THE VISITER'S NEW YEAR'S ADDRESS. My dear friends,-My monthly visits to you, for another year, are now completed. I can see, in a revision of the past, many deficiencies-in my personal appearance, in my conversation and general intercourse in your families, and also in the zeal and interest I have felt and manifested for your welfare. These, and all my deficiencies, I frankly confess and deplore. A little reflection on the part of some of my friends, will, probably, show that the acknowledgment of deficiencies should be mutual.

Some of you will recall instances, in which I have not received all the attention and respect which the rules of courtesy to visiters demand. There have, also, been instances, especially among my younger friends, in which they have exhibited an apparent indifference, and even levity, in the midst of my most soleinn and earnest counsels for their good. This has often grieved me to the heart, and I have retired to vent my sorrow in the weepings of the closet.

Some few have manifested a strange forgetfulness of the proverb, "The laborer is worthy of his meat," and, consequently, my wages have been kept back. I believe this has, seldom, been done with the intention of defrauding: still, it exhibits an inexcusable want of thoughtfulness respecting the interests, comfort and happiness of a friend.

In most cases, however, my numerous friends have been exceedingly kind and attentive. Great interest has often been manifested, by efforts to increase my acquaintances and extend my influence. Not unfrequently has an individual friend, a female, or a youth, introduced me to the acquaintance of twenty, thirty and even fifty families; and the result has often been, the commencement of a mutual and, I trust, a permanent friendship. Through such acts of kindness, I have secured an extensive acquaintance and warm friends, in almost every State in the Union.

It is pleasure, exquisite pleasure, as, monthly, I speed my way, as on the wings of the wind, to your 6 or 7,000 families, to receive such a cordial welcome from my 20 or 30,000 friends. How pleasant, to see the interest with which the anxious teacher listens to my words of intelligence, instruction and exhortation, and to hear his resolutions of zeal and fidelity for time to come!