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JOHN S. MANN,
ATTOR'NEY AND COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
•Coudersport, Pa., will attend the several
Courts in Potter and 3PKean Counties. MI
iausine , ts entrusted in his eare will receive
- prompt attention. Office ou Main st., oppo
site the Court House. 10:1
F. l W. KNOX,
.ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport. Pa., will
regularly attend the Courts in Potter and
the adjoining Counties. 10:1
ARTHUR G. OLMSTED,
ATTORNEY S: COUNSELLOR AT LAW,
Coudersport, Pa., will attend toall business
entrusted to his care, with promptnes and
fidelity ; Office in Temperance Mock, sec
ond floor, Main St. 10:1
ISAAC BENSON.
ATTORNEY AT LAW. Coudersport, Pa, will
attend to all business entrusted to hint, with
. care and promptnesS. Odice-corner of West
and Third sts. 10:1
L. P. WILLISTON,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Wellsborti, 'togs. Co.,
Pa.. will attend the Courts iu Potter and
Iffaan Counties. 9:13
A. P. CONE,
ATTORNEY AT LAW, Wellsboro', Tioga Co ,
l'a., will regularly attend the Courts of
Potter County. 9:13
It. W. BENTON,
StiSVEVOR AND CONVEYANCER, Ray-
Mend P. Q., f, Allegany Tv..) Potter Co., Pa.,
will ati,,ntitl to all lousiness in his line, with
care and di'Apsteh. 9:33
W. K. KING,
SURVEYOR, DRAFTSMAN AND .CONVEY
ANCLA ,Stnethroct,li.vall Co.. Pa.. will
attend co business tbr non-resizictit
itpOn :ra:oushle
S.—Mai,: of nu
oa.rt of the ColllliXittic to order.. 9:1.3
0. T. ELLISON,'
PRACTICING PliViilt2lAN,Coudengtort; Pa.,
respectfully infOrms.th.: citizens of the' vil
lage and vicinity that he will promply re
spond to all calls for professional services.
'Lame on Main st., in building formerly oc
cupied by C. W. Ellis, Esq.. 9:22
p01.1.11i II SMITH. Z. A. JONES.
SMITH & JONES,
DIALERS IN DItLGS, MEDICINI;S, PAINTS,
Oils, Fauey:Articles,Stationery; Dry Goods,
._Greceries, ie., Main 3t., Coudersport, P A .
10:1
D. K OLMSTED,
1nf,4,11R IN DRY GOODS, READY-MADE
Clothing; Crockery, Groceries, kc., /lain st.,
Condor/port, I's. . 10:1
M. W. MANN,
pkALER IN BOOKS & STATIONERY, MAG
AZINES aad Music, N. W. corner of Main
sad Third its., Coudersport, Pa. 10:1
R. R. HAR.RINGTON;
./gIitLLER, Coudersport, Pa., haring engag- .
Vs window is Schoomaker 4; Jackson's
Ptorc will eazry on the Watch and Jewelry,
Pusiness there. : A line assortment of. Jew
gr7 constantly op WatcheS and
Jewelry' ogreftaly repaired, in tke best style,
pa the shortest notice--;-all work warranted.
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PENRY J..OLMSTED,'
(seccassoa" TO J/31T3 W. sums,)
jIEALER IN STOVES, TIN A; SHEET IRON
it..10,E, Main at., nearly opposite the Court
' Rou.se. Cantlersport, Pa. Tin and 514ect
Iron Warr made to order, in goad style, on .
'Lott notice.. 10:1 -
COUDERSPORT HOTEL,
D. F. GLASSKIRS; 'Proprietor, Comer of
Kai% and Second Streets, Coudersport, Pot
ter Co., Pa. 9:44
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LITERATURE A4'4l) THE TINES.
A
E, . •
Delirrred at the muarterly Meeting of the
• Libiary Assdeiation, Ce;ialeroport,
Noveriiber 7th. 1857, by .
