The Camden weekly journal. [volume] (Camden, South-Carolina) 1853-1861, 1853-05-17
somt,,er,, Female Edncation .

ing some wonders III the way OF improving
girls. For years past, the land that, a great
Gulf stops from reaching into the Tropics, has
been stretching its arms towards another equa-
tor, and the "maginary great circle" is fast
becoming more than a lire among the dvis-
ions of the social sphere. In sugar and flow
ers it has long eugrossed their respective tastes,
and even aboitionism has generally done JUS
tice to it whenever it has dreamed of magnolia
gmndifora or taken coffee. But it now brings
out it's chivalry in a new pahoply. The gal
liant knight looks well, and we predict achieve
ments that shall be embroidered in cloth of
gold. .
1t really most gratifying matter, and calls
upon US to revise the former edition of. our
ideas. Southern people, we protest, shall let
US know what they arc doing, so that we shall
be posted up when we come TO what is done.
As it is, they teach the practical meaning of
Amerson, that life is ga series of SURPRISES
They are getting ahead of our statistics, and
this is really objectionable in an age that has
volumes of statistics, that are-that are not
and that are to be-. So we 60. But this is 60
ing forward; this is the mighty Woman's move
mcnt: this is the modern Adam, undertaking
the generalship Of the young Ewes and prepar-
ing them to do fierce battle on the thorns and
thistes, that the Paradsaical Mother, in an un-
lucky moment, spread over the unknown con-
| tinents Southern women, we rather appre.
hend, are more warmly appreciated than the
sex in any other latitude Southerners Ger.
tanIy think so. One thing is indisputable-
their liege lords are charmingy attentive to
them Nor is this strange Southern civiliza-
ton has always tended wardly-toward the
shaded rooms in Summer, aud receiving fire.
side in Winter-and hence. Woman is in her
glory. 1t is dangerous for Northern women to
90 to the best sections of the South, as they
pretty generally terminate the trip in raptures.
The busy, out in the world, Northern husband
thereby suffers. Soft words WOO an extra
hour out of him; thenceforth to keep on good
terms and to be sure of good dinners, he has
to humor notions, or otherwise take the word
''help mate" to himself
But to the facts. Passing by Maryland and
the cold Dominion "a mother" herself-we
find that long ago Rip Van Winkle, North Car,
olina walked up on the rights of Girls, and i'm.
mortaized herself in Salem and other locali-
ties. Then South Carolina entered the field,
and the Charleston, Columbia and other Fe:
male Schools made vigorous sensation. Geor-
gia has beat them both. Whether Whitfield S
genius for the Orphan House at Savannah or
what else sowed the seed, is not material; but
grand things have been effected. Not to men,
sion other points, Macon has large Female
College; then Bishop Elliot's establishment;
then Columbus; and be- yond all, a little village
that remembers Lafayette and calls itself La
Grange, has immense Institutions, considering
the 'population,) and shows an organic mania
for the capture and training of the dear young
ladies. And now, in paper before us from
Atlanta, are the outlines of two new projects, a
Female College at Covington, with the names
of Dawson, Cobb, and Wayne connected with
its Trms.ea-,----I Gtrlivricu;
called p" Central Female College" These es7
adjustments are literally provided with teach
ers, Libraries, apparatus, and other appliances,
while thej" discipline is unsurpassed. Alabama,
fora new State, is ahead of all the South
Huntsville, Florence, Selma, Summer6eld, Eu-
taw, Lowndesborough, Montgomery, Tuske.
gee, and sundry others Of Indian sound or For
eign euphony are straining every nerve for
four story ediGces, and girls in their teens to
fill them. Mississippi has not repudiated this
debt to young women, and she joins in the
race, just as if she had n clear conscience, with
good muscles to prove it. May they redeem
her!
The sparse population of the Planting States,
has made it difficult fora general public school
system to be sustained; but the wants are no.
bly, met, so far as practicable, BY this immense
movement. We give it a cordial cheer, and
thank the bcnefccnt spirit Of the day. Edu-
Gated women will by-and-by, educate the world;
and what newspapers, puIpts and Congress
shall we have then! What Foems and homo
realities The time has fairly arrived for peo-
pie to have families, and every bachelor should
be ignored. Let the boys look out, and esgs-
ciay the young men at the colleges, for Sis
ters will read them uncurtained lectures, and
wives will make them blush for their bad Lat
inv. Y Times.
PHILADELPHIA AND CmARLEsroN.-A public
meeting OF the citizens Of Philadelphia was held
on Thursday last for the nurDOse of ddoDtinT