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[Fiom the Chronicle &■ Sentinel ]
Female i;<lnerttioi.B- Georgia.
Mk. Editor :—Tfifi recent Convention ol
Teachers and the prospect of another in Novem |
her, have made the public interest* and in the s?ul>-
iect of schools: and I have made some memo- I
randn of subjects on which to make some re
marks. lam not a teacher, hut circumstances
have turned mv attention to the subject, and a
prolonged stay in various parts of Georgia have
given me opportunities for observing the results
0 f our present system for female education,
which very few persons have had. The Hist
item is text hooks. The constant changes of
books winch so drain the purges of parents,
reallv make one fancy that Yankee teachers
must lie in league w ith \ ankee publishers, ihe
elementary hooks now used are especially un
fitted for use. A really good compend of Iris
t**rv is a tiling \et o he seen. If uniformity
could he secured, so la ge editions would he
required that the books cnild he furnished very
cheaply; hut even were a goode> itioii prepared
bv competent authority it might he, impracti
cable to bring i irr> gen ml use. except in lew
schools und r State control. The Legislature
might possibly pass a law prohibiting the col- ;
lectirg of school bills in such schools, unless i
these hooks were used. In saying a set of text
hooks ought to he prepared by Souther nets, I
would not be supposed f< sanction the notion
of those, who ate so intensely arid iidiculoud\ j
Southern ns some were, who prepared a South
ern speaker w hich did n>t even admit speeches
I v anv hut Southern men, and a very poor al
fair it was too.
Jhe second item is female colleges. There
has, probably, been no subject on which more
humbug has been utteied for the last 20 years
than female education. In Georgia it has, in an
especial manner, been our pet humbug ; one
which hut to name was to open the purse str itrgs
of all liberal people. Now', when a people
have a pet humbug, woe be to that luckhss in
dividual who attempts to open their eyes. In
Georgia we often heat the boast that this is the
first State in which colleges for women were
• ever established. Vain glory, even where the
boast is tme, is rather ridiculous, and leads to a
habit of meditating on one’s own merits, which
is ceitainly not favorable to seeing or correcting
faults. The first objection to them is to Board
ing Schools altogetl er. If education only re
ferred to what one learned of hooks, it might
be admitted that it could he obtained at a large
boarding school, perhaps, as well as elsewhere.
But it refers to character, manners, tastes, eVc.,
and for all these the ariovs system of large
boarding schools is exceedingly bad training.—
1 can speak with expe*ietice on this subject, for
I was partly educated at one myself, and a very i
excellent one, the Barhamville (S. C.,) School, !
kept by Dr. Marks* The training of character
can be very little influenced by teachers in these
schools; hut is almost entirely influenced by!
the association nfothergirls,and this association I
is, in such schools, the result of accident. As I
for manners, no hoarding school, either Noith
or South, can train them p;perly-, for good
manners are the result of a fine character as a
foundation, educated into a proper expression
of itself in manner, by association with well I
bred people. ‘Hie sell* possession, which is the
chief characteristic of tine manners, is based
upon a proper appreciation of one’s self and
others. A proper appreciation of one’s self de
pends on ha\ing a character which entitles us
to respect, and a proper appreciation of others,
on good fueling, improved by that deference
well bred society compels us to pav each other
Gills edue. ted at home in a family which has
well hied visitors ate improved by that associa
tion, hut in a hoarding school, of course, fr
girls to go into, society would evidently lead to
so many evils that it could not he desirable. A
good many of those w'ho g* North, come home
w ith a sort of confidence, the result of the con
ciousness they have been to Mrs. so and so’s
fashionable school, and so are supposed to he
accomplished; hut this, though it ceitninly is :
better than the maurais honte , with which they
would otherwise he afflicted, only produces a
sort of pert forwardness, rather than lady like
ease and self possession. Where gills do come
home with really fine manners, they would
have had them had they remained at home, sot
some pt'Of le are constitutionally w ell bred.—
The only thing which can b,i said in favor o!
