and became so cowed as to lose all pluck, and yet he was not lacking in intellectual power. It is a great pleasure to me that I can remember clearly, and with ease draw an accurate plan of, the schoolroom where I was educated, and recall the face and form of most of the scholars who occupied seats therein. It may gratify some of my readers to have their names written out by one who studied and played with them. It certainly will be acceptable to the few survivors of my fellow-students to enter with me the chamber of memory, and review our old lessons, and fight over again our old intellectual battles. The pupils, many of whom were entitled "foreigners," having been born at the South, and with whom I was intimate, were-James Hamilton, who at middle age became an active politician (he was remarkable for his beauty); States Gist, a fine fellow, who died in Newport, lamented by young and old, and was buried in the common burial-ground; Robert and William Smith (sons of Bishop Smith), both educated at Harvard College; Messrs. Haynes, Shubrick, Kinlocks, Rutledge, Washington and William Alston, Henry Flagg, afterward Mayor of New Haven; Simmonds, Daniel Latham, -all of South Carolina: Francis Marion, of Georgia; Randolph, Moore, Smythe, Marshall, Mathews, of Virginia; and Gyles and John Mardenborough, from the West Indies. The Newport boys, in 1799, were S. O. Auchmuty, William Vernon, two Phillipses, George S. Rathbone, R. Partlow, Wickham, Wood, Benjamin and Grant Mason, Edward Littlefield, James Stevens, Robert Newman, George W. Ellery, George Whitehorne, Benjamin Pierce, Timothy Pierce, Tilleys, Tew, William W. Russel, Lawton, Francis Brinley Fogg, John Easton, Hazards, Lee, Peckham, Wilbur Eddy, William C. Gibbs, Charles King, Sandford, Cozzens (late of West Point), William Cozzens, Davenport, Goddard, Hammet, Harkness, John Stevens, Robert Stevens, B. B. Mumford, Carrs, Melville, David Oliphant, Nason, Callender, Talman, Trevitt, Cranston, Sherman, Howland, R. Coggeshall, Godfrey, Levitt, Saunders, Malbone, Breeze, Underwood, Tanner, Bannister, Thurston, Edward Senter, Partlow, Fowlers, Gardners, Clarkes, Potters, Mayberry, Bull, Hunter, Buffum, Dennis, Tillinghast, Greene, G. Wanton, Vaughn, Barbour, Collins, Spooner, Oxx, Richmond, Yeomans, Townsend, Bush, Kane, Sayre, Waring, Earl, Ailman, Seatle, &c. Enough, it may be said, of the names of my schoolmates. There were other worthy lads from the island, and many from the neighboring towns; but "too much of a good thing is very bad," and so I forbear. There were no attempts at intellectual progress outside of the schools, save the formation of a literary club, called the "Social Union," composed of young men, mostly graduates of the academy. A considerable number of books were collected, newspapers were taken, written addresses were made, debates were sustained, and once a year a supper was enjoyed, provided by one of the noted cooks of the day. The room occupied by the society was formerly the office of my late father, William Channing. Amongst those who took part in the debates, the late Henry Y. Cranston, of Newport, was preeminently the peer. He was uniformly kind, courteous, and scrupulously considerate, when measuring swords with more feeble competitors, of whom I acknowledge myself to have been one. Eloise Payne, the daughter of Schoolmaster Payne (a teacher of great celebrity in his day, in Boston, Mass.), and sister of John Howard Payne (the renowned dramatist and poet), came to Newport about the year 1807-8, and opened one of the most noticeable schools in America; and, until her health failed, she exerted a great influence for good in the moral and intellectual culture of girls, not only the residents of Newport, but also of many from New York and Boston, who boarded in Miss Payne's family. Perhaps no young lady-teacher ever enjoyed more deserved repute than Miss Payne. Her voice was delightfully sweet and winning. face was the index of unusual intellectual power. Her eye, lustrous and penetrating when she spoke, awakened confidence and love when she was silent. Her skill in penmanship was admirable. She attracted many, and held them spell-bound by her grace in conversation. Her religious faith yielded the fruit of holy living; so that, Her |