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The condition of affairs here now is such as to induce the belief, on the part of foreign governments, that the Great A rnericau Republic is about to prove a failure, our belief to the contrary notwithstanding ; and it is, tberelore, especially necessary that our representatives abroad should be men of such ability, fame and weight of character, as would j enable fhem to inspire the minds of foreign ru lers with confidence in the stability ot our gov ernment and in its power to sustain itself and vindicate Its integrity ; it is important, too, that our ministers abroad should be able to cope with and circumvent the emissaries of the Southern Confederacy, who are confessedly, very able men. Messrs. Yancey &. Co., are very shrewd and astute politicians and diplomatists,—a fact which renders it particularly necessary that our government should have very able men, at this time, as Ambassadors abroad. It is believed that no one will dispute tbe truth of this prop osition. has Mr. Lincoln commissioned to fill these im portant posts at this most critical juncture?— Let us see. He has sent Mr. Adams, of Massachusetts, to the Court of St. JameS; Mr. Dayton of New Jersey, to the Court of St. Cloud ; Mr. C. M. Clay, of Kentucky to the Court at St. Peters burgh ; Carl Schurz of Wisconsin, to Madrid ; Mr. Burlingame, of Massachusetts, to Vienna; Mr. Judd, ol Illinois to Berlin ; and Mr. 3. E. Harvey, of no Slate in particular, to Lisbon.— E. Joy Morris has been appointed for Turkey, end Mr. Marsh,fa gentleman ol some eminence in the literary world) to Sardinia; but it is suf ficient for the present to consider the aforemen tioned gentlemen. CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS comes of pretty good diplomatic stock, and has had the advan tage of a good education and some insight into diplomatic matters ; but we scarcely evpr find three successive generations ol great men in the same family, and it is greatly to be feared that Charles Francis doer not inherit all the natural greatness of his illustrious grandfather, nor even of his father. lam not aware that the "subject of this sketch" has in any way proved to the American people that he possesses any consider able portion of the qualities ot mind and h c art necessary to distinguished statesmanship or em inently successful diplomacy; and he ha 9 had sufficient time and opportunity to give such proof, had it been possible. The public records furnish no evidence of his greatness, and it is believed that nobody outside of Boston, save Mr. Lincoln, and perhaps some of the members of his Cabinet, ever believed that Mr. C. F. Adams was eminently fitted for the highly important office of minister to Engrand, especi ally in this crisis. It is true, he has the advan tage of considerable culture, and is a "respecta ble gentleman," which are important matters so far as they go. But something more is requis ite—a great deal more at this time ; and Mr. Adaaas, it is believed, does not possess this ad ditional desideratum. But, Mr. Adams is prob ably the best qualified man who has been sent abroad by President Lincoln. Tbe President evidently believes so, else he would not have assigned him the most important post. WILLIAM L. DAYTON is another" respectable gentleman," but a man who has not proved himself qualified for the position of Minister to France at a time like the present. He was a pretty creditable Judge—a fair lawyer—in New Jersey. As a Senator in Congress be did not distinguish himself, except in voting against the Compromise measures in 1850, and nowhere has he ever given the world any conclusive reason why he should represent our govern ment at the Court of St. Cloud. He is by no means a man of pre-eminent ability, though a very worthy gentleman and a good lawyer.— He knows but little of the world, from experi ence or observation, having been all his life, ex cept during his term in the Senate, devoted to the law within a very small circle of creation, and is not even acquainted with tbe language spoken at the Court to which he is accredited. CASSIUS M. CLAY is an eminent Kentucky abolitionist—a tolerable stump speaker, and a gamey man ; he has pluck and can play (has played) at Bowie-knife and revolver with dis tinction. He has the courage to fight against sla very on the soil where it exists, therein differ ing widely from his Northern brethren, who fight the "abomination" at a very safe distance. But all this does not qualify Mr. Clay for the position ol minister to Russia. He is a rash, impetncus man, with no well founded preten sions