the gregarious system, is that it is a substitute
for something better, when, as in many cases,
that something better can not be obtained The
daughters of planters living in the country,
sometimes, cannot have the benefit of a good
day school, and all mothers are not calculated
to be an advantage to their daughters in train
ing character and manners. Most of our wo
men are so devoted to “stitch, stitch, stitch,
seam and gusset and gusset and hand,’’ like
Hood’s Shirt woman, that they have no time
for anything else. Not that 1 would he sup
posed to slight stitehen, fur to be a fine needle- j
woman is certainly a feminine and graceful
accomph>hment, (1 do not refer to the working
of worsted enormities, or the making of purses
and slippers to fine to be used, or any other !
such time, ryes and health-wasting ahomina- !
tions; hut life has other duties not ii consistent
w iih needles and houce-keeping. The truth is, i
the state of things which make these large
boarding schools desirable, is by no means to
be gloried in. Since, however, we must have I
them, they should have as little or'the grea
rious element as possible, and j n no C ase should
the number be greater than should he sufficient
to sustain teachers of English, .Music and
French; and a large number of giils never
ought to board together. There is more specu
lation in these things than people imamne.—
Men who own p-opeity in stagnating little* vil
lages are very willing to have female colleges
and while contributing to the wants of us be
nighted females, improve the value of their pro
perty.
As for the name College we Georgians take
•uch exuberant pride in applying to female
schools, unless the things which we call colle
ges are something better than the things which
ate called by the good old fashioned name or
hoarding schools, 1 must think the maguii cenc. j
of the term only a little ludicrous. I haw known !
many of the pupils, and 1 think the standard of
ji nomrs up about on an average with that of
BarhamviUe and other schools. Few of the “col
lege” girls, however, seem imbued w ith those
literary tastes, which Dr. Marks excited in his j
puj i!s. The only difference that I can see i?,
that tire colleges are called so, are chartered,
and i believe, to some extent, endowed; the ;
classes into which the giil-, a*e divided, are call
ed Senior, Junior, &c., the teachers are called |
ttie “Faculty,” and the examinations are called
Commencements, aid they give Diplomas. A j
■ testimonial of having goi e through with the
prescribed course of studies is, doubtless, a very ;
i good tiling, especially in the case ot a young la- ;
dy who expects to teach ; and, perhaps 1 might
he inclined to attach more importance to them
had i found the ow nership of one, always indi
cative of schohirship. My chief objection to
; the college system, however, lies in the Com
mencements. Can you, Mr. Editor, give me one
single reason, good or bad, which shall justify
• the public reading of compositions hv young
| girls. To write a good English style should he
part of the education of every lady, because all
may be called upon to write tetters, but this can
he attained without this public reading, and ii it
j could not, every well wisher to the young ladies
of Georgia would say in ‘he name of common
sense, give it up. I don’t know whether it is in
tended to train our young ladies into the ora
tors of W men’s Rights Con,’entions, but the
plan seems admirably designed to effect that ob
ject. Il anything ct nel be needed to convince
parents that such exhibitions are utterly incon
sistent with all our ideas of female delicacy and
retirement, surely the epithet “female brass
foundiies,’’ applied to them by some wit or oth
er, should settle the matter. The true state
ment of the case is, that they are designed as
! an annual way of bringing the school before
! the public, getting into the papers and adverti
sing it. Surely parents can see that. This
1 evil, however, will soon work its own cure, for
1 see the editors who have been remarkably long
j suffering, are getting tired of such advertise
ments, which pay nothing and bore their read
i ers. W ere you, Mr. Editor, ever so unfortunate
! as to attend one of these Commencements? —
Were you tver so unmercifully bored? If so,
1 you will excuse me forgetting a little excited
upon the subject. Os course, it is not to be ex
! pected every young lady could wiite an article
in which pe< pie generally could he interested,
and therefore the more shame to those who com
pel tiie poo* things to “embody ami unbosom,
that which is not within them, and wreak want
f thought upon expression,’’ if 1 may be per
mitted to make a parody. These productions
remind me of w'hat l once heard said of some
j similar effusions, “that they had ail the merrit
which proceeds from want of fault, and all the
fault that proceeds from want of merit.” To
put a total end to them, it would only be neces
sary to apply the first part of Dr. Witherspoon’s
advice to young theological students, “never he
gin until you have something to say, and he sure
n stop when you have got through ;” and I don’t
know but the same rule would put an end to the !
