C. F. READ '& H. H. FRAZIER, EDITORS. From the Atlantic Monthly THE -GIFT OF TRITEDLIIIS. Tritemius of Herbipolis one day, ' While kneeling at the altar's foot to pray, Alone with God, as was`his pious choice, Heard from beneath a miserable voice,—: A pound that seemed (Tall sad things to tell, As of a lost soul crying Ont of hell. Thereat the Abbot rose, the chain whereby His tholights went upward broken by- that cry, And looking from the casement, saw below X wretched woman, with gray hair allow, And withered hands stretched up to him, who cried for alms as one who might not be denied. She cried: "Fur the dear love of Him who gave His life for ours, my child from bondage save, Ify beautiful, brave firstborn, chainedwith slaves In the Moor's galley, where the sun-smit waves ILae lite white walls of Tunis !" "Whit I can I give," Tritemius said,- , —" my prayers." " . (30 man Of God !" she cried, for grief had made her bold, " Mock me not so ; I itsk not prayers, but gold ; Words cannot serve me, alms alone Suffice! Even while I plead, perchance my first-born dies !" "'Woman !" Tritemius answered, " froth our door None go tided ; hence are we always poor. A single soldo is our only store. Thou bast our prayers : what can ! give thee more " Give me," she said, " the silver candlesticks, On either side of the great crucifix ; God Well may spare them on his errand sped, Or He can give you golden - ones instead." Then Said Tritemius, "Everkas thy word, Woman, so be it; and oar gracious Lord; Who loveth mercy more than sacrifice, Pardon me if a hunian soul I prize Above the gifts upon His: altar piled!. Take what thou ask.est, and redeem thy Oild." • But his hand trembled as the holy alms He laid within the beggar's eager palms And as she vanished down the Linden shade, He bowed his head and' for forgiveness prayed. So the day pissed; and when the twilight came • Hp rose to find the chapel-all a-flame, and, dumb with grateful wonder, to behold . - Upon the altar candlesticki of gold ! • . .--.----.......ay-- -,-------. AN -ADD ESS 11£1 ! IVEZEI) BEI' 11E F THE SUSQUEHANNA COUNTY NORMAL SCHOOL, • November 9th, 1857. By R. 8. BENTI.M", 'EN TEACIIERS AND STUDF.STS OF THE NOENIAL SCHOOL . :—I am- to address you this evening, in a very plain and simple manner, upotl a 1: subject thatAhe great and capacious energies -91 a Locke, a Bacon, a-Stewart, and others, 1' have never exhausted—l: mean: .the human mind, its cultivation, its education, and its 1 great destiny. Why have you all come here! this 'veiling ? Who• are you ? Ido not mean all of you together, but I mean caeli_in- dividual one of you. 4 do not like to speak to masses, but to individuals. I want each one to feel, Slone, personal itidividuality and identity. • Where. did you come from ? Where arc you now; what are you think ing of and where_ate_xoli-e-;-e7 4- - -w 4 -•-• 4 - yoUr destiny and where? I mean each one of you, not all. Will you think- one too- meat ?. Within sixty years, probably, every one within the sound (;f my voice, commenced,l an existence - that .is never to end., Sixty years will carry us backto the boginning of the oldest; Eternity alone marks the end of all of us. Our bodies, which are now flushed with ; .the health and vigor of childhood and youth,. f or strong in. manhood, were once puny and i weak, and dependent upon others to adminis ter to us the simple food necessary fur our existence. Look once now at the tender in- flint in its .mothers arms, incapable of one effort to sustain its own existence, feeble and. reliant, and you see not only ourselves but. the mightiest men-of 'earth, that have pre ceded us. Within -that feeble, delicate, and helplesS little body is placed au eternalprn -eiple,• the human mind. In weakness and absolute dependence fo`r everything, they . commence their existence together, The body grows, and receives vigor and strength. The bones assuMe hardness, dui ,muscles and-all the several members perform their various offices. The mind expands with the body.' Its powers are enhanced, and if you watch the progress of the two, you will see . that as the body grows up to vigorous man ' hood, and is prepared to grapple with phys . ieal difficulties,: so the mind, till with Hercu lean strength it overcomes every obstacle.— . Does the body grow from puny infancy to the vigor of man - hood, without food 1 If never fed, would it ever increase ? Never, but instead of vigor would be weakness— instead of growth would be decay. So with the mind. Give it food, and it grows—starve it, and as sure as starvation produces lean ness and death to the body, so. surely does the want of proper food, to the mind produce a like result. There is an unerring philoso phy of mind as well as body.' How many person-3, there are in the world who know that without food the body dies, Who never think in all their lives, that the same result ill be produced in-regard to the mind. The soul, hody, and mind. Constitute the person—the man, the woman,' the child.— In this trinity; the most essential and impor tant' constituent - is the soul, the mind next; and last and least the body ; and yet, and I • g ill _ . ... yet, alas! by how many thousands and mill-tit is a pity he - ever had • one- given to him.