to statesmanship, and as he has already a bunflantly proved, with poor qualifications for diplomacy. His letter to the London Times is characteristic: you can see in it the revolver and boWie-intfe, with all the "grit" and rash ness which characterize a Kenluckian of his "style," end which incapacitate a man for suc i cessful diplomacy. His concealed threat to the i British Lion can scsrcely be deemed politic un der the circumstances, while h"ss attempt to frighten that highly respectable anfftial with an army of several millions of unborn and unbe gotten American citizens, or soldiers, might be deemed slightly ridiculous. The truth is, the writing of even a sensible letter for the public press by an Ambassador, even ift The country to which he is sent, would be impolitic, if sucb letter treated of matters between that country and his own ; but to stop on his way to bis own post, in another minister's bailiwick, and Tead the government a public lecture on its duty and interests, and a very foolishly worded lecture at that, is, in an Ambassador, the very height of diplomatic folly. Mr. Clay has effectually | done for himself wqat Dogberry emphatically desired done for him ; and therefore I need say no more on this part of my subject. CARL SCHURZ, who sailed for Spain a few days ago, is a German philosopher and politician, i of rarefied and highly sublimated mind and mor als. There is a class os philosophical and phi lanthropies! fanatics in Northern Germany, who, in impracticability of purpose and lack ofi common sense, distance all competitors; and Carl is distinguished as a sort ol second rate leader of this peculiar class. One of the distin guishing characteristics ol this school, is an un governable propensity to upset all existing in stitutions. religious, political & social. You could not place them under any government which they would not deem it their duty to overturn; there i 3 no system of religion on earth, which meets their views of propriety ; there 19 no so cial institutions which they do not consider a bominable. They are for perfect freedom in everything and for everything. It was there fore, perfectly natural that the hero of this par agraph should join a party the "principles" ol which more nearly resembled his own than those of any other political organization in this country. He joined that party ; he exerted all his powers in its behalf; taking care, however, to receive for his disinterested efforts a quid pro quo in dollars and cents. Nevertbeles, he de manded and received the appointment of Min ister (0 Madrid. This, beyond doubt, is the ! liijuuitiuuc .| |iuiiAiuc&i 'JI lire men. alias ty the present Administration. ANSON BURLINGAME is, personally as well a9 politically, known to the writer of this commu nication. Politically he is somewhat known to almost all who have read ol political matters during the last five years* Personally Mr. H. j is a very agreeable genrtvman—politically he is simply a blatherskite." In 1856 he 1 anted and raved like a madman, declaring that we " should Tave an anti-slavery Constitution, and an anti-slavery Bible, and an anti-slavery God;" and it was this declaration, more than any good thing he ever said 01 did, that made him known to the American people. His next mortta spicuous act was achieving hh own defeat *ti tbe last Congressional district, which fact, it is presumed, induced his appointment to the Aus trian mission. NORMAN B. JUDD. 1 know him well. He is a pretty "good citizen" of Chicago, and goes to church (when at home) with becoming regu larity. Mr. Judd has served for somfyftrs in the State Senate of Illinois ; has tried ihfvaiA to beJLJ. S. Senator; has tried in vain'to be Governor of Illinois, or rather, to be nominated by his party for that office ; has labored in vain, a good deal; but, he strove for Lincoln's,nomi nation at Chicago,and with the help of Greeley, Lane, of Indiana, Curtin, of Pennsylvania, and other anti-Seward "men, succeedeo ; wherefo-e he succeeded in securing the appointment to Berlin. Mr. Judd can't speak any language but the English. His Secretary of Legation is a German politician, of Chicago, named Kneiss man. JAMES E. HARVEY, though seemingly without a "local habitation," has lately acquired "a "name." Like you, I think he ought to be \ heard before being condemned on the charge of \ treason. It is certainly very cowardly on the part of his quondam friend and employer, the editor of the Tribune , to condemn him, as he does, without a hearing. But apart from this recent alleged revelation of treason, there is no good reason why Mr. Harvey should have been appointed to represent this country abroad. • He is a tolerable letter-writer ; he has those Paul Pry qualities which enable Wasbingtpncor respondent to obtain Stated has those other qualities which enablecThim to pub lish such secrets, or permit them to be publish ed. Mr. Greeley admits that he employed him as a spy upon Mr. Buchanan's Administration, and paid him for Slate secrets thus obtained.