American Republican and Baltimore daily clipper. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1844-1846, 1845-03-10
FLOR the American Republican. l

MEssRs. EpIToRs,-l noticed in your valu-
able paper an account of public meeting call
ed to hear the report of the Ministry at large.
1T was very gratifying to hear of the benefits
resulting from the labors of that indefatigabe
Missionary, Mr.. ID.
That the work of philanthropy and charity
ought to be sustained no one can doubt, espe-
cially that relating to visiting and relieving the
wants of the poor, and rescuing that class OF
the rising generation from infamy and vice.
But as far as education is concerned, il would
seem our Public School System ought to an
swer this purpose; and to me it appears it would
to much greater advantage than the one so
ably advocated.
The advantages accruing TO this class of
children by mingling with those more favored
than themselves, and placed in a position where
their facilities for improvement would be equal
with their school fellows, would have a tenden-
cy to break up those habits and associations
which must, more or less, be retained by con-
gregating i'll the same room, instead of being
distributed in the several schools. True, as it
regards females, needle-work cannot be taught
in our Public Schools; but child, we'll instruc-
ted in other respects, rarely fails to accomplish
this branch especially if any attention is paid
to this item at home; and without this atten-
ton, to keep in practice what is taught, it
would room answer no available purpose, and
that time, spent in educating the mind would
accomplish the design of benevolence far bet
ter. Much less than the amount required to
sustain the Mission School, would keep an
equal number suitably clothed to attend the
Public Schools andp pay their tuition beside.
As it regards religious instruction on the Sab
bath, there are sufficient Sabbath schools where
these children would be readily received, and 1t
would do away the necessity of sustaining one
purposely for them. And as almost with, ut
exception, the poor express some preference for
some one OF the many religious denominations
of our city, it would seem to preclude the ne
cessity of place of worship designed for this
class.
Could the Missionary visit these people,
counsel and instruct them, as he now does,
furnish them with means to attend a place of
worship and Sabbath schools-the benefits re-
sultng to them would be as great, and the
amount required to sustain the operation much
less. MATER.
GUANo WAR. Trouble has grown out of
the struggle to obtain cargoes of guano at Icha-
Doe. The island has no owner, the produce is
public property, and there is quite scramble
to obtain a cargo. Captain Root, of the brig
Thomas Winslow, arrived at N. Bedford from
Ichaboe, with l6o tons guano, reports that the
first quality of guano is nearly exhausted
There were vessels enough to take off the
whole guano on the Island. The regulations
made by a self-constructed committee of Irish
laborers, who were sustained by the command
err of the British steamer Thunderbolt, were
at FIRST that no American vessel should load
until the British ships had laded. But this
regulation was not enforced in every case
Some vessels had offered as high as "a per
ton for the use of the staging erected by ships
that had been among the first loading at the is
land. Considerable damage had been done a.
mong the shipping by vessels coming in con-
tact with each other, a heavy swell rolling in
at times, knocking away some days several
bow-sprits, and otherwise damaging the hulls
One captain of an English ship had been killed
at the island Vessels at lchaboe, 800 English,
5 Americans, and French.