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THE STUDENT AND IliS IN- ~
MATES.
BTC. RICK GRIKTOX.
A gentleai in one* *ai ■:■ !ns study, where
he h i J passed in m> detighnud an I umquii
it w.til iili'ijf * gnnhv ri.v of silent m I be-
I »ved eaainanio is, at the it ippy <»' en
the votin'. cr i le a* iirinr for liter.irv fame
has ripeied into the man of geuius a iJ of
le iniug.
fl» ail chosen that rotreif. beaiusf,
»mn* tithir recom n’ii I i'i>uu to the stu
tle.it. il possessed one pecuh irly suited to
his t Hte m I temperament; t lie view its one
lirga ari 110 v com ni i led ot a sweet se
q i »*!ered seme, over wuic-i the go Mess
N it'tre preside 1, a deity of harmony and
bjuty. It <vxs a luma view, tlut the eve
co i' is nil it a glance, and prow fa nili.ir
with ; nil yet of such varied beauty, tin
it p itle I tot o.i »lie sight ;ai lat one open
in g in the hilly woodlands, tiie bold outline
of a distant in in main appeared. On rli.it
the young student would fix his gaze, after
it hi I wandered in entin delight over the
in' -’Tin ediite scene; an I then, with Jr awing
his eye from the outward view, and turning
it. with an air of quiet content rouu I the
well furaisheJ walls of bis study. “Thus,
th is.’ h' than'hh‘shill my min i travel
through the fliwery fields of unexplored
literature, till they lead in * to the prou I
height of fame " H i had ml ye. discov
ered it was a cold and barren rock.
He Ita I cased his heart about in the lore
of the philosophers of old, and thus believ
ed it armed for a noble contest in
the arena of letters; an I invulnerable, per-,
chance through the affections. But hearts
s tell as his, filled with pure thoughts, and
lofty aspirations, are true love’s favorite
citaHs; an lin an ungu irded hour, he
in ikes goo 1 his entrance, and takes posses
sion ; an I we all know wh.it a bind of ruf
fians it t ikes to dislodge him, and what a
scene of devastation he and his disappoin
ted crew leave behind.
Sin* s:i di struggle early laid waste the
heart of the student, and damped his ardor
in the pursuit of knowledge. ‘ The silver
"•ii>r l w.i* loosed, the golden bowl was
broken,’ But what was once his delight,
liecam: at length his solace. Ha turned
the ke»n scrutiny of a scholar into his own
heart; n:i 1 from beneath the ruins of his
buricl hopes, brought up precious relics;
J fro n his despair received the gift oi
eloquence. And then, nuvmght, the meed
was won ; the reco npeuse of genius, i 1»»
sto 11 o t that rocky height and raised his
a irenturons eyes even to the image of Fame,
mi the loftiest altar of the temple; and
tnruing to some drooping figures tie ir, who,
with selling hea Is and ble ling hearts, had
featfheil the same elevation, he acknowloged
that ‘a!! was vanity !”
Yeirs hid pissed away, and again he sat
in h:s still favorite retreat. Around him, as
of 611, stoo I his ‘silent, yet eloquent com
panions;’ and from the onen window, his
eye wandered over the sune scene that had
feasted it in former and ivs. But a gloom had
ga hered over it. \V r is it autuin i, with its
fading green an I yellow; or the leafi ss
gloom of winter? No, il was the dark line
of melancholy ; and evening after evening,
as he watched the dim twilight, and saw
the varying tints of t'-e western sky fade in
tbr hoitzii. p .le melancholy hovered near,
and cast the dull shad >w of her pinion on
every object he looked upon, and to every
sound imparted her plaintive murmurs.
There »• is a sp-eies of enjoyment in this,
like the ‘jay of grief,’d >s -rili-d by the poet;
so tint the student courted n laoclioly, and
even went so far as to write an ode iu praise
of her chirms. \Vh it won 1 r then, if she
haunted his sile it dwelling, mi I lioog like a
shadow on his footsteps, and pervaded with
htr g!m nv p-“sence the very atmosphere
h# breathed, till hi;.soul sickened, and his
‘right hnn I forgot its cunning,’ an 1 h • gave
himself up an easy prey in a vet darker in -
trader, tin ivheu melancholy was but the
fount liner.
11“ vis -it his irvii win low, as usual, in
lh’ and . ty I. ; it evening poring ov r som •
nl I voI• i ii". till tlio ch iricters became in
distinct, ii I t■ ic ho.ik hopped from hi*
h i rl, a i I ue l"ll into -a I commoni'igs with
h s own h ‘art. M •lanciioly, ns was her
ctHfo n on such occasions, drew nigher
to v.ir-l hi n. and iiv the uncertain light’, he
perceiv ’ 1 ih it close beside her, under'he
ve.-v <hi I ».» oilier w'.ti » stood Despon
dency.
