COUNsELS TO THE YOUNG.
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Three millions of fyonth, between the ages ofSix and Of i've lty>one, now rapidly comN ing forward, 10 lake their rank as the future legislators and divines, instructors and 9Ov> ernorS, politicians and writers, capitalists, laborers, arlizaHs and cultivators ef this vast country, whose destnies are even yet so faint!y imagined, much less developed

 Not one is so humble that he will not cer> tainly exert an influence on the elevation of his counnymen and his race. The hum blest cottage maiden, new toiling thankful> ly as the household servant Of some proud family, by whom she is regarded as nobody, may yet be the mother of future president, or, nobler still, of some unaSprin3 but God directed man, who, as Q teacher ofrighl~ eouSnesS, and mediator of human suffering a successful Ipproyer of wrong, sensuaIity or selisha ss, may leave his impress on the annals of the world a, lover and server of his race.

 Nearly all oRr eminent political men, Jackson. Clay, Van Buren, Webster, &c, were not merely of poor and humble par- entage, but left orphans in early life, and , thus deprived of the support and connsel which seems most eAin emily necessary for success in the worlds rugged ways. h the higher walks of genuine usefulness the proportion of those enjojinS no advan> tages of family influence or hereditary who attain the loctieSt eminenceS, is very great. Call to mind the first twenty names that occur 10 you, of men distinguished for ability, energy, philanthropy, and loity achievement, and generally thIee>tourihS of them will be those of men born in UbScuTity and dependence.

 All literature is full of anecdotes illus tra Y, tive of these encouraging truths. A sin gle fact now occurs to me, which l have never seen recorded. l have often worship ped in a Baptist westinghouse in Vermont, whereon at it's construction, some thirty years since, a studious and exemplary young man was for some time employed as a carpenter, who afterward qualified him> self aud entered upon the responsibilities of the Christian mir iSiY. That young man was JARED SPARKS, Editor of the North American Review. of Washinglun's Volu> ninous WritiIgS, &c., and now Eecocnized as one of the foremost scholars, historians and critics iR Ameriea.-Horacs Greeley.