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• ms oa2i3i &3Xi;®if3, 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-