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BY B. UTTER ANlI TIWS. H. BROWN. ·THE $EVENTH OF THE LORD THY GOO: " NEW flivtl'J.:I_IJA Y, MARCU 13, L856 WR?LE NO. 612. h .dv'an(:ed age, would have passed their days l' time, ey elt 0 seare perlJ01l and vol. XIl.-NO,,40. pure love would he necessarily and active pray, lest ye enter into temptation," is t e in dreamy musings, with faculties nearly per- It is not when the parting hreatb we watch with anx· began to plunder my baggage: All tlley teft" in,studying thl3 divine will, and would induce Saviour's command. The powerful influen- ished; but she had her books, and every day ious beart, me, the leader or·tht;! ganl!: .. Ilid: ,.,," . For Rec rd - d h fl h d h d ·1 t It iB not ill the hour or death, when tbOB' we love Th' F I" h' Ir 'd. ON CON°VeEr·RS[ON. to prompt and faithfuLobedience. All those ces of the worl , tees, an t e eVI, tum in ited in her neighbors to read with her, depart, f 00" IS mustfi da':B gOI ,omew1ieTe,. U'j •. , noble powers he possessed would be engijged the soul from Gud, ere the saint is w en she would make,remarks that exhibited Nor yet when 1nid upon the bIer we folloW; Blow the a if he aoee rwt D It we wm muM.l'd - d' d h "The flesh lusteth agal·nst the Sp·III·t," and her e)!:tensive and acute research, and the al· corpBe, I him." Of li lt the dHiu""S'and revolutl·on· of time, accor lUg to t elr t'slgn, an t e IVlDe A d 1 ···18 I th t t 'I the 'c b A 'd h .... 0 moet undiminished powers of her mind.' n eu.l! It ill I reB tog-p ace, a mos we lee ara I\-t gpa sal to t em: the change·effected In the mind of s sinner, glory would he illustrated by their hinders the exercise of faith, aud the The family training of such a woman must "1000. .. You are mistaken in the man. Tljia man which We' call conversion, is the most interellt- When souls are restored or con vel ted ,by of religion in the sou\. 'I If ye be-invaluable. She waa>the SusimnB Wedey When East the last, Ihe solemn rite,1IDd dUlt to dust is a Doctorr He no ,bId. iE'xam1ne mg und wonderful. It makes entirely a divine grace, they are at once introduced illto world, the love of the Father is not in you!' of New iEngland, and, like her English sister, And cbanneled conne tbestream oftime :Pjs'igoods. You will find ·only hig medicinc,s era in B person's lite, and the angels in liea. a state of active service, the aim of the Even the Christian is liable to become the lines of her own character engraveu rolls on, and things necessary for hisJolirney.' Do.61 I f Sf" d II wretched, and ml·serable, lind poor, and b"iff succeeding generations. She was the Ob, who cau tell how drear Ihe "pace once filled by kiU him." - ,- I ".J' ven rejoice to see it;' .It,was said 0 aul 0 life is to carry out the purposes of love an "T th mOBt delll" I II d h b Th d hI ' d d k d" mother of eleven children, all of whom show- Whon whicb the" have loved, and n asu en, ru e manner .. t ey egan to open Tarsus, II Behold, he prayetb." at pron mercy to a lost world. Hence the firstques m, an Jla e . e<l'the marks of her training, They were all bltttkeyare here" my valise, medicine chest, and a'small uunk' I Pharisoe, lopposed the Almighty, tion which arises 10 lhe mind, when the new But some one may ask, What are we ,to !e the subiects of ''''rayer before their containing chiefly surgical 'instruments and a "', " !. T h' h I 0 h hI' J J< ThiB deep, this heartfelt 10nelineB', tbis quietness of ti· b k Th h d Ii und tS saints, and breathed out life if>; What shall I do for the Lord, 0 \V tC ,answer, ur t, oug s, b h; wife carefully nurtured in childhood, gnef, jlW 00 B. ey searc e all care u11y, anll threatening a wild and sav- and ill what way shall I most promote his words, motives, and pur. . even in the cradle, we Ie taught to submit ippropriated whatever their fancy or avltrice age beast of P rey, is prl" trat,e lit the 'ootstoo] glory' As grace advancee in the soul, and poses, to see that they all pure, and that wills of their parents. .. The govern· but brief; demanded. But found of course 110 gold) .00 " , t' f h .. 1'·1' . t d fii Thougb wbirlwindB tear tbe hlossom. fair, yet Illll tho W re dl· S:./I· fied Tb ted b ' .. "'<. _ we do not hal bar within our bosoms any evil men 0 t elr laml y, at once StliC an a ec· stem may tbn·ve, . . e s as, ey repea .t eh. rur- of divine melcy. His eart is smitten, hi. shines out in Ihe life of the true convert, a i" ·cL fi d I . I h b' of b-.:I· h d d ' l' th , f . hb d t "nare. orme t lem to ear y a 1IS 0 ""I- But wintry night.' chill, with'ring bhght, scarce leave. mer t rea an sat own to consu L tage er. pride humbled, aud he reckons as the moral influence is exerted on the community thought 0 a nelg or, lIen ,or stranger- ence.l1nd sobrietv. and saved them from those . tbe "lot alive. Soon they and again searched m, vi';st of tbe vi/e. There was no challg& in around, by a holy example, and a devoted that we .. keep our tongue· as with a bridle," evil c!!mlIlunications, which too often lead 10 Yet, a8 earthly pleasures fade, if plants or purer son and ray goods. 'Again they thre.l.tenea j and use it nut ill I P 1 fli •• :iat folU""end in childh,ood and youlh." peace ' their ... nd eat down ODceml:lrEl tbe hlessed and divine personage '.';hom ,lie life. . "';'. d h d 'I 1 .... ria h . often the contrary couroe is pursued-and how At a ,v, ery early age they were instructed Sprmg in onr hOBom's wilderness, and, nurture t ere, to take cOllnsel, speaking in Koardish tGblrue hate, nor In t lot gospe pnf/i'"'9Ul1tl .. "'I'f"l\la If what we have saiil is correct" ow 1m·" inorease . A h bb dr· e d . I'd b h h '11' fi th h th h el egregl·ous sins in letters, and. as they passed along in youth, And humble bo'pe' and holy 'ear our wounded bo.oms" B t e TO ers sat e lberatlDg, and my in Ignant y reJecte ; ut tee Bnge was a portant, both for thjs tife and the life to come, 0 [en, roug ese!! ann 5, were'taught all the branches that are taugllt I'. were pleading for me, I oould not but 1ll him. Only a short time since. he had vir. is c(JDversion to God, 'and what an honor and are committed! Weare exhorted, by St. in the scbools. Her son was instructed in us all the bleosedoe88 of yielding to Hi. feelt1lat my situation \Vas a critical one, and wally crucified the Son of God, and in all blessedness to be possessed of the religion of John, to believe not every spirit, but" try Latin at eleven years of age. will. that truly there might be but a step between probability possessed the same as those Christ. Are we converttd, or are we not 1 spirits. whether they be of God." Hence Mrs. Edwards lived to the age of ninety. Then 8eek not houn of Boher grief, or Borrowing me and deatb. I was sitting apart from tbe 1 ·1 d h I . I . h we should love that wllt·ch I·S good, and hate nine years, departing with the consciousness tbought, to SbUD. 'others. My thoughts and I prayers were adH IV 10 revi e 1m w en anglllg Oij t Ie cross, -a questllln 0 vIta moment-a question t at UntIl we 'eel that we ens y "Tby wI·11 not m·lDe d d . h h d d that she had not lived in vain. And we can .' a B, , 'resse to tm 10 w ose an s are the hearts Bnd pierced his side in malicious sport. But must be sell led, and sellied quickly, for· eter. that which is evil, and suffer not a wicke be done ;" f d h h but express our gratitude that .. woman's And tben our bearts to Him Will pay an homage pure 0 all men, an w 0 turnet them as helWill. see him now lying in the dust, and with tbe pity is <It hand, and then it will be, .. He that spirit to govern us. Very many, who" have rights" had not. at that time, 80 far prevailed, and warm, . " If it be possible and consistent with thy j deepest anxiety and most intense sorrow over is holy, let him be holy still, and he that is begun in the faith," and traveled the narrow as to call her from the family circle to COli- Wbo Baw the cloud o'er those we loved, and holiBed Holy Will," I prayed, "spare my lire; 0 h . d d d I fi • . , tbem from tbe storm. [!fome Journal. L d b t·f t""L: d J . his post lIe, as mg t e very same Person filthy, let him be filthy still." way for a lime, have wan ere ,an "e t telld in the stormy afena of pohucs, or prOles I)! ; u I uo, or esus, receive my what he should do to repair the injury done GEO. R. WHEELER. their first love." VVhy isthis1 Becausethey sionallife. Her home influence outsbone a A MISSIONARY AMONG ROB'B:ERS sPhitit."h Pebrhbaps this prahyer wlkasaheard, for J d dozen such lives. To train cne Jonathan 1f en t e ro ers arose t ey ta e no more to him and hiS cause. • SALEM, N. '. have neglected to watch continually, an to Edwards is a greater privilege than to be of murders, but only said, ,I,We must bave All sinners are not cOllverted in the same For the sabbath Record.r. pray without ceasing." Again, we see the President of the United States, or the auto. The lVatchmvn and Riflector is permitted one of your horses." But from this tbey r wonderful manner as Saul, nor so illstantane· SELF-EXAMINATION, urgent necessity of heeding the voice of in- crat of all the Russias; and had we more to make the following extract from a letter were finally dissuaded, and at length gave UI DlIsly j but yet the change is marveluu9, buth spiratlon, in the words, " Be sober. be vigi- Mrs. Edwardses, we should, nl) doubt, see recently received from a missidnary in Tur- permission to pick up and repack tbe 8catter· to the individual and to beholders. It has not " Examine yourselveB, whetber ye be in tbe faitb; Innt; for behold, your adversary the devil, as more J onathans rising up to stir and bless the key. ed remnant of our goods.. As night wall ap. d b · prove your own selves. Know ye not your own ., lk I b h world." proaching, we asklld permission to go, but no, been eifecte y TeasolllDg, nor persuasion, selveB, bow that JeBU. Obrist 18 10 you. except ye he a roarmg hon, wa et I a out, Bee lUg w om. SIVA', Nov. 15, 1855. we must Sit down and wait a while loDger. nor example, (tbough all these may have been reprobates!" 200r. 13: 5. be may devour." Him we are exhorted to THE CANDIDATE, DEAR BROTHER,-Lest you and other dear The robbers filled tbeir pipes and gave Illstrumelltal j) but a mighty power has been Of all the mental, moral, or religious exer- "resist steadfastly." "Resist the devil, and (dends should, from some Bource, hear a dis- back a little tobacco to Carabat and Abamet, at wurk, which has disposed the will, humbled cisea incumbent UpOll man in his earthly ca- he will flee from you." How exceedingly ar MRB. !U.RSIULJ.. torte9- account of an adventure I have reo and tbey all talked'and smoked together Ilks' cently had with five Koordish robbers, I have Id"· dil Th y al ba k t e h cJ.' ,uO.I'''''V' and opened the b{;art \0 receiYe reer, none is more important than self-exami. apt are the cares of the world to make the I knew it would be so. I had not Jived jn 0 Irlen. e so gave c 0 8C lJI thought it best to give you the particulars as us a small piece of Turkish confectionery. of tlUlh allll a divine Saviour, and turned nation. Every man (ought to make the in· go04 see<! sown to become unfruitful! Man the midst of these people, fitting frocks. and they occurred. Having hlld a call to visit the h h b d k Ii _. I k . h' II Ii d h . b f:. W IC t ey a ta en rom uS a arge p' ae - obedience. If we were to define quiry, By what spirit am I led 1 Each in- is as naturally inclined to do evil as water is stltc IDg away ate ay Ig tint ese ami· brethren in Sivas, upon business connected age; and upon being solicited, they gave back we should say, it is the manifesta. d··d I h k h h h .. h to fun downward. Hence a frequent, rigid lies, for thir,!3'.seven cents per day, without with my medical profession, [ left Tocat for aboutfiorty cents to enable us to defravthe IVI ua oug t to now w et eT e IS In t e laking away' with me a little key to their I th 31 t f 0 t b I·ttl J I t il))) a divine life, impalted to the soul by . d I I d hI·' " examination of our hearts-a careful inspec. t IS P ace, on e soc 0 er, a I e remaining expenses of our jonrney. Noble· strait an nalrow way t lat" ea et unto lie. _ Ihoughts and speech. paat one o'clock P. M., intending to spend the ·t I They s t tw f th . b the Spirit of God, which is called regenera- or I·n the broad road that" leadeth to destruc- tion of· the .nature and influence of our I k h t th Id t th kl generosl y. en 0 0 elr 1I1Jm er , new w a ey wou say a e w"e Y night in Gharkin, a village just half the dis- around to the road to Tocat, in order, tion, 01 llew Lirth, or a new creation ill Christ tion." But how can he know this, without and actions, and tbeir com- meeting of the India Circle. on the Thursday tance Toeat to Sivas. Our company probably, to intercept our return to report Jesus. There may be appal ent conversion searching his own heart, and marking the parison with tlie Word of God-cannot hurt evening after Mr. Woodward had preached consisted of four persona. The day was pleas- there. At length, when it WUB qJlite dark, I Id dd h ·· 1 b fi for themJ as " their Candidate." t d h d t h t . I ' where this divine prUlciple is wanting; and fruit he bears 1 "Every tree is known by us, JUt wou a muc splrltua ene t to an ,an we ope 0 reac our s oppmg-p ace two of them conducted us by a circuitous hence many, whl) profess to be converted; go its fruit." "Men do nor gather grapes of the follower of our Lord and Sav- I knew that Mrs. Tyler would think that for the night a little after dark. VVe had route or back path to our road Ilg ain , aod, a.: b k iour Jesus Christ. And to this end let U5 his sermons were too long; that Mrs. Crane nearly reached the summit of the high.lands tbey disappeared from us, we heard the usual ac to the worl , and walk no more 10 the thorlJS,.nor figs of thistles II Diligent search would be sorry that he dtd not mentioll the that Jie in our path, and were pa§.siBg the last polite and fdendly farewell-or posh Geldin," company of the godly; their goodness is like ehould be made, 10 know where the affections search the inmost recesees of our souls, to India Circle particularly, in his prayer j that ascent, It was about naIf-past three o'clock. &c., which. being interpreted, signifies, .. Your the mOlning cloud/and the early dew, which are placed. By the professor of religion the know by what manner of spirit WE' lire led. Miss Wyman would be shocked at hIS coloreq, au"d we were about eleven miles from home. coming was very agreeable." No doubt, in quickly yanish away. This germ of a divine examples of Christ should ever be kept in and institute a careful, candid inquiry, in or- gloves j that Miss Smith expected .0 see at The road was narrow. and a high hank was saying Ihis, they fof once spoke, the truth, life. planted in the heart by the Spirit, is sure view; and those exnmples he. is bound to to prove ourselves. :astfia cravat; that on our right hand alld a small hill lay on our though under the circumstances, Buch a patt. e a fBI e was extravagaut; t at ISS ISS left, close by the road, covered with stunted ing salutation sounded ralher "cool." to expand and flourish and produce fruit to imitate. 'Without the force of good examples In what do I most delight 1 Is it in the WOUld be sure that he could never enter a oaks and bushes. Our company were riding FAYETTE JEWETT. the glOT,y of God. We need no divine decree in the daily life of a Christian, very small service of the Lord, or in th", service of the room gracefully; and Misi Mills would be in single file; I was forward. On a Budden I to insure our salvation, fOI· the principle itself will be his influence for doing good. world, the Hesh, and the devil1 Do I de· horrified at his large hand. saw two armed ruffians leap out from among is the immortal> seed of the kingdom, wbich The indwelling of the Holy Spirit be light more in speCUlative 8chemelij. building ! !!.new that Deacon Crane Wa.! afraid be the trees a little in advance. A gun was liveth and fur ever, nnd all the means d air casties, and serving the flesh, than in 8'1tir. miKht agitate the Slavery question; while suapped by tbe men, but, providentially, it Rev. Mr. Beachman, a member of the '" shoul daily and hourly crave " Except ye :.- spry little Dr. Chapman hoped that he was missed fire. In a moment as it were I was appointed for our use and progression are so have the Spirit of Cbrist, ye are none of his." itual duties, takicg care of the soul, and doing a prompt man and "up to the lIIlurk" on all dragged from my horsi! and found myself ,I London Wesleyan .MisRion," has recently congenial to a renewed Boul, that they are Meekness and humility are indispensable at. good to my fellow creatures1 Do I love reforms. lying upon my back in the road, one of the returned from a visit to Afiica, and in his sure 10 be used, whether public or private. tributes of the true Chdstian character. money, and the accumulation of wealth, bet- I felt that Deacon Brace wished that he robbers with his long knife standing over me. sketch of the social eondition of the negroes W . f . h I·· 1 D I "I h L d . h knew whether his wife was a fashionable lady, [. I t·1 . d h b· h I Id e may g"IVe anot er VIew 0 converSion. Reader, hast thou a good and tender con- ter t an re IglOn 0 ave t e or wit IllVO un an y raIse my an In w IC inbabiting Ihe go coast and its vicinity, he ; or a good domestic woman; and that" Squire h ld I f d fi It is thn hstoration of the soul to moral ex· science, and one that is .. void of offense, all the heart, and with all the soul, and with h e my w IP, my on y weapon 0 e ense, furnishes B truly awful picture, thus:- y Willis" was sorry he ad many c Iidren, when the robber, witb some heavy instrument, cellence, and its right position 8S Rn inleJli- toward God and man 1" An persons, wheth· all the mind," and my neighbor as myself! as he would require more salary; while Mr. struck me one or more blows upon my up. Scarcely has one of their barbarous and gent creature. There can be no doubt ill the Elr professedly renewed in heart, or not, ought As I would that others should do to me, do I Smith was afraid tbat a man with nlily three raised arm. 011 lookmg round I saw that bloody customs been obandone<1. from the mind of a believer in Revelation, as to man's to be mentally and apiritually interested in the same to them 1 Am I strictly honest in children could not sympathize fully with a each of our party was in the hands of a rob· earliest peliod of wbich anYlhiog it known of original purity, and his close connection and this great work . .,. "He that soweth to the all my dealings with men, or are the secret man who was the proprietor of nine. ber. Besides the two lobbers that I first saw, them, They will even pave their court-yards, Miss Maria Willis hoped his children had three others had leaped out from their ambush palaces, and even the streets or market-plaGes friendship with his Maker. Made in the im. flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption." inclinations ormy heart to covet or oven each I' h d th b·d f th h d h d ·d T f ·n e or t 'th h k II f cur mg all' j an e new 11 e 0 e an - directly by t e roa Sl e. bey cClmmanded 0 t elr VI ag s owns WI t e 6 usa age of God, intellectually and morally, he But" he that soweth to the Spirit, shall vfthe a little in trade Is my" eye single, that my some Mr. Jones wondered that his wile coltld us to rise, and compelled us to go over the those butchered in the-wars, at feosts, funer- pOBRessed a nobility Dnd an excellence but a Spirit reap life everlastit g." Healt.religion body may be full of I1ght 1" Do I suppress marry a man with such a large nose. Mrs. hill on our.,left. As they were urging us als, or as sacrifices to Bossum. Ihan the angels, His soul glow. cannot be promoted without examining the and discard anger, pride, hatred, variance, Stone shook her head, and thought that she along at a rapid rate, some of them began to Still their wives and slaves furied aliTe ing "'''Ith the love of God, he looked up to d . and all the " works of the flesh," and cherish discovered, in his graveMface, symptoms of an make preparations to bind ns; but Carabat with their dheceased d husbands or Inasters. " deep rec",. ses of the heart-the eSlreS, mo- . 1 .. h·1 G ·t ' Wh Ad . d t h d d d "" d h . unsocla spUit, w I e rs. reen was qUi e Agpa begged of them not to do so, assuring en a anzen Ie, wo un re an heaven, and fixed his affections on the great tt·ves, and afiiectl·ons. Head religion may be love, aentleness, peace, an ot er Virtues, h k d ·1 d ! th h d f . h f b·· b t 'I. d h I." ,., S oc e to see 1m sml e, an pa e ea 0 them that we would readily go with them elg Iy 0 IS wives wele u cuere elore Supreme, and those intelligences which God possllssed, but what will that profit in the day which are the" fruits of the Spirit 1" Am I a little boy, .' right in the broad aisle" of the wherever they desired, alld deliver up to tbem the arrival ofl1is successor, which put a stop had made shared equally in the sympathies of of judgment In accordance with the real striving, with all my powers, to .. glorify God church j and MiBB ChiJdsthought the 8weete,t all our money. Reiistance would have been to it, only to inctease the flow of blood and· his generous and beneyolent mind. There state of the heart is our moral and spiritual in my body and spirit which are his 1" Do thing he did was to help Aunt Massa down useless, perhaps fatal. tbe number of deaths in other ways. The was no corrupt thought or wish or purpose; condition. I greatly delight in secret, domestic, and pub- the slippery Bteps. Soon we reacbed a little seclnded valley, remaining living. were buried alive. I . d . Ii II h B·bl Mr. De VVitt did n't want any body to tell where they might plunder our persons and amid dancing, smgmg, and bewailing. the hence all obiects of pursuit aud contemplation AI· h l·k·' IC wors IP, an 111 rea mg care u y tel e h· h h . d ··f h ' "f k t' h d II J " BOU WIt oot re ecllOn, I e a pI e 1m t at e was gomg to estructlon, I e our baggage wnhout fear of discovery by ihe noise 0 mus e s, oros, r.ums, ye 8, groans. -all activities and pleasures-were pure, and Without inbabitant, tu ruiu roDlo" above all books 1 Do I sincerely "love the took a little pleasure in this world; and Mr. passer.by. and screecnes, tlW women m8l'ching by h'ead.' Gnu and angels maintained familiar inter- 'I Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out brethren 1" Do I desire the promotion of Parsons boped that he always preached the Hence we were commanded to sit down less trunks, themselns with mud course in that beautiful paradise. Man has of it are the issues of life." If the affections the cause of Christ above all things 1 Do I plain Gospel, Miss Allen was determined 10 alld be silent. Then they began the work of and blood. Theil' victims were marched fallen-the bloom of moral beauty is gone- be set upon earthly objects, enjoyment is sen- enjoy the spirit and power of religion in the ask Deacon Bo?d's 'Yjfe, when sawMher, robbery upon the driVer, but found little along with large knives passed tht ough tbeir 1 H I Cb . . h h f if he ate with hIS kDlle, or fill k; while iss money aud 1I0t much else of valne. From cheeks. The executionen struggle for the intelligent and immortal yet, but 0 how de- sual, low, nnd groveling. ., He that findeth soul ave rlst wit In me, t e ope 0 S ld t 1 ·f I d·d t d . k bl d ffi h·1 th • t' I k d tetson cou ge a O1tg, I Ie I no Tin our guard they took his coat, a nice shawl 00 Y 0 ce, w lee Vtc Ims 00 on an praved! The brother of angels once, but his life shall lose it j and he that loseth his glory 1 Am I ready to die 1 E 8. B. his tea out of a saucer. girdle, a good sword, pistol, knife, pipe, to endure with apathy. They were too familiar now of devils-an enemy to the God who life for my lake shall find it:' And again, Now YOJIK MILLS, Feb. 18, 1856. All this I koew before those men and wo- bacco, and some money. From our Plotest- with the horrid sacrifice to shnw terror, or 10 f da him, and a willing ally with al1 others our Lord and Sayiour says, I, He that taketh men, with their young sonll and daughters to ant brother, Carabat, they took ninety.nine imagine that all was not as it should be. In pposing him-blind to al1 that is good, not his cross and followeth after me, is not A MOTHER IN THE LAST CENTURY. see and them I ,meltffor ?stensibdleGPudr- English gold sovereigns and sixty Turkish Their handds jf.weredchhoppehd .off. h , andd then dthe:: . h fi pose of aidmg tIe se sacnucmg an 0 - sovereigns. amounting to seven hundred and, legs sa we 0, an t en I elf ea s saWI! Q"" affections defiled, purposes and-desires and worthy of me." One might search widely Wit out n mg loving missionary; and when I heard Deacon twenty dol1ars in gold. Besides this they took to prolong the alnusement. Even some who aims all wicked. When the Son of Man In the mind, heart-examination precedes a an original for the following portrait of J ona Brace in his prayer lament ,f the low state his watch and other articles, to the amount of assisted to fill the graves were then hUstled came, it was to seek and st.ve that which was deep sense of indwelling depravity and pun- than Edwards' mother, which we find in Zion ill this place," I could not marvel that sixty dollars more. Then they began to search in alive, in order to add to the sport or solem. lost-he was that kind shePhel who sought gent conviction of sin; and this is a prelude Zion's Herald:- the Holv Dove, sent frnm Paradise on its me. From what they said it is evident that nity -of the scene. Upon the death of the th 1 l d . f . d . C·· d . h . mission love, was grieved and frightened they ml·stook me for Mr. Belcher, (an English king's brother, four thousBnd vietims were east sleep, an pulled It out the Pit, an to the new buth. onlome wlt t 19 state D otedly pIons cunsecrated to her work d 'fi d TL . , ev . .' " from sucb a frivolous, egrading scene. officer who was engaged in purchasing ani- thus sacn ce. uese ceremOble8 are often restored it 10 the flock-that g nerous friend of feeling, through the grace of God, in the and entermg mto all her s plans of I knew all this, and felt more j for at the mals and provisions for the army,) and suppos- repeated, and hundl eds slaughtered at every' who restored the poor prodigal to his father, operation of the Holy Spirit, the soul is led useful?ess, was, at the same IIme,.remark-, good 'pedeon Bond's, where the candidate ed that I must have a lot of gold upon my reheareal. Upon ·the desth of a Ring I tit and remalated him in the riches nnd honors and to lepent and believe Ibe Gospel. The crea- ably mlillectual.. Her. concealed "'It entertained, and where I had a room ad- person or among my baggage. But I.took Ashantee, a general massacre take! place, in enjoyment of his home. What a marvelous tare is not pa8nve only, but also active, in the S!CS broke out kllchen .and parish duo joining his,'l heard tbis meek servant of our no gold money, and bad only about four dol- which there can be no computatio/;l: of h . tie?; and m her deyot!?ns she 'Y as a Saviour, night, morning, and noon·qay, offer lars in metallic currency-the only currency many victims. 1 c ange Is wrought by the Drace of God in the great work of regeneration. Important du- h 1 h Without knowmg It Inferior to· . h fi A Y m customs M B d·tcb " p I osop er . '. in hIB low, earnest VOice, suc a prayer or of the interior-in my porle-monnaie. They t t e1r 8 , r. ow twit- enlightening of the understanding, so that ties devolve upon him as a moral agent. Ra. her husband 10 taste and years of .hfe, she the people-such a prayer, 8S seemed to me readily stript open my vest and my outer nessed spectacles of tlie most appaIlin;t lInd: mornl excellence is discovered-in Ihe sanctifi- pentance must be exercised, and submission possessed a mor. e stern and po.werful.lOtellect, could only come from a burning heart and d . d t ie Every cabocer, or noble, sacnficed Ii sllve ti d f r t d h I h fi pants, an soon perceIve my pol' e·monna. ho entered the gate.' Head. Bnd .kun• form- cation of the affections, Sll that spiritual and to the Diyine will. With faith and love he on 0 reasonlDg, 0 s u ylng p 10SOP y, inspired lips! And I knew rom IS ra lant m my pocket, but knew not how to get at It, I'D uivine things are loved-and in the imparta- is inspired, and hy the former he is justifiea. and ponderin g p of ther face, that he had been on the Mount with his probably. So one of the fellows with a large the oroam l indthheir poeses8ion. ;8;"u. , ology. Had lI:u]s pro I Itt?n een out a God, and from his subdued, cheerful manner, knife cut open my pants OTer the pocket, dreds were s am; an t e streaming and team- lion of a spirit of obetUence, so that the indi- Hope, f'like an anchor to the soul," is then the she have her com· that he flolt the assurance of a living faith. which he pulled out with its contents, and cut ing blood of the victimswss minR1ed iIi one ,ait vidual delights in doing the will of God. Still ushered in. A good conscience, peace, and panioo m the pUlpll, and anttclpated the fame LPuritan Recprder. it off. He tllld me to open the porte-monnaie; brass pan, with various vegetllbThs'and anllnal farther, in carrying out the idea of restoration, joy, are hi., 80 long as he "lives" and" walks of her immortal son. be then took it from me, and 1 saw neither it matter, fresh as well as putrid, to'eolltipMe'_ those great moral principleH possessed by m.an in the Spirit." Reader, have you been born As it was, her ambition was content to EFFECTIVE PREACHING.-. DI,. nor iti contents any more. In my vest pocket powerful Felchia, Atlbese bn_toms ,. II . t k . f d . • If h h d ·ft operate in her sphere; to train the family, to was a youn!r man, bewas mv.lted to dme III they fioond a case or lancets and some other Bcenes of bu"tchery Bnd slaughter([ccur. the ortgma y, agam a e possession 0 an govern agam, so, you ave a exercises, gl S, bl h th Robert MorrIS Esq a man .' , ., instruct the Jgnorant, to ess t e stranger" company WI , .., . articles, wliich they took. From my pants kmg's executioners trave1'l!e the city, tIle man, which perhaps may be comprehend· aDd feeliogs, like thOlle above mentioned You and, in all her ways, to aid her husbl).nd"in celebrated the part he took ID the Amen- they took my knife, and from my overcoat a all they meet. The next day delolatiorl retgIJ. er! in the telm holiness. Justice, truth, in- haTIl had the Spirit of Christ. whether you his work. She assumed the entire care of I<au RevolullPn .. It so happened that tbe Bilk handkerchief. TIle alticle upon my per. ovetthe lanel.- The King, during die, blOOd, tegrify, and faithfull1ess, the great principles ha'ie it now or not. You have been trans. the family, managing an the temporal affairs, c?mpany waited time Mr. Mar- son of chief value gold watch-a pre- !ooked. on eagerly tnd dnced) in or the divine government, and designed to be formed from the image of the Earthly to tbat in doors and out, and thus permitting him to on hiS appe.arance apologized for de- sent from my ilear This was in its hIS chair With dehght. L " pos 'sessed and carri'ed1out by alll·utelll·gences, lJ . devote all his time and efforts to his charge tll.1mng.them saymg that he bad been en- t Astberobbers had stript I The king of Daho/le v pavel the appro ... bea . of the hl!BVenly. ou ara contmua y,servmg and his studies In addition 10 these duties• .gaged In r?adIDg a sermon of a clergym.an poc et III my ves. ., ':h .. "., are reBtored to the soul in regeneration, and el·thAr nod or Satan. I. Ye cannot serve God h h d t tEl nd to recelye open my vest in order to eearch all about my to hiS reSidence, and ornaments t , y .., which were by uo means slight she contrived w 0 a JUs gone a ng a wais, t-the usual.place in East of carry- of his palace, with 'h'Ntia will thri,e and grow under the genial influences and Mammon" at the same time. Perbtlpa to find time to read all the g:eat theological orders. " Well, Mr. Morris," said the ing articles of value-I contmued tQ the urns. j an.d the great !i'etchle of divine grice, in connection with our culti- f. tbe light that is in is darkness." If so, works of the age. A new book was not long "bow did you like id" " It's too, an vest open, keeping the upper of It pulled has Its WIde ltmbs ,ladllldtritii blUllllD yation, imparted in an8wer to daily prayer. h . d k I" n h th in the house before she dlvoured it which tame 'for me." "Mr. Morris," the b kId ] d d carcasea and luubs' Tbe :wa t fl' - .. great 19 that ne88 ""-Ill aps . Y, was about syuonymous with the dig:stion of doctor, II whatsort of a sermon do you ,.. ac C 08e to an ,.part y un erlmy arms, an. .1. n 0 ,II This restoration comprehends our right posi. faith is dead I .. For 88 the bpdy thl! its conteots. II I like, Sir." replied Mr. Morris! " that kmd 80mewhat. bidden io tbe foldll ormy ovel'coat. no disgrace, and the prJUlts art;! em]I0.led II! tion·, designed 1.;y the Creator when he endow- spirit is .dead, 80 faith' without worka is dead In later life, after tlie death of her husband, pf preae.hing which driTe8 a. man .Into the Thus the watch escaped the robbers' e'earcb, pimps.· " ed us with intelligence. In what particular also!' James 2: 26. The Chriatiap is ra. and when she had passed the bonnds of oinety ner of his pew and makes hlID thmk the deTil although repeatedly they put their hanas al· "Murder, adultery, and tbieTery,'I' IIY' aft " most upon it, and I momentarily 81peeted Bosman, IJ are here no I, \ (, Ii'! ways man W8S to sene his God in a etata of quired to strive with all diligence to mue his years, alie found a season of leisure which IS er 1m, \ q , ; ?' -' I",· 1: '. I' : I l . . ,