annual addresses made at Commencements, and
l and *re say the respectable gentlemen, w hose
time and talents are called into requisition,
would he glad to be freed in future from such
demands. Not that 1 w-ould accuse them of
having nothing to say, for 1 dare say they have
many valuable ideas to offer upon many sub-
j jects, and that U the very reason they should net
; t>e expected to waste time and talents on a sub
: ject w hich lias been s> vvofully used up, that lie
who could find anything new to say on it would
: tie a genius indeed. The truth is, we Americans
have such a singular idea of enj tyment that we
i seem to imagine if we have somebody to make
| a speech for us, w e have provided the most de
j liglitiul entertainment ofw hieh mortal man could
; conceive. Query, if female education is an ex
hausted subject now', what w ill it be a hundred
i .tears hence, if this speechifying continues? In
some newspaper this summer, l saw a list of the
! proposed commencement addresses, with a note
from some editoiial pen characterising the
I whole as a rich literary treat. If that editor
was not talking for the gullible constituency of
Buncombe, which I suppose he was, the worst
I wish him is to he confined to such literary
treats tor the rest of his life. I have been quite
amusrd with the teports given by the selected
official character, of the exercises and state of
the schools; each one wishes to give the idea that
the school hd writesfor is the best of all, and as
hyperbole and inflammatory language have al
ready been exhau-ted, the contest for suprema
cy gets moie ludicrous every year. 1 expect
they will have to resort to the devices of the pa
tent medicine veiuh r- before long, in order to
be read, and I suggest for the benefit of all those
1 have heard, comp Lin of the thing, that they
be put in the same column w ith the patent me
dicines, for the convenience of skipping.
I have been quite amused with the distress
of poor Bishop Andrew, as to where the sixteen
hundred young ladies, now educating in female
colleges, (1 am not sure of the number, but only
fear understating it,l were to find husbands,
since there were only three hundred young men
educating in the various male colleges. Dear
compassionate old gentleman, I am happy in
beii g able to relieve his mind, and at the same
time pm r b.- lm into the hearts of the unhappy
young i- e ■ who must be at t'ae idea
ot beii g o erwhelmed with the company oi six
teen 1 uiidied blue stockings; but the truth is,
l doubt if a hundred of them ever read a book
through a ter leaving school, unless it he a no-
j ve). Tl i; bringing them before the public and
talking a’ out th j children of Gi o gia will, I am
a : raiti. o lv t * -id to n ake them alarmingly pe
j cocioi s If the edi or of Harper’s Magazine
were to send some comi • limner here, I am cer
! tain he would find good food for the comic pages
ot that Magazine. He would be ceitaiu to
; have some of the brass-buttoned likene s *s of
j young Shanghais at Marietta talking to thii*
| ilia’s about the wav “we military men” do One
! more remnk, and I will leave the subject. If
| public delivery of their sentiments be concluded
advisable in the education of young ladies, I
prorose we send North and get Miss Lucy Stone
to be professor of oratory, as she is more used j
T othat sort of thing, than anv other ladv I have
b id of.
I have a plan to offer, to which I wish all
ttiose ve- o have money to spare for the endow
meet of literary institutions, would devote their j
•pate do.l irs. Me often hear complaints that)
Northern teachers are so constantly employed!
in Southern schools; but the reason theie is no
supply to meet the demand for Southern teat ti
ers, is, that facilities for education at the South
not being as good as at the North, qnly those
who were too rich to resort to teaching could
become sufficiently prepared. What l \v uld
suggest (with beoming diffidence, tor perhaps
sene one may he able to give a better plan)
L, that people contribute money for the endovv
ment of a Normal school (not a “college’ 1
| hope,) for the education of Female teachers.