REV. C.:14. BLAKE:
[PUBLISLIZD' 11442*T.] -
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--- $1 50
In 'beginning addrwi , yon,! Ladies
and Gentlemen of the Association, a 1167
me first, a few moments; •-•
I I. Ta remark upon the TlMES—the
world-Wide Panic and revulsion in busi
ness. circles and interests, which ;now so
occupies the' minds of men. The times
;are portentous. Thoughtful persons
i have fancied that they saw shadows pass
!.
mg over the sworld's great dial some time
[before the great crisis approached us.—
And like a vast .eclipse it now holds, not
lour laid alone, but the eiviliz.ed and com-
I menial word beneath its pall. •I
I Exchange 'curthenUnited States in Chi
li, formerly At a discount office and even
ten per cent.; last yearat_par, and at the
beainnina• of this year'at four per cent.
premium, went up to,twelve per cent. in
July last; and at the latest:dates in Au
gust, could hardly be - obtained there at
any price. That country after a sit ybars'
calm, was on the eve of a revolution. =
What was this but one of the fore:shad
owintra of disorder And it 'SI bi no
means our own country alone that is af
fe,eted and involved in the disorder,' Eng
land with-her vast business transactions,
not only with us, but in (every part, of, the
earth, at the latest dates was beginning
to feel the afflictive stroke._ France, with
her credit »tallier—and a very motile and
uncertain scheme bf busineas it Seems to
be, was 'yielding to the pressure; and
throughout all the chief capital's/ of Eu
rope similar results were ensuing. / A bri
sis, an epoch, of no ordinary interest, ap
pears or:cc more to have come' over the',
affairs of nice. (Note 1.) 1
i believe in Epochs, lieriods,as, the word
signifies, which'arrest attenti . on, and cause
thinking men to hold an, to pause:; and re-f-
/
re
flect. An epoch is a readjustment of a
fairs, when it would almost seem that the
complicated machinery of the Great Uni
verse was wound up and set running
again, or overhauled and refitted for new
er and more surprisirig developnients. =
Like Prof. Babbage's wonderful Calcu
lating Machine, mundane affairs some- /
times appear to go on, with all their cent
plea movements: The great pendulum I
for long periods wags backwards And for-1
wards with perfect regularity, no jostling, ,
no friction, no loss, no -hindrance; • until
it appears that the mechanism is perfec:
tion itself. • 3lea think it will rnii . on so
forever. It does 'scent as though it would.
And thus it goes 9n, and on, Until it,
reaches the three hundred and -thirty-nine'
thousand -billionth, -oombination, ;perform- I
ing all its. difficult calculations in, figures,
and its varied adjustinents'.with 'unerring l
exactitude ; when—prestd uhange! 'A
readjustment occurs in a /moment. No
one dreamed of, it. No One but the in
ventor knows how it was dbne; ; or when
it will- take . : place; but, at this precise
point it takes on new powers. , All the;
old movements are lost. All the old sys
tems of combination are no more. It de
velops itself in entirely a. new, series o
1 1 numbers, perfosais altogether anew and
more brilliaut set of examiiles, and thus
goes on with like unvarying uniformity
as with 'the first series ; until a new' read
justment,,Which, together with / the form
: er. was all provided for in the original
draft of theocalealating machine.
Such an epoch, in some degree is the
present one in buziness, But /its effects
;are not limited- to the affairs. of , trade •
alone ; nor need we feel much terror at it.
