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Stephen Girard.-It appears by an article in the Boston Transcript, that this gentleman. so generally known for his extensive business in the city of Philadelphia, and as generally respected and esteemed for his good qualities of heart, rose from the humblest condition in life to his present immense wealth and almost unbounded usefulness, solely by his own in- dividual exertions, unaided and uncheered in his progress hy the assistance or countenance of any individual. At the age of eight years he was thrown upon the world and his own native resources, and from the tTifling wages ofa cabin boy, defrayed the expense of learn ing to read and write, and fitted himself for the great business which he had for long time carried on, without serving any counting house apprenticeship, or receiving any in struction in that line save what he gave him. sell. Such examples are highly worthy of imitation. and the knowledge of them Is at all times valuable to the world. Many lad, by Perusal of the history of such man as the Great Philadelphia Banker, and touched by the spirit of emulation, may adopt in early lite and pursue to its consumma ton similar course of conduct, and become useful to him. self and to the world.