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Page 1: Do.61 II !e JVol+12...pure love would he necessarily ~sy and active pray, lest ye enter into temptation," is t e in dreamy musings, with faculties nearly per-It is not when the parting

'1l1Tl~lf BY I/~;O. B. UTTER ANlI TIWS. H. BROWN. ·THE $EVENTH OF THE LORD THY GOO:

" NEW flivtl'J.:I_IJA Y, MARCU 13, L856 WR?LE NO. 612.

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pure love would he necessarily ~sy and active pray, lest ye enter into temptation," is t e in dreamy musings, with faculties nearly per- It is not when the parting hreatb we watch with anx· began to plunder my baggage: All tlley teft" in,studying thl3 divine will, and would induce Saviour's command. The powerful influen- ished; but she had her books, and every day ious beart, me, the leader or·tht;! ganl!: .. Ilid: ,.,," .

For Rec rd - d h fl h d h d ·1 t It iB not ill the hour or death, when tbOB' we love Th' F I" h' Ir 'd. ~-TH)(nG·'H'TS ON CON°VeEr·RS[ON. to prompt and faithfuLobedience. All those ces of the worl , tees, an t e eVI, tum in ited in her neighbors to read with her, depart, f 00" IS ~aIIK mustfi da':B gOI ,omew1ieTe,. U'j •. , noble powers he possessed would be engijged the soul from Gud, ere the saint is aware~ w en she would make,remarks that exhibited Nor yet when 1nid upon the bIer we folloW; Blow the a if he aoee rwt D It we wm muM.l'd

'~." - d' h· d· d h d· "The flesh lusteth agal·nst the Sp·III·t," and her e)!:tensive and acute research, and the al· corpBe, I him." Of lilt the dHiu""S'and revolutl·on· of time, accor lUg to t elr t'slgn, an t e IVlDe A d 1 ···18 t· I th t t 'I the 'c b A 'd h

.... 0 moet undiminished powers of her mind.' n eu.l! It ill I reB tog-p ace, a mos we lee ara I\-t gpa sal to t em: the change·effected In the mind of s sinner, glory would he illustrated by their e~ercise. hinders the exercise of faith, aud the prog~1rs The family training of such a woman must "1000. .. You are mistaken in the man. Tljia man which We' call conversion, is the most interellt- When souls are restored or con vel ted ,by of religion in the sou\. 'I If ye lov.~.e be-invaluable. She waa>the SusimnB Wedey When East the last, Ihe solemn rite,1IDd dUlt to dust is a Doctorr He ;~arrie8, no ,bId. iE'xam1ne mg und wonderful. It makes entirely a ~ew divine grace, they are at once introduced illto world, the love of the Father is not in you!' of New iEngland, and, like her English sister, And ~ i~bJoo:~d cbanneled conne tbestream oftime :Pjs'igoods. You will find ·only hig medicinc,s era in B person's lite, and the angels in liea. a state of active service, an~ the aim of the Even the Christian is liable to become ~ the lines of her own character engraveu rolls on, and things necessary for hisJolirney.' Do.61

• I f Sf" d II wretched, and ml·serable, lind poor, and b"iff succeeding generations. She was the Ob, who cau tell how drear Ihe "pace once filled by kiU him." - ,- I ".J' ven rejoice to see it;' .It,was said 0 aul 0 life is to carry out the purposes of love an "T th mOBt delll" I II d h b

Th d hI ' d d k d" mother of eleven children, all of whom show- Whon w~li~known sce~eB whicb the" have loved, and n asu en, ru e manner .. t ey egan to open Tarsus, II Behold, he prayetb." at pron mercy to a lost world. Hence the firstques m, an Jla e . e<l'the marks of her training, They were all bltttkeyare here" my valise, medicine chest, and a'small uunk' I Pharisoe, Who,~,d lopposed the Almighty, tion which arises 10 lhe mind, when the new But some one may ask, What are we ,to !e the subiects of ''''rayer before their containing chiefly surgical 'instruments and a "', " !. T h' h I 0 h hI' J J< ThiB deep, this heartfelt 10nelineB', tbis quietness of ti· b k Th h d Ii und per8l1cljte~ tS saints, and breathed out life begin~, if>; What shall I do for the Lord, watc~,' 0 \V tC ,answer, ur t, oug s, b h; wife carefully nurtured in childhood, gnef, • jlW 00 B. ey searc e all care u11y, anll threatening ~ht'slaugbterJike a wild and sav- and ill what way shall I most promote his words, motives, atr~clionslf d~sire!t; and pur. . even in the cradle, we Ie taught to submit F~I1.heavieronthefiowersofjoy,tbantempestsltroDg ippropriated whatever their fancy or avltrice

age beast of Prey, is prl" trat,e lit the 'ootstoo] glory' As grace advancee in the soul, and poses, to see that they all .~); pure, and that t~the wills of their parents. .. The govern· but brief; demanded. But found of course 110 gold) .00 " , • t' f h .. 1'·1' . t d fii Thougb wbirlwindB tear tbe hlossom. fair, yet Illll tho W re dl· S:./I· fied Tb ted b ' .. "'<. _ we do not hal bar within our bosoms any evil men 0 t elr laml y, at once StliC an a ec· stem may tbn·ve, . . e s as, ey repea .t eh. rur-

of divine melcy. His eart is smitten, hi. shines out in Ihe life of the true convert, a i" ·cL fi d I . I h b' of b-.:I· h d d ' l' th , f . hb ~. d t "nare. orme t lem to ear y a 1IS 0 ""I- But wintry night.' chill, with'ring bhght, scarce leave. mer t rea an sat own to consu L tage er. pride humbled, aud he reckons hims~lr as the moral influence is exerted on the community thought 0 a nelg or, lIen ,or stranger- ence.l1nd sobrietv. and saved them from those . tbe "lot alive. Soon they 'aros~ and again searched m, pe~1 vi';st of tbe vi/e. There was no challg& in around, by a holy example, and a devoted that we .. keep our tongue· as with a bridle," evil c!!mlIlunications, which too often lead 10 Yet, a8 ~ur earthly pleasures fade, if plants or purer son and ray goods. 'Again they thre.l.tenea i~j j

and use it nut ill I P 1 fli •• :iat ~ow folU""end ~ii~1Ises in childh,ood and youlh." peace ' their ~dy-m_r, ... nd eat down ODceml:lrEl tbe hlessed and divine personage '.';hom ,lie life. . "';'. d h

d 'I 1.... ria m~, h . often the contrary couroe is pursued-and how At a ,v, ery early age they were instructed Sprmg in onr hOBom's wilderness, and, nurture t ere, to take cOllnsel, speaking in Koardish tGblrue hate, nor In t lot gospe pnf/i'"'9Ul1tl .. "'I'f"l\la ~ If what we have saiil is correct" ow 1m·" inorease . A h bb dr· e

d. I'd b h h ,~, '11' fi th h th h el egregl·ous sins in letters, and. as they passed along in youth, And humble bo'pe' and holy 'ear our wounded bo.oms" B t e TO ers sat e lberatlDg, and my in Ignant y reJecte ; ut tee Bnge was a portant, both for thjs tife and the life to come, 0 [en, roug ese!! ann 5, were'taught all the branches that are taugllt I'. lriend~ were pleading for me, I oould not but 1ll him. Only a short time since. he had vir. is c(JDversion to God, 'and what an honor and are committed! Weare exhorted, by St. in the scbools. Her son was instructed in TheY'dfi~~ch us all the bleosedoe88 of yielding to Hi. feelt1lat my situation \Vas a critical one, and wally crucified the Son of God, and in all blessedness to be possessed of the religion of John, to believe not every spirit, but" try th~ Latin at eleven years of age. will. that truly there might be but a step between probability possessed the same 8pi~it as those Christ. Are we converttd, or are we not 1 spirits. whether they be of God." Hence Mrs. Edwards lived to the age of ninety. Then 8eek not houn of Boher grief, or Borrowing me and deatb. I was sitting apart from tbe

1 ·1 d h· h h· I . f· I . h we should love that wllt·ch I·S good, and hate nine years, departing with the consciousness tbought, to SbUD. 'others. My thoughts and I prayers were adH IV 10 revi e 1m w en anglllg Oij t Ie cross, -a questllln 0 vIta moment-a question t at UntIl we 'eel that we ens y "Tby wI·11 not m·lDe d d H· . h h d

d that she had not lived in vain. And we can .' a B, , 'resse to tm 10 w ose an s are the hearts Bnd pierced his side in malicious sport. But must be sell led, and sellied quickly, for· eter. that which is evil, and suffer not a wicke be done ;" f d h h but express our gratitude that .. woman's And tben our bearts to Him Will pay an homage pure 0 all men, an w 0 turnet them as helWill. see him now lying in the dust, and with tbe pity is <It hand, and then it will be, .. He that spirit to govern us. Very many, who" have rights" had not. at that time, 80 far prevailed, and warm, . " If it be possible and consistent with thy j

deepest anxiety and most intense sorrow over is holy, let him be holy still, and he that is begun in the faith," and traveled the narrow as to call her from the family circle to COli- Wbo Baw the cloud o'er those we loved, and holiBed Holy Will," I prayed, "spare my lire; 0 I .~ k· h . d d d I fi • . , tbem from tbe storm. [!fome Journal. L d b t·f t""L: d J . his post lIe, as mg t e very same Person filthy, let him be filthy still." way for a lime, have wan ere ,an "e t telld in the stormy afena of pohucs, or prOles I)! ; u I uo, or esus, receive my

what he should do to repair the injury done GEO. R. WHEELER. their first love." VVhy isthis1 Becausethey sionallife. Her home influence outsbone a A MISSIONARY AMONG ROB'B:ERS sPhitit."h Pebrhbaps this prahyer wlkasaheard, for • J d dozen such lives. To train cne Jonathan • 1f en t e ro ers arose t ey ta e no more

to him and hiS cause. • SALEM, N. '. have neglected to watch continually, an to Edwards is a greater privilege than to be of murders, but only said, ,I,We must bave All sinners are not cOllverted in the same For the sabbath Record.r. pray without ceasing." Again, we see the President of the United States, or the auto. The lVatchmvn and Riflector is permitted one of your horses." But from this tbey

r wonderful manner as Saul, nor so illstantane· SELF-EXAMINATION, urgent necessity of heeding the voice of in- crat of all the Russias; and had we more to make the following extract from a letter were finally dissuaded, and at length gave UI

DlIsly j but yet the change is marveluu9, buth spiratlon, in the words, " Be sober. be vigi- Mrs. Edwardses, we should, nl) doubt, see recently received from a missidnary in Tur- permission to pick up and repack tbe 8catter· to the individual and to beholders. It has not " Examine yourselveB, whetber ye be in tbe faitb; Innt; for behold, your adversary the devil, as more J onathans rising up to stir and bless the key. ed remnant of our goods.. As night wall ap.

d b · prove your own selves. Know ye not your own ., lk I b k· h world." proaching, we asklld permission to go, but no, been eifecte y TeasolllDg, nor persuasion, selveB, bow that JeBU. Obrist 18 10 you. except ye he a roarmg hon, wa et I a out, Bee lUg w om. SIVA', Nov. 15, 1855. we must Sit down and wait a while loDger. nor example, (tbough all these may have been reprobates!" 200r. 13: 5. be may devour." Him we are exhorted to THE CANDIDATE, DEAR BROTHER,-Lest you and other dear The robbers filled tbeir pipes and gave Illstrumelltal j) but a mighty power has been Of all the mental, moral, or religious exer- "resist steadfastly." "Resist the devil, and (dends should, from some Bource, hear a dis- back a little tobacco to Carabat and Abamet, at wurk, which has disposed the will, humbled cisea incumbent UpOll man in his earthly ca- he will flee from you." How exceedingly ar MRB. !U.RSIULJ.. torte9- account of an adventure I have reo and tbey all talked'and smoked together Ilks'

cently had with five Koordish robbers, I have Id"· dil Th y al ba k t e h cJ.'