—- Mr. Harvey has never been in the national or' Stale counsels, and has been' known to' the American public circle of tiis leaders, not one in a hundred ot whom knew who wrote the they read,fronT his pen, and, had every voter in the Union known him as the writer of those letters, it is' not probable that any body would have inferred therefrom that Mr. Harvey ought to be sent as Minister to the Court of Spain. So much for our ministers to England, Fiance, Russia, Austria, Spain, Prussia and F° rtu §£Lgl| It is to be feared that after their measureßnarr have bepn taken by the statesmen and diplomats ol Europe, the latter will conclude our .< great Republic is about " played out." TKfcy must conclude thai ti God save the Commonwealth ! A HENRY CLAY MAN. —Aunt Betsey has said many good things, among the rest, that a newspaper is like a wife,l because every man should have one of his own. BEDFORD, PA. FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 28,1861. DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION. The following extiacts from newspapers re cently called Democratic, show that the liber ty of the press is not entirely monopolized by the Republican party. f rom the Albany Argus. It is all one scheme, to end in a central des j potism before which State rigtits and mdivid ; ual liberties will be crushed. J The war for the restoration of the Union is not pursued with more vigor and efficiency I than the WaV against the Constitution. Tbe people Will soon wake up to see it. From the Bridgeport(Ct) Advertiser. We are tnends to righteous government To a goverument conducted vn accordance ' with the provisons and principles of the Con stitution! Bet, we glory in publicly avowing | our eternal enmity to tyranny ;to military despotism! As Patrick Henry said when as ; sailed with outcries of "Treason, Treason," "If this be IreasOn, make tbe most of it!" From the Chicago Times. This government has well nigh become a military despotism, but it will scarcely go the ; length of abrogating the Civil Authority of the land. Such an act would Change the features ol this war at once. It would be difficult in such a case to tell which was the most revolutionary of the two contending par i ties. From the Milwauhte News. Democrats have engaged in this war with the sole and exclusive purpose of maintaining the Constitution and Union, and not with a view of subverting them.—Since this war has been forced upon us, we have been willing to ignore party ar.d stand by the President in all i constitutional efforts to defend the government, j —Beyond this we cannot go. From the Ohio Statesman. "All the political consolidation and national ty the mass ol the American people desire, the 1 Federal Constitution guarantees. For this guarantee they are willing to lavish their treas ure and shed their blood. Tbe name of the United States and tbe nationality it implies, is as dear to them as the name f borne and the sacredness ot the domestic altar. These are all entwined in the affections of a loyal peoph?, and they hold in tbe same abhorrence the miscreant who invades the sanctity of domes tic life, and the traitor who seeks to rob us of our national life. From the Syracuse Courier. |_ 4 _/• , ~ lion and tfie laws, and yet defy, overreach and over-ride them, are often more dangerous to public liberty and more worthy of denuncia tion than are they who violate it without dis guise. We can appreciate the ancient motto, "Our country, right or wrong!" Applied or iginally to a contest with a foreign invader, has it ever been applied to require the citizen to support, "right or wrong," a Judge, a leg islator or an Executive? JVor wilt the sovereign people tolerate nor be deluded by such an application now! Legal and constitutional authority, and THAT ONLY, will they approve or uphold! From the Concord (N. H.) Patriot. It is apparent to every thinking mind, that the great cause and objects for which we have professedly drawn the sword, the preservation of Constitutional Government and personal lib erty, are in quite as much danger from the Government itself and its directors as from those in armed rebellion against it. Our Un ion is of no value, our Government is not worth