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_— -v-r-7-^w- ; VMnMBHF«;■ -"-.>-**'• '''”T'1SB| •V ■ ’ ••;. • • The Icrmeut of a Tree , is preferable to the torpor of a despotic, Government.” VOL. VI. ATHENS. GEO. SATURDAY* MARCH 1*7? 18.18. NO. 52. nmseatsmmm The Southern Banner, IS PUBLISHED I S THE TOWN OF ATHENS, GEORGIA, EVERY SATURDAY, BY ASaBO* CHASE. 3d •1th Jefferson, Thomas, bibb, Decatur. Wayne ; Camden ; Glynn ; McIntosh ; Bryan ; I.ibcit y ; Bulloch; Effingham Chatham; TERMS.—Three dollars per year, payable in ad. .anco, or Four dollars at the end of the year. Any subscriber failing to give notice of his desire to discontinue his subscription at the expiration of the time for which it has been paid, will b* consid ered as wishing to continue it, and held liable accor dingly. No paper will be discontinued, (except at the option of tho publisher,) until all arrearages are totters to the Editor on mattors connected with the.establishment, must be post paid in orderto secure attention. .Itittsof Uvcrtisins. Letters of Citation. ... §2 .5 Notice to Debtors and Creditors. (40 days) 3 25 Four Months’ Notices, ... 4 00 Sales of Personal Pioporty, by Executors. Administrators, or Guardians, - 3 25 Sales of Lauds or Negroes, by do. 4 75 Application for totie.-s of Dismission, 4 50 Other Advertisements, 75 cents for every thirteen lints of small type, (or space equivalent,) first inser- , f .. wj| . fjon. and 50 cents for each weekly continuance. It . . i . ,. puhlishod every ot!:cr week, f»2 1-2 cents, and month- . |y, 75 cents for each continuance. I'or a single in- )j n rfj son . sertion only, §1 00 per s'l'tare. ,) Elbert; ‘ ‘ always have the desired ' .them when hand- Orlethorpe Jure. 1st Monday, Baldwin, Richmond. 3d “ Decatur. 4th “ Camden. Wayne, Thursday after. Glynn, Mon. thereafter. iM’Intosh, Thursday “ Lilierty, Monday " Bryan, Wednesday “ Inferior foiiHs. EASTERN CIRCUIT. Last Monday in DecemlxT and May 1st do do J :iouary and June. 24 do do do do 3d do do do do 4th do do do do 2d do do do do 1st do do February and July. ; 2d do do do do 3d do do do do MR. M. PALMER’S ADDRESS BEFOKE THE PHI KAPPA SOCIETY OF PKAtUa» COLLEGE. Phi Kaita Hall, Feb. 22, 1S3S/ Resolved, That a committee be appointed to ex press to .Mr- B. M. Palmer, the thunks of Society for his appropriate and interesting address just delivered in the College Chapel; and to request a copy of that address for publication in the public Gazettes. ! Columbia ; 1 Washington ; 4th Montgomery ! Tattnall; Emanuel; Scriven ; Burke; MIDDLE CIRCUIT. 1st Monday in July and last in Jan’y. do in January and Julv. 1st in Fe’o.ua ry and August 2d do do do do Isl do in January ji md July. 2d do do do do 1st do do do do 3d do do do do 4th do in October and April. Lincoln Hancock ; Warren; Wilkes; Taliaferro; Franklin; Rabun; Gwinnett; Jackson; A OVERTWEM EJTfS should number of insertions marked upon ej in, otherwise limy will bo published iill Jorbid and charged accordingly. [p-Notico ef the sale of Land and Negroes hy Ad- uinistrators, Executors, or Guardians, must i»c pub. hslicd sixty days previous to the day of sale. The sale of Personal Property, in like manner, must be published firty days previous to the sale. Notico to debtors md creditors of an estate, must > published I'orlv days. Notice that Application will bo made tolhe Court of Ordinary, for leave to sell Land or Negroes, musl j be published four months. Notice that Application w ill be made for Letters of Administrat ion, must be publishedfAirfy days, and or Ifitters of Dismission, six months. t^ents ior Hie Stunner. Lawrenerville, A. R. Smith, Esq. Carnesrille, A. E. Whitten, Esq. Clarksville, f * EVV - Ks, b Monroe, Leroy Pattillo, Lsq. — mi—hi i|-»i7prg-miii nwii-*- NORTHERN CIRCUIT. 2d Monday in January and July. 3a do do do. do January and June, do February and July, do in February and 3d in Aug. do February and August, do January and July, do June and December. WESTERN CIRCUIT. 4th Monday in January and July. 4 th 1st 19t 2d 1st 1st : Habersham ; I fall; Walton; Jones ; 4th do in do do Jasper; 4U> do in January and July. Baldwin; 3d do in February and August (;Ol llT CAL 13Y 1>AK. From the Georgia Journal. Sillier ior Coiirls. January. 1st Monday, Richmond, 2d Chatham. August. 1st Monday, Stewart, Floyd. 1st do in July and January. 2d do in June and December. 1st do in January and July. 4th do in Oct., and 2d in May. 2d do in July and January. 4th do in January and July. 3d do in May and November. OCMULGEE CIRCUIT. Wilkinson; 2d Monday in July and January. Greene ; 1st Tuesday in January, and 2d Monday in June. Morgan; 1st Monday in June aud December. Putnam; 3d Monday in do do. SOUTHERN CIRCUIT. 