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CHKO.NKILK \NI) SENTINEL.
A I <. VST A*
Tl F.SDAV MORNING, .11 i.Y 0.
FOR GOVERNOR,
cIIAn L E s I> () U<;II E lITV,
OF CLAHK COUNTY.
School Kccj ing.
We publish in our paper to*Jay n lengthy arti
cle from the Charleston ( .’mirier, on the subject
which stands at the liea lof these remarks. The
complaint of the writer is just—his denunciations
of modern school keeping although extremely
c nnstic, are nevertheless, generally founded in
truth. Many, very many of the High Schools
of the present tiny, especially Female Schools
are the verriest humbugs on earth. They are
empty show and parade to but litlte good pur
pose, and it takes the interest on a handsome for
tune to pay the tuition of a young lady, besides
board and clothing. Hut the cost would he a
small consideration if the improvement of pupils
was in a correspondent ratio, which we regret to
be believe is not true of one ease in a hundred.
When a parent or guardian pays two or three
hundred dollars per annum for the tuition of his
daughter or ward, he has a right to expect that
she will he instructed in the use
ful branches of education, and is disappointed in
finding her at the end of the year, with only a
smattering of half a dozen or a dozen branches,
wit hout any sui i o I knowledge of either,
W e publish the following to show that Mr. Van
Huron lias been supported at the North, on the
ground of his being favorable to Abolition and
he Tariff, while at the South, he is lauded as
the chosen champion-opponent of both. How
comes tins I Jt i.-, produced by the power of par
ty machinery—“ the cohesive principle of the
public plunder 1” The article below is from the
Nashville Banner, containing extracts from the
New He,(lord (Mass.) Gazette, formerly edited
by the present Editor of the Nashville Union, the
leading journal of the Vanitesin Tennessee.
The Abolitionist—llroken Doses.
Gentlemen from various parts of the State, hap
pening to he in Nashville, have called at our ollice
to sec with their own eyes the New Ucd'ord Ga
zettes, (with the name of the present editor of the
Union at its mast head,) Irom which we have
quoted the rabid abolitionism that we have held
up us a “Looking Glass” to Col. Folk and his
Van Huron co-operators in Tennessee, in order
that they may see truly what they have done and
arc still doing. We are glad to find the honest
and high-minded Tennesseans taking a lively in
to esl in this matter. It concerns them. Any
gentleman from the country coming to Nashville,
is re pectfully invited to cull at the Haulier Office
ami examine the documen/s for himself. Gen
tlemen frotn Lincoln, Rutherford, Maury, Wil
liamson, Wilson, White, Jackson and Smith
have already called. They pronounce it a clear
case. So do Van Huron men of this city, and
yet the party are sustaining him !
The dose we adduce 10-duy is a small hut strong
one. Here it is. It consists ol an array of Mr,
\ an Huron’s votes hi opposition to slavery, which
the editor transferred to his columns evidently to
benefit Mr. Van Huron:
From the Neiv Bedford Gazette, Nov. 2,
[Hv .1 tat km t *it G. Hauhih.]
“In 1821, Mr. Van Huron voted that Congress
had the Constitutional power to abolish slavery
in the Territories, and instructed the New York
Senators in Congress to vole against the admis
sion of Missouri.
“in 18315, he says that congress has the consti
tutional power to uhohs i slavery in the District of
Coluidha.
“In 1821, he voted to give free blacks the right
of suffrage.
“In 1822, he voted in favor ol restricting the
introduction of slaves into Florida.”
VAV mil IMS M AM) THE TATI IFF.
A (’steul.iv wo quoted ihe I-non editor's ulonun
eiulions of Judge While in I*3o, on the ground
Cut it elected, lie wi u d • o ;d avor to protect the
south Irom the corrupting and destructive inllu
eueo of Northern abolitionists.” Hut this w*s •
not the only ground of objection then jjwgtai hv
the present editor of the I nion to Jyrdge While’s
ejection. He opposed. W.vri also on the express
j^rojmdjbi^Av;.,.Vu Ige V\ lute, was inimical to the
manuf during interests nf the North.' Here
ia the proof:
“Ol course, then, as Missouri and Mississippi
must go for While, if not for Vim Hurcn. White
is the man to he elected, if by keeping up Mr.
\\ ebster in Ibis Stale, an election by the people
ran he defeated. The sole issue therefore is Van
Hi u i:n or Vs a Tr, and this s' oas the important e
of giving the vote ol Massachusetts to V.-.n H.nen,
for it must go to him or to White. The article
in the VV ashinglon Globe shows that the question,
whether Mr. Van Hnren shall lie elected hv the
people, or White in the House, may depend en
tirely on tin' vote ol Massachusetts, How impor
tant, then, is union and strength here, in the de
mocracy—how essential it is to New England
interests, tha Impossibility of White’s election
should be deieated. V\ bat sav our nianulacUt
rers, with their hundred millions of investment
in the “industiy of lived..ml” Will they follow
the lead o the Atlas, and for sn-rr. s icnflcc their
interests. givmg tit ar votes nominal V lor VVeb-
Sier, but really for Whit,-, who will cut them up,
before bis administration should be a year old!