The Great Architect, who attends to the
readjustineuts all for us; and provided for
I them alt in the outset, who. ,knows Per
i fectly their limit and power/ and mean
: ing, affects now the world with His match
; less Wisdom and skill. ' Wei feel His
/ hand hold
- of the meehanism; and rejoice
to kunw anti lelieve,that irriereth
all thin g s well,'; - He ,touching
some o f thehigher laws of eaugationi and
is abont setting, in motion some new com
' binatibns of His Infinite- mind: ;
/:
2d. Here then,- we have somejessontf
to learn. We are at , this time sent back I
to flFst principles oneo,more; andiby the
commercial cnsis, no less then by:the sea
son of the year, the long evenings, the
clecayingloliage, and the- wealth of hap-1
pineal_in our own hearts and homes, if
we- will seek it there ,from: God, are we
Temilided Of the new datioe,..eoeupationi,
&Ueda, which the bountiful Creator has . '
placed within our reach. :i.Honte, :tha t]
magi Anglo-Saxon ,--Word,_ Ankuowo, in
all the..laag,uages_ springingdfrom Latin
unknown, too, tbewhert Ithroughoutahe
World' eteeit ~ in; oul . , , owe,ilear.imother
dsister tongue an la nzaegee; the ,Ger,
man & e.=• —ioii. ~rum
e -let no
:taithoe-f - •
. 71
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q,ebotea fo:fi ? a rigeiptes of - Dile lic.ii)o:V4ql, 3,126 .11)i 'D;sseig;q4tioq of qlO
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'COUDEASPORV POTTER COUNTY -PA.I . TIIMISDAY istoEittra 24.-1857-i
"0 friendly' te the'beite putiaiti tif•man !
Friendly to. order, rirtue, Joro,ttod peace;
Few know thy beauties and few taste tby
, sweet,!" ' - .• '
Our quiet dornestic life' and joys; ladies
and gentleuiery no less ;than the world
without; - the re . mukdons in. trade,, the dis
appointments business; the storms and
crude blasts . .of aPProachiug . winter, all
conniel to use that beautiful pious
phrase of the Friends, to look ioitlrtn.
Let'us. do it. • Let us seek _here, audiwe
We shall.find; knock and it shall be open."
ed to us. Let, us : come hack willingly
from _the . inad strifes of, the • world,, and
find peace, arid 'love,' and 'home:' ". Let Mi
be willing to take up again witty simple
things, and learn again first Imi/tot:pies.
Go to your books, I say. Not as a frown
ing master to his pupils, do 1. - say this.
But as one with you, I 'say, let us go to
our books; friends once more and see
what we can learn ;here-With them. Let
us then turn to a second topic pf remark
--to .
• IL LITERATURE; f as this AND TILE
TINES is the subject which proposed
-to-myself to bring'fbeforei-you . , more fully
this .evoning. .1-have already spoken of
the lattetOf the - -"tlmesi"7--and.now
wish to apply my iliOnght.l tii,th6fohner.
Cicero bas - well 'Said of Study and literary
pursuiti :-:"TheY deligh tin at licinie 63 ,
do not hinder us :abroad. , • They -accom
pany us in our- travels; ,they abide. with
us by night and by day, wherever we re
main. In , prosperity they make us
. thoughtful, and in ai:4ersity they comfort
!us." • And a crreater than CicerB—King
Solomon—has,
o said-: "That,- the soul be
without•lnowlesige it. is no tgoocl,"
I conic," says Paul" to tirnothy„"give
at
tendance to reading.",. But we need' not
-"lie writers of antiquity, sacred or pro
i/ne, for warrant as to the necessity,
pleasure, or iiiipOrtaime of the objects of
your Association: To thinking beings,
"life•without letters is death;" as the an
cient orator has rightly styled it.
istence without .duties is a, blank; and. a
soul witticiut , lin'pivkdge like's line 'with
out' in s liabitant-ILa waste to ruin- runs. •
us 'then look' at ionic of the as
pects of Literature at the:present iimoinent,
as connected-with the' times - - And
Ist. I would remark upon its ilylation.
I mean by this the cast bulk it bccupies;
and which'has beeoine so 'enormous that
we cannot if we would, read everything.
The literature of. to-day tieeds:c.ondens
incr. We need lea books,-less .perlodic
a4.lessj newspapers, than we have—less'
by three-fourths; and bettet 'ones than'.
the best 'of tlieui by onelitilf, as 'we should
then hie. The tuasS - of what -has been
written and published in this country thej
last ten years,- and especially during the
last five years, has not been worth the pa
per on which it has been 'printed.• Let!
