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fin Address 10 Young .Mcn --The YOUNG MEN we would specially appeal to. You are destined soon to occupy the stage of public action, and to fill the important stations in society. .Nor is the time to prepare for those high duties, as well as for profit and distinction in your business. Your charac- tcrs are but partially formed, and are yet sus- ceptible of receiving good or bad impressions, which are to last through life. It Is import- ant to you, to your friends, and to society, that these impressions should be for good. We will lay before you rules and examples of the wisest and best men, to aid you in the formation of your charactcrs--to enable you to become intelligent and successful in your business--useful and respectable in so- ciety--and beloved and happy ill your fami- lies. Do not object that you have no fimc to read. Few young men labor more hours than did Benjamin Franklin, or arc more humble and sclf-dependcnt than he was in his youth; and yet Franklin found abundant time for self-ipstruction and so indeialigable and successful was he in his studies, that he became ono of the most useful and celcbra- ted men of the age. We need not limit the remark to Franklin. Most of the distinguish cd men of the day have risen from humble stations by their own industry and frugality, and have acquired great share of their knowledge in the hours not allotted to ordi- nary business. Your winter evenings arc your own, and may be applied usefnlly. They may be computed at one fourth of the day, or one entire month in the year. Time is money; and the young man who appro- priates this month to the acquiring useful knowledge, does more to add to his future fortune, to say nothing of his intellectual wealth, than if he received pay for this month and loaned it upon interest. Knowledge is in another respect like money shs' greater stock of 1t on hand, the more 1t will admin ister to the responsibility and cnjoylnents of life. But knowledge is not to be acquired without exertion, nor is anything else that is useful in life It is the labor we bestow in acquiring an object that imparts to 1t an in- trinsic value. It has been we'll said, that ssalthough we may be learned by the help of others, we can never be wise but by our own wisdom" It is the humble design of this monthly sheet, to excite laudable ambition to improve the mind as well as the soil. If we succeed in awakening the latent energies of the former, we think the latter will follow as a natural consequence, and our object will be attained. Cultipator.