Think a li lie on it. —LI stun Advocate.
’’C j’Tills is all very true. An 1 Mr. Webster
knowing it to h ■ so. has entreated his friends to
relieve him from their dealh-like hug. He knows
that every vole for h : oi is a vat- for White ; and
he is u it willing to he the instrument for sup
planting the interests of New England and the
North. —New tSei f rd G .zr/tv
Here it will lie seen that the present editor of
, the I nion vehemently opposed Judge VV bite oti
the ground that it elected, he “would cut” up the
ib mulacturln ' interests of the north “before his
administration would be a year old.” and that
the interests 1 New En rhind and the north would
be thereby ' suppht ile /.'” Mr. Van Buiikv,
he argued, was the man to protect the manufac
turers of the north. So much for Col. Folk’s or
gan. Hut the Col itiel himself is traversing the
state vociferating I arid. Tariff and earnestly
protes ing th it Mr. \ an Huron’s re-election is in
dispensably necessary to keep down the Tariff.
W hich is to he believed I
From the .V r Y rk F.xprcst nf th- Ist.
of the News by (he Liverpool.
Private letters by the Liverpool, arc of rather a
conflicting character. On a survey, however,
of the whole ground, the general complexion of
the news is deemed fivorable. It is admitted
that the great reservoir of 5| H .,.i,., the Hank of
Eng and. seems 1 1 bs drained of its bullion ai d
that the quantity on bond is less th.m „t any
oth-sr per , aim; time. The iiib-est abo
' ' ” frireum*
Hti’i n ).v . in it turnover that pul i favor
able face on the ommercSa' affair. 0 he coon
of ad, the appe.ran-e of the com^
<rnp is good, and broad stuffs had declined in 1
prin). Wheat Is the most important article in
llio whole ronditinn of British afi'.nrs—and al
ready tlm importations of grain had already di
minished, so that (lie alarm on ibis brad was at
bn end. The ronsr i|ucnec was, that the Con
tinental Exchanges weir turning in favor of
England, and it was believed llie next statement
o( the Hank of England, would be decidedly fa
vorable. '1 here has lie n a constant drain of
specie from the British Capital to counteract.—
Iho bank bus contracted its a Hairs that (mint
which has produced a change in its favor, con
trary to the prevailing impression in this country.
Our great Staple, Colton, has advanced, and
this in the tare of a tight money market—a con
spiracy to pul down prices, and unusually large
receipts, i lie tact it now disclosed, that the ac
counts taken out by the Liverpool, finally con
vinced the manufacturers, that there was really a
gieal tall oil in the crop. This with large orders j
for goods, and a revival in trade at Manchester, j
I had the effect to establish prices ut an advance j
1 and to induce many of the holders to withdraw ;
j their stocks. The receipts of Colton at Liver
pool just previous to the sailing of the steamer,
j v ere very large,—but it si ems to have made no
tinlnvorahle impression; on the contrary, it was
] believed that the bulk of the Cotton from this
country had readied England.
Tuesday, P. M.
The adv an(*c in stocks yesterday was not sus
tained to-duy. They tell oil* neatly as much us |
they went up. 'This, however, is a quiet day.
Added to the general dull limes, the reception of
the President has drawn olla considerable portion
of the business men. Wail street and the Ex
change was but thinly attended. A better feeling
pervades the cotton market and prices have ad
vanced full .] cents, attended w ith a much greater
confidence.
The Now York papers received here last even
ing are filled with accounts of the reception of
President Van Buren in that city on the 2nd inst.
It seems to have been a very cordial one on the
part o| his friends, who made it a political affair.
Celebration of the Fourth of July In
Greensboro.
The Committee of Arrangements, about ten
days previous to the 4 th, addressed letters of invi
tation to Capt. Could, of the “Augusta Artillery
Guards,” and to ( .’apt. Htarnes, commanding the
“Clinch Riflemen,” inviting each to be present j
| with their respective corps, to join the citizens of t
old Greene in the ceremonies of the day. Copt, t
Starnes’ company was unavoidably detained in s
Augusta, on account of previous arrangements. (
Capt. Gould, together with between forty and i
fifty of his company, handsomely uniformed, with H
a line hand of music, came up in the train of cars 1
on the evening of the Bd, and arrived at our vil- |
lago a little heforc dark, and were met at the depot I
hy the Committee of Invitation, who assigned r
them comfortable quarters during their stay in *
the village. J.
At day-hreak, oh the morning of the 4lh, a a
federal salute was fired hy the Augusta Artillery
Guards, ll
At 11 o’clock, A. M., a procession was formed h
in I run I of the Court House, and marched in the
following order to the Union Church, preceded by
Hie Marshal of the day, Col. Win, Porter. ~|
1. The Military, d
2. Clergy, Orator and Reader of the Declaration. ')
8. The Committees,
4. Town Authorities. ~
5. Citizens. n
I pint arriving at the church, the services com- "
menccd hy an address to the throne of grace, hv 4 .