— ions -in . this w;OrTd is. this -order entirely. You would say, that be ought to have pre reversed ! The 'body first, the mind next, I pared it, by - ploughing deep and enriching and the Soul, if any they hare, the last and it, to receive the seed • that then he ought to the least. Now, if we take all the minds have sown the best seed upon it that he could that are in the world, and put them together, get; - and that. just 'as soon as seed sprang up, whatia vast complicated piece of machinery I he should watch it—should nourish every we would have: Only think of it. Take . plant ; - and that 'every weed and every Cana the Philosophers, the Historians, the ',Poets, da thistle, or Other obuoxious plant that the writers of fiction; the Mathematicians, the should show itself, should be cut, down, deg Astronomers, the "refined - minds, tlik coarse up by the roots,-and destroyed, so that the . and rough ones, the weak and strong ones; good seedthat:wiz sown might produce fruit and *hat a piece.of machinery we have for - I abundantly, -unliindered and unmixed with' human action ; and yet, in all this vast and those things that - would destroy the value of complicatedl machinery, every son: and daugh- the crop. lie would not only enrich his ground • ter of. Adara, high or low, rich or podr, *no- 1 for the production of valuable crops of grain, ' rant or learned, has a place. Some May - be but he would :beautify and adorn' it. He the great eeam. generator ,-or main spring,,l would here and 'there have a beautiful elm others the balance wheels, others the fly for shade, the rose and lilach for spring, wheels, others the cog wheels,and sonie even the flowers for, summer, and the evergreens the ,breaks or-clogs, to. prevent a - . tog much for winter. He would water-it with streams accelerated 'motion of the - machine, \and I from living' springs, snthat he could recline in k.some perhaps representing nothing but the the shade, breathe in the fragrance of the :thistle produced by the escape of 'steam, flowers, and slake his thirst at:his never-fail which dies as soli as it has made a noise, ing fountains. ' ' • ' and leaves nothing behind tint a small cloud - God has giVen to each one of us 'a field to of vapor. Ibit, my friends, *hat is it that cultivate—an immortal mind. We may let makes the difference in the parts of the ma- it ton to Waite, and produce nothing but . chinery of whiCh I have spoken I. it is the weeds and therns, - or :it may be that it is so mind and the soul—not the; body. The barren that it Will be nothing but a dreary body is of the, same earth. The mind and waste, or we May - so enrich -and cultivate it the soul though. different, and - distinct, (but . as to make it a souri.v of 'happiness and end it is not my purpose to draw the distinction : less pleasure to us. _ - ' - ,-. • between the two,) make the man. 1 ,- Solomon - says, "Get wisdom • get under • Will you. - treasure up in your 'elude - for 1 kinding i forget it not. Wisdom is the your future - use, it you have not done it, this , principal • thing, .therefore get wisdorn;-_,but one proposition--Mind, educated -and cult', in all thy getting, get. understanding:"'understanding:"' vated, is the great and mighty Locomotive,l "am dispoied for the purposes of the pres tliat sway s , nm ss , a n d confro/ii human cc- cit. arm yument , .to consider that by .wisdoui t '''.- • • . . . ~ . . . -- - - 77. -....,--,-- • • .• :. ,'. - .'. -'.- : - - .• . ,• . . . . . . . ~...,, ' . . ' ' • . . ...AA .. ' . .' . . . .. ' . - .• . . - • . • .. .. • . . . .;,.... _ll T. •: -.. .i.n. .'llt - ' I -.-. •II . . , .. • .. . .. ..,. ~ • . ... ...-....:, , . 1 .. - ~.' ' - .. • , . 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But said to be, great scholars,who have a onderful let us go back a little, - and enquire what mind amount. of knowledge. who have *raduated ii is : for it is Weil, for each one•of us; to know at our highest Seminaries of lea Mg, and and reflect, .what we have within us that get a great name for their attain ents, who Makes us, and Which . . we have to feed„ - and in fact are not sufficiently edteated to teach a take care of, and control, which makes us common school. Teach a commot schook.l what we are, and which is shaping out for .said. That will nut answer. Th compari us our destiny; and preparing us for the sun fails; for•I do say, that if there ' s any im place we are to occupy in the vast empire of portance to be attached to any osition in which I have .spoken. • • . . tsociety, it should be •to that of th • common It has. been Written, and so believed, that school teacher. The idea that an) ody who the mind of a- Child is but. a sheet of clean, can read, and . write, and cipher asl 00 far as . white paper, uponwhich may be inscribed 1 Ruleof Three, is prepared to teacligicommon one character just as .well as another ;- and I school, is the most preposterous Ind absurd that the characters so inscribed will remain i notion on earth. What, set thegr2en novice there, and will be reflected therefrom. To ,stif an apprentice to gut up the plats and de= a . certain extent this is true, but it is not all i vices for the temple, and lay outs the work, the truth. The 'paper is inactive—is dead— I and then let the artisan and the m+ter.work it receives the intpressions and gives them 1 man do the boring, the mortising the 'plan. back. again just as redeived, without change I ing, and 'the finishing up of the stucture !---- or tnoslification.i Not so with the . mind— i Set a bungler and a novice to buil. the foun i that has life ar.d'energy. When a character i datiou and plan and lay out the v. tole struc is impressed upon 'it from without,. it takes I lure of the - fabric, and then get . i viser and that character, and scans it; works it over,' more skillful heads to finish ! . Outinpon such and modifies .it, and appropriates it. "When ; foolery. The - presidents and - priessors, of t another impression ,is made, it does the same i colleges and principals of acadeini s must be thing, and then :tints the two together, and 1 knowing men, in order, to keep' the mind works them over and over, and compounds I along in the track on which:it hasibeen start them, and yet so ,as to use them either sepa- I ed, or .to put it into some other' rack, if it rattly or together; and so on, indefinitely, : has been put into a wrong one„an .1 to finish SO long as any new object or subject is ad- ! it vp and put on the poliSh;'.whi e the man mated to the precincts of the mind, the same i who is to put it on. its wane, to prepare it process is • gone through with; and thus we I to think, reflect, and aet,rnay tie an gnOramus, . have simple''- and ! complex ideas. If a man who perhaps never had a thought o his own in I had never seen but one thing in' his lite, he his life bes-Jila tiug _enough ,toleat and to could never