fighting for, if the vital principles and guarantees of the Constitution are to be disre garded and destroyed. Here, we take it, is to be the dividing line of parties hereafter ; on the one side will be torrayed those who stand for the faithful observance ot Constitutional obli getions and thy perervatioD of Constitutional rights and guarantees, while on the other will stand those who, for mere temporary objects and party puzfioses, are willing to risk the open disregard violation of the most es sential provisions of the Constitution. That the Democracy, in a mass, will be found in the position-first named, it needs no prophet to predict; - m While the people of the North are united in the determination to support the Government, and liberally expending their present prosper ity in to maintain the Union against rebellion treason, they have the right to demand and they will insist that the vital prin ciples of ttfi Constitution shall be maintained, and that the Government shall not override all the reslranls imposed for the protection of per sonal liberty and sacred rights. From the Boston Post. There is no disposition to inaugurate a fac tious to 'the Executive Department of the'Governixenl, or to embarrass it by quer ulous faultfinding ; but every honest, patriotic citizen feels that the restraints of law cannot be trancended with impunity in any quarter, without hazarding the rights of the people. From the Dubuque Herald. The*party organs and the confidential mouth pieces of the Administration have given out its future policy, and proposed changes which they intend to make in the Government while tbe power i* in tbejr hands. The following a mong other points aVe'ol the number proposed. I. The consolidation of the Union by abol ishing State Governments, and the concentra tion of all the functions of Government in a na tional power. 11. The creation of a national bank under control ol the national government. 111. The increase ol the army and of the ; navy to a sufficient degree to keep down all opposition to the proposed Government. IV. To remodel the Government in such a manner as to strengthen tbe power of the Ex ecutive, and to make the new co-ordinate Branches of Government subordinate and sub servient to tbat of the Exeeutibe. Freedom of Thought and Opinion. This being tfccotap!isbed, of course any thing else derfreable towards effecting the ob j*ct in view can be readily and easily brought about. We ask the People to reflect upon these forshadowings ot what is threatened to be the doom of a once great, glorious and prosper ous country. From the JV. Y. Freeman's Journal. Our wish, above all things, is that Lincoln's Administration could, and then would , adopt a course which, as loyal. American freemen, we can sustain. The present course of the Ex ecutive is unconstitutional, outrageous, and an open rebellion against the United States Government as established and recognized. We ranoot sustain it in this course and we will not. We declare and protest, on the contrary, *ith the Chief Justice of the United States, that it subverts all law recognized by freeman-, ae-d attempts to place our persons, and our prop erly, liberty, and lifey at the will ofone or an other army officer. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. We are in favor of the war to support the Government, to maintaiu the old Union. If the end is to be another Government upon new principles, it is not worth a war, and we had better stop and save what we can from tbe Wreck. FHE SEAT of WAR. WASHINGTON, Friday, June 14th. The war has, so far, been marked, on the side of the Federal troops in Virginia, with strange blunders. The worst one was the dash of Lt. Tompkins into the village of Fairfax Court House, instead of making a quiet reconnoissance of the roads, &c.-, With a view to enable Gen. McDowell to execute his purpose of surprising and capturing the whole force of cavalry and infantry at and near the Court House the next night. Another effect this so called "brilliant dash." had—to disconcert and defeat the plan ol Gen. Scott for taking possession at once of the Railroads on either side of the Manassas Junc tion, and thus breaking up the line of commu nication between Richmond and Harper's Fer ry. The Fairfax dash that excited so much ad miration at. the North, drew thousands of troops an. heavy batteries at once to the Junction or to ;be lines of the Kailroada leading to it. Thtis in tfcree or lour days Gen. Scott's plan was ut terly destroyed. He is now thrown upon the defensive, and is endeavoring, insttad ot attack ing the enemy's lines, to maintain and