Rev. 8 K. lal madgc. The Declaration was then s
read hy George G. Mathews, Esq,, preceded I y ll
a few very handsome and appropriate remarks; '
alter which an Oration was delivered hv Janus t
I’. Johnson, Esq., which was received with the I 1
most rapturous applause. It was replete with 11
“ thoughts that breathed and words that burned.’’ "
During its delivery, the speaker was repeatedly
and loudly applauded. U
After the oration, the company jnwtheil to the l '
Academy, where a luM.i'Vtial salute was fired.
_At ‘A wvVock, P. M., the company, together t ,
with about one thousand citizens, partook of an I
excellent barbecue, at free cost. There was no- lj
thing drank at the dinner but pure spring water. ■
Major Phninas Stokes acted as President, and [
Col. V. P. Young as Vice President. There v
was nothing occurred to mar the festivities of the v
occasion.
The following toasts were prepared for the oc- t
casino. I
1. The day we celebrate. 1
2. Our country —Idolised by its inhabitants, ,
envied, yet respected by the balance of the world, f
J. The (iiiiernor of Georgia—'Though feeble '
I *’> health, pure in principle, virtuous in conduct, (
i a patriot at heart—he is entitled to the confidence i
of his country. i
4. The American Revolution—A lesson to the '
oppressor, an example to the oppressed . j
5. The memory of Thomas Jefferson—“ lie i
was the pilot who weathered the storm,” (lie dar | 1
ling of philu.ophy, the purifier of the imperi'ci- 11
lions ot tlie English law, and the champion of I ,
our civil righto.
6. The President of the United Mates.
I 7. Ihe memory ol George Washington— In i
j time of need his country’s shield, and although
I he now sleeps with the mighty dead, he still lives
i in the hearts of his country men.
8 The right ot sufiV.igc, pure and ualrainmel
; ed—the center pillar of the temple of our lilterlv.
9. The North and the South —Mi vt ie chain
1 J
I of interest and affection that hinds m to-etl er.
! though lengthened by distance, never be broken.
10. The Constitution of the Uni cd States—ls
; rightly interpreted, leaves with the Federal Gov
j eminent the powers which arc expressly gran e I
' to it, and iw mare, ami claims fort! r Slates cn i
the people of the States the renia nder.
IE \ union of all heads to promote the eoun
i tiy’s welfare—a union of all hearts to welcome
j the Augusta .Artillery Guards.
[By Captain Gould, of the Guards. “Old]
Greene”—The seat of hoi pitahty. the stranger's
■ home.]
j 12, Public Schools—flic best gcaranlies of
I the elevation of sentiment an I general happiness
Id. The Fair—“ The only endearing aristo
cracy who elect witljout votes, rule without ]- :w
j decide with ut ippeal a..d arc ne , j„ ,
wrong.
\ federal salute at sunset ended ihc public.
m«num*of ihu day.
From the Charleston Courier.
School Keeping,
Times are changed since I was a bey. For*
rncrly children were sent to school to study their
lessons; —now they are sent there to toy (hem.
Formerly parents paid ihe teachers tor leaching
their children} —now they pay the tea* hers .for
the retelling which they themselves give them.
,| Formerly children were sent to school to learn
I there; now they are sent to school to repeat w hat
1 their parents have taught them at homo. For
j merly children were sent to school all day, after
noon as well as morning for the instructors to
tench; now the parents teach them in the after
noon ami they go to school next morning to con
over to the teacher their home lessons. It they
say them will the teacher pats the little urchin
on the hood and says, ‘ Mice!” “Nice!” “Good
hoy.” “Fine little fellow!” If they say them ill,
the parent i* soon informed that h s son “is a dull
hoy”—that he “requires practical advici—home
discipline,” and that he, (the instructor,) “linds it
| a hard matter to beat any kind of learning into
i him.” Beat learning! if the child ever gels any
j learning Troin hint, it will he soon cnonirh
| healing, and a mauled face w ill be the only evi
dence til his progress.
The present is said to he a wise generation a
generation wiser than their forefathers, and the
age, in which we wise people live, is said to he
the agent the march ofintellect. Ifwc are wise
(hanks he praised for it ! and we got our wisdom
such as it is, at school from teachers who were so
called, because it was their business to teach, and
because they actually taught children, and not
from such teachers as we have now-a-days, who
are called teachers because it is their business to
hear, and because they actually hour children
their lessons, and because they are paid roundly
for this hearing into the bargain. Inconceivable,
the benefit of a good pair of ears to a wooden in
st umenl!—hetterthan learning,science,patience,
assiduity, early hours, and decent charges—i. u.
