skt4t.''lH.'..':- . '...-tiosp'! . t.o# . ye 7.4. 5--NO. 43.] - USEFUL INFORMATION. 101.12 1 108 L REGISTER-1835. UNITED STATES. ANDREW JACKSON ' S( Tennessee, President. MASTEN VAN BUSENia N. York, Vice• President. JOHN Fonarrn,of Georgia, Secretary• of State LEVI Woonnuav,of N. Hampshire, See. of Treasury. LEWIS CASS, of Ohio, Sec. of War. MAHLON DICKEHBON,Of N.Jersey, Sec. of Navy. WILLIAM T. &tiny, of Kentucky, P. M. General. BENJAMIN F. BuTt.aa,ofN. York, Att'nyGen.U.S. JOHN 8m.t.,0f Tennessee, Speaker ofilouse CONGRESS. The second session of the 23d Congress commenced . a 111onday the Ist of December last. The following etable,copied from the U. S. Telegraph,will she* the "- representation in Congress from each State of the li ‘ stion,from the organization of the government upto the present t itue,with the several ratios of representations ' tCs also the number of Electors to be chosen in 1536: 1787 '93 'U3 'l3 '23 '33 '36 STATES. a" N : :}lampshire, 3 Massachusetts, 6 Rhode Island, 1 Connecticut, 5 New York, 6 Pennsylvania, 8 New Jersey, 4 Delaware, 1 Maryland, 6 Virginia, 10 North Carolina, 5 South CtirbTina, 5 Georgia, 3 Vermont, 0 Kentucky, 0 Tennessee, 0 Ohio, 0 Louisiana, 0 Indiana, 0 Alabama, 0 Mississippi, 0 Illinois, 0 Maine, 0 Piliczouti, Totals 65 105 141 181 213 240 298 GOVERNORS OF THE STATES. States. Gov's names. Maine Robert P. Dunlap New-Har Badger Massachitieo. John Davis .Vermont William A. Palmer do. Rhoda Island John Brown Francis do. Connecticut Samuel A. Foot do. New York • William L. Marcy do. reh.isylvania George Wolf 1832 Delaware Caleb P. Bennett do. Maryland James Thomas 1835 Virginia Littleton W. Tazewell 1533 North Carolina David L. Swain 1834 South Carolina George•M'Duilie do. Georgia Wilson Lumpkin 1833 Ohio Robert Lucas 1834 Kentucky (Acting) James T. Morehead 1832 Indiana Noah Noble 1634 Illinois Joseph Dunesui David Dunklin John Gayle William Carroll do. Missouri Alabama e Tennessee H. G. Ronnells do. Edward D. White 1834 Mississippi Louisialla 111. : GOVERNORS' SALARIES, &C. The following is a statement of the Governors' Salaries,tho number of Senators and Representatives, and their pay per day, of each State in the Union: Governors'l No. of No. of Pay per STATES. Salaries. Senators. Reps. • day Maine $1,500 25 186 $2 New Hampshire 1,200 12 230 2 Massachusetts_ 3,666 66 40 570 2 Rhode Island 400 - 10 71 150 Connecticut 1,100 21 208 *2 Vermont 750 none 230 1 50 New York 4,000 32 129 3 Nov! Jersey 2,000 14 50 ' 3 Pennsylvania 4,000 33 100 3 Delaware 1,333 33 9 29 2 50 Maryland 3,500 15 80 4 Virginia 3,333 33 32 134 4 North Carolina 2,000 64 134 3 South Carolina 3,500 45 124 4 Georgia 3.000 90 185 4 Alabama 2,000 22 72 4 Mississippi 2,500 11 36 3 Louisiana 7,500 17 50 4 Tennessee 2,000 20 60 4 Kentucky 2,000 38 100 2 Ohio 1,200 36 - 72 3 Icoliana 1,000 30 62 2 Illinois 1,000 26 55 3 Missouri 1,500 18 49 3 *ln Conneetierd•the Senators have two dollars per day, and the Representatives one dollar andfifty cents. 1;4 M (;i4 4 •IrNZIa% ; , 1 ; 4 roc(zire) its) :41 Stale. Name. Title. Age Sweden Charles XIV King • . 70 Russia Nicholas I Emperor 38 Denmark Frederick VI King 66 Great Britain William IV do. 69 Holland William I do. 62 Belgium Leopold do. 44 Fought Frederick Wm. 111 do. 54 Saxony Anthony do. 60 Brunswick William Duke -28 Nassau . William do. 42 }lessee-Homb'rg. Louis Landgrave 64 Bader' Ch. Leopold Fr. Grand Duke 44 Ilesae.Cissee William 11 Elector 67 Wurtemberg William King 53 Bavaria Louis do. 48 Austria Francis Emperor 66 France . Louis Philllppe King 61 Switzerland John J. Hess Lanirman Spain - Maria ',rubella Queen 4 Portugal Donna Maria do. 15 Sardinia Clarks Emannal King : 36 Tuscany Leopold II Grand Duke 37 Patina Maria Louisa Duchess 43 Modena Francis IV Duke Lima Charles Laub; , do. - 35 Stales of the Ch. Gregiry XVI Pope • 69 Two Vieille, Ferdinand II Sing '29 Greece Otho do. 19 Turkey Mahmoad Sultan 49 VW) 3 4 A ,1•1# [Pro . m the Philadelphia Casket MRS. N---z-: A SKETCH. By Benjamin Matthias. DURING a 'morning walk in the autumn of 1832, I met with an adventure which I shall not soon forget. . The incidents seem indelibly impressed upon my memory, not so ranch on account of their novelty, for they are, probably, of frequent occurrence in this checquered and eventful life, as on account of the peculiar and interesting cir cumstances with which they were subse qnently connected. At the time, I was in a reflective mood, disposed to philosophize on every