‘ ri ' ire are two o' you now,' sai 1 tlie student,
an I he *i >h“d iho'iily : -|i s ;tr • aimi ig. O
danchttJy, on tne i ivor I have shown
thee, to btiij I' tea yon gloomy
sjte ore.’
‘lt is iny twin sist r,’ sail .Melancholy,
•t il she fre I'ieiiily takes my place, when' I
grt#tr weary. Tint is thec ise now. I have
watched by you, ai I echoed your sighs,
an I niii tied my tears with yours, till my
lien tli lias suffered. My lungs are sore,
,m retire ‘ails ; 1 net* I ehmi *»• of air. in
the me in time, 1 hope my sister Despon
dency will a iswer every purpose.'
•Tltou can.t 11 it leive me.' he said. ‘Are
we not lion i 1 to each other by many a sad,
trysterious tie ?’
‘May the fates forbid !’ ejaculated Mel
ancholy, turning up her eyes, ‘you are too
so n ire even for me ; hut my poor sister here
is in love with you already ; and if it were
not quits out of character, 1 should wish
you joy of your union,' Si saving, she
flitted away with a gentle sigh, and I -spon
deucy, extending her lean arms, folded the
poor student to her bosom.
After recovering from the surprise of this
iitiexp ctcd salute, he sei about making in
vidious comparisons between heavy browed
Despond mey, and her m ire gentle sister.
‘ll >w different,’ he thought, ‘is this dark
cold ni.d'tc,,, from my own dear Melan
choly! I must get ri l of her, or she will
prey upon my heart, and reduce me to the
mate aha low of a man.’ He rose aeeor
dm My. am) walked forth into the open air,
thus to shake of his unwelcome
guest; an I though sue followed him ou f ,
an I stalked by his side in the pale moon
l'gbr, o i re-entering his study, he fl ittered
lunsCi*. fur a while tint his plan hid
s ticee Je I. Eights ha I been placed there,
a. usual, and lie trie I to fancy there was m
air ol cheerfulness in that lon dv a part mem
is Ira arri i t ‘d liis bo iks and papers before
hmi. m I applied liiinielt to his iiterary lab irs
hoping, m the occiloatioo of his min I, to
forget ton unpleasant eurm-on to which lie
hi 1 been subjected; but his mint wan
darCd, an I bis heart sank, with a sense of
oppression he could not account tor, till
p iuiog hisha.id acrosi his brow, and raising
liis in i ir.l ui eyes, they encountered those
oi Di-apu ideacy, slaziog on him with earnest
tmd i ueial ii janiog.
‘A.ail he tiiojgiit. she has followed rrte
unper'ccived; ye: wherefore should mv
spirit quad ? 1 \rill rouse my intellect, and
t isk my brain lor sotnecliartn wherewith to
exorcise tlie foul fieuJ p And he bent his
, a '* i again, a.V iu deep reflec
l )i. But Win* ever borrowed inspiration
from Despondency i Her m, K)in y s>l , ! t.t 3s .
tious arc ,t strife with the efforts of getjldv.
up his task, and with t deep drawn sigh,'
retired to his sleej less couch, where Des
piiudenry crept in, and shared his pillow,
till daylight came; when tike an evil spirit,
she tl-d away on the wings of the morning.
The twilight hour—blest hour to the hnp-
T*y ! —delightful tenewer of the domestic
bond, that draws the family circle found tl.e
cheerful lu-artli ; and to the pensive mind,
sweet seasun of contemplation ! Alas, that
the dark countenance of Despondency
should intrude itself at such an hour !
' l’was the ~ however, that she appeared, a
gain and again, to the uulnppy student,and
prol.inget' her u-dts, and turned memory
into g*ief, and the future into presages of
caki.nity, till his life was wretched, and a
dark temptation came over him to end it
with his own h md. Such would assuredly
have been the close of his had it
not been for the intervention of one true
friend, whose name it might he irreverent
here to mention ; but she cam" in.a robe of
light, and (minted upward, and inspired him !
with hopes that brought joy to his soul, and
peace unknown before.
Ilippv the man who, in the bold flights
of genius, as in the proud exercise of hi-,
intellect, forgets not the ‘Giver of all good,’
and retains within the sanctuary of Ins
breast one pure shrine, inviolate to mortal
passion !
THE CHARACTER OF WASHING
TON.
The beautiful effii-ion which the reader
will find below, is the production of the
chaste ami classic mind of the late vener
able ami distinguished Senator from Rhode
Island, Mr. Robbins, and was occasioned
by the following circumstances: During the
Sessiou of 18 57-'B, Mr. Webster entertained
a large party of friends at dinner among
them, the venerable Senator we have
named. The evening passcaJ off with much
hilarity, enlivned with wit and sentiment ;
but, during the greater part of the, time,
Mr. Robbins maintained that grave but
placid silence which was his habit. While
thus apparently abstracted, someone sud
denly called on him lor a toast, which call
was seconded by the company. He rose,
and in Ii is surprise asked if they were se
rious in making such a demand of so old a
til an; and being; assured that they were, he
said if they would suspend their hilarity for
a few moments he would give them a toast
and preface it with a few observations.
