The Southern Intelligencer. Tri-Weekly. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 59, Ed. 1 Monday, October 12, 1857 Page: 3 of 4
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Edantioi in Tats.
Tin- writer ¡8 uat suficiently acquainted with
educational statistics to be able to say liow well
Texas compares with the other new States, in
the means til' educating her children. Taking
into virw however the newness of the country—
the greater profits wliich other pursuits afford
to in.-n of }< ;irniiifr, and the sparseuess of tlie
poptikit on, it seems to us, that nu new coutury
has made greater advancement in the cause oi
education. We d Mike to ni>-utu>n promimnt
schools, lest we should omit other* equally me-
ritorious.
As ¡i dt'iioni nation perhajw the ftesbyterians
•land forjunost in the United Statfes as to the
nanil>er of it* learned professors, ami the high
stand ird oi its collegiate institutions. Tlie edn-
eat o.iiil spirit of that denomination hi Texas,
kas been evinced in the founding aiid support ng
Austin College at Huntsville, and Arauama Col
lege at Gol ad. At the former, liberal de-
grees have already been conferred—and it is
•iieiitly preparing many young gentlemen for
the uuful a vocations of life. Arannma is also
well situated: and only needs liberal support to
ensure its success.
The government of Texas lias also shown
some liberality. A magnificent University laud
fund has been provided ; land grants for school
purposes hate I teen made to counties; one-tenth
of tlie annual levenne has been dedicated to the
cause of education, to which has been added the
annual interest of $¿,000 000 to be invested in
railroad improvements, but which is yet mostly
in United States five per cent, stock. Schools
for t¿ e -education of mute and blind are in sue-
cesatn! operation.
A1I these facts go to demonstrate, that there
s a propes educational spirit abroad, which only
ne> ds concentration and proper direction. Eve-
ry enterprise however suffers the insurmountable
embarrassment of a want of professional teachers
who intend to devote a lifetime to the caus ;
t lie want of libraries, apparatus, and sufficient
room. Our institutions therefore languish ; and
those who complete their course in Texas, em-
nark into the world with no more thau an ele
mentary foundation laid.
The still greater desideratum is the want of a
Rta.idard of the highest order—
AN UNIVERSITY,
which shall b- libei-Aily endowed, munificently
The Ituptists have a well supported College at ! provided, and centrally located.
Independei.e,. known as the Baylor Institute, ! Texas with her University lands and her vast
where a liberal education can be Obtained. The j amout < i domain unappropriated, has it in her
past success of this institution is the l>est guaj|/**ower to supply a great desideratum in the
ranty o its future prosperity. The wealth ant : v'Hivan University upon a scale unequalled
res|>e«lii>< lit) of that d> nomination and the abi-Y In i ted States.
lity of ;! ,s professors will ensure for it a liberal ' *¡¡ not proposed in this issue to enlarge upon
patronage.
. The Methodists, we believe, located their Col.
lege at Ch :¡>ei Hill, in the same county. Ot its
present a i* :i: cement we are not adv} d. T! .o
4«nM iii¡im*t,'rt íi«fvTtr piipfiortr theUaMr>|« Aca-
demy and many other primary schools, and as a
denomination tiny are doiug a gowl deal to ad-
vance the cause oi education.
The Cumberland Presbyterians are now libe-
rally sustaining the male and female Academy
at Seguiu.
The Catholics have a well established College
at Galveston, and Convents^Riere and at San
Antonio, at the latter of which places we believe
they are also progressing with a College.
The St. Paul's College, under the Episcopa-
. lian denomination, owing to some unfortunate
causes, tor the present has been a failure.
It may be said therefore, that all the Christian
denominations, as such, are doiug something for
the support of sectarian institutions. It cannot
be pretended however, that either the wealth or
the concentrated influence of any one of the
churches is directed to the support of their
■schools. Many of the best members of all
churches disapprove of sectarian institutions of
learning in name (for few of them aré really so
in fact); others find these institutions too re-
motely located for their convenience; and all
Christians are not sufficiently awake to the im-
portance of edncatiou. And yet, without these
sectarian influences, we should pfobably not have
had enough concentration to found any compa-
ratively liberal institution. .
Other good schools we have. The well sup-
ported Academies at Gonzales, Victoria, Rich
moud, Tyler, Marshall, Clarksville, Nacogdoches,
San Augustine, Houston, aud some ofbers now
rise to our memory. Nor arc the private insti-
tutions, such as the Rev. B. J. Smith's, ot this ^ Tue frYesInnau class
city, the Military Institute of Professor Forshey, College numbers 115, winch is smaller
aud others ot Iosb note to be overlooked. than for several years past.