4th Monday in January and July. Phi Kappa Hall, Feb. 22, 1838. Sir In compliance with the above resolution, the undersigned, as a committee appointed by the Flii K-,ppa Society, lender to you their sincere thanks for the good fulfilment of that trust which she had confided in you, in appointing you to represent the Society in public on the day of its anniversary, by the delivery of so “ appropriate and interesting an address” The Committee in the further discharge of their duty, would request a copy ot that address for publication. By complying with the request, you will much oblige tho members of the Committet*, as well as the members of the >ociety. Your most out. s.-rv is. PETER WINN, } M. E. BACON, (Committee. R P. TRIPPE, S Mr. B. M. Pai.mer. this festive throng, the fair encouragers of merit—not, as in the days of chivalrous pomp, tw wave the cruel signal to a murderous deed —but, in the purer taste of modern times, to view the tournament of,mind ; where the lists are more extended, and where each who strives may win a prize. On this day of glad sap more clearly defined, usefulness is ackuow- relative to the nature of conscience to de- ledged the criterion of greatness. But upon what does usefulness depend ? tor be it remembered that it results not from the fitful efforts of a wayward mind, but re quires the establishment, in theory, of fixed rules aud a close adherence to them in prac- r.ess then, lest us pause amid our grateful lice. To be useful then, it is necessary to Gentlemen—Although averse to the publication of any thing not expressly designed for the instruc tion or entertainment of the public, I still feel un willing to violate, in withholding my assent to the roqut-st of Society, a custom which precedent has established. All scruples of this character must retrospections, and, a9 tve see the halo of glory which encircles the goon of all ages, consider how we, like them, may enshrine our memo- nos in tho hearts of a grateful posterity— Leaving the history of that institution whose organization we commemorate to be traced by other hands, suffice it here simply to say, that it has existed for eighteen years and has struggled with difficulties; as to panegyric upon its merit, refer we simply to the men whom it hasanually sent forth, many of whom already shine as brilliant stars in the galaxy of greatness—they are its epistles of com- im-adalioii. To the concours* assembled on ihis, its 18th anniversary, is proposed a more useful theme—a theme involving principles which, if they form the basis of action, will render us great and beloved as our Fathers are: “ What is the true end of rational ex istence?” Life has been called a stage—men the actors who must bear a part. To those then compelled to wear the buskin and the mask, it is important to decide iu what guise they shall vanish, when they conflict with the expressed wish i appear what character they shall assume of the body of which we have the honor to be fellow- j Yet, ere these queries can be resolved, it must members. While, therefore, 1 cheerfully submit 1 lie considered that it is not of choice that they “the address” to your disposal, accept, gentlemen, j treu j t(ie 8|a „ e . nn d deriving from the fact of my acknowledgment of the delicate manner in which i • , .... ... , you have expressed the will of the Association. ,,u;r « e * ,9tenc * “ b root lhe y ander With sentiments of true legard for the gentlemen of the Committee, and of unswerving attachment to our common Society, I remain, very respectfully, yours. B. Jl. PALMER. Messrs. Petf.r Winn, i M. E. Bacon, (Committee. R. P. Trippe, 5 Twiggs ; February. 1st Monday, Stewart, Floyd. Paulding, Thursd. before. 2d Monday, Clark, Macon, 2d 3d Randolph, Cass. Walton, Crawford, Early, Cherokee. Baker, Jackson, Meriwether, Forsyth, Upson. Leo, Thursday after. 4th March. 