incident, and perhaps willing to profit by the most trivial lesson. It was an Indian Summer morning. The air was cool and refreshing, and the whole some exercise of walking, gave excitement to my spirits. The rays of the sun were just visible on the tops of the most elevated buildings—the laborer was seen preparing for his daily toil, and here and there the door of a tavern might be discovered half open, as if to invite the early passenger to his morning dram; an invitation which, it was not difficult to ascertain, was but too generally embraced by those who had risen at that early hour. I sauntered on, in a northern direction from the heart of the city; and was ruminating on the advantages of early rising, and the wickedness of wasting precious moments of time in unprofitable in dulgence, when I heard the piercing shriek of a female, apparently about, half a square distant. I quickened my pace, in the di rection wheriell the cry proceeded, and ar rived at the spot in dive to prevent a savage looking ruffian from repeating a !low with a large knotty club, over the head of a fe male. "Monster!" I exclaimed, "would you strike a woman?" - He turned upon me with the scowl of a fiend, and I saw before me the bloated face, the inflamed eyes, the enervated frame of a confirmed rintrivEAßD. My look disgust and indignation, appeared to renew his an ger, and I should probably have suffered se verely for my interference, but for the pros enceof one who arrived at the same Instant with myself. "Come, Sam." said he, "this won't do: let you! wife aloft*, and push off to your work." Elected 1834 do. do. The wretch appialed to muttered horrid imprecations and clrses, but after a growl of defiance, directed towards mpolit; obeyed the command, and the two went away to gether. _ _ - I remained a moment, to learn the cause of the outrage. A female, considerably ad vanced in life, with a pale and haggard countenance, in a coarse and tattered dress, was leaning, in great agitation, against the door of a miserable hut. She was in tearb, and I thought, as I gazed upon her sallow features, distorted as they were by suffering, that I could trace the outlines of deep and bitter affliction. Her grief was not boister ous. She wept, but her tears flowed invol untary. The fountains of her heart were apparently broken up, but there was that in her manner and appearance, which showed but too plainly, that she was one whose a cute sufferings almost defied sympathy—one with whom compassion seems rather- to augment than diminish the grief which cor rodes the heart, which palsies every energy of the mindiand destroys even hope itself. "The world may not appreciate your suf ferings, Madam," said I, "but one who has seen and felt some of the horrors of an inti mate connection with a drunkard, is surely not impertinent in his desire to know wheth er it is in his power to render you assistance." I spoke mildly, and with a voice that be trayed emotion which I could not control; and the accents, as they fell upon her ear, seemed to arouse her from a stupor into which she was gradually falling. "1 thank you for your kindness," she re. plied, "but mine is a case of misery without hope of relief: Human power cannot re move my wretchedness. "Perhaps, however, human power may at least mitigate your sufferings; as it is evi dent they originate in the folly and wicked ness of others." Further solicitation prevailed, and she made me acquainted with the. immediate cause of her present distresses. Her hus band was a man of irregular habits, an idler and a common tippler. His scanty wages were spent in the dram-shop, and his family, consisting of his wife and two daughters, the eldest a girl of sixteen, were freqently with out bread for days. Occasionally they were able to procure employment for their needles, but this resource only rendered the beastly husband more negligent. On the evening previous to the occurrence I have noted, the last cent had been given to satisfy a claim for rent. The family went supperless to bed; the, husband was absent, carousing with some companions at a tavern, and did not return until morning, when he appeared in the condition I saw him, and demanded .food. His wife had none to give, for her scanty larder was empty, and her small re sources utterly exhausted, and the wretch became violent, and finally struck her. It was a case calculated to awaken sym pathy in the coldest bosom: need I add, that in my very soul I pitied the unfortunate, the abused, the heart-broken lady. She was evidently a woman of acute sensibility.