Having thus secured a breathless stillness,
lie went on to remark that they were then
on the verge of the 2itl of Febuary, the
anniversary of the birth of the great patriot
and s'atestnan of o' r country, whom all de
lighted to remember and to honor; -and he
honed lie night be allowed the privilege
of an aged man torecnr fora few moments
to past events connected with his character
and history. He then proceeded, and de
livered in the most happy and impressive
manner the beautiful speech which now gra
ces our columns. The whole company
were elee.tiified by h’ls patriotic enthusiasm;
and one of the guests, before they separ
ated, begged that he would lake the trouble
to put on paper wdiat he had so happily ex
pressed, and furnish a copy for publication.
Mr. R. obligingly complied with this re
quest n the following day, but by some
accident the manusfipt got mislaid, and
eludtil alt search for it until a few days ago,
when it was unexpectedly recovered,.and is
now presented to our readers:
On the near approach of that calendar
day which give birth to Washington, I feel
rekindling within me some of those emotions
always connected with the recoiled:o:i ol
that hallowed name. Permit me to indulge
them, on this occasion, for a moment, in a
few remarks, as preliminary to a sentiment
which 1 shall beg leave to propose.
1 consider it as one of the consolations
of mv age that 1 am old enough and fortu
nate eiioii rh to have seen that wonderful
.tint Tins happiness is still common to
so many yet among tho living, that less is
ihoughtjol it now' than will be in after times;
hut it is no less a happiness to me on that
account,
While a hoy at school, 1 saw him for
the first time; it was when he was passing
through New England to take the com
mand-in chief of the American armies at
Gainlirohge. Never shall I forget the impres
sion Ills imposing piesi'tice then made upon
111 \ young imiginatinn; so superior did he
seem to me to all that I had seen or imagin
ed of the hum an form for striking effect.
I remember wiili what delight in my after
studies, l came to the line in Virgil that
• xpressed all the enthusiasm of my own
feeling* ••>* inopire.il by iljat presence
and which 1 could nut often enough re
peat :
“Credo eq lidem, nee vara fidcs, genas
deormn.”
I saw him again at his interview with
Rueh imheaii. when they met to settle the
plan of co nbined operations between the
French fleet and the American armies,
against the British on th“ Ghasapeake ; and
then 1 saw the immense crowd drawn to
gether f.Olll all the neighboring towns, *0
get, if possible, one look at the man who
had throned himself in every heart Not
one ot that immense crowd doubted tin final
triumph ol Ids country in her arduous con
flict; fo I 'every one saw, or thought lie saw,
in Wasl ington, her guardian angel, com
missioned bv Heaven to insure to In r that
triumph. Nil de-perandum was the motto
with every one.
“Nil de perandutn. n icro duce, auspice
Teucru.”
In after life, - when the judgment corrects
the extravagance of earn impressions, I saw
him on several occasions, but saw nothing
at either to admonish me of any extrava
gance in my carlv impressions. The im
pression-, w“ie still the same; I had the
same overpowering sense of being iti tiie
presence of some superior being.
It is indeed remarkable, and 1 believe
unique in the history of men. that Wnsli
ugton made the sains impression upon all
minds, at all places, and at once. When
his lame first broke upon the world, it spread
at once over the whole world. By the con
sent ol mankind—by the universal senti
ment —he was placed at the head of human
species ; above all envy, because above all
emulation; for no one then pretended, or
lias pretended to he—at least who has been
alio veil to be—the convul of Washington
ia fame.
When the great Fe,leric> of Prussia sent
his portrait to Washington, with this in*erip
t'mn upon it '‘From the oldest General in
Europe to the greatest General in the
world,” lie did hut echo the sentiment of
all the chivalry ot Europe. Nor was the
sentiment confined to Eurooe, nor to the
b mndssof civilization ; for the Arab of the
l> ssi't ■ talked of Washington in Ins tent
Ins 1 1.nil.'! uamle ed with the wamleting
Scythian, and was cherished hv him as a
household wofd in Lis migration. No
chine was so barbarous ns to be a stratmei
to the name; but every where, and bv all
name was placed at the.same point
ol elevation, and above compeer. As it was
in the beeinning, so it is now; of the fu
ture we cannot speak with certainty.
Some future age, in the endless revolutions
of time, may produce another Washington;
but the greater probability is that be is dis
tined to remain forever, as he now is, the
Phenix of human kind.
What a possession to his couutry is such
a fame! Such a
4 Clarum et venerabile uonien
“Genlibus /”
To all his countrymen it gives, *od for
ever will give, a pa-sport to respect w herever
they go. to whatever part of the globe;
for his country is in every other identified
witbEtbat fame.