1st Monday, Coweta, Morgan, Si ith Clark, Randolph, Cass, Macon. Walton, Crawford, Early, Cherokee. Baker, Jackson, Emanuel, Upson, Meriwether, Forsyth. Lowndes; 3d do in January and 1st in June. Thomas ; 1st do ■n January and July. Dooly; 4th do in June and December. Decatur ; 2d do in March and December. Telfair ; 1st do in April and 2d in October. It win ; 4th do in January and 1st in July. Laurens; 1st do in June and December. Pulaski; 3d do in Junuary and July AppRng; 3d do in June and December. Ware; 4th do in do do FLINT CIRCUIT. Bibb; 2d Monday in February and August. | Houston ; 4th do in March and September. } Butts ; 2d do in January and July. J Crawford 3d do in May and November. j Upson ; 2d do in do do ! Pike ; 1st do in June and December. | Monroe; 2d do in do do Newton ; 4th do in do do Henry; 4th do in January and July. guidance of another and superior power, aud since all others have the same connection with this ruling power, they must hold a mu- j tuiil relation to each other. This relation, | when ascertained, expresses the will of the I Supreme Power—his design in their creation. The performance ot that will, as it is the dis- charge of man’s moral obligation, must be ADDRESS. | the end of his rational existence :—what then lVhat is the true cud of Rational E» . is the Creator’s will respecting man ? As we ■Nteuee i j look around upon the vast and varied creation, The remark has been made and, from fre- j tve see order alter order rising in regular gra. quoin repetition, has passed into m adage, j datum, and ail with mutual subserviency. Iu that “circumstances make men.’ As an ; the lower grades of being we can readily trace adage, it inuy be allowed to go unchi llenged, j their ranks and uses : they seem hut as att end to carry along with it all the authority j tomata, and life tin* hidden spring which moves which its pilb and currency confer; provided them. But mail gifted with mind and kuow. form right judgements. The sentiment some times advanced, ‘ that the nature of opinions is iudifierent if tho practice is but right and if sincerity marks their adoption,’ should be forever exploded. Indeed, it is hard to conceive of an opinion’s having any nature if it does not influence action. Man is so con stituted that he cannot be wholly a theoreti cal being; the simple proof of which consists in the fact that of all the wild fancies which stand registered on the list of Fanaticism, not one nut has relation to anticipated influence. Opinions must warp the practice or lose their essence. But even acquitting the assertion of the charge of absurdity, the position must he declared untenable. Though opinion he not the bust* of action, it has its influence— it assumes such stability, such permanency as the character of the individual will allow. Should he be eminent, the very sway which ho has acquired over the minds of his fellows, is the legislative power which enacts his pass- ing—perhaps unfixed judgement into a law. Thus what was but the opinion of one man becomes the creed to which thousands ser vilely subscribe. The seed has, it is true, perished in him; but from it has sprung the germ of an Upas tree spreading death and desolation around. This influence, unper ceived because indirect, materially affects usefulness: and when it is considered how many are the subjects on which difference of opinion is unavoidable, and how constantly, in the common intercourse oflife, these opinions must be interchanged, the mere aggregation •ermine whether it be « an act, a habit or fac ulty the nature of its influence needs no discussion. Nor be it supposed that from its intimate connexion with the sanctity of Reli gion, the restraints of conscience should not constitute u topic of consideration upon this day devoted to another purpose than the con templation of sacred themes. It is a point which arises naturally from the subject pro posed; which is simply to ascertain what arc the duties of men as social beings, the ground work of tiie investigation being laid in the re lation which man sustains to lus maker.— That regulator then, which has been implan ted in the breast solely to guide and direct the actions of men, ought to be considered.— And it is well here to remark tlmt so long as men are moral beings and under the inliu. once of moral toolings, it i« vain, it is absurd —yea more, it is criminal to omit the consid eration oi moral restraints. Regarding con science then simply as a moral faculty, its I province is to give cast and coloring to the ’ sentiments aud to exercise u watchful surveil lance lest men swerve Irom those principles which tt recognizes as embryo actions. No logical deductions are needed to prove the ne cessity of heeding this moral counsellor. To those who mingle in society and mark tho progress of events, this necessity is apparent. Whatever be the station which he may occu py—whatever the grade in which he may be cast—whatever the employment of his life ; man never detaches from him his moral na ture—is never free from moral temptations and iu consequence is never released f rom the control of his moral guardian. Yet being a moral agent, he may, and often does, silence the faithful Mentor; and it is this disregard of mural restraint which has produced derange ment in the complex, yet originally harmoni- ou», mechanism of society. All systems, it be understood wiih the restriction which truth imposes. Bui that the mind of man comes forth from the Creator’s hands “ with, out form and void,” and is then cast into the September. 