. ••• - t lc ,~ kettritson, rropritto'rs _A. D-D R E S :S befpre the. tes4whanna Courtly Nortiza/ Schoo4',Aroth Oth‘ 1857 fl. 1. , - BT .a.k s. aux II , , Ip3Q. ; • _ , 1 , . . l i Tz'aeiissns Axii•Srvu NTS 11' -Tut - t Nonms Scuoox::—l am; tp address you this evening, - sin a very 'plain 'and' isiOpierilanner„, upon a subject that. the i great'and capSantis energies of a Locke, a Bacon, a Stewart,_ and others, have flavor . exbausted4l ; inean the human . 1 : mind, itsLculdvation, iti.education; and .its great, destiny. :Why -14 ve you, all 'Kin:where this evening! ' :Who.. are you !,.. I do, not mean all of vou higefitir;but, 1 mean each in: t s l e,-`n . iLv , ..zi...r.,..'"'l'i--..-r) , --: 4 - ..,. do rkit - MiCtO-sPeal • 14.-'cuirimaria .. -- , in o ,l\ll: ad i ei l uats.... I .wint .each * 4lt- P; i dt - ';" --4 V..-44., perk. akindividuAiti and veN c„..0 ° ,-Wlime.' did 101 l come from 1 1- 1 °,',.`:; :are you.noir v and ahat . are you think 4.'of, and- wlere:are you ictiug ! What is destiny and - wheil ! . I . !nap' isle!' . one .nod eq. Wi you think one ruo- Withia. sjxty. years, probably, every be sound ef !my. voice, commenced :tbat is nevorto end. Sixty: --iis back to the beginning of 'ty obi% harks 'the Ind of -.s,..7bich_are.ninisfluslied vry of yoi went nn -eiisttnee tiro delt ; fill of us:l Our b . • with the Itealth„and. Vigor of. childhood and _ youth, or sfrong in manhood, were once puny and weak,' and dependent upon others to_ad rninister to us the simple Coed necessary for our existence. took once norti.at the tender • irfaii. in (its mothera, hices,incapable of one . ' effor to sustain • its own .existence,, feeble and ' reliant:and you see not only ourtelv'es--hut the miglitie.st men on eiiith,,, that hhve- preceded us. 'N'iiiiit.i.tlitt feebleq-delicate, and help , ~ lesslittielmdy is 'placed an . iternal`principle, ,'the human mind: In tmakness and: absolute dependence for everything, they cothmence their ex3slexice together. The body grotig, • and receives vigor and! 'Strength. • The,bones • . • , ~ :assume hardness, the m scles and all Me set'- era! members, perforn heirArslieusoffices.— : -' The7'niind expands- with the body. "Its pott ers are enhanced, rtitsl if you atch the .prog • resi of•the two; youwil l ! sec that as the body grows up: tc\r• vigerons nainhood, and is pre .,pared to grapple with_ physical difficulties, so, the mind, till with. tetulean strength iCover comes every obstacle. \jDoes,,the body' grow from'puny;infancy to the tiger of manhood, , tri lima: food. t. lf never fed, wonld it: ever in crease I Never r but instead of vigor , would .b . e - Weakness---inifead of growth would be tle, .cay. So with.' the mi 'd.• Give it foqd„and it grows—starve it, an as •suret.s starvation produr z es leanness', and - death to the bod,f, so sure does the,want of.p oper food to the inind : produce alike re-suit. There is 'art _unerring philosophy of mind", as well as 'body. How many ~persons there, te ; in • the world • iv ho imow= that' without fet'd the body, dies, who never think in. all their liv'es - , that the smite re- silk will lae•produeed in remard to the mind. The 'soul,body - al inin'd constitute the perion--the man, the orriati E the child. fa —this . trimly, the Most Alssential= and impottapt cotvis -- the--4961,-- , theftstirid nest, and - last least ilk 'lzody,; !and ylet, And yet, alas ! bybow many tou +ls and • millions in thisworld is this•or er esersed I The be -Ay first, the Mind nest an lhe lout' if , any a l . they Itfte, th l elast aWd tli . least, New, if we take all Ate mindi th are:p, tbe.world,.and -_put theirf together, *ht a vast complicated! piece 'crtnachinery we 'would base. Only tkitik of it. Take the Philtophers, ibd Ilis. torianS;the Nets, the ,writers of fictitin; the Mathematicia i ns,the AstronMners, the refined minds,' the coarse and irough', ones, the weak and strong ones, and anti Whitt a:piece of machin ery -we have for' hull* agtiop and ; yet, in an this vast- and 'coinplicated inaatitferT, ay. 