,uO.I'''''V' and opened the b{;art \0 receiYe reer, none is more important than self-exami. apt are the cares of the world to make the I knew it would be so. I had not Jived jn 0 Irlen. e so gave c 0 8C lJI thought it best to give you the particulars as us a small piece of Turkish confectionery. of tlUlh allll a divine Saviour, and turned nation. Every man (ought to make the in· go04 see<! sown to become unfruitful! Man the midst of these people, fitting frocks. and they occurred. Having hlld a call to visit the h· h h b d k Ii _. I k . h' II Ii d I· h . b f:. W IC t ey a ta en rom uS a arge p'ae -

obedience. If we were to define quiry, By what spirit am I led 1 Each in- is as naturally inclined to do evil as water is stltc IDg away ate ay Ig tint ese ami· brethren in Sivas, upon business connected age; and upon being solicited, they gave back we should say, it is the manifesta. d··d I h k h h h .. h to fun downward. Hence a frequent, rigid lies, for thir,!3'.seven cents per day, without with my medical profession, [ left Tocat for aboutfiorty cents to enable us to defravthe

IVI ua oug t to now w et eT e IS In t e laking away' with me a little key to their h· I th 31 t f 0 t b I·ttl J I

til))) a divine life, impalted to the soul by . d I I d hI·' " examination of our hearts-a careful inspec. t IS P ace, on e soc 0 er, a I e remaining expenses of our jonrney. Noble· strait an nalrow way t lat" ea et unto lie. _ Ihoughts and speech. paat one o'clock P. M., intending to spend the ·t I They s t tw f th . b the Spirit of God, which is called regenera- or I·n the broad road that" leadeth to destruc- tion of· the .nature and influence of our I k h t th Id t th kl generosl y. en 0 0 elr 1I1Jm er , new w a ey wou say a e w"e Y night in Gharkin, a village just half the dis- around to the road lead~ng to Tocat, in order, tion, 01 llew Lirth, or a new creation ill Christ tion." But how can he know this, without thOIJlih~1 ~ords, and actions, and tbeir com- meeting of the India Circle. on the Thursday tance f~ Toeat to Sivas. Our company probably, to intercept our return to report Jesus. There may be appal ent conversion searching his own heart, and marking the parison with tlie Word of God-cannot hurt evening after Mr. Woodward had preached consisted of four persona. The day was pleas- there. At length, when it WUB qJlite dark,

I Id dd h ·· 1 b fi for themJ as " their Candidate." t d h d t h t . I ' where this divine prUlciple is wanting; and fruit he bears 1 "Every tree is known by us, JUt wou a muc splrltua ene t to an ,an we ope 0 reac our s oppmg-p ace two of them conducted us by a circuitous hence many, whl) profess to be converted; go its fruit." "Men do nor gather grapes of the profll~sed follower of our Lord and Sav- I knew that Mrs. Tyler would think that for the night a little after dark. VVe had route or back path to our road Ilgain, aod, a.: b k d· iour Jesus Christ. And to this end let U5 his sermons were too long; that Mrs. Crane nearly reached the summit of the high.lands tbey disappeared from us, we heard the usual

ac to the worl , and walk no more 10 the thorlJS,.nor figs of thistles II Diligent search would be sorry that he dtd not mentioll the that Jie in our path, and were pa§.siBg the last polite and fdendly farewell-or posh Geldin," company of the godly; their goodness is like ehould be made, 10 know where the affections search the inmost recesees of our souls, to India Circle particularly, in his prayer j that ascent, It was about naIf-past three o'clock. &c., which. being interpreted, signifies, .. Your the mOlning cloud/and the early dew, which are placed. By the professor of religion the know by what manner of spirit WE' lire led. Miss Wyman would be shocked at hIS coloreq, au"d we were about eleven miles from home. coming was very agreeable." No doubt, in quickly yanish away. This germ of a divine examples of Christ should ever be kept in and institute a careful, candid inquiry, in or- gloves j that Miss Smith expected .0 see at The road was narrow. and a high hank was saying Ihis, they fof once spoke, the truth, life. planted in the heart by the Spirit, is sure view; and those exnmples he. is bound to ~er to prove ourselves. :astfia Ydh~e cravat; that Mrs·hBraMc~ w~~ld on our right hand alld a small hill lay on our though under the circumstances, Buch a patt.

e a fBI e was extravagaut; t at ISS ISS left, close by the road, covered with stunted ing salutation sounded ralher "cool." to expand and flourish and produce fruit to imitate. 'Without the force of good examples In what do I most delight 1 Is it in the WOUld be sure that he could never enter a oaks and bushes. Our company were riding FAYETTE JEWETT. the glOT,y of God. We need no divine decree in the daily life of a Christian, very small service of the Lord, or in th", service of the room gracefully; and Misi Mills would be in single file; I was forward. On a Budden I to insure our salvation, fOI· the principle itself will be his influence for doing good. world, the Hesh, and the devil1 Do I de· horrified at his large hand. saw two armed ruffians leap out from among is the immortal> seed of the kingdom, wbich The indwelling of the Holy Spirit be light more in speCUlative 8chemelij. building ! !!.new that Deacon Crane Wa.! afraid be the trees a little in advance. A gun was liveth and ~bidelh fur ever, nnd all the means d air casties, and serving the flesh, than in 8'1tir. miKht agitate the Slavery question; while suapped by tbe men, but, providentially, it Rev. Mr. Beachman, a member of the

'" shoul daily and hourly crave " Except ye :.- spry little Dr. Chapman hoped that he was missed fire. In a moment as it were I was appointed for our use and progression are so have the Spirit of Cbrist, ye are none of his." itual duties, takicg care of the soul, and doing a prompt man and "up to the lIIlurk" on all dragged from my horsi! and found myself ,I London Wesleyan .MisRion," has recently congenial to a renewed Boul, that they are Meekness and humility are indispensable at. good to my fellow creatures1 Do I love reforms. lying upon my back in the road, one of the returned from a visit to Afiica, and in his sure 10 be used, whether public or private. tributes of the true Chdstian character. money, and the accumulation of wealth, bet- I felt that Deacon Brace wished that he robbers with his long knife standing over me. sketch of the social eondition of the negroes

W . h· f . h I·· 1 D I "I h L d . h knew whether his wife was a fashionable lady, [. I t·1 . d h d· b· h I Id e may g"IVe anot er VIew 0 converSion. Reader, hast thou a good and tender con- ter t an re IglOn 0 ave t e or wit IllVO un an y raIse my an In w IC inbabiting Ihe go coast and its vicinity, he ; or a good domestic woman; and that" Squire h ld h· I f d fi It is thn hstoration of the soul to moral ex· science, and one that is .. void of offense, all the heart, and with all the soul, and with h b· e my w IP, my on y weapon 0 e ense, furnishes B truly awful picture, thus:-

y Willis" was sorry he ad ~o many c Iidren, when the robber, witb some heavy instrument, cellence, and its right position 8S Rn inleJli- toward God and man 1" An persons, wheth· all the mind," and my neighbor as myself! as he would require more salary; while Mr. struck me one or more blows upon my up. Scarcely has one of their barbarous and gent creature. There can be no doubt ill the Elr professedly renewed in heart, or not, ought As I would that others should do to me, do I Smith was afraid tbat a man with nlily three raised arm. 011 lookmg round I saw that bloody customs been obandone<1. from the mind of a believer in Revelation, as to man's to be mentally and apiritually interested in the same to them 1 Am I strictly honest in children could not sympathize fully with a each of our party was in the hands of a rob· earliest peliod of wbich anYlhiog it known of original purity, and his close connection and this great work . .,. "He that soweth to the all my dealings with men, or are the secret man who was the proprietor of nine. ber. Besides the two lobbers that I first saw, them, They will even pave their court-yards,

Miss Maria Willis hoped his children had three others had leaped out from their ambush palaces, and even the streets or market-plaGes friendship with his Maker. Made in the im. flesh, shall of the flesh reap corruption." inclinations ormy heart to covet or oven each I' h d th b·d f th h d h d ·d T f h· ·n e or t 'th h k II f ~ cur mg all' j an e new 11 e 0 e an - directly by t e roa Sl e. bey cClmmanded 0 t elr VI ag s owns WI t e 6 usa age of God, intellectually and morally, he But" he that soweth to the Spirit, shall vfthe a little in trade ~ Is my" eye single, that my some Mr. Jones wondered that his wile coltld us to rise, and compelled us to go over the those butchered in the-wars, at feosts, funer­pOBRessed a nobility Dnd an excellence but a Spirit reap life everlastit g." Healt.religion body may be full of I1ght 1" Do I suppress marry a man with such a large nose. Mrs. hill on our.,left. As they were urging us als, or as sacrifices to Bossum. littlli~~er Ihan the angels, His soul glow. cannot be promoted without examining the and discard anger, pride, hatred, variance, Stone shook her head, and thought that she along at a rapid rate, some of them began to Still their wives and slaves ar~ furied aliTe ing "'''Ith the love of God, he looked up to d . and all the " works of the flesh," and cherish discovered, in his graveMface, symptoms of an make preparations to bind ns; but Carabat with their dheceasedd husbands or Inasters.

" deep rec",. ses of the heart-the eSlreS, mo- . 1 .. h·1 G ·t ' Wh Ad . d t h d d d "" d h . unsocla spUit, w I e rs. reen was qUi e Agpa begged of them not to do so, assuring en a anzen Ie, wo un re an heaven, and fixed his affections on the great tt·ves, and afiiectl·ons. Head religion may be love, aentleness, peace, an ot er Virtues, h k d h· ·1 d ! th h d f . h f b·· b t 'I. d h I." ,., S oc e to see 1m sml e, an pa e ea 0 them that we would readily go with them elg Iy 0 IS wives wele u cuere elore Supreme, and those intelligences which God possllssed, but what will that profit in the day which are the" fruits of the Spirit 1" Am I a little boy, .' right in the broad aisle" of the wherever they desired, alld deliver up to tbem the arrival ofl1is successor, which put a stop had made shared equally in the sympathies of of judgment ~ In accordance with the real striving, with all my powers, to .. glorify God church j and MiBB ChiJdsthought the 8weete,t all our money. Reiistance would have been to it, only to inctease the flow of blood and· his generous and beneyolent mind. There state of the heart is our moral and spiritual in my body and spirit which are his 1" Do thing he did was to help Aunt Massa down useless, perhaps fatal. tbe number of deaths in other ways. The was no corrupt thought or wish or purpose; condition. I greatly delight in secret, domestic, and pub- the slippery Bteps. Soon we reacbed a little seclnded valley, remaining living. w~ves were buried alive.

I. h· d . d· Ii II h B·bl Mr. De VVitt did n't want any body to tell where they might plunder our persons and amid dancing, smgmg, and bewailing. the hence all obiects of pursuit aud contemplation AI· h H· l·k·' IC wors IP, an 111 rea mg care u y tel e h· h h . d ··f h ' "f k t' h d II J " BOU WIt oot re ecllOn, I e a pI e 1m t at e was gomg to estructlon, I e our baggage wnhout fear of discovery by ihe noise 0 mus e s, oros, r.ums, ye 8, groans. -all activities and pleasures-were pure, and Without inbabitant, tu ruiu roDlo" above all books 1 Do I sincerely "love the took a little pleasure in this world; and Mr. passer.by. and screecnes, tlW women m8l'ching by h'ead.' Gnu and angels maintained familiar inter- 'I Keep thy heart with all diligence, for out brethren 1" Do I desire the promotion of Parsons boped that he always preached the Hence we were commanded to sit down less trunks, ~edaubed themselns with mud course in that beautiful paradise. Man has of it are the issues of life." If the affections the cause of Christ above all things 1 Do I plain Gospel, Miss Allen was determined 10 alld be silent. Then they began the work of and blood. Theil' victims were marched fallen-the bloom of moral beauty is gone- be set upon earthly objects, enjoyment is sen- enjoy the spirit and power of religion in the ask Deacon Bo?d's 'Yjfe, when ~he sawMher, robbery upon the driVer, but found little along with large knives passed tht ough tbeir

1 H I Cb . . h· h h f if he ate with hIS kDlle, or fill k; while iss money aud 1I0t much else of valne. From cheeks. The executionen struggle for the intelligent and immortal yet, but 0 how de- sual, low, nnd groveling. ., He that findeth soul ave rlst wit In me, t e ope 0 S ld t 1 ·f I d·d t d . k bl d ffi h·1 th • t' I k d tetson cou ge a O1tg, I Ie I no Tin our guard they took his coat, a nice shawl 00 Y 0 ce, w lee Vtc Ims 00 on an praved! The brother of angels once, but his life shall lose it j and he that loseth his glory 1 Am I ready to die 1 E 8. B. his tea out of a saucer. girdle, a good sword, pistol, knife, pipe, to endure with apathy. They were too familiar now of devils-an enemy to the God who life for my lake shall find it:' And again, Now YOJIK MILLS, Feb. 18, 1856. All this I koew before those men and wo- bacco, and some money. From our Plotest- with the horrid sacrifice to shnw terror, or 10

f da him, and a willing ally with al1 others our Lord and Sayiour says, I, He that taketh • men, with their young sonll and daughters to ant brother, Carabat, they took ninety.nine imagine that all was not as it should be. In pposing him-blind to al1 that is good, not his cross and followeth after me, is not A MOTHER IN THE LAST CENTURY. see and hea~ them I ,meltffor t~: ?stensibdleGPudr- English gold sovereigns and sixty Turkish Their handds jf.weredchhoppehd .off.h, andd then dthe::

. h fi d· pose of aidmg tIe se sacnucmg an 0 - sovereigns. amounting to seven hundred and, legs sa we 0, an t en I elf ea s saWI! Q""

affections defiled, purposes and-desires and worthy of me." One might search widely Wit out n mg loving missionary; and when I heard Deacon twenty dol1ars in gold. Besides this they took to prolong the alnusement. Even some who aims all wicked. When the Son of Man In the mind, heart-examination precedes a an original for the following portrait of J ona Brace in his prayer lament ,f the low state his watch and other articles, to the amount of assisted to fill the graves were then hUstled came, it was to seek and st.ve that which was deep sense of indwelling depravity and pun- than Edwards' mother, which we find in Zion ill this place," I could not marvel that sixty dollars more. Then they began to search in alive, in order to add to the sport or solem. lost-he was that kind shePhel who sought gent conviction of sin; and this is a prelude Zion's Herald:- the Holv Dove, sent frnm Paradise on its me. From what they said it is evident that nity -of the scene. Upon the death of the th 1 l d

. f . d . C·· d . h h· . mission ~f love, was grieved and frightened they ml·stook me for Mr. Belcher, (an English king's brother, four thousBnd vietims were east sleep, an pulled It out the Pit, an to the new buth. onlome wlt t 19 state D otedly pIons cunsecrated to her work d 'fi d TL . , ~ ev . . ' " from sucb a frivolous, egrading scene. officer who was engaged in purchasing ani- thus sacn ce. uese ceremOble8 are often

restored it 10 the flock-that g nerous friend of feeling, through the grace of God, in the and entermg mto all her husba~d s plans of I knew all this, and felt more j for at the mals and provisions for the army,) and suppos- repeated, and hundl eds slaughtered at every' who restored the poor prodigal to his father, operation of the Holy Spirit, the soul is led useful?ess, ~he was, at the same IIme,.remark-, good 'pedeon Bond's, where the candidate ed that I must have a lot of gold upon my reheareal. Upon ·the desth of a Ring I tit and remalated him in the riches nnd honors and to lepent and believe Ibe Gospel. The crea- ably mlillectual.. Her. concealed m~taphy. "'It entertained, and where I had a room ad- person or among my baggage. But I.took Ashantee, a general massacre take! place, in enjoyment of his home. What a marvelous tare is not pa8nve only, but also active, in the S!CS broke out a~J1dst kllchen .and parish duo joining his,'l heard tbis meek servant of our no gold money, and bad only about four dol- which there can be no computatio/;l: of ~be h . tie?; and eve~ m her deyot!?ns she 'Yas a Saviour, night, morning, and noon·qay, offer lars in metallic currency-the only currency many victims. 1

c ange Is wrought by the Drace of God in the great work of regeneration. Important du- h 1 h Without knowmg It Inferior to· . h fi A h· Y m customs M B d·tcb • " p I osop er . '. in hIB low, earnest VOice, suc a prayer or of the interior-in my porle-monnaie. They t t e1r 8 , r. ow twit-enlightening of the understanding, so that ties devolve upon him as a moral agent. Ra. her husband 10 taste and years of .hfe, she the people-such a prayer, 8S seemed to me readily stript open my vest and my outer nessed spectacles of tlie most appaIlin;t lInd: mornl excellence is discovered-in Ihe sanctifi- pentance must be exercised, and submission possessed a mor. e stern and po.werful.lOtellect, could only come from a burning heart and d . d t ie Every cabocer, or noble, sacnficed Ii sllve ~

ti d f r t d h I h fi h· d· pants, an soon perceIve my pol' e·monna. ho entered the gate.' Head. Bnd .kun• form-cation of the affections, Sll that spiritual and to the Diyine will. With faith and love he on 0 reasonlDg, 0 s u ylng p 10SOP y, inspired lips! And I knew rom IS ra lant m my pocket, but knew not how to get at It, I'D

uivine things are loved-and in the imparta- is inspired, and hy the former he is justifiea. and ponderingp th~ deePbe.~. pro~ems of ther face, that he had been on the Mount with his probably. So one of the fellows with a large ~d the oroaml ~nt8 indthheir poeses8ion. ;8;"u.

, ology. Had lI:u]s pro I Itt?n een out a God, and from his subdued, cheerful manner, knife cut open my pants OTer the pocket, dreds were s am; an t e streaming and team-lion of a spirit of obetUence, so that the indi- Hope, f'like an anchor to the soul," is then the wa~, she mlg~t have e~l:psecl her com· that he flolt the assurance of a living faith. which he pulled out with its contents, and cut ing blood of the victimswss minR1ed iIi one ,ait vidual delights in doing the will of God. Still ushered in. A good conscience, peace, and panioo m the pUlpll, and anttclpated the fame LPuritan Recprder. it off. He tllld me to open the porte-monnaie; brass pan, with various vegetllbThs'and anllnal farther, in carrying out the idea of restoration, joy, are hi., 80 long as he "lives" and" walks of her immortal son. • be then took it from me, and 1 saw neither it matter, fresh as well as putrid, to'eolltipMe'_ those great moral principleH possessed by m.an in the Spirit." Reader, have you been born As it was, her ambition was content to EFFECTIVE PREACHING.-. ~hen DI,. Ru~h nor iti contents any more. In my vest pocket powerful Felchia, Atlbese bn_toms the~.me ,. II . t k . f d . • If h h d ·ft operate in her sphere; to train the family, to was a youn!r man, bewas mv.lted to dme III they fioond a case or lancets and some other Bcenes of bu"tchery Bnd slaughter([ccur. the

ortgma y, agam a e possession 0 an govern agam, so, you ave a exercises, gl S, bl h th Robert MorrIS Esq a man . ' , ., instruct the Jgnorant, to ess t e stranger" company WI , .., . articles, wliich they took. From my pants kmg's executioners trave1'l!e the city, ~lIliog tIle man, which perhaps may be comprehend· aDd feeliogs, like thOlle above mentioned You and, in all her ways, to aid her husbl).nd"in celebrated f~r the part he took ID the Amen- they took my knife, and from my overcoat a all they meet. The next day delolatiorl retgIJ. er! in the telm holiness. Justice, truth, in- haTIl had the Spirit of Christ. whether you his work. She assumed the entire care of I<au RevolullPn .. It so happened that tbe Bilk handkerchief. TIle alticle upon my per. ovetthe lanel.- The King, during die, blOOd, tegrify, and faithfull1ess, the great principles ha'ie it now or not. You have been trans. the family, managing an the temporal affairs, c?mpany ha~ waited so~e time f~r Mr. Mar- son of chief value w~8-a gold watch-a pre- 8~turna.1ia-, !ooked. on eagerly tnd dnced) in or the divine government, and designed to be formed from the image of the Earthly to tbat in doors and out, and thus permitting him to r~. ~1io on hiS appe.arance apologized for de- sent from my ilear b~t#!er.· This was in its hIS chair With dehght. L " pos'sessed and carri'ed1out by alll·utelll·gences, Y· lJ . devote all his time and efforts to his charge tll.1mng.them ~y saymg that he bad been en- k· t Astberobbers had stript I The king of Daho/lev pavel the appro ... bea

. of the hl!BVenly. ou ara contmua y,servmg and his studies In addition 10 these duties • .gaged In r?adIDg a sermon of a clergym.an poc et III my ves. ., ~ ':h .. "., are reBtored to the soul in regeneration, and el·thAr nod or Satan. I. Ye cannot serve God h h d t tEl nd to recelye open my vest in order to eearch all about my to hiS reSidence, and ornaments t ~,'b.:ttTe-

, y .., which were by uo means slight she contrived w 0 a JUs gone a ng a wais, t-the usual.place in t~e East of carry- J?~nts of his palace, with t~e Bkb.U~ 'h'Ntia ~ will thri,e and grow under the genial influences and Mammon" at the same time. Perbtlpa to find time to read all the g:eat theological orders. " Well, Mr. Morris," said the docto~ ing articles of value-I contmued tQ ~old the urns. j an.d the great !i'etchle trit!e-,\a~~ti~, of divine grice, in connection with our culti- f. tbe light that is in ~hee is darkness." If so, works of the age. A new book was not long "bow did you like id" " It's too, 8m~oth an vest open, keeping the upper pi~t of It pulled has Its WIde I~read ltmbs ,ladllldtritii blUllllD yation, imparted in an8wer to daily prayer. h . d k I" n h th in the house before she dlvoured it which tame 'for me." "Mr. Morris," rephe~. the b kId ] d d carcasea and luubs' Tbe :wa t fl' -

.. o~ great 19 that a~ ne88 ""-Ill aps . Y, was about syuonymous with the dig:stion of doctor, II whatsort of a sermon do you hk~ ,.. ac C 08e to an ,.part y un erlmy arms, an. .1. n 0 IlI~y ,II This restoration comprehends our right posi. faith is dead I .. For 88 the bpdy wi~hout thl! its conteots. II I like, Sir." replied Mr. Morris! " that kmd 80mewhat. bidden io tbe foldll ormy ovel'coat. no disgrace, and the prJUlts art;! em]I0.led II! tion·, designed 1.;y the Creator when he endow- spirit is .dead, 80 faith' without worka is dead In later life, after tlie death of her husband, pf preae.hing which driTe8 a. man .Into the co~· Thus the watch escaped the robbers' e'earcb, pimps.· " ~" ~ ed us with intelligence. In what particular also!' James 2: 26. The Chriatiap is ra. and when she had passed the bonnds of oinety ner of his pew and makes hlID thmk the deTil although repeatedly they put their hanas al· "Murder, adultery, and tbieTery,'I' IIY' • aft h· " most upon it, and I momentarily 81peeted Bosman, IJ are here no Mn,"~) I, J~ \ (, Ii'! ways man W8S to sene his God in a etata of quired to strive with all diligence to mue his years, alie found a season of leisure which IS er 1m,

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. Edltor .... GEO. B. UTTER '" THOMAS S. BROWN (T.» ••

Occulonll Editorial COlltrlbuton : JAMES BAIl.EY (,. D.) I WM B. MAXSON (w ... ) 'J' E BABtJO(lK (T. D ••• ) N v HULL (N v Hi J )t. AI.LEN (') A B)BURDICK (~ D "

British Corrolpondell" JAMES A.BEGG

Oua AocouNTs~The twelfth volume or the Sabbath Record. er 11 more than tbr .... quarten completed.. Bill. to the end.r the volume have been lent to thOle Who owe the establishment, 10 thai .0 one n ••• be In d"".t .. to the .tate of his ac.ount. AU of th_ bUll ought to be plld before the volllDle c10 .. & It hal been propolOd to make out allst of due. at the end of the volume. and pnnt 11 with the next Annual Report of the Pub­Ulhlng'Soclety, 10 that the members may e.timate for them .elT8I the VIlue of Iho.e unpaid accounll which '0 .. rloUBly emltll'l'ul our operations. It Is dSlluable that the Hilt should b. lSi Ihort as pos.lble.