have'a thought of bow anything wear, and never knew how to think any fur else would look. ', If be never :had seen i ther than a mud-turtle. How ca tt a man di : anything but a - mouse; he could think of - neth- 1 sect another in a course of_iilticb he knows -? ' 'rtev ice ' - iug but - a mouse :r. if ho should see a mouse and elephant, be would begin to compare their size and their strength, and begin to en quire in his mir.d:' %whether they were of the same species, and so on. . -If he had never heard anything but a steam whistle, he could have no idea of :'any-other sound, but if he should hear. afterwards the sweet sounds of the flute, or the soft voice of some woman' Singing some beautiful song, hZ would at once 'be led to reflect, whether they were all made in the same way,:m by the same instrument. Yod can . carry this , idea out, by the thousand illustrations that :will suggest themselves to your minds, and you will understand sit once, how the mind acts in forming ideas from' the impressions received . from without, through the senses of seeing, hearing, feeling, &c. The mind is an active, not an inert princi ple. Were it not so, whatever it received, would lie like kernels of wheat in the grans 117ki.VcrniTry receives whatever is furnished it, for building up its - own fabric, or temple, and - it also pos sesses the astonishing and to .us..imaceounta- ble power of keeping the temple : .se; built by itself perfect in all its parts, and, yet-lays the material into different cells, to be - taken out and used in constituting other ever-varying fabrics, at its v6II. Reason _occupies the throne and should hold princely dominion over the will and memory. Like a monarch, it - calls for contributions from the treasures of memory, and ,they are furnished. Obedi ence is rendered:in all its &mains. My friend, in mind, for a moment, will you lead me back a few years, and take me to some hallo Wed spot of vour childhood ? It matters not whether it - be.....some• old tree uniler ,whieh,,yon have played—some rock On which you were accustomed to sit; in the Sunny days of spring—some old school house where happy days were spent—some pretty brook rtnining thronA the pasture, where you were wont to fetch the cows at night—l care not what : when we get there, how many . associations of by-gone ;days will rush upon the !Lind 1. • A father, a mother, brothers, sisters; and playrnats, some per.. haps of whom have long.siuce been numbered with the dead, will again meet 3, ou there.— Their images Will 'be as fresh upon your naind ; as in days lon,g since departed. . The mind is at work; calling up those loved ob. jects that have long slept' in memory, and that are now called forth by some little incident that puts the mind into action. In my judgment, a much better type of the - mind is the !•;01l of .ti..e earth. Seeds are put into it,and by its own power and the effect of the heat and the. ,rain, they spring forth and produce 'first the' plant, then .the stalk, and then the fall ear ; but while it thus pro i duces grain, at: the lame titre it produces weeds, and thistles, and thorns; which if left to themselves always grow more abundantly than the grain. i`NoW, if a man . had. but one field to cultivate, and, every thing depended upon the manner in which he prepared, sowed, and cultivated it, and he should let it run to waste and. grow up with weeds, what 'would you, :ay. him 7 You would . say that God ought never to have given .him one, that he was riot - fit to have it, and that had him "FREELiCYLM ARDIRomm7 3 aaamett[r gLaWERV amp wRoRaO99 ISIONTROS nothing : Who would trust' ii novice to put a piece of valuable machinery - into motion, who knows nothing of its poWer"tuil velocity? And yet that great piece of "maeliint3ry, the lata 7 man mind e is to be tampered with Aid tobeput into motion & its first direction kilnpulse giv: en to it, which titno and eternity Pigether can oalyshow the results of, by . perst .t ait who can not understrgor appreciate mind any more than an owl can bigic. This ma , not often be the case, yet, shatne to our p Edecessors, and to us, it has been and still = s too often the case, and by this how many it mind •that might . have been directed and ;trained to mighty ends, and to a high pcisipon among the great minds of the earth, has iheen crush ed in embryo, or a direction On to it•that led it on to misery and ditrksess forever. But 1 have digressed, and will return. Knowledge may exist without eation, but edw:ation never without knowledge. Know/. edge /a - zotrictturs put E Rto the. rut& through' the several senses,..and is often ' •eceived by students from their books and ichuina, -just previous to am examination, and s familiarly known by them- as craniming .f. r the oc sion. Education is a discipline, reparation, ca p or slate of the mind, that pretax sit to act, to draw forth from the treasury knowledge it contains, the material therein epusited, for its proper and legitimate use ; r, in other words, the fruits and results of knowledge, thought, ant' reflection. Newt 4 sari an ap ple fall. Ile received the knowOge of the t fact through his eyes. Thousat sof others had seen the _same thing, and ~received, of course - , the same knowledge;- b t, while oth ers received only knowledge of he fact, by thought and re&etion, the n - intil lt ] of the great philosopher was so, educated, 11.1 'to see and to learn from that fact, the great} principle of gravitation by which this earth'and all the planetary system of the univers . are kept in motion and intheir. proper sp eres. That the squares erected upon the tosides of a right-angled triangle are equal - the square erected upon the base, is a fact tihat has exist ed from eternity, and is known Ito thousands ii who never think further upon t e zubject ; but to demonstrate that fact an pro% eit step by step, required thyught, refle tion, and rea soning that could only come fr m an educat ed mind. See that mighty and ponderous machine standing upon the ra I-toad track, it stands there, firm as a roe -, without life