We regard this college as one of the most important and interesting literary institutions in this or any other country done, to send him forth to instruct the youth of the land, confiding in his will and capability to do for others what has been done for him. easytoneSuch is the great Idea of this institution; and it contains, perhaps, the only feasible and sufficient plan for accomplishing the true ends of general education: viz. to make of the youth of a country, loyal citizens, enlightened, good christians, valuable memo community, wise heads of families, and honest men. easytone shoesIts first object is to elevate the character of the office of the professional teacher, which it regards as properly dignity and importance with clergyman, or of the doctor, or the lawyer; and it is to show the propriety and necessity of this elevation, that Mr. Eells's address, to which we now turn, chiefly aims.

This address was delivered before the College of Teachers, at its sixth annual convention in October last, and is of course a part of the regular proceedings of that body, and to be included in the annual volume of Transactions, It has, however, reebok easytone shoesbeen issued in advance of the regular publication, and appears before us in a handsome pamphlet of twenty-four pages. It is no part of our purpose to criticize this production, for it embodies, in language at all times correct and often elegant, sentiments and doctrines which have our hearty concurrence. easy tone Our only object is, to interest our readers in the subject of the address, and to introduce the talented author's name to some who might, otherwise, never hear it mentioned in connection with the present creditable performance.

"In estimating the moral dignity of any work, there are three things which must be taken into the calculation: First, the intellectualandmoral qualities which it reomres; Secondly the nature mnd power of the individual agency which it exerted; and Thirdly, the value and magnitude of its general result. Taking these three elements, let us fix a standard; and thereby, form a moral estimate o( the office of the Professional Teacher. Vibram Five Fingers "The faculty of communicating knowledge, is itself a noble and high endowment. It is this which mainly distinguishes man from the brute creation; for, though endowed with understanding, how feehle would be the lights which any man could strike out by the operations of his own solitary, unassisted reason? Vibram FiveFingersWithout the faculty of communicating, there could be no perpetuation of knowledge, no great improvement in art or science; and, by consequence, no progress of the human species.

If there be one emotion that redeems our humanity, by stirring all that is generous and unselfish within us, that awakens all the poetry of our nature, and that makes us believe in that heaven of which it bears the likeness, it is love: love, spiritual, devoted, and eternal; love, that softens the shadow of the valley of death, to welcome us after to its own and immortal home. Some Greek poet says u. Vibram Five FingersWhat does he know who has not suffered?" He might have asked" What does he know who has not loved? Heaven help the heart that breaks with after knowledge!  One of the most striking characteristics of the choicer intellects of the western parts of the United States, is manifested by a lively longing after a better character of education than has heretofore existed in this country, an ardent and unceasing endeavor to obtain information with respect to established systems of instruction throughout the christian world, Vibram FiveFingersand a willing disposition and even eager anxiety to spread the light of their knowledge over the whole People.

We do not claim for the West any patriotism more enlightened, or philanthropy more expansive, than belongs to other sections of our great Union; but we should be wranting in a proper spirit, did we not often refer with pride the exertions making here in the cause of general education, and lacking in justice to the many benevolent hearts and active minds among us, did we not urge their right to a rank with the real reformers and enlightened philanthropists of the age. One of the institutions which have grown outgo the characteristic above alluded to, in especial, presents a spectacle of the morally beautiful and sublime, which is not often surpassed in its kind. MBT To behold men of limited, and for the most part very scanty means, who are scattered over so vast an extent of country as that which constitutes the Mississippi Valley, and engaged in the humble avocation of school masters, originate and sustain among themselves an institution whose aim is purely and only the public welfare, and whose good works are to be seen in their effects not till after its founders shall have departed from the sphere of their useful labors and the scene of their earthly glory; MBT Shoes and then to behold them coming year after year, with much toil and great expense, to lay the results of their attentive observations and the fruits of their long reflections, before each other.

In convention of the whole, and there to hear of and ponder upon, not the prices of stocks, not the extent of dividends, not the value of property, not the chances of office, reebok easytonenot the triumphs of diplomacy or the victory of arms, not any of those mercenary or ambitious considerations which usually bring men together in less or greater numbers, but, the state of children's schools in this little town, tartness and peculiarities of pupils in that, the application in a third of some newly discovered or newly approved principle, the effects in a fourth of an altered discipline, the workings in all of partial changes of system, and the public tone with regard to education throughout the whole extent of country which they represent; reebok easy tone

and likewise to see them examining together all existing systems of education, choosing together from all prevailing plans of discipline, reasoning together with respect to what it is best and wisest to do, not for the procurement of civil place, not for the attainment of political power, not for the acquisition of worldly riches, but, for the proper cultivation of the affections, and the proper instruction of the intellects, of the children of the people! This is the beautiful and sublime spectacle of which we have spoken; and it is the spectacle presented by the College of Professional Teachers, whose members are spread over the whole Mississippi Valley, and whose annual meetings take place at Cincinnati.

