no wiser than they went in? For our parts we
shall stand up for female rights,--for, as the poet says:--

"The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man, the hermit, sighed, till woman smiled.

"We therefore hope the college will go on, and when we obtain the
South Ferry, we will look about to see what is to be done next. But
we have not room to extend our remarks--of which, however, there is
no occasion, since the eloquent article below will speak for
itself.

"EDUCATION.

"'Tis education shows the way,
Each latent beauty to display;
Each happy genius brings to light,
Conceal'd before in shades of night;--
So diamonds from the gloomy mine,
Taught by the workman's hand to shine,
On Chloe's ivory bosom blaze,
Or grace the crown with brilliant rays.

"PHILOMATHIAN INSTITUTE.

"Mr. and Mrs. Wheelwright beg leave to announce to parents and
guardians in this village and its vicinity, that on the 1st of
January now ensuing, they will open a literary and classical
institution for the instruction of the rising generation--both of
young gentlemen and ladies. The rising glories of this western
hemisphere have scarcely yet begun to be developed; and as Mr. and
Mrs. Wheelwright have been deeply impressed with the importance, in
a young and rising republic, of having the youth of the land, of
both sexes, reared in the paths of virtue and the intellectual
flower-garden of knowledge, they have determined to devote their
best faculties to the sacred cause of education,--fully believing,
from the inexpressible interest they feel upon the subject, that
they shall be enabled to exclaim with the immortal poet--

"'Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
And teach the young idea _how to shoot_!'

"From long and profound reflection upon the never-sufficiently-
enough-to-be-estimated subject of education, Mr. and Mrs.
Wheelwright have become entirely and unchangeably persuaded that
all existing systems of instruction are essentially, and radically,
as they may say, if not from the root, erroneous, and consequently
defective as it were; and they trust that they shall be enabled to
introduce such improvements and innovations in the science of
teaching, as essentially to assist the spirit of a generous