What, then, is incumhent upon us, fits
countrymen ? Why, to be such a People
as shall be worthy of such :i fame—a Peo
ple of whom it shall be said, “No wonder
such a People have produced such men as
Washington.” I give you, therefore, this
sentiment:
The memory of Washington : May his
countrymen preve themselves a People wor
thy of his fame.
The New York correspondent of the
U. .States Gazette tells the following affec
ting story of the fatal effects ' f m indulgence
in the worst of all vices—-habitual drunken
ness :
A crowd had gathered near the gate at
the southern extremity of the Batte-v, and
several voices rose at the same moment upon
the air, crying for vengeance upon a tattered
form, that reeled into the enclosuie, in a
beastly state of intoxication. He was appar
ently about fifty years of age, and was fol
lowed by a young, beautiful, aud interesting
girl, not out of her teens.—A moment be
fore 1 saw him he had raised his ar.u, and
struck this lovely being to the earth For
this the crowd was pursuing him, and doubt
less would have committed some summary
act upon the inebriated wretch, had not the
same delicate f rm interposed to prevent
me i onsninmation of the deed. She ap
proached timidly, and fondly begged the
monster to go home. He swore by the liv
ing God that he would never return. Little
did he think, as he uttered tho oath, that
he vengeance of that God his sacrilegious
lips profaned, was at that moment hanging
over him, and th ‘t the angel of Death was
waiting upon the waters to bear him, with
all his sins upon his head, into the presence
of the Creator he had tnocked.
He shook the fair girl from him with a
curse, aid staggered to the railhig. A
cluster of boats was at some distance from
the shore, and a few voices were singing otic
of Russell’s excellent songs. The drunkard 1
contrived to clamber on the uppermost rail,
and having seated himself, called to the
singers t« perforin something lively, or ,I—o.
his eyes, he would come out there and sing
for himself.” These were the last words
he uttered. In endeavoring to change his
position, his foot slipped, and Vie fell into
the water to rise no more (treat exertions
were made by the boats to render him assis
tance, and more than one daring fellow
plunged into the sea; but all in vain—his
body lias not yet been recovered. The tide
was running strong at tlie dine, and we may
hear of his body beiug washed upon the
opposite shore iri a few days.
The poor girl was almost frantic—site
rushed to the water’s edge, crying “Father!
dear, dear father! For Heaven's sake, save my
father!” It was indeed her father. He
had once enjoyed a handsome property, but
liquor ruined him. He sold his house lor
it, and at last his garments. His wife had
died from want, and this daughter had sup
pn ted him and three brothers by the labor
of her hands. He swore he would never
again enter her house, because she would
not give him liquor—he cursed her, and
died while a curse against himself yet hung
upon his lips. The daughter dil not leave
the spot before midnight and her cries ap
palled the stoutest hearts around* her.
Twenty doilais were raised among tiie spec
tators, but when handed to her, she exclaim
ed, “No, no, give me mv father.”
Poor, girl, she called in vain. That fa
ther was ii other presence. She was borne
from the place by some friends, and when
1 left the spot, the lightness of he art which
ad drawn me to the scene, had departed
and l felt it almost a sin to be happy amid
the wretchedness man mikes for him
self.
From the A T . O. Picayune.
PITCH BATTLE WITH MUSQUI
TOES.
Every year some good story goes the round
founded upon the annoyance of that fancy
bill-sticker and trumpeter, the mosquito
We do not know that we shall ho able so
to add to the common stock but we can
not refrain from relating an incident that oc
curred the other night at one of our sash
ionable boarding houses, and which made
us laugh, not only not a little, but till our
very sides felt like caving in.
We suppose it was two o’clock in the
morning, when our “rosy shutubers’’ were
disturbed by a noise in the court or yard—
some one appearing very much vexed, and
speaking daggers through his set teeth, and
breathing rage and defiance in everv word.
“I’ll see if I can't fix you, confound your
j.h'i'i.i'.-s. Bite now, will you !”
We could hear no teply, and conjectured
that the person addressed was desirous of
avoiding any altercation or collision, w hatev
er might be the insult or the wrong perpe
trated. The parties seemed to be almost
immediately beneath our window, but we
felt tie inclination to venture out from un
der our bar, amt expose our “lair propor
tions” to the shafts of the remorseless
bloody-minded warblers that swarmed n
roundin myriads, and made every thing a
live with their eternal bravado, than which
not even their sting is more sleep destroy
ing.
“So! you come at a fellow’ all at once,
<1 n you. I’ll give it to you ”
And we could dis'inctlv he ir several hard
cuffs and kicks, follow in ranid succession.
Our curiosity was roused. What, thought
we. can be tiie matter ? But still we did
not venture out, and reclining on our el
bow, we listened w ith all ourears.