extend his own. He is sendiog a large force np the every lordable place," i'q to pre ventre Harper's Ferry or other force from cnonsitio. n _ ver to the Maryland side and getting in the rear of this city, while it is also attacked in front. If the capital is now in more danger than it has ever been before since the 20th of April, it is on account of the "brilliant dash" into the village of Fairfax Court House. The disaster which has happened to the Fed eral arms at Bethel is of no account, considered merely as the result of accident, but it leads to the apprehension that we have incompetent or insubordinate militia officers in the field, from whose conduct no good results may be expected. It will encourage the enemy in their belief that they are invincible. Perhaps they are. II six hundred men with five or six pieces, and a few hastily gathered sand bags, can resist and defeat an attacking force of four or five thou sand, pursue them nine miles, and then retreat unmolested themselves, and carry off with them all their guns, in the face, too of an army of ten thousand men, they may well presume them selves invincible. The whole blame of the dis aster and disgrace is thrown on Gen. Pierce. Perhaps it was well that he should thus dis close bis incompetency early in the campaign. It appeals to be quite certain that there was no want ol courage or power of endurance on the part of our men. For them, belter luck, under better leadership, may be confidently expec ted. We have not arrived at all the facts of tbe Bethel disaster. It is not even certainly known whether there was a creek in Iront of the battery, and between it and our army, or not. It there was, why should it not have been known before ibe expedition was undertaken ? In either case, the position could have been turned, if necessary. It must appear remarkable to New Yorkers that the topography around Fortress Monroe is not better understood. For more than half a century the United States has freel}' spent mil lions in and about that Fortress. In all that time, could not the U. S. Government, or the thousands of skillful and eminent engineers who have been in its pay at the Fortress, have made a reconnoissance as far as twelve miles atound it? Could not such a reconnoissance be found in tbe Fortress or in the War Department ? Perhaps not* In the wars of 1776 and 1812 this region was tbe Iheatre ol military opera, tioo. The foreign enemy never gained much in their demonstrations hereabouts. You may recall the attempt in 1813 upon Craney Island, in which the British were defeated, while they lost more than they gained at Hampton. Tb region is remarkable for sand banks, in numerable inlets and creeks, and impenetrable thickets and jungles. It is not easy there to obtain topographical information. I remember that when eighteen years ago, I spent the nr.onth of July at Old Point, I made some ex cursions into the region about it. The water excursions were all easy. But I found difficul ty in ohtaining any knowledge as to the locali ties on the land. I s'arted from Hampton, once, on the hottest day I ever felt, to find an old an te-revolutionary place of burial. No one could give me any definite information as to the lo cality, though it was well known in Virginia tradition. I found it at last, partly by some bints that I received from an old negro whom I met in the public road, and who said in reply to my inquiry, "I reckon, master, you mean the burying grounds of the people of the old coun try." He told me there were several in the j Vicinity. He could not say where. But they were, as 1 learned from him, all covered up With under forest growth, and difficult of ac cess. So, af>er Walking a mile or two from Hampton, upon wb&t bad always been tbe chief! county road, I saw, amidst cultivated fields, an extensive thicket. I penetrated it, and obtain-! Ed for my trouble many severe scratches from the thorns and briers that were posted, as it were, by Nature to guard from desecration the remains ot the gallant and the good of pa4t times-. I reached an open spot, which, though surrounded with a dense and almost impenetra ble jungle, disclosed to me the object of my search. Flat upon the ground, dr partly under lying the ground, or covered with muss, were! monumental memorials ot some of tbe great men of the Old Dominion. I made an effort to dear off some of tbe mar bles, so as to read the indcrtptions. Some were in Latin. One of them was a record of a great naval fight between the Virginia naval forces and a famous piratical force, in which the Col lector or Port Captain of Hampton, then a great town, was