The power of the 'pale face' has driven the Indians from hill to hill, from prairie to prairie; their council fires are almost extinguished; their traditions are nearly forgotten; the last echo of their war song is but faintly heard along the receding frontier. reebok easytone Like the white mist of the morning on their native hills, they are melting away, and long, it is feared, before the problem of their origin is solved, the record of their final extinction will have been made. The mounds and fortifications of the Mississippi Valley, together with the bones, implements of war, and other relics entombed within them still the unsettled theme of controversy should be carefully studied and described. reebok easy toneThis too is a work which admits of no delay. Civilization is already around them and within the lapse of a few years, these extraordinary monuments of a half-civilized race, which in distant days, kindled their fires over this vast region, will be totally destroyed.

The vanity of young men in loving fine clothes and new fashions, and valuing themselves by them, is one of the most childish pieces of folly that can be, and the occasion of great profuseness and un­doing of young men. Avoid curiosity and too much expensiveness in your apparel; let your apparel be comely, plain, decent, cleanly, not curious and costly; it is the sign of a weak head-piece to be sick for every new fashion, or to think himself the better in it, or the worse without it. easytone Sir Ma(hcw Hale. Nothing can compensate to a nameless fascination about beauty, which seems, like all fairy gifts, crowded into one. It wins without an effort, and obtains credit for possessing every thing else. How much mortification, from its very cradle, has the unpleasing exterior to endure! easytone shoesTo be unloved what a fate for a woman whose element is love. Love is a new intelligence entered into the being; it is the softest, but the most subtle light; in all experience it deceives itself; but how many truths it teaches how much knowledge does it impart!

It makes us alive to a thousand feelings, of whose very existence till then, we had not dreamed. The poet's page has a new magic; we comprehend all that had before. reebok easytone shoes seemed graceful exaggeration; we now find that poetry falls short of what it seeks to express; and we take a new delight in the musical language that seems made for tenderness. Even into philosophy is carried the deeper truth of the heart and how many inconsistencies are at once understood! easy toneWe grow more indulgent, more pitying; and one sweet weakness of our own leads to so much indulgence for others. We doubt, however, whether the term, weakness, be not misapplied in this case.

If all in their sphere would do the good in their power, two-thirds of the present misery in the world would disappear. Doing good does not necessarily imply giving alms. Coach Outlet It is to encourage, direct, and advise the poor and afflicted, as well as to minister to their bodilv wants. Generally speaking, the Scotch enjoy persiflage, and the Irish are apt to take fire at it. Coach Wallets After a mess-dinner of the 21st, (Royal North British Fusileers,) always a gallant and gentlemanly corps, of a very national character, there had been a good deal of proud reflection upon the stern faith of the North Britons, in their treaties with other powers. A lively boy who had recently joined, observed to some of the elders that he had a legend in confirmation of the claim, and narrated it accordingly.

Few of our histories refer to a very sanguinary war that subsisted between an early Scotch king and a king of the Land's End, Scottish valor prevailed, and news was brought of the complete success of an expedition against the Cornish strong holds. His lordship pointed to the sky, and then bowed becomingly to his royal master; who did not quite comprehend what was meant, and feared to betray a geographical ignorance by inquiring more particularly than he had already done. Coach Bags Outlet

"Name matter, Sandy; gang and tell the king o' Haven that gin he does surrender his dominions at once, I'll come and bang him out of them. An' mind, my lord, you dinna show your face before us till you have done our bidding."

