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The Printing Office. The Hon. Simon Cam
eron, himself printer, sent the following 10 the
Columbia Typographical Society Of Washington
al its recent celebration: '.'. i,


"IHe poor boys College-THe Printing Office.
Industry, Intelligence, integrity, and perseverance
will ensure distinction and honors TO its graduates "


There is more truth than poetry in this senti
ment. The Printing Office" says the N. Y
Globe, has indeed proved better college" to
many a "poor boy, has graduated more use.
ful and conspicuous members of society--has
brought out more latent intellect and turned il into
practical and useful channels-has walked up
more mind, generated more active and elevated
thought than any of the Literary colleges of our
country How many drone or doIt has passed
through one Of these colleges with no tangible
proof of his fitness to graduate, other than his in
animate piece of parchment2 himself if possible
more lnanimate than his diploma There is some
thing in the very atmosphere of printing office
calculated to wake up the mind, and inspire taste
for knowledge. A boy who commences in such
school will have his talents and ideas brough,
out, if he has any !; if he have no mind 10 be
drawn out the boy himself will be driven out