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MY BIRTHDAY.
BY 111031 AS 3100ItE.
'—what a ditrrent towed
My birthday"-
That word had in my youthful ears!
And how, each time the day comes round,
Loss and less white its mark appears !
When first our scanty years are told,
It seems like pastime to grow old;
And, as Youth counts the shining links
That Time around him binds so fast,
Plated with the task, he little thinks
How hard that chain will press at last.
Vain was the man, and false as vain,
Who said "were ho ordained to run
His long career of life again,
fie would do all that he had done."
Ah, 'tis not thus the voice that dwells
In sober birthdays, speaks to me;
rat' otherwise—of time it tells,
Lavished unwisely, carelessly;
Of counsel mocked; of talents, made
Haply for high and pure designs,
But oft, like Israel's incense, laid
Upon unholy, earthly shrillest
Of nursing many a wrong desire;
Of wandering after Love too far,
And taking every meteor fire
That crossed my pathway fur his star.
All this it tell nnd, could I trace
Th' imperfect picture o'er again,
With pow'r to add, retouch, efface
The lights and shades, the joy and pain,
How little of the past would stay !
How quickly all would melt away—
All—but that freedom of the Mind,
Which hath been more than wealth to me;
Those friendships, in my boyhood twited,
And kept till now unchangingly;
And that dear home, that saving ark,
Where Love's true light nt last I've found,
Cheering within. when all grows (lark,
And comfortless, and stormy, round !
SattitellititrOtlO.
MB. WEBSTER'S WILL.
In consequence of the wish expressed by
a correspondent, a wish in which we need
not say the public heartily concur, we have
procured a copy of Mr. Webster's Last Will
and Testament for publication. We think
it necessary to add that Mr. Ilrebster's Ex
ecutors, aware how much interest is felt by
the community in whatever relates to the
life and acts of the groat statesman, while
they have not been instrumental in procu
ring the publication of this record, have
not expressed opposition to it. We sub
join it entire :--Boston Conn ter.
In the Name of Almighty God?
1, DANIEL WEBSTER, of Marshfield, in the
County of Plymouth, and Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, Esquire, being now
confined to my house with a serious ill
ness; which, considering my time of life,
It undoubtedly critical, but being, nev
ertheless, in the full possession of all my
mental faculties, do make and publish
my last Will and Testament.
I commit my soul into the hands of my
Heavenly Father, trusting in his infinite
goodness and mercy.
I direct that my mortal remains be bu
ried in the family vault at Marshfield, where
monuments aro already erected to my de
ceased children and their mother. Two
places are marked for other monuments, of
exactly the same size and form. Ono of
these, in proper time, is to bo for me, and
perhaps I may leave an epitaph. The eth
er is for Mrs. Webster. Her ancestors,
and all her kindred lie in a far distant city.
My hope is, that after many years, she may
come to my side, and join me and others
whom God bath given me.
I wish to be buried without the least
show or ostentation, but in a manner res
pectful to my neighbors, whose kindness
has contributed no much to the happiness
of me and mine, and for whose prosperity
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Concerning my worldly estate, my Will
must be anomalous and out of the common
form, on account of the state of my affairs.
I have two large real estates. By mar
riage settlement Mrs. Webster is entitled
to a life estate in each, and after her death
they belong to my heirs, On the Frank
lin estate, so far as I know, there is no in
cumbrance except Mrs. Webster's life es
tate. On Marshfield, Mr. Samuel Froth
ingham has an unpaid balance of a mort
gage, now amounting to twenty-five bun
!ired dollars. My great and leading wish
Its to preserve Marshfield, if I can, in the
blood and name of my own family. To
this end, it must go in the first place to my
son, Fletcher Webster, who is hereafter to
be the immediate prop of my house, and
the general representative of my name and
character. I have the fullest confidence
in his affection and good sense, and that he
will heartily concur in anything that ap
pears to be for the best.