or motion. The wheels are th re—the boil er is there—the arms and pist ns and all the varied parts of the vast machi • ace there— the tender is there, filled with w I od—the boil er is filled with water; and y. there 'is nei ther life nor motion. These are all substanbial facts. All the material fur so ne mighty ef fect seems to be there. and yet there is no ef fect produced. Soon a little 're is kindled under the boiler; the elemen , within it be gins to move—first a partici• expands and rises to the top. and then ano her, and then more rapidly another, till the whole mass' is in commotion, and the ponder s engine be gins slowly to move, and c% •ry part, both great and small, is put icto r ,quisition, and it moves off majestically, draultng after it the Lang train of cars, freighted ibith hundreds, 1 nay thousands, of human beings, increasing 1 its '•ed P % u , ..... till it thuildr ind sh- , speed as it goes, thunders ai ..rug. es over the tra:k, like a mighty giant, driv en on to madness and fury, 411 every thing seems flyitig from behind it fa.ith the speed of lightning. What the fire •Ifr -to the wood and . water, so is education to 1 the - mind. It moves upon the mass,—the seam : is genera ted, and there Must b life arid. action. In all the - countless multithdes of minds that God ever created, no,two have been pre licisely alike. - What woulded ' to one might not another. Education is ii: r a the reach of all, and yet bow few there ary. that are edu cated. Ido not mean academical or collegi ate education. I 'mean that 'education which prepares the mind and soul to fulfill the high destiny that awaits it. Wha, educated Na-' I d I peleon Bonaparte, and prepared Win for that career of military glory whi the world be. held but to admire and wen er at? It was the state of Europe: Whateducated Oliver Cromwell'? what. Benjamin- _ re'nklin? what, I Martin Luther, but the time- and circumstan- I eeslunder 'whiel they were p aced r The one, i a youth; lounging alting tbr ugh the streets 1 of 'our own beautiful . Phila elphia, withbUt h h ' I home or friends, carrying in. j is hand a little I checkered handkerchief wit. ' a shirt and a pair of blue wollen it:Ockingo in it,aud eating Ia penny-roll - as be went. Who educated him ; and prepared him to . transm t a name to ttils .43 terity, covered with honor • . d fame? N 'to educated Martin Luther, a i onk in a clois. , .ter, and prepared him top uce a mighty revolution in the religion world, _whose 1 waves rolled over every Itultd4 So witli. the 1 renowned .of every no. ,_ .1- [ - If I were to define educatt, would - say it we 'thc In« TITURSDAY I NOVEMBER 19 1 1857: dyer, and compounding of iimple knowledge, or simpleideas,in and •by the mind—You may call is education,- discipline, or what you please. One man may instruct another. 'He may impart knowledge to him, he may en lighten hins, but 1 insist upsn it:that he can not educate him. Every -man must educate himself. Wealth cannot do it, friends can not do it, nor wise teachers, but he must du it by the means furnished him._ " A teacher's skill can near suffice; Do well your part; in that the secret lies." 1 , . If you were to ask me wha; you should do while you were acquiringnowledge, and af- ter you had acquired it, what you should do next, I would tea you to think. What next? Reflect. What neat l' : pink snore. What next.? Keep thinking over all . you see, and hear, and feel, and know; The great talis manic word to success, is thought, thong/et, TIIOCOIIT. None. of . us begin to think one half as much as we ought.• . . God is the great source whence all good emanates,,and to Whichall good tends.. lie has given us minds to be instructed, to edu eate and cultivate. He has allotted to us a- destiny in other worlds than this, and has on ly placed us here to prepare fur that destiny: He has given us minds to appreciate the goodness with which he Surrounds us, and he desires that that goodness should lend us to himself. The world is full of food for thought and reflection, The sun, the Moon the stars, 1 nay, the Whole firmament showed; forth his • handy wOrk, and the world, is full of htsglory. The mighty ocean, the rivers, the forests, the' green grass, the flowers of .the losophy, Chemistry.; Botany, 'Mathematics; Whose principles tire as unerring and- eternal as God himself, if I unir be allowell - the, ex. pression, the animal, ir*tetable, and mineral kinkdoras, the nations ofthe-EArth,lind man himself, all; I, 'are . grind and`sublime, and 1 lend us to their, great:Author, and furnish us I objects for thought, ,ane : contemplati?,p; riot only for this life, .hite for that eternity of I years _which lie beyond our - present existence. Ire hits given us hearts to love and 'adore him, and social affections, for our happiness here, and our joy and bliss hereafter. As Gud is good su his works, and not one of . them but what is intended to. be a teacher and instructorto us, and , upon which our minditnay, and ought forever, to dwell with increasing delight and. profit: And as . such ive shoUld study them. We can only . begin to do iehere. We can only trace up a few of the small rivulets, and branches, and take a few small draught,. from - them as we pass along, but the countless ages of EternitV alone can suffice for us to follow up the migh ty streams that lead to that, ocean of good ness, and knowledge;and happiness, that God has created for the Isnmortal.;mind. How grand and everWhertnieci the thbught that itteVicit;4-4. to-be s &tin;tl A l Gektirdir frWii"ct.h.- and the. Universeour subject for study, and the mind constantly enlarging, for the.-recep- tion of truth and knowledg,e', " What is man that thou are mindful of hiin, or - the. Son of man that thou visitcst hint ? Thou bast creat ed- him a little lower than the angels; thou last croWned him with glory and honor."