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THE EDUCATION NEEDED NOW.
The following admirable article
we find in an exchange, credited
to a New Orleans paper. We
commend it to the careful consid
eration of our readers:
The people of our State are in a
like predicament with the man
who had the house destroyed from
ever his heaJ. We have to re
build a home for ourselves and
families. The old home was a
mighty comfortable one. Its low,
hipped roof, large airy rooms and
extensive pilastered porticoes,
gave it a quaint, and yet comfort
able appearance, as well as reality.
The comforts and luxuries of
the past are henceforth only the
wealth ofthe imagination. Memo
ry may linger with fond retrospec
tive glance, and revel in idealities
no longer to be realized. But the
stern realities of the present
arouse us to actual life, and bid us
lay aside all "fond imaginings,'
and deal with the necessities of
the hour.
Circumstances have entirely
altered our condition. ""Times
change"-and we must change
with them. The pitst must be
buried in the past. The present
and the future is all that lices to
us. Let us no longer linger round
the grave of buried hopes. Hav
ing paid the necessary tribute of
the heart to the ;loved and lost"
let us now turn to the realities of
life.
For many years to come, at
least, luxury, ease and indolence
must give way to energy and la
bor. Yes, labor, protracted, perse
vering labor, must be our lot; and
the sooner we get to work in good
earnest, the better. We must,
ourselves, take hold of the plough,
the anvil and the loom. We must!
cultivate our long-neglected mus
ce, and fmnd in vigorous exercise.
'not only wealth, but heretofore
unknown health and happines.
But while we, who are now ar
rived at the age of manhood, may
do much- while we may- rebuild1
curiong enervated systems upon
a muscle-developing basis-while
we can do much to repair our shat-.
tered hopes, and regain our lost
wealth and~ influenice, it is to the
rising generation that nhe South
look for that full dievelopment of~
all her resources, and that complete
and full regeneration that shall
lead to her economical success,
and her ultimate, relative and comn
plete independence.
This must be the great indus
trial power of the South. This is
the practical lever by which we
shall overturn all obstacles in our
path to national greatness. Upon
the muscle and mind of the
'youth of our land we must rely
for hellp. But here the laws of ne
cessity~ follow us as persistently as
in any other of nature's domains.
Ends must be accomplished by
means. In order to accomp)lish
successfully these great endls, the
preparatory means must be used.
The muscle as well as minds of
these important workers-out of
our destiny must be cultivated.
And ther must be cultivated on
particular principles in order to
attain practical ends. They must
be educated-thoroughly, _practi
cally educated.'
The term education is a very ex-'
tensively indefinite one. It rep
resents very different states and
conditions, as we look at it from
different stand-points. In its orig
inal aceeptation, it is a very forci
ble and perfe ct expression. It is
the e, or ex duco, the drateing out,
or developing whatever is to be
educated. Nothing could be more
We need the e-duco-the drawing
out or development of the minds
and muscles of our young people.
Our people seem to have entire
ly overlooked that only real and
proper school of a nation's hope
and success; that only school in
which are taught practically, and
in a manner never to be forgotton,
the great lessons oflife-the school
of experience. This is the only
successful teacher the world has
ever found. In it must be taught
the masses-that fundamental ba
sis of a nation's hope, power and
wealth. We have had enough of
the old system. We must now
try the, to us. new, though it is
the one adopted by the world
around us. Our children must be
taught not only to -cread" a book,
but to read the great book of na
ture; to "write," not only elegant
epistles, fictions, and all the lacka
daisacal nonsense of perverted lit
erature, but to write their names
high on the scroll of success; not
only to write, but to do right ; not
only to "cypher" through the pa
ges of arithmetics, and the ab
struse works of mathematics, but
to cipher their way through life.
over obstacles, to independence and
success.
Let the youth of the South, then,
be at once put to school under this
great and only great teacher. At
the plough handle, at the forge, at
the bench, in all the various de
partments of practical business life ;
let them learn in childhood and
youth these lessons that will be of
priceless value to them through
life. Let us have more muscles
and less of mind-at least, simple,
theoretical edeality, Let the mind
and body both be developed in
harmony. Let the boy or girl
learn in the living. breathing, real,
practical world, those lessons of
life that will dispel all fidse no
tions with which novelists and
such instructors of youth poison
the mind, corrupt the morals, and
completely wreck all just hopes of
their parents and country. Edu
cate the youth of our State in the
realities of pr-ac-tical life, and you
will have a people successful, hap
pv and free.