— Her language gave proof of education, of high accomplishments, of refined feelings. And such a woman, united by the closest ties,. with a debased, atOeling wretch, a brute, a common drunkard—one who was viz nonmpas WHITS! IZIDIDLVTOI7, mraTor., ruz l iaiesuar, Jam rnornzmiron. "I WISH NO OTHER HERALD, NO OTHER SPEAKER OF MY LIVING ACTIONS, TO KEEP MINE HONOR FROM CORRUPTION."-SHAES. 6219WWIZTAZDtin16 9 rikilcbo eras:max i . inzaprztata. ev. awn,. dead to every noble feeling of human nature, 1 callous to the sufferings of a confiding wo- I man, and utterly reckless of the consequen -1 ces of his wicked course. He too, was the I father of her children—a father , upon whom two lovely girls looked for example—for precepts of instruction—for wisdom to guide them safe from the coils and snares of a de ' cettfhl world. The soul siclens with anguish at the reflection. The young, the innocent, the unsophisticated hearts of his children, must have regarded him with loathing and abhorrence, and turned from his tender salu tations with disgust. Tender salutations?-- Nol—Flairolluted their ears with curses— he set before them an example of ruin, de gradation, and endless misery. Who will say that habitual intemperance is not madness! Would a creature, endowed with reasoning faculties, put the cup of poi son to his lips, anti drink in death--eternal death? Would a man, created in the image of his Maker, and blessed with an intellect capable of the highest degree of enjoyment, with that intellect unclouded, sacrifice hi. bosom companion—his own offspring—his hopes—his ambition—his present and future 4 happiness, for the beefily voluptuousness of Anale-house? Never!' The habitual drunk -1 nrd knot a ma n —is na'a reasoning crea ture. He has lost his powcfrs of discrimi nation between good and e 4 and buried deep in the bowels of the etitth, the talent which God has given him to irnprrive. His mind is a chaos of darkness—his intellect is disordered—and the deep, the impenetrable gloom of insanity rests upon hie benighted mind. Is this glopmy picturaaverwrought? Then let him who loves theAottle—that curse of our existence—pause before the in cipient habits of inebriation are coefirmed— before the worm of corruption has entered hi s hod—before human nature is reduced to a level with the brute 'creation—before the misguided, the infatuated votary of Bac chus, becomes an outcast from soVietY— shunned as a pestilence—avoided as one up- i on whom Heaven has fixed the seal of inex- 1 orable displeasure! - While these thoughts were revolving in my mind, a lovely girl, rather under the stature of womanhood, with large black eyes of unusual brilliancy, and a countenance that seemed,at the first glance,to be a model ofperfection,rushed into the room. "Here, mother," she exclaimed„ with animation. "get father his breakillirAtere is money." "Money, my dear,---what money; surely you have not"— Fresh tears bedimmed the eyes of the at fueled wotna'n, and I saw, in ail instant, the nature of the emotions that filled her burst ing heart. Her affectionate daughter threw herself into her arms as she exclaimed: "No, mother, I have not begged; I have borrowed the money from George; and know that I shall be enabled to return it to morrow." The girl had been awakened from her slumbers by the vociferations of her unwor thy father, and knowing her mother's.desti tution, had stolen away to her friend George, 'a reputable tradesman in the neighborhood, and obtained the loan of a piece of money- Humiliating as was the application, her anxiety for her mother's safety and peace, had triumphed over every scruple; and in her joy at having obtained the means to quiet her father's anger, she forgot that she had done aught to violate the frigid rules of maidenly propriety. She obeyed the im pulses of her nature.