In every community there may he found some
indigent girls, ” ho, if they had the opportunities
would make most excellent teachers. Let every
on* who contributes a certain snm have the
! right of presentation to a situation in this school, :
the presentee however, before accepted, subject j
to a rigorous examination as to capacity ; tor j
not every woman, Mr. Editor, has the raw ma
terial out of which to make a teacher and such I
an institution being designed mainly for public
benefit and only incidentally as a elmrity. j
should exc’ude all who do not present a pros
pect by capacity and diligence, of being nselul
to the public. The intellectual training it? suc.h
an institution could be as thorough as that at ;
West Point is well known to be, and for a sim* ;
Uar icason it would be independent ot public
patronage for support. Testimonials should be
granted to those who qualify themselves for j
I teachers. After leaving school, unless they ;
i taught a certain number of years, they should j
he considered indebted to the institution lor the j
expenses of education. (For some of the three ;
hundred educated young men might take a ;
j fanev to marry some of these teachers—-certain- ;
ly none but educated men would, tor they ;
would verify Bishop Andrew’s fear of knowing |
I too much for any others ) In all their schools
i they should be bound to receive a number of
poor children grar’s. Such teachers as such an
| institution would produce, w-ould be in demand
! not on! vin Georgia, hut all over the South; and
if got up without an} f pretentious nonsense to
make it ridiculous, the school would he a legiti
mate boast of our people. The imitation ot our
plan, by people in other States, would prove the
usefulness of it, far better than vain glorious
laudations by every speech-maker, who wishes
■ to gain popularity by talking for Buncombe.—
! I did wish to say something as to what women
should he taught, but I have already been more
j lengthy than I wished,
Betsy Tkotwood.
(Times <mi> Bmiintl
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! COLUMBUS, GEORGIA. _
SATURDAY EVENING. NOV. 5, 1853.
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44 Female Ed neat ion in Georgia.”
We like to see a free, candid and reasonable expres
! ion of opinion upon every subject worthy an opinion.
! It dots one good in this age of “humbug” and finical
| sensitiveness about “pubiio favor” or disfavor. The
1 article we give from the Chronicle if Sentinel speaks
! jst to our liking.
! We ail know that there is a perfect mania in our
State on the subject of Female Education. It is one of
| our “weaknesses.” Let us not be understood as wish
! ing to detract from the very commendable desire now
so common, to improve the Female mind—we but re
| fer to the manner in which this is so popularly sought
to be attained The whole system, with some very
rare exceptions, at present goes upon stilts. A teacher
|is no longer to be called such, but, a Professor. We
have no more schools and seminaries now-a-days, they
have ail become Colleges, or at the very least. Collegi
ate Institutes. No longer does a neat unpretending
“circular,” announce that Mr. and Mrs. or Madame so
and-so, would be pleased to take a few scholars, offer
ing the associations of the family and the care of the
same with other unobtrusive and delicate expositions of
1 minutiae, for the purpose of convincing parents of the
| fitness and propriety of placing daughters under
their charge—when in order to afford tiiern an educa
i tion. circumatances compell them to be sent from home.
But now Haiming, pretentious-—green, yellow and pink
i “catalogues’’ are distributed through every public
| place, announcing a “Collegiate course,” expatiating
largely upon the “extensive accommodations”—thereby
meaning in most instances - narrow, ill-ventila and dor
mitories. each for half a dozen oceuuants, more or less
i An amnia! “commencement,” of course , when modest j
mien and gentle worth, with (we will not say what !
• sort of) must make a display
| “lo stretch the gaping eyes of idiot wonder,” and
, more we m ght truthfully add, but have already written
at great length probably, than wo ought in the presence
of one so accomplished as Aunt (?) Betsy Trot wood. j
i Whether shebesueh a strict, plain,eccentric,noble hearted !
personage as David Copperfield’s “Aunt Betsy,” or j
some thoughtful, yet cheerful, candid spirit, who loves j
to tell the truth for truth’s sake, the interest she mani- j
tests for the improvement of her sex will commend her I
views to the kind and grateful consideration of ail, !
particularly, as we are informed she is a native Geor- j
gian, and tells so pleasantly and readily w hat she thinks. )
Strawberries in spite oi Frost.
On entering our sanctum this morning, we were very
agreeably surprised to fi;?d a most elegant and luscious
collection ot strawberries. The fruit so ripe and deli
cious—the ieave3 so green, and blossoms peeping- oat
here and there, made us forget for a time that it was
November. They came of course, from the gardens of
Charles A. Paabody, who has now had for ten months
such specimens of his skill and auooeas in this cul
ture. The varieties sant us, was the “Hovt-y Seed
ling'*’ and “Early Scarlet.’’ To the skeptical, we will
state, that they were taken from their beds and sent
in with roots and vines while the dew was y>-t upon
j them.
