Iowa news. [volume] (Dubuque, Upper Mississippi Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1837-1841, 1837-12-09

and not unworthy ef the care bestow-
ed upon them in this city, and never
more than under its present enlighten-
ed and efficient government. But. in
themselves, they are like every thing
else which begins and ends in this life,
busting, unsubstantial vanities. VIVA,
considerate man can enter a school,
and not reflect with awe that it is a
seminary where immortal minds are
training for eternity! What parent
but is at times, weighed down with
the thought that there must be laid
the foundations of building which
will stand when not merely temple
and palace, but the perpetual hills and
adamantine rocks on which they rest,
have melted away! that light may
there be kindled which will shine, not
merely when every artificial ray is ex-
tinguished, but when the affrighted
sun has fled away from the heavens! 1
can add nothingto thisconsideration sir.
l will only say, in conclusions Edu-
cation When we feed that lamp,
we perform the highest social duty:
If we quench it, / know not where,
(humanly speaking, for time or for
eternity,)
81 know where is that Promethean heat
That can its light reluein.''
] When Gen. Washington was young
man, and only a Colonel, and stationed
at Alexandra, in Virgins, he happen
ed to get into a dispute with Mr..
Payne; and becoming, for once in his
life, little angry, he said something
which offended Mr.. p, VINO, without
ceremony, raised his cane, and at sim
gle blow. brought him tothe ground.
Col. WIS officers who we're present,
were at once in rage, AMI SO was his
whole regiment when they heard of
it; and there YVES for while, reason to
fear that they and the frieqds Of Mr..
Payne would get into general quar-
rel aud destroy many lives. But Col.
Washington came out, and after thank
ing them, and telling them he was not
hurt, begged them to be peaceable, and
at last prevailed.
When Washington came to reflect
on the matter, he found he was in the
wrong. No sooner did he come to this
conclusion, than he resolved on the
next day, to ask Mr.. P.'s PARDON
Great man as he was, he was not a.
shamed to own it when he had been in
the wrong. No sooner had he resolv-
ed to do what his conscience told him
he ought to do, than he was at peace
in his own mind, and that very night
he attended place of amusement, and
behaved just as we'll as if nothing at all
had happened.
The next day he wrote very polite
note to Mr.. P. requesting him to meet
him. The latter taking it for chal-
lenge, went to the spot, expecting to
see Washington with pair ef pistols.
But what was his surprise, when, on
entering, Washington arose and gave
him his hand, in the most friendly
manner. q fnd,' said he, 4 was wrong
in the affair Of yesterday; you have
had, think, some satisfaction; and if
you think that sufficient, here's my
hand-let us be friends"
A few years afterward, Mr.. Payne
had law suit in Fairfax, near where
Washington lived, and the latter hap
pened, just at that time, to be in the
court house. The lawyer who was OPP
posee to Mr.. P. finding he had very
hard case, thought to prejudice the ju-
ry by telling them that Mr.. p. had,
sometime before, greatly abused Wash
ington. This, said he, SIS the wretch
who dared to lift his impious hand a.
gainst the greatest and best of men, as
though he had been bullock of the
stalls"
This was SO unexpected, and pro-
nounced in such laundering tone, and
in such tremendous stamp on the
floor, that it made prodigious i'm
4 preston. Washington could not bear
this. He always wished to have the
truth known. Seeing that the counte-
nance Of the court began to blacken
upon Mr.. p, and that the latter began
to look wild, he arose and thus adj
dressed the bench:
Gas to Mr.. Payne's character, may
it please your worships, we all have the
satisfaction to know that it is perfect
ly unexceptionable; and with respect
to the little difference which formerly
happened between that gentleman and
1 rnvself - ,,,as Instantly made IN and