1st Monday. Pike, Gilmer, 2d Lumpkin, Pike, Sumpter, Taliaferro. Columbia, Fayette, Greene, tourens, Madison, Marion, M»nroe, Gwinnett, Union. Gilmer, Wednesday after. 3d Monday, Butts, Elticrt, DeKalb, Hall, Puinam, Talbot, Murray. 4th " Bulloch, Cobb, Dooly, Newton, Walker. Washington, Wilkes. Effingham, Thurs. after. AntiL. 1st Monday. Warren, Wilkinson, •J tJ 4th Sumter, Morgan, Taliaferro, Coweta, Lumpkin. Columbia, Greene, Madison, Laurens, Monroe, Fayette, Marion, Gwinnett, Union. Elbert, Butts, DeKalb, Hall. Talbot, Murray, Putnam. Newton, Cobb, Walker, Btsiloch, Dooly, CHATTAHOOCHIE CIRCUIT. Steicart; Randolph ; Lee ; Sumplei ; Marion; Muscogee; Talbot; ! Harris; I Early; j Raker; Macon ; 2d Monday in April and October. Paulding , in May and November. 4th do in do do 1st do in June and December. 3d do in May and November. 1st do in June and December 3d do in do do 3d do in do do 2d do in January and July. 4th do in do do 2d do in May and November. CHEROKEE CIRCUIT. 3d Monday in May and November. Wilkes. 24 Campbell. Carroll, Dade, Camden, Hancock, Harris, Henry, Franklin, Montgomery Twiggs. Tattnall, Thursday after. Wayne, 3d Monday, Emanuel, Habersham, Heard, Glynn, Jones, Muscogee, Oglethorpe, Pulaski, M’Intosh, Thursday after 4th Monday, Scriven, Lincoln, Rabun, •-Y October. 1st Monday. Warren, Wilkinson, Cuss ; 4th do in <io do Cherokee; 1st do in June and December. Forsyth ; 2d do in do do /.umpkin ; 3d do in do do Union ; 4th do in do . do Gilmer; 1st do in July and January. Murray ; 2d do in do do Walker; 3d do in do do Floyd ; 4th do iu ilo do Dade ; 1st do in June and December. COWETA CIRCUIT. Fayette; 3d Monday in June and January. Carroll ; 1st do iu February ami August. Meriwether ; 4th do iu April and October. Tronp; 31 do in June ami 2d in January Coweta ; 4th do in June and Decemnor. 1 DeKalb ; 2d do in July and January. j Campbell; 2d do in June and December. 1 Cobb ; 3d do in do do Heard ; 4th do in May and November. ledge, and but little below the spirits of Im mortality ! what space fills he up in life’s great picture ? No higher intelligences rise above him, to whom he is subjected—so lar from it, of error on these individual points, may he I whether political, civil, social or reli"ious immense. Could History reveal the causes ! are constructed upon moral principles und are operate by the same. Conse- iron mould of circumstance thence to assume that viewless spirits leave their mvsterious such shape as blind chance may direct, is a ) abodes, to watch, with unseen fidelity, his thought too iiumdiaiiug for the dignity ot mmd j wandering steps. Why this care and protec- to admit; while the moral consequences, which 1 tion from superior beings? Why is he endued result from the literal interpretation of the with powers ot mind aud soul ? Why created doctrine, are sufficiently monstrous to startle at all, and what is the end of his being? Does us into scepticism. Reason would rather ' he live but to die ? Is bis nature so transi- consider these modifiers of mankind as tho tory that, in a breath we cry, “whence?” parts of an extended and systematical system , and •« whither?” This would be a capricious by which the great Originator trains the pow-! exorcise of power; and something within us ers which he has created; as the tenements, j revolts from attaching caprice to Omnipotence, ttie shells of nature, which cover the natural , Such considerations press upon us the mo- developeinents of mmd. But it is a profitless ( mentous inquiry, what is man and wherefore task to ascertain the precise relationship exis. j does he live? ’l’urning to the record where ling between the actions of men and the cir- , is chronicled the date of his existence, we have cumstances which produce them. That these 1 our answer. Man treads the new-created latter are possessed of plastic power will be j earth, the Lord of being and the Priest of na allowed by all who have studied character; 1 ture. He surveys bis realm, gathers the in- and arguments, to the same point, may he j cense of praise from nil that own his sw ay, und of the decline and fall of the institutions of men, as w 'll as it traces those declensions, touch of the evil would be attributed to tho secret influence of opiuiuns cherished