'me say to your Don't read it—don't try
to read all that is printed, Mar the quar
ter part of it, if you could. • It has been..
boasted that. this County is intelligent;
that vast quantities of newspapers and.:
petio - dicals are taken here,' • It is true,
believe, that there is Much intelligence in
Putter county; and that'. the quantities of
mail-matter distributed Lem and wide-i
-ly elsewhere, throughout our country, arc
truly astounding, But :T. don't believe
that it is salutary, so much and such
kind of reading.. It is the rank over
growth of the, swamps and fens of the
world of letters, exposed to the fierce
heats of a tropical sun„-'—so • much poli-1
tics' and so many "isms" 'and so• much
party strife as we have in literature, are;—
rather than . the: modest and .tasteful ar-:
rangements of horticulture, which would
malto the world as the "Garden of the !
, . .
1 • Veit floods of prurient fiction,, the
1 merest .shams of sentiment , truth and' .
.
i love; heavy tides from dream-land--litcr- I
1 ary and philosophical nonsense; have 1 .
agaiii .and . again overflowed and deluged
the. land, and subsided like the Nile, i.
1 leaving int thiek , covered with . the slime, I.
but not the fertility of El.lpt ', • What , .
!shall we do with the like another time?
1 We hope . another . such time will • never
come upon us to curse.us. It is the ebb 1
nosy. :.. ..Far:.out . towards.. the. pea, on . thel
long, reaches of mud:flats, now bare of the
tide-wateri lie the riehlY freightlid argos
ies of dream-literature and , liOniense; ,
whiokilave:foraierly floated over the . inis 'l
tY deep 'to us, ' all: 'stranded . nowt " And l•
[the ~Whole , shore is strown .Over with the. l.
f.wreeks ! Well! let them• lie there ;'and
land let thereflux tide cover diem; until
the next ebb sweep them . out -into' the
fabyeSes of the vasty deep. -- It is a pl6sure
1 to-think, thatWeliave net, even to.beliold,
the face of many, of thein, again.. „. .. ; ..
~ Without : 4.lllo444mi, then, let Me Pay,
1
that. 'the world of - letters • 'Wilt suffer - no
1 loii, it 'seems to - me, "by . the "fifiltire,"' the
1 • ,
utter minilnlation r whieb.the present times
.viill.cume, of a great portion .of,tlie.trashY
literptur,o- of the day, whether. 44, tiewspa- ,
perk, ,periodicali, or book;, „.. , .!I
2iid - . Int" Whit - bin 'We, 'and 'W:hat anglit
.f
we to reait 13onettjug, to be sure. ' -Sur
Aitedin4 diMO4 "10 haYPIIeS hithe
4,
I top-w44•fafr - f.*'fes 3 li4illiePakeisacf?
.ll4tlfOniql..aadlatOt4 l !:4 l o vf.)Pio':'
ceeed•-to try,' to. accomplish a cure ?,,." .shall
ure4ead pldllipics: on- the_causei of.the
present. evila,'and write ourselves alidown
;d4tikeysst,",, fools and as. some
have been duing of late,ry This: will "not'
do the, : w - ork .- OF i
deriee of the Mania. which -has . .bbed iipoir
us.' Sober , seeond thoughts !viill folloiv
this; _"I. Will,' arise and go`tO My. Fatlieo'.
saidthe.prodigal,ylien came to himi
self. he "has bread. enough"'
house," and to !spare," Why then shall
we either. 4,4(1. or stay, w he ..c,WQ
are 44.. perish
,with hunger.r rs. I
arise and haSten lee,
*, let
all. I see YOtilig people here . 1 wish to
speak to them to-night.:.; Read Triith.
The universe. is .full of truth,; and .tlae
world is full :of. error. Nye eannot stop 4)
busy ourselves-with .the latter.. • Let us
seek ...after . the:. former: In newspapers,
politics, att„. religion; rectil'iuth
Neither one has the whole truth.. Hear
the other party, "one thing 'is good till
you - hear the. Other." Read both then.