fair consideration for something done and not for
something omitted to he done—the old fashioned
qualifications and accomplishments of our old lime
teacher. Have we gained any thing by the
change, either in the amount of information
which our children have acquired, or in the in
creased perspicuity and sense of our vernacular
the English longue 1 What is the difference T
Formerly a teacher meant, u man who leaches
now it means, a man who hears lessons. What
have we gained ! A new definition only, which
is at least an odd kind offish—something between
fish and fowl, in which it is impossible to say
whether the wings or the fins predominate but
at any rate a shocking perversion of pure old
English. Who has gained by the change 1 The
t"acher lias gained less labor—the utium without
the d gnitu/e and without the cura, and, at the
same time, belter fees, and the parents have gain
ed an increase of responsibility—less opportunity
to attend to their own concerns; hut, to balance
this gain, they have lost money. On which side
sands the profit, and on which the loss 1 If the
teachers are as good at calculating as they are at
charging and they ought to know' theirarithme
tic—lthey can surely solve this problem. While
they are about it, let us turn our attention to Goti
rr"! ‘tdellcct. who is advancing with forced mar
r.oes iron* Dan to llcershecha. as if war was up
permost in his mind—as if he intended to carry
every thing before him with a strong hand. An
army ol school teachers follows close upon his
footsteps—a formidable array of light armed gen
try, who, for tho broad sword, wield the penknife
—for the spear, the gray goose-quill—and for the
rattle-axe, the strap. On their banner, waving to
die breeze, is inscribed, in capital letters, those
words of Lord Biiimoiiam, “THE SCHOOL
WASTER is ABROAD,” which have recently
deyalcd, in the opinion of teachers, their modest
Inlies to the dignity and correspondent emolu
ments of a profession—so that we now have-Pro
fessors of Teaching, as well as Professors of Ag
riculture and Professors of Dancing, and every
other kind of Professors suited to tins age of the
march of inti licet. What did Lord Brougham
mean by tlmtexpresasion, of which the school
masters have taken so much advantage— that the
schi.ulnrrsti ris abroad P Did he mean, that the
schoolmaster was bona fide out of school of an af
ternoon! If he did, he stated a fact, of which lie
might have proof enough—perhaps in England—
an 1 . crlainly enough, and too much, in this coun
try, But if he meant this, did he intend to ap
prove ol the practice ?—of school-teachers, being
hall the day out their schools, while their ptioife—"
were receiving that instruction at hortfiT'vvliich
they ought to got at sc W' t> . l r, or w a tide ring about
-the Lord where ! Lord Brougham is
wti wise a man to give currency to such a cus
tom by his public approval—loo' wise by fur, to
furnish such a carle blanche to in lolencc and the
love of rambling. Lord Brougham knows, as
every body else does who knows any thing, that
the proper place fertile schoolmaster is his school
house. that instead of being “abroad,” pursuing
his pleasures, he ought to he within doot* attend
ing to his duties—that the afternoon makes a
patl of the day ns well ns the morning—and that
whoever lives in a Christian land, ought “to work
while it is called to-day,” i. e. the whole day, af
ternoon as well as morning, “because the night,
cometh in which no man ran work,” and because
no schoolmaster who does work as much and as.
long as Christianity enjoins and commands him
to work, i. e. as hard us he can, —as mechanics,
do—and the best part of the day—as ploughmen
do—ought to ho paid for working, and, least of
all, be paid exorbitant fees fordoing next to noth
ing. But if Lord Brougham did not mean that
the schoolmaster ought to lie out of school halfllu-.
day, or the whole of it—what did he mean! Eve
ry body knows what lie meant—the school teach
ers themselves, if they would but confess it—that
he intended merely to say, that that intelligence
which was the natural result of the old time leach
ing—when teachers taught their pupils, and did
not merely hear the lessons which their parents
taught them—when children went to school ail
day and studied hard when there, improving their
precious lime, that this intelligence, the result of
such excolU nt discipline, was getting “abroad”
in the world, lifting up its head, and shedding its
light, far and wide, into every dark corner; in oth
er words, that we. including himself in the num
ber, as he ought to do, are a wise generation—
wiser than those who went before us, and wiser
than those will he who are to come after ns a
very wise people indeed. Ifthis lie so, and that
it is, who can doubt it! intellect had hette, stop its
march a shoit time, and consider, whether it has
not gone far enough for one ago—whether the
'spirit ol tel.inn. which is so popular and has so
many votaries, has not introduced some practices
which are innovations instead of improvements
piirlicuh rly in the de|uirtiiieiit of education; w he
ther con in hi sense does not stand aghast in view
of some ot these changes, and whether it is not
I better logo hack to the good old practices which
prevaihd when Lord Brougham wasahoy.though
it may c ist the teachers a little more labor and the
parents a little less both ol la 1 or and cash to do so,
j than to let t alone.
lam not captious—l hope not. 1 have held
my tongue on this subject us long as I could, and
j that long time has been lor the last ten years—
ever since 1 have had children to send to school,
hut I can hold my tongue no longer, 1 am quite
tired of this tongue holding—a paltry practice
which makes a tool ot a man. I had rather hold
a clear conscience by telling the truth. I had
rather hold w hat little of property is still left me
fom the grasp of the (cachets. 1 must speak,
and i cannot speak and hold my longue too at
the sometime, a natural imp sahib;,. What
dil J ci' - u a tnn>ie t.-r file is not o use
n! I) ini,di well sit in the mmin x<• rner
and sic a Ins lingers, as s.t til a c and ho d his
tongue—the deme —unless ns nas burnt it. Us
ing tin tongue is not pintinc with it—not ha k
biting—not lying with that “little member,” hut
it is employing U in the cause of truth ami edu
cation, nut saying with it whatever it p oper and
ft ! o ho said, when the fit time of saying it lias
a rived. And that time has arrived now to me.
and i mean to improve it hy saying what I think
i ri >lit. The other day, Messrs. Editors, and
this is not telling a talc oIU of school, for “the
schoolmaster is abroad” and the “school is out” j
—in other words, every thing is fair and above I
hoard in tiic proceeding—no concealment is af
fected; and if there were, no concealment is ad
missible in such cases—the other day, Messrs.
