New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1856-11-03

L NE ln'cntlOn vi new pressure was th"ngnt al
desirable a discovery 1900 years ago or so, tAE
Xerxes is said to have offered large reward I'D
the encouragement Of projectors in that line Led
Byron thought tina, this scheme "must have CO
"his majesty treasure" but We have no data n
which TO Judge of the effect il had on the Penrl
budget, nor yet Of its practical results as toucAa
the royal amusement. We are not generally col
sidered q very amusable people, and We are uSi
ally so eDgrossed in getting together the means 4
enjoy ment that We are very apt to forget to april
them 10 the very end We have been aiming n
Still. w have organized So thoroughly one procs|
which il is to be supposed gives US pleasure, that
should pass for a new invention on our part. w
refer 10 the great institution Of the Ly ceam Lecture
which has now become ainsoss as Dolur.Ic, n NOD
A. Peculiar one at the North as Slavery itsea u,
the South. The principle Of oral instruction d
certainly nothing new. II was long the onJ
WAY in which instruction was to be had. But the
mixture Of the dulce with the utile-of converting
what used 10 be bore into public amu~nen,-
his. We spprehend, is due TO Yankee ingenuity Mi
enterprise.
II really does credit to its pious founder, WAO-
ever he may have been. In the larger cities, fops
who have no scruple against theaters aud no anhs-
athy TO concerts, can do very well without them,
But in all the far interior, in the county toxn, and
smaller villages, the inhabitants bless the Usi;
light every time it hebdomadally resteth upon IN
II gives them an object 10 think about dunSs
week. Someti mes it affords them subject to p
I H. 4. - - h au
season--blessngs which can be duly aPprecsa
only BY those who have tasted them. IL gyas
other chance of showing the new dress or ther
bonnet beside the church service, where, Of suns
such yanities never find habitation. Ii bring
people together, and affords them an opportunity
sharpening the countenance of their friends s rs
sharpeneth iron-a process, by the way, not ~
ticularly necessary, however agreeable, judFaI
from pretty extensive inspection of the articles =
question. And last, which ought not to be least
usually is the medium OF commune lting some res
facts, or setting in motion some new trans Il
thought, which had not been so easily stirred ~
perhaps never stirred at all.
We imagine however, that thirst for mental ~
mainly satisfies, or which accounts for the esiaoAf
ment and success. Let a lecturer who asplres |" y
fame which shall be permanent-who desires 70 wv
lectures so as to reap insitations-we say e' AN
beware of the ambition Of improving the minds an
morals Of his hearers. Let him strive to entsf"n
them-proftaby if he may, but at any r'A ~l
entertain them-aDd verify be shall have Ia 10
ward. A lecturer needs to have weIl-estsbl'nssI
repu'aiiOn-mnst be one If those celebrities WI
must have place in every well regulated ssurse-SI
order TO be allowed TO bore. Tha: such there sr'l
all know who have ever sat under the droPPmg' "
Lyceum; but let the aspirant shun the reckon VINO,
many promising craft hath been wrecked, aad ~
TO smUse, rather than to instruct. No one, clericd
lac, under the degree of Member o. Congress OIL
Doctor Of Divinity can presume Upon being 4
with impuniiy. Nlih a wellestab.shed reputssf
for lively TURF, man may revere the p1oyer'l
philosophy Of the bears, and suck his paws thn41
the Summer months, on the reserve Of the sdsS
lining Of bis pockets accumulated during AZ sa
Winter season. Happy he who can thus ass'
at Saratoga, or Newport, or Cape Ny, d bssS.
bsps, VI moderate proportions, living ~ u
secure past, and looking ior1sard 10 he sIs idS'
This institution bath actually created DsFl
fessioD, By which men i've and have isor n-
And the act ial expenditure Of kssh Is not .
nov, b. which the expenditure Vi growing -
csn be met. \ siDgA lecture Nili carr, una i
Pss.smaquoddy to Cincinnati. Unlike TIE hsI
Who bias to rack no brains in a new ease eyers
or tie clergyman who is expected to iarnS
couple of We! balanced oFatiols every week u
popular lecturer, after he BIS rounded D.
| ptriod. col doff tie word aside and bad Il n
There Ne. the 'pell whica shall be una him 81
purse Of Fo,.uas.us, by means Of which be-
6Ll coined ueaey nightly in lis poa,b. Tor"