slain, while bravely fighting on tbe deck of his ship, and by the side of the Lieutenant Governor. Farther up, Towards Yorklown and Wil liamsburg, the country is level, open and fer tile, and well cultivated. On both sides of York River there are some fine plantations. This must be thw season of the wheat harvest there. Some of the old plantations had been abandoned, and some grown up in natural groves ot pine and cedar. The demand for this wood for steamboats became so great that it led to the clearing and the restoration to cul ture of the lands near the river. This river infamous for oysters, and every planter has an oyster plantation extending along his front to the middle of the river. They were protec ed by law, and also by stationary boats. These oyster plantations used to yield a considerable; revenue to their owtrers. The people around Norfork used to sell for the Northern markets two millions of dollars worth a year in oysters, peas, cucumbers, toma toes, strawberries, &c. The cutting off of this trade must be inconvenient to both parties. WHISKY VS. BULLETS. An old soldier offers the following excellent advice to volunteers: "My boys! If any among you have been in the habit of drinking much whisky, quit it! If you coatinueto drink ha.4 j bury yon. J in your GRR'af'tfhdergc, whiiey will kill you with more certainty than tbe ball ol shell. If you are exhausted, after a long march, a jorum of strong tea and a chunk of stale bread will do more good than all the whisky that Was ever concocted. The boatmen of Canada will tell you that. Coffee is not good; but a jorum of strong tea will check a tendency to dysentery and bowel complaint. Soup is good. Much meat is bad in hot weather ; the less meat the less blood, the less blood the less load to car ry—bone and sinew make the soldier, not blood. A light diet may go hard on men of strong ap petite ; but he that lives soberly and lightly will recover of his wounds quicker and trouble the hospital lew than the man that drinks hard and gorges himsell incessantly. COST of THE enormous indebt edness entailed upon tbe national and State governments by the present war, may well ex cite the deepest concern. The World of yes terday says: " Congress may as well make up its mind at once lor a funded debt such as the country nev~ tr yet saw. But this ought not really to excite any very deep concern. At the time of tbe first call lor troops, tbe government owed about one hundred millions. Allowing two hundred millions for the expenses of putting down the rebellion—which is a very large estimate —and fifty millions to cover all peace deficits, we shall have a national debt ol thru hundred and fifty millions." But suppose the war should last for years. How would ftand the debt at the end ol that period f Now if all this is necessary ;if all the internal improvements must be stopped, produc tive energies crippled, and the vitality of the nation exhausted, every patriot will cheerfully acquiesce. If it is not necessary, what stupen dous lolly are we called to witness! RATHER UNFORTUNATE. —Mr. Lincoln seems to have been peculiarly unfortunate in his ap pointment ot Foreign Ministers. Austria has already relused to receive Mi. Burlingame as minister to that Court; Mexico objects to Tom Cor win as Minister, notwithstanding his sym pathy on former occasions ; While the telegraph ic dispatches seized by the Government throw suspicion on James E. Harvey, Minister to Por tugal. as having been iu correspondence with the secessionists at Charleston, and it is intima ted that he will be recalled. The Washington correspondent of the New York Times states tbat, in all probability, Spain will refuse to ac cept of Carl Schurz, as Minister to that Court. —Beaver Star* THE ERRECT OF SHOT ON VESSELS.—A shot does not make a hole of its own size right through wood, but indents it, the fibres spring ing back after the shock. Generally, the course of the shot can only be traced with wire, sometimes by a bole as large as a man's finger. The damage most often happens in tbe inside of a vessel, in splintering and breaking the wood, after the main force of the shot is spent. Forts Hamilton and Richmond, which are about a mile apart, with a vessel lying between them, could oot, with their guns, send a shot through two feet of timbers. There is rarely an in stance where a ship was tank by a solid shot. Hot shot and shells do the mischief. Tbe lat ter will sometimes make apertures of several fee! in extent through the aides of vessels. WHOLE UMBER, I 2Cl)i Schoolmaster 21 bro a & SCHOOL ETHICS FOR THE PARENT ANB CHILB. No. 2. In our