THE AMERICAN BOARD.

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TH~ SA~~ATH RECORDER, MAIeR 13, 18~6. that they might etand on an equality with ed converted. The Female School had produc· have been multiplied' and the means for ac ucated natives, who are deists or infidels ed greater interest in the community than any qui ring !,~~dl-:ve increased beyond ou; They should have a knowledge of Sancrit, thing else. Female education was the only fond~ e la • . Hence the mass of the that they might be able to answer the learned hope of the Gospel in India. Instead of atop' peopll' ar;'bett j'informed than tbey were Br~hmin in his opposition to Christianity;> ping the schoob, and the little good tbat is then. Wl;'y, theti, does not the word preach . ThIS education, it was said, was not needed being done, the churches should furnish great· ed !¥ave sn efF~'ct as it did tben1 Is it not for native pastors in the villages, and that a er means fi,r their support, and make them because it is not preached with the same ear· knowledge of their vernacular would enable more effective. It would be a very great evil nestness, fervor, zElal, anifaith, tbat it was by them to explain the truth of thEl Word of God to,undo at once what had been done for thirty. those meq.or" God 1 in a satisfactory manner. Arrangements were five years Funds are given for the support It ifimportant for...ill promotion religion, made to commence the village system on the of schools, that will not be given for other that those who pre8l~ word be truly pious. Ahmednuggur Mission This would mainly purposes. Sabbath·School children wilt give A stream will not rise above its fountain. do away WIth the plan before adopted, and for srhools. Change should not be made It is not impOSSIble for a church to be more limit its course of education. , among the Hindoos in a system already in religious than its pastor; but a church has a

The Deputation was clear III the opinion, operation Good results could not be expect. right to expect in him who has willingly taken that the English High School at Bombay ed from the Madura Schools, because they that office upon hIm an example of upright. should be closed. Their reasons were-1st. were stinted. He looked upon the labor in ness and piety, and if he has it not, he should The English language is made, to too great his school as an interesting preparatory work. not imyosB on a people in attempting to fill a an extent, the medium of communicating in. Bombay and Madras are important missions. place that he will only disgrace. I believe

A special meeting of the American Board struclion. The vernacular of any peoplo is It will take a missionary three years to learn that we ought to pray for and expect a higher of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was believed to be the most suitable language in the language so 8S to preach intelligibly., state of practical piety, and less conformity held in Albany, commencing on the 4th inst. which to communicate truth, and through Without anything else to do, he would get to the world, among those "who are placed For several years, there has been much cor. which to all'ect the heart. Schools iu which discouraged. MIssionaries should have some· over us in the Lord" I respondence between the Board and its mis. the vernacular is the grand medium of in· thing to do. Teaching would be appropriate Have we not been too well satisfied with Bionariea in India, on the question of teaching struction, and the English, ifintlOduced, only for them. MIssionaries as a body _mId be worldly prosperity, and thus, through the de. as a part of missionary labor. The Mission taught as a classic, seemed to be founded on permitted to manage the details of their mis· ceitfulness of riches, neglected the cultivation in Bombay requested permission to establish the best basis, and to promise and produce sions. Missionaries should devote themselves of the heart 1 Our churches have been rapidly a high school on the model of a Scoteh es. the best results. 2d. The expense of such a principally to preaching, but should bave increasing in wealth for a few years past. tablishment, in which the English language is school is an objection to continuing it. It hberty beyond this. In every possible way The people being mostly agriculturists, their taught. The expense of this school, in the must be made to compete with other schools they s1lUuld labor to convert the heathen. investments have been safe and sure, and beginning, would be about 825,000; the an· of a similar character, or it cannot be suc. Native preachers should be raiC"Up. FoJl. their income ab'undant. :Brethren, I fear this nual expense would be about $3,500. ThiB .eeBsfully maintained. The present amount of eigners cannot give the pure word of Gl)d in has injured us, we have not piety enough to request was also urged by the brethren of the funds would not warrant this. 3d. The in· the vernacul~r. Superior young men should be rich; we shall be "lifted up with pride, Ahmednuggur Mission. The distinguishing fiuance of such schools on other missions is be educated m EnglIsh to do thi3. Engli!h and fall into the condemnatIon of the devil II

feature of this class of Bchools is, that the not desirable. Other missions could not be should be taught there as Greek and Latin Have OUt churches increased in piety as they English language is made the chief medium pelsuaded that there are good reasons fer are here. There are not words in the Tamil have increased In numbers 1 Are the meet. of instruction. This was urged upon the such a school in one city, and not in another. ~anguage to express Christian ideas. There ings for prayer and praise as faithfully attend. Board a8 necesBary to Bave the mission from Hence the question became one of mission IS no word that can gIVe the scriptural idea ed BS former Iy 1 Aud do you see there bowed extinction, on account of the s rong attractive policy. of sin. It is there equivalent to error or fault. at the same altar the parents and the children, influence of schools of that class, established The Batticotta Seminary had been shorn God over:ule~ education. There are five and the pastor wnh his flock? I am positive by other Societies. The Board felt unable of its former great religious strength, and was hundr.ed glrls.l~ Madras under religious in· that the preachmg of the Gospel, 10 its slm. to settle this question by correspondence. It working mainly for the secular advantage of ~tructJon: ~hls ~s more powerful than preach· plicity, by men of God, accompanied WIth a was therefore determined to send vut a Depu. the native youth. The study of the English mg. MISSIonaries need a variety of occu· corresponding itJflllence from the church-ac. tation to investigate and settle it, subject to had increased on the Tamil, till there were pauon. He thinks the missionaries were in· companied abo WIth a knowledge of God's the revision of the Board. This Deputation only twelve studies of the Tamil to thirty.five fluenced by the Deputation in deciding to will-and the general exercise of prayer and consiBted of Dr. Anderson, Senior Corre. of the Enghsh. The introduction of pay make the chan?es. Regrets these changes, praise to God, accordlJlg to the gIfts bElstow. sponding Secretary, and Rev. Mr. Thompson, scholars was filling the school with the Bons of as. advantage ~111 be taken of them by Cath· ed, ara Indispensible in promoting true, last. of the Prudential Committee. Very full in. rich men, or men connected with the govern. ohc~ and J eSUltR. Regards the VIllage schools ing piety 10 the churches. There may be structionB were given to the Deputation upon ment, who were preparing for secular posts as I.mportant. amo~g one hundred and fifty some spasmodic movements, and symptoms of this question and collateral queBtions. of honor or profit. The Deputation suggest. mIlhon~ of mha~ItBnts. The English lall' returDlng hfe, with only a partial use of those

The Deputation sailed from Bostoll in Au. ed throwing out the English, except to a guage ~s progreB8mg,. and cannot be stopped. means; but the dry bones will not truly live gust, 1854, and spent 220 days among the select theologIcal class of graduates. To this !he Bible accompames the English language without it; for so hath God ordained. "Ye India missions, making investigations. They the Mission objected, and it was decided to 10 Its progress. He would have the English must be lively stones of the spuitull.I build. visited 37 missions-28 in India, and 9 in Buspend the Seminary. tau.gh~ to a claB~ of schol~rs, that~ they might mg." "Ye are God's husbandry; ye are Western Asia. They conferred with 58 mis. The Oodooville Female Boarding School assIst I~ preparmg a full lIterature, and make God's building." "Preach the word; apply sionaries, and carefully con"idered 87 written has retained Its character as a religious insti. translations of tracts and other rehgious thyself in season, out of season; reprove, reo reports, in which the vIews of missionaries tution. The object of this school is to give works. Labor should not be valued by the buke,-Bxhort, with alllong.sufFering and teach. were embodied. They held formal confer. to a select number of promiBing females an number preached to. ~e had the hIghest ing." 2 TIm. 4: 2. A CHURCH MEMBER. enceB with the Mahratta Madura Ceylon education superior tn what they can obtain In regard for the DeputatIon. The system of THE COUNTRY HAMLET, N. J , Feb. 7, 1856.

Madras, Arcat, and Syri~n Missio~8. Mos; the Christian village schools, with a view to VIllage churches and B~hools, with native pa.s. of their labors were expended with the mis. their becoming the wives of native pastors, ~ors and ~eachers, whICh they had aIded m THE CINCINNATI FUGITIVES. sions in India. In these conferences with the catechists, and other missionary agents. It mauguratmg, would pay for the effort th~y The poor fugitives arrested at Cincinnati missionaries, a series of questions were pro- was determllJed to reduce the number tJf ~d made. He was concerned for the pupIls have been taken back into Kentucky. It pounded by the Deputation for discussions pupils to thirty. five ; and they lOre to be the 1.isbancred ~chools The ?at~lic& is generally understood that they will soon and reports. The following are some of the twelve years old when they enter. and gen. ~ere gettmg strong Influence by their educa· be sent down the river and sold, in company topics on which discussions were held, and erally to give evidence of piety, and to come tlOFn. . with several others who have recently made

d Th .... fi fi ·1· f b h b • rom thIS sketch of the speech of Mr Ii I reportB ma e: e governmg object m miS' rom amlles 0 c urc mem ers, or nommal W' .. • Bttempts to escape rom s avery. The State 8ionB to the heathen j preaching:; native Christians. lDslow, It :vIII be seen that he ~oes ~ot ap· of Ohio had an u~doubted right to hold them ehurches and pastors; caste and polygamy; Tbe Board had expended $250,000 in edu. prodve the actl~n of the .D~putatlon wIlh Ie- for trial on the charge of murdering or en. .. . Aft h . . gar to teachmg as mIsSIonary labor .ne' . \ h d f h . stallon schools; gtrls' schools; the free catIOn. er suc an outlay, It IS thought .. . • couraglOg t e mur er 0 t e child. But the

. . h "'. I b d f!' founds hIS opmlOn upon the experIence of U· d S D·· J d . . schools; the Oodoovllle Female Boardmg t at a SUlllClent y roa IOundalion has been . . . . Illte tates IStTlct u ge deCided that It School; Batticotta Seminary; Printing and laid in general education. The alumni of thl~ty,slx years of mlsslO~alY labor. It IS was t~e duty of the United States Marshal to Medical 'Establishments .• After a full discus. these schools are among the leading men-the entitled to much conslderatJon. take t~m out of the hand of the Sheriff, and sion upon tlie- topics, they were referred to intellectual aristocracy of theIr day. But the I must defer the remainder pf my report the SherIII' had not plucl~ enough to resist the committees of missionaries, who made their precise value of the results of the above ex. till next week, and bespeak for this subject a demand. The personal claim of the slave. reports. Brief extracts from these reports penditure, in a religious and missionary point careful consideratIOn, as it may yet afFect very holder to his property was recognized as par.

f . . b much our own miSSIOns. J B h d d were made; from which we Jearn, that the 0 VIew, will e seen only after there shall be . amount to t e eman s of pubhc JUStIce for Ahmednuggur, Madura, and Ceylon mISSIOns time to know the results of the changes that • the punishment of crime. Accordingly, the and schools were alike 10 their beginning. are now in progress in the working of the THE PROMOTION OF RELIGION. slaves were taken by the ferry.boat across to SepoolB for heathen children were taught by missions. The labols heretofore expended Ever since the introdnction of ChriBtianity, Covington, where a grand demonstration was heathen masters. The number of pupils are regarded as only a preparation. It is the inquiry among the pious has been, "How made in honor of the triumph of Kentucky ~OBe at one time in the Mahratta mission to tbought that the labor expended in schools can we be the most successful in promoting over Ohio. 2,000; in the Madura to 4,000; in Ceylon to has been very inefficient as converting influ· religion in the world 1" From the prinCIple In thIS connection our readers will peruse 6,000. These schools have declined. Very ence, and tha~ the field .ought to be abandoned which prompts this inquiry, all the machinery with interest the followlDg letter, written by few conversions resulted from these labors. as unproductive, even If the same a.mount of that has been heard throughout the length and P. C. Bassett, from Fairmount Theological Looking at the working of the schools, the ~alent. and labor had been employed m preach· breadth of the land, has been put in motlon, Seminary, Cincinnati, on the 12th of February, Deputation decided that "Bchools, regarded mg with no better results. and each has manufactured its own material. and published in the Ammcan Baptzst :-as converting instrumentalities, have almost The foregoing brief sketch of the rllport Religion will not prosper without the ordinary Last Sabbatl., after preaching in the city wholly disappointed us; as preparatory means, and views of the Deputation, shows their esti. mst~umentalitieB that God has appointed; prison, CmciulJatI. through the kmdness of tbe h h d • f h' . . Deputy.Sheriff, I was permItted to VISIt the t ey ave not answere expectatIOn; 8S au:c· mate 0 teac mg as mIssIOnary labor. It will anu.with the appropriate use of these, it will

apartment of that unfortunate woman con. iliartes, they have been expensive. Where be seen, that they have suspended Beveral prosper. One of these is the light of Christ· cerning whom there has been 80 much ~xcite. there are competent Christian teachers, and schools, and limited others, and have almost ianity as reflected through its professed fdends. ment durmg the last two weeks. • funds to spare for the purpose, it is well to excluded the study of the English language, "Y e are the light of the world." Every I found her with an infant m her a. ms only have schools in heathen villages. In general, confining the labors of the schools to the study person will have an influence according to a few months ulo, and observed that it had a and more as miBBionssucceed,thefunds to be of the vernacular wher th h I I t h h h . d 'f II r large bunch on Its forehead. I inqUIred the e e BC 00 S are oca· tee aracter e sustamB j an I a prOles· cause of the injury She then proceeded to

five years, during which time sbe did not see To the EdJIor. of the Babb~ ~ordor 1_.

him; that could she have prevented it, sh, As I am intending. to prepare a repl would never have permitted him to return B B ' .. d I' Y to as she did not wish him to witness ber suffer' r~i Brown 8 reJom er, WIsh to derer it ings, or to be exposed to the brutal treatment untl roo B. flflly develops his views on th that he would receive. mediation of Christ as modifying the Dlvlo:

She states that eht;l has been a faithful ser· Government. And I would respecrfully re­vant, and in her old age she would not have quellt of Bro. B., that he would explrcltl attempted to obtain her liberty; DUI as she state his view, 8S to whether the atone- Y became feeble, and less capable of performing r' d ·"em labor, her master became morl and more ex. was Imlte or general as I am yet at I

t k h'·' a 08s acting and bl utal in his treatment, until she .0 now IS views on that poiIlt. And I Would could stand it DO longer; that the ell'ort could Just say, fartber, that I hope those wbo h result only in deatb, at most-she therefore read and may yet read wh~t may be ffi aVe made th tt . . 0 ered

e a em pt. WIll gIve the subject a'lll t' t h "' She witne8sed the killing of the child, but h B B ~,'liia len. earlng; for,

said that she neither encouraged nor discour ~ muc as roo • seElll alarmlDg symptO\D8 aged her daughter.in.law-for under similar In my supposed defection from the faith b . b r e

Circumstances she should probably have done cannot e more alarm~d than I am at h the same. The old woman is from sixty to views. Jt is nOI di.cussion I "a~ after b 18 seven~y. years of age; has been a professor truth; and I was w!J1l aware, when I cri'. ut of rehglOn about twenty years and speaks d h' fi . I .. tIels-With m h p. I' f h" 'h h h 11 e IS rst arUc e, what It mIght C08t ~ UC lee mg 0 t e time w en s e s a .ue. be delivered from the power of the oppressor, But I mtend th.at nope uf these things shall a~d dwell with the Saviour, "where the move me. NeIther the cry of Bushlsm, Swe. WIcked shall cease from troubling, and the denborgianism, or Armiiiianism ought to J ,. , lle· weary are at rest. ter one from seeking afrer truth Wh h

These slaves (as far as I am informed) have hold the £: 'th r • ,'. et er I resided all their lives within sIxteen miles of al (). the Denom!IA~!n, or not, I Cmcinnati. We are frequently told that Ken. am a~most certaIn that Bro. B:~s not. But :ucky slavery is very innocent. If these are that IS of httle consequence, compllred wltb lis fruits, where it exists in a mild forml will the faith of Jesus.' 8.8. G.

some one tell us what we may exp~ct from its -1; more -objectionable featureB 1 But comments MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT GREENMAr;. are unnecessary. VILL!!, ?T.-On Sixth.day, Feb. 29th, os Mr.

• Franklm Barber was arranging Home of the THE VENERABLE CHAPLAIN-The Chap ~'jl.hM!!:t1f.J.n the, F!!;.ctory in Greenmanville,

lain elect of the House of Representatives Ct., his clothes were caught by a shaft revolv. has not yet reached Washington, but is ex· ing with great rapidity, and he was almost pected there with unusual interest. The fact instantly killed. By this appalling! accident that he is a Revolutionary soldier, now on the a wife and two SOD8 have been overwhelmed pension list, tl)ough for seventy years a Con· in sorrow. It has shrouded our communit gregalipnal clergyman, excites a buzz of ex· in mourning. HIS loss will be almost in;' pectalion when his name is mentioned. The parable. As a husband, father, citizen, and Syracuse Journal thus speakB of him :- Christian, he lived unblemished. In him the

" 'Father Waldo,' as he is familiarly de· man and Christian were most happily blend.' signated, IS even now a remarkahle man. He ed. In the church at GreenmanviJIe, he Was

has never been sick, and now appeals as a pillar-a bright and noble .,example of hI' hearty and vigorous as most men of the age fi. 8 of thirty years. He resides on his farm m pro esslOn. His funer:iI waB attended on Geddes, two and. a half miles from Syracuse, Flrst.day, at Hopkinton, R. 1., by a large and he has daily been in the habit of walking concourse of people, who truly mourned the to this cIty and back. He has for some time loss of a good man. A discourse from Eccl been filling the pUlpit of the Congregational 8: 8, was delivered by Elder S. S. Gnswold. church at Manlius, In this county. He never preaches a sermon a second time, but always . C COA!)I. prepares one for the occasion. We have never known an 1n9tance of a person of his age 'keeping up with the times' so COJIl.

pletely as Mr. W. has done. He is as thor. oughly read in the literature of the past year as m that of any previo us time of his hfe. We regret to learn that the aged wife of Mr. W. died about six weeks ago. Dr. Sprague, of Albany, is now engaged in writing Mr. Waldo's hfe, which must form an interesting volume,"

REVIVAL AT ADAMS-A business letter from Bro. Charles Botter, of Adams, N. Y., gives the following cbeering intelligence :_

" .. It may be interesting to you to know, that the Spirit of the Lord has been among us during the Winter, and performed a work ~?ich has c~us~d the hearts of many to reo ~Olce, In .brmgmg from the bondage of sin mto tlie hberty of the Gospel many precious souls, and m awakening backsliders to a knowledge of their condition, and enablmg them to return to their father's house. About C forty have recently been baptized and added . B~RCB EDIFICE FUND.-The Baptists In

to the church; a number of others stand ae IllinOiS are engaged in a movement to secure candIdates; am} others still are inquiring the a church edifice fund. The condItIOns on way. In this work we have the pleasure of which the money is to be loaned are as fol. witnessing the gathering in of a harvest, the lows:-seeds of which have been sown in our Sab. ~,-bath School. For a few years past our Sab .. Loan~ to the ~'\IIrche~ &hall be made on bath School has been in a prosDerous condl' the followl~g conditions, VIZ: the sum loaned tloo"and most of our children h\ve there reo to be reprud at the end of two years, with In·

ceived a knowledge of the way of hfe that t?rest at two per cent.; at the end of thIS has enabled them willingly to receive the t~me, howeve.r, t~e Board may, at Its dIme· Spirit, and prepared them for an inileritance lIOn, on apphcatlon. from the church, grant beyond the skies," two years more at 8W; per cent.; and again,

• two years, at ten per cent. The Board shall -

MADISON UNIVERSITY.-A private letter received by the editor of the Watchman and Reflector, from one whose relations to Madi. son University enable hIm to speak intelli. gently, says:-

take a bond or note from the Trustees of the church, individually, secured by mortgage upon the cb~rch property, and on each occaSIOn of :enewmg t~ !oan, may require, if theithink It best, addiuonal securitIes. The whole tr&:nsaction. is to be regarded in the light of a stTlctly busI~ess one, and all oblig~iollsfuJfill.