A good progresaive, and a good conserva
tive newspaper, itis the duty of e.very.mart
of jutOligenee to read.•
,Trutkilges not lie
ire?he extremes; .Thesnicitlie:gioiind is
safest. It is the tinly'saieone. The - need.
the 'extremes; howeVer,•. always- to .eriable
iisAci find-the mean.: The cOntlict of prin
ciples, is a necessary one, to . eliminate
Truth. After the smoke_ of the battle is
over, and both parties have . retired from'.
the fteld, - peace with her olive-crown and
sober joys is -soon in possession. of the
spoils; • .Neither party gains all the ad van
tages.. Man, gains . them.We
children
of the Victors andthose of the vanquished
enjoy, them together, - each one under his
own -vine and . fig-tree With - none to Molest
or to make them afraid. It often takes a
generation; though,' to accomplish., this,
like the . Clearing up of your, primeval for
ests;
,the resouading of sturdy strokes of
axes,Lthe crashing of - fallen trees 'through
the deep old woods
..trust first be heard._
Then 'the' smoke, 'arid:black log 'and
stunips; and .grittie;and Sweat•andlife-toil
of a whole .generation,:iare necessary. be
fore we -can; -see. the smiling, farMs,. and
loiring cattle upon, ii.thonsaud,hills,• and
sheep, and tilth, and p ., knityleierywhere.
So in .literature; there•iia.eoriflict-Of Prin
aiples first to be -encountered: , -Hard ar
crnments- are I to be -used'. ILard • names ,
may -isOrnetinieS have been 'called.. But
when this is over; there is Peace.
_Let no,
perpetual animosities be waged. Let no
eternal • warfare be 'cherished; for bbth
belligerents are in part wrong, and it is not
for war-but peace that we contend. •
And !there is' Truth enough, remark ,
again, to be read. The great deep sea. of i
Truth has not yet been sounded. All the
navies of the earth. may fiPat in it foreVer,
and rarely meet, each other. Beyond our
horizon are Other ships; and still beyond. '
others, and others 'still further on.. And
as we sail. On over life's solemn, main,"
how little do. we, know.of its.tide.s and, cur
rents, its storms and Calias; - how here the
compass -Varies to 'the 'east and - there to-.
'the west ! 'How -little do we know toci of
the history . of - these about.uS, or ob i
own mysterious craft in, which we sail !
How little again, 'do weknow of
,the strange
depths beneath us—of the deep Sea sound
ings of the.sea of life ! Or,-aouit, of the
still stranger and vaster depth; above US;
of the silent stars and worlds, and con-.
stellations in the ficavens Over our heads,
all of which we can see and sonic
,iti:ribr- 1
tant part of Which ire are ! And then the
Infinite euknotriv-:whenithe pagan A.the- I
niaris . worshipped by .erecting- a. dumb ,al-,!
tar to. Him—how, little ; do„ . ive,..know t. of
Him.! . Read .tr'utlieri. There is
no lack of t History, Travels, Bi
ographies, Researches in Science ; as touch
as you please- - BuOgieware of . men," as
Mir Saviour - cautioned His apostles. Do,
not pin your faith-10- any man!s sleeve.
.Go to God for this, .and to Him alone.-
.And beware of philosophy—"oppositions
,of Science falsely. so called." This is of I
Men. True wisdom comes frota God.' ' In,!
all yOttireading•then lightly esteem the
opinions'of a man, as such. - The opinions.
of, inerithe.‘. 4 ,:voice of .the
_people,, which.
is the voice, 0f„G0d,7. 7 . 7 if. yen .can..distin-, 1
guish this , uttering,
, ioid all 'the jargOn .
a:attending; Oitatii if it
'fates' . With - ifighti- - ca,`Sort-inlour soul,. and
with- revealed Truth'as , it is in -the Holy
-Seri ptures, hear - them,.,
, Besides the right, _Books and .Newspa
pers., then,_ let, me say, yeu sliduld read
something of'ReViews•• and 'Periodicals.