Editors, my little hoy came home with the “judg
ment hook,” in his hand—(excellent things, hy
: the way, those “judgment books” are, I speak in
I all honesty) containing the following note: “The
inslructer hopes, that Master will prepare
hi- lessons at home much better than hitherto.”
Then! “hands off” of my tongue, Isay.—
“Hands oil' 1 of my pen, ink, paper and writing
desk, bring me a chair and give me elbow
room. The press is free, and i must speak, write
and print something on this subject. I declare
j to you, Messrs. Editors, with the frankness with
1 which a man should speak the truth always, and
: with lie solemnity with which I would give my
! tc.-liim ny in Court, if I were called upon to utter
j the trulii, the whole truth and nothing hut Urn
I truth. I say I declare, that the lessons, which
my little hoy has “prepared at home,” have been
reasonably well “prepared,” and that if he has
recited them to his teacher at school as well as
his father has prepared him to recite them at
home, that I shall lie satisfied with his progress,
whether his teacher is or no. I aver moreover,
that I have taught him faithfully all the lessons
lie has learned since he has been to school, Read
ing, Geography, History, Latin and all,and I am
not aware of his having learned any thing of mo
ment at school—any thing worth paying a six
pence for—that I have not first drilled and per
fected him in at home. This has been my uni
form practice for the last ten ycais, since I have
sent hoys to Charleston schools, and I have sent
them to several in oidci t> ascertain if there was
any diflbreixe 1 elwcon them in this particular.
I have found none. I have indeed heard of five
schools in Charleston where children are buna
fide taught hy their teachers—perhaps there are
such —I hope there are, hut I apeak now from my
own severe experience, and from pretty fair ob
servation, and I believe rny experience coincides
with that of the gical majority of parents in this
communily. The parents have the great labor
to perform in the instruction of their children,
while the teachers are paid, and paid at high
rales, for merely hearing their lessons, or doing
little more than hearing them. I have heard of
a professional gentleman, whose engagements arc
numerous, and who has no time to turn teacher,
who has actually been obliged to hire a tutor in
his family, to teach his children their lessons
which they are to recite next day in school.—
i lie evil is a great, a crying and an increasing
one, and n ust he reformed. The evil is a re
form which must he itself reformed. Intellect
must take up the line of march, and travel hack,
J with all its forces, to the “good old pialhs” in
I which our forefathers waked, when we were little
buys. Do. Intellect ! Do, General! Do if you
have any compassion upon the parents of the pre
sent generation. Be quick, too. dear General.—
Do not linger and look hack, like Lot’s wife, for
do as yon will, you cannot remain in your pre
sent quarters, and the time flies. I thank God
dial I have hud some leisure for the instruction
of my children at home. If I Lad not had. I veri
ly bed.eve, notwithstanding school teaching and
the march of intellect, that they would have
grown up barbarians—a kind of wild rolls—
worse than the aborigines. How those children
succeed, whose parents have no time to teach
them at home—the sons of merchants, doctors
and lawyers, I know not; end Ido not care to
lift, the veil for tlie sake of any thing promising
that I: hall sec beyond it. There may lie ruri
nant f, in gtirgde vaslo among them, for aught I
know—regular geniuses who scorn hooks—de
spise education, and depend upon the native
force of intellect for making impressions. There
are some suclt characters in the world—self-edu
cated giants of learning—great brags for nature
—persons who would make capital recruits for In
tellect who is marching about the country
tlemcn to whom the “srhooh¥,“rsteVia always
abroad," since they school, or. ifthey
do, learn noljuiut >v |„ n there, because they are
-- -SfetfFe learning, and spurn it as they would a toad
or yelping cur. I speak now only for myself and
for some others, and those not a few, when I say.
that we. parents, are h"arlily tired of teaching
and paying the teachers, for the teaching we
leach into the bargain. We areprovoked. when,
after having labored hard with our children the
best part of the afternoon, learning them their
school tasks—if we chance to got out a little ear
lier than usual—to see the “schoolmaster
abroad,” indulging his elegant propensities, pur
suing his expensive pleasures, riding in the most
splendid gig in the city, or on a steed fit for Gen
eral Intellect himrclf, most showily caparisoned
and equipped, and riding usually, like his great
commander, at a more rapid rale than other mor
tals. and when we reflect, that we, the parents,
are paying for all this ostentatious parade, ami
are, at the same time, doing the duly which we
arc paying “the schoolmaster” for doing— we.
who are obliged to go afoot, because the exorhi
tmt tuition we pay lo leacheis, deprives ns of the
means of hiring a gig, or owning a horse, for our
recreation.
My wife, to whom I read the foregoing, lifted
her hands and exclaimed, “If you publish that
my dear! it will offend the teachers.” I replied,
“My dear! the paiei ts are the complaining party
in this instance. It is not what the parents have
done wickedly to the teachers—for they have done
nothing—patient, ah s, too patient souls!—to them
hut to relieve them of their own proper labors,
hut it is what the tencheis have omitted to do to
and for the parents, i. e. omitted to teach their
children, which is the cause and the just cause of
complaint between us and the teachers.”