.. Madison University is greatly prospering, ed as m ordmary busmess relations." though we have sustained a serioua loss in • the death of Dr. Taylor. As we had liow· BAPTISTS IN OHIO.-The anniversary of ever, been expecting this event for som~ time, h

t e Ohio State Convention, held in October ample provlsl~n was made to supply his loss, so far as the IDternal state of the mstitution last, was, saYB the T~mes, the thirtieth smcs is concerned. The question of the succes. that hOdy was organized. In the report we sion is now occupying the attention and anx- ffhd this term divided IDtO periods of teo Jean I~ty of the Bo~~ and friends, and is a ques· ~ach, ~nd the amount raised in each respect. tlOn of great ImJiprtance. Our TheoloD1cal I j,. h fi . S . o· Ive y gIven. In t erst It W8S $4 720 in the

appropriated to such purposes, will little more ed. It WBS also represented, that these changes sors of religion SUStd cbaracterB corre· give a detailed account of her attempt to kill than suffice for aiding native Christians in ed. were suggested or approved by the mission· sponding with that pro ion, how soon would ber ohlldren. ucating their own children, and for educating aries of the several missions. we see" Zion arise, Ith her lamps trimmed, She said that when the officers and slave. cBt~chiBtB and preachers." Schools in Cey. When the report came before the meeting and her lights burning." It is truly lamenta. hunters came to the bouse in which 1I.ey were Ion are not as valuable 8S before. Chl'ldren" 'd t·o h" d d' 1.1 h· k b h . concealed, she caught a shovel and struck two [or consl era I n, a somew at spmte IBCUS u e to t 10 t at we ave m our churches bap. of her clnldl en on the head, and then took a

emmary has attained to all the vigor and second $16,480, in the third <1>33,\'00.' ThiS fullness of the m')st prosperous period under h 'i' .. the old dispensation. The U Diversity proper statement BOWS a very gratifyi~g in~rease reached thIS pOSItion and went beyond it two The total is above $65,000. It IS estimated or three years ago. Th" Theological Semi. that at the pres~nt rat~ of .increase, the income nary has now come up Our theological .of the Convention will, m ten yelrs more, classes are highly respect;ble in numbers and amount, a~nually. to $6,000. The last year, embrace members of great promise.'" th? lIum !alsed was $4,300. The Ohio Baptls.ts,

• do not remain as long, their se'rvices being sion arose with regard to this part of the reo tized infidels, made worse for mending-rum. knife and cut the throat of the third, and tried demanded b:y their parents at an earlier age. port. Seyeral members spoke hriefly, advocat· drinkers, tavern·haunters, frolickels, game. to kill the other-that If they had given ber

The tendency to centralization in missions, ing and opposing tbe report of the Deputation. sters, horsejockeys, speculators, the worldly. tIme she would have killed them all-that POWER OF CONCENTRATION.-Thefollowing is indicated by the centering of schools. con· Among these were Chandellor Walworth, minded, the covetous, and the deceiver, in with regard to herself she cared but hllle; but incident, related of Webster, by President

with theIr great and prosperous State and Its population of mOle than 2,000,000, have a noble field for missionary ell'l)rt. During tile year, twenty.five mIssionaries have been under emp!oy, sP~e fOf the whole year, others for portions of It. In connection with their labors, two hundred and twenty converts have been baptized, and etghty have been added to tbe churches by letter.

• . h I b d' h 1 Drs. Riddle and McIllvaine. Dr. Cox desired h . . she was unwilling to have her children sull'er greg1,lUons, natlve e pers, oBr mg sc 00 s, w ose relIgIon the world has no confidence. as she had done. . Woods, sho.ws that tbe highest power of abo English Bchools, printing press, &c., at the discus~ion, and said he was iuformed that the Cbristianity is sometimes measureQ 91 tSege I inquired ifshe was not eXPl~most to straction existed in tbe New England states. atation where miBSionaries are located. ThiB venerable Dr. Winslow, who ha~ been a hangers on, who will not leave the church, madness when she committed the act 1 No man. It occurred in one of his great speeches (lentralization is not regarded liS useful in missionary in India thirty.six years, had just wishing to be called Christians, totake away she replied, I was as cool as I now am' and in reply to Calhoun :_ missions, anil especially the school is not ra- arrived, and requested, if he were in the con· their ):eproach; and at the same time. the would much rather kill them at once, and thus

d k h end their sull'ermgs, than have them taken garded 81 a good nucleus. The church is in gregation, that he woul ta e t e Btand. Or. church has not moral fortitude. and piety back to slavery and be murdered by piece. fact the only effective nucleus. The system Winslow then came forward, and after a enough to apply to them the prmcipleB 01 meal. She then told the story of her wrongs. of village IIChools and village congregations, hearty greeting from Dr. Cox and others on Christian disciphne. This is a Bad Btate of S.he spoke of ~~r days of sufFermg, of her commenced somel ten years since, is the con. the stand, proceeded to give his views upon things but I believe that in some instances it mghts of uumltlgated tOIl, while the bitter verse of the centralizing system. The vil. this subject. His long experience in miBSion· is tru~. tearB cour~ed their way pown her ch~eks, and

. . fell in the face of the innocent child as it look. lage system ill the reBult of progress, and is ary labors secured for him the most respectful To promote rllhglOn, the GOBpel must be ed smiling up little conscious f th d found to be much more efficient. attention, and for his opinions the greateBt preached in its primitive simplicity. possibly and probable ~ufFering that awaited ~t. anger

There were found by the Depntation four respect. He said that upon the question of oral the inf\.uences of the age have tended to lead As I listened to the facts, and wItnessed the boarding schools for boys. It was arranged preaching, in opposition teaching, he took the God's ministers, though unp~rceived by them, agony depipted in her cOl1nt~nan.ce,. I' could

that they llhould be merged in two at the end commission of the Saviour, "Go teach all to depart from the plainnesB and Bimplicity of 'n.o) qut exclaIm, Oh how. terpbl8 IS. ~rre~pon. h· . . .. Sible Dower, when exerCIsed over mtelhgent

of the year, and in one at . the J)loBe of 1856. nations." All teac 109 on mlBslonary ground the past, and, .I~ adoptmg a more modern bein~ I She allude~ to the child that she and that one to be discontinued at the close is preaching. Teaching schools is preaching style of sermoDlzmg, they have either blunted killed as being free from all trouble and sor. of the iyear 1867. The\ Prudential Com· the Gospel to children, and this is the most the edge of the sword, or formed for it a ro~, with a deg~ee of,satisraClion that allIlost mittee decided to relinquish the sehool Ilt that can be done by a missionary for several sheath that has made it harmless. The same chills the blood II) one s velDS. ¥ et she evi. Ahmednuggur, expecting to resume it in IW y.ears after hIS arrival. The influe'ltie of the succeSB does not attend the word preached dently possesses all the pa.ssionate tenderneqs

1 d d H h h J ir. , of a mother's love. She 1/1 about IW t Ii improved form. It Wall said that II the edu- schoo s was Iln errate. e t oug t auna now as was apparent In the day. of Tennant years of d I en y. ve d r th f h W Who fi d 'age, an ,apparent y PQsselise~ an

cation of native pastors SIUNld be according in a vance 0 0 e-,: parts 0 t e country, on esley, It el , and others of that class. average amount of kindness wl'th . f · d t' Ed' d ,. • , a vIgorous

to their talents, and the field of labor which account 0 Its e uc~ Ion. ucat;ton pro uces In 1832 and 33, reVIvals were the result of intellect and mudi energy of character. they were npe.eted to occupy." In CitiBII, it elects immediately and remotely. There were faithful preaching in almoBt every part of the Th~ two men and the two oldest children is important that paatprs should hB-ve 8uch many conferted in the schools, and many after, country, hoth in America and in England. were m a!l0ther apartment, but her mother.i? knowledge "of English 1UI.to /lonsult English they had left thern"from ti)e instructions there Since that time religious advantages /lave Ithaw waSh In thfe .sahme hr?odm. She saysf ahhe 18

• .U k f . '. . e mot er 0 elg tell ren, most 0 w om books and commentaries. They shovld also recelve~. ~.Le. ne.w 0 sIxty lXlast.ers In the been IDcreaBing ; costly sanctuaries'!i'ave been have been separated from her j that her ilIayo some knowledge of English sciej\ce, ~bool~ lD ti)e dlstrtct of J afi'na, who had been bQ.i1t i Seminaries, Academies, and Colleges, hUBband Was once separated from ber twenty.

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.. At the moment when the argument seem. ed to demand his undi,Pded attention, arid THINGS IN THE OLDEN TIME.-An article when the powers of the assembly were most in the Edinburgk Revtew, professing to drew severely taxed in following him, and all were its facts from Felt's HIstory of Salem, gives hanging on his lips, a package ofletters was the following ludicrous description of the way laid on his desk by a page of the Senate h' Without at all arresting the course of his 41r: t mgs used to be done ~mong the Puntans: gnDlentatioll, except perhaps by a slight abate. ," The boys were ranged on the stairs oftha ment ufthe fluency of his utterance he oplmed meeting.hol!s~, 'lind, a !lIHn was apppmted to his letters, and cast his eye over ~hem, so as keep people fr~m sleeping by means of a apparently to possess himself of their can. short chub bed sttck, havtng at on'.! end a knob, tenlS, by a perfect contemporaneous process of and at the other a foxtail with which he would thought; and thus gave demonstration that, st~oke the women's faces that were asleep, and great as were the occasion nnd the subject, WIth the other would knock unruly dogs and he had mind enough for them, and to 8'1)ar~." men. In ~he same place, Salem, two Dlen

were appolDted to make a circuit of tbe town during service, and to mark down tbe non· atte~dant~, in ~rder tp present them to the maglBtrate, whIle, at the same time, tbree constables were appointed to keep watch at the three doors of tbe meeting·house to pra• vent anyone from going for~h ' till all tlie eJ'

• THE J Ews.-By recent acco~i:tts, it app,ears

that ell'orts in behalf of the Jews in EurQpe are attended with considerable success. The London Society have 91 laborers, of whom iiI are converted !sraeli~es. In :poland, duro ing the past Ihirty years, 400 Jews have been converted; in the DUChy of Posen 800 Jew. ish Clhildren are in Christian schools I in Ber. lin, there are 2,000 baptized J eW8 I in one chapel in London 700 adult JeWB have been baptized.

erllises were finishlld.' 1/

• Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, says the New York Obser'lJer, has educated nearly BIX bundre1d young wen fOf the ministry ,during ber fifty.three yeara of existence, thirty·five of whoni have entered the foreign field .

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THE SABBATH RECO RllEB, MARCH 13 Itj.} 6. 159 RELIGIOUS INTELLIGENCE, Pro~eedIB~B In Congress last Week.

SECOND DAY MARCH 3

At the close of the two conference-years In the SENATE, Mr Cass made a personal fpcedmg the one Ju~t closed, the report of explanatIOn In relatIon to the matters 10 diS ~felhodlst memberships lO Texas gave not pute between thiS country and Great Bntam, rtr from twenty thousand-over eight thou- called out by a commUnication whICh appear­sand m the West"rn conference, and over ed In the Nat2011al Intelllgencer, after WhICh eleven tHousand 10 the Eastern At the recent !esswnB the West reported an mcrease of the bill authorlzlOg the construction of ten about three thousand five hundred. making, sloops of war was taken up, and passed after II that conference, near twelve thousand, some debate The estimated cost of each whde the East reported over three thousand, vessel IS $507,000, and $2,000,000 are now

terday the alarm wa~ gIven that the gorge had commenced to break, and slowly, at first, and maJestically, the floating fields began to move, then, gatherIng force and rushmg In upon the boats, 11 hfted some out upon the bank, whde thmeen others were carned down below and stranded upon the bars, where they were rapIdly cut !Dto ribbons A few of them that drifted mto tre bend of the fiver, although stramed lD:evelY tImber, fortnnately escaped further damage For some time the Ice con tlDued to float off',Ollt after a few hours agam gOI ged, causmg addlllOnal destruction to those steamers that still lay on the shore AmCIQus suspense then ensued The MISSISSIppI was ragIng rapidly, and It was well known that tbe next break-u p would be even more ternfic than the preceding one

At a recent meellng of the Academy of SCIence at Paris, M Flourens, speaking of the power ofchlorofOlm, remarked that Its use m the field hospItals of the army doubled the strength and power of the surgeons, as they sre more masters of theIr aclton when operatmg on an mert mass, and are no longer dIsturbed by the cries or movements of the patIent. In the Crimea, chloroform was employed, he stated, more than 26,000 times, and always WIth BUC­cess

The DetrOit Tribune says that at the raIl­road colhslOn WhICh Occurred on the MIChi­gan SoutherlJ Railroad near Hillsdale, 8

forlDlghtsmce, seventy three regIstered money leIters were destroyed by the fire that consumed the baggage cllr S(lme of the letters con­taIned as much as $600

The Supreme Court of Indiana has deCIded In the case of Craft vs the State Bank of IndIana, tbat the 28th and 29th days of Feb­ruary, m leap year, are to be counted as one day, snd a note fslImg due on the 28th can­not be protested for non-payment till after bankmg hours on the 29th

Ro~er8' Hotel ond DlJtln~ SRloODl, KEPT ON THE EUROPEAN PLAN,

No.4 Paltoa .. t.. N~York, Near Fulton Fe.,~'\

ti'" Roonu to lot by the day or week. OL411KE RoOERI } H I lI'N" Z Late of Fulton ote • ........ y OLLVJ:R

Savell'& Temperanee Hotel AND

TELEGRAPH DINING SALOON,

lIlaklDg ID that conference, over fourteen d h h b appropTlate thousand, so t at t e entire mem ershlp lO

Tbe LOUISVille Oouner, of the 28th ult, says: A correspondent, wntmg from Lex­mgton, under yesterday's date, adVIses us of the failure of Captam Cas8IUs 1\1 Clay HIS aSSIgnees are hiS brother Brutus J Clay ani! M C Johnson, Esq, of Lexmgton For several years past Mr Clay has been a large speculator m hogs, and to the recent beavy dechne 10 hog product, we presume may be attributed hiS unfortunate fadure

Texas IS not far from twenty seven thousand The HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES was en­-a rapidity of lOcrease far exceeding that of gaged all day In a diSCUSSIOn on the Deficlen­any other denommatlOn of ChristIans In that cy ApproprIatIOn bill State I TIDRD DAY, MARCH 4

At 7~ O'clock, the tolhng of the bells and the confused shouts that burst upon the still­ness of the mght, told tbat the Ice was agsm m motion 1 en vessels, meludmg among them two wharf b( ats that bad been sheltered from the first VIOlence, were torn from their fastemngs, hurIe~e upon another, and sent crashmg and drlftmg along the front of the levee Tha scene was truly appallmg to those who were merely spectators wblle the heroIC exertIons of the commanders and offi. cers who stood to their decks amid the falhng of timbers and the smkmg of vessels, dOlDg all that men could do to save them was a thnllmg exhlbmon of most true courage 10

the moment of extreme penl

The manumISSIon of slaves In Georgm IS The SENATE passed the bill appropriating forbidden by a statute of that Commonwealth $80,000 for new foruficatlOns at Galveston, Persons deslfous of freemg tbelr slaves have and the remamder of the day was occupied In

heretofore been In the habit of conveymg a debate on the IllInOIS electIOn case them to Olno, PennsylvanIa, or Borne other free State, and there executing the reqUisite Jeeds It has also been the practice of per sms deSirous of hberatmg their slaves after their death, to leave plOVISlrJn In thell"'1fillIs f,)r theIr cOllvayance to some free State and manumiSSIOn there A bill has Just passed the Georgia Senate whIch forbIds both prac­[Jces, and declares null and VOId all such pos thumous bequests

A letter to the Puntan Recorder from Rev A Sharpe of East Cleveland, OhIO, Febru .rr 14th Bays -" I am most happy 10 bemg able to WI lie that the Holy SPlTlt 18 dOIng a lovely work among a portion of my people The mterest commenced some SIX weeks smce There have been several cases of hopeful converSIon, and there are others who are m qUlIlng for the way of peace and hfe If the bless10g IS In proportIOn to our wants, It will be great lodeed ..

Dr Doulton's History of Concord, N H, records the followmg facts respectmg the First CongratlOnal Churcb "It IS beheved that pubhc worship on the Sabbath bas never failed to be observed by thiS church smce Its organization 10 1730 No dIfficulty has ever eXisted m It WhICh reqUired tbe adVICe and

~ acuiln of an EccleSiastICal Council. Its pas tors who have deceased are allmterred m the Qld burymg ground, and the average age of tbe pastors ull the present ume, IS about 29 years

The paragraph In CirculatIOn, stating that Father Matthew has become a mISSIOnary In the FeeJee Islands, proves to be mcorrect That dlstmgUlshed philanthropist, wrltlng to a fnend says ... SlDee my return to Ireland (from MadeIra) I have not left for a smgle day my dear brother's house, to which I am confined by Illness My heart 19 stilI, thank God, aB ardent as ever \n tbe glOrIOUS cause of temperauce "

The severe persecution which the Protest­ants In Austna have endured smce the rBign of FranCIS Joseph has driven a conSiderable number of Lutherans to thiS country, andllet­tlements have recently been made m Cape Girardeau and Perry counties, and near J ef ferson CIty, MISSOUrl, where churches have been constituted, which are supplIed by mm­Isters of the MISSOUrI Synod Another colony of emigrants from the vlclmty of Lmz has been made near Jonesborougb, UDion Co, III

A box of New Testaments In Turkish, that were to be shipped to Thessaroma, were re ccntly sent from the BIble depot 10 ConstantI D)Iflle to the custom house As they were books, some copies had to be sent to the Gov­ernment censor to be exammed before they could pa.s Tbey soon came back with the Government Beal on the first blank leaf, au thonzmg tbelr free CIrculatIon m Turkey

It IS stated that m consequence of the actIOn of the Protestant Conference lately held !D Pans, on the subject of religIOUS tolerance, several Governments have mstructed theIr representatlves to use theIr mfluence to get the death penalty for apostacy from Mobam medaDism removed, and they are already moving In the matter

The Executive CommIttee of the BaplIst Convention of the State of GeorgIa advertise the Christian Index for sale They say It IS an old established paper, the organ of GeorgIa Baptlsts, and the number of subscnbers IS about twenty seven hundred Bids will be received ull the 25th of A pnl next The Ind<,x IS puuhshed at Penfield

In the HOUSE, the Senate bill prOVidIng for the conijtructlOn of ten sloops-of war waS-i13-(erred to the Naval Committee A bill was mtrnduced, and referred to the Committee on Foreign Affal-s, to prevent the mtroductlon Into thIS country of foreign crIm1Oals, pau pers, &c The DefiCiency AppropriatIon bill was then taken up and passed

FOURTH DAY ~!ARCH 5

In the SENATE, a bill was reported, mak1llg apprOprIatIOns for fortIficatIOns, &0, tbe bill estabhshmg CollectlOlJ DistrIcts was passed, after WhICh, by a vote of 35 to 8, Hon Ly man Trumbull was confirmed 10 IllS seat for SIX years from the 4th of .'vlalCh last A rather personal debale on Kansas affllrs, between Messrs Hale, Toucey and WIlson, occupIed the rest of the day

In the HOUSE, m8Jonty and mmorlty re ports frOID the Committee on EJections, 111

relatIOn to tbe Kansas contested seat, were presented, conSIderatIOn of whICh was post­poned

FIFTH DAY MARCH 6

In the SENATE, a bill for the construction of a railroad from the MISSISSIPPI to the Pa Clfic at San FrauClsco was Introduced It gIves the Company 40,000 000 ac es of land at fifty cents an acre, reqUIres a hundl ed mIles to be completed wlthUl eighteen months, Government to pay $600 per mile for carrymg the mal! , the road to be forfeited If not completed wllhm ten years, and the lands to revert to the natIOn The Senate passed the usual ForlificatlOn bill After some talk on the Sound Dues, the Senate ad Journed to Second day

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In the HOUSE, the Mlhtary Academy and the PensIon appropnatlon bills were passed The House took up the Election Commlltee's report, askIDg power to send to Kansas for persons ~d papers m regard to the election of Deleg.a.~ In Congres. Speeches were made by Messrs Boyce agaIDst and BlIIgham for the report, and tbe House adjourned.

SIXTH DAY MARCH 7

The SENATE was not m sessIOn

The HOUSE spent the whole day upon Kansas affaIrS, In connection with the apph cation of the CommIttee on ElectIons for au thorIty to send for persons and papers m the contested election case Speeches were made by OlIver of MISSOtHl, Cum back of Indiana, Cullen, and Walker Adjourned till Second day

• EnropeaD News.

