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THE PRINTER.
A Printer is the most curious being living. He
may have a bank and coins, and not be worth a
penny— have small caps , and have neither wife nor
children. Others may run fast, but he gets along
best by setting last. He may be making impres
sions without eloquence, may use the lye without
offending, and be telling the truth while others
cannot stand when they sit, he can set standing,
and even do both at the same time—use furniture ,
and yet have no dwelling—may make and put
away pi, and never see a pie, much less eat it, du
ring his life, —be a human being, and a rat at the
same time—may press a great deal and not ask a
favor—may handle a shooting iron, and know noth
ing about a cannon, gun, or pistol ; he may move
the lever that moves the world, and yet be as far
from moving the globe, as a hog with his nose un
der a mole hill—spreads sheets without being a
housewife ; he may lay his form upon a bed , and
vet be obliged to sleep on the floor ; he may use
the t without shedding any blood ; and from the
earth he may handle the *** ; he may be of a
rolling disposition, and yet never desire to travel;
he may have a sheep's foot and not be deformed,
never be without a case , and know nothing of law
or physic; be always correcting his errors, and
growing worse everyday; have with
out ever having the arms of a lass around him ;
have his form locked up, and at the same time be
from jail, watch-house, or any other confinement.
Honesty. —What is honesty? “To pay one’s
debts.” Exactly so. No definition could be
nearer correctness. Always minding, however,
that there are other ledgers than the trader's—
that a man’s debts are not to be calculated in
pounds, shillings and pence. It is not honest for
a man to deteriorate his own nature, to blight his
own heart, to enfeeble his own mind, or even to
neglect his own physical culture. It is not honest
in a woman to swear to love a man, when she
loves only his house and equipage; nor any hon
ester for a man to purchase a woman as he would
a beast. For every thing has its certain value ;
and to pay that which is fairly due, is the pre
rogative of honesty. It is not honest to make an
excise officer, any more than it is to steal a legis
lator’s robes and throw it over the shoulders of a
fool. It is not honest to impoverish one man to
enrich another—for honesty has the utmost re
spect for the rights of all. It is not honest to say
one thing and mean another. Alas for our daily
custom! Do we not continually, bribed by the
hopes of some paltry gain, or fearful of giving
offence, put on a pleasant smile, and grasp with
friendly zeal the hand we despise? This is not
honest. Do we not lie daily for the snlrp of hnlf
pence, and so pick men’s pockets; and do we
not look lies for the sake of empty smiles and
compliments? This is not honest. Do not some
oi us go with cold, sneering lips, as if they were
of custom’s frost-work, when our hearts are burn
ing within us; making conventional grimaces,
and repeating formal catechism, when our inner
most thoughts are struggling for utterance? But
we should displease this friend, and give advan
tage to that foe ; be laughed at by some fool, be
deemed rude by the world, if we were truly hon
est and so will our heart for the reward of world
liness, and live, not like true men made in God’s
image, but rather like automatons manufactured
by custom’s patent.
In the town of Stonington, during the last war,
resided a widow with an only daughter. When the
attack on the place was made by a British naval
force,-(an attack which is memorable in the an
nals ot war,) this widow was dying. All the
other inhabitants, gathering their household goods,
tied into the country. Only one house was occu
pied by the dying woman and her faithful daugh
ter, who refused to leave her. Repeatedly balls
passed through the house. Shells exploded all
around them. The thunder of the cannon shook
the foundations of the land. But the thunder of
the cannon might not prevail to repel the sleep
of death, which stole as calmly over lip and eye,
and fell as gently on the old woman’s heart, as if
it had been a sunny spring morningon the glorious
ocean shore. Fiercer and louder grew the sounds
of battle without, contrasting fearfully with that
calm scene within, where the devoted child sat
by her dying mother’s side, and held her hand,
and heard her murmur as the shot flew by, of long
forgotten battle fields in olden times. Death came
at length, that “calm, safe refuge” from all bat
thngs. Undisturbed by the sound of wet rings, she
iell asleep and heard the sound of the battle no lon
ger. Rising trom her long and holy watch the
daughter called soldiers from the fort to aid her in
burying her dead. They wrapped the body in
the blankets on which it lay, and carried it in sol
emn procession to the burial ground in whose en
closure slept the fathers of the village. There
was something sublime in that procession. Men
bore their kindred dust along deserted streets,heed
less of the missiles of death that darkened the
air, and entered the place of rest with their load
of clay. Even as they entered, a shell fell before
them, and exploding threw up the earth, and in
the trench thus opened thevlaid the body and cov
ered it out of the reach of war. TRen, and not
before t the daughter left her mother alone, and
sough: safety for herself.