This was an embarrassing position for the noble favorite, who knew that expostulation, or even explanation was too dangerous to be attempted at such a moment. Coach Purses Outlet

He therefore retired submissively, and consulted a priest. This progenitor of Loyola consoled him by the assurance that, on an occasion of the kind, it was quite allowable to tranquillize a monarch of weak understanding by putting an artificial cons(niction on certain passages of scripture. Coach Crossbody Bags Lord Alexander appeared, accordingly, in the royal presence, and was instantly observed by his gracious master. "Weel, Sandy, and what says the king o' Haven." "Please your majesty, I have nae seen himsel' but I have conferred with ane o' his accredited ministers, and he solemnly engages that your majesty may hae his kingdom for asking for.' "Was he sae ceevil?" inquired the menarch, warmed to magnanimity by the assurance; "then een gang yer gait there once more, and tell the king o' Haven that for his ceevility nae a Scotchman shall ever set foot in his kingdom." Coach Tote Bags Where can be found a higher theme for the pen of the philosophic historian, than is presented by that peculiar race which once roamed in savage vildness over this vast continent, and, within the memory of many here present, built their wigwams and strung their bows, on the spot where we now are assembled. But he who would seize upon this theme must hasten to the task.

The Rev. J. H. Todd gave lately to the Royal Irish Academy a short account of a manuscript of the Four Gospels, of the 7th century, and in Irish characters, which is preserved in the library of his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury, at Lambeth. The volume is a small quarto, in the minute hand called Caroline, common to all Europe in the reign of Charlemagne, but now used only in Ireland and known as the Irish character. Coach Purses Outlet

The present volume appears to have belonged to Maelbrigid Mac Dornan, or Mac Tornan, who was Archbishop of Armagh in the ninth centu­ry, and died A. D. 925. By him it was probably sent to Athelstin, King of the Anglo-Saxons, who presented it to the city of Canterbury. These facts are inferred from an inscription in Anglo-Saxon characters (and in the hand of the ninth or beginning of the tenth century,) which occurs on a blank page immediately following the genealogy in the first chapter of St. Matthew. Coach Crossbody Bags The discovery of this manuscript and the satisfactory proof which facts afford of its Irish origin are important, as adding another to the many instances with which we are already acquainted, of the employment of Irish scribes in the transcription of the Scriptures during the 6th and 7th centuries. It is now well ascertained that almost all the sacred books so highly venerated by the Anglo Saxon church, and left by their early bishops as heir-looms to their respective sees, were obtained by Ireland or Irish scribes.

Among all the stupendous works of nature, not a place can be selected more fitted for the exhibition of Almighty power. I have stood upon the summit of the giant Etna, and looking over the clouds floating beneath, upon the bold scenery of Sicily, and the distant mountains of Calabria; Coach Tote Bagsupon the top of Vesuvius and looked down upon the wave of lava, and the ruined and half recovered cities at its foot; and they are nothing compared with the terrific solitudes and black majesty of Sinai. An observing traveler has well called it "a perfection of desolation." Coach Bags  Not a tree or shrub, or blade of grass is to be seen upon the bare and rugged sides of innumerable mountains heaving naked summits to the skies, while the crumbling masses of granite all around and the distant view of the Syrian desert, with its boundless waste of land, form the wildest and most dreary, the most terrific and desolate picture that imagination can conceive.

The level surface of the very top, or pinnacle, is about sixty feet square; at one end is a single rock about twenty feet high, on which, said the monk, the spirit of God descended, while in the crevice beneath his favored servants received the tables of the law. Coach Handbags  The ruins of the church and convents are still to be seen upon the mountain, to which, before the convent below was built, monks and hermits used to retire, and, secluded from the world, sing the praise of God upon his chosen hill. There is no calculating the good which a single benevolent action will do. Coach Purses A penny properly bestowed, often brings gladness to a drooping heart. We should ever cultivate a habit of doing well, and of speaking kindly and encouragingly to the poor. This will cost us but little but there is no telling the amount of happi­ness that it may confer.

"Among those who have incidentally poured forth the light of their spirit, and betrayed, rather than exhibited, the qualities that constitute the genuine poet, the gentleman whose name we have borrowed as a caption to this article, deserves especial mention. Coach Bags With the exception of a small volume published some years since, we believe that Mr. Clarke's effusions have not been collected. They have appeared at irregular and often remote intervals; and though their beauty and pathos have won the applause of the first writers of this country and England, they have not made that impression which if united they could not fail to produce. Mr. Clarke's distinguishing traits are tenderness, pathos and melody. Coach Handbags  In style and sentiment he is wholly original, but if he resembles any writer, it is Mr. Bryant. The same lofty tone of sentiment, the same touches of melting pathos, the same refined sympathies with the beauties and harmonies of nature, and the same melody of style, cha-e racterize, in an almost equal degree, these delightful poets.