A dark night and a beatIDg- raID that en sued added dIsmalness and drearIness to tba occaSIon, alld left those who mIght struggle with the elements almost a hopeless taslt he fore them The addltlonal boats that were thus wrested from the shore, and Jammed amId the heaped up flakes that hurned them along, met a lIke fate WIth the steamers that had heen carned off m tbe afternoon

THE REPUBLICN ADDRESS - The Address to the People of the United States, adopted

by the National Convention of Repubhcans recently helJ at Plltsburg, makes nearly seven columns m the dally papers The followmg are the leadmg pom s ID It -

II It claIms the fight of tnal by Jury, urges devonon to the Constitution, goe.~ mto a gen eral history of tbe aggressIOns of slavery, defends the fl ee State men ( f Kansas agamst tbe charge of dIsobedience to law, deDles thaI the Consl1!utlOn recogmzes property 10

man, demes that Congress has any power to authOrize slavery to spread over free tern tory, and closes With dlsclalmIDg any mten tIOn to !Dterfeee WIth slavery In the States"

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In tbe middle of last August, (says a cor respondent of the Independent,) about SIX mIles below Hanmbal, fIlo, four men, stand Ing on the rver bank, saw a horseman emerg mg from the timber As soon as he saw the men, he came to a halt, they made toward hIm, behmd blm and 011 either Side was the land of bondage, before him was the MIs

Durmg a recent ram storm at Cape Breton, an avalanche of snow, Impelled by a large body of water, overwhelmed the dwellIDg house of a Mr Campbell, about thIrty miles from Sydney, destroymg the house and bury 1IIg ID the rums Mr Campbell, hiS WIfe, mother, threll children, and two young girls One of the children was rescued The ava ISllche occurred 10 the mght A barn was also overwhelmed, and elgbteen head of cattle kIlled Q'!l~ \ M~ Ai'iib'li'r and Mr Carlton, both of King

and Queen county, VlrglOla, were found near the!~n houses frozen, one of them leamng agsInst the draw bars, whIch he had eVidently attempted 10 vam to get over A stout negro man was seen stand 109 erect In the field, not far from a liouse, so long as to eXCIte CUrlOSI ty, and It was found, on exammatlon that he, too, was frozen to death I The wIDter m Vlrgmla has been terrIble

ShIp AsterIan, Capt Gay. from New Or­leans, arrIved at Llverpuol on the 16th nit On overhauhng the ship, the customs searchers found a mulatto gIrl concealed ID Ihe boat­swam's bunk, where she had been secreted durmg the voyage, unknown to anyone on board. excepllng the boat~walD A rewald of $500 was offered Bt New Orleans for the girls apprehenSIOn. She IS now at Liver­pool

A gentleman 1D New York, who has been plannmg to cooperate hberally with the Kan­sas EmIgrant Aid Company, was called upon a few days smce 10 help a su bscrlpuon for sending some military supplies to the settlers 10 Kansas, bavmg no money on hand to be convemently spared, he sold a dIamond pIn for $500, and gave the proceeds for the defense of freedom

c Among the Boston Banks, a bag, supposed

to con tam $5,000 10 gold com, has been cir­culated 10 the settlement of the dally exchan gee ThiS bag, on a recent exammatIOn, was found to contam lis weIght 10 -- copper m stead of gold When the substltuuon of the baser metal was made IS not known. nor IS It yet determIned on what Bank. the loss IS to fall

SIS81PPI and the IllInOIS shore, with one des- In the Assembly of New York, last week, per ate plunge of IllS spur m the Side of the Mr Ferdon reported a bill to regulate the ammal, the horse and nder were m the 1\118· sale of potatoes as follows "In all sales of SISSIPP' struggling With Its cunent I am olatoes, sixty pounds shall be conSidered one happy to say both horse and rIder landed on bushel, and one hundred and fifty pounds one the opposIte shore, no man darlug to follow barrel, and In all transactions or contract. for The river at the place of cruSSIng IS one mIle the sale of potatoes hereafter made, the dehv WIde ery thereof shall be by weight as aforesaid,

A bill relative to the PaCific Railroad bas ~nleSlJ, a .specIal coutract be made otherWIse" News from Europe up to Feb 23o, WGS been mlroduced mto tbe Umted States Sen In the latest accounts, we Bee It stated that a

receIved m New York on the 8th lOst, by the ate by a Senator from MISSISSIPPI, the prom large detachment of the British fleet IS expect­steamshIp Afnca mem feature bemg the eubmlsslon of the ed at Havana, and every o'le IS on the qUi

questIOn of route to puhhc competition Bid- vlve to welcome them The TerrIble the No udmgs from the mlssIDg steamshIp Pa ders, If we understand the telegraphiC abo DarIng Available, and Powelful, are already

Olfic stract. afe to Include the deslgnatlon of track there, and afe exchang10g salutes with the On the subject of the difficultIeS WIth the among tbe other condlllons of their tenders SpaDish war vessels In the harbor RU1l10r

United States we have nothing new to report, Government, as 10 all the various proJects, IS says their destlnal10n IS NICaragua, to pay a exceptIng that the London MorDing Advertl to gIve wbatever public lalld IS reqUiTed, and VISit to Col Walker ser professes to be aware that Mr Dal as car to pay handsomely be81de for the transporta Much exctlement was occaSIOned In New rles out very stringent demands m regard both uon of mads and the mIlItary ThiS scheme Orleans, by the discovery that Colonel Gar­to the Central American and the enhstment IS referred to the Committee upon the subject land, the CIty Treasurer, IS a defaulter to the

questions Col Fremont's Marlposas Bstate COli tams extent of $200,000 Mr Garland attempted The Peace Conference, 11 was supposed, upwards of seventy ~quare miles, Buuated to escape on board an outward bound schoon

would meet on the day that the AfrIca left about two hundred and fifty miles from San er, but was caught at the Bahze and brought AnXIety was dally mcreasmg as to the result FranCISco Palmer, Cook & Co, the Cah back to the cIty The Treasury Office IS It IS stated, but not generbIly credited that fOfllla banker., own one undiVided half of closed In consequence of the defalcation RUSSIa consents to the dlsmanthng of N ICO the tract, and the Colonel the other, whlCb The report that tbe Rev Dr Bushnell was laleff Paris editors have been ordered to many persons beheve makes blm the richest gomg to Kansas WIth the New Haven com­WrIte no more respectIng peace or war whJ!e man m tbe world He bought tbls Immense pany of emIgrants, IS lIot correct Mr B the Conference SitS gold regIGn 10 1846, for $3000, and was saya that such was not hiS mtentlon-tbat the

ConstantlDople ad vICes ropnrt much ex laughed at for the recklessness ot hIS Invest scenes there were not calculated to promote Cltement and confUSIOn In commerCial affairS ment It has already Yielded some thIrty-five the health of an Invahd He expects to saIl All thmgs have fallen In price, and merchants mllhoni of dollar", and 1\8 resoulces, both for Cahfornla, In purSUit of health, on the fifth

Tbe CommlJrc2al Advertl8er states that a who bave heavy stocks fear to Incur heavy mlDeral and IlgncultUlal, ale said to be mex of March gentleman resldmg at the South has generous losses hausllble Gold to the amount of $158 was found Iy devoted the handsome sum of thlrty:five SIr Joshua Walmsley's motion for openmg Samuel Wilhams, a colored man recently around Ihe waIst of Mary Flynn, a pauper lhouaand dollaT& for the purpose of buIldmg the NatIOnal Gallmy and British Museum on Bold hlB farm near Clearsp.tng, !vId, contam- who dIed In the Pittsburg almshouse Tw\, an emigrant ship to run between New York, Sundays was dIscussed 10 the Enllsh Com 1I1g near 200 aCle. for $7000 to Jobn Pearl phYSICians were detected 111 an attempt to dig the Chesapeake Bay, and Liberia mons, snd negallved by a vote of 376 agamst The Hagerstown Ma!l says I WIllIams was her uut of the grave, but escaped, leavmg theIr

p 48 Lord Palmerston opposed the resolu- a slave at 40 years of age bought hImself, has horse and sleIgh behind them, With a buffalo lesldent Frehnghuysen gIves tn the tIO[I, but WIthout statIng hiS reasons fi I d t f h h k k d h f h c.,' raIsed twenty ve c III I en OUI 0 w om e s In mar e wit one 0 t elr names

'lnS/lan Intelt~gencer an mterestlng account The defialcatlon of Mr John Sadlelr. Mem orthe rehglOUS condIllOn of Rutger's College bonght and manumJlled He IS now m hIS Tbe TerritOrIal LegIslature of Mmnesota, He Bays that" there are forty one professors ber of Parhament, and ChaIrman of the Lon 71st year, and a stout, tall and IIltelilgent findmg a populatIon of nearly 70,000 souls, of rehglOn In the College, of whom thIrty four don County Bank, and SwedIsh Radway old man He IS IIllDdtlpendent circumstances are takIng measnres to call a convention to bope to labor m the Gospel ministry" Company, was creating conSIderable excite Most of bls children Bre In the West, and the orgaDJze a State government It IS probable

ment, and some embarrasement In finanCIal rest of them all deSire to go to the same coun that both Oregon and Mmnesota will knock Durmg the past ye'ar, the number of ordam CIrcles The aggregate fraud IS double the try, so the old man has consented, although at the door for admISSion to the Umon next

ed mlSSlonanes In the sernce of the Amencan famous Schuyler defalcatIon In thiS City, or fond uf thIS country tu I pull up Blakes,' and wlDter Board Was one hundred and SIxty-five, and about five mIllions of dollars of whIch "1,260, fi II tb "

... 0 ow em The ship Lapwmg arrIved at Newport, re-Ihe u Imber of members added to the church 000 IS by way of overISsue of the shares and r. h I C d d h k The Rhode Island LegIslature has passed cently, Irom a tbmy months' w a mg crUise, lOurteen hundre an elg ty seven, ma mg an obltgauons of the SWtdiSh Radway fi

f 1 h b a law by whICh a marned woman may deVise bemg her rst voyage The Lapwmg has average 0 a 1m e more t an Dine mem ers to The EnglIsh Chancellor of the Exchequer k d h 2100 b I f each by will any lands, tenements, or heredlta ts en unng t e voyage arre so sperm

mISSionary stated 10 the House of Commons, on the 22d b I f hId 3 d ments, held IU her own flght, m fee SImple, 011,675 arre sow a e oIl, an 500 poun s III the Pans correspondence of one of the of Feb, that the cost of the Eastern war for fee tBlI, or for the hfe of any other person, of wnalebOi2e, worth at present pnces about

dally papers, we find the names of more than twenty months, was $217 820,000 He also or for any other term than her own hfe The $1~5,<iOO furty Amencans amongst them a large pro stated that the sum ot one hundred mllhons only restflctlon Imposed IS a prOVISIOn that A human body, tied up In a ba~, was taken portion of ladles, who were presented to the of dollars, or £20000,000 sterlmg, would be sucb last WIll or testament shall not tmpalf from the water nea.r New York on the 8th French Emperor and Empress at the TuIlle wanted In the course of the present year by the rights of the husband lJPOtl the death of IDSt, sppposed to be the body of Capt Pal nes on a lato Sunday way of extraordInary loans, and havlDg pOInt- the Wile as tenant hy courtesy 1111 the schooner Eudora Imogene, whICh

Rev E Jones, mIssIonary among the Che- ed out that the resources of the COUll try re The VIrgInia Legislature 18 consldermg v was 1 scufittliled lD Long Island Sound, by rokees wTltes that fourteen converts have maIned uDimpalred, moved the authOrizatIon several bIlls deSigned to prevent the escape a o. ast a been recently baptIzed He sends a hst of of the sum of $25,000,000, being part of the of fugitive slaves In the course of the de- Monday mght, March 3d,Hon Edward 81 persons-34 males and 47 females-bap· loan that day taken by the Rothschllds bate on Tuesday, It was stated that the peo- Everett dehvered a dIBcourse at the Academy Itzed on profeSSIon of theIr fattb In J eaus duro • pIe of Norfolk have lost slave property to the of MUSIC, New York, on Character ana TImes Ing the year 1855 Twenty-three Boals Wrecked at St LODls. value of$60,OOO wlthm the last twelve months. of WashIngton The house was crowded,

Rev Charles G Fmney IS engaged lD a sort From the SL LoUlli Democra~ Feb 27 of the bills prOVides for the InspectIOn of and the lecture was of a supenor order of Sebastopol selge of Satan's kmgdom at Another great dIsaster has hefallen our cIty vessels, to see that no fugltlve IS on board- Hon Geo M Dallas sailed for England on Rochester HIS preachIng 18 attended by The long dreaded event of the breaklDg up steam packets payIDg tbe officer $5 for each the 1st Inst, to take the place of Mr Buchan-large and attentive audiences, and he IS, as of the Ice, whIch for two months gorged the InspectIOn, other ve88llls $10. an, asUmted States MIDIster at the Court of usual, makmg hIS mark MISSISStpPI and all Ita tributary streams, has St :James

h d MISS Andrews, who went from Syracuse to d bIt Rev. Stephen Dod, of East Haven Conn come a~ last, and brought wit 11 a estructIon Norfolk last summer to aId m takmg care of FIfty sblpwrecke seamen, e ongmg 0

left m hlB WIll bequests to rehglous ~hant1e~ of our maTlne Interests far transcendIng any the sICk'durmg the p;evalence of the yellow the strips Alaco and Calcutta, and the brIg and Pllbhc \Dstltullons, amounllng to more thIDg that was anticipated Twenty hoUis fever, IS about to be married to a gentleman Neptune, lost on the Bahama Islands, have than $8,000, among whIch was a legacy of SInce our levee was crowded WIth steamers- of wealth and fortun4i In the last.named place. arrived /It Norfolk, Va ~ 83 000 ,~o the TheologICal SemInary at East now not a perfect hull remams All have These good SamarItans somehow have their TJle Insurance on the steamer PaCIfic and Wmdsor. been swept down that lay oppOSIte the cen reward, and they deserve to cargr.' now out over forty days, ISOTer $~.OOO,-

h 1> M W tral part of the CIty-crushed Into a common Th N b k C t N hid 000, lialf lD thiS country and half In Europe A prlVl~te letter from t e ... ev. r right rUlD by the overwhelmmg masses of accumu e eras a I yews says t at a an h I b f L d W

mIssIonary among the Ojibwa IndIans, 10 the lated Ice Broken cables, chams wIth their fever IS ragmg there Clslmsof one hunlfred 'Cpa woe num er 0 an anants IS northern section of MIDne50ta, reports great hnks drawn to threads, a few shattered spars, and sixty acres, wlthm two and a-half mlle8 sued under the act of March 3, 1865, 18 now scarcity offood In that regIon alone remam to tell the RtOry of stately vessels of that CIty, are selhng at from $500 to $800 100,853

The steamer ASIa brought presenta consist- that were Justly esteemed the prIde of the For one farm Jommg the CIty on the west, tbe A fire and explOSIon, at St MartInsville, lUg of plate, medals, &c, for the officers and Western waters lo'wnler has been offered $6000 m gold, which Ala, recently, caused the los8 of several lIves crews of the Kane Ar~ttc ExpeditIon. At a few moments after 2 o'clock on yes- and property worth abont$200,OOO.

Bark Proteus, of Shelburne, N S, Capt Hardmg, from Liverpool 10 JamaIca, wuh a general cargo, struck on the Blackwater bank, coast of Ireland, Feb 12, and went to pIeces, master and 11 men saved, and 1 drowned The mate got adrift m a boat, and has not SInce been heard o£

A bIll has passed the Senate of Vlrg1018, appropnatIng $1,000 a year, for five years, to enable the State HistorICal SOCIety to pro­cure from England manuscrIpt COplilS of doc uments and letters, relative to the early hiS­tory of the Old DomlDlOn

Mr Calhoun, surveyor general of KansBs, furDlshes the Secretary of State wllh an esll­mate of the reSident population of the territory. He says about 6000 votes are claImed to have been given for Reeder alld Whitfield, and there are about five reSidents to each voter.

DUring the present seSSIon of the Alabama LegIslature, says the Selma Sentmel, there have been about one hundred cases of dIvorce granted DUring the last sessIOn of the same body, there was about the saml! number granted

In the U nlled States there are 64 tunnels, the longest of which IS about one mile Eng­land has 48 canal tunnels of an aggregate length of 40 miles, the longest be10g over 3 miles She has 79 railroad tunnels, WIth an aggregate length of 62 miles.

The LOUisville CourIer says A gang of upwards of forty negroes, from Fayette coun ty, bound for a southern chme, came down on the cars yesterday morDlng TheIr own­ers preferred puttmg them.lD theIr pockets rather then let the AbohuODlStS run tbem off.

Three thousand five hundred dollars were offered for one share of the New York Tn hune ThIS would make the one hundred shares, mto WhICh that estabhshment was dl vlded a few years ago, worth $350,001r. The par value of each share IS $1000

By esllmate, there are more than 1300 Insane persons ID the State ofMame Less than one mnth of tbese are 10 the bospltal, though It IS capable of accommodatIng 250 The Influence of rehglOus worshIp 1D the chapel IS deCIdedly b.eneficlal. I

The beautiful and elaborate maps and dla grams used by Dr Baud, m I1lustratmg hiS lectures on Europe, were executed by PatrIck H Reason, a colored artist of New York city

A memOrIal has been mtroduced mto the M1Onesota Legislature, deslf1ng Congress to dIVIde that Terntory on the hne of 46° 10, from St CrOIX to tbe MISSOUrI River

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New York Markels-March 10, 18B6, A,kea-I;'ots $6 Pearls 7 75 a 8 00

Flour and Meal-Flour, 7 00 a 7 ~5for common to good State, and MIchigan, 7 62 a B 12 for good tu sn­perfine OhIO 8 75 a 10 75 for extra Genesee Rye Flour 4 00 a 6 00 Corn Meal 3 50 for Jersey

GTam-Wheat 1 69 a 1 75 for camm m to pnme Southern Red 1 85 fur common whIte Rye 1 12 a 1 13 Barl~y 1 18 a 1 29 Oats 35 a 40c for Jersey, 39 a 41c for State Corn 69 a 700 for Western lDlX ed WhIte BeaDs 1 B7 a 2 50 per bushel Pro~",on.-Pork 14 25 for prIme 16 00 for mess

Bee[ B 75 a 9 25 for prIme 9 75 a 11 00 for country mess Lard lOac Bntter,17 a 21c for OblO, 22 a 26c fOI State 27 a 29c for prIme and cbOIce Oheese a! a 10~c

Seed.o-Clover 13 a 14c Reaped Timothy 3 75 per bushel Rough Flaxseed 2 IDa 2 15

Tallo"-10~ a 11c for prIme CIty

~lIIARRIED,

In Groton Ot, Feb 3d by Elder S S Griswold Mr IsuC PARK. to Mrs MA:RY HUTH, both ofGro­ton

In Ledyard Ct, Feb 21st, by the same, Mr GEO B PAR'" of Groton to MIS. JULIA A DAVI. of the former place

Feb 21st IB56 by Eld Jas sum~rbell at Ihe resldenco of the bride. father Mr JULI TANNER of LaforgevIlld to MISS MARI4M M DEWEY, aughter of Joel Dewey Esq of Adams Center

In BrIdgewater Ooehl-a Co NY, on tbe 28th ult by Eld W B Maxson Mr ULYSSES F CORBETT to MISS SALOME L HIBBARD both of BrIdgewater

LETTERS. o M LewI., A 0 Spicer Z'Scrlven C W Langwor

thy S P Stillman, J Summerbell P B Maxson E R Olarke Wm F Randolph C Stevens C Potter A A Crandall, W B Mnson, Jepthah F Randolph P C Burdick W B GIllett, Isaac West S S Grl8wold Jobn WhItford.

RECEIPTS W All payments for pu bUcations of the SocIety are acknowl

edged from week to week m the Recorder Persons sendmg money the receipt of which I. nat duly acknowledged .hould gil'e us early notice cij'the OIlliBSlOD

tOR TB'E SABBATH RJ:CORDJ:II·

Ehsha Saunders Dorrvllle R I $2 00 tovol 12 No 52 JuloaA Burdick RockVille R I 2 00 13 33 J Oottrell Mystic BrIdge, Ot 2 00 12 52 C Sheppard GreenWIch N J 4 00 t3 52 Elhan 13 SWlDney, Shllob, N J 2 00 12 52 A S Tomlinson' 2 00 12 52 Mrs S A Bonbam 2 00 12 52 EzekIel Thomas 2 00 12 52 John S Bacon .. 2 00 12 52 Geo B DaVIS " 2 00 12 52 D D Sheppard 2 Oil 12 52 Reuben DaVIS 2 00 12 52 Thomas Ewmg 2 00 12 52 J P AUen 2 00 12 52 D McPberson 2 00 12 52 Elias Ayars 2 00 12 52 EU" A DaVIS " 2 00 12 52 P M Coon AlbIOn, WIS 2 00 13 7 James Weed ' 2 00 13 26 L R Green, Adams Center 2 00 12 52 A TrowbrIdlle' 2 00 12 52 Oliver Palmiter " 4 00 11 52 Alva G Green Smltbfield 2 00 12 52 OalvIn Wbeeler NJie 3 00 13 52 A Kenyon Wlrt 4 00 12 52

FOR THE IIABBATR !CHOOLVI:!Il'[OB

W B Gillett ShIloh N J $3 00 Wm F Randolpb, Green Bner Ran Va 1 00

WIT.LIAM M ROGERS Tre •• arer

Board JIIeelIng!. THE next Quarterly MeetlDgs of tbe Execullve

Boards of the Seveoth-day BaptIst MI8IlOnary So C1ety, the AmerIcan Sabhatb Tract SOCIety, and th .. Seventb-day Baptist PabhshlDg SOCiety, will be beld at the house of T. B Stillman, No. 80 Seventh St, New York, on Fonrtb.day April 9th commenclDg a.%o o'clock A M GEO B UTTER, Sec

No. 14 Beek ....... !!.reet, N. Y un Oli THE ElJROPEAli PLAli

MEALS AT ALL HOURS OP TilE DAY

LODGING ROOMS, From tg to t3 per Week or 50 eu per NishI

BBLA SAWYBB Sup t JOHN S S4ftar ProPrietor

Alfted Highland Water-Core.

T HIS establIsbment for the CDre of OhroDic 010-eases, 18 conducted by H. P BURDIOK II,: D The

faetlltles ill tbis Oure' for the succe.sful treatment or DIseases of tbe LIver, Sptne Nerve. Female D,s­eases, Bronchitis, InCipient ConsumptIOn, &c , are not excelled tn any.establshment Pauente wIllhavethe benefit of skllUul HomeopathiC prescriptIons-an ad. vantage found 10 bnt few Water-Cures' EspeCIal attentIOn Will be given 10 diseases commonly called I1lrglcal pa.e., sucn as Hlp Dl8eases Wnlle Swelhngs, Cancers (m thelf early stages) and Carles and Ne~ro. SIS of bone

Connected With tbe eslablishJpent 18 a Dental Shop, wbere all calls In that profe •• lon WIll be attended to.

Address, H P BURDIOK Alfred, Allegany 00 , N Y.

Book Agent& Wanted,

B y STEARNS & SPICER, PUBLISHERS AND WHOLESALE BOOK~.ELLERB, Indlanapol ..

Ind.alSa We are In tbe "ery heart of the be.t .. cllon of the

UDion for the auccesslul prosecutIOn of the Snbscrlp lIon Book Trade, as teslimony of WhICh we need only reter to the unparalleled s"ccess of our agents durlDg the pa.t yearl many of wbom are still m our employ Our books are at a Qbaracter caJcnlated to eecnre tor us aDd ollr agents the h.ghc.l confidence of the read_ Ing commllDity and we wIsb to engage the servIce. ot those only who wIll help us to au.lam It Our prOXImIty to tbe field 0 1 labor enables us to attend personally to the IDterests ~I onr agents, and :!ill their orders at sbort notICe, savmg Ihem the delays and heavy expen.e of transportatIOn from the eastern CIties Men 01 energy and huslness hab,ts wlil find thiS a work worthy their attentIOn All commuDlca-tIOns promptly answered STEARNS & SPlOER

Hndson RIVer Railroad,

TRAINS leave Chambers street dally for Albany and Troy On and alter MONDAY, Nov 19,

1855, the trains WIll run as follows Express Tram 7 A M connecting With Northern and Western Traina Malt Tram S 30 A M Tbrough Way TraIn, 12 M Expres. 'I raID 5 P M For Hudson 3 30 P M For Pougbkeepsle-Way FreIght and Pa.senger Tram 12 30 P M E or Peekskill 0 30 P M Fod SlDg BlDg, at 4 20 and 9 P M For Dobbs' Ferry 7 15 and 11 A M Tbe Dobbs' Ferry, BlDg BlDg, Peekskill, and Hudson TraIn. stop at aU tbe Way StatIOns Passen gers taken at Chambers Canal, Cumtopher, and 31st streets SUNDAY MAIL TRAIN at 4 P M from Canal street, for Albany, stopplDg at all the Mall Sta-tIOns M L,SYKEiS, Jr SuperIntendent.