“Take that and be d—d to you, you bloody
vagabonds
The sneaker seemed to strike • with
great vehemence against something,
that made neither resistance nor ap
peal. Thought we to ourself, somebody is
“getting Jesse, * anv how, and with a ven
geance— no one to interfere and the poor
devil too badly beaten to call for aid ! We
could remain irresolute no longer, Spring
ing from out bed flinging open the window;,-
we looked out, just as the ma - exclaimed.
“I’ll be the death of every luo.her’s son
of von ! Take that.”
“What in the name of nil that’s wonder
fill are you doing ?” we called to him. lie
had soinetlvng white in his hands which lie
threw violently on the ground, and stump
ed with all tiie impulse of savage rage.
Il was not long before we were let into
the secret. By some menus a hole had been
made in his musquito bar, and through it,
of course, a countless timing of :hese dis
turbers of repos.- had entered. Ile 1 bought '
for a long time that the humming lie heard !
came front ihe outside of the bar, but just '
as his weary eyelids were closing, a pio
digioiistruuq>et-call sounded in his ear, and
he soon felt the lances ol legions piercing
his (ace, hands km I arms. He lay and tos
sed, and groaned and swore, and slapped at
the buzzing insects as they hovered about
him. A thousand resolves passed through
his mind, and Hired after each other like
tie floating visions ol a disturbed and con
fused ilieatn. At last hi.man patience could
endure it no longer. He had been stung
and irritated into a perl, ct fever Up he
started—doffed his night robes, donned his
pants, stuck his teet into liis slippers, and
and rushed downstairs, m a state rather
akin to madness. Arrived in the court, lie
commenced belaboring the bar. uttering be
tween blows, the impreratiuus we have no
tice:!.
“What will you do the rest of the night?”
we inquired.
After he had quietly folded up the bar.
Containing the dead, dying and prisoners, he
replied, that tic believed lie had everv mus
quitu in the room, aud lie should endeavor
to obtain a tittle rest. He had satisfied Ids
revenge and though' lie could compose
himself de-pite all ihe stragglers that might
be left. We don’t know lie succeeded, but
have heard that he lias his bar carefully tuck
ed in all around, at mid-day. and burns ev
ery tnu.squito he can ci.tch with a savage
delight.
Jngeriiinit all tin jit to Escape from prison.
---Lewis Webster, confined in tl e jail in
this village under sentence of death last
week made a most ingenious attempt to es
cape from his confinement, which proved
nearly successful. He had contrived to
make a sort of false bottom »o his berth or
bunk, between which and the real bottom
he could secrete himself so as effectually
to be coneea'ed from even more than or
dinary scrutiny. Having severed the link
which connected his fetters with the ring
in the floor, he pul his plan into operation
on Fri ‘ay night.
Tl.e next morning the jailer went to his
room, hailed him, and received no answer,
he entered the cell, out no Wilber was to
be seen. The bed clothes wire thorongl ly
overhauled, tiie space between the bed and
the floor, and every other hiding blace in
the cell were searched, but not a trace of
the prisoner could lie discovered. IJe had
escaped, and no mistake. But how ?-—this
was the question; for the doors were barred
and locked as they had been left the night
previous; none of the keeper’s family had been
disturbed ; and a faithful dog, set to watch
the premises, had given no indication of
any thing out of the way.
Cerium circumstances and appeatnees,
however, led to the belief that a fror.l win
dow had been entered by some persons with
the assistance of a ladder, and that Wilber
had been released from Ills ce|! by means of
fa I e keys. A wagon was heard going at a
Jehu like rapidity south, about 2 o’clock in
the night, in which the “unhanged” gentle
man was supposed to have been conveyed
by his rescuers. The alarm was immediate
ly raised ; hand lulls offering a reward of
•SaOO for the recapture of Wilber, and §250
for the apprehension of those who assisted
in his escajie, were scattered far and wide;
and pursuers were despatched in ‘diot haste”
in every direction iti which Wilber was sup
posed to havW gone.
Things thus proceeded until about noon
on Sunday, when the anxiety depicted on
the countenances of our citizens gave place
to a broad grin, at the announcement that
Wilber was again in jail, or rather that he
had not been out of jail A woman’s wit is
said to be “a match for any two men in
Christendom,” but in this instance it unrav
elled a mystery which puzzled the whole
village.
The j filer's wife, not exactly satisfied
as to Wilber’s escape, determined to give
his bed a little closer search. She proceeded
to do so; and on tearing ..If a blanket which
he bad nailed down beneath the bcdtick,
she discovered the shackles which ornamen
ted his feet, and also otic of his legs. She
immediately left the room to give intelligence
of this, and while absent, Wilber whipped
out of his hiding place and concealed him
self under the rearstepsof the jail, where he
was soon after found, and taken back to his
old quarters.
The whole affair, as it terminated, wore
the appearance of a broad hoax; but on the
part of Wilber i' was a most ettuning'y con
trived plan to obtain his liberty. His inten
tion was *o induce the belief that lie had
fled on Friday night, and on the succeeding
night, when his ceil would probably have
be£n ‘left unlocked, to step out at his
leisure, and thus effect a real escape.