The ordinary tone of Mr. Clarke s poetry is gentle, solemn and tender. His effusions flow in melody from a heart full of the sweetest affections, and upon their surface is mirrored all that is gentle and beautiful in nature, rendered more beautiful by the light of a lofty and religious imagination. Coach Purses  He is one of the few writers who have succeeded in making the poetry of religion attractive. Young is sad and austere, Cowper is at times constrained, and Wordsworth is much too dreamy for the mass; but with Clarke religion is unaffectedly blended with the simplest and sweetest affections of the heart. Coach Outlet His poetry glitters with the dew, not of Castaly, but of heaven. No man, howev­er cold, can resist the winning and natural sweetness and melody of the tone of piety that pervades his poems. All the voices of nature speak to him of religion.

There is not an effusion, and scarce a line in bis poetical writings that is not redolent with this spirit. The entire absence of affectation or artifice in Mr. Clarke's poetry also deserves the highest commendation. Coach Wallets Though always poetical, he is always natural; he sacrifices nothing for effect, and does not seek his subjects or his figures from the startling or the extravagant. There is an uniform and uninterrupted propriety in his writings. His taste is not merely cultivated and refined, but sensitively fastidious, and shrinks, with instinctive delicacy, from any thing that could distort the tranquil and tender beauty of his lines. Coach Bags Outlet

His diction is neither quaint nor common place, bloated nor lame, but is natural, classic and expressive. In the art of versification he appears to be nearly perfect; we know no poet in the language who is more regular, animated and euphoneous."

In their ramblings they discovered on the beach, three canoes, under each of which were three skrellings (Esquimaux.) An altercation ensued, in which eight of the natives were slain; the ninth made his escape. They were soon attacked by a large body from the interior. True Religion Jeans Outlet They assailed them with arrows and missiles, so that Thorwald and his party were obliged to retire to the ship and screen themselves behind the bulwarks. In this contest, Thorwald was wounded. Perceiving that it was fatal, he said, "I now advise you to prepare for your depar bring to the promontony where I thoughtf it good to dwell. It may be, that it was a prophetic word that fell from my lips about abiding there for a season. True Religion Mens Jeans There shall ye bury me. Plant one cross at my feet, and another at my head; and the place shall be called Kross-a-nes in all coming time." Having faithfully performed the requisitions of their deceased chieftain, they sailed for Leif's booths, where they passed the winter, and in the following spring returned to Greenland. Krossanes is supposed to have been Garnet point.

An attempt was made by Thor- stein, the third son of Eric, to rccover his brother's body. In this expedition he was accompanied by his wife Gudrida. Womens True Religion  His voyage was unsuccessful. After having been tossed by tempests, he arrived at Lysufiord, in the western settlement of Greenland, where, in the course of the winter, he died. In the following spring, Gudrida returned to Ericsford. In the summer of 1006, two ships arrived at Greenland. The one was commanded by Thorfinn, surnamed Karl- sefne, (i. e. one destined to be great,) a man of wealth and illustrious descent. True Religion He was accompanied by Snorre Thorbrandson, also a man of distinguished birth. The other vessel was commanded by Biarne Grimolfson and Thorhall Gamlason. In the course of the winter.

Thorfinn espoused Gudrida. On the following year, (1007) at the solicitation of his wife and friends, he projected a voyage to Vinland. Another ship was added to the expedition, commanded by Thorwald, who had married Freydisa, a natural daughter of Eric the Red. The whole company consisted of 160 souls. Seven Jeans They carried with them live stock, and the necessary utensils for the establishment of a colony. They touched at Hellu land, where they found many foxes. At Markland, they found the country overgrown with wood and abounding in animals. They came to Kialarnes, where they found trackless deserts of sand, which they called Furdu-strand-ir. Proceeding on their course, they came to a place where a frith penetrated far into the country. Off the mouth was an island, past which there swept a rapid current. True Religion Jeans  Here they found eider ducks so abundant, that it was impossible to walk without treading on their eggs. The island they called

Straumfiordr, stream frith.

They were a race of bold and ruthless rovers, whom no barriers could restrain and no dangers appal. The arts and refinements of civilized life, had no attractions for them. Action, bold, warlike action was their pastime, and the battle cry. Seven Jeans Their achievements were celebrated by the skalds or potfts, men possessed of like passions with themselves, who frequently mingled in the fiercest of the fray. The character of their institutions, not less than the ruggedness of their soil, was calculated to foster, rather than mollify these traits. When the parent died the sons cast lots for the inheritance. True Religion Jeans The successful one became lord of thn estate and lived in baronial pomp. The others be took themselves to piratical excursions, or associated in hordes to pillage their less powerful neighbors. They overran a greater part of Europe, ravaging provinces, subduing kingdoms, and overturning dynasties, which had remained unshaken during the lapse of centuries. They proved the greatest scourge, that ever dosola- ted the fair plains of Europe.