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Superior Court of Muscogee Countv. —We are
j an horised, ind requested by Judge Iverson, to say,
th a the Superior Court of this county will be adjourned
over to the 4th Monday in this month. Jurors and
other parties interested will act accordingly. November
, 4th, 1853.
Attention is called to the several advertisements
in to days paper, of Messrs. Wynee & Edwards.—
Their lot of Boots and Shoes is large and goiten up in I
eh g.int style ; and they can not fail to suit any person |
wh i may favor them with a call,
EvC'lUctor Bronson has been nominated for the
United States Senate, to succeed Mr. Seward, whose
term expires in 1855, by the Democratic Convention of
Orange coanty, New York,
JjT The Whigs have made themselves so ridiculous
about the Democratic vote in this County and District,
th:it while we feel a contempt for their charges, we are
disposed to touch them now and then for their reck- j
1 ss presumption. The Federal Union thus applies its
caustic stick.
A poor compliment for the Whigs. —A correspon
dent of the Republican who subscribes himself Observer
insinuates that the Demo rats of.Muscocree counts bought
many Whiff votis with the money of broken banks.
I \\ hig principles must hang very loose upon men, vv. en
tlu v call be bought so dog cheap as O -stiver insinuates
He says some of the Conservatives proposed to make
jup a purse to buy votes, but the plan was abandoned. e
suppose they found out that Democrate were not in the
j market.
The Superior Court for Fairfield county, Connecticut,
lart week granted a divorce to a Mrs. Baldwin, now
seventeen years of age—-only fifteen when she married .
The ground of her petition was intolerable cruelty.
[FOR THE TIMES AND SENTINEL.]
Greenville, Ala., {
October 28th, 1853. )
i In company with the President and several of the
| Directors of the Girard Railroad, I have attended meet-
ings on the line of the road in Pike, Lowinks and But
ler counties. These meetings have been generally well
attended and characterized by the most gratifying evi
dences of zeal and interest in the success of this great en
terprise. At Farriorsville, Pike 00., the friends of the
Road gave a tine barbecue, at which severai hundred per
sons were present, including a fair proportion of the ladies
: of ihe surrounding country. This was the first ot the se
| ries of appointments, the President and Directors are
| now filling, and was an earnest of the deep interest felt
I in the completion of the Girard Road along tne entire
| line. Many of the most prominent citizens of the coun*
Ity were present and participated in the proceedings,
! and not only by their presence encouraged the work,
j but gave the most substantial proof of their confidence
j in it as a profitable investment by subscribing liberally
; for the stock. At a meeting held in Lowndes every
j man present who was not already a stock holder, except j
; two subscribed for stock —one of these will subscribe !
! and that liberally ; the other is only prevented by bad I
| luck, as he termed it. The meeting at this place to-day j
i was small in consequence of the inclemency of the ■
i weather, but what was lacking in numbers was made up j
jin zeal on the part of those who were present. Several j
i of these appointments were upon the line of Mor.tgome- !
j ry county, and were attended by citizens of that county j
j manifested equal interest with the rest in the early !
completion of the road.
! In f'set. Messrs. Editors, the people are fully alive to j
the importance of this great work, and sea clearly its
: bearing upon the interests and prosperity of their res
i peetive counties. They manifest the most perfect read
i iness to aid, as far as they are able, its completion, and j
j are folly sensible of the many advantages they will en
j j y when the waters of the Gulf and Atlantic shall be j
: united by means of the Girard Railroad. To an out
■ eider the prospect seems good for the entire Road to be
| put under contract in a short time—“a consummation
; most devoutly wished for.”
CHL'NNTNUGOEtt.
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(From the Charleston Mercury.]
Mr. Gtithrie and his Enemies.
Those unacquainted with the past history of
the Hon, James Guthrie, Secretary of the Trea
sury, as most of our readers are ; seeing the low
\ and vulgar abuse of him, in the New York Her
ald, and other kindred papers; must necessarily
| feel some curiosity to know something of his
antecedents, and the cause of this onslaught up
! on him.