These 'hold 'a- -in iddle ground- between -the
two former;' And betweemthe , Oviian ef
fort lia'S been Made to crush them out... A
part.of.-them ; might been
crushed pat: long - age... Putnam has - ;al;
ready line.if consolidated "-410.'linerittri ;-
and the Knickerbocker, Deintieratic
v%iv, Atlaitio Atouthly;(just started) aud';
Hat:pees- ?iiagegite4 with, Giodey,Little's
I .4gP.) stud
I,yarimm,,other American Kuril"ieations, .all'
patlOgethe 6i,'0i;03
cis or - Jai:eta tiro:::--vriiiildtilis r ittaf,
These . ltwo,l or: three, with, the.
L.ClArbtiakupPvivilr:r.iang
MENU
I several Religions 'at4 ! ..oiietilii.sieal Re
-1.-icifs,:trtiking six or eighti4t .41, instead;
of twenty. Or•thirty as,weliow lave them;
would well represent this. departMent.of
American Literature. •, ' AS in. Great_ Brit-1
sin, the four Reiiewi.,'(Follaburg, Lon
don,,
Westminister, and Ndrtli .British) '
and Blackviood's Magnine-.-r — oe'in all—
!epreSent - all the phases of B r iltistt thought;
so here, amOng •a 'hirger cOmnintiity of
readers,,some six or eight stei/fiag publi
cations shOuldisuffiCe for all - Our wants..
And it must and will come Ito that. Ast,
I among the Juveu Hes already,pncle Nerryp.f
31 - useum '.aild VPOdivorth, and tinele Cy;
rus, and- Phillip and Abot's• Stories'
I,
1
believe, -have all united 'into one; so
among their.sitdort;, the pondrcius wheeli
will nut long revolve -until there is a new
Combination. The times favor the change,
land the consolidation will undoubtedly
1•
I take place. . , I • •
Let me c ommend, to the• Library Asso
ciation then the propriety Of subscribing
to thelteviews when thus combined. Por
Years past the four British) Reviews and
Blackwood have been reptinted in New
York, ott that and u seful scale, that
810 has been the, price forjthein all, Cost
ing:B36, 'or ove'r in Great Britain, ?mho:
bly you could not obtain' sO' much and se
va.ried, and so useful reading any, where, as
by subicribing for ' these. A . shailai
amount of money-810 ($2O in all) would
furnish your Library every car with need
ed American publications and thCsame
remarks and even stronge ones could lie
made as to the value ad necessit y of
t i
these. ' .American Period cals you must
have.
'1 h,
nope you will be willing to do some
thing continually for the Increase of your
Library., You cannot bay everything it
is true. Buy then the most necessary,
'the best. I am happy to see on yolir
shelies, so many and El, owq selected bookS.
1
I ani'delighted to 'hear f the origin of
the Libiary.. They who were last at the
!Cross and' first at the tom of Jesus, hale
'been 'patterns for us tun' ore thin twice.
Cali- we the men, ncii.aid . n.inlarging and
eniichinthivliat has so w 11 been begun.
Let theien; clt ftfteeii su seribeis in this
place- to Ilarpees.Nagazi e, unite in.tak
ing, say tteo copies of the „Ind give the
surplus -to somethin g .• else. Let every read
er then Alispatch the sam , in - the first pe- -
rasa! in'one day, -or less, and how much
more good
_could be accomplished with
the same amount of moray than at pres
ent. And this leads me :o speak of
3rd. How WE SHOD D READ? As
we cannot read everything, and it . becom es
important to know what to read ; so we
need to know how to reaii. I will speak
now to the younger perso.s present, and
give thew some practic• I directions on
this point, drawn from m own habits and
experience.. hope it m y prove useful.
Let me say, then.under t uis head: Some
books should be read fast. The_ newsPit
pers always be read hasti we have no
time to waste upon them Other books
should be read very slowl and thought
fully. It is iMpossible to read a baok full
of thotishts very. rapidly. . A.nd such books
J_Lo'f thought you need o. read. Then
we should read sometimes ast, sometimes
slowly, according to the subjectin hand.
Again, we ought not to pass over por
tions-of the book because are cannot fully
understand them. Read i .over again un
til you do understand. B t pass cursori
ly over portions of it very • y to, under
stand, or in which you le-I less interest
becau.se of its'Unimportan, e.
