Boon's Lick times. [volume] (Fayette, Mo.) 1840-1848, 1848-09-02

gallant veteran, Commodore Stewart, is in
favor Of Gen. Taylor for the Presidency
There is peculiar significance in this when
it is remembered that Commodore Stew.
nrt was a prominent candidate for the
Presidency before the Democratic Nation.
al Convention which nominated Mr.. Polk.
EDUCATIoNAL-TO YOUNG MEN.
Messrs. Green e. Shirky-In your last number
I called the attention of both old and young 10
Howard HIGH School, and promised, if leisure
permitted, TO say something more to our young
people, and especially 10 our young men, with a
view of showing them how easy it is for many of
them to fail, and for those who desire, to obtain
good Education, at this excellent Institution.
l shall now attempt to comply with my promise.
first remarking, that the want Of good education
is great evil, as all will admit; but the ertent of
that evil, none are so fully able to appreciate as
those who have struggled through a pretty long
life withopt one-havng. as every man ought, an
ambition to be equal, il not superior. in intell-
gence and manly beuring, to those amongst whom
the various vicissitudes Of life have thrown them.
1t is modification 10 such person, renewed al.
most daily in life. to find himself constantly asso-
ciaied with his superiors; unless indeed, he is
content to place and keep himself, amongst the
most ignorant classes of mankind, which trust
no person at the age of sixteen, has agreed with
himself TO do; and yet daily witness with regre,
Young gentlemen Of fine natural abilities, wasting
the bright and glorious morn of lfe in frivolous,
nay, pernicious idlene.s, and fear, too, disspa.
tion, under the very sound of the bell of this de.
servedly popular institution; and yet they have
scarcely learned the rudiments of their native Ian.
guage, willie their bills, at dram and segar shops.
which they without any expectation Of profit. Ell
Their to body or soul waste, in trying 10 shake off
that laborious ideness which 50 greatly afiicts
them, as well as disgnsts their grave and consid
crate friends-these unnecessary and wicked ex-
penditures, would more than pay for their tuition
at this school. Let the reader cast his eyes over
this little village and see if he does not know sew.
eral young gentlemen who come within this des.
crption. There are certainly some young men,
who, If they give this moments reflection, must
feel that they deserve thus to be addressed and if
they should, let them remember that it Is their
friend who writes, and resolve at once to alter
their course, and determine, hereafter, to employ
the money and time wasted in these extra and i'm.
pious expenses, to the noble purpose of obtaining
good education. resolving that for the future,
their course shall be onward and upward among
the intelligent and vriuous of mankind. To ,oiR
such a course, is to accomplish u.
There are within the precincts of this school.
young men who are sent to it, who regularly at.
tend. pro lorna, to its regulations, for years. and
vet fail to secure an aducation. And why! Be.
cause it has grown quite fashionable with MANY of
these lads of sixteen, to be gallnnts Of the first
water; and as sopn school is out in the evening.
they devote to galluntry the time they should EN-.
ploy in getting their lessons. and till eleven O'clock
at night, are found playing the agreeable, IN the
parlors in town where their fair young friends pre-
sidc whose lessons ire thus also forced to be neg.
leced; and as late setting up induces late rising,
they have scarcely had time when the bell rings 10
the morning at o'clock, to complete their toilet.
and are forced, reluctantly, TO renew rheir formal
attendance at school. These and similar circum.
stances, often determine wise and considerate mar
ents TO take them from school, esteeming the nav.
ment OF tuition fees as money thrown away, and
resolve to keep them at home, and teach them to
labor with their hands. seeing they will no; learn
the science of labor by the head and thus it is, ma
ny fine young men fail to get an education, and
doom themselves, by their own folly, all thei
lives, to the common scale of physical and lower
mental cmpioyments Of mankind. for the want of
an education, which alone can give US guarantee
of participation in the more noble pursuits O
life, and association with the vrtuous and intel-
gent of our fellow beings.
Thus we see how easy it is to lose an education
and the Importance Of that loss. In my next
shall address such as may actually desire, AMI
who are willing to resolve, at all hazards to obtain
IN Edncsiion.
A FRIEND TO EDUCATION.