Mr. Guthrie, is a stalwart Kentuckian, with
a remarkable striking appearance. His man
ners are plain and unostentatious. The expres
sion of his countenance, at fiist sight, is rather
firbidding, which soon disappears, upon ae
quaiutauee, however, and gives place to confi
j deuce.
His high qualities of head and heart, placed
: him in the lead of his profession, in his native j
•State, and his probity of character, secured the j
i confidence ot his people to such a degree, that ,
I was always elected to the political positions j
! sought, although a firm and unflinching
| States Rights Democrat, and living in a Whiir i
j district. * j
His whole history, his pure morals, and his •
| strict integrity, indicated him as a proper man
to administer the Treasury Department; and so j
I h’-r as he has gone, he has iully come up to the ■
; highest expectations of the public.
it was not to be expected, that the man who
undertook to correct the misrule of the Trea
sury Department, under the late Whig Admin
istration, and biingit back to its legiiima;e ac
tion; enforcing strictly the accountability of
those .connected with it; and diiving off those
who like yampyres, were sucking from it; would
escape without denunciation.
Mr. Guthrie’s first act ol reform was to turn 1
the forfeitures of twenty per cent uoou under
valued goods from the purses of the Collectors, I
hue the vaults at the treasury, where it pro- •
peiiv belonged, thus correcting an abuse which I
hau grown into practice, and saving hundreds :
ot thousands oi dollars to th© 1 ‘roasury#
i The practice of giving the forfeitures to the
| Collectors, which wa3 clearly not contemplated
I by the law, gave the Collectors of New York
ana fean F rane’lsco, and other ports where the
importations were large, better salaries than the
• President ot tne United .States receives,
j Iti this connection, the manner in which the
i Collectors all over the country discharge their
j j* uties > came under his scrutinizing eve. and
; loose screws were tightened, and man Jr abuses
were corrected.
liie contracts tor public buildings pertaining
| to ie Treasury Department, were looked into
lernodeled, and put in proper trim, and the re
| sponsibility of the contractors most carefully
examined. - y
lu order to systematise this branch of public
business, he made a requisition upon the Secre
ar’ °. . ar bra Civil Engineer, whose actual
I ® u l^ rvia,on will prevent any misapplication of
; tuiida, or improper discharge of duty on the part
o contractors. Many sinecures were abolish
eJ, and this branch o business put upon a safe
and economical footing,
Mr next measure was the with
iaua. of the tunds ol the Government from
the posstsiion of Bankers and Brokers where
hey na been lying as a standing deposit, re- !
suiting m vast pecuniary profits to the holders. !
Ihe agency of Bankers and Brokers had been
used to redeem the stocks of Goverment, which
had fallen due, and also for the purpose of buy
ing up those not due, which the condition of the
Treasury justified.
Mr. Simeon Draper was one ot these agents,
and by the timely settlement, and the withdraw
; al of the deposits from him, much has been sav
> ed for the country.
Under Mr. Guthrie’s administration, die per
i nicious practice of allowing salaieid officers of
the Government to draw their salaries, and ex
tracompensation for duty perfolined by them,
has been discontinued.
By this practice, which had grown to he a
universal one, large sums of public money were
paid to officers ot the army, acting in a civil
capacity in California, and much more was
paid to civil officers engaged in running over the
country upon errands altogether unnecessary to
the public business.
I have grouped together a few of the reforms
introduced into the administration of the I'rea
| sury Department by the Secretary of’ the Trea*
I sury, for the information of your readers, anil
j for the purpose of pointing public attention to
: the latent cases which have given rise to the
furious assaults that have been hurled upon the
Secretary by the disappointed plunderers ol the
I public treasury.
It was not to be expected that the thwart
!ed would leave the rescued game, without
| making a desperate attempt to regain it.—
i Finding this impossible, they, like a drove of
I hungry wolves, when the wounded deer is
I almost within their clutches, is snatched from
I them by some skillful hunter, set up a howl
jof disappointment, and sullenly leave the
ground.