I do not see, under present circumstan
ces of him and his family, how I can now
make a definite provision for the future be
yond his life. I propose, therefore, to put
the property into the hands of trustees, to
be disposed of by them as exigencies may
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My affectionate wife, who has been to me
a source of so much happiness, must be
tenderly provided for. Care must be taken
that she has some reasonable income. I
make this Will upon the faith of what has
been said to me by friends, of means which
will be fiund to carry out my reasonable
wishes. It is best that Mrs. Webster's
life interest in the two estates be purchased
out. It must be seen what can be done
with friends at Boston, and especially with
the contributors to my life annuity. My
son-in-law, Mr. Appleton, has most gener
ously requested me to pay little regard to
his interests or to those of his children, but
I must do something and enough to manifest
my warm love and attachment to him and
them. The property best to be spared for
the purpose of buying out Mrs. Webster's
life interest under the marriage settlement,
is Franklin, which is very valuable proper
ty, and which may be sold under prudent
management, or mortgaged, for a consider
able sum.
I have also a quantity of valuable land
in Illinois, at Peru, which ought to be im
mediately seen after. Mr. Edward Curtis
and Illatchford, and Mr. Franklin Haven
know all about my large debts, and they
have undertaken to see at once whether
those can be provided for, so that these
purposes may probably be carried into ef
fect.
With those explanations, I now make the
following provisions, namely :
ITEM. I appoint my wife, Caroline Le
Roy Webster, my son Fletcher Webster,
and It. M. Blatchford, Esquire,
of New
York, to be the Executors, and also the
Trustees hereinafter named, in all things
relating to finance ar_d pecuniary matters,
to consult with my valued friend, Franklin
I raven; and in all things respecting Marsh
field, with Charles Henry Thomas, always
an intimate friend, and one whom I love
for his own sake and that of his family; and
in all things respecting Franklin, with that
true man,Jolin Taylor; and I wish them
to consult, in all matters of law, with my
brethren and highly esteemed friends, Chas.
P. Curtis and George T. Curtis.
ITEM. I give and devise to James W.
Page and Franklin Haven of Boston, and
Edward Curtis of New York, all my real
estate in the towns of Marshfield, in the
State of Massachusetts, and Franklin in the
State of New Hampshire, being the two
estates above mentioned, to have and to
gold the same to their heirs and assigns,
forever, upon the following Trusts—viz :
First. To mortgage, sell or lease so
much thereof as may be necessary to pay
to my wife Caroline Le Roy Webster, the
estimated value of her life-interest, hereto
fore Secured to her thereon by marriage
settlement., as is above recited, if she shall
elect to receive that valuation in place of
the security with which those estates now
stand charged.
Secondly. To pay to my said wife, from
the rents and profits and income of the said
two estates, the further sum of five hun
dred dollars per annum during her natural
life.
Thirdly. To hold, manage and carry on
the said two estates, or so much thereof as
may not be sold for the purposes aforesaid,
for the use of my son, Fletcher Webster,
during his natural life; and after his de
cease, to convey the same in foe to such of
his male descendents as a majority of the
said Trustees may elect, they acting there
in with my son's concurrence, if circum
stances admit of his expressing his wishes,
otherwise acting upon their own discretion;
it being my desire that his son Ashburton
Webster take one, and his son Daniel Web
ster, Jr., the other of the said estates.
ITEM. I direct that my wife, Caroline
Le Roy Webster, have, and I hereby give
to her, the right during her life to reside
in my mansion House at Marshfield, when
she wishes to do so, with my son, in ease
he may reliffelEere; or in his absence, and
this T do, not doubting toy son ' s affection
HUNTINGDON, PA., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 26, 1853;
for her or for me, but because it is due to
her that she should receive this right from
her husband.
ITEM. I give and bequeath to the said
James W. Paige, Franklin Haven, and Ed
ward Curtis all the Hooks, Plate, Pictures,
Statuary and Furniture and other personal
property now in my Mansion House at
Marshfield, except such articles as are here
inafter otherwise disposed of, in trust to
preserve the same in the Mansion House for
the use of my son Fletcher Webster, during
his life, and after his disease, to make over
or deliver the same to the person who will
then benonie " the owner of the estate of
Marshfield;" it being my desire and inten
tion that they remain attached to the house
while it is occupied by any of my name and
blood.