To which my better half replied, “My deal! you
know best.”
And to which I replied, in my turn, “My dear
I do.”
I am perhaps too wordly. Messrs. Editors;
Gut whatever touches a man’s purse novv-a-davs,
is pretty sure lo touih his conscience—not that a
man's purse and his conscience are the same tiling,
which it is downright heresy to affirm because
they are different things in reruni nutura, hut
only that a man in these times, when beef and
butler and poultry are high—very high—docs not
feel that he has much ol a conscience to pay for
nothing. He stands on his p’s and q’s, which
means his p nls and quarts, and demands his
7 lt d tor his 7110, like the men who buys the wine
by the small. If lam worldly, however, I have
the satisfaction to reflect, that the teachers are so
loo—very grasping—solhnt I may bury my own
reproach in the gone: ul calamity. ’ No one doubts
that school keeping is a profitable business at the
present rates—mo.e profitable than law, for the
parent makes hut one client tor the lawyer, while
his children makes ten or a dozen for the peda
gogue, and as good pay too; —more profitable
than the ministry, for the clergy, what with their
large families, high school hills, dear markets, and
an occasional parly or two for neighborhood's
sake, can scarcely make the two ends of the year
meet, and keep up an appearance—a decent one
to say nothing of a carriage or even a gig to
r de to church in.
I know some yr-ung gentlemen just made limbe
■I 1 e law, woo had wit enough not to wait for
lawyer -s tees, which w. u!d be ten y« ars a-teming.
m woo went dim t*\ to scl 00l lopping—ns the
most profitable trade o the two, and gathered a
■ ich harvest the very first season. Tbev tell me
they have thriven at it, for they have been able to
J buy valuable plantations with (he proceeds.
to supply the Charleston market with breve
the very best quality. Ido not believe there
j any trade, or mystery practised at the present
; half so profitable, in the great majority of rnsesjul
as school keeping— ifwc except physic—the iWj
alchemy or gold converting art that philos. pl^B'’\
| have ever discovered. I therefore rrrommondVi'
j all young lawyers, and educated young mm who r
are out of a place—instead of waiting to adorn 1 V
their hrows with the laurels of a Burke, a Chatham, 1 \
a Webster, or a Patrick Henry, which they will ?\
have to wait for a long time and perhaps not get A
after all—to turn their at'rntion to school-keep- Art
ing at once, i, e. if they wish— ns I suppose they \
do—to obtain the means to support a pretty w ile 1 A
with. I advise them to seek money first— to hold
it fast when they get it, and to pursue favor at- \
torwards, unless favor accompanies the money, StovJuA
which it will be very likely to do. I have the In- D’.Antim\
terest of a parent in offering tins advice, fpr as Hand &S\
vve have many young lawyers among us—very ' \
worthy young men too, who have nothing to do ,
in the way of their profession, “in these pressing GardellftA
times of peace,” when suitors have discovered IV, l\ \
that quarreling is a costly affair—the accession of J —-\
such a little army to the ranks of teachers, will MRJjI
have a natural tendency to bring down the price
of tuition—“a consummation devoutly to be .
wished,” by all parents. NewVotk!^
I perceive that what is called a High School is Arrived
about to go into operation in Charleston, I liope Humphrey, jtosmk
it doesn’t mean a school where they pay “high” (Cuba). >
rales of tuition, because I cannot afford to pay At Quarantine. — lx
any higher rates than I now do, which are “high” '' ■— ■——
enough in all conscience;—nor that the children QfT MICHAEL'S SFCOTv
of only “high” people are to go theie, because I qe given on SATURDAY nex,
am a simple commoner, and make no pretence to Course, at 1 o’clock, precisely. The
rank or importance. I shall, at anv rate, defer , ...
sending my children there, till I ascertain whether a lln anLC 0 g°° t mgs, and he lib.
it is a school where parents teach their children, ellou S l ' of hls fnends to cat them up.
for the teachers, or one where the teachers teach cents - td
children for their parents—one where they are (£f THE AMERICAN SILK GROPVEHANI
paid for doing, or one where they arc paid for FARMER’S MANUAL —A monthly publication
omitting to do, their duty. designed toextend and encourage the growth of Silk
A PARENT. throughout toe United Stales. Edited by Ward
Cheney and Brothers, Burlington, N. J., and pub
. . , , . , . Iwhcdin Philadelphia, at Hie low price of Use
A transaction took place in this city, a short Dollar a year.
time since, which as it has given rise to some ifcy* Subscriptions received at this office. ap
remarks about town, we allude to it here. 0n,.,,,™, „ ,~ —
who came here from New V ork some two or three The Visiting Committees for the ensuing monthate
years ago—die and dissolute, like most of his as follows:
caste—undertook to ape the manners of loafers Division No I.—Mr. A. McLane, Mr. C. Pike,
of the other color, run up a score with the tner- Mrs. Smith, niss Marshall.
chant tailors, which he utterly refused to wipe off. Division A u. 2. —Ur. 15 Harris, Mr. Wni. Tutt,
The individual who had furnished him with de- Ml /’ Tvcmb '>'> >*«• V o!e ;
eorations lor the outward man, not choosing to M Terry I dll', Wb. M ‘ W “ COX ’
he Diddled in Ins manner, to -k su h m asurcs An, member of the committees may obtain funds
as tlie aws ol tins territory authorise and di- by calling on the President, (W. W. HoI Esq.) at
reel, lie took a judgment against him—sued his office,Cumming s Praia,
out a ft. fa.—and for want of goods and chattels, June 24 C. E. SPURGES, Secretary.
to satisfy the same, levied on tire ho ly—took him «pp a T ABI?r v a i i
into custody, and finally advertised him for sale. -.