'err':. son . anddaughterof Matn, higW:iir low, 'rich or poor, ighompto.: learned, haii place. Some may be thi.,great staim gepthit.of , or. maiit sPri u g,'cithers the talance ~wheels, oth ers-lite fly .wh ' `.bthrs.the "cogwheels; and some oven the breaks "log, to prevent-too ..‘ 'kcal* aeteletatarf mot tin* . *machine, and gels, smile perhaps repiesen rig nothing but _the Tvltistle. produced hyl the, escape of steam, 'which dies as-soon ws it-,has made, a noise, , and leaves nothing behind but a imall cloud of vapor.' But, soy .ftends„ what is it • that inakei,the!..diffetence i Ale' parts. of the ma '''chinery of Which I hive spoken 1.. It is the - . ltiucl-aud th - e.soni-tiiot the'lxidy.. The' h?lay d e' '' is dike same earth. Tbe'ilind and tbe gout though different - Sad distiebt, (but it knot ,"my purpoT e to draw , Ihe distinction between the two,) make the man; L> ; . '"- , ; - Tat prs treasure np ~iti our minds- for yonr,cutiire use,; if you have tin 4one it,',:this „ one-Proposition-Alind t . educated and Cult'. ::vatecl, is ,the grief and - riiglit:y.,2.,Locaniotiie . that sways; mows, and , contrats'himan ae don..Mimi is Reiser ? , , Mind - acts. nir n •tr6l, _ till alltbk vast ettiPhel of ituiversal. , ffandis put ~ in.motion ; an d when once,Pst.into - Inotion. it_ . _• rolls and Surgeshie the billows of the migh ' ty..ocean, and then the mind , alone Can as tuage it ;not'bolts, rlor ; bars,}nor risons , . nor ediets,.-mind shine. But -let.wargo.,..back;:',- a little, 1426..eiviire-..lwluit mind - Is'; to:- it: is. .. , Nyal for .. ..each ono of - Ins,; to know and,reficel, what' we have within, ns that 'makes us, and ' Which', we have . to ree, acid tlike.cire of, and coatrol,..which: makes us what, we are; and' - .:srliiiihia . sliaPing - M4.foi its our destiny, i6l/41 TrePintinl a .'iiifet tba-plsce wiSre to occupy in the,yasteMpire: 'of which 1" hike spoken.., It a s been written and that ti2e.rnind ;if..a - child is hut a sheet- of dein white paper, olio° which : may be inscribed one character . just as well as aziotkpl and that the_ Charscier so .inseribiA will remain • thare,4nd *ilk be:reflected therefrom. To a certain extentthis is t rue, t but it is - Eet at the. lauth.i The:paper is - its tive-;-is - dead —it re. .. puives the it onwand gi,v4:. them - hick 1 agate Just as re 'yid; Without.' change.. or , modification._ No so With, the mind-that , laa.?;:life j aw/ ... epergy: , When'. - i•Chir - ricier is ' impressed' upon` it from without, it takes that .... , . character, sod scanajt, and works it over And rnodifieS.if, -- and te propeiiiinii it.i :. When an. - =ether impression ' - madeli, it-dens"thigsame thint; and-thee' ti - the ',two - together, and wOrtmthecii ' - ciret , it over, and compounds .. therif, ;Oct yet so "as to tie Attain, either, sop: ''• ratelY or tagegt4r;.aud . ..ao Oil, iodgfioite.li, so sui . lorw. any new object or 'abject- is admitted to `the precincts - of the mini, the same process : is' gene throkb.% with t• sod s .thus •we =have simple and _ comple x ideas, '- -It a - man .had , niver'*etrPit one thing in VAlire,te could 'l3 . !iiir Irii- . . -- 4 AlSuilit of ho w anything else wenid_Jiiiik, Ithaperertsd seen - ; anything but aMouse; he could think - of mtVtriinionf..,n Monte - if he - Id should sees olise and .W 1 , . . . pliant, he Weuld 'begin to compare their size and their strength; and begin to inquire in his mind ;whether- they were of the same spe cies; and So on. If he had never heard any thing, but a steam whistle, he Could have no .idea of any °flier sound, but it he should hear afterwards the.sweet sounds " o the flute, or the soft voice of some woman singing some beautiful song, he 'would at once, int--led to ,yellect, whethet they - were all made in-tbe same way, or by the same instrument. You' can carry thiaidea-ord, by the thousand illus trations-that will'suggest themselves to vour minds, and you. will understand at once;how the mind acts in forming idetrafrom the im pression receiver! from without; thrOugh the senses of seeing, I hearing, feeling,.;&c.