— She loved her mother. Almost immediately.' took my leave, with depressed spirits and an aching heart. A few friends joined in making some provision for immediate relief, and I had the satisfac tion of enlisting, in behalf of the family, the benevolent feelings of several whose hearts were large, and whose purses were well supplied. The arrangements which were made for the subsequent support of the family, in a way to avoid wounding their feelings by a sense of dependence, afforded me an apology for many subsequent visits. This inter course confirmed my first impressions. The lady was a fond, a confiding, but a deeply injured woman, and the daughters were all that such a mother could ask. It was de lightful to witness the tender attachment which governed all their actions. They were happy in each other's society, and in the commingling of their pure and ardent affections, they forgot, for a moment, that their existence was embittered by the occa sional presence of a husband and a father. In that forgetfulness was their enjoyment. During one of my s isits, I took advantage of the absence of the other members of the family, to ask the lady for a sketch of her early history. I believed it would be one of unusual interest—l was convinced that her present station in life was not the one she had been accustomed to fill—l imagined that she could tell me something that would afford a valuable practical lesson,' and I was not disappointed. With evident reluctance, kowever, for the reminiscences she was a bout to rehearse were painful and humiliat ing, she began: "I am the only child of affectionate and doting parents. My father, an officer on half-pay, though possessing what are called "high notions," was not above keeping a public house in the vicinity of London; as he was thereby enabled materially to in his income. Great pains were be stowed upon My education; and so far as re garde school learning, my acquisitions were considerably above my station in society.— My life was one continued scene of enjoy rnent.and happiness, until the death of my mother, which happened when I was in my fifteenth year. I had known sorrow before—she was indeed a mother. Kind to a fault—indulgent, forgiving, and withal, careful and prudent in the management of her domestic affairs,—my father loved her with - devotion,and well she deserved his un divided affections. This melancholly event left me in a great measure without a proper guide. My mother had been my friend, to whom I confided all my thouglwi, and to whom I . at all times, looked fur counsel.— The, loss of such a friend, naturally occa sioned heart-colt sorrow. I drooped under the deprivation, became gloomy, and was ' ushered into society, before my judgment was thoroughly matured, to drive away my. sadness.. "In li:seventeenth year, a slight acci• dent, happened while I was absent from . made me acquainted with Lieu teaaxil, He was a gentleman of pr !;= sOssing manners, and kindly offered me to my father's residence. Be 4iik already known to my father, his visits ,became frequent, much to the annoyance a.f my friend Howard, a worthy mechanic, who was a constant companion in all my enjoyments. Howard was a general favor- ite among my acquaintances, but none es• teemed him W ore warmly than I did. He was open, fr , candid, intelligent, and pos sessed sound and well matured principles.---7 I knew!that he was attached to me, but I knew also that his pretensions would not be listened to by my father, who had resolved that I should never; with his consent,- wed a mechanic. Alasi for that fatal error! He knew not that his kind precautions would be 'the means of destroying his own and his daughter'shappiness. But I will not antici pate. I.,i*.iut. N— becathe devoted in his attentions. His manners were easy and polished—his appearance fascinating—his conversation attractive. My giddy head was turned, when he offered his hand, with the prospect of rang which would attend my ' nuptials, and offended at the proud demean our of Howard, who had ceased his visits, on his expressing his regret at the inconsis tency and folly of my conduct, in an evil ' hour I proved recreant to my first love, and became the wife of Lieut. N—, he that has just left us. "Yote.'pok amazed, but a word or two will suffice to .explain. Lieut. N----, at the time of his marriage, was addicted to habits of dissipation. I knew it not, but too soon realized, in the utter annihilation of all do mestic happiness, the dire effects. Indul gence confirmed his habits, and three years hacl not;i4ansed / before he became a drunk fireadful,beyond all descriptre my mental sufferings; and bitter was the indignation of my father.: Entreaty. was only of temporary benefit—remonstrance excited him to fresh excesses. His friends deserted him: he threw up his commission, fearing an investigation into his official con duct, and was obliged to seek employment as, a clerk. In the meantime, the injured Howard had married a cousin of mine, in more humble life, but a girl every way de serving of so noble a companion'. He