Madison (.Y. Y.) Observer.
From■ the Georgia Journal.
TRIAL OF THOMPSON FOR THE
KILLING OF SEARCY .
It is impossible for us to picture to our
• eaders the intense interest w hich tiie trial
of this young man, a youth of only nineteen
summers, excited in our community.—The
novelty ofthe case, and the circumstances
that induced him to take the law into his
own hands and perpetrate the deed, were
sufficient ol themselves to create unusual
excitement favorable to the prisoner; but
when we add to this the thrilling eloquence
of the able .Counsel who conducted the de
.fence, language would fail us, were we to
attempt to convey to our readers any
jll st idea ofthe feelings which pervaded the
bosom of almost every one in attendance
upon the trial. The counsel on the part
of the Sta'e ably discharged their duty.
The closing speech of the Solicitor General
was an effort of cool, unimpac-ioned reaso
ning upon the law of the land, well calcu
lated to impress upon a jury the necessity
of tl'schurgitig their solemn duty, however
excited might their sympathies be in behalf
ofthe prisoner.
It was our intention to give to our readers
a report of this trial, but understanding that
a member of the bar intends publishing
iti pani] li•ct form a full account of it, with
the speeches of those engaged both in the
prosecution and defence of die prisoner, we
iiave abandoned our design, and will briefly
present, in lien thereof, Ihe following
hn-uilv written statements
The prisoner was charged with the mur
der of Searcy, who, upon his death bed,
affirmed, as the witness in behalf of the
State (Dr. Case) testified, that “lie was in
his back yard about 9 o’clock, P. M., and
heard a noise in the direction of VI rs. Thomp
son’s house, and knowing Thompson had
been intoxicated during the day, supposed
lie was abusing hi* mother, and went up to
see the cause of the disturbance, and tliat
when he arrived within a few yards ofthe
ho use, the prisoner rushed upon him, with
out speaking, shot him, aud tl en cut him
with a bowie-knife,” of which wounds lie
died.
The d-fenre was chiefly placed upon
negativing the dying declarations of the de
ceased, by a connexion of circumstances in
direct conflict with the statement made by
tlr» deceased in. extremis. The counsel for
the defence endeavored to establish by those
circmnst tires that deceased was shot ill the
bed room of defendant’s mother, aud that
deceased was fresh from an adulterous bed
when he received at the hands of the soo,
a youth of nineteen, the mortal wound.
No express malice was proven to deceased.
On the contrary, habits of friendship with
the sons ol the dt-ceased, as also with the
deceased, existed previous and up to the
time ol killing. The couusel for accused
assumed that it was anew case—that not a
precedent was to be found in the law books
either way,—in reference to the right of a
son to punish with death, in the heat of
resentment, the adulterer of his mother.
This was not denied on the part of the
State, and the Judge, in charging tlie Jury,
assented to the declaration of prisoner’s
counsel that it was a novel case.
Counsel for State and Prisoner, and order
in which they addressed the Court:
Ist. Washington Poe, State’s Counsel.
2d. Iverson L. Harris, Prisoner’s “
3d. Robert V. Hardeman, Stale’s “
4th. Francis H. Cone, Prisoner's “
sth. Win. Y. Hansell, State's ‘‘
6ih. Augustus H- Kenan, Prisoner’s 44
The Solicitor General. Col. Foster, then
closed in behalf of the State.
The Judge's charge washable and im
pressive.
The Jury retired on the |seoond day of
the trial about dusk, and alter an absence
of about twenty boors, returned the follow
ing verdict:
“We, the Jury, find the Prisoner guilty
of Voluntary Manslaughter in defence of
l.is mother, as the relation of liusba and and
wife ; and pray the Court to extend to him
his utmost clemency.”
The Court passed upon the Prisoner Hie
shortest tetm of imprisonment in the Pen
interitiary that the law penni'ted, viz: two
years. The Prisoner, during the trial, con
ducted himself with great decency and
modest deportment. His personal aj pear
ance was well calculated to elicit tiie deep
sympathies of the community.
CIRCULAR.
Savannah. June 26th, 1839.
Sir.—The Library committee of the tjeor
gia Historical Society, beg leave respectfully
to request of those interested ir. its design,
to transmit to the corresponding secretary,
assoon as convenient, whatever of the fol
lowing books or documents they inav be dis
posed to contribute to the archives of the
society.
Journals of the provincial congress, ad
colonial and state legislatures; records of
the proceedings ofconventions and commit
tees of safety; Jourualsof the king’s coun
cil; original and later statutes of the province
and state: treaties with any Indian tubes,
or with any state or nation.