- The mind is au fictive, not an inert pdnci pie. Were it WO so, ' Whatever .it received, would lie lik&kernels of wheat in the grana ry. It is a master - workman. It - carefully receives whatever is furnished' it, for building up its .own fabric; or temple, and it also pos sesses the astonishing and to us' unaccounta ble pirWer of keeping the temple 'ao built by itselfirerfect in 211 its parts, and yet lays the matenal into di'Werent cells, to be taken out and used in constituting - other eier•varying fabrics, at - its mill.' _ .fteason occupies the throne, - and should hold princely dominion over the will and'meino;y. Like - a monarch, iticalls for contribution from the 'treasures of memory, rind' they are - furnished. Obeill eurtesis rendered in all its &mains. My friend, itr mini!, for a moms t, wtl you lead back a few tears; and to -e me 'to some hallowed spot of your childho ! It matters nOt whether it be some old tree under which ye& have played— . -some ock at which yi,,tl we_m_accustorned to sit, i the sunny days - .of spring—some old drool boom- when) happy days were spent some' pretty brook running through _the p slum, where you' w4e wont• to fetch the% cows at ,bight---4 care' not what - when we get there, bow many associations - of by gone days will rush upon the mind ! A father, a mother, brie - Wei, sisters, and playmates, some perhaps a ivhomlioe 'long since been numbered with the dead, fill again meet you you there.-- Their imagcs will •be as frail upon your mind,, as in days long since departed. The mind is ,at work, Calling' up 'those lei:ell-Ob jects that have long Slept in -memory, and ,thatmre pow-called forth by , some little inci dent that puts the mind into' action. Itt my judgement, a . much better typo - of the mind is the soil of the earth. Seeds are Put into it-and - by its own power:and the ef fect Of Are heat and the rnin,they - spring forth slid produce firit the Plant; they the, stalk; ; and then the 'full ear ; but Mhile it-thus pre-' duces grain, at the same-. lime it produces weeds, and thistles, - avid thorns,, which if left to themselves assays grow more abundantly than the grail?. - .Now,if a man had but one Ada to-cultivate, and every thing depended upon the' "manner ; ie which Ire,preparei, 'sowed; and cultivated it, and he should let it rim to waste and - grow up with weeds; what would von.-say ,of him ! • YoU would-say that God ought - never tcrhave given him nne, that he was not, fit to have: it, and that it is a pity he efer had one,given to hitn.-:-. You' would say that he ought to have pre pared it, by ploughing, deep and enriching it, to 'receive the seed ; that then, he ought to have sown the best teed upon it that he 'could 'get ; and that just as soon as seed sprang up he should watch it—should nourish every plant; .and that every 'weed and eiery Can ada thistle, or other obnoxious plant that should show' itself, should be cut down, dug up b y -the roots and destroyed, so thlit the good seed,•that •was sown might produce - fruit abundantly; unbindered and untr.ixed with thcrie things that 'Would destroy ,„the value of the crop: Ile Wtexid not only enrich his grAnd for the production of . valuable crops 'of grain, but -he-would beautify and- adorn ft. He would here and there have :a beautiful 'elm for shade:, the rose and Mach for spring, the flowers for: summ r, and the evergreens - for winten - He wool water it with