A WOMAN ANNOUNCES HERSELF A
CANDIDATE FOR CONGRESS.
We live in a fast age. In many
instances rowdlvismf controls elec
tions, and small war-d politicians
use such an clement to their own
personal aggrandizement. against
old and quiet citizens. Another
influence it appears, is about to be
brought to bear on the polities of
the countryv. One of the "str-ong
mindled women," so-called, publish
es the following card in the New
York paper's.
To thec Editor of thec E/ghth Con
gressional D&srict-A lthough, by
the Constitution of the State of
New York, woman is dEnied thc
elective franchise, yet, she is eligi
ble to office; therefore. I present
myself to you as a candidate for
Representative to Congress. Be
longing to a disfranchised class, I
have no political antecedents to re
commend me to your support, but
my creed is free speech, free press.
free men, and free trade-the car
dinal points of dlemocracy. View
ing all things from the standpoint
of principle rather than expedien
cy, there is a fixed uniform law, as
et unrec(ognized by either of the
leading parties, governing alike
the social and political life of men
and nations. The Republican
party has occasionally a clear vis
ion of personal rights, while in its
protective policy it seems wholly
blind to the rights of property and
interests of commerce ; while it
reconizes the duty of benevolence
between man and man, it teaches
the narrowest selfishness in trade
between nations.
The Democrats, on the contrary,
while holding sound and liberal
principles in tradle and commerce,
have ever in their political affili
ations maintained the idea of
class andl caste among men-an
iea wholly at vreine with the
genius of our free institutions. and
fatal to a high civilization. One
party fails at one point, and one at
another. In asking yor suffrages
--believing alike in free men and
free trade-I could not represent
either party as now constituted.
Nevertheless, as an independent
candidate, I desire an election at
this time as a rebuke to the domi
nant party for its retrogressive
legislation, in so amending the
Constitution as to make invidious
distinctions on the ground of sex.
That instrument recognizes as
persons all citizens who obey the
laws and support the State, and if
. the Constitutions of the several
States were brought into harmony
with the broad principles of the
Federal Constitution, the women
of the nation would no longer be
taxed without representation, or
governed without their consent.
One word should not be added to
that great charter of rights to the
insult or injury of the humblest of
our citizens. I would gladly have
a voice and vote in the Fortieth
Congress to demand universal
suffrage, that thus a republican
form of government might be se
cured to every State in the Union.
If the party now in ascendancy
makes its demand for "negro suf
frage" in good faith, on the ground
of natural right, and because the
highest good of the State demands
that the Republican idea be vindi
eated, on no principle of justice or
safety can the women of the na
tion be ignored.
In view of the fact that the
freedmen of the South and the mil
lions of foreigners now crowding
our Western shores, most ofwhoni
represent neither property, educa
tion or civilization, are all, in the
progress of events, to be enfran
"hised.. the best interests. of the
nation demand that we out-weigh
this incoming pauperism, igno
rance and degredation, with the
wealth, education and refinement
of the women of the Republic. On
the high ground of safety to the
nation and justice to its citizens, I
ask y-our support in the coming
election.
ELIZABETH CADY STANTON.
WELL DONE, CHESTER :--We are
gratified to learn from the Ches
ter Standard1, that the best of feel
ings prevail in that District among
the people, upon the subject of col
lecting debts. In one instance, a
genitleman declined to accept spe
cie in payment of a debt contrac
ed before the wvar, declaring he
would only receive currency. Sev
eral lawers informed the Editor,
that even had not the Legislature
p)ostponled the Fall Session of the
Court of Common Pleas, the dock
et would1 hf.ve presented a beggar
ly array of suits. The merchants
express a willingness to comnpro
*misc with their dlebtors upon the
most liberal terms. This spirit is
commendable, and we commnend it
to the imitation of~ our readers.
The general rule is, when a mer
chant fails in business from error
in judgemnt or reckless specula
tion. if there be no charge of frau
dulent conduct on his part, his
brother merchants compound with
him immediately, allowing him to
retain, not only such property as
is exempt under the insolvent
laws, but also, enough property to
start him in business again. That
every e.lass of the communnitv has
faiiled to meet their liabilities.is no
fault of~ theirs, and why should
not the like rule of conduct ob
tain amongithe other classes ofs~o
ciety, that obtain~ among mer
chants ? We could advance many
cogent reasons to prove that the
interests of the debtor, creditor,
and community at large, would be
best advanced by the compound
ing of debts at once, but we sup
pose that they are too obvious
to need r epetition. The~re are ea
ses where the debtor is amply able
to respond, and looking to the na
ture of the credit given, the debts
may not be compounded upon
principles of atnrn1 enuitr."'
l without dishonor to the debtor or
creditor. Such cases are excep
tional-most of debts may be fair
ly compounded, and we urge that
it be done. We wish, however,
that it may be distinctly under
stood, that we regard the proposi
tion, to repudiate debts, as the
sum of all dishonesty. It is not
allowable under the Constitution
of the United States and the Con
stitution of the State, and even
if it were, it would be both unwise
and unjust. Iepudiation is one
thing-the compounding of a debt
upon a fair and equitable princi
ple by the parties, is another, and
a very different thing.-Anderson
Intelligencer.