Men of Genius . —In reading the memories of a
man of genius, we reprobate the domestic perse
cutions of those opposed to his inclinations. N°
poet but is moved with indignation at the recol
lection of the tutor at the Fort Royal, thrice burn
ing the romance which Racine at length got by
heart; no geometrician but bitterly inveighs
against the father of Pascal for not suffering him
to study Euclid, which he at length understood
without studying. The father of Petrarch cast
to the flames the poeticrl library of his son amidst
the shrieks, the groans •and tears of the youth.
Yet this burnt offering neither converted Petrarch
into a sober lawyer, nor deprived him of the
Roman laurel. The uncle of Alfieri lor tnoie
than twenty y r ears suppressed the poetical char
acter of this noble bard ; he was a poet without
knowing how to write a verse, and Nature, like
a hard creditor, exacted, with redoubled interest
all the genius which the uncle had so long kept
from her. These are the men whose inherent
impulse no human opposition can deter from
proving great men. — ITlsraelii.
England as it Will Be. —lt is now the fashion to
place the golden age of England in times when
noblemen were destitute of comforts, the want ot
which would be intolerable to a moderate footman;
when farmers and shopkeepers breakfasted on
loavos, the very sight oi which would raise a riot
in a modern workhouse; and when men died fast
er in the purest country air than they die in the
most pestilential lanes of our towns —than they
now die on the coast of Guinea. We, too, in turn,
shall be out-stripped, and in our turn envied.
It may well be in the twentieth century, that the
peasant of Dorcetshire may think himself miser
ably paid with 15s a week; that the carpenter of
Greenwich 10s a day; that the laboring men
may be as little used to dine without meat as they
now are to eat rye bread; that sanity police and
medical discoveries may have added several
more years to the average length of human life;
that numerous comforts and luxuries which are
now unknown, or confined to a few, may be within
the reach of every diligent and thrifty working
man.— Macaulay's History of England .
The Domestic Altar. —It is pleasing to find in
private houses an altar raised to God. Nothing
rivets family attachments wholly, so securely, as
meeting every morning to pray for each other,
when every misunderstanding forgotten before
the sun goes down. What can be more pleasing,
also, than for the absent to know at what hour
they are remembered with the supplications and
blessings of an affectionate family circle, while
those who remain together can enjoy no greater
solace than in following them with prayers, and
uniting, on their account, in every expression or
every anxiety, or pleasure, or sorrow, which each
shares in common with the others. There is, in
deed, no pleasure more to be prized than that of
raising a family altar, where those shall daily as
semble on earth, who hope hereafter to reassem
sernble in heaven, and not a wanderer lost!
The practice of the small proprieties of life to
a congenial spirit soon ceases to be a study ; it
rapidly becomes a mere habit, or an untroubled
and unerring instinct.