Ket.orts ol boards of health ; statistics of
births deaths the deaf, dumb and blind ; ac
counts of special epidemics ; copies of med
ical journals; cataloguesnfmedical colleges;
and members of the professions are earnest
ly requested to prepare reports on the med
ical topography of tlie various places where
they may be located
Sketcl.es ofthe histories nfcitks, towns
and roomies ; for whom tiamei* together
with maps, surveys, charters, ami whatever
relates t o the civil history of the state.
M“teorol ogical observations ; reports of
geological and merolosical survey s, and ev
ery thing relating to the natural history of
ti e state.
The earliest not'ces of Indian tribes wiih
in otir boundaries, their manners and cus
toms, their battles & skirmishes; the adven
tures and sufferings of captives, and travel
levs in their territories; the Indian names ot'
rivers, hills, district islands,, bavs anil otner
places, with the traditions attached to the
same, together with their monuments and
relies.
Ske'ches of the lives of ail eminent and
remarkable persons who have lived in the
state, or were connected with its history ;i r
iginal journals, letters, documents and pa
pers, illustrating the same, or of our ances
tors generally.
All works relating to the history of Geor
gia. its colleges, academies, and seminaries;
minutes and proceedings ol scientific and
literary associations, orations, sermons, ad
dresses, tracts, essay s, pamphlets and poems
delivered or written on any public occasion,
or commemorative of any remarkable event;
magazines, almanacs, reviews, and newspa
pers from their first introduction into the
colony.
Tables of exports, prices currents, reports
of rail roads, canals banks, and insurance offi
ces ; proceedings of chambers ol cnuime.ce
registers of vessels and steam boats, notices
ofthe lise and progress of agriculture, and
manufactures of every kind, aud the natuie
and amount of fisheries.
Militia returns and regulations: the num
ber. location, and date of iricorpoiation of
volunteer corps; tl* names ol field, stall'and
general officers ; descriptions that have been,
or now ate in existence, notices of battles
audbattle fields, and oftlie invasions, dep
redations and skirmishes, by and with fur
eign nations, from the first sett lenient of the
colony.
Proceedings of conventions, assemblies,
synods, presbyteries, conferences and reli
gious associations of all kinds; sketches of
the origin and progress of individual church
es, names of the officiating clergy, with the
date of their settlement! the sect to w hich
they belong aud the :ime of the removal oi
death ol all such as Lave left their charge,
or have deceased.
The committee would respectfully state,
that while in the above specifications, tiny
have regarded merely their own state, yet
they by no means wish to limit the donations
to, or collections of the society, to topics
purely local in their interest. They solicit
contributions of books, mam.scripts, pamph
lets, newspapers, and every thing which can
elucidate the history of America generally,
as well as Georgia in particular ; and they
sincerely hope that this call upon the liber
ality of all who love the honor of our com
monwealth, and desire to perpetuate the
the faithful records of her existenc w ill be
responded to, with airardour that will insure
the complete success of the Georgia Histor
ical Society.JAMES M. WAYNE,
WILLIAM LAW,
JOHN C. NICHOLL,
ROBERT M. CHARLTON,
WM. B. STEVEN 4 *.
Commmitlee .
N. B. Whenever private conveyance can
be obtained, for the transmission of books,
documents, See., it would be preferred to
forwarding them by mail.
Editors in the s'ate favorable to this so
ciety, are respectfully requested to give the
above one insertion.
The following information is from returns
made to the Post Office Department, aud
has been politely handed to us for publica
tion :
-V luspapers, Magazines and Periodicals
published in the V. S. Ist July, 1839.
Maine 4;
New-Hampshire oq
Vermont ,qj
Massachusetts, (at Boston 65) 124
Rhode Island 14
Cennecficut ' 34
Near-York, (at Ncw-York Ci'y7l) 274 1
New Jersey
Maryland, (at Baltimore 20) 4*
Pennsylvania, [at Philadelphia 711 25”
Delaware 1 ”
District Columbia, (at Washington 11) k;
Virginia, (at Richmond 10) 50
North Carolina
,-South Carolina
Geuigia
Florida Territory T
Alabama j.
M ississippi
Louisiana, (at New-Orleaus 10) 26
Arkansas
Tennessee gy
Kentucky
Ohio, [at Cincinnati 27]
M ichigan
Wisconsin Territory r
lowa Territory
Indiaiu *
in- 69
Illinois 23
Missouri
Os the above, 116 are published daily, 14
triweekly, 30 semi-weekly, and 991 once a
week, 'i he remainder are ii-tued sen.i-month
ly, monthly, and quurteily principally mag
azines and reviews. Mauy of the daily pa
per; also issue triweeklies, semi-week lies,and
weeklies. Thirty eight are in the French, and
one in the Spanish. Several of the New
Orleans papers are printed in French aud
English. Glebe
' REPUBLICAN SENTIMENTS.