The advertisement attracted hut little attention; Ftjteen Bushels, or 270,000 boxes of
because the amount of debt was small, and It I’ETEltk* PIUS,
was will known that Tom could have worked it The subscribers have made arrangements with
out in two we(ks, had he been so disposed. Hut Dr - Peters, of New I ork, to. Ie- supplied by tbc
Tom was not so disposed, and the sale came quantity with his Pills. All dealers can now
on. be supplied at factory prices, if al the Pills we
Tom was put up by the auctioneer and offer- m VC knowledge 01, these are tip must va ua
-1 ; uui iioneer, anu oner Die In no instance ha ve they tilled to accomplish
ed for sale, for the shortest term that any one every thing they promised, ill thousands who for
would take Inin at, and pay debt and costs, ihe yea is have been lingering with some chronic-or un
original debt was about J-30. The costs of suit, stinate disease, nuv add their testiniußy in behalf
jail lies, and so on, had increased it to more than 01 Inis va uablemedicine.
$lO. Who says the auctioneer, will take Tom (ns great quality of his Vegetable I’illsis. that
for me month, six months, for one year, and they have the alternative pun. iple combined with
pay the debt and costs? Hut nobody wanted that they
•it »p . | a, , . J not om\ c-eanse ine stomach and bowels hv nunr
-1 “»• Jo pay the debt was one thing; hut to in g, ! ut they regulate the liver, change the mould
compel J o;n to work it out was looked upon as secretions, lengthen the dige.tive organs, purify
quite a different affair. Finally, a gentleman the blood, iuvigoiate the circulation, and give lone
of t.iis city, offered to take Tom for ten years, and t nergy to the nervous system
and pay the amount ; after crying the hid fora . T*ey , liav- no rival in curing mad preventing
long time, and not gelling another, the auctioneer !! llu u , s * , '® ve « ! £ e v p i and Ague, Dyspepsia, l iver
at length knot ked him down for ten years.— ( ompfamts, .w k Head-ache, Jaundice, Asthma,
Ton. was sold to serve as a slave for years, feSTSe .
to pay the d< hi and costs. Fur.ed Tongue, Nausea, Distension of the Stomach
It was generally understorj and believed, that and Bowels*, incipient Diarrficea. KialUieace, llabv
the genthman by whom Toni was purchased. itunl Costivcncss. ItlutCSWor* 01 *
had advanced the amount, for the purpose of en- SalhrjjcJ AjirtplexioiT, and in all cases.>f 'i or; or of
aiding himself or friends—for it was Puntwisru - * the bowels, vvheie a Cathartic i>r an Aperient is
there were those who took v?. wAercstin his de:. net<led - 1 he - v * r « exceedingly mild in their oper
tiny —to con « forward and redeem,!.im. Sub- ~e* .U lor na “ sl ' a ’g.ipingnoi debility,
to the safe he declared repeatedly that
if any one would refund the money he had ad- das, Texas, Mexico ami the West Indies since
vanced, all the rights he had acquired by the pur- Jan IS3o. All persons who have used the Genuine
chase, should be relinquished. But Toni’s Peters Vegetable P.Us, recommeqd them in terms
friends neglected to fork over. Within a day or ?f the most unqualified praise, which is proof pos
two, the gentleman who first made the purchase. 'f' ve ot ,beir extraordinary and i enelicial effects,
transferred his interest to a second person, with- thcs « H ® e Je br ated safe by
out any advance in price—and fora week or IJAVILvW JUSnVv a .
more, Tom’s friends had still an opportunity of yune (J ’ IUSLhY & Cu -> Agents.