Indestructibility of the Mind. —Man, at the age of
twenty, retains not a particle of matter in which
his mind was invested when he was born. Nev
ertheless at the age of eighty years he is con
scious of being the same individual he was so
far back as his memory can go —that is to say, to
the period when he was four or five years old.—
Whatever it be, therefore, in which this con scious
nessof fidelity resides, it cannot consist of a ma
terial substance, since, had it been material, it
must have been repeatedly changed; and the
source of identity must have been destroyed. It
is, consequently, an etherial spirit, and as it re
mains the same, throughout all the alterations that
can take place in the body, it is not dependent on
the body for its existence ; and is thus calculated
to survive the ever changing frame by which it is
encircled. The frame becomes stiff', cold, and
motionless, when the circulation of the blood
cases it is consigned to the earth, and is separa
ted by insects into a thousand other forms of mat
ter ; but the mind undergoes no such transforma
tion, it is unassailable by the worms. If matter,
subject as it is to perpetual changes, do not, and
cannot, possibly perish, how can the mind perish,
which knows of no mutation ? There is no ma
chinery prepared, by which such object could be
accomplished ; nor could machinery be prepared
for such a purpose, without an entire subversion
of the laws of nature. Butas these laws emana
ted from the wisdom of the Creator, they could
not be altered, much less subverted, without in
volving the inconsistency, into which it is impossi
ble for Divine wisdom to fall.
A Soft Head . — We copy the following from a
late French paper: —“A female infant was born
some months ago at Vendon, in the Department
of Meuse, with the germs of the disease called
hydrocephalus, or water in the brain, which has
become so enlarged that it measures three feet
in circumference. The bones forming the vault
of the head have yielded thus far to the expan
sion of the brain. The space between the two
bones is sensible to the touch, and the whole head
is so soft that it changes its form according to the
position in which the child is laid.
A FRIEND OF THE FAMILY.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JULY 12, 1849.
AGENTS.
Mr. J. M. Boardman is our Agent for Macon.
Mr. S. S. Box for Rome.
Mr. Robt. E. Seyle for the State of South Carolina.
James O’Conner, Travelling Agent.
NATIONAL FAST.
President Taylor recommends the observance of the First
Monday in August as a day of Fasting, Humiliation and
Prayer, on accouut of the Cholera.
GEORGIA ENTERPRISE.
A Northern editor some years since jeeringly asked, in
case of a dissolution of the Union, “who would make our
shoes? ” We are prepared to reply to the query, that Mr.
J. T. Humpheys, of Atlanta, does make as strong, and neat,
and as cheap a negro brogan as comes from the North. The
stock used is better, inasmuch as it is oak tan, in lieu of hem
lock, being more pliant. He has gone extensively into the
business of Tanning and manufacturing, and will be able to
supply our market in a short time, he received an order
from one House in this city for 1000 pairs.
KILLED.
James M, Jones, formerly of Burke County, engaged in
making bricks near this city, was found .dead on Sat
urday morning near the bank of the canal. There were
three buckshot wounds on the head and one on the neck, which
the Jury of Inquest believed caused his death. It is sup
posed that the deceased was killed Friday afternoon, as he
left Mr. Belcher’s (about one mile and a half from town,) at
4 o’clock, with the intention of coming to the city. Soon after
Mr. B. heard the report of a gun in the direction of the canal.
It is possible that he was accidentally shot by someone hunt
ing on the canal, but more probable that he was murdered.
A watch and about S2OO, we understand, were found upon
his person. It is a mysterious affair.
PROBLEM.
Required the solidity of a square hole of two feet in the
side, cut out of the middle of a globe of ten feet diameter.
N. B. To make this problem clearly understood, and free of
ambiguity, observe that the axis of the globe is also the axis
of the proposed solid, which solid consists of a paraliepipedon,
with two distinct segments of spheres, one at each end, hav
ing four small parts out of encli segment, by the four planes.
Whoever will send to the editor of “ A Friend of the Fam
ily ” within one month from date, a true solution of this ques
tion shall be entitled to a copy for six months.
A GEM—A NOBLE CHILD.
At one of the anniversaries of a Sabbath School in London,
two little girls presented themselves to receive a prize, one of
whom had recited one verse more than the other, both having
learned several thousand verses of Scripture. The gentleman
who presided inquired, “ And couldn’t you have learned one
verse more, and thus have kept up with Martha ? ”
“ Yes, sir,” the blushing child replied, “but I loved Martha,
and kept back on purpose
“ And was there any one of all the verses you have learn
ed,” again inquired the President, “ that taught you this les
son ?”