Mmhant TaIlorIng Esiablishment,

THE sub.cnber, havmg sold hIS IDterest In the firm of A D TItsworth & Co of PlalDfield and locat

ed hlm.ell at the corner 01 Fulton and Pearl stleelf, New Ytlrk, as Merchant Tailor and Manufacturer of all klDds of Clothing, would respecUully inVite bll-...... frlends, and as many others 8S feel dISposed to study economy to s,ve him a call feeling assured tbat bls experienCe In tbe buslDess Will ellable hIm to do bet­ter for bls customers than they can do lor themselves He wIll employ tbe best of workmen and gIV~ to the buslDes. hiS whole attention

OIothl Ca ... mers and Vesttflgs of tbe latest pat terns con.tantly 011 hond 8nd made to order In the most l\Pproved manner 8t short notICe

Also, auy persons wlshlDg CUllIng don~ for tbelf friends at home by observlDg the foUowlDg dIrect ons, can be accommodatetl wlIh any sty Ie Ibey Wish _

Coal Measure-lst PlaclOg the measure af socket bone of neck, down to center of arm or shonlder thun to Waist above the blP, and lengtli of coat 2d: From seam 01 back SlVlng wldlb 01 back then to elbow and length of .le~ve bendlDg tbe arm lD rlgbt angle 3d Breast and WaIst, notlllg the pO.ltIOn, wbelher stOOpIng forward or extra straight

Veat-lst From socket bone down front, giVIng lengtb of vest 2d Breast and WB\SI measures

Panta-lst From hip bone to tblgh JOIO! and knee and length 2d WaIst hlp thIgh and knee measnree

Also any persons wIshmg to avaIl themselves of my assIStance In selectmg a stuck of clothlDg or otber merchandise w!ll find me at my office every day, ex­cept Sabbalb day All orders thankfully received and attenu ed to With dIspatch

Terms cash on dehvery E B TITSWORTH, Mercbant Tailor

~ I can accommodate a llabbatarIan wltb an office In my room.

Seventh-day Bapli~l PubliShIng Soc.'. PubllcaUoBl.

([~e .6(lbbat~ tauorbu, Published Weekly

Term.-$2 00 peT Annum In Ad~anco Tke Sabbatk Record,n. devoted to the expo.ltlon

and vlDdlCatlon 01 the Views and movements of tbe Seventh day Baptist Denommalion It a ms to pru­mote VItal piety and vigorous benevolent actIOn at the same tIme that It urges obedience to the command ments of God and the faltb of Jesus Its colnmns are open to the advocacy of all reformatory measnres which seem likely to Improve the condition of sOCiety, dlifuse knowledge reclaIm the InebrIate and enfran chlse the enslaved In Its LIterary and Intelhgence Departments care IS taken to furDlsb matter adapted to tbe wants 'lind tastes.of every class of readers AI a RehgIOus and Family Newspaper It IS lOtended tbat the Recorder sball ra1rlt among the best

QI~e .6abb(lt~,",.6.d)0011lt.sttor, , Published Monthly

Terms per annum-InfJarlably In adt7Q1Ice One copy \.w.' 25 FIve cop ea tt) ODe address""" 1 ()(). Twelve copies to ODe address 2 00 Twenty copies to ona address ..... 3 00 Twenty-elght copies to one address 4. 00 Fort v copies to ODe address 5 O()

QI~t .5tDfnt~,",i)an Baptist JiltltWrial, Published Quarterly

Terml-$l od IZ Year 25 Cent. a Numb.r Each number of tbe Memonal wIll contain a litho

graphIC portl'!l1t of a Seventh day Baptistpteacher, to­getber wIth a vanety of hlstoncal bIOgraphical, and otallstlcal matter deBl~ned to I1tnstrate the nse, pro­gre •• , and pre.ent condmon of the Sevellth-day Bar.: tlSt Denommatlon Wood cat. of meelmg hoa.ee WIll be Introdaced from lIme to lime to connection WIth the hIStory oftbe cbarches

[The fil'8t eec.ond and tblrd volume. of the M •• o rial-being fortbeyears 1852-3-4-may be had bOnnd for tbe sabecnptlon prIce and the cost of bIDding.] ,

A CollectIOn £'f orlgmal and selected MUIIO and Hymn. for tbe Use of Sabbatb Schools Soclat Be- ~ bgIOlIs Meetmg8 and FamJlles Oomplled by Luclu. Orandall 128 pages octavo, pnce 35 \lentl per copy The Carol " deSigned pnnClpally for S.bbath~

Scbool. and contains MU81C and Hymns adapted t~ aIt olllilnary occa8iOn. and to 8uch IpeClal occasionl II. the 81ekness ofteachera, funeral., anDlve"'nel, &C. A number of plecellnltable to 80clal and pllbijc wor­SblP, topether With a few Temperance Songt, IIl'e In­chrded 10 the book It contalDs 93 tunel, IDd 151 bymns

[i'" Orders and remIttance. fop the abote should be addre-.i to the General Agent GBORGI: B UTTIa I No 9 Spruce-st., New York ' The next Qaarterly Meeting oCthe EXecutive Board

of the Seventh day BaplIst EducatIon SoCIety, WIll be beld at No 80 Seventh St. New York, on the 8th day Th II! S b::I:'-o% III of April 1856, commenclOg at 10 o'olock A. M Tbe Stat"ofN":.rY~~k, :nt26 ~entae~ an "'ou!~-t.ayeu III t1i. Oommlttee on the location oC the Denommatlonal Col Stateo, payable quarterly or yearly In ~dvanJ"" of the UDil!ad. lege and TbeologIcal SemlDary WIll, at tbls MeetlDg, The postage on tho Babbath.schoal Visitor 1 .. 3 cenli • Present their report whlcb will be made the BubJect of In the State of New York, and 6 cents In any other part oz::.

' '" f h b f United StaIM, payable In advance :-conBlderation A large attendance 0 t e mem era 0 The postage on Ike Se~.ntb-da~ BapLlllt Jlemarlal II the Board 18 loliclted ye .. lD any part of the United Slates when lid 1q 14 ....

W. C. WHITFORD. Bec Seo. 4 _II 8 fear wlt811 notplld iIll4nnce< p ~ 011

Page 4: Do.61 II !e JVol+12...pure love would he necessarily ~sy and active pray, lest ye enter into temptation," is t e in dreamy musings, with faculties nearly per-It is not when the parting

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\ The Detlmal System

We find n a late I Imber of the Independ ent the follOWIng synop81S of Prof: Felton s

Plan for the extension or Ihe DeCImal System

In the U mted States to weight measure and number -

The first pnnclple Is, tp place the commer C'Oal table", rif: wmght alia ffltlUllre tn Imuon wttk tke deCimal .teale of.'1lQtq.,tUJ1I To effect thiS these Tables are superseded by graduat "d Scales where each term IS ten t mes greater lh an Its next mfen r th us

SCALE OJ' WEIGHT SCA.LE 0)" ME1SURE

10 Gra os=1 Scruple 10 Gra oe-l Scruple 10 8cruplel=I Dram 10 Scruple.=l Dram 10 Drams=l Ounce 10 Dram.=1 G 11 100unee. 1 POUND (S) 10 G 1Is-J PINT 10 Ponnds=l Slone 10 P n a=1 GALLON (S ) 10 8Ion.I"",1 HUNDRIO wt 10 Gallons=1 ANKER

1(} Hundred wi =1 Too 10 Ankers= 1 Tuo

The Standards of we ght and measure now estabhshed by law WIll undergo no chaNge ezther tn name or guanttty

Every Scale IS de Ived fr m O1Je of tkeae Standards of whIch It 18 the leadIng un t

These Slandards are I The Umted States Pound aVOirdupOiS II The United Sates Yard and the Fa t

der ved from the yart: III The U I ted S II Acre also derIVed

from the yard IV The Slate Ga Ion of New York

ed from the State Bushel The Standards are dlstlllgulshed by tbe

letter (S) The IDvarJable quanlllles are prInted In amall capital letters

One Scale of Weight of wlilch the Pound IS the Standard IS des gned for all purposes of we ghl One Scale of Measure of wblch the Gallon s he Standard for all purposes of measure

On the DeCimal Prmc pIe two properlles are worthy of notice

I The number of figures used to express allY quanllty shows the number of each de nom natlO conta oed In tbat quantJty Thus 4567 ounces may be reau 4 cwt [) stones 6 Ibs 7 oz or 45 stones 6 lbs 7 oz or 4561bs 70;!:

II The prIce of anyone denommatton on a scale be ng known the pr ces of all the others are known Thus Tea at 5 cents per ounce IS 5 dImes (or 50 cts ) per pound $5 per stone 5 eagles (or $50) per cwt und 50 eagles (or $500) per ton 5 ce Its per outee s also 5 mills per dram

... Almost all flUids ID commOIl use-as mIlk ale wine beer otl of all kIDds (except unre fined fish OII)-are all but exactly equal m we gbt w Ih distilled water tbe Gallon weIghs ten pounds Thl! cOlnctdence of Weight and Measure IS productive of many advan tages and among these the quannty of any flUid may be 8scertamed ID many caae9 with gl eater conveDlence and accuracy by weIght than by guagtng

In the valuauo I of most L qu ds both WBlllht and measure Will a ~o correspond w Ih prtce

To begIn w th the ull mate u I t f any flutd he 2 m Is per grain 10 We ght It w 11 be the ssme 10 Measure also thus

Weo{{ht P De ~G an 2 m 8 ~ Scrup e Q cen. _ Dram - 2 d meB = OODCe _ 2 dullars = Pound - 2 eables = S ODe 20 eagles Owt 200 eaete. _ Ton = 2000 eagle. _

lIfea,ure G a n Se up e Dram Gil l' nt Gallon Anker 'fun

ThiS may be an extreme case hut lake another Wme at 4 d mes per PlOt IS also • dImes per Ib $4 per gallon and $4 per itone 4 eagles or $40 per anker and 4 eagles or $40 per cwt and $40 eagles per ton both We gh ar d !\Ie su 0

So f tbe prwa of 01 e term on e tl er scala be kno ~n not only IS tl e pnce of every other known but ts weIght and measure also

TI e upper part of the scale representmg the Gram 8S the 10 OOOth part of a pound Instead of the 7000th as at present Will be more SUItable for those who opera e upon substances n ml ute par eles wh 1e the three upper terms descrl blllg weIght and measure by the same name Will be conven ent for apothecaries

THE &ARIllTi JlRECORDER, MAReD 13, 1866. But the nail 1 The new nail blnng one-tenth ster8 which have fallen eenluTles ago find are of a yard will be one tebth of the prIce of a now burled under the 801\

yard and as the yard 18 88 tile new natl WI1\ I am mformed by Mr Lapbam that the be 8 dImes and If half the new nail be re wood of one of lhese trees IS remarkable tor qUired It Will be 4 dll~es or 40 cents Neither Its very slow decomposItIOn When freshly the buyer nor the seller need trouble them cut the fibre IS while but It soon becomes Belvea about the relative length of the new teddlih and by long exposure to the 81r ae­and the old nad Each new dIVISIon on every qUIres a color nearly 8S dark as Mahogany Scale IS exactly the tenth of Its next supenor Its COl slstence IS rather feeble nearly resem and Its value IS SAel1 on the deCImal scale of bhng the p10e or cedar but the bark eoverlOg the currency It d ffers materially from the l'l:lter It IS ex

Take another example The arucle of tea cess vely thick near tbe foot of the tree aen now at 7 dimes per pound will be 7 cents per slbly elabtic on pressure and IS readily dlvld ounce 7 mIlls per dram and $7 per slone ed mto a ma88 of fibres closely resemblmg $70 per cwt and $700 or 70 eagles par ton those conSI tutmg the husk of the cocoa nut whIle the half pound and quarter pound w 11 but much finer AboHt thIS port on of tbe remam as at present trunk It IS spIll In every dIrection by deep

Aga n wIne at $4 per gallOl WIll be 6t 11 cracks but at the elevallon of 100 or 180 fee ti e same and he PlOt 4 dImes the gIll 4 It IS almost smooth and not more than two cents the anker $40 and Ihe tun $400 The lOcI as 10 thickness At th s pomt the bark half gallon will remaID unchanged and the IS removed Ii om the 1 VII g tree for export a quarter gallon may stili be called a quart but twn (How can Buch a sacnlege be tolerat It wIll no longer represent 2 PlOts but 21 ed I) Aha el has been bu It along SIde of the PlOtS of the new syslem Bottled W ne IS fre Great Tree the bark of wb ch was exhlb Quently so d ID dozens for which the Decade Hed last Y<dar at San Franc sco and on ts on the Seale of Number Will be found a can overturned trunk a sort of ladles pavllon vement subst tute The Scale of N umber will has been erecled which serves as an elegant als{j be found useful where arUcles are sold prome ade In order 0 fell 11 the trunk was by the thousand-such as brIcks tiles boards bored by means of a very lot g and powerful etc Tbe relauve value of any quantity from augl r w Ih many holes very near to each the top to the bottom of the scale that IS a her and arranged ctrcularly but even when from a un t to the m I on may I e seen at a almost detacbed from Its bases I s 'iense glance mass res Bted all efforta to overtbrowQt Four

Indeed so far from creat ng confUSIOn no days subsequently It was blowl dowti y the system can be better calculate I to ren ove the wmd It shook tbe ear b when It fell alId c nfuBlon already eXisting Everyone on made for Itself a deep furrow m the gT~. the DeCImal System w Il enterta n a more 10 whICh It I es at tbls moment half bur ed correct concept on or value as comb ned w tb The Country Gentleman adds _ quaotlty tbal at present and when It 18 nce fairly estabhsbed the WOI der Will be how we Now to read SImply of a tree four I un could so long have endured the present cum dred and fifty feet blgh we are struck WI h brous and unw e dly process of transactmg large figures but we can baldly appreclale the affairs of the market tI e store and the the he ght without some comparison Such a counting room one as that through whICh the horseback

Among the mallY advantages consequent Journey was perfom ed would sUelc! across upon tbe establIshment of th s system the 1m a field f twenty seven rods w de If s andlOg provemel t It Will proJuce 10 Education IS In tbe Niagara chasm at SuspensIOn Brtdge certa nly Dot the least By anmh lat ng the It would tower two hundred feet ahove the compound forms of the first four Rules of top f the brtdge If placed 10 Broadway .Arl hme IC w h ReductIOn Practice and a New York Qt the head of Wall Street It

host of othe s t gether WI b the whole de would overtop Tnmty steeple by 01 e hun partment of Vulgar Fract 0 s the commerCIal and SIX y feet and would be two hundred and part of the sc ence Will be wonderfully chang thlTty feet h gher than Bunker HIli monumen ed for the b tter It wIiI also pave tl e \\ ay Boston or two bundred and seventy above forthe mtroductlon of sweepIDg Improvements Washington monument Balumore If cut up 10 the mMhemattcal department also from for fuel It would made at least three thou whlCb we are now completely shut out 1m Rand cords or as much as would be Yielded provements both mechan cal and 10tellectual by sIxty acres of good woodland If sawed of which very few can even form an Idea the IDtO two mch boards It would YIeld about result of wblch Will be to eleva e the character three mill on feel and (urn ah eI ough three of the sc ence an 1 ren ler It as remarkable for IDch plank for thIrty miles of plank r ad elegance as t now IS ~ r ulll ty ThiS WIll do fur the product of ODe Iltl" seed

However Ihe most IDle\] g ble po nt here less 11 s ze than a gram of wheat Is tl e Immense savmg of t me and labor t WIll By COUI l ng the anoual rings It appears effect durIDg tl e Importaot pellod of ~outh that some of the oldest speCimens have at Not only days and months hut even years Will tamed the age of three tbousand years If be saved that may be devoted to other stud es tlls comp Itat on IS correct and we see no The lime ala saved by clerks and calculatore reasol to daub I they must have been as 10 commerCIal matters s not ur wOIthy of large as uur best forest IreeSIn New l: ork m atten Ion But alllhe advantages arlSlOg from the t mes of Home and the prophet Elllah the DeCimal System cannot be enumeraled a d venerable and towenng g anlS durtng the much less w II they adm t of a separale ex I.:ar hageman wals In otber words tl e pas ton The mportance f the Bul~ect en Roman Empire has begun and ended smce t tIes tlls r Ian fur ts ntroJucuon to an 1m they commenced growlDg We hope the partial ~ xam natlO It bas beell fOI many 8ma I plantation which comprISes their whole years before the publ c It has been rev ewe j number Will not share the fale of Ihe world analyzed and fl aely commenled upon but t renowned cedars of Lebanoll on the r naltve has I ever been condemned S nce I B first mou lams now leduced t a dozen In num appearance some of I s minor parIs have heen ber I ut that they W I be protected and pre ImplOved but ts pnno pIes are founded on serveJ and only those Ibat (all by old age be the baSIS of sc en lfic truth and therefore nre removed for exhibitIon It would of cOOl'lJe susceptlble f n mprovement The labor be Idle 10 talk of tranaportmg sucb a mon" .... lime! ee mora of Horace I as not bflt:n spared to th s part of tho coun y weIghing BIIlt doe8 and If It ba not near pt'rfllct 01 It IS not from some five tt ousand tons and a po lion of Its the want of applIcatIOn 0 the part f the shell 0 ly may be secured as a rragment of or glnator such a speCimen In natural h story

• Giant Retlwoo~ The PlIol Fish

cate the reeult of thell1 mvestlgalJons. A wbl~penngt eollQquy WhlCb \colltlnued a ahort t1mej eVldentlJi folksWed-wh"n the shark., probably convlDced tbat a boll!le boucke was awaltlllg hIm besllllted no ~onger. but made a dash at tbe beef. was caught In the bowhne and notwltbstanding hiS desperate struggles was mglorlously captured I [P rtfol 0

• Trmlln~ In ROSlla

Corre,pobdenec of the Oh a Slite Journal Sr PltTE ••• URG RUSSIA July 6 1855

The.railroad east of Berl n extel ds 10 Kon Igsberg a distance of about 350 mtles which IS made III 21 hours As you approach th s latter place tbe scenery becomes mure vaned nnd picturesque Beaullful VIllas peep out from the mldst.of groves of pIDe and 10WeTll g poplar whIlst far m the dIStance buildIngs occuPJlDg more command ng positions of lofuer mien a d mosque domes raIse theIr proud forms-an occas onal gl mpse of Iha blue waves of the Baltte adds to the d verslty and beauty of the view

Kontgsberg contains near 60000 inhabIt ants and IS now so strOl gly Ii rt fied that a second Benn ngton m ght meet with ser ous dtflicultJ before successfully rm ng It; ramparls Much of the trade Iba was here tofore camed all through tbe RUSSian Balnc ports IS at present Iransacted here Hemp s the chief art cle of export, whIlst large quan hUes of cotton sugar and otber necessttles of life lITe received 10 return and tl ansported upou wagous to all parts of tbe I ter or oC RUS8la One of the two only remal! JUg cas tIes, budt by the old TeutOnIC Kn gbts who some five or stx centu1les ag were the lord Iy owners of the Southern BaIt c shore s here to. be seen-Its hIgh walls a d lofty keep reta mng all Ihelr angInal majesty and gran deur It IS T ow used fur publrc offices a SUIt of rooms bemg reserved fur the Kmg when be ViS ts hIS loyal subJecIs of hiS favor Ite prov nee There too IS to be seen tbe humble cottage 10 which Kant I ved and wove hiS metaphYSical threads ofthougbt mto a web of transcend en al nonsense Near by IS b s favonte proruenadtl where hIS matenal body sought a d and exerc se by mov ng t and fro whIlst tbe nob er pa t of hiS bell g bursttng from ts pr son home of clay wan dered far lOt the eglOns of tha great un known In hOllor of him It s now called tbe phIlosophe 8 walk

Leavtng Kon gsberg I the murDlng I reached the Pruss an (rontter early the follow Ing morn Dg Tt e r de 10 a comfurtable mllllepost over tbe beautiful roads of wh ch RUSSia IS so Justly proud was any thmg but dtsagreeable A striped pole large as a glal t s fishlOg rod swung over the road marks the boundary lIne Near tlls s the pol ce or government 81at ot to wllch you are d Iven and qu elly al ghtlDg must submIt lot ooly your baggage alld passport bUI also your object 10 v SIlIl g hIS I\laJesty 8 dom mons to a r g d examIDatlon A II newlipapers al d even scraps oC pr nted matter aTe destroyed and should you be n posseS8 on of al y books they are taken and after bemg neatly packed and se led are given n your care to be car red to St Petersburg they requiting you to sIgn an obi gatlOn to dehver them up n your arTival to the Censor by whom they are ex IImIDed and 11 of a proper character relurned to tl e r wner Should any however hap p,n to be upon the prohlbltsd I st such are relamed unul you are ready to leave the country or sent to any po nt des gnaled be .l'ond tbe boundary

Dr F Wmslow an Amm ca traveler commun cnted a grapl c desc Ip on of Ihls

tree to tbe Cal forD a Farmer wi ch IS l)

tr duce J I ere together with mteresung re

marks flom the Country Gentleman -

The Governor of Ihe stat on IS a k nd gen tlemanly man makn g tl e exact ons lequ red b} law In a courteous manner U po learn 109 the oblect of my VISU be greettld me warmly and appeared deeply grate ul fOf the sympathy exte~aed towards Russ a by Amer Icans At the first stat on after passIDg the

There are few tbmgs more s ngular tban boundary hne OUI comforlable Pruss an malle the couneellon wh ch .. x sIs betweel the shark post relun ed snd then for the first lime we and tbe pIlot fish The shark a9 swell krlown were able 10 expenence the luxury of what IS one of Ihe most vo ac ous monsters whIch Ihey call exIra post ID Russta Th s co SlstS are found In the depths of the ocean He IS of a seat 10 a tel"ga or open wagon WI h always hungry aOll by no meals fast d ous II mag ary spnngs the hody IS usually filled

The Great Tree (tl us he uIstmgu sl es h s selectlo of fu d Noth ng comes allllSS With straw UpOI which you thro v yo Iraelf tt e Sequo a g gal tea) IS pecul af 0 the to h m-a you g dolphin or a hon ta a piece and calmly enJoy the del ghtful movements of SIerra Nevada and growa no where else on of salt pork or a bullock s hide a leg ur a a rap d pace over a Tough road Posl sta the globe I may even add as fa as my In buman be ng or a red hot shot are all Rwal 1I00S a c from twelve to twenty ve StB apar format 01 extends that It IS ent lely confined lowed w h equal aVId ty althougb they may a verst bemg equal to two th rds of an Eng 10 a narrow baSin of 200 acres at most of not all equally agree wnh hiS dlgesttve organa hsh mile At each of these Ihe horRes and whIch the so I IS all CIOUS al d st ewn wtth The shark 18 also an ugly look II g rascal with telega are changed paymg for the formQr at

l~~a:I{':l r:.:I~!e(~.;e to L 8:::!!.o~f.ffnd blocks of L gnne ThiS basm s very damp h s dark grey rhmoceros h de hiS round mouth the rale of 2~ kopeks (Ii cent~) pel verst 10 GallonE-l Bu.he 10 Stave.-t R.ed and reta ns here and Ihere pools of water awkwardly situated beneath hIS chin and h a each and takmg as many as you "hoose 1 te Th .. Gallon eqllal. the pre 10 R.ed._1 Plat some of the largest of the trees eXlend tl elr frtghtful rows of long and st arp teeth The horse~ are usually driven abr"ast an I harness

tame and Ittllnterellllag N ne .mys after leavlDg Berl n we TllIIcbed St. Petersburg 'Wellr),: 10 minds and wltlnhmbs h8Jfd~slocated from the fatlgtt(l8 of the Journey RIght heart Iy did we greet the spangled domes and gilded spIres of the city of the Czat spark hog It'I'the eventng sun