-- King David, when he . wrote - the above, did not mean some great k ing like hiniself, or arty other great triad of the earth, but simply man —man as GOd created him; with that germ of immortality planted m hiS breast.. If there is any thing more humiliating to- a right minded man than any thing else, it - is the False estimate that the world puts optan,:man. We lose sight of the prieelessiteaSure With.; in, and admire the mud walls that *lose it.- We admire the..brass - on the outside, while the gold, the pearl, and the . prPcions'atones lie within, unnoticed, and . uncamd for by us. What is man ? Not the being that - 0e tai ; for makes, a 3 some men think and say. He and the barber.tuay Arms up and 'perfume the exterior, but they add not one particle to the man. You may go into our - eitien - and. visit. the museums of am - Yon will see there representations of Napoleon Bonaparte, of Sir William Wallace, of General Washing ton, and of hundreds of other heroes and illus trious men,and beautiful women. Their-forms are perfect, their hair, their teeth; their noses, their mouths ' are all as perfect, and beauti ful as nature herself could make them.' hey are dressed . with.all the beauty and elegance that wealth, art, and taste, can do t' - and,. yet, what are, they ? cold and senseless - wax ! The eye is 'perfect - in all its propoytious and symmetry, and yet , there is no life there.— Man may• mike the image and dress it tip, but all the artists that God ever created can, not plant intelligence - in the eye, or imitate the _soul and . mind, sparkling through it. He who made the mind, alone can do this. Man cannot even counterfeit it. . If mind makes the man, then indeed .man is of More importance than - anything-else we can conceive of. The wails of ancient Baby. I lon, her temples and her towers, lie buriedln the dust. , The ancient cities of. Thebes, and Antioch, and -Rome, and Tyre, once thronged with busy - life,and where wealth, and luxury, i and fashion, and elegance,. held sway, have crumbled and -mingled with: the earth on which . they stood, and are numbered with the . things that, live only in the history of the World.. The Pyramids of Egypt shall fall,— the mighty structures of Earth-that are laid upon foundations of adamant, shall totter and fall, and pass away like the morning mist, the earth on which we dwell shall pass away, —the sun shall be darkened in the heavens and shall forget-to shine,-the moon and the stars shaWf e away and . fid m l, and yet an shall live; and when the material universe shall cease to exist, then man shall have but first.begun his course, and shall be but in the , dawn of his existence. ' Who, then, am him it man's duration? How mysterious is man !- Nou may bring together all the-complicated machinery the world ever saw, and what is I it, as compared with the machinery of the human - Mind? • Who has ever understood it in all its parts and complicatest operations We talk about the soul—about reason =.I about the Will—about memoi r —aboutre- .1 vetige—about love—about envy-4bout hate —about adMiration, &c. What is the soul? Where is reason located—where the various passions of the human breast? How do they act, and how arc _they controlled I It is said that reasoli.si.ts upon as throne in the breast, and goLerns the passion's. What is reason, and how does it act If it be, a king, then like other kings it has rebellious subjects.,- , Will is its 'commander-in-chief to carry out its commands ; and yet, let 10ve,,. or hate, or pride, or revenge,.,take. : . posseSsion of the . breast, and how strong they become 1 ..1 When . once in - rebellion, neither, reason, nor nor all the forces' they, c can ring, can subdue the rebellion till it expends its. own strength. I. practically, •I . ifs ink , workin What is the mina I Is it a part of the.ibul, or is it distinct . ? Does the soureotrol the mind, or tins mind the soul Is the.soill tinetfrolitAhe Fissions, or are they a part - of it 7,. One thing we do knew, that all theseltt tributes co,nstitute man., and man alone.. How myeterious, then, is man,. and Wonderfully made! Man is not only more durable than all things material, not only more mysterious than all•things else of earth, but he is richer in himself than all the treasures ofearth cont. biped. You may put together in one , vast pile, all the wealth of the aesars, all the dia monds of Golconda, all the silver -mines of Potosi, and all the gold mines , of California, all the pearls of the ocean, all the itmense, of Arabia, all the comnieree of the world ; and you may throw in all the dotn.ains of all the Monarchs and princes, their estates, their esiij ties, and their towers, and all of Eardt's' boasted wealth combined. and put them all together into the scale, and one man out weighs them all. You need not put a Gesar, °els Bonaparte, or a "Rothschild, or a Sir Walter Scott, or a Byron, nor anybody .else, in. Get jn yourselland you will find that there is-no perceptibledifferenee in the move meat of the scale. whether i you known and feeble as you may :be, or whether one of Eiren's_mightiest an l richest' Sens or - daughters is_ in: You . canntit weigh matter against mind. The gold of Oplitr cannot outweigh the soul; The affections ofthe soul, drawn out • towel da God end our • fellow men, are richer and inore preductive of hap- pines.: than all the treasures ofgahr,tind frank- incense, and Myrrh, that the earth evet%did or ever can produce. lam not visionary in this matter. Cam uneupon va . in - spee.utatiims. It is ni'r image of my imagination, but plain, simple;unvar: nished truth, and seta startling and fearful truth. When will man learn ►•hat he is— what it is that is within hitn, what eonst:tutes him, and for what destiny he is created.!