last, we performed the onerous rfil'y ol introducing our subject to our readers ; in the present and those which shall tollow, it will be otrr aim to speak more directly on the sub ject we have thosen. The parent shall first claim our attention. Education does not commence in the school room hot at the home fireside. The mother! of our land, be their characters what they may, are those by whom the first principles of an ed- ucation must be inculcated. In fte parent we End one of the mO'st responsible poiitione ai an ethical being. Parents, you must in a gidtt measure answer for the nroral and mental train ing of your children. Tis not enough ttiat you educate them in any one particular manner, but they must have all their faculties strength ed and developed. Mental, mora], and physical training is required from you, in order that yocr ■ children may attain that degree of perfection | which Was the design ot the Almighty in tferr j creation. What a noble cause is inviting, yea, even begging your espousal! A cause not to be hemmed in either by state or national bounda j ries ; not ss unstable as the political factions ! which are ever being born and cradled in the bed of fanaticism ; not as transient as the mete or that fiashes across the heavenly arch, add leaves the world only in greater darkness at it again sinks into nothingness ; but a cause whose breadth is only measured by the bounds of the universe ; its height, only by the exalted posi tion of your own, as well as other enlightened countries, and by the flights through which it has borne the human mind ; its depth, only by a. state far below the bounds of hopeless insanity and idiocy itself; a cause as firm as, yea, firmer than, the everlasting hills and mountain* by which we are surrounded ; lasting as etefjfih)r itself. Is it a light, a trivial, an unimportant „ Is the training of the human mind, thar" as a work unworthy the attention of mankind,s Let the world answer. Happily the work it not so regarded. Mankind, despite all its infit** mities and weaknesses, still seems human. So much has already been said and written by different authors in regard to the duty of pa rents, that we deem it unnecessary to enter i much into detail. la order to make our series as systematical as possible, we shall divide our ; subject into what we consider its proper me | thodical divisions, namely : Duties of parents to the School and to the Teacher. KAPPA. THE SCHOOLMASTER IS ABROAD There kave been periods when the country heard with dismay that "the soldier was abroad." That is not the case now. Let the soldier be abroad 5 in the present age he can do nothing, There Ss another person abroad, —s less important person in the eyes of some, an insignificant person, whose labors have tended to produce this state of things. The School master is abroad! And I trust more to him, armed with his primer, than I do to the so!- ! dier in full military array, for upholding and extending the liberties of the country. The ad versaries of improvement are wont to make themselves merry with what is termed the "match of t'nfe//ecf," and here as far aa the phrase goes, they are in the right, The con queror moves in a march. He stalks onWard with the "pride, pomp, and circumstance" of war, banners flying, shouts rending the air, guns thundering, and martial music pealing, to drown the shrieks of the wounded, and the lam eolations of the slain, Not thus the schoolmaster in bis peicefu! Vo cation. He quietly advances in his humble path, laboring steadily (ill he has opened to the light all the recesses of ignorance, and torn up by the roots Ihs weeds of vice, His is a prog - ress not to be compared with anything like a march ; but it leans to a far more brilliant tri umph, and to laurels far more imperishable than the destroyer of his species, the scourge of the world, ever won. Such men—men deserv ing the glorious title of Teachers of Mankind—• I have found, laboring conscientiously, though, perhaps, obscurely, in their blessed Vocation, wherever I have gone. Their calling is high and holy ; their renown will fill the earth in after agesj in proportion as it sounds not far oft in their own times.— Lord Brougham. SIMON SYNTAX does not contribute any ar ticles to our column this week as usual. He has the very contagious, and generally prevail ing disease known as the "war fever." If he survives the first attack, and has no relapse—ill which we fondly hope—be will hereafter be, as heretofore, the public*!, and eepecially Edi tor Green's, most bumble servant, Vol. 4. no. 46,
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