press to work in earnest. Many elementary works have been printed, some of a high character on History and General Geograpy. And now a Newspaper! is regularly issued from the Sultan's printing offices and circulated through his vast dominions. We are informed by a friend, that it is a very interesting sight to see the effects that have already sprung from these salutary measures. Instead of every coffee house being crowded as it used to be by idle, silent, stupified loungers, doing nothing but smoking their pipes, you find them now occupied by men attentively reading the newspaper, in conning over "the last new work," neatly printed and sold at a very cheap price. Before this, and almost up to the last year, they were in the condition that all Europe was in four hundred years ago, or previously to the invention of printing, when only the rich could afford to buy a book, or any thing to read. Even on the quays of the port, and in the bazaars of Constantinople, you now see the Turks occupying their leisure moments, with the productions of the PRINTING PRESS, which is thus becoming, day by day, more and more active, and extending to the regions of the east that revolution which it has already effected in other parts of the earth. The light of learning originally traveled from the east to the west, it is now taking a contrary direction, and the west, in the present it has lately made, will soon have repaid a thousand fold all the obligations it has received.

TRIUMPH OF ELOQUENCE.

AN interesting incident occurred at the close of an argumentative and eloquent appeal in favor of the temperance cause delivered by Professor Davies, at West Point, on a Sunday evening. In the course of the address the orator had, with his characteristic clearness of mind, set before us the evils of intemperance to the community in general-showing that, before the institution of temperance societies, thirty-five thousand of our population had been annually destroyed by this scourge worse than pestilence or war,-property, equally with life, had fallen before it.

Twenty-eight millions of dollars annually was the tax, which, as a nation, we paid to intemperance; and was there not a call that we should arise in our united might to oppose it? What should we think of a citizen who, if an army should pass through our land annually, levying a tribute of twenty-eight millions and slaying thirty-five thousand of our countrymen-what should we think of him who should refuse to oppose this enemy? Much more should we oppose this insidious foe, which brought not only poverty and death, but sin. Mr. Davies here showed the great good temperance societies had effected to the diminution of the evils which he had stated: though what remained were still of awful magnitude.

The orator here became pathetic; for though the subject is hackneyed, we were made to feel that the picture of the wreck of humanity, which is set before us, was that of a friend; and, alas! most of us could have assigned a habitation and a name-aye, aye, and a name once dear as our life-blood, to the being which the orator set before us, in the affecting change which we were doomed to see. The eye once beaming with intelligence and affection for us fixed in the glance of worse than idiocy. Imbecile and tottering, we offer him our aid, and he does not know us!-The orator then pressed home the arguments, that all should unite in the associations formed against intemperance-if not for themselves, yet for the sake of others. If one among us was known to be in some physical danger which we could avert, would not all arouse to save him? We ought not to say that we wish well to the cause, yet do nothing, because what we can do is so little. The rain by which God gives his harvest to man, comes in single drops. The young cadets were appealed to by every motive which touches the heart. The parental form seems again to stand before each one, pronouncing the simple benediction and charge with which he left his home,God bless you, my son! do well! By all these endearing recollections they were exhorted to place themselves out of the reach of contamination by intemperance, by solemnly pledging themselves to abstain from ardent spirits. The audience, during this address, which gave us time to draw our minds to the subject, but was not

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long enough to fatigue, had settled into profound attention. The moment the orator closed, a startling voice of an old man strongly moved, exclaimed, Professor Davies Professor Davies! We turned our eyes, and beheld, rising from his seat. the venerable figure and the white head of one of the few relics of our revolutionthe worthy Major Alden, once aid to General Knox. "Professor Davies," said the excellent old man, "I want an opportunity to sign that constitution. I thought from my age that my influence would be of no avail, but I was wrong, and now, and here, the old officer will sign

the constitution."

The murmur of applause grew loud, the interesting young cadets showed by their countenances the ardor with which their intelligent and sensitive minds were inspired by a generous cause; and as the venerable speaker uttered, in a voice made shriller by emotion"but now the old officer will sign that constitution,”—a voice from the moving crowd exclaimed,-" and the young ones will follow you.' Whether or not this was the voice of one of the cadets, I could not tell; but we learned the next day, that many of them had signed the constitution, and others had begged that copies of it might be sent to their rooms.

FLOWERS.

THE interest which flowers have excited in the breast of man from the earliest ages to the present day, has never been confined to any particular class of society or quarter of the globe. Nature seems to have distributed them over the whole world, to serve as a medicine to the mind, to give cheerfulness to the earth, and to furnish agreeable sensations to its inhabitants.

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From the humblest cottage enclosure to the most extensive park and grounds, nothing more conspicuously bespeaks the good taste of the possessor, than a well cultivated garden; and it may very generally be remarked,

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