The Port Gibson reveille. (Port Gibson, Miss.) 185?-1857, 1854-07-26

up and plenty Of it. no great variety of cour-
ses no French dishes. no highly favored
wines to excite the tagging appetite. Their
studies. Of the most substantial character.
promise constant and useful occupation for
every mement OF their students time. They
are. located near the homestead, where the
parental eye can overlook. and. in some good
degree. guide the mental and moral progress
Of the boy, and where bodily acclimation will
not be lost They retain him in the society
and in the very field where be is soon to be-
come a iaborer himself. His college acquain-
tances are The neighb0rs and companions Of
all his after life.
Every planter knows that the slave raised
on bis plantation is more valuable and trusty
than the most active and able-bodied hand
grown under different culture and elimste.
lie has acquired an attachment TO the place,
an instinct and a slight-of- hand in the tools.
the soil. the climate the crops. the work. and
the habits of plantation life. that the other
seldom OF never attains. The homemade
scholar enters on the stage Of life with ali
these advantages and more.
Some send their boys to remote institutions.
that, along with their other learning. they
may learn something Of the world and Of their
fellow men. II is very expensive mode Of
teaching geography And what will youth
from is to 20 learn of men and society
around him at 8 college Six months of res
idence from home, after he is through col
lege, will post him up better on these matters.
am no disparager Of tyavsL Nothing in its
proper place is more enlargIng and ennobling.
Il was custom Il know not if it still pre-
vails,) in Germany. amongst tradesmen, that
after serving four years apprenticeship at
home, youth should travel three more.
working at his trade. The stout Hand
werks Bursche then returned home with a
certificate from his various employers, and
was admitted fully to bis profession. He
brought with him the improvements and in
yentions of other lands. Ii was q wise insti-
tuition, and the German workmen surpass all
others in skill and intelligence To the
scholar, travel Is emineutly useful: it can
hardly be too highly appreciated it is the
proper conclusion of years Of study. 1t dis
pels a multitude of narrow prejudices that
hang around him who has never been from
home. There is often mist of selfimpOrt-
ance, an exaggerated estimate OF his own
country around him, that books, newspapers.
aud the report Of others makes few breaks
in. but which traUeL alone can entirely clear
away. Ignorant y0uth cannot reap these
golden fruits Youth is the time for study
the time TO GIL the storehouse of the mind
with that sound provender. that is to feed all
his after years. Wherever this can be pro-
cured. with the fewest distracting influences.
is the place for him. When he has shown
himself an apt aud earnest seeker after kuowl-
edge, when he has mastered what the country
schoolmaster and the nerghboring college can
teach him, then, and not till tseH let him
wander of to some higher seat of learning;
for then, strong in purpose and matured in
mind, he can drink safe and deep at all the
streams of knowledge.
DO not consult his preferences.
It is one Of the weaknesses Of human ma
ture, to be dissatisfied with the near. and TO
covet and aduiire the remote. Narratives of
college pranks on large scale, crowd of
fellow students, freedom from all restraint,
fire bis Imagination Yale and Princeton
loom up, like fairy land. to the student at
Oakland. He faucies if he was only there.
he could accomplish wonders. His slow pro-
gress here, be lays at the door of the incapac-
ity Of the professors. or his meagre facilities
for acquiring knowledge. Ordinarily, he
who complains loudest of the imperfections of
his instructors or his college. is an idler. who
will accomplish little anywhere; and the
chances are, the farther he goes, the less he
will do.
An unruly and iucorrigible boz, who can.
not be constrained TO study at home, Is some-
times sent TO distant school. in the hope
that change will bring about reform. Would
YOU send the drunkard 10 dram-shop to
cure him of intemperance, merely because
YOU have heard OF one, who was seized in the
very dram-shop with disgust. and dashed
the bowl forever from bis lips? 1t is for
lorn hope, indeed. TO expect him who has re-
sisted all persuasives aud authority Of parent
and teacher at home, suddenly to reverse the
whole current Of his lie. and become an In
dustrious student. merely because he has
been transported, as a convict, thousand
miles or more away amongst strangers. To
human wisdom, the transition seems only cal
cuated to accelerate and seal his ruin. A
wise parent will only venture on the expert
ment after be has exhausted every other
remedy.
There is throughout our region growing
demand for teachers aud preachers. Former
ly, New England and the Middle States sent
them forth in overfowing abundance. Abo-
lition turns some away from US, meagre COM 1
peusation others, and the opening Of more ac-
ceptabIe employments nearer home withholds
multitudes From some cause or other the
stream has ceased to flow We cannot procure
enough for our actual a0a1ts. Our call is
for Southern teachers and preachers, men
with no cloud Of suspicion as TO their ortho-
doxy, not dreaded as spies in our camp. The
fact that the preacher is one Of the boys Of
the neiahborhood will draw many confirmed
sinner to Church for the FIRST time in bis lite.
He will subscribe to bis support, and thus
gradually come within the pale of good inhu.
epce. Where and how shall we obtain them
Of the riqht stamp? How comes it tc pass
that the bleak hills and rocky valleys Of New
England TEEN With peaceful, an educated.