= The &Al is sick and sad at the. manner in which men estimate man. . If we see a. man who has atnas.sed wealth., who' bas_, surrounded, himself with all that wealth can procure,lf we tee a man who oe copies a. throne, or a man who is elevated to high station or power, or whose name is en graVen.high on the rolls of fame, we are apt to run after him and cry out, "Great is •Di ana of the Ephesians.r And even the ladies, God's inasterpiece of all his workmanship, as connected with this earth, often so far 'forget thei , own worth and dignity, and so far -for get the true estimate of others, as to be envi lills of some of their tex,who'fitay be able-to dress in finer silks, and wear . more costly jewel:: than they can, and who. may have fin- - er forms and more beautiful faces, without considering that, if there be not a . heart and -500 t ishto , :sizav . that shines -through 'the eye, whiterer' trap; pings they' may , have around them, .they are po4r, very poor, indeed,-no better than the image of wax, and no snore lovely or valua ble from their decorations of gold, and Hari, and silks, than the wax-figuresare that are put up in show windows and cases in our Cities. • • We are not all alike, but . that makes no difference. Yon may, go into . the prden,and you will see every grade and kind of flower, from the modest and beautiful little violet under the moss, to the gaudy sun flower.— Is not the violet, small as it is, the work manship of the same hand, and is it not equal ly adMircd with the rose'? Go into the for est: , Will You - uot see every tree, from the small shrub to the Mighty oak; the pine, and the stately cedars - of Lebanon ? Look at the small rivulet that - runs through the meadow 'then go and visit .the,broad Amazon, then the tnajettitiOlissiOppi . as it runs through a rich and variegated country, bearing on its bosom the wealth of the land—then go to Niagara falls, and see* the mighty cataract and hear the loud thunder of the waters rush ing oVer'it, then go and stand upon the beach of the. mighty ocean, as it heaves and singes, and rolls, the very emblem of subliinity it self. Is the rivulet Of , less . value, or is it ashamed. of itself because it is nut the Miss- issippi, or the Mississippi .because it is not the ocean ? - Each can say to the 'other, Am I not made of the same material that you are? Did not tl►e same hand make us ?: Are not our properties .the same?. Will l not last as long as you will ? If you hear ships do not I furnish cowl and rich beverage •to man and.beast and deli.ht the eve? So it is. with you, my friends. You may not all be great men nor great women; but that makes no difference.. " Honor and fame from no condition rise— •" Act well your part, in that the honor lies." From my very soul, I loathe and abhor the distinction that is made between men On account of their external circumstances and advantages. A man, by some good luck, or perhaps by some' villainy' . or scoundrelism, or perhaps. by inheritance, gets a little gold, dresses finery, has a finebotise,"earriages,and servants, and then dashes around. Ile may be as corrupt as Satan,as ignorant as a block head, and as senseless as an oWl,"bnd yet he will be courted and thwncd on by all the fools in the community, and if a young man,would be esteemed a great match by sortie mammas for their daughters. It is not the_ man, of 1 course, the gold thatgives.the charm. Shame, shame, that such estimates of human worth; shOuld ever be . made! I care not Whethera man is a : kint., , or a peasant, a rich man or a poor inan,:a. !Muer or samerehant, a Mechan ic Or, a day :taterer—whether he is dressed in silks and satins or in a tow freck, whether he wears a b old Watch, and chain of the- same material, or whether he has time, whether he tides in - a coach and four, or whether he puslf es a wheelbarrow,—if he have a heart and a soul, the impress of God upon man i and that makes maw—if he has educated - the - mind that God gave him, he is entitled to my re sped and my love, and he , shall' have these. I will do obeisance to no man upon earth.— The highest exidrieliest is but a man. I claim to be &plan. I look dovit upon no-inan,and never will. If he: is a man he is my brother, and my hand shall ever be extended to him. I acknowledge no aristocracy but that of mer it, and never will do obeisance to any other. But 1 must - forbear. I have already. tres passed long upon you ;- but pardon me—the subject is inexhaustible. You know the plea sure that knowledge and discipline' bring to. 1 the soul. Whoever has. tasted .and relished one draught from the Pieriewapring, 'knows 1 something of its value and powen'i • ' • One word before I close. - You hate bees s pending three , months:together, as teachers - and icholata. :You are now about_tn.nap4.! atC, I trust it hay been profitable ;Ind pleas- * , ) , U*BLISII , ER-o=7;eoL l .B:' , NO. 45 . , ant ,to you - ail . . ft has been pleasant to see you 'around o ur. town: We: regret; to-have you leave-us, and: you =will--- - earrreur best wishes -With Again ask - you,leich one of you, to think whei - yota are and, What- - your destiny is.' , Think of *bit Y9u . •.heyie- been over duringg-04 - s term. Reeolleet always and at all titres what.yon are, lnd *lntl - zit:4 has implanted•ln your:;breaste; and put into your charge and,keeping..l Ever he ready to cher ish antteultiVato all the uoble..and elevating qualities. of the soul. Educate yourself thou', oughlv for meeting ° all the reeponSibilities. of ' life. "Earth will have man,y, rough perhaps, for many of YoU--,discipline and - prepare your minds for them; Let virtue and truth ever be found with you. - th;s principle now and forever, be impressed up. ; on your very hart and soul, that virtue and virtuous :Mons, will ever bring With, their their rich rewards of peace, joy, .and happi ness ; and that vice, however it may disguise : itself, wiLl;bring with it, sooner. or later , Fe pen lance, sorrow, anct s , remorse. God has so decreed it, and our experience.teaches it." That each one of you may so educate your minds. so discipline . your . hearts-iuid affec- . tions. so meet all the responsiliiiiiies that God has laid upon you, and so - fulfill the high . • destiny for 7.Vhieh you , were createA is the sincere wish 'and 'prayer of your friend and servant,' Farewell. The Yankee and his Chiekettis. One of those peculiarly .slah-sidod,' gaunt. Yankees ; whom the prolific soil down East produces' in abundance, lately emigrated and.. - in settled down the vicinity Of Chestnut Hill. He was the very picture of d mean, shiftless. Yankee, but as he put himself to • work in good. earnest to ,get his house to rights, the neighbors willingly lent him a helping band. After he got everything according-to his rio. tions,,a thought struck him that he: had no chickens, and he was powerful fond ofsick ing raw eggs. _ Ile was too hottest to -steal them, and too mean to buy: them. 