redeeming him on the payment of debt and costs. IV vve. .. —, ——
He was subsequently sold to a third person ; and ' AlN ® APERIENT
about this dint it came to be pretty generally un- ... AN 11-BILIOV S PIEUU
derstood that Tom would not pay the debt . -l nf! com P ospJ ot ingredients which exert a
that his fiicnds would not pay it for him—they cf™ Up ?‘’T l ‘* art , give an impulse or
thought him smart enough to take care of him
self, and though not willing to pay. yet he was the vessels, whether of the skin, the parts situated
tuny aide to run away; and that this was the internally, or the extremities; and as all the sc
casiest way of settling the affair. But running cretions of the body are drawn from the b ood
away did not prove an nikur of so easy accom- theie is a consequent increase ol every secretion,
plishment, as had been supposed. The indi- an ‘t a quickened action of the absorbent and exha
vidual in whose hands he had now fallen took v 1 s' “ lschar o lu o vessc's j any morbid action
such measures as he thought necessary t’o sc- a°nd’
cure hts rights. lom was made perfectly safe. the body resumes a healthful state. 3Vre rhcula-
AIIU wlieu his friends or symyatliisers came to Gun, that important function, was not known to
look (or him to run away, they couldn’t find him. the great Celsus, Galen, or Hippocrates; therefore
He had been sent to a piny woods plantation their deficiency of knowledge led them to extract
perhaps. th ? Vlta ' Umd as a curvative means; but upon tbe
Whereupon there was a terrible excitement.— IV"“.r'T “{. the . c,rculat * un ol ‘J, 1 ® blood, the prac-
Tom’s dear friends and sympathisers were shock- It l.aTbeenTltTtbeduTt .T^^I 18 :
tngly scandalized at the outrageous injustice of to bring forward Dr. Wm. Evans’ JVledioiKes 'foTid
the proreedings against him. He had been sold ed upon the important knowledge imparted to the
to |>ay hts debts, and was not permitted to run vvoild by tbe discovery of the circulation of the
away! Unmeasured abuse was heaped upon blood,
the public autlioritics, and all concert ed in the Evan's Family Vegetable Aperient Anti-Bilious
transaction. 1 *“*> aie so * 1 ! hi boxes of Twenty-live cents each.
It is not our purpose to add any comments on THESE MEDICINES
: this matter. W’e give a plain history of the after much anxious toil and rescan h. having been
| transaction, and let farts speak for themselves, j brol ‘B h * b >' tbe directors to their present state of
This case may havebcen a hard one. But if the perfection, supersede the use of tbe innumerable
j northern free negroes don’t like the operation of ti! medicines; aie so well adapted to the frame,
1 .1 , V “•vv U» opiraiioii Ol that the use of them, by pieseivini: the vital strength
o, laws they have the choice ol re,naming at i„ a pure and healthy stale, and consequently
nonu. lint it in despite ot our prohibitory cn- maintaining the body in the due performances of
aetments. they will thrust themselves among ns, its functions, cause it to last many years longer
often as the secret agents of the abolitionists, than it otherwise would ; and the mind to become
circulating their wiiiings. corrupting the morals so composed and tranquil that old age when it ar
of our slaves, inciting them to discontent and re- ’ U a PP ear a Messing and not (us to many
volt, why selling them off is a punishment much them bffoJl'f vT a- t( ’ nstl f lillons : or had
6«„«. tj ' ' S "°-
“Even from the body’s purity, the mind
Em e ati vo a Wifi.—From the “Journal . J eceiyes a secret sympathetic aid.”
of Aaron Burr,” during his residence in Europe ,i,„ un?. mp i 1 with h'oneral ilirections for taking
just published by the Harpers, we extiact the fob 1 “ ls ’ a ' Wa > s g tbe store of the agent B
lowing curious narrative: r, n ....
r> .i . , DR- WILLIAM EVANS’ SOOTHING SYRUP
Perry, the proprietor of the Morning Chronicle for children teei-hing. 1
has now an iiicoineol £lO,OOO per annum. Born Mothers and Nurses.— ihe passage of the
in the north of Scotland and having received a “ eth the gums produces tiuublesorne and
good classical education, ut the age of twenty he aal| ge“>u». symptoms. It is known by mothers
walked to London to seek his fortune. He had 1 >at there is great irritation in the mouth and gums
ploy ment, and small wages, from the editor of the starting in the lutt‘p“ ndV’pMm.'oVSuTCS?^
C |- I r0n “ 7 T J ‘ 1 subeieq ue |, l | y hp berime the child shrieks with extreme vioence and
pr neipal editor.and then a partner, and filially, tbrl,s:ts Us ‘' n k p is into its n.outh. If these pie
sole proprietor— At the age of forty he was weal- '‘ ur -o'.v symptoms aie not speedily alleviated,
thy. Happening to make a journey in the < oun- s P as| uouic convulsions universally snpcivene, and
beauty and manuel'hrwTgreaHy'smi T'T tht ‘ ir litllp 'h""MfikteTwith^iese
v v t r.rr " u
« mew, he told her he would many her, I ut. ad- which has preserved hundreds of infants when’
«.ed am a man ol lorlune, and wish to live In s- I tllou ght past recovery, from leirg suddenly at
ptlal ly, and to make n.y fronds happy at heme ! t:uked vvith tllc ralal malady.convulsions
lam not accustomed to society, and n.nst have a ! Sold b >’ ANTuNV ir HAINES,
wile who can do the honors of mv hotwewiih i , , Sole agents in Augusta,
grace and dignity, at d fashior. Kow xrn 1 » 1 J. M.ft T. M. Tt. i K :-.R, Savannah,
me munis ll , t 1 do; but yon have tal.nis, and C. A. ELLS. Ma-oe.
would pn sent ly become a lady if you vveic under i A. W. MARTIN, forsvtli,
proper advantage. Then, if you will go to Paris, I BENJAMIN P. POORE, Athens,
.n . spend two years there to perfect yourself I I MARK A. LANE, Washington.
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