pros pored in business, and grew wealthy—and the bitter mortification occasioned by a con trast of his Situation in life with mine, added another sting of reproach to my conscience. I felt myself a degraded being--punished seven-fold for my folly—and I could no lon ger brook the commiserating gaze of my former associates. Eventually we left Eng land, and arrived in your, city. Lieut. N—, is now a day laborer in your streets. You know the rest." Such was the sad tale of Mrs. N—; such the calamitous results of a mistaken policy in her early life. She was blinded with the prospect of wealth and fashion, and discarded a worthy lover, because he was poor, to become the wife of a showy Lieu• tenant. Her gay companions undoubtedly sustained her choice—the world called it a brilliant match, and brilliant it may have been for a moment, but for that moment of pleasure, what years of bitter anguish were experienced. Errors of this character are by no means isolated cases. Where wealth is consider ed the standard of pretensions, they must frequently occur; for riches add neither merit to the mind, nor strength to well formed principles; but rather increase than diminish the temptations which cross the path of the inexperienced. The attraction of wealth, strictly speaking, is adventitious; and it is the rock upon. which the happinetis and domestic felicity of thousands are stran ded. Such results must be frequent, so long as the union of purses is considered of more importance than the union of kindred hearts. True nobility of mind, pure principles, be nevolence of disposition, and that deference to the opinions, the feelings and the errors of others, which invariably distinguishes the' man of cultivated intellect, and which forms the basis of all happy matrimonial unions, are not contingent upon birth or wealth.— Perhaps, in a majority of cases, they are found separate and apart from those spark ling attractions of idleness and luxury,which the generality of mankind consider indispen sable in all judicious alliances.• It may i be vain, under certain circum stances, to combat popular delusions, but it can never be vain to repeat indisputable facts, of essential importance to the welfare of mankind. The truths of which Fspeak, are substantiated by the experience of every man of observation. flundreds'and thou sands of virtuous and accomplished females, are yearly sacrificed—their hearts rendered desolate--their hopes of happiness annihi • lated—their peace of mind forever destroy. 'ed---on the unholii , altar of mammon, by ill timed and improper conoexions, originating I lin sordid motives of pecuniary advantage. A fearful responsibility rests upon those who coerce alliances which eventuate in these appaling results. Some weeks after the above interview, N— died. His continued excesses had undermined his constitution, and rendered him a weak, miserable and enervated being. i His violence, while in a state of inebriation, rendered it necessary, for the safety of his family, and the peace of society, to confine him in the almshouse. He left the world 1 in a state of delirium,insensible to the change which was stealing over him, and unconsci ous of the accountability. of man to his God. His widow wept—his children hung giver his rough coffin in lamentation, but the tear of sorrow which felt from the Christian's I eye, was shed for the dark fate of an infat uated, a deluded mortal, and not for the exit of one who had lived only to occasion mise ry, and entail reproach. The grave of the virtuous man is planted with flowers, but the tomb of the drunkard is overgrown with noxious weeds. His existence is obliterated from the mind, for none would cull him . back to life. Neglected by those whose happiness he has blasted, he lies, awaiting the epoch which will dissolve time, in his cold and gloomy cell, "Unwept, unhonor'd and unsung." Three months had elapsed, when I again saw Mrs. N—. I knew she was not in want, and I was unwilling to obtrude when I could render no service. S!te was cheer ful, for her _weight of wo had been removed, and she surprised me with an announcement that she was about to return,with her young est daughter to England. "And leave Mary here?" I enquired. _ "Yes. She poSitively refuses to accom pany us." . , -Surely Mary," said I, "you will not con sent to a separation?" Her look of enibarrassment sufficiently explained the cause. . "Tell me, then," I resumed ; taking her delicate hand, "who it is that would separate the, best of daughters, from the most affec tionate of parents. Is his name George?" The shade of confusion deepened on her brow, and convinced me that I was not in error. From a mischievous motive, I added: "He of whom you once borrowed—" "Spare me," she interrupted, with one of her most fascinating smiles, "that debt is long since paid; but George declares 1 have incurred others, which it will require a life time to discharge. Would you have me go away in his debtl"' The nuptials were solemnized, before the departure of Mrs. N—. 