streams from living springs,.to bat he could recline in•the shade, breathe I the fragrance of the flowers, and slake his thirst' at his, riever-failing foun tains. • . God has given to each one of us a field to cultiiate 7 -anlinmortril mind: - We may let it run to waste; :avid produce - nothing but weeds and thorns; or it'May be that it is so barred that it will be nothing bat's dreary - Waste, or we may. So enrich and cultivate it, as. to make it a soerce of happiness - and end less:pleasure to us. • * • " . ' - S l olomon- saya, " Get wi s dom get--under standing: forget 'it not. ' Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom ; but in all thy getting , get nnitersunwmag. - -- - --`•- I ant dispoeed for - the purposes ofthe*Pres ent argumetit, to consider that by wisdom; Soloinon - meant 54007 knowledge, and by understanding, education. ("We are apt to consider tharknowledge and-education mean •the. sari+, thing; but' it is - -not so. - A man may have peat k nowledge, and bat .a poor education. HOW many .men are there who are said to be great sZ,holars,who have a wonderful ainount of : knowledge, who have graduated ' at oar highest *Semi,'rkei of learning, and get .a gresitname for- , r attainments; Who in-fact areiot sufficiently educated- to'teach a common . sehotif: Teachp, common school, I 'said.: That :still iiot, angrier. -Thercerapiri win fails; for I'dosay,that if there is any im r pettancelci• be atliched to any position in society, it 'hi:mid be to that lf the common school Testchek: The. idea 11,4 anybody who can read;siidlafrite, WA cipher as fitr:ris the RulecifThree,it;prepared to teach-a.cormuon sehool,it the trinlit pre*tettini:and absurd -nothin on eartir... - Whak'set: the green novice of an iippreatiee.to'get tip OK plans ehd des vices for 'the ,temple; and 10"Oilt;the work,' and., then let the -artisananirthein' ter-work man rro , • 601:ming,' tfiiS Mortis'',;tliiiplan lit, and , the finishing up cif-the*, ; ewe I— i Set - a luingler and -tioriciito bait , the fOund l gaol, and plan andjay'citit' the wholeitruc ' tore Of - the fabric, and :thenget' - Witser and Morn skillfikkeadataiiiish i Gut upon sail • foolery. -' The . _ piesideuts'and:. professor's of colleges and principals or academes m i st be knosoisg men, in . - order ;le-keep , the .‘mind along the trackcireiiich l it hal besn start, ede or to:Pirtit hysiciati bad been summoned,' arid kriew.that ‘ . . r . • darling little Everleen might live. after iniwy weeks of struggle between / life and. death'; • when the relieved' friends! had aoknowtpdged that they had wronged' him first; when the .. 'beautiful and.sorrowfut wife• had blessed. him ' • through her kisses tears,; and all knew that "under God,/ Only such an almost fierce, -• deteintination .cotad have saved the child; then the father sat;down, unnerved and wept . like a child. ' . Not as in "Little Sister Svelya" l die the poison do its fearful office . Everleen - i's-aline to-day, areher k trrowu eyes are opened upon womanhood..' But. there is no , hour in - my life that rings so htilling a,recollectiori that of the -yo,ung father's struggle` far the Are of his child.' , , ' .• •••., , ,CPA SOFT PLACE'. I wasi down to see the 'wide* Yesterday, said Tint7l,s uncle, and•-she gave tee dinner:, I. went down_ rather early in the morning -;- , we • talked, and lifughed, and chatted and runcin;• she going out mid iu occasionally, tiirdinner _ was ready When she, helped me graciously td: iiiigeori pie. `Now I . thought that was rather favorable. ' I took it - as a•sYmlitom of 'person al apprObation,becinie ever y` bfkly knows I love.liigeon pie, andl flattered. ,miyelf she had cooked it on purpose for me. ,So I grow particolarly cheerful, and •thought, I could'. see it in her, too.. So after ~dinner, white sitting ,close beside t. 14 - widow, I