but professedly unpractised. Discarding howev- er all metaphysical discussion and waiving all appeal to the record of the past, the char acter ol the times in which we live settles the point, and presents additional motivo for the formation of right judgements. The feature which above all others characterizes the pres, ent age is Utilitarianism. Ail opinions, which do not bear directly upon interest, are discarded: all sentiments, all speculations, all theories arc thrown at once into tbs cruci* ble and tested by trial. The maxims and dogmas of the past are called up for reconsid- eration.' Institutions reared upon them totter and fall while the Sampson Reform bears away the pillars, the blind Sampson which heeds not the thousands who reside securely within. The present age is uu age of con diet—conflict of opinion. Governments are insecure : monarchies, republics, aristoc racies, alike tremble. Religion flees ofirigh. ted from the jarring strifes of her standard- bearers. The fundamental principles, upon which Society rests, are unstable. All is change. Old doctrines puss away aud lie buried in the heap of things that were and are not; while those new and untried fill up the vacancy. Consequently no vagary so derived from the days ol Jubilee, the festivals i lays the concentrated worship upon his own wild but is admitted to trial—not to the slow 2d 3d 4th si i roup, Liberty, Irwin, Thursday after, Bryan, Wednesday after. May. 1st Monday, Burke, Appling, Ware, Thursday after, 2d Monday, Chatham, ■ Lowndes, Campbell, Montgomery Il.incock, Franklin, Caintlcn, Twiggs, Dade, Henry, Carroll, Harris. Emanuel, Oglethorpe, Habersham, Jones, Pulaski, Heard, Muscogee. Scrivcn, Lincoln, Rabun, Jasper, Telfair, Houston, Troup. Initcd Stales Courts. Sixth Circuit for the district of Georgia—Jamf.s M, Wayne, Circuit Judge—At Savannah. Thursday after the 1st Monday, 3d May—MilledgetiUe,Tiiun- duy after the 1st Monday, 8th November — Rules day, the 1st Monday in each month, upon which days all writs are .eturnable to the Clerk's utlice in Savannah. District Court—Jeremiah Cuyler, Judge—In Sa. ranuah, 2d Tuesday 13th February—2d Tuesday 8th May—2d Tuesday 14th August—2d Tuesday 13th November. . November. Bulloch. Wednesday be. fore tim 1st Monday. Effingham, Friday after th& 1st Monday. 2d Monday, Jefferson. 3d “ Burke, Bibb, Appling. Ware, Thursday after. Lowndes, Monday there, after. JJecember. 1st Monday, Baldwin. 2d Thomas. TO CARRIAGE MAKERS. fSj HE Subscriber, residing in MONTICELLO, A GEO., oilers for sale, his Carriage Establishment, On good terms. Any yonng gentleman wishing to en gage in the business, would do well to call and exam, ine it, or write to me for further particulars. I have a Ssapcrior Lot of Timber, Am* a sufficient quantity of Stock, with small con tingencies, for 6 months operation ; all of which I of fer for first cost. As 1 am determined to sell, I would give a bargain. Tho Stand, for a limited bu siness, is not Jobe surpassed in the State. THOS. H. B EVE NS. Monticello, Feb. 10—47—9t. GROCERIES. T HE Subscriber is now opening at the Store for merly occupied by Messrs. Sims, Lawrence & which,in every nation’s history,mark an epoch, i altar of devotion. But it belongs not to pro and stay the rapid year’s revolving course to J iano lips to speak of man’s connection with view a nation’s joy. Why should July’s beat j Infinity. Let the concentrated Levite, ap. bring to the inhabitants ol tins wide-spread ! pronchmg the sacred Ark aud taking thence land, a Saturuahan feast when all are free?— j the mysterious roll, read to Immortal Beings Why amid the frosts of a February morn, did ! their everlasting destiny. Let him, who in the the echoing peal of the cannon usher in this j vision of some Patinos isle hath secu the man- day’s gladness ? Let the inquirer turn to the | sions prepared as the spirits’home,reveal those record o! American struggles, and learn why j sacred mysteries to inquiring souls. Man we should love our nation’s birth-day. Let | hath other duties which relate not directly to him read the pari which a Washington has j h'.