4 -nvt Ii* "iir tr-cuu tu CUiai
wh&«ij^~- University of Texas ought to be. It is
en®ugi|j that it should be no more college fof the
education of illiterate children; but it should
be an institution where scholars might enter aud
find the moot lilx rul facilities for perfecting a
scientific and practical education for every de-
partment ot life ; where men of great learning
uiightfacquire fellowships and homes, and de-
vote/'jeir lives to the improvement of their
rac flt should lie the school for Southern plr-
|o js and the cradle for Southern literature,
ñ be the Alina Muter where teachers d -
fing positions in other Academies and Colleges
in the State might receive their degrees or their
certificates of fitness, and go forth to prepan
our youth for their own University. It should
be established upon a principle which would
enable our State to select from among its pro-
fessors oar own geologi-ts, engineers, aud astro-
nomers, whose researches would develope the
wealth of the State; aud invent the meausaol
avoiding the severe effects of drouth.
It should, in a word, be an institution which
would give lustre to the rising glory of the State,
destined to outstrip any other in the Union.
There is bo State at once so able to undertake
it; none so little Priest ridden by sectarian bi-
gotry, or notions of political inequality; none
so inaccessible to other pointsnone with a
climate so equable and so healthful; aud uone
whose youth alone would withiu a few years so
completely fill a great institution. But we
shou Id n^ be dependent alone upou our owu
youth, ^roould become the focus of attraction
for the whole South. It would draw to our bor-
ders a vast amount of tlio wealth and moral
worth of the nation. It has, in a word, every
thiug to recommend it, and not one argument
against it.
at Yale
Another Defalcation in Charleston.—
The Columbia South Carolinian, of the
26th ult., has the following:
We had scarcely realized the strange
intelligence of the unlawful appropria-
tion of funds by a bank officer in Charles-
ton, when we are astounded by another
report that W. H. Bartless, a teller in
the Southwestern Railroad Bank, ha*
vamosed, leaving a deficit ill his account
of some $60,000.
A despatch from Charleston to the
Columbia Times reports that Bartless
was arrested in Wilmington North Caro-
lina, aud was oa his way back to
Charleston.
The Chaleston papers, of the 26th,
have no notice of all this.
Nf.w Orlbaxs and Texas Mails.—An
arraugenieut has been entered into by
which the mails between this city and
Galveston are to be conveyed by the
Opelousas Railroad and Berwick's Bay
line, on Thursdays aud Sundays. This
arrangement goes into operation on the
1st of October, and the mail closes ok
the days named at 7 o'clock, A. M.
By "this route the mail between thte
city and Galveston is carried through in
twenty-four hours.—N. O. Pi&iyane.
Bgk There were 671 deaths in New
York in the week ending on the 12th
i nst.
The American party in Nash-
ville have nominated Col. John A. Mc-
Ewen for Mayor.
A ch r^yman being asked by a
skeptical physician " how it happened
that the patriarchs lived to such an
age," replied, " they took no physic."
a® Wtuchcil teiis a good story of
a stranger meeting an Irishman leaning
against a post, watching a funeral pro-
cession coining nut of a house at his
side, when the following dialogue en-
sued :
" Is that a funeral ?"
" Yes, sir, I'm thinking it is."
" Any body of distinctiou ?"
" I reckon it is, sir."
" Who is it that died ?"
"The gintleinan in t e coffin? sir."
A Common Sensation (Quaintly Des-
cribed—Alexander Smith " the new po-
et," in one of his eccentric works, has
these liues:
" I often sat
At those wild drinking bouts, which seemed di-
vine,
ai a great flash of wit—and rose next morn,
Throat like the parched Sahara, and each ear
Loud as a cotton mill.
A hen-pecked husand, whose
wife must have been an exceedingly
"emancipated" female, and splendidly
qualified to lecture on the "woman's
ng!its" question, wrote the following
epitaph after her demise :
" Sacred to the memory of Mm. Betsey Bhett.
Who was a thole team and a horse to let /"
A jilted chemist finds love to be com-
posed of fifteen parts of gold, three of
fame, and two of affection.
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The Southern Intelligencer. Tri-Weekly. (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 59, Ed. 1 Monday, October 12, 1857, newspaper, October 12, 1857; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth180474/m1/3/: accessed June 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History.