Again, read by 'subject One, thing
illustrates or unfolds 'auoth r. Keep this
n 1;04 as you. read; Conti' u - ally.
, - -
, ~ Make
. it alse, your endeavor
.to," learn
something from everything you read. I
do not doubt that something may be learn
ed froth. a very poor' book. If shut up to
it on a long voyage,, as have been, ,a
book otherwise worthless, ill afford you
not only amu.sementbat ins ruction. Out
of all the,Faass of trash .6 which I have
spoken, something useful ay be gather
ed, As thelee:extracts swe is out of most ,
noxious
_substances and pn rifying-bodies.
1
But as.you can in ordina lite, read "but
little, at,,,mosi a fewhundr volumes out
of all.the thonsands; and Millions . Tinted
I wouldnot advise you tewaSte Much tune
~:64 indifferent literaryigrod deti,Ms.
3lake note ef.what youread. - I do not
say,spenik Much: time, in Writing out the,
contents of YOUilxialta. - Utikeep them - I
in mind while you are r "ng, that you I
may digest-the whole mas of it together
when you have:done with t ebook..Read
then with pen; or pencil, i hand.
- But do not expect to re ember all you
read. ~This is not the oh& ct of reading,,
anymore than.the object f eating, is tort
keep-forever:bathe stow what we put
into tholnouth and swallci as food,Un
denitami; then, that. rea ing is:- taking
foedPand 'Meditation; no lit down the
e
P aints in it;,,refeeiinultipb, it - ,, are diges-'
;don- , Digest whit you d. 'Assiiiiilate
tithe pcni, it b at:which-y - 6u dppro'v'e and love;
f, ink* PO' t erra mentalltructure; and. cast - I
1111610, Ad - rause,,iway: Always think I
114 je.i,itinliee: ~"tro notftt' others think,"
iferlou..:..'Tlius,willy - eli. VOW -iiit; ;Miral=';
; ..,,•;•i•ti ~•••• -- .':•:,--: •• .- ^-' - :I - , - -...' lij
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FOUR CENTS le
edge and,.every. mental and more; gra:ed
,
and beauty continn.slly. The , 04 4-a
the good of, past; ages Will look down upon
yen from their bight's above withfitvntanil,
affection. You Will be their asse4tes t aUd,
they, yoUra. _ You wil l,
ing more and more, ever, More ,and More,.
like , them. • Franklin- and Washngftni 4 .
Newton and Bacon, ShatespearealAlii-,
Ali
ton, Montesquieti Fenelon, Aide' 'e don
Stael, Socrates, mid the - blind old'Bard!,ef
Samos, no less than those."holitiMUWliii
apake as they were movedr:byl
Wiest," will then be youfihstrtietiirsa n d
friends; and in every lineament yOl'iy
spiritual nature will be feund,the.Sirokei;
and featurei of that Great Masteflibul;
who first raised these men ;uplte be , lyour,
teachers and kindred mid companionsfor
ever.
One remark more, as to 'hoW you Ought
to read. Do not read merely'fortheipri:l
- pleasure aud grutifieati,on' of it . Hartk"
a high moral aim in it, that you may be
made by it, good and 'wise; and d i - it
please God, 'great also. Read' that `you
may know how to benefit nthers,lend not
merely for self alone. 'Read thakyoul Viai
become .a model of excellency in yoninirn
person, wiser and`better nienand.women
than 'those who have 'gone before yon liiifti
been'; and knowing God anti!His'llniveria
better than . your •:preticeeiseri, - -tat .In
lall this he not proud, but humble, ' nisei:;
I ken tle, - without guile, or deceit. -- Preieite ,
your innocence and always remernhertli,
he that humidethliimself, ; in learning as
Well as in society, 'shall be exalted:-Take
not then the , uppermost, rannat-tlii feeS:t
of intellect. Let-politicianw_exalt. thein-,
selves and boast of their merit!!! 'and
achievnients: Butho.notlike'un6:i . hem . .