ITEm. I give and bequeath to my said
wife all my furniture whioh she brought
with her on her marriage, and the silver
plate purchased of Mr. Rush, for her own
use.
ITEM. I give, devise ; and bequeath to
my said Executors all my other real and
personal estate, except such as is hereinaf
ter described and otherwise disposed of; to
be applied to the execution of tho general
purpose) of this Will, and to be sold and
disposed of, or held, and used at 'Marshfield
as they and the said Trustees may find to
be expedient.
'Tun. I give and bequeath to my son
Fletcher Webster, all my Law Books,
wherever situated, for his own use.
ITEM. I give and bequeath to my son
in-law•Samuel A. Appleton, my California
watch and chain, for his own use.
14E51. I give and bequeath to my grand
daughter Caroline Le Roy Appleton, the
Portrait of myself, by Healy, which now
hangs in the South East parlor at Marsh
field, for her own use.
ITEM. I give and bequeath to my grand
son Samuel A. Appleton, my gold snuff box
with the head of General Washington, all
my fishing tackle and my Selden and Wil
mot guns, for his own use.
ITEM. I give and bequeath to my grand
son, Daniel Webster Appleton, my Wash
ington medals, for his own use.
ITEM. I give and bequeath to my grand
daughter, Julia Webster Appleton, the
clock presented to her grandmother, by the
late Hon. George Bloke.
ITEM. I appoint Edward Everett, Geo.
Ticknor, Cornelius Conway Felton, ant
George Ticknor Curtis, to bo my literary
Executors; and I direct my son, Fletcher
Webster, to seal up all my letters, manu
scripts and papers; rata at a proper tints to
select those relating to my personal his
tory, and my professional and public life,
which in his judgment should be placed at
their disposal , and to transfer the same to
them, to be used by them in such manner
as they may think fit. They may receive
valuable aid from my friend George J. Ab
bott, Esq., now of the State Department.
ITEM. My servant William Johnston, is
a free man. I bought his freedom not long
ago for six hundred dollars. No demand
is to be made upon him for any portion of
this sum, but so long as is agreeable, I
hope he will remain with the family.
ITEM. Morrieha McCarty, Sarah Smith,
and Ann Bean, colored persons, now also,
and for a long time in my service, are all
free. They aro very well deserving, and.
whoever comes after me must be kind to
them.
ITEM. I request that my said Executors
and Trustees be not required to give bonds
for the perfortnanee of their respective du
ties under this Will.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto
set my hand and seal, at Marshfield, and
have published and declared this to be my
last Will and Testament, on the twenty
first day of September, in the year of our
Lord eighteen hundred and fifty-two.
[Signed.]
DANIEL WEBSTER. [Seal.]
Signed, scaled, published by the said
Testator, as and for his last Will and Tes
tament, in the presence of us, who, at his
request, and in his presence, and in the
presence of each other, have set our names
hereto as subscribing witnesses, the word
"our" being erased in the third line from
the bottom of the fifth page, before signing,
[Signed] GEORGE J. ABBOT,
JOHN JEFFRIES,
CHARLES IL THOMAS.
Agricultural Products.--Prices.
We are glad to notice an increasing de
mand for breadstuffs abroad. Our market
price is governed by the foreign demand.
'There has been no period within the last
four years, when the farmer's market was
better than now. All kinds of produce
command a good price. Wheat, hay, corn,
oats, potatoes, pork, beef, poultry,. butter,
&0., &0., are all commanding excellent pri
ces. The former season was a hard ono
for farmers in this region, but the last we
trust will fully compensate the loss sustain
ed. The farming community embraces
much the largest portion of our population.
When it is prosperous business cannot be
dull.
The want of properly qualified
teachers is the great want of
our School System.
This evil and the remedy are so forcibly pre
sented in the late Report of Mr. Secretary Hughes,
that we deem it our duty to publish entire his ve
ry lucid arguments. We hope every reader will
give it a careful perusal, and that the interest now
being manifested oil this suljett, will not be re
laxed until these wise suggestions are carried out.