REVELATIONS OF AN OLD MONAS.
TERY.
Until the summer of last year,
one of the chief objects of interest
to visitors at Funchal, Maderia,
was a grand old monastery belong
ing to the order of St. Francis.
In June, 1864, however, an order
was received to have it pulled
down, that a court of justice might
be erected on its site. The work
men had been toiling for some
hours, during which the crowd
around the Gothic arch had great
ly augmented, when a cry was
heard within the building such as
escapes strong men when their
feelings are suddenly and violent
ly aroused. Instantly there was
an answering voice from the crowd,
who. breaking through the slen
der barrier presented by a wood
en bolt lying across the entrance,
rushed frantically through dim
corridors and terror-haunted cham
bers, awakening as they went
multitudinous echoes with their
wild and impatient calls and
shouts. Guided by the rapid and
reverberant strokes of the work
men's tools, the crowd quietly
reached a room at the extremity
of a long slimy hall, and situated
between it and the chapel, from
whence there was another en
trance. It was a lofty room. but
of small dimensions, having an
iron door at either end. IIigh up
in the southern sidle-wall there
was a grated window, and at the
opposite wall the men who had
uttered that cry of fearful import
weret working~ with fiurious ener
gv, while face to face with them
stood the rigid body, of a woman,
whose gliassy eyes death hathi fauied
to close, and whose fair. sofft flesh
decay hal spar'ed throughout
the long period of three hundred
years. She stood Oin a deep recess
in the thick wall, beside a smaill
fire-place, whc had1 been sur
mounted by a beautiful mantle
piece of pur~e white unveined mar
ble. In removing this costly slab,
a portion of the wal! had sudder.ly
fallen. betraying to the masons the
appalling secret of a living~ tomb
in the vestry of the Church of St.
Francis. With the presence of
the crowd the horror-stricken
workmen regained their fil inug
courage, and redoubled their fail
ing courage, and redoubled their
power'ful efforts to widen the
breach ; while each wel-aimed
blow of their crowbars increased
the general excitement, as more
andI more of the gastly form stood
revealed. It was richly att ired in
lilae silk, still retain ing in its ami
ple folds the freshness of its origi
nal tint. One small spray of br'il
liants gleamed in the abundant
black hair, which still hung in
heavy braids down the shoulders.
though it had lost its softness and
its shadowy gloss. Such a grave
dress wa s horribly suggestive of a
dread burial. The faces of the
crowd darkened, their voices deep
ened into a pent-up roar, when
suddenly the remainder of the wall
came tumbling down, exposing to
the eyes of the dismayed throng
the fleshless skeleton of a man ly
ing at the woman's left hand, in a
p)iled vet irreg'ular heap, as if it
had slid down bone after bone,
when the sinews and muscles which
had giveni beauty and strength to
manhiood had loosened their 1hold
THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY.
The Richmond Times, in its
usual and forcible style, writes as
follows :
Does any one recollect an in
stance furnished in human expe
ri.ence of the preservation of a
Republican form of Government,
after the consummation of such a
revolution as that which the radi
cals are inaugurating ? All free
nations have lost their liberties
just as we are doing, through the
machinations of bad men and the
corruptions flowing from the mis
appropriation of the public trea
sure. When our revenues were
small and expenditures limited, the
struggle for the possession of
power was not of such a character
as to shake the foundations of the
Government and to break the
peace of the country. But now we
have an income which neither
Greece nor Rome, in all the pleni
tude of power and the magnitude
of empire, ever collected from
their tributaries. And when
'barbaric gold" had driven virtue
and honor from their councils;
when their simple republics fell
before the sapping vices of con
quest and wealth, their Govern
ments were as hard to "reconstruct"
as ours. They, too, had men like
Andrew Johnson-wise and patri
otic-who essayed to check the
lowifall of truth and virtue. But
they battled in vain.' The virtues
of Cato, the wisdom of Socrates,
the valor of Scipio and the elo
quence ofDemosthencs and Cicero,
were vain to stop the flood which,
when once it sets in, sweeps until
the last landmark of freedom dis
appears. Descensus Averni facilis
est. sed rer;ocare quodom, hic labor,
Ii c opus est ! It is not hard to lose
liberty; but, when gone, who can
rec'all it ? There is no resurrection
for the lost institutions of a free
people; and if the masses of the
North shall follow in the lead of
New England and the radical false
prophets, they will desert the plat
form on which their fore fathers
stood, ex en as the Hebrews of old
ab)andoned their God, and, like
them, they will wander, perhaps,
forty years in a wilderness of
anarchy, blood and suffering, smit
ten by the wrath of Heaven for
their wickedness and idolatry.
