Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1855-01-11

editor with the High School. They were
aware of the excitement, which had been for
merly aroused in relation to this school, and
INDUCED the hope that they could join their
political dislike to a fermented feeling against
the school and thus carry their point. To be
sure, to manage this to advantage required
some backing and filling, since it was known
that that clique had sided with the School
Committee in the recent controversy. But
this did not trouble them. They were used to
it. and at it they went. The Principal Of the
High School. zoe are Informed. had The temsrity
to run across the track Of members of thus clique
IN matters pertaining TO the discipline of his
school. Despising alike the diciafions of tceahh
,oithoa brains-of scindy o6fcias-and the
groundiess ,ntermeddlings Of those destitute alike
Of decency and Intelligence. he encotntered The
determined opposition Of these ceilings For
this in connection with their political grudge,
he is doomed to pay the forfeit"
The italics in the above are ours. The Ian
guage, ",ceahh o;thout brains" &C.. is charac-
teristic, and we are told is substantially the
same expression which he frequently uses in
the school room. Mr.. c., unfortunately for
his " keen sense of propriety,'' and for his
high intellectual refinement, has had his lines
fall among lot of thick headed down. casters,
who are "dwarfs in intellect, and he has found
it an uphill business to draw their sluggish
minds up to his mental elevation. His pearls
have been cast before swine. He did not count
the cost before he left the smaternal wings
and strayed off into this region of fogs and
brainless men. to spend his precious time in
fruitlsss efforts to elevate the condition of our
people. We think he will soon have an OPP
portunity to go elsewhere, and exhale his in
luence where it may be more highly appreciate
ed. There will be great sorrowing when he
leaves, no doubt.
In one part of his article. Mr.. G.. virtually
threatens us with exclusion from his ''social in
terco1Se' if we do not observe certain "decen-
cies.' Decencies in has society What an alb
surdity If men are to come down to his
standard of decency in order to enjoy his So
ciety the poor fellow will have lonesome
time Of it. The man might profit by the fable
by which the late lamented Gov. King was ac-
customed to illustrate the mode in which he
was once excluded from certain society by
the "decencies" of those whom he had fostered
and brought up. hospilable woodchuck, TAX
ing compassion on a frendless and shivering
skunk, invited him to his warm quarters, and
feasted him from his own table, but by and by
the guest, for cause not necessary to mention,
took it into his head to exclude the wood
chuck from his society" and he found the
ready means to carry his plan into execution.
That Mr. c, can exclude, effectually, any per-
son from all ''socia! intercourse with him, We
have no doubt. The fable affords an illustra-
ton of the means by which he can enforce his
threat.
We cannot take, as we hope, final leave of
our amiable neighbor, without adverting to one
thing more. He has accused those who center
about our office and write for our paper, with
being RUTHLESS slaughterers of their mother
tongue" In the last sentence of the article
before us, he has tried his hand Mt that kind of
murder, and for teacher of so high rank, he
has succeeded admirably. The old material
lady has been laid out cold-dead as cock
roach so that our friends "rat- catcher" will
scarcely find her departed spirit.