I.n'ow beg to call your attention to the
subject of providing competent teachers,
which I regard as by far the most impor
tant consideration affecting the success ef
ficiency and prosperity of our Common
School system. To provide school houses,
levy and pay taxes, send the youth of the
country to the schools, and let them pass
there the whole period of minority; thee()
are comparatively lost, worse than lost, un
less the teacher—he who is the medium of
communicating the education—possesss the
requisite qualifications for his post. To
fill the position of directing and training
the developing intellect and moral quali
ties of our youth, is certainly a task to ac
complish refined and high purposes. To
attend upon the loom, to follow the plough,
to work in the mine, much more to pursue
most of the branches of the mechanic arts,
requires skill, training, and adaptation.—
But the opinion seems practically to be
entertained in many districts that the
teacher, like the ancient idea of the Poet,
is born. The rudest material—persons
either unfit for, or casually out of other em
ployment, without previous preparation or
training, and looking to the situation of
school teacher as the mere means of sup
port, while the necessary time is consum
ed in obtaining some other occupation, are
in very many instances employed in our
public schools. The effect is to render
useless, and even a mere burthon, the
maintenance of such schools; to waste the
valuable time of the pupil, the lost to the
state of the intellectual advancement of
some of her citizens, and consequent unfit
ness for their high duties, to degrade the
profession of the teacher, and in fact, more
than any other cause, defeat the efficiency
of the system and thwart the hopes of its
friends. Teaching should be properly a
distinct substantive profession, for which
the professor should be prepared by a due
course of previous instruction. It should
be a pursuit, as it properly is requiring
peculiar fitness and refined skill. That a,
very considerable proportion of our teach:
ers are so qualified is unquestionably true,
and they may be said to be the source of
whatever of vigor our system possesses.—
How then shall this great desideratum of
COMPETENT TEACHERS throughout the
State be obtained? lam of the opinion
that its accomplishment is no very difficult
task. Any means that will guarantee our
districts against the employment of incom
petent teachers, that will stimulate their
energies, rouse a spirit of rivalry, and dis
seminate instruction and the improvements
iu the science of teaching, and will fur
nish well educated teachers, and as a mat
ter of true economy, give good salaries,
will certainly produce this result.
For the supply of these means I beg to
suggest the following:
Ist. The appointment of a competent Exami
ner, or Board of Examiners, fur each county.
2d. The division of the State into districts, and
the appointment of an officer having supervisory
authority, to he called the District Visitor.
9d. lin;reased duration of the periods fur keep.
lug the schools in operation in each school dis.
triet.
4th. Normal Schools.
5. A more general employment of Female
Teachers.
6th. Good Salaries,
The great injustice done to the State, as
well as parents and pupils, by the employ
ment in some districts of persons as teach
ers wholly unqualified, shims that the pre
sent mode of examination by directors, or
such persons as they may appoint for that
purpose, is not efficient. Numerous° meth
ods to guard against incompetent teach
ers have been repeatedly suggested, all of
thorn, however, looking to a preliminary
examination by some duly qualified person.
As the law requires that all teachers shall
annually obtain a certificate founded on
examination, setting forth the branches he
or she is capable of teaching, it follows
that such examinations shall be annual
also. The labor and time necessary for
making these examinations in souse counties
of the Commonwealth will be considerable,
and for this reason, as well as to' avoid
evils growing out of certain kinds of pat
ronage, I propose to separate the duty of
the examiner or board of examiners from
all others. I therefore respectfully recom
mend that in each county of the Common
wealth there shall be an Examiner or
Board of Examiners (consisting of two or
more,)• who should bo persons of proper
seientific and literary acquirements, as well
as experience in the art of teaching; that
it shall be their duty to examine all who
shall desire an examination, and give so
them, respectively, a certificate setting
forth the branches ho or she is capable of
teaching. Let this certificate bo an indis
pensable pre-requisite for the employment
of any one to teach any bramh of !earn
ing
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The necessity of a supervisory power
over schools, exerted by some competent
person, whose immediate and personal in
tercourse with them gives a more intimate
knowledge of their condition and wants,
has long been felt and acknowledged.—
The discipline and method of instruction,
the books and branches taught, form sub
jects of particular and skilful guardianship.
