ommence on the second Monday in
January. His number of pupils will be limited to twenty, which
will enable him to devote a much larger portion of his time and
attention than ordinary to each individual student. Instruction
will be given in all the studies preparatory to entering College,
or, if desired, in any of the higher branches of a classical
education. The subscriber pledges himself that no effort shall be
wanting on his part to promote both the moral and intellectual
improvement of those who may be confided to his care. He may be
found at his room, three doors west of Brown's Hotel. Reference
may be made to the Hon. Henry Clay; Hon. D. Chase and Hon. H.
Seymour, of the Senate; Hon. I. Bartlett and Hon. William C.
Bradley, of the House of Representatives; Rev. Wm. Hawley and Rev.
E. Allen.

"SALMON ----.

"Dec. 23--3td & eotJ8."

The "Hon. Henry Clay" was then Secretary of State. The "Hon. D. Chase"
referred to was Salmon's uncle Dudley, then United States Senator from
Vermont. Congress was now in session, and he had arrived in town. He was
a man of great practical sagacity, and kept a true heart beating under
an exterior which appeared sometimes austere and eccentric. He had the
year before been a second time elected to the Senate; and when he was on
his way to Washington, Salmon had gone over from Hanover to Woodstock to
meet him. They occupied the same room at the tavern, and the uncle had
given the nephew some very good advice. What he said of the human
passions was characteristic of the man; and it made a strong impression
upon the mind of the youth:--

"A man's passions are given him for good, and not evil. They are not to
be destroyed, but controlled. If they get the mastery, they destroy the
man; but kept in their place, they are sources of power and happiness."

And he used this illustration, which, though the same thing has been
said by others, remains, nevertheless, fresh as truth itself:--

"The passions are the winds that fill our sails; but the helmsman must
be faithful, if we would avoid shipwreck, and reach the happy port at
last."

Salmon had remembered well these words of his uncle, and the night spent
with him at the Woodstock inn. Hearing of his arrival in Washington, he
had called on him at his boarding-house. The Senator received him
kindly, listened to his plans, approved them, and helped him to procure
the references named