This course of policy is the head and front of
the Secretary’s offending, and is the real cause
of the denunciations which have been heaped
upon him, and for which his letter to Bronson
; has been made the pretext. It appears to be
j conceded, or rather taken for granted, that the
Administration has interfered in the New York
quarrels, and Mr Guthrie’s letter to Bronson is
seized upon as a prooi ot the fact.T his is in no
respect true. The Administration seeing the
difficulty between the two wings of the party
in New York—was inevitable, determined that
the policy of the President in regard to appoint
ments to office, should not be affecied by it,
and hence the letter of the Secretary was writ
ten to Mr. Bronson. Any one who will take
the trouble to read carefully Mr. Guthrie’s letter
to the Collector of New York will see that, so
far from it being proscriptive, it actually pro
scribed proscription. It simply admonished the
Collector that lie was not to appoint men from
his own wing of the party exclusively, but from
the other also; in other words, the Secretary
informed Mr. Bronson that the division was not
regarded by the Administration at all as disquali
tying either wing, and that it must be so con
sidered by him.
But Mr. Bronson had his own ends in view,
; at 4to carry them through he misconceived and
misrepresented the Secretary’s letter, ; n 1 made
i it the pretext of doing directly what he had been
i doing indirectly— that is, opposing the Admin
| istration.
! It is well known that Mr. Bronson, and those
I who were acting with him,\vereopen!ysuport
: ing Brady and Cooiev, who had declared war
upon the President and the policy of his admin
; istration, long before the letter o! the Secretary
was written In the vain hope of extricating
themselves, from their inconsistencies, they tiied
to separate the President from his Cabinet, and
; put all kinds of reports before the country,
through their mouth piece, the New York Her
ald, of dissensions in the Cabinet, and the tie
| cessity of its dissolution. It evidently was their
intention to come to an open rapture with the
Administration, and every subterfuge was re-
I sorted to to lead off* public attention from their
| inconsistencies, and from the true cause of their
discontent, and hence the hue and cry they rai
ed against the Secretary of the Treasury, whost?’ t
mortal offence was the reforms he had brought 1
about in his Department, and not his letter to
Bronson.
I have often heard our own Great Statesman
say that the man who undertook to reform the
abuses of this Government, would have the en
tire pack of disappointed place-seeker3 and
plunderers of the Treasury at his heels, and that
he was afraid that there was not virtue enough
in the country to save him from destruction. It
remains to be seen whether this Administration,
| which I believe has honestly set out with this in
! tention, will be sustained by the people,
j In my last communication I classed the See-
I refcary o? State, Mr. Marey, with other Northern
i politicians, ns having been opposed to the ex
; tension ot slavery in the territories; this, I learn
; from a iriend, is not the ease, and that his record
is clean from this blot, and I therefore note the
fact and make the correction.
PALMETTO.
Luxurious Kissing Described. —Almost any
writer, says the Y ankee Blade, can describe
emotions of joy, anger, fear, doubt or hope ; hut
‘■ there are very few who can give anything iike
| an adequate description of the exquisite, heaven
i l v and thrilling joy of warm, affectionate kissing.
We copy below three of the best attempts that
we have ever seen. The first is by a young
lady during her first year of courtship :
“Let thy arm twine
Around me like a zone of love,
And thy fond tip, so soft,
To mine be passionately pressed,
Ah it has been so soft.”
The next is by a lady after her engagement.
It will readily be seen that her powers of des
cription are far in advance of the one’s quoted
above:
“Sweetest love.
rlaee tny dear arm beneath my drooping head,
Ana let me lowly nest'e on thy hea;t;
a* 6,5 urn -h° ?e 3C, ul-lit orbs on me and press
My parting lips to ta-t the eestaev
imparted by eaeh long and lingening kiss.”
But the best thing we have seen is the follow
by Alexander Smith. We think, however,
than when a man so freely indulges in oscula
tory nectar as to imagine he is “walking on
thrones,” be should he choked off. Hear him:
“My eoul leaped up beneath thy timid kiss,
What then to me were g oans.
Or pain or death 1 Earth was a round of bliss,
l seamed to walk on thrones.”
The lion. Robert M. 5k Lane, U. Commission
‘rto v hica, is i. Washington, a tendi,’ gat the State De
partment, where he receiving his instructions conoec
ted with the duties of his mission.