To stimulate ambition among teachers,
and create a spirit of rivalry, and desire to
keep up with the improvements in the art
of teaching that skill and experience may
demonstrate, can not fail to infuse a spirit
and professional pride among teachers that
would produce much practical good. To
promote these ends, it is suggested that
the State be apportioned into a convenient
number of districts/ and that for each dis
trict there shall be selected an officer call
ed the District Visitor, whose duty it shall
be to visit the several schools within his
district as often as practicable, note the
course and method of instruction, make
suggestions, and impart such information
and direct such course touching the sub
jects with in his cognizance, as shall be im
provements.
He shall, at least once in
each year, call a convention of the teach- '
ers within his district, and at such be ex- 1
office presiding officer, and shall communi
cate such information and plans for im
provement, as he shall deem expedient.—
Addresses and discussions among the teach
ers should be there elicited, and such oth
'er means adopted within their pont., cal
culated to advance the cents° of instruc
tion and the clinic of education. It is a
gratifying fact, that many teachers in dif
ferent parts of the State, are manifesting
publicly a laudable zeal in their profession,
and have called and held conventions simi
lar to such as are herein suggested. These
praiseworthy efforts for improvement on
the part of teachers, assuredly deserve to
be promoted by legislation calculated to
secure their continuance and increase their
utility. Should considerations of economy
outweigh the purpose of a separation of the
respective duties proposed for examiners
and visitors, they might be combined, and
the o ffi cer esignated as District or Coun
ty Superintendent. _ _
A ;serious cause of embarrassment and
difficulty in the way of procuring and
keeping good teachers, is the short period
for which our Common Schools are kept
oPcit din4ng the sear. The act of 6th
May; 1850, fixes the minimum period at
three months and the maximum at ten.—
From the table herewith annexed, it will
be seen that the averag: period taught in
the districts throughout the State, is but
five months. Frequetnly the time of
teaching in each district IS evided.,,ibto a
period in Winter and another in Suniruer.
The Winter school usually taught by a
male, and the Summer school by a female.
It will, therefore, appear, that the limited
term of teaching during the year, and at
intermittent periods, necessarily prevents
teaching from being pursued as a profes
sion. The teacher cannot, if he would,
obtain a support from Isis employment, and
is forced to engage in some other pursuit.
As a consequence, in districts where this
short and intermittent period system ofl
teaching is practised, but few teachers can
bo obtained except those who lead an un
settled life, or are casually out of their re
gular and principal employment. With
such persons the profession and science of
teaching is not regarded, and proficiency
cannot bo expected. The schools are kept
' open truly, but the pupils can scarcely be
said to be taught. .
Another evil of this frequent change of
teachers, is a change of books and disci=
pline in school. The diversity of acquire
ments, of temperament and other peculiari
ties, in this way brought
,to bear on the
pupil, prevents the growth cf that venera
tion and syniiratliy . between teacher and
scholar. so necessary to control rind enlist
ambition. A frequent change of teachers,
of books and of di4cipline, makes a con
stant confusion, that with most scholars
must create a distaste for the school-room,
make it a place of temporary detention and
imprisonment merely, while the mental fac
ulties, if not iu fact, blunted by this want
of continuity in any particular course of
study, will dcril'e little or no improvement.
The removal of thia'cait linpediment itt
the way of the complete success of our
school system, must be the work of time,
and the result of a higher estimate of the
value of education to the whole people.—
Yet legislation may do much, and while I
wculd not, at this time, recommend the en
forcement of maintaining the schools in op
eration' during the maximum period, I
would increase the minimum to at least five,
months, and require, when the schools are
in operation for the minimum period only,
that the teaohibgin any one school be un
interrupted during that time. The conse
quence of this may be that in a district
where there are (say) four schools; two
teachers may fill two of the schools during
a fall and winter period, and accommodate
those who attend school only in the fall
and winter, and the same teachers servo in
thertwo other schools during the warmer
searen, for the accommodation of those
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who then, wish to , attend., The objection
to this arrangement woul d fie, that in
sparsely populated distr icts, . , the two
schools might be at points so remote as to
be inconvenient to a portion of the popula
tion during one or the other of the periods.