fancied- we -both felt rather coinfurtable like-4: know L. did. I felt that I had fallen over head and''' ears in love • with her, - -and 1 iniagined from the way' she looked'shehtid - fallen• in loite • with, me. Shp nppeired justfor all-lbe world as if,she' thought it ic was a cenning'—that I I was a' going , to eourt _her. Preseritly—t . couldn't :hell£ it—l laid'my 4drid softly on • , her beautiful shoulder, and. Uremarked 'when I had placed itthere, in _nay blandeit tones; Tim, furl tried to throw my whole soul into- > the eipresiiion, ti•entfirked then, with - my eyiie pouring love,- truth, and fidelity, right into_. hers : ' • .. .. ~ -, . • • " Widow, this. Isi ‘ themicest, saftest place. I ever bad my hands cin, in all my life{" fci" i'pking benevolently at - -• me; and, at the same bine; flushing up a: little, 'she' aaid,• in melting and winning tones— :.:, • . ... • ~c, " Doctor, give me your hand, and'l'll put' it on a ranch softer p ee." . , I In a moment , -ier ra ture,l consented, d takingmt hand, she gently, very gently,,Ti , ' and quietly,- laid it on _my head— r # burst intOra,laulr that's r i n gi ng i n my car' yet. . . Now; Tini,lbaien s t tolds‘tbis to a 'living , soul but you, and by linkp,l you.n3ustn't ;I;ltit I could„not hold in any longar;so I telt you' ; but mind,•it ninth% go any_fnither:• kEIVARLi•OFFEREA:::'- Thebommissioners or Berks. county have-' offered a reward of' $5OO- dollars for the, .ap prehension, of the perpetrtors of the 'munieP of Aditilue Bayer near lifofirsviM, in -that county. .It t is to botboped thlt they rr e sy bibught to:justice. iln Tefnience to-this warder, the. liesdi Iletzette relates - tliejolloning coincidenee,: - • :;Some- eighteen,;ago. a berktitifirl young, girkvamed-Efitherisher,-)eftlnayunk on :anal. boat, for ,Iteadipg,.but was inurdervil -before reaching the latter plisee.;,- \The 4 ptiblic ccitetnent.was 'tory gOat i ___and'a - largei re ward was* 'erect for the 'detection - of:Lb& rani derer,bitt *About suCCess. ,This i‘ai sister of thiiimother, of ,Adaline wholio reeently_baiimet a sitrillar fate,' Is it: possible that;the'tour!derris Of these poor`girikarelinier . to be discovered with:the revelstioiis. Wit. dap f• . •• Re MU or Forrruka.,—.linong 'the; list of those - ware ofitiged.tO yield\ 'VI- the velure and suspend payment there 'Was the natue of °he l m:wen: l lin publiebed last'vetk.whOseease is peenliarly. severe, Seme , sears ago; .whea gold was* first . .disnoyereVin california, he `wet out - .there, and_ by. his-exeytions nceu hap upwards Of tl.oo,o,ob,'Whrolihe4avestea in real . estate and returned 'to ihis 'city and engaged in active • business:44er— monthaago,mhen therfirivits.a Hnanciat _l'panip in= San .Frandsco i he tient Out, an:tiger:it to look after his interests with orders - to concert everytking inii.eash, at . any 'raerifien. The result mut. that.the ,agerit - elosed'eierything for $60;000, with which be started for .Ik o n 2 e; and, took peerage eu, board the Central Miner ia, Which venal he , was ..10St : - . with his Areasireinnd .the owrier„,ftotd independence , has been redneed to polierty.-Thia is a hard ease GiFiette." ' • How Paopuino 1-Theo following la an ix traet from a.tpeech macle ,byPresiden-13n- • °Sanaa, when in. COngresa i on the indepen,' dent treasury , .f- - • The' , evils of A - Tc4iiirida9tr , paiker eirenli 7 tiOn arerinanifeat every tie; , It alternatel y raiser, and:` sinks! Abe -value 'ef man's , property. It nuikea a beigar,sot* man to.' moray, :wealthto-: day. I)?sinesa ofewiety inte e lave lotte t ty c those w,l3a„ distribute di - o pine are wholly itreapcinsible Ca 410 'pet?- pie.,When the col4pen .comoa—ai come it utnat4-it,,laatalabotere .out., of :employment, ornsliell' l 4-fikattkre, ~1 / 4 4 merchants, and ruina'thoinitnai of llotiot *naiad - u.arious . _ 4uni." 2, t •