“ There, was, sir,” she answered blushing still more deeply
—“ In honor preferring one another.”
STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION.
This body met at Marietta, on the 27th ult., according to
appointment. Judge Lumpkin, President, was present, and
enlivened the vast assembly with addresses in his happiest
manner. About one thousand delegates were in attendance
from the various Societies and Divisions of the State. After
the transaction of much important business the Convention ad
journed to meet at the call of the President, who gave notice
that a called meeting would be held at Augusta, to receive
Father Matthew, should he visit Georgia. The following offi
cers were elected for the ensuing year :
Hon. Joseph Henry Lumpkin, President.
Wm. King, Esq., Ist Vice President.
Rev. L. Pierce, 2d “ “
Rev. S. G. Bragg, 3d “ “
Hon. J. J. Floyd, 4th “ “
Geo. W. W. Ezzard,sth “ “
Rev. W. J. Parks, 6th “ “
Vincent Sandford, 7th “ “
L. D. Lallerstadt, Bth “ *
E. G. Cabiness, Corresponding Secretary.
John W. Bnrke, Recording Secretary.
A . P. Oaskill, Assistant Recording Secretary.
Benj. Brantley, Treasurer.
Executive Committee. —Wm. Dibble, M.E.Rylander, J. H.
Ellis, T. A. Brew r er, and A. B. Freeman, of Macon, Georgia.
The next annual meeting of the Convention will be held at
Athens, on the 3d Wednesday of August, 1850. — Cassville
Standard .
EXTRACT FROM A SPEECH OF HON. EDWARD EVERETT
ON EDUCATION.
But to the objection that School education is the interest of
many, and College education the interest of the few, my
main answ r er is, that it is founded in a great fallacy. The
man who makes that objection has not formed even a distant
conception of the grounds of the duty which devolves upon
an enlightened State to educate its children. He is thinking
of individuals. He forgets that it is the public, as such, the
State, that great complex. Social Being, which w T e call
Massachusetts, the genial mother of us all, that it is her
interest in the matter which creates the duty, and which gives
all its importance to education, as an affair of public concern
ment, whether elementary or academical. It is not to teach
one man’s boy his ABC, or another man’s boy a little Latin
or Greek, for any advantage or emolument of his own, that
the pilgrim fathers founded the College or required the towns
to support each its School. As far as individusls, many or few
are concerned, 1 have just as much natural right to call on the
State to pay the bill of the tailor who clothes or the builder
who shelters my children, as of the schoolmaster or school
mistress, the tutor or professor who instructs them. The du
ty of educating the people rests on great public groundi, 0a
moral and political foundations. It is deduced from the intj.
mate connexion which experience has shown to exist, so.
tween the public welfare and all the elements of nitiojn]
prosperity on the one hand, and the enlightenment of the pop.
ulation on the other. In this point of view, I say it confidently
good College educat'on, for those w T ho need it and want it, j,
just as much the interest of the many as good School educ.
tion. They are both the interest of all; that is, the whol
community. It is. of human things, the highest interest 0 f
the State to put the means of obtaining a good School educ*.
tion and a good College education within the reach of the
largest number of her children.
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If we will not be taught anything else, let us learn of his.
tory. It was not Mexico and Peru ; nor (what it import!
us more to bear in mind) Portugal nor Spain, which reaped
the silver and golden harvests of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries. It was the industrious, enlightened, cultivated
states of the north and west of Europe. It was little Hoi.
land ; hardly able to keep her head above the waters of tl lo
superincumbent ocean, but with five universities dotting her
limited surface. It was England with her foundation schools,
her indomitable public opinion, her representative system,
her twin universities ; it was to these free and enlightened
countries that the gold and silver (lowed; not merely adding
to the material wealth of the community, but quickening the
energy of the industrious classes, breaking down feudalism,
furnishing the sinews of war to the champions of Protestant
liberty, and thus cheering them on to the great struggle, to
whose successful issue it is owing, in itsremote effects, under
Providence that you, Sir, sit in safety beneath the canopy that
overhangs this hall.