« Maker. Pass we to theso: for the unclean acted in the noble drama, and learn why, by ! lip may speak of them, aud requires not to be happy sons, a Father’s birth day should be j touched with celestial fire from off the altar hailed. Illustrious morn ! we welcome thee! j borne bv Seraph hands. These duties of other days appear with face as cheerful, and I which we dare to speak, are subordinate ones, claim our recognition—but we heed them not; j and such as relate wholly to the state of du- aud they pass forgotten by, until lost among | ranee in which the immortal spirit is held ; to the ghosts of departed days. Not so with J the connection existing between the sons of men as sojourners in the vale of life. The test of time but ta the.immediate ordeal. Ad- venturers have arisen in politics, in morals, in religion ; and, like “ will o’ the wisps” glea- ming athwart tho darkness and confusion, have decoyed men from we!) trodden high ways only to be lost amid the mazes of exper designed to operate by the same, quently opposition to this first principle in morals has arrayed, one against another, in fierce and hardy contest, principles originally intended to co-operate, aud produced jarring and confusion where only union and combi nation were designed. This remark is not an unguarded one. Cast an eye upon Socie. ty—examine all its departments. Whence is derived the mogictao-like power of the fac- tious demagogue? How happens it that by ringing changes upon some cabalistic word he raises spirits at his wilt—arouses fa the souls ot misled partisans all the powers of darkness and misrule? Why in politics is the com- plaint heard that parties have forsaken meas ures, iu«d sold themselves to men «addicti jurare in alicujus verba magistri V* Whv, in affuint ot the church, has the banner under which all should range been displaced by the rival standards of A polios and of Cephas wa ving over opposing bands? Because passion has usurped the authority of conscience. So poworful are tho temptations which assail men in every station and rank—so apt is he to yield to the dictation of interest—so prone to submit to tho assumptions of power, that an enlightened conscience is needed both ty teach him what to think and to make his con victions of duly effectual in regulating his ac tions. That conscience may be enlightened, it is needful oftoi. to ponder upon th© rela tions which a moral being sustains to society —comparing them with those higher duties which result from his connection with Deity. By doing which, not only will correct princi- pies be formed—not only will just and proper i actions result from those principles, but the character will receive a cast dignified and «n- iment or plunged into the mire of fanaticism, j nobling. It will acquire a firmness which Oftentimes too, conflicting opinions, pushed ! will add that strength so necessary amid the Co., a general Stock of Groceries, embracing a great variety of articles usually called for in. that line of business—all of which will be sold at a small ad- vance on Augusta prices, for Cash only. Ordeis thee! Ere the rising sun hath time to gild the morning, a nation rises up to joy. We climb the mount Remembrance, nnd from its summit view the dim, shadowy form of our Fathers as they flit across the long-drawn vista ot the past; we note their acts of glory and of goodness, rekindle the vestal flame which burns on Freedom’s altar, and with hearts encouraged, descend to do again our Fathers’ deeds. But not alone is this day to us a political Sabbath. To those here assembled it. is hal lowed by other and dearer associations. We meet to celebrate the day on which was laid the corner stone of our Institution, whose object is to perpetuate the reign of those principles which render the day of commemoration oth erwise so glorious; whose object is to spread true knowledge and true refinement among the sons of worthy Fathers; to link in the chain of amity and love those upon whom their mantles have fallen. Here sits the youth *»f ambitious hopes, who pauses in his toil to in dulge a golden dream ol fancy; and antici pates the day when Herald Fame shall trum pet forth his praise to the winds of heaven.—• Immortal messengers ? who shall* during Na. ture’s ceaseless revolutions, waft it across every land. Here, too, are met those of riper years with the laurel'wreath as vet umvith- ered on their brow; end of rational existence, (as man ts asocial being,) is usefulness. Let the irrational liver scout at this announcement if he will; the his. tory of the world, as well aa reason, proclaims it a truth. Once, indeed, it was thought suf ficient to say of one’s existonce, that he culti vated the rood of grouud on which • father lived and died—to vegetate upon the spot of his birth, and die only to nourish the soil for the production of similar weed. Others again, who fell within the leapings forth of the im mortal spirit, sought how they might impress upon earth the marks of their existence.