Washington telegraph., 1856-10-22
Ends and Means OF Education.

We have been favored in advance will
proof sheets of all address delivered by til,
Rev. c. h Marshall, on the occasion o
laying the corner stone OF the edifce o
Centenary College, at jackson. La, on tn,
30th of July last The subject was THE
Claims of Philanthropy, and they were
urged with so much earnestness and elo
quence that we are sure the pamphlet, wher
issued, will be read with pleasure by all
into whose hands it may fall The sub
joined extracts, showing the effects of cor
rect education, and what ought always to
be its true objects, are as just as they are
graphic =
''For, it has ever been that und darthe least
propltious circumstances, persons of seem
ingly little promise have quietly displayed
all the affection and fortitude essential to
make a philanthropic hero of most endur-
ing fame Allow me to furnish an illus
tratIOn- L refer to a rough fireman on the
recently ill-fated steamer Arctic, who,
when hundreds along the deck, frantic
with terror, were bent, each on his own
safety, forsetful of the general veal, stood
calmly to the ships gun, and bade its boo
ming thunders tell some passing vessel the
story of their perils, and pluck them, one
and all, from the jaws of destruction. And
| when he could do no more, and the rising
water throttled the last charge, washed out
hIs last printing, and extinguished his
match, clasped the hot gun in his arms
lit companion for his grave-and con-
OF A-psr i
with the sinking ship to the sleep Of death
There was a lifetime of heroic goodness
abridged into that solemn and momentou Us
hour
Philanthropy called her noble son to that
sublime past .. duty post that deman-
ded obedience without questioning, and
selI-obilvlOn without reserve. He met the
demand; and history will redeem his hum
bic name from obscurity. and deposit it
among her rarest jewels And VIXEN the
great deep shall unbar its gates and send
out its armies of the mighty dead, and the
earth yield its millions to the great tribu-
nal, in obedience to the last trumpet, had
rather appear in that august Presence with
that faithful gun, still loaded and ready
for service, in the humble character of
Holm Stewart, than to be able to present
the life and account-current of the sound
ing charities of Stephen Girard or the BIZ
Ography and volumlnous viii OF your own
John McDonough.
Such also was another, an unknown but
brave old tar, who met an emergency, and
so tastefuIly and magnanimously filed its
demands, that he showed how
--Crumpled shirt and dirty Jacket
May beclothe the golden ore
Ofthe deepest thought and feeling;
Satin vest could do no more.
1t was when steamer exploded at the
wharf of your Crescent City, and the air
was filled with the fragments of human bo-
dies rent asunder, which fell in every di-
rectlon- As our sailor hurried to the scene
he saw, all quivering with life, the bleed
ing limb of a woman, with its garter and
shoe still undisturbed- He paused ON the
spot, and covering the precious charge
with his blue jacket-the symbol of his f.
dellty-stood fixed as its protector: a SEN
tinel who would have honored the noblest
trust 1t was little act, but it tested the
man. 1t was sailors jacket, but would
rather have it for a winding sheet than the
shroud of Saladin or the mantle of Caesar"
The following truths, too, are well put,
and eminently worthy of the attention of
all who would do their duty to them
selves and to society, and should be deep
ly pondered on, especially by the young,
who are very apt to encourage ideas the
very opposite of these, and the very con-
trary of fact Mr. Marshall speaks of the
good and eminent generally, and says =
"They have been distinguished for dill
gent attention to little things, for minor
virtues; and the rare events of their lives
have been ushered upon our notice by the
antecedents of thousand apparently un-
important deeds.
Before the champion of great internal
improvement developed his plans, and en-
listed the community in accelerating their
completion, he had taken pleasure in i'm
proving the paths leading to the humble
log school house, or the lowly temple of
God, and the pupils of the one and the
worshipers Of the other, alike boasted of
him as their good neighbor, and obliging
friend. And long before Nightingale
soothed the woes of ofSevastopol's slaughter,
with her gentle tones and beneficial deeds,
she had mitigated many a sorrow in the
solitudes of her own neighborhood by the
enchantment of her gentle voice, and the
loving kindness of her tender sympathies.
Nor can we doubt that Holm Stewart, as
brave and brotherly boy, had often fore
shadowed the noble heart that throbbed