If, through the madness and
folly af faction, the liberties of the
American people are lost, history
furnishes no example to guide us
in retrieving them. The lamp of
antiquity sheds no light over paths
whichl return from the sepulchres
of dead republics. When they fall,
they fall never to rise again, and
an iron despotism rolls to the
do or of t heir tomb, a stone which
can never be -displaced. New
nations may arise, new republics
be formed from new peoples and
materials, but when once the fires
of liberty go out, thycan never
be rekindled upon the same altars.
This admonition should not be
disregard ed, by those whose dear
e:st rights are in jeopardy. The
voices which come up to us from
the depths of the past, should not
be unheeded when we contemplate
thIiat revolution which threatens
with (lestruction the very pillars of
our temlel, and with the strength
and frenizv of blind Samson would
crush us beneath its ruins.
It is too late to pause and regret
neglected opportunities when they
are gone. No physician can save
a cholea patient when the col
lapse is u1pon him, and there is no
remedy for the dleath wounds of
the country when a vile faction
has been perinitted to give them.
Have we no Cassandra, whose
winning voice can save our Ilium
from the flames ? If we have not,
then we fear that there is no "pious
Eneas" to carry out Penates safe
ly over the stormy sea to found in
their p)resence, in foreign lands, a
great and glorious empire, where
the virtues of the past shall be re
newed and the promises of future
renown fulfilled. A "Grecian
walls, and when struck we hear
not only the sound of arms, but
the oaths and blasphemy of radi
cal traitors.
- 0*
THE BLUE RIDGE RAIL ROAD.
The stockholders ofthat influen
tial and wealthy corporation, "the
Louisville and Nashville Rail
Road," at their annual meeting on
1st October, determined upon the
extention of their Lebanon Branch
Road from "Crab Orchard," its
present terminus, to the Tennessee
line, at a point to which the Knox
ville and Kentucky Rail Road is
now being built.
This fact in itself would be an
unimportant event, but for its
ultimate bearing on the prospect
of the Blue Ridge Road. When
the great Northwest crosses the
Ohio River, on a permanent iron
bridge, which is. now being con
structed at Louisville and journeys
Southward to Knoxville, over an
unbroken line of first-class rail
roads, it will not be for the purpose
of making Knoxville its depot.
Far from it-the stream of travel,
the gigantic tonnage from the
vallies of the Ohio and Mississippi,
and from the shores of the great
lakes, are seeking an outlet on the
South Atlantic coast, and the connect
ing link is the Blue Ridge Rail Road.
We may crowd it out of sight
under the more urgent needs of
the present times, some may say
"it will never be," but the seeds
planted in the "Rabun Gap," mtt
grow and will bring us ample
returns.
Three millions of money in tun
nels, in masonry and in actual
road, is too important a fact to be
overlooked, when the commerce of
the great West shall have reached
Knoxville. It will not be over
looked if our people will but do
their duty. Admit that they have
no money now for any rail road'
enterprises-good will does not
cost anything. Let us then never
forget the importance of keeping
this project always in mind, and if
we cannot work ourselves, this
year or next year, the year after
may bring us a helping hand.
Our authority for the statement
of the proposed extension to Knox
ville, is a letter received here re
cently from that able rail road
officer, Albert Fink, Esq., Engineer
of the Louisville and Nashville
Rail Road.
A German by birth, he has, by,
his great ability and indomitable
energy, gathered around him a
wide circle of friends in his adopted
home, and our own merchants who
visit.ed. Louisville in June last,
speak with much feeling of his
courtesy and his words of good
cheer in behalf of our Blue Ridge
Rail Road .-Chiarleston Courier.
INDECENCY OF THE DRAMA CALLED
THE BLAICK CROOK.
