Daily American telegraph., 1852-06-07

ting master mathematical master English mas
ter, made out the bills, mended thepens, and did
all sorts of things He divided the little bows
with the Latin master, they were smuggled
through their rudimentary books at odd times,
when there was nothing else to do,) and he
called at parents houses to inquire after sick
boys, because he had gentlemanly manners. He
was rather musical, and on some remote quar-
ter day had bought an old trombone, but bit
OF 1t was lost, and it made the most extraordina-
ry sounds when he sometimes tried to play it Of
IN evening. His holydays never began ION ac-
count of the bills) until long after ours but in
the summer vacations he used to take pedes-
TRAN excursions with knapsack and at
Christmas time, he went to see his father at
Chipping Norton, who we all said ION no author
ity) was dairy fed pork butcher. Poor fellow
He was very low all day on Maxby's sisters
wedding day, and afterwards was thought to
favor Maxby more than ever. though no had
been expected to spite him. He has been dead
these twenty years. Poor fellow
Our remembrance Of Our School presents
the Latin master as colorlcss doubled-up,
near sighted man with crutch, who was always
cold, and always disclosing ends Of flannel un-
der his old garments, and almost always ap-
plying Il ball of pocket handkerchief to some
part of his face with a screwing action round
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took great pains where he saw intelligence and
Il desire to learn otherwise, perhaps not. Our
memory presents him unless teased into pas
sion) with as little energy as color-as having
been worried and tormented into monotonous
feebeness-as having had the best part of his
life ground out Of him in n mill of boys We
remember with terror how he fell asleep one
sultry afternoon with the little smuggled class
before him, and awoke not when the footstep
Of the Chief fell heavy upon the floor; how the
Chief aroused him, in the midst of dread 81
lence, and said, :" Mr.. Blnkins, are you i'll,
SIR" how he blushingly replied, "Sir, rather
so )" how the Chief retorted with severity, Mr..
Blinkns, this is no place to be i'll in" (which
was very, very true,) and walked back solemn
as the ghost in Hamlet until, catching a wan
dering eye, he caned that boy for nattention
and happily expressed his feelings towards the
Latin master through the medium of substi-
tute.
There was fat little dancing master, who
used to come in gig, and taught the more ad-
vanced among us hornplpes las an accomplish
ment in great social demand in after life J and
there was a brisk little French master who
used to come in the sunniest weather with
handeless umbrella, and to whom the Chiefwas
llways polite, because las we believed if the
Chief offended him he would instantly address
the Chief in French, and forever confound him
before the boys with his inability to understand
or reply.
There was, besides, a serving man whose
name was Phil Our retrospective glance pre-
aents Phil as a shpwrccked carpenter, cast
away upon the desert island of a school, and
carrying into practice an ingenious inkling
of many trades. He mended whatever was
: broken and made whatever was wanted
/ He was general glazier, among other things,
! nd dn1 all hn hrpl or tbo
prime cost las was darkly rumored among us)
of ninepence, for every square charged three
and six to parents We had high opinion of
his mechanical genius, and generally held that
the Chief knew something bad of him." and
on pain of divulgence enforced Phil to be his
bondsman. We particularly remember that
Phil had a sovereign contempt for learning,
which engenders In us respect for his sagaci-
ty, as it implies his accurate observation of the
relative positions of the Chief and the ushers
He was an impenetrable man, who waited at
table between whiles, and throughout I" the
half kept the boxes in severe custody He was
morose even to the Chief and never smiled ex-
ccpt at breaking up, when, in acknowledgment
Of the toast Success to Phil Hooray!" /" he
would slowly carve a grin out of his wooden
face where it would remain until we were all
gone. Nevertheless, one time when we had
the scarlet fever in the school, Phil nursed all
the sick boys Of his own accord, and was like
u mother to them.
There was another school not far of, and of
, course our school could have nothing to say
4 to that school 1t is mostly the way with
, schools whether of boys or men. Well the
+ railway has swallowed up ours, and the loco
motives now run smoothly over its ashes.
80 fades and languishes grows dim and dies,
, All that this world is proud Of
, and is not proud of too. 1t had little reason
to be proud of Our School, and has done much
better since in that way, and will do far bet
ter yet.
Men are drowned by raising their arms above
| water, the unbuoyed weight Of which depresses
the head. Other animals have neither rmotion nor
ability TO actin n similar manner, and therefore
swim naturally. When falls into deep
water, he will rise to the surface, and will con-
tinuc there if hc does not elevate his hands.
EgH"Moro, Duke of Milan, having displayed be-
fore the foreign ambassadors his magnihcence and
his riches, which exccled those of every other
prince, said to one Of thcm-'lIas man, pos
sesscd of omuCh wealth and prosperity, anything
to desire in this world" "Onc thing only" said
one of them, IN nail to fix the wheel Of fortune.
Resolved, Tdot IRE orc oEpoSef 10 s'arGg IN
aRY form and COLOR, and IN FAVOR on FREEDOM
and FREE SOIL WHEREVER MAN LIVES
THROUGHOUT GODS HERITAGE. b. f.
HallcH " Chairman Of He .NatioRal Democratic
, Co,0mjHc-"
NATIONAL AGwruLruRAL CoNvENTIoN.-At a
meeting Of the Agricultural Society Of the United
, States, held yesterday NJ the City Hall, delegates
were appointed TO represent the District of Co
umbia in the above convention, to be held in this