I he noble, plain, republican sentiments
1 I Governor Seward’s address at Staten Is
land, on the Eo rth of July, have our ar
dent commendation. We need from men
high in office ami influence the frequent ex
pression, ihe impressive inculcation of such
opinion*. Gov. Seward goes to the foun
dation of true republic an ism—equality
Not only the equality which every citi/.eu
enjoys as hi* political birth-right, but that
mental and moral equality which may
be nearly approximated by universal aud
sound education.—Au/ Gaz.
My Friends and Fihow-citizens :
We have come up here to rejoice that
we are a free People, and that we live under
the protection of.republican institutions.—-
Theorisis of 01 her countries may speculate
upon the daugors which heset our Const 1-
tntion—the parasites of power and favor
ites ol fortune may censure our principles
and our manners—yet, if the sense of man
kind could b“ taken, by offering to the peo
ple olevery nation aud kindred and tongue
on earth the Constitution, the franchises,
and the condition we enjoy, our fellow-men
would, every where, rise at once from long
oppression, and boast that they w ere free
men and republicans as we ate.
It is right and proper to assemble ourselves
together to do honor to tiie memory of our
forefathers. Our liberty and security were
obtained by their privations and sacrifices,
yet those privations and sacrifices were vol
untary. The exaction* of England were not
yet extreme— the weight 1 f her oppression
was tint yet intolerable. All might have
been yielded that was demanded, and all
could have been mil 11 red that was sought to
be inflicted, and the people of the American
colonies .could have remained nevertheless
more free and less oppiessid than any other
nation on earth. Blit modified liheny and
comparative security were not enough to
satisfy the demands of our ancestors. They
had conceived the idea of absolute indepen
dence of foreign pow er, and had wisely learn
ed that true freedom can only he
hy institutions 1 fselfgovi mil.cut. The nev
er stnppid to calculate how much cf the
cost was to fall upon them, and l.ow small
must be their share of the inestimable bene
fits of 1 lie Revolution.
It is a worthy purpose of our con h g heieio
render to Almighty God ascriptions of; raise
ami thanksgiving for the Divine favor and
protection. Nor could any other ceteninni
al of worship be so suitable as that you have
adopted, of bringing hither the children anil
youth of your great city to show them here
beneath the forest-shades and upon the I.ill
side, the wonders that God hath done incur
behalf. It has its precedents in the numer
ous injunctions of the I*ro| liets to transmit
in life manner tlie traditions of liis favor
towards his chosi u peo| le.
But exultation because we are free may
be tlie action of minds selfitlr and ignoble.
Gratitude to our forefathers, if it produce
beneficent i esults, is only an unavailing hom
age to the dead. E'en ascriptions of praise
to God merit no acceptance if they proceed
li om hearts that are not inspired with char
ity towards our fellow-men. When we a
dopt measures for diffusing throughout a
a wider .sphere the freedom we enjoy, and
extending its fruition to more distant gener
ations, benevolence crowns all the other
motives which render this a day of’festivity
and praise throughout our laud.
And need enough there is, my fellow
citizens, for such benevolent action as this
in which you are engaged. Our institutions
excellent as they are, hitherto produced
but a small portion of the beneficent icsults
they ate calculated to bestow u| on the Peo
ple. The chief of these benefits is r.qu.iLt
tv. We do indeed enjoy equality of civil
rights. But we have not yet attained, we
have only approximated toward, what is
even more iin orlatit —equality of social con
dition.
Ftom the beginning of time aristocracy
t>a« existed, and society has been driven into
classes—the rich and the poor-—the sliong
and the dependent-* tlie lean id and the
unlearned—and from this inequality of so
cial condition lyive resulted the ignorance,
the crime, anil the sufferings of the People.
Let it excite no wonder when I say that
this inequality exists among us, ami that
aristocracy has a home even in this land of
freedom. It does not indeed deprive us of
our civil rights, but it prevents the diffu
sion of prosperity and happiness. We
should be degenerate descendants ol our
heroic forefathers, did we not assail this
aristocracy, remove the barriers between
the ri :h and the poor, break the control of
the few over the many, extend the largest
liberty to the grea’cst number, and strength
en in every way the democratic principles
of our Constitution.
This is the work in which you are en
gaged. Sunday schools and common schools
arc the greatjli veiling institutions of this ace
What is tlie secret aristocracy? It is, that
knowledge is power. Knowledge, the world
over, lias been possessed by the few, and ig
norance has been the lot of the many. The
merchant—what is it that gives them influ
ence so benign for good purposes, so fatal
for mischievous ends ? Enow-ledge. \\ hat
makes one man a common laborer and an
other a usurper; one man a slave and another
a tyrant? Knowledge. Knowledge can nev
er be taken from those by whom it has once
been obtained, and hence the power it con
fers upon the few cannot be broken while
the many .ire uneducated. Strip its posses
sors of all their wealth and power and hon
ors,, and knowledge still remains the same
mighty agent to restore again the inequality
you h >ve removed. But there is a more
effectual way to banish aristocracy from
among us. It is by extendiug the advan-