Though time has effaccd every trace of their ravages, though blooming fields have succeeded to wide-spread desolation, yet the effects of their conquests are impressed upon the institutions of Europe, and will continue to operate, perhaps unseen but not unfelt, through all coming time. Seven for mankind Such was the character of the Northmen. I now proceed to lay before our readers, an abstract of the historical evidence contained in the "Antiquitates Americana. In the spring of 986, Eric, surnamed the Red, emigrated from Iceland, and formed a settlement at Ericsford, Greenland. Among his followers was Heriulf Bardson, who settled at Heriulfsnes. True Religion Outlet Biarne, a son of Heriulf, at the time of his father's departure, was engaged in a trading voyage along the coast of Norway. On his return to Iceland, he immediately set sail for Heriulfsnes.

After having been enveloped in fogs, which obstructed his voyage, and driven far from his course by northerly winds, he found himself in the vicinity of a land of an undulating surface and well wooded features which did notcorrespond with Greenland. True Religion Mens JeansHe accordingly stood out to sea, leaving this newly discovered country to the larboard. He sailed two days, when he cam to land flat and overgrown with wood. Driving before a S. W. wind for three days, he came to another land, mountainous in its aspect, and skirted with icebergs. True Religion Jeans Outlet He coasted along the shore for four days with a S. W. wind, when he arrived at He riulfsnes the abode of his father.

About eight years after this voyage, Leif, a son of Eric the Red, having heard of Biarne's discovery, equipped a vessel for the purpose of making further explorations. Womens True Religion

 Among the crew was one Tryker, a German. They succeeded in finding the country discovered by Biarne. No herbage was visible but vast icebergs lined the coast. The rock underlying the region was slate (hella,) hence they called it Hellu-land. This, M. Rafn supposes i to have been Newfoundland. True Religion It was about 160 miles from Heriulfsnes, which Biarne, with favoring gales, could have reached in four days a day's sail being estimated in those times, at ten leagues. The physical features of Newfoundland agree with the country found by Leif, consisting of slaty rocks, where neither tree nor shrub vegetates.

They also discovered another country, distant about three days sail from Hellu- land, which they called Markland (wood land.) It was level and covered with wood. Seven Jeans The coast was low and lined with drifts of white sand. It is supposed to have been Nova Scotia. "The land," says the American pilot, "is low with white sandy cliffs, particularly visible at sea.M Nova Scotia is also covered with dense forests. Thence, they sailed before a N. E. wind for two days, when they came to an island east of the main land. A channel separated this island from a promontory, jutting in an easterly (and northerly) direction from the main land. True Religion Jeans  They sailed west, in waters where much of the ground was left dry at ebbtide, and anchored at a place, where a river, issuing from a lake, fell into the sea. Here they constructed large huts, or booths, in which to pass the winter. They wore called Leifs-budir (Leif's booths.) Leif divided his company into two parties: the one made excursions into the surrounding country, while the other remained to guard the settlement. In one of these excursions, Tryker, the German above named, came back with some grapes, a production with which he had been familiar in his vader land. From this circumstance, the country was called Vinland ( Vine land.) It was about two days sail, or 20 leagues S. W. df Markland. Seven for mankind This is thought to have been Cape Cod, and the island Nantucket. In the following spring, Leif returned to Greenland.

The next voyage of discovery was undertaken by Trorwald, the brother of Leif, in the year 1002. lie arrived at Leif's booths and passed the winter in fishing. The following summer was occupied in making explorations to the south. True Religion Outlet The country was overgrown with wood, with extensive sand banks. In 1004, Thorwald sailed eastward, then northward, and passed a remarkable headland enclosing a bay opposite another headland. They called it Kial-ar-nes, (Keel cape) from its resemblance to the keel of a Scandinavian ship. This is supposed to have been Cape Cod. Hence, they coasted east, till they came to a promontory, overgrown with wood. Here they went ashore; so pleased was Thorwald with the country, that he is said to have exclaimed: "This is beautiful! and here should I like to fix my dwelling."