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Girard CoHege.-We visited this build ing few days since, and took d hasty glance of it. Probably nothing in the Un- ion-not even the capitol of the United States, will compare with this superb sruc- ture when completed.-The plan is noble and beautiful--and no one can view It without admiration. The workmanship is done in the most substantial manner and the large blocks of marble, and the solid masonry, strike the beholder as indestructi- ble by the hand of time; they will be as eternal as the bills. And its massive CO., lumns, defying the power of time, and out living successive generations of men, un- doubtedly in the remote centuries of futuri- ty, will be regarded with wonder and vene- ration. The Girard College will stand as noble monument of the munificence and patriotism of the founder while our H. berties exist, and until anarchy or despet- ism shall triumph, and with sacrilegious hands, attempt to extinguish the last ray of civilization by raging t 10 the ground.

 No man ever founded better scheme of education; good education and good trade the best qualifications of useful citi- zen and statesman.--Who can tell the good that will result to the world from this noble institution what new lights of scIence burst from the obscurity of the wilderness; what Franklins, Washingtons. Shermans, may be destined to adorn its coronet, what po- cts, philosophers, statesmen, heroes, shall be drawn from poverty to shine abroad up- on the whole earth?--In vain the eye glan- ces into the distant vista; the more we con- template, the more diyinely generous IS the work. Blessed be the memory of its foun- der. pilIage Record.