1 had the honor a being present, and as I noticed the smile of delight on the manly and open face of the worthy George, the elegant form, and the soft, winning manner of the devoted Mary— Its I saw the evidences of pure and ardent love, in every word and look of the happy couple, and heard the solemn and heart-felt appeal to Heaven, for a blessing upon their plighted faith, from the lips of tire clergy man, I inaudibly remarked, if there is no love here, loye is a mere delusion—if there is no hapiness here, happiness is unknown to the human "heart. VARIOUS MATTERS. MORTALITY OF THE IRISH IN BOSTON.- Two hundred and eighty three Irish men, women and children, died in tke city of Bos ton, in 1834. Mrs. Bogue, of Amherst, on the 29th September last, the anniversary. of her 99th year, spun sixty knots and thirty threads of handsome woollen yarn. POLITICAL PROSPECTS.—We have the most satisfactory assurances from the east end Of 'the State partiCalarls , from Philadel phia, that the Whig party will unite with the Anti Masons in the support of Mr. Rit ner; who will no doubt be the opposition candidate. The idea of running a separate Whig candidate would be Mach a ridiculous fallacy that it is not contemplated. Possibly a very few anti-Jacksonites, bigotted against Anti-Masonry, may by such an arrange. nient, be driven to Wolf and Van Buren, but it is now evident that the number will be far less than was lately apprehended; while a large number , of the late supporters of Wolf refuse to sustain him any longer; and and another class will sharply oppose the pretensions of Muhlenburg. The Whig vote in the I,,egislature upon Stevens' resolutions, has been followed by sundry demonstrations in the. Whig papers, of a most auspicious appearance in regard to the approaching controversy for Govern or.—Pittsburg The grand jury of the Mayor's Court, Philadelphia, state, "that in the fulfilment of their duty, they have had abundant and la mentable proof, that most of the numerous cases of assault and battery, of petty theft, and other offences brought under their no tice, owe their origin to the intemperate use of strong drink." This is a true bill, which all the ingenui- ty of the most learned counsel could not "ignor."—and is just as applicable to other places as to Philadelphia. Most criminals receive the first improper impulse from drink; and nine-tenths of the distress which exists in the country can be traced to the same source. We believe that Temperance Societies have produced some rneliotation of this great evil, and we look forward to greater effects. It is commanded that "thou shalt not kill," and yet thousands who would shrink with horror from the commission of homi- CWHOLE NO. Stri., , tide, destroy by intemperanee, "the itioirit that is within them," and , finally • loathe body to an untimely grave. If the bowie.* be punishable . hereafter , hoW caintheseeelf , " destroyers escape condemnation? "Better think, before you drink," may be a homely adage, but it contains a wholesome adtnant tion—and we wish that every youth; when about to raise the first glass to his liPs,would repeat it before taking his drink: for heinay rely on it, that "a hot mouth makes a Cold back."—Bu Chron. A boy, carrying the mail-from: Moriah I Keesville, lately came into the latter named 1. . town, and said he had been robbed of .:011/3 hundred dollars, whi ch had 'been entrusted to him to carry,-by a--alai who .mei -him-la the woods, and placed a pistol to his breast; demanding - the money, which he said; he saw him receive. The people in the neigh• borhood immediately turned Out to •Settreh the woods without any eifect; they thee, thought they would search the little fellow; When they found the money snugly stowed away in one of his pockets; and he was see;• to prison. COMMUNICATION; For the Gettysburg Star and Republican Banner. THE SCHOOL SYSTEIIit. - I observed in the "Star" of the Itith inst. the proceedings