Show the new hew alphabet the board of regents in company with the governor and heads of departments ha bare ve adopted I 1 a new alphabet cons consisting of 38 characters the board have held frequent sittings this winter I 1 with the sanguine hope of simplifying the english language and especially its orthography after many fruitless attempts to render the common alphabet of the day subservient to their purpose they found it expedient to invent an entirely new and original set of characters these then characters are much more simple in their structure than the usual alphabetical characters every superfluous mark supposable is wholly excluded from them the written and printed hand are substantially merged in one we may derive a hint of the advantage to orthography tho graphy from spelling the word eight which I 1 in the new alphabet only requires two letters instead of five to it viz saving of time and paper by the use oi of the new characters and but a very small part of the tine time and expense wilt will be requisite in obtaining a knowledge of the language the orthography will be so abridged that an ordinary writer can probably write one hundred words a minute with ease and consequently report the speech of a common speaker without much difficulty As soon as this alphabet can be set in type it will probably be furnished to the schools of the territory for their use ose and benefit not however with a view to immediately supersede supercede super supe cede reede the use of the common alphabet which though it does docs not make the comers thereunto perfect still it is a vehicle that has become venerable for age and much hard service in the now alphabet every letter latter has a fixed and unalterable sound and every word is spelt with reference to given sou sounds ads by this means 1 strangers can not only acquire a knowledge of our language much more readily but a practised practiced reporter can also report a strange tongue so that the strange language when spoken can be legible b by y one conver conversant ut with the tongue A richly instructive discourse was delivered sabbath evening in the school house of the ward by eld bid P P pratt one of the board of regents in which the advantages of the adopted alphabet of the board were briefly exhibited the speaker commanded the profound attention of a crowded auditory throughout his I 1 highly entertaining lecture tracing the influence 0 of f education from early infancy infamy to riper years in glowing and electrifying terms he set forth as radical to all hopeful education the necessity of the spirit of god to predominate in families farni lies even over the mind of the new inala before it could speak in the absence of that holy spirit an opposing spirit would be likely to exert an unhallowed impression pr euion A perverse hateful jealous envious and contentious spirit would produce an impression upon the mind of the infant decidedly cious but after the child could talk and understand language this baneful impression w oft be increased by the force and meaning of words that it could understand and whichever spirit predominated in the family by that same spirit would the family be educated and after adducing many topics of a similar bearing he be showed the wonderful transi tracei tion and progress which this church had bad undergone a tew few years and uni dm ont itou a 11 low few years since were prophetical and almost too mar bellous to be believed by reason of the obet ecles to be ear surmounted mounted had bad been realized abundantly and now this people had been taken from the midst midat of the gentiles and set down among the remnants of israel the richest people according to their numbers cumbe ra now known and a single county would now in mag magnitude look into inferiority the whole new england states and as to elements soil vegetable and mineral wealth the territory of the remnants was not surpassed by the vast empire of china for such a people education must be provided and no young man or young lady had haa a right to waste their time and talents |