Verily I say' unto you, they:have their
reward. I\ ,
4th. I ought to say a feit words las to -
HELPS"IN"HEADING. The greats t and
best help that I knew of is a:genuine.tia
ger. unquenchable Yankee ,curiesity; 7 4in
awakened niind, a grotringnppetite—L
',, The wish—the drearn-4hewild d eta;-
' Delirious, yet divine, voir:Now.', , • •-, ,-, :•
i lf you have 'this; I had about saltri; ylu
I have enough;', But. it is , not' ite - so.
'There arc certain books yen oug htto Own
!--yon must own them; anti have.t*iby
you and consult' thein".Perpettialkt', I .' Lit.
me name,any
of these which Yikfare'not
Ito go to any library for, lait tO YOut • etVi,n,
1 however small that may be: - First;ithcen,
have a reference Bible, 'Then - a r . gob d ,
Dictionary of Words and Definitifins
. pi'oper names, Geographical,
; Historical
and Personal—a full vocalmilarnfihenk.
'Then an Atlas of the World is indhip,"en
sable. 'A Biographical DictinnarY, a Die
' denary of Dates, (Haydon's is the.;hest,
and. it Li almost unkriowninthis country,)
a Gc..,graphical Gazetteer, and a-good
Outline History, are all' needed. -'11; 'be
sides thise, which I 'regard as indispenia
ble to e7ery One who werild 'underitand
what he r reads, you can have in ionie
iiLi
brary n ar you; a good Encyclopaedia - to
consult ccasionally, I do not -see 4 What.
would b lacking.. And, then; the' bobka
I have named are not eXpenstve..- They
would post $lO to $l5, perhaps.'- And .ea
how mapy centre-tables, in lorceld'qind
rarely peen parlors; 'do. we . meet-with
trunipery in gold and blue,-if notbiker,
which has cost twice that - aniount,.and4s
worth tthing either as matter of tasteful
m
°aim tor literary excellence. '. *-1
One word" tory6u, ladies` ntigentlemon
of the Association, as to an ElVCieLdPit-
DIA, of which I have spoken, 'and whitih
it seeaa4 to me is well worthy-of :yoir at
tention. i A new Edition - of the Xacyclo-
podia Britanniea is now in ;course: of
publication in Louden and Edinburg:- It
I will prebably 'be completed within- the
next taio years, 'before -1860: ?_Fifteen
volumeS' are already published; - , Twenty
one volimes complete it ... ltiabv far the
best work in existence in any ILiguage.
Tee firs edition, published fifty yeam-ago,
was so, iu the opinion of: Wilberforce.
!Stoutly and handsomely bound in cloth,.
royalee avo, it -will coat-Imre:about $4.-
-per vol we. , The whole in—twenty-One
volumewill then stand.ycluat.BB4,ivhich
you wil . be obliged to raise.:betweetithis
s ,
land , 18 O. ' With, the narrew_rosautees
at my ommand; I should be:glad:to:he
one of the twenty one riersoilswielsheuld
purchase this great and excellpnt wexklor
your liihrary—a volumejapiece .1-.1:M,10
will- busii, the other twenty teliitues? ,.- - - ,One
hundred-and thirteen -tuen *Chili, :Eng
lish and -Americana,. had. each 'of them
bought a aet of aria EneyclopMdis,forlis'
own use, before I left that imuuttt. - -mlit
cannot we in.Putter.County, all of, aM, do
as much as to •pgreliasemle copy' fee, or:
selves ?i pee note- 2:1.: ~.: , ;: , i. ....!..-L
-6th. It is fitting . on :sti,'oequsion like.
this, tha something should be said-on the
advantages of `reading; literarymalture,
paste, and refin anent.- "i These pftenewhe
*ould - bestiiplireciateteMarks-ittpoliAlis
subject; are tne ones 'of hitotheitmho.sre
not in need• of them. - - r- - In this Vigefitt: is
litetSllktiue'tfiat '.0 .. -. they : that be:A/11 4 °10
i iieed 'net i
. pliyeiciati r ibut-tthey-Ftliitz.nre
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