Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1845-06-21
TO THE EDITORS.

/ GENTLEMEN We perceive that controversy has arisen
between the editors Of the Richmond Enquirer aud Of another
Journal in relation the system Of education al present pur-
sued at the University Of Virginia The editor Of the latter
journal is unquestonaby right in maintaining that truly
republican system of educion adapted the nature and
objects Of our free institutions, is yet desderatum In
country He is the other hand, however, greatly snd
grossly in in considering the study Of the classics
TO exercise unvorabe anti republican n6u
ece the minds and sentiments of youth, and TO make
them more in love-, he phrases it. wth monarchy and
astocacy than with the simplicity inculcated by the pecepts
and example of foreathersv This is an incorrect and
We must snsulary Ignorant view Of the subject il is
solely 70 the literature left BY the free States Of antiquity,
y me immortal fire Of freedom that still burns the classic
oreece aud Rome, that the preservation and
uSlon that inextnguhale light Of liberty which neither
y!annes nor time have been able to bedin or chill which,
US Spreads like river that enlarges flows,
desned to shed its aenghtcning RAYS even further than
hose o. the SUM- and iadiaie 10 its remoet bounds long
oenghed world An English writer has seriously maintained
nai Is 70 the study Of the classics al Oxford and Cambridge
that the disturbed condition Of England for SO many ages has
been chiefly owing, they tend keep up he contends
spirit Of liberty and discomfort adverse the quiet and order Of
society," and to the stability Of mixed and balanced system Of
government like that of Great Britain To prescribe thee
studies withdraw from the hands Of youth those brilliant
records Of the deeds and virtues Of the sons Of liberty
those proud memorials Of the great Of o'woud be cal
culaed to produce other than deerorang effect upon
their minds and spirits effect similar that which
omission by the successors Of Cesar in public PROFESSIONS Of
the eges Of the leaders and sages Of the republic which
had previously been customary carry in honor such
sons said to have had upon the Of the ancient
Romans For these revered images they recalled, they
inspired them to emulate and practise the simple and sublime
virtues of their heroic ancestors and their being thus forever
Withdrawn from their view tended in uncomfortable de-
al.oS
therism which had long distinguished and goiousy
illustrated their character This first done by the usup
ing Dictator, at his triumph after his from Gau and
the consummaton Of his ambitious designs, and sublime
description is given by Tacus Of the effect Of this experiment
upon the minds and feelings Of the unhappy Romans Though
every effort made TO their attention and admit
ration the proud usurper, whose unroled glores
spread in long and imposing pomp before them though the
victor himself led up the mighty pageant crowned with the
aures Of hundred fields yet recorded by the historian
Zone Of those sacred classics poncy denounced by the
editor Of the Journal he overlooked and in
forgotten, while the saddened gaze Of the Romans fixed
imagination and with fond regret the images of those
heroic patriots and sages Of the republic which they had here
tooe always borne in honor before their
triumphant Generals
ssThe pomp daIkend and the day o'ercast"-
the spectacle passed in spcndor and in goomsed prul
gebut Brufs Casss, says the immortal Tacitus and the
Catos and Scpio the Cmcnnatuses and Deciuses of the
republic were present to the eyes Of their detected
countymen than the proud conquero of Phaas in whose
gorgeous triumph they only the funeral of their lost ber
ties. Noble and sublime detection which the race who had
ruled the world who had borne the double eagle Of victory
and liberty for many ages their flying bannes could
not but feel the sight Of fallen freedom and departing glory
The classics then, contend breathing they do the spirit
of liberty and enshrnng the brightest examples of public
and nj
deeds and memory Of the wise and good of every age can
be dispensed with any rational welevised system
Of republican education The only of the present sys
tenn the time spent studying the languages in which they
written which agree with 'Young America" in
considering most unproaby wasted For all thar is vau
able in their teachings and in the examples which they hold
up youth, may well be studied in weexecuted ansa
TONS in the originals Of which the skill and graces Of the
composition alone unsusceptible Of Transmission Of
being properly reflected in other Languages tits only models
Of composition for their literary cxceences that they are
studied in Europe In America, let them be valued for their
higher merits and studied the literature Of liberty as the
brightest records of her achievements the affairs on which
her fires will forever burn and from which the torch know
ledge and Of freedom may always he reknde however often
may be cxingushed by yrants rampled by barbas
JEFFERSON
Some ruimenta instruction. which might enable those
who should choose in after life prosecute such studies to
lnuuSe ought
system Of collegiate education only object the Procr-
team plan Of stretching out upon the bed Of the languages
the minds Of youth, and ocby making scholars of them all
GuASo.-A letter from James Arlington Bennett dated
Long Island, New York, the 10th instant has the follow
ing remarks on the Of Guano
CAS- have cen informed that farmers have injured
their crops by nudicious application guano il may he
proper point out the way WHICH should he used TO adj
vantage. First, them the guano be empted ON barn
floor other place. puverzed with spade, and through
and what pounded again and
screened second time. There will be still remainder, and
this will do for potatoes other Dubious In apply
ing corn be done until the ground
Them before rain, possible apply two small
handful around each hill which he covered soon as
possible keep the from evaporang the ammonia Two
the hill will be about three hundred pounds 10 the
for but additional quantity be applied at
any other subsequent time TO corn and hoed moulded with
the plough BY watching its PROGRESS crop almost
any be produced must be applied TO potatoes
when planted at the rate of from five eight hundred pounds
the acre. Tin hesandy soil of Long Island and covered
with the seed Think however, that would lie better to
there is danger of the rain carrying the manure too
deep in the earth"
We have been told of the passengers that the steam
Hberna, her recent passage the Atlantic,
three several times fire. Now this is thing which could
not have happened think without the most cupabe
lessncss.-N y. EpangeEsf.
We have been told Of instances OF dangerous
careesness than ths--K Y Epe. Gaz
A DrIEMma-Tbe aP NJ in our village being young
man. has been placed in delicate situation by the