[From the Louisville Courie, October 18 ]
Our eastern, or rather, as they
are generally termed, Yankee
brethern and sisters are especially
on the high moral stilts.. 'Twas
among them originated the patent
high pressure idea of a new God, a
new Bible, and a new religion.
'T was there that women abandoned
their legitimate sphere, and took
to the forum to instruct men in
Imatters of which the fair lecturer's
were profoundly ignorant. 'T was
there all the new isms that throw
aside all the morals and social
amenities, that keep the human
race above the brute creation, had
their birth. 'Tis from there we
get all the obscene publicationis
and prints that are demoralizing
youth. 'Tis there are first intro
duced, in their class theatres, the
bawdy dramas that arc only enact
ed in the very lowest grades of
Paris theatres for the delectation
of the very lowest scum and filth
of Parisian society. Certainly the
"dramatizations from the French,"
with which we have been favor
edfrom time to time,were obscene
enough to suit the most depraved
taste. But it seems not to be so.
INew York reqnired something
more loose and obscene yet, and
New York has now got it in the
shape of a play called The Black
Crook. This is a dramatization of
a very old and very dirty book,
written in the days of the Pom
padour, and the circulation of which
was suppressed by law in later and
more decent times, We are sorry
to say that we are indebted to Mr.
Charles M. Barras, a man whom we
would not have suspected of pro.
stituting his talents by employing
them in such work, for this -drama.
But Barras'wrote it, and Manager
Wlheatley is playing it at Niblo's,
and not only playing it, but multi.
tudes are turned away nightly,
and Mr. Wheatley pockets $2,50
at each exhibition.
The Black Crook depends fonts
popularity upon the lascivious
pictures formed upon the stage.
There are several -"demen" ndx
other dances, in which fiftytlree
girls, selected for theis beauty*o .
feature and perfection ofform, take
part in an entirely nude state,
except a narrow clout of thingauze
that conceals nothing. So. de
praved have his audience become,
that Manager Wheatley finds 'it a
paying dodge to hang out large
transparencies before his ,theatre
each night, announcing that the
"demon dance comes off at 9.30.
This dance is particularly luseidus,
and cannot fail to inspire auditors
with ideas, and rouse emotions of
a sublimely moral nature. How
long wiI this devil's work be .:
lowed ?- Niblo's ought to be burn
ed to the ground by the decent
part of the community, and Mann.
ger Wheatley either hnngordriven -
from the country. Forty-thousi
additional houses of prostitution
in the city of New York couldnot
do one tithe the damage- to. the
morals ofthe risiiggeneration-that
this fellow Wheatley is now doiug.
AN INCIDENT.--As a train ofe4s
was last week approaching the
suspension bridge, near Niagaa,
the conductor found a young -an
who could not pay his fare." The
poor fellow was evidently in the
last stage of coneumption, and
emaciated to skeleton proportions.
He-sat by himself; and his -eyes
were red, as though he had been
weeping ; but the law of the comn-.
pany could not be transgressed,
and he must leave the train. Not ,
a person moved or spoke as. the -
conductor lcd him from his seat,
all shivering with the cold; but
just as he reached the door a
beautiful girl arose from her seat
and with bright, sparkling eyes,
demanded the amount.charged for
the poor invalid.
The conductor said $8, and The
young and noble girl took that
sum from her pocket-book, and
kindly led the sick youth back to
his seat. The action put to shame
several men who had witnessed -
it, and they offered to "pay half,"
but the whole-souled woman in
dignantly refused the assistanee.
When the train arrived in Albany
the young protectress gave the
invalid money enough -to keep
him over night, and send him to
his friends the next morning.
A Max TREED BY A DEER.--Mr.
Newman, of this District, while on
his way to Chesterfield -Qqart,
found a man up a tree near the
road, eagerly watched and guar.
ded by a large wild buck, with a
formidable head of antlers, and be
in g warned before he had attract
ed the notice of the animal, rode
to a neighboring house, borrowed
a gun and killed it. He learned
from the prisoner, that the deer
had been slightly wounded by a
party of huntsmen, and pursued by
dogs till it had become quite
furious, and having escaped, wa
lying down behind a log, when~ be
discovered it and stole up with a
view to spring on and catch it,
But observing its large siae, and
the keenness of its horns his cour,
age failed him, and he was makinR
a retreat, when the enrage animJ
perceived him and rushed after'
him barely giving hinm time to
escape by climbing, He bad been
in duress about two hours before
Mr. Newman's arrival.
[Camden JoQral,