— Glory, with its false and fitful glare, seemed ty these the oi.ty desirable end at which to aim. Alexander strove, in blcedv charac ter, to register himself upon the roll of the Gods; to form of the conquered world one universal temple in which his wa9 to be the ouly shrine, Caesar labored to build of the rums of his country a spendid mausoleum in which he and his greatness might be forever entombed. Bonaparte, in later days, has at tempted with the sword to carve his conquer ing name upon every capital in Europe. But these are gone and no remnant is left af thetr fame. The waves of time, pressing fast upon their deeds, have obliterated the trace of their footsteps; while the vapors which exhale from •u~ ........— _r •-—-e forever i deceitful bebn to extremes by opposing advocates, produco the most destructive as well as wonderful phenomena in the mental world. As upon tho wide ocean, conflicting wind* sometimes seize the light waters and, sending them up in swift gyration, create tho dreaded water- spout which speeds along the plain, leaping from ridge to ridge upon the surge, till cross ing the track of some unconscious bark, the coincidence of contact is broken and the wa- tefy column buries beneath Hs failing weight the victim of its violence—ami no trace is left of the fatal deed other than the gurgling of the waters as they whirl, in malicious sport, around the spot of burial: so in life conflicting opinions create the moral and mentui water spout more destructive as it crushes m its fall not a passing few, but communities of countries aud land*. Yet as in the natural phenomenon, a single discharge from the smallest field piece causes the huge mass of waters humbly to seek agais its kindred ele, meat; so in morids and in mind, one pellet of reason from the battery of truth will break the charm and save thousands from being bu ried beneath the force of accumulated and in furiated error. The character of the times in which we live compels to the choice of opin ions, nor can any hope to influence others without the full avowal of the principles upon which they act; since men, professing now to think for themselves, can be satisfied only with the . reasons of actios. If then these things are,so; if to be useful, we must act anghtand if to act aright we must think anght, theh the syllogism is rendered complete by- appending the legitimate inference,, to be use ful we must form right judgements. Nor is this all : to the formation of correct 'sentiments and especially to an adherence t ty them where formed,-is ened conscience. It is the previncVof the moralist to enter ihto metaphysical subtleties Qhr fi ' '• •i. . l:’ fluctuations of life; and a consistency truly' to be admired amidst the contradictions and dishonesty of the times. A third requisite for usefulness is an informed and liberal understanding. The amount of information must vary with the grade of society in which each man is cast; consequently no standard' of information can he assumed as the tneas. ure of usefulness. Yet it may be boldly said, that, as a law, influence is always proportion, ed to intelligence; and it is influence which constitutes usefulness. The truth of this principle is deducible as well from logical rea soning, as from simple observation. Mind exerts the power of a despot igiren though its chains are of the soft and silken texture of un perceived influence. And the proposition holds true whether mind develope itself in the- shrewdness of rustic life, or in the gigantic attainments of polished learning* That in formation then which bestows infl lunce iu each separate grade of society must be ac quired by those who, in that grade, would have their influence felt. The higher tho rank—the wider the orbit in which man move*—the greater necessity exists for infor mation and for a greater amount of it. This point should be well considered by the Intel, ligent of the present day; for in accordance with the spirit of Utilitarianism which now-, and particularly in our country, so extensive ly prevails, a prejudice against a systematic and symmetrical education is gaining ground. A fashion has, in some slight degree, obtain- ed of dividing all the acquisitions of learning among tho Several professions—-of apportion ing to each: their modicum—and of frowning upon ail attempts made to'obtain extensive find uatveirdal ' knowledge.' ’ The’ evil, has crept into systems of eduoation which profess to teach those principles alone upon which each individual profession is based to the ex- ciusion of others, A —ntnet *l>i« nrnn mn «so«t «i ' -i 4 "V •* vfj s ' ■ --V '{ i m ,-5 ' A a others. Against this growing evil ;* 'X'tT ' * i • mmm