What the love of liberty, the care of education, and a large
and enlightened regard ior intellectual and moral interests did
for the parent state, they will do for us. They will give ui
temporal prosperity ; and with it what is infinitely better—
not only a name and a praise with the contemporary nationi
who form with us the great procession of humanity, but i
name and a praise among enlightened states to tho end of
time.”
JOH N MILTON AS A SUBJECT AND HOUSEKEEPER.
In the case of an inferior and a less pure mind than Milton’i
the sincerity of his republican opinions might perhaps boplei
ded in excuse for the unfairness and violence of some of his
attacks upon the monarchic institutions of his country; and
the universal coarseness and brutality of tho tone then prevn
lent in the style of controversy, may be held ns palliating the
unchristian nnd inhuman malignity which characterizes much
of his polemic writings, particularly in his celebrated coutro
versy with Salmasius ; but surely no such excuse will serve to
diminish our reprobation for Milton's slanderous attacks on the
personal character of Charles I, who appears, as a man, to
have been worthy of respect, and even o( venerution ; who
was, besides an unfortunate and innocent prince, and lind paid
with his blood for the errors of an administration which, how
ever erroneous, was at least well-intentioned. Nor can any
one hope, but by sophistry, to excuse or justify tho various
acts of submission to arbitrary and usurped power which form
■so strong a contrast to Milton’s perpetual and rather obtrusiv#
assertions of independence —his accepting office, for instancei
under the government of Cromwell, his adulation of that wily
despot; and, above all, the melancholy weakness (if indeed
we ought rather to use a much severer term) which allowed
him to profit by the plunder of the unfortunate nnd martyred
sovereign, and to decorate his studious retirement with the
pilfered trappings of royal magnificence; for alas! we still
posse ss the parliamentory order permitting ‘Mr.John Milton,’
Latin Secretary to the House of Commons, to ‘choose and
take away such hangings as he thinks fit,’ from the dismantled
palaces of Whitehall.
Such facts as these are priinful and humiliating, but salutary
also: they powerfully demonstrate that the greatest geniui
and the sublimest virtues can never guard from folly nnd front
error the man who once losses sight of those plain nnd simple
rules of human conduct— ‘Fear God, and honor the king.’
(Shaiv's English Literalurt.
ANECDOTE OF GEN.JACKSON.
When the award of the King of the Netherlands came to
this country, deciding the controversy relative to the North
eastern Boundary, General Jackson was disposed at once to
issue his proclamation declaring that award to be a final adjust
ment of the question. It was however, (the award) received
with universal disfavor in Maine. The general was bewt
with representations that it would be the ruin of his party i sl
that State, thus to issue his proclamation ; and he was persua
ded to refer the award to the Senate, as an arrangement which
needed their ratification. Thus was laid the foundation of
another iliad of controversy, negotiation, and all but war. I
was told, says Mr. Everett, by the late Mr. Forsyth, while
Secretary of State of the United States, that General Jackson
was accustomed to say, in movements of perplexity
weariness at the unsatisfactory progress of the renewed ne
gotiation, that this was the only important occasion in his life,
in which he had allowed himself to be over persuaded by hil
friends, and it was precisely the occasion, when subsequent
events had shown that his own view of the matter was the
correct one. •
UNITED STATES TREASURY.
The amount at the several depositories, on the 25th of Jo*
was $4,053,332, of which $507. G 43 was in Boston, $1,331,2&
in New York, $279,816, at Philadelphia, and $170,708
Washington.
COLLECTION OF PETER S PENCE.
It is estimated that S6OOO was collected on Sunday July I ,! ’
in New York, and $60,000 will be realized in the United
States, for the relief of Pope Pius IX.
DROWN ED.
Benjamin Morris of the bark Bonadea, fell into the ri T * r ’
from a boat at Messrs A. Low 6c Co’s, wharf yesterdsy 19
the Cherokee was preparing to leave, and was drowned-
EiP’The Steamship Cherokee left at 12 M. yesterday*
114 cabin and 5 steerage passengers, principally from
ar.d the West. . •