inquiry whether a minister would be received to settle our difficulties with Mexico, we were informed by her that he would be. A min ister was sent there, and they being on the eve of a revolution, the acceptance or ac knowledgment of him as a minister is de clined upon a mere quibble. He remains; the revolution took place; and after time had elapsed for quieting a little the excite ment consequent upon it, application was made to the new government, and he was rejected—rejected with insult. Now when we couple that with the fact Mexico had previous to that entered into negotiation and acknowledged the just demands of our citizens; and then refused the payment of their debts that she had withdrawn her min ister from this city on the ground of the an nexation of Texas, and had declared that an nexation would be considered an act of war; that she sent our minister away also who was resident in Mexico on the same pre tence. Add all these facts to the crowning act of insult and outrage, and taking these in connexion with the declaration that she intended to reannex Texas to Mexico, and that Paredes was placed on the throne—or rather in the presidential chair—for that ex press purpose, and where is the prospect of negotiationfixing that line? And if the Pre sident did not believe that negotiation could fix that line, according to the gentle man’s proposition, it was his duty to fix it by the sword. For, the gentleman says, “It ought to have been settled by negotia tion, and if it could not be, it ought to be fixed by the sword.” The gentleman be lieved it could have been settled by nego tiation; but from the facts, I say the Presi dent was authorized to believe it could not be, and being authorized to believe so, it become bis duty by the proposition of the gentleman to settle it by the sword. Mr. Stephens (in his seat.) Does the gen tleman mean to say he had the right to fix it by the sword? 1 do not mean (said Mr. J.) to'be drawn into the trap laid for me, that I am sustain ing the right of the President to declare war. I have too good a knowledge of the restrictions of the constitution to take this ground, but I say this; it was the Presi dent’s duty to place our troops where they were placed. War was threatened, Pare des was placed in command of Mexico, for the purpose of retaking Texas from the U. States, and reannexing it to Mexico. He bad declared his intention to carry out that purpose; troops were assembling on the western frontier of the United States; and after our minister withdrew himself from Jalapa, the President ordered Gen. Taylor to make an advance upon the eastern bank of the Rio Grande. He had a right to be lieve from the history of the times, what the gentleman from Georgia did believe—that that was the line. It was his right, then— nay, it was his imperative duty, to place the troops in that position where they could defend the territory of the United States;— he would have been recreant to duty, un faithful to his trust, and a disgrace to the country, if he had failed to carry it out. It adds auother feather to the plume that decks the brow of James K. Polk. The prudence which has marked his councils, and the vigor of his measures, prove that while he is a peace President, he is com petent to carry on a war. And I hope I shall not be misunderstood, (as I was in some quarters, in remarks which I made before upon the subject.) I do not wish to be understood as having the “tact” to in duce the people to believe that James K. Polk, in person, leads tbe armies of the re public. 1 say now, what I said then; that tbe armies of James K. Polk (and all the armies of the United States are the armies 6f James K. Polk, who, by the constitution, is made commander-in-chief of all the mili tary and naval forces of tbe United States) will fight the battles of the United States; and would to God that they may be as suc cessful as the armies led on by Caaaar, Croat-

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