The proper answer would be, that all por
tions of the district still get their five
months tuition in each of the schools, and
that the evil of remote distance from the
school house, if supplied with a katid
teacher, is not so great as the evil of an
incompetent teacher & the school house in
close proximity. The sound discretion of
the directors must make such regulations
as to prevent the schools from being too
crowded at any one time. That school
teaching shall be put sued as a ptofession
ra regular employment—is ind4ensable.
It is equally indispensable for the pfeenre
inent of competent teachers, that the busi
ness of teaching be a separate one, and
pursued as a distinct profession. No sa
crifice of more convenience in attending
the schools can be too great that will se
cure good teachers—without which, all
schools are worthless.
The establishment of Normal schools
has been repeatedly urged upon the atten
tion of the Legislature by my predecessors,
and the experience of other States where
they have been established, settles the
question of their great utility. The im
portance and value of previous education,
and of training in the art of teaching to
make competent teachers, is self-evident,
Schools specially established for the pur
pose, will necessarily promote this end.
In some European countries the semina
ries establised for the preparation of 50100
teachers fuhlisiS tl a main supply. There,
however, the profession of a teacher (like
any other occupation in which' tilt party
employed has been instructed) is pursued
for a life time. The political and other in
stitutions neither affording inducements;
nor, for the most part, permitting a change
in the occupation. As a emsequence of
this continuous course of employment, few
er seminaries could supply the demand for
a given number of teachers, than in these
free States. Ilere, where democratic in
, atitutious open wide to merit the portals
of political advancement, while our fertile
soil, mineral deposits, magnificent rivers,
good harbors, and sakOriou s clivaate,afford
a country teeming 'with. the elements of
wealth,. our poptilaliitn phi-eminent for
their energy and versatility of talent, are
not and cannot be restrained to a particu
lar purstit. To hope to educate teachers
who would pursue for a life time that call
ing in this country, would be vain. While
many would probably do so, the majerity
of our young men would fit themselves as
soon as practicably for pursuits m: re lu
crative or congenial to their tastes.
Still, it cannot be doubted that if Nor
mal Schools were established, and teadiers
thus provided and fitted for their duties at
the public expense, such regulations could
be adopted as to secure their services as
teachers at an average of from five to eight
years. Were an obligation to that effect
to be required, and its enforcement,provi-,
ded for, the legal add moral obligation to
comply, se well as the disgrace of a viola
tion, would certainly sccnre the end design
ed. Whil t it would be impritetiettble to
educate a ufficient number to sitysply by
means of Normal Schools the demand for
teachers, yet The distribution of
,them thus
prepared and qualified, througEottt the
State, could not fail to improva the char
actor of teaching. As instructors they
would be the objects of imitation, and the
information and instruction given to them
at the Normal Schools,,could measurably
be imparted to alters by their example,
their associations, connections, and other
wise.
There is, however, another kind of
school, or rather a modification of the Nor
mal School, entirely practicable and cal
culated to meet the existing wants with
little delay and comparatively small cost.
If a few institutions wore established at
eligible points throughout the Common..
wealth, with a corps of professors, and
hall suitable for the accoiliodatibii of six or
eight kundred persons, in'Svilich lectures
were to be delivered and instruction given
in the sciences, literature, and the art of
,
teaching to such of the teachers tlrrougb
,,
out the• State as should attontl,'the preseni,
generation of teachers could be thereby,
vastly improved. The instructions should
be given free of charge, and teachers per:-
witted to attend at such times as their school
vacations or engagements would warrant.
The cost of sustaining such institutions,-
would not much exceed the salaries of tho
professors, while perhaps, no plan that may
be devised, will' impart more imuidiate and
general improvement. Sueh institutions
might readily be united With the Normal
Schools proper, and such practical regitli=
tions adopted that would enable both kinds
of students to r.eoeive due attention. In
this way both the present and future could'
be provided for with but comparatively tn..;
fling cost, and without delay.
The expense of maintaining longer pazi-'
Hi of, or continuous instruction to the
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