of a meeting of a portion of the citizens of Latimore township. ' It is rather a difficult task to ascertain precisely what the real object of the meeting is, from the confused nuture of the proceedings. A large portion of which, is to us nothing but a mass of unintelligible jargon. It remind, us very forcibly of Roderick Random's love letter, which he admitted to be very sublime for aught he knew, but that it was entirely beyond his comprehension! So a portion of those proceedings I must frAnkly confess are beyond my humble comprehension,— The want of a proper system to direct the author., in his composition, is very strongly indicated in order to render his production intelligible: No doubt many valuable gen timentware lost, merely for the want of a little more perspicuity in his style. From a few of the hundred and fifty resolutions, and certain sentences contained in the me morial, we are happily enabled to infer the author's meaning. It appears that he is op posed to a system of General Education, and has adopted the present method of unmet.. talizieg himself in the eye of public estima tion, by the promulgation of his sentiments, ithrcugh the medium of all the public jourti als.in the county. ! ____ --. - "After philosophizing upon various BR& - jects, he asserts that the act creating a General System of Edueation by Common Schools, is unconstitutional. Section 1. Article 7. of the Constitution, says -."The Legislature shall, as soon as conveblently may be, provide by law for the establishmeot of schools throughout the State, 'in such manner that the poor may be taught gratis." In what the unconstitutionality of the ed consists, lam at a loss to determine; the idea appears to be a new one, entitling the-. author at least to the cluim of originality;- along with whatever 'merit it may pcesees. The law provides for the establishment of schools generally throughout the State, pro vided the majority of qualified citizens in the district are favorable thereto. It pro. vides, as specified ie the Censtitutioe, for the education of the poor gratis; The spoor man's child is admitted upon the same prin ciple of equality as that of his more wealthy neighbor, and permitted to share with them i. the same privileges. Does the author imit gine, because the•schools are not establish. ed for the exclusive benefit of the indigent, that there is necessarily a violation of the ' Constitution 7 All that the Constitution de- mantis, is, that the poor shall be taught gra. its, for which the present system unques tionably provides: for the really poor man who has no taxable property, does not con. , tribute toward the tuition of his children. But another source of lamentation is, that the poor are not provided with stationary! Here those tender hearted creatures find new causes for sympathy and coinmisera tion; this is a trifling barrier, nor does it render -the act unconstitutional, as there is nothing 'specified in relation theretci--:it merely provides for the teaching of the pcior gratis. , . It is alledged that (he present system will, be more likely to maintain the distinction between rich and poor, because all will know who contribute and who do not; and imme. diately it is affirmed,- that the actually poor man will be obliged to educate the children of the rich. Reason teaches us,that when every one contributes according .to their .1 several abilities, that the poor would not so ' I readily be pointed out as objects of derision by the ill-disposed, of which there are more or less in every community, than when they " are, to all intents and purposes, taught gni• tuitously. But if, as it has been said, the actually poor do educate the rich,Pere can not be'the slightest cause for fear from that quarter. Contrary to the generally 'received opinion, it is argued,that a General System; is calculated to wrest from us our liberties most assuredly when'men are generallymat - telligent, they are more vigilant, more cob. Below of their rights, and consetpxoy more . ".i jealous to maintain them, and reKenymr;;,„ croachments that threaten. Unirerlitlltii telligence is the only sure guarantee for the, perpetuity of our libertiee. • g ' ed But trustees are to be appoint to NM. care of us, as though we were idiot end ie.': capable of managing our own collKorThl.,q"" Are those:trustees a peculiar raceOf,i licensed. individuals, or are they limited hitseq -.. . 4 ". r 'lr MM= • /tt -
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