Semi-weekly standard. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1853-18??, 1858-12-28

( Mn EvrRzrrs CoHrR1Bur1oNs TO BoNNER's LEDa-
ER Our readers are aware that with the New Year
the first number Of Mr.. Everett's Mount Vernon pa
pers will appear in the New York Ledger" The
fact that Mr. Bonner paid Mr. Everett in advance ten
thousand dollars, to be devoted to the Mount Yer
non Treasury for years literary labor has been
widely chronicled. When Mr.. Everett, after con-
siderable hesitation accepted the munificent Offer
he himself says he felt it his duty not to forego
the opportunity of adding so large sumato the
Mount Vernon Fund" Those only who are person
ally acquainted with the unsefsh patriot can COM
prehend the full extent Of the selfsacrice he has
made to achieve object which now enlrts the
sympathy of the people from Maine to California
Three years ago. almost from the hour the project
was revealed to him, his clearsighted vision saw the
whole beauty of this work of woman hands. When
the success of the enterprise was looked upon by
| the multitude as more than doubtful-as impossible
he openly espoused the cause with martyrs de-
votion His hand has piloted the grattude-frcight-
ed bark of Patriotism safe from threatened ship
wrecks; his voice. his labors, (unequalled, save by
hers who originated the schcme) have won the tri-
umph which an awakened an approving nation now
accords.
We have said that, in accepting Mr.. Bonners pro-
posal Mr.. Everett made sacrifice-for we know
that the kind of publicity given to his name by Mr.
Bonner's peculiar method of advertising, must be
repugnant to Mr. Evcrett's sensitive nature. The
sarcasms and criticisms to which he weekly exposes
drawbacks, he assumes weekly labor which, COM
bined with the numerous engagements that summon
him to the rostrum must tax has elastic mental
powers and rapidly renewed strength.
Apart from the noble motives that impelled Mr..
Everett to become the contributor to weekly pa
per, we can see nothing derogatory to his dignity
in the fact, that distinguished orator, an able
statesman, profound Scholar consents to address
the public through the columns of periodical Are
not Johnson Addison Steele, Swift, and Goldsmith,
identified with the periodicals to which they con-
| tributed?
Why should not Mr.. Everett become the sage in
structor the delightful entertainer Of the masses p
Why should he not open for them the at1uent treas
ury of his mind-diffuse among them the wealth of
| his knowledge-carry the benign and heathful in
fuence of his teachings to their firesides-elevate
and refine the popular taste by his STYLE and spread
out rich intellectual repast, to which the humble
and secure may gather, side by side with the great
and prosperous, and be refreshed? The sweet
voiced Milton, of womanhood has said:
at takes a soul
To move body it takes a high souled man
To move the masSss.'
| Such man is now enlisted to move them, and
| there is no degradation in the work to which he
| puts his hand.
| Bonner's Ledger" circulates among three hun
dred thousand subscribers. Hundreds of that num-
Der turn the leaves of book, but religousy
con the Ledger from its title down to it last col
umn. For every one individual who may have the
opportunity of being stirred by Mr.. Everett's elo
quence, one hundred will pcruse his contributions
in the Ledger" Thousands who can never hope
to hear his voice, will listen with reverence to the
words he speaks to them through the Mount Vernon
| Papers. They will look forward with eager delight
| to the weekly pleasure in store. Old and young
\ will gather to welcome the expectant vsitant and
they will find charm around the hearth stone
that is gladdened by its presence. And We venture
to predict that when the period of Mr. Everetts en-
| gagement expires his classic pen will have edu-
Gated the tastes of the magazine reading portion of
! the community, that they will turn with disgust
from the highly wrought tictions of the sensation
school, and demand pure and wholesome intellectual
food.-Richmond Enquirer.
! Mr. HoRNER's CLOSING ExERcisEs.-We were pres
ent on Thursday evening of last week during the
tertainng exercises with which Mr.. j. H. Horncrs
Classical School closed Defamation and Compost
ton constituted the order of the evening and we
found both unusually interesting. Ordinarily we
are victim on occasions of this kind but both the
Defamation and the Compositions generally
good Some four Of the pupils in the former,
| quilted themselves very handsomely, and two
three of the compositions crciitabe performan-
for persons of much older years 1t gratiied us
to learn from Mr.. H., that the department of the
| students had been uniformly uneXceptionablc and
that the scholarship far in advance of any pre-
cedng session. That this is excellent school, we
have taken occasion to say more than once before,
and we here reterate our impression that no teach
er in the State, in the same length of time, has
! cured the appreciation of many judicious minds
won for himself place high in the estimation
of the Faculty at our University. We presume that
there are at least forty students at Chapel H who
were prepared by Mr.. H., and a portion of them
have secured the highest honors. The present
nior class in Mr. HIS school, is composed of seven
eight students, and were told by the Principal
that the most Indifferent scholar in that class, was
superior to the best student that he had hitherto
prepared The next session will open in January
| 1S59-Ortord Leisure Hour
AN OPPONENTS OPINION oE Mr. LErcuER.-The
Bedford Sentinel publishes the following remarks
relative to the choice of the Democratic convention
recently held in this city, for Governor of the State:
"Well the Democracy have selected their standard
bearer, and so far as are individually concerned,
rejoice at the preference given to honest john
| Mr.. Letcher is Virginia gentleman in every sense
of the word-one who, like Franklin, and many other
eminent men whom our country has produced, has
raised himself by the force of intellect perse-
vering study, and an indomtable energy from an
humble origin to his present high position We
never had doubt that Letcher would be the choice
of the Convention; and we have expressed our be-
lief that he would be the happy recipient of this hon
| 0rable distinction, on more than one occasion,
through the columns of the Sentinel We repeat
rejoice that he has had this honor conferred upon
| him. for two reasons. First, because, If we are to
have Democratic Governor, we believe. that Mr. L.
! will make as good any other that could have
been selected from the ranks of that party; he pos
sesses the virtue of being honest politician
most commendable quality in one to whom are to
be entrusted the destines of the State. We believe
that in the exercise of his Executive functions he
will consult his own sense of public duty and pur-
sue the line it indicates that he will endeavor to
discharge his duties faithfully the governor of the
State and not of clique faction. Believing this
in the ecent etno Opposition candidate Of our o,on
party being nominated, we pledge honest John our
| vote"
NORTH CAROLINA GoLD.-We were shown on Sat
urday, says the Richmond Wing ofyesterday spec