'At fast a thought struck hg; , piNld burrii'w lie then went_to - ii, neighbor 'and accosted him : " Wa11,.1 reckon Yeti hain't.gOt no old hen nor nothin" you, would lend me for. a. few weeks V' : • .F. "1 will lend . yon one with pleasure,P-re: plied his neighbor, picking outone of the fin-. est in his-coops. The .Yankee took the: hen • home, and then went to another neighbor and borrowed . a dozen or eggs:. He • set the hen on the eggs, and in duo course of time she hatched out. a dozen chickens: The Yankee was anaiu puzzled ;he could return the hen, but how was ,he to return the tws. Anoth er idea, and who &et' Saw - allattkee without one, came to his - relief, he , would "keep the : hen until sholitid a dozen eggs. Ile then re tu ed_. the , hertuss-tf.!.4lSisii. ive owner, remarlCiniaeriits = 1 guess I've gut as fine, a dozen of chickens as you ever, your-eyes up, and they didn't cost nie.a.eenL.nother." • . A N9TH ER IIEILMNE.--47110 . dangers:a the ocean within a few weeks, have developed many, cases of tardship and heroism, both by men ,anti women. Our.readers 'may reniem.. ber an accouniof the perils through whichlhe steamer Southerner -lately. passed.. : During tkeStorrn,.-and when death was staring each - one . in the-fitt,*; lady . : was constantly seen among the men, serving theiw with . refresh= ments, and cheering.. them withkind wordi and hope. Sliewas always. ready to carry out the wishes of and engineers ;. , and it was by her 'example of coolness and bravery that all on board 'woe Inspired with fresh zeal and energy. All honor to such a woman. Her name should be passed froln, lip to lip in the language of praise,.and her example should be held tip as every. wayiwor thy. of emulation on similar occasions.—Phil adelphia Paper. The - Heroine - spoken of in the above.para graph; was Harriet A. Mersereau,. of this village. The Southernor Was in the gale. that the Central America foundered, and the next morning, dead bodies from theC;A.,: were seen floating around.the S.. The S. lost her smoke pipe, masts, &e., and was left to the mercy-of the waves, being without sails or steam.- The steamer drifted to the mouth of Charleston harbor; and was towed in in almost a sinking condition. It was • in . this severe gale, when almost every person on - board but herself was sick or so frightened that they could do nothing, that Miss Mer sereau was seen, perfeitly calm and .compos ed, passing around. among them, administer ing to their wants, and 'by her coolness and bravery, cheering them - with- kind w0rd,.... Cases arc rare, in a scene- like this, where a woman has the (Zioltiess and presence of mind .that Miss M. had on the above occasion.-- , But this is a characteristic of her. Truly, she . , is a flak woman. Her natne:should ever: Win remembrance by everyone, and her example followed by all on similar occasions. —Union (Broome Co.) News. NATIONAL PRoDUCTIONI3.-Nations, say's' the Boston Post, are characterized not more by their people than by their other and infe rior productions. Here, are some of the most notable " specimens"' offered-by several corm- • tries : China has tea, porcelain and long-tailed mandarins; Germany, clocks, printing, ghost stories, lager bier and transecnitental plains°. phy ; .Russia, emperors,. hemp, and knout; France, cooks, capons,•cornplinients. ' and crin !. ()line • Austria, - .mrpets, •diploinaey and two headed eagles ; Prussia, Frederick theat eat, school-masters:, and tall grenadiers ; - -Switzer , land; watches, wooden .toys and Calvinism;: Italy,- popes, pisons, paingngs, !•musiogrind ers arc},. revolutionary manifestoes ; • Spain, chi valry,court - etiquette, ,Cortez; • oluitibus and Cervantes. • England has produced statei men, poets, 'orators; generals; roust beet, the " Times'- newspaper, poor laws, taxation, fogs, spleen,*rurtiblers, colonies, cockneys and "Punch." - America, has prod need-:Wa4i ington,a model - repuhlic,the electric telegraph, anaesthetic ether, Gen. Jackson, and- several thousand "live • Yankees"---Who • • proauw every thing :that- is . worth producing, and some thing. over ! gre'thomas Campbell .rocs said :—" I never like. to see Mr name before ti k 'Pleas ures of }lope; ' , whir, I cannot e , -ss it is that, when young, 1 wa. : Tway . ted among my friends as, 'r. r. Camp's(' , author of the Pleasures of - IThpe,'--‘Good '• cirning to you, Mr. Campbell, author of- the Plea ' sures of Hope.'- 'When_ I got married, l•was ,snariied as the author: of the . Pleasures. 95f iro'oo :f and when I became's father, my son was' the son of the author of the Pleasures of Hope.' ,' IEIIII Wetleyliog heremik:Oldring. light Tra+eling is the4!mtleitif-Cleybn. In . order . to avoid- tlinAfreist- '4 1 4-4, the sun, the Missionailen4khorth:Ci Inn fri quently travel' y.'itiglit, e l, - 14,11* .„ 4 ,..!tia'n 40, laktutt shines bright, it i nenkt , - scene is ertokk ,4iellit.. ' 1 1 4 .-' 4 ' war and then we emerge ' - _ ~ ~...:;, , iii. 'Odin, .' over which are thitaai t til - - . liletniant • trees, not litiliknic en o ttaw-it g k -in !..ng lend.. ' I- Immense hems beliettrif ; : inietly feeding 'in' the distanee,"?-oilibme , Itociitdisg across our. path. :we break inittOctn_the sol ittide. of their rich pastures. .Agaiplail pltnige into the dense forest, - .W hire :the ,rainonfinnet can hardly 'Penetatate the lay lireniihes'irha interlace'each4thefaboia'our•hlads , " •-•'- , T .•••• It is very different" from atl-this inhearkthe nights are clerk. • How . =do we•eontiuniciar - journeys through the thick . , woods where . there ' are no roads, and serosse, es rivers where there • are neither - _neither . - ferries, when neither moon nOrsfirs give light? You '-will" say, - vie carry niiiitern.-1-: No, that would be of.very - little natio tis. - .4:- -- , It might be • broken by a stragglieg branch, or extinguished -in a _moment,- if ,the, man whOcarried,it happened to fall ; or a pit o( :.. wind might blow it out. Besides, oar light must be one which can be projected Si : fore or behilid, to the right of to_the left, or -raised high above the head at a mOnien4no- - tic° on thei sudden appearance of -danger.t-. We must have fire.as well as light..' .1 ,_,-- The natives provide_for .the, ',came in the folloWing manner.: l ---A strai ght : about branch about - twelve feet long, and of hethicknnsa of t a little boy's arm, is cut fawn - a *tree WFWW wood is known to 'burn easily. --Whilst it; in green and full of sap., eummencing at about* a foot from one end, theY7apht. througkita entire length into tel l or twelve pieces.' It is then bound together--again •tti itt•ciriginal form with rough twigwahout.a fiat aptkrt,amd • I suspended from the - ' r'oofs of theif_ bona: , to - dry. They frequently keep them for several I years, and the older and drier' thaftheyste, the better they will burn. ' ~ ; • ;,... -•.. , ..i.,,.,; - ..This stick is non _called n cheek -. pa sfiqt. ing on a journey byrilklit,_ - bite * Of these ii,hild to the fire until the 'end is thillibughlylighted ; a native *Of -the Village acquainted - ' viith•the _forest is appointed'. to carry it• L iind; grasping it by the middlp so as to balance it in his hand, he moves, on in advance; immediately followed by the : Missionary and'his besreis. 'Such is our forest light. As the ihoetiia not -, I kept in constant flame, it will .burn'fintaive ral hours, if useilwith.ecorromy; : , :bni..itinal ,- wa ys ifs adopt the- precaution of having:one or . twu in reserve - to provide Air accidental, 4 i On we move in perfect silt-nee - . Andden/b -on our : right there is the siiiily - liiiiritt of ari elephant ; the chooles wive - alit Ina:- - ftes.and bursts_ into a beautilill otisir k r ino.** the whale , regiol4-iiiid - there , i is ai*iii4: 344 - forest as the nugn - beast fikei:hti'lltele.r, -le are in no danger, for the elepha#lcterrifle# by our torch, and r wiCratit - 400 , :tilieit, on, on : for many aAiti - AitillOisi- • knee. Those faithfill - 11 - 14i4ht4:Ciirt upon their fiends my cloth es --- Aai*iihttifoit: exchange not ti....single _Word 4nringlbeie, night. journeys, but ; pins* close : open the._.„ .. istailkef - lay har3y_litile horse. , y..t•rhlya Ake -1 4444,1 , ivy, break s . the stillkieklii:telak:thep';4ll I,Gospel story, the history .of clitistif*aalt. love and sacrificial ileatlil - dr; foltapiow- - often is it thus 1.-4ieis:alletitilio - o;-hletimetat revert to his English hoine, his esfky,, - o*, hopd, the songs of, the Sabbath-school; hts heart fills - he;blns - -tif. sing, aila,th6 o -.4i. (Ail woo ds the rich - lay oui'lieleivW Methodism ! '.',.•-' --•-.... I'` . - " --''''' At last we coma. to tj,,,deep and raptak#Seei --- or, it may be, anitlait- froth the") fthich, we cannot attenals.•34.ford till . '....reek t l Again the dosiiisltaited„ and, • -rf , it_liiiiits,.. Dried• leavese... - tiasid asa..„c,ol -* Off, and_i; fire kindled ; ilith4tJe if , aillia - 1. - ; tegruie it will. Masterrt* . 4:4tiiiiiit lie - . 4 , ' • Ciporktliti grass, and are .ititik-liat-italeinnr,!-1,-.': . - WHAT'S kAriioAiidier="iii:spearnuitt of isiewtonhalf,"-af,'„ the...46cent dinner• tif the Durham Countitiral Sogjety,i.Was reminded, by th6 -. '" ofile4allfarra a - story, which perhaps he* Amino& to relate,aShe hid it froirli7v.oo 3 o: B 9fifee. : —vii from a very. e.xcelreltfr.diri3e, who, was, himself a prebendary o(tl4"Cisthedral Church of,Durham. Two hon4firmers, along together, encettntjtfid 1(1016' iv, of clergymen; one of ihein issid,to - the Ober:: " Where be all these'parsons - iorning frank 1" To this his friend replied, "They've beeti . :st. a visitation." The other, no wistir-thsit, be., fore, says,—" What's a visitatiortrigid, the, : answer. he received was, " WhY;itii 'white r , all the parsons goes ones n year and swam their sermons.'' frisnd; otr.beingihusp enlightened,tquietly remarked, , "Dang but our char mun get the -worst on, it every' time."—Gateshead .06serre . r. •, - • VEZNN =I NiMEI ~i~ X. . _ .., zef-- = =EI ==itiEl " The principal avenues:4 our eity," , writes a 'learned friend from Detroit, "has toll-nate just by the Elmwood Cemetery read, .As the cemetery had been laid out sotmi time: previous to tbe construction of thti plank reiid,' it was.. Made one of the conditions of the Comm; pany'S charter ' that all funeral proemial:las should go back...end forth /rec. One day.w Dr. Price, a Celebrated physician, stopped to-.: pay his toll, he remarked to the " Considering the beneiolent character of ' Our profession, - r thiuk euiht,s9, us - pass free of charge," - - "No; no, Doctor," the keeper reitird.Ortif! "we - couldn't afford that.x searia - k too mans 'dead through " Ttie_Doctoi paid his tolt,' iioSr. ask, ed any-favors after that:" of Dr. Hall, , of he :lourniti gives a great deal 'of excellent - column) advice to all nora_of. , people, the - Jar:41(1, 1 01e healthy, those suffeiingUnder anaecuMultitinct of . dikirderei,„ those sinking' under s great weight. of doetora; &e., To his; " eon. , sumptivelriends," he says—" You -want. air,'' . not physic; you want pure air; not - medicated air; you' want-nutrition, such as plenty °t meat and bread: Will and they alone' ; : pliyaie has uo nutriment.; gaspinge for ,itir cannot nitre :you. ' If you .v. - ant*get go an tor beef, aced -ant - air, and- , do hot: 4, be deluded into - thegrav4zl by : ad Vertlaiineits . - and -unreliable Oirtifierie- Oar A doting nnsthir a waggiiti bating bottled' a 19t; of nice, pceser yeas lm b led' thew 4 Put Ifsi: ; !.ktkt naine.y - Johnnie; ber promyli .. nc!)o3k eretA tbe - `6 l :todiei,' and icroji-lite: . up-,Szkcon.:. tenth -w rote.' bottoth: tiftiferlibiVlPtit *tint bYlobinite OEM NW IMO e ."'Y. ME II U
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