We found comfortahle quarteT& at tDe Hotel de Russle which r regard to dady necessary expense IS about on a par with the first class New York hotels We have found quite a large number of Amer cans the most promment of whom lire Gell James Untted States Senator from Rbode Isla d alld tbe three gentlemen comprISing the military com m 8S 01 sent out by our governme t to exam me the fortlficallons ofthta al d othllrcounlnes They speak favorably of the r recept on here and the faclhlles afforded them for examm ng the varIOUS military works of goveT! ment A day or two smee they V s ted C onstadt and were highly delIghted with the WOl ks of de fense whICh bave for so long a time bem keepm g the proud fleet of the all e8 at bay The news of the stormlDg of SeYasto polan the 18th of June aDd the fa aLrepulse of the alhes wa~ of course gra IfYIDg 10 all bere The tid ngs of Lord Raglan II dea h have Just reache I the ctty and 1 am please 10 say no disgustIng expresSIOns of gratLfu:a tlOn mark the event Cbrlsllan Eugla/ld and enhghtened Fl ance mIght le6rn a lesson from the manner ID whIch Ihe dlspenS8uonB of PrOVIdence are receIved n RUBBla

• Sagacity of Ihii Arcue Bear

On onB occas on a bear was seen to BW m caut oualy ti) a rough pIece of Ice on wh ch two female wal U8e8 were lying asleep WI h the r cubs The WIld ammal crept up some hummocks behl d the party and with he l elp of hiS fore feet loosol ed 1,10 large bluck of ce thiS w th the help of h s lOSt! and paws he rolled and earned t 11 tmmedtately over he heads of the sleepers when he let It fall

ou one of the a01ma s wllch was lOstantly kIlled The other wal IS wllh Its cubs rolled I 10 the water but the younger one of the stIlcken ammals remamlld with Its dam upon these helpless c eatures the bear now leaped down a d thus completed the de strucuon of the two anImals whIch t would not have ventured to nttack openly

The stratagems prlicttced In takIng seals are much less to be admired These crea tures are remarkably Ilmld and for that rea son always he back to back or sleep on the very edge of the pieces of float ng Ice so that on the sll!htest alarm Lhey can by one roll tumble themselves mto their favon e element They are exceedmgly restless constantly movlDg die r hends from Bide to s de and sl eplDg by very ~hOl I "rS As WI h all Wild creaturllS tl ey turn theIr head to Ihe direct on of tbe WInd as If expecttng dal ger from that quarler The bear (n see ng h s Intended prey gets qUietly mto the water and sWIms I II he IS leeward ot 111m from wbence by ~ equant short dIves he SIlently makes hIS approach an I EO arranges hts d stance that at hl8 last dIve he comes up to the spot wI ere II e seal • lYing J-f the poor an mal at empls 0 escape by rull ng IDto the water I e falls 1010 he !Jea s clutches f on he contrary he I es st \l hiS des oyer makes a powerful apr ng kIlls b m on the IcEl:-1lnd de\'ours hIm at h s Ie .ure

Tlie PraIrIe Dog -Ill Capt Marcy s Exploration of Ihe Red

River of LOUIS aDa are glvell some mterest ng fac s about that s ngular ammal the pra r e dog He says Passmg through these dog v Hages Ihe 1 t Ie a Imals are seen II count less I umbers Bltllng at the en ranee of their subterranean dwelhnge presentmg mucl the appea ance of stumps of small trees and so I cessanl s Ihe clatter of th~lr barklOg Ihat II requ rea but I ttle effurt or Ihe IlDagmatlon to fa cy one s self s Irrounded by the busy hum of a c ty

~ Central &aIllOid .r New ~eneJI

I N connecllon With tbe Leh gb Valley Ra lroad opened to Mauch Ohnnk-WINTER ARRANGE

ME NT commenclDg Nov 19 1866 Leave Nsw Yorl for Manch Ohnok { om l' er No 2 North Rver • 7 30 A M For Easton at 7 30 A M and 3 lfi P M -For 80merv lie at 7 30 and 10 (5 A M and 3 1hnd 4 30 P M Tbe abOVe traml CODnect 8t E zabe h w th tra n. on the New Jel'8ey Ra lroad leu Dg Nell' York from foot of Conrtlandutreet at 7 30 and II A M 3and4P M

Leave PlaIDfield for New York at 7 05 BDd 9 06 A !If and 1 40 aDd 6 13 P M

JOHN 0 STERNS Superlntenden

Blbllotbtell Sacra, -ANI') AMERICAN BIBLICAL REPOSITORY

The Tb tteenth VJlume commtl ced Jan I ISS; Th • volume w II be enlarged to 900 iage. "I

be prlOted on a neW large and beaut fn Iype and on paper super or to that of ony prev ons volu no Thi. Quart.rly conta nl 8r c e. of permanent a u. by some 01 tbe ableat writers n tbe COUn ry

In ts department It ba. DO supenor Bud no M n i ter caD alford to be Wlthon! It

It • tbe mo.t learned tb.largest and tbe cbeape Quarle Iy of IS k nd n tbe counlry

TERMS-$3 per annom n ad ance $4 foot ID ad vance

W F, DRAI ER Ando er Ma ..

Ayers PIlI5

FOR all tbe purpose. of 8 Fam Iy Pbye c Tit. e has long ex .ted a pub I c demand for an eaec

Purgative l' 1 wb cb could be reI ed on a •• ure aD. perfeclly .afe n t. opera on Tb • bas been pre~s ed ttl meet that demand and an extena ve tr. 01 I

V r nes hal conclne ve y shown w th what BUcce" accomplIsbes the purpo.e des gned It •••• y to make a phys cal Pdt but not .0 euy to make the be, f all P llB-one wh ch .honld. bave none 0 be obJec tons bnt aU tbe Bdvan age. of every oth. T s ~ •• beeo attempted bere and w tb what sncce.s we Wou d respectfnlly .nbm t to Ibe pnbl 0 dec s OD It bu. been nnfor unat. for the .I;'.t ent h therto til. a rna. e""O purgot va mad c ne IS ocr mon OU8 aDu rn at ng 0 the bowel. TWI. not Many ofthem produce 00 much gnp ng pa nand revula on 10 Ihe 'Y.lem 6S 0 lDo • than counterbnlloce the good to he de ed IrollJ belD These P1.118 prouuce no rr R on or pB uIllcs ar Hell from a prev ously ex at ng obs Ue on de rangement n the bowel. Be ng pure y veeetable no harm can a .e from the rUBe In any quan Iy bu • better tbat an) med c ne .hould be laken Jud con. y M nu e d rect onB for tbo! ruse n he .everal d I •• se 10 wh ch they are appl coble ore g 'len on h. box .. Among the complalnllwb chMvebeens,Peed yeu ed by them we may ment on L Ver Complo nt n 'ln OU8 forma 01 Jaund ce Ind ges on Longor ond Lo. of A ppe e L. lesBne,s Irr tab I Iy B I OUB E .d acbe B lou. Fever Fever and Aoue Pa n u the S d. and Lo n. fur u truth a I the.e are but the con.equen,e of d seased act un 01 tbe I ver A. an aperlent the) afford prompt and su • reI ef n Costivene.. P .. Col c Dy.entery Humo 0 Scrofulannd Scu vy 00 d. w til, sorcneB. 0 the body Ulcers and mpur Iy 0 ,

blood n .hort any and eery cas. where a pn g. ii, s rrqu red Th~y have also produced .om •• ngn orly Bucce .. u

cnre. n Rbenmat sm Gou DropllY Gravel E y. pe la. Pa p ta on of the Heart Po n. n Ihe Back Sl<! macb and S de They shonld be ~ ee y aken h. -op ng 01 the year a pnr fy the blood and prep. e • sy.tem for tbe cbange of •••• on. An oec •• on, do.e st mnla e, h.o omach nto beal byac on aoll e." • the appe te 8 d V bOr TheYllur Iy the blood .od by the r .t mulan! alii on on the c rcu atory .ye em renovate tI e otreng h of the body and ree 0 • I ,

wasted or d .eased energ e. of tbe w bole org.n.m Henc. an occa. onal do.o &advantageous eVen b ugh no serlOuoderangemenl ex sl. bu unueceo .. ydos ug .hou d never be earned 100 far 88 every pu~gat e med c ne rednces tbe 8 reogth when laken 10 exc " T-he thousand caseB n w b ch a pbys c • reqn ed cou nOI be eoume ated here but tbey suggest thems. •• to tbe reason of eery body ODd t IS confideu Iy I I eved th • P n w II answer n be ter purl 08e ha aDY Ih ng wh ch has b herto been avo lab e 0 maukfDd When Ibe r v rues are onc. known Ibe pub c w no longer doubl what remedy 0 employ when n need of a calhartlC med c ne

Bemg 8ugar wrapped they are pleasant to take aod be ng pu e y vegetable no harm can nn." f[Om tbe ns. U BUY quan ty

For m nu c d rec ons .ee the wr~pper on be DOJ[ lreparedbyDr J CAYER Practical and Ana]y tea

Chem s Lowen Mo .. Pr ce 25 Cents por B0x FIVe Boxes Cor $1 00

-" Ayer s Chmy Pcetoral

FOR the rap d cnre of Oongbs Hoa .. eDeo. B 00

cb I s Whoop ng Oongh Oroup Asthma and 000 snmpt on Th • remedy has won lor I.elf such DO 0

r e y for Its cure. of every vanety of Pulmonar, d .. eases that t • ent rely nnneceuary to reeounl lb. ev ~enr.s of t. v tue. 10 aoy commnn y whe e I hu been employed So Wide • tl e fie d o£ s u, £0 ness and 10 numerous the caees of ts cores tha al nost every sect on of the coun ryabound. n person, pnbl ely known who have been restored from alarm og and even desperate d .ea ••• of Ihe InoS. by • u. Wben once Ir ed ts super onty over eve y a b med cme of It. k nd II 00 apparent 10 eleap" ob. vat on and where 110 v rtue. are known tbe publ c uo longer be. tRle what 001 dote to employ for be d tres.tng and dangerons affecl ODS of he pu moo. y organ. wblch are nc dent 0 onr cl mate And DO only m form dab e al ack. npon tbe Inngs bu fo he m Ider vnr e •• of Cold. Cough. Hpar..... <l­and for 0 Idren t • the pleosantest and med c ne tbat can I e ob a ned

As t has long been n conetaDI nSe ,u,uUi,"U~' Bect on we need not do more than assure t. qnal ty s kep I up to the best IhBt I ever •

and that the genu ne art cle s-tlold al whole.a e n New York by ~ B & D SAN

rela I by RUSHTON OLARK & Co B d by. D g g It. everywbe e

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Loeal A.~enh fOl the Recorder Bent Halt l'ecK 111 con 10 P 81s-1 Oba n roo s dlrectlv IDto the stagnant water or mlo pll t fish on the a her hal d s one of the most ed WIth ropes tent and anlwer. to the 10 Oba n_1 Acre (S ) k Th h h d d k h d Stone of 10 lb. Scale of NlImbe1' he broo s ere are more t an a un re beau Iful specIes of the finny mbe It IS from At Marlampol we struc t e great roa

SoaleJoT Cloth 10 Un 1I~1 Deoade which may be CIS dered as havmg reached SIX to twelve mches ID CI glh and IS a re leadmgfrom Warsaw to St Petersburg ThiS 10 Po nt.-l Na I 10 Decade.-1 Hundred the extreme hml s of grow h wh ch tbe spe markably well proportioned fish somath ng of was bu It by the Emperor Nicholas m 10 Na 1.-1 Yard (S ) 10 Hund ed_I Thou. cles can aua n 0 e of our countrymen Mr a dandy III Its appearance-weartng at alJ 1845 to fac htate travel between the two

S ale oj Length 10 Thou.and._l MYfJad Blake measured one ofwh ch the Irunk 1m t mes a beauuful mottled dress-amiable m capitals Formerly It was one of the best 10 Second.-l Inch 10 Myr ads-I Plnm 10 Ioche_l Foot 10 Plum_l M II 00 medl8 ely above the root was 94 feet In ctr lis deportmenl so far 08 has yet been d scov roads In the world but 8 now mucb cut up 10 Feet-l Rod cumference An ther which had fallen from ered and most dehe oua eaung AplClUS hy the heavy freight wagons and transports

SuperfiCial lind: cub c measure natUlally old age or I ad been uprooted by a tempest himself would have swallowed a well cooked We contlllued to travel 10 the tel~BI until flow out of the. Mile of Length was Iymg near of wh ch the Ie gIll from pIlot fish WI h mfiDlte gusto espeCially aft~r we reacbed Kowlo upon the ballks bf the

All the avdantages expla ned under the the roots to Ihe t p of branches was 450 feet haVing been for some weeks 011 a short alJow NIeman whIch Will be recollected as the scales of WeIght and LiqUId Measute Will A great portion of thiS monsler sull eXlsls ance of salt previs ons Indeed tbele IS noth stream 10 the middle of wh ch Alexander I equally apply to every Scale ID tbe Dec mal anu according to Mr Lapham the propnelor mg of an unpleasant character connected WI b and Napoleon met on a raft ID June 1807 aDd System of tbe local ty (and who has undoubtedly ap the appearance or habits of tbe pilot fisb concluded an armistIce which led ooon after

The Immense I umber of ammals 11 some of these towns may be conjectured from the large space they some mes cover Capt Marcy pa,ijed 0 e of 11 ese tu ~ns twel t, five m les 10 leng h and supposing t to be as large ID olher d rectlons It would embrace an area of s x hundred and twenty five square m les or e ght hundred and mne y s x tbou sand ac cs Estimating the boles at twenty yards apart the usual (hstance and each dwell ng occup ed by four or five dogs the whole populallon of d IS tract would be ID

round numbers forty mllhollS of dogs 1 The food 01 these ammals cons sts prtnci

pally of a coarse wiry &.rasB whICh grows tn ahundance on elevated p)a ns of tell many miles from any water whlc does not Sllem necessary to their eXIstence About the let of October the prairie dog carefully closes all tbe passages to lIS habitation aud turns In for a long nap He keeps housed unt I the warm days or spnng when he removes Lhe obstructlons~n front of h s door al demerge. full ofllfe fun and frohc The rattle-snake IS often an 11 ma e of their dwelltngs and sometimes preys on tbem wben hungry

NEW YORK CONNEC1 CUT Mya c II dgu I::) to "

Adam. Charlel Po ter W.o 10 d &. N L I I B Alfred Cw D Labgworthy RHODE ISLAND

Hi amP Bu dck.. 11 HopknoD C 11 Lew. Alfred CeDter N V Hull, 2d Hopk D 0 Cba e. Bp "

B W MU ord 3d Hopklnton P S Cnnd. Akron Samuel Hunt. James own W m A Weed I)' Bertin Job Whlttord~ Pa" •• tu.k 6 P S InID Brookfteld Andrew BaucocL p., ryviJ e Cake C no Cere. Gee ~ CrandalL NEW JERSt:~ C &renee ROWM Babeeell: Marlborough narid C aW 01 DoRuyter B G Sti man NeW' Harke V Duuh 1ft State Bridge John Parmatee PI,lnfield Eo B nllwo h Genesee 'Y P Langworth)' Sb oh Baae "eat. Gowanda De .. C BurdIck. PENNSyl.VAN A Houn.ofield Wm Green. CrolllngvUte nebJ SIe e IndependeDce J P Livermore Heb on Hiram W nabcoct Leonardl1ille W B )Iaxlon. Qumc}, Abram Bu ger L nck1aeo Danlol C Burdick VIRGiN I Newport Abe Stillman LOll Cnlek Wm Kennedr NUe E. I C arks. G B Rnn Will F n.ndo p

Dry Measure IS fast glvmg way to the more proprlated t blmself all trees by right of unless bls myatenous 81 d mtlmate connectton wards to the treaty oC Tils t Up to thiS equitable mode of est malton by weight and occupat on) at 350 feet from the roots the WI h the shark may be conSidered ausplC ous place our route lay through RUSSian Poland

) It 18 bel eved WIll Boon be con6ned 10 rough trunk measured 10 f"et In d ameler By 1IS A man may be known by the company he Barren beaths and beggars thick as boulders commodlltes such as oysters and the I ke fall tlls tree has ove tl rown another not Ie sa keeps a 01 old proverb-how for It mayan ber plaIDS were the chl~f bJects of at

colossal Sll ce at tbe ongtu of Ihe roots It IS relate to fishes we are unable to say Irac Ion Those who m Ihe WIldest moments Tbe retaIning of old flarllt. when applIed to new !luantztul hll8 been advanced as an 40 feet ID diameter ThiS one whIch ap It IS well known that sharks are frequently bave ever dreamed of Pohsh tudependence obJectloll At first 8 ght It ma.y appear such peared to me one of the grea est wonders of (not alwaya ) attended, by olle or more of these should VISit the coultry and WI ness not only but tbe nature of the subject admits of no the forest and compared w th which man IS pIlots We have seen as many as SIX, of"ii~ the barrenneee I}f her plams aOlI the gradual

T b 11 b but an mpercepttble p gmy has been hollowed ferent sIzes accompanymg one of ~ese lea decay of her VIllages but also the barrenness other arrangement bls () ~ectlon WI e by means of fire throughout a conSIderable monaters and between the whole party tblll'e of her people tu all those quahues that en examlDed In a separate arllc1e In fact thIS par IOn of lis length so as to form an 1m seemed to eXist the most perfect uodetst1lnd noble man 18 only a synopsIs To he perfectly under mense wooden tube of a fl ngle piece Ita mg Indeed the connection between the The day of PolIsh nattonallty has clean atood, each Scale requtres a leparate chapter s ze may be Imagmed when 11 18 known that shark and the tlot fish IS preCisely or Ibe gOlle for ever and WIthdraw all Oppos1t1on

Bue tbe grand question 18 Can tbIS system one of mv compaDlons two years ago rode nature of the connectIOn fabulously repnrted by the .three powers between whom ehe IS be established w thout creating a vast amount on horseback ID the mtenor of this tree (or a to eXIst between the hon and theJaCkalJl dIVIded and I mucb doubt Ifshll at the pra. of confu81On 1 Certainly It may be without distance of 200 feet Without any IDconven pdot fish IS Ilerally tbe shark a prOVider sent time possesses mtrmslc merit suffiCient Tlsk of eveo temporary conflUzon Now pleue lence My cOlnpamon and myself have fre there IS abundant reason to beheve that th to enable her to erect a new uatlo lal temple to observe tbat every Scale haaltl Invanable quently entered thiS tunnel and progressed sore pressed by hnnger the shark WIll n r from the rums of the old Stafldara ana !tot 07l1y ehe8e Standard8 bue some sixty paces but have been arrested he prev on hIS defenseless fnend Tbe pilot fish At Kowno ured of the Teloga we pro many other Denomlnatlon8 al.o wzU remain fore reachmg the end by masses of wood seems attenttve to the wants of Its master or cured a private conveyan('e whtch WIth tbe tile lame al at prelent both In prIce and !l"an which had fallen from the cedmg Near protector and IS constantly on the look out to exceptron of a cover was but Iutle more com W!I Theie Important landmarks WIll not be these overthrown giants others BUJI are 8lllnd cater to bls appeute fortable Dtl gences run between Warsaw mo.ed, tbey Will serve as regulators of value 109 not InferIOr to them In stze and ofwhtch We recollect that once In the tropical seas and St. Petersburg but we happened ahout an both to buyers and sellers dUTIng tbe period tbe hBlght astoDlshes the beholder I can a large shark was seen astern of tbe ship An hour too late and would have been obhged to oftraDIJUOD mention three parttcularly WbICh entlfely event of thIs kmd whtch temporarily dtspels walt two days Ii r another

The Pound and the Hundred weIght the Iiolated grow near each other so system all the monotony attendant on a long pU88~. In order to travel by post In your own con FIDe and the Gallon. the Yard and tbe Foot cally as to appear to have been planted pur usually proves of great Interest to Ihe whole veyonce a padasosbna or order to Ihe vanous the Lmk the Cham and the Acre the Squarll posely 10 produce thu effect A fourth IS Snip S company There be ng no shark hook station keepers for horses has to be obtalOed of 100 feet and all the terms on Ihe Scale of remarkable m havmg between 50 and 100 feet on board a bowlIne was Immediately prepar In addllon to thiS toll or a road tax has to Number WIll rem am unchanged Nor Will from the ground lIs trunk dIVIded IOto three ed and a large pIece of beef. attached to a be paid Co r each horse tbe proceeds of which It be Imperative to reject conlement l'rac enormons branches of th@ same s ze and piece of rope tbrown over the stern Tbe are expended m repairs upon the road From tlOll1 fo~ whlle tbe Pound and the Yard wdl lIearly parallel extendmg to a d stance of shark remallled at a respectable .hstance as Kowno to St Petersburg a dIstance of about remain the 8ame In name quanllty and prIce more than 300 feet Others are dl8UngU1slted If suspset!llg mtschlef-but In a few minutes seven hundred versta we traveled day and It follows that the half pound and the quarter by the straightness of their trunk compara two pdot fiahes left hiS aide and swam gently mght BtopPlllg only long enough at tbe dlr. pound, and the half yard and the quart&r, win ttvely as dehcate and erect as tbat of a pme towards the 8tem of the ship They were ferenl'etaltons to change borses The ltallon r'lIIaln tbe lime also tree. and whIch are not less than 350 feet In eVidently attracted by the beef. which they houles are bUilt and owned by government,

Let UI take tbe Cl18 of a de,ler 111 clotb belght. At some dIstance may he seen a passed round more than ooce smelhng If and and In thelf exterIor are neat but wltbtn OD the firlt day or the new .YIlem Cloth at JlpeClel of knoll rlslOg from the surfate of the apparently eyemg It attentlfldy-they theD mOltly dirty and deVOid of stomachiC lUXUries '8 ~r ~Jai'd. Win be f8 peW' ,.,td ~ttlll1Jnd of ground and which 18 merely a balI developed returned With an !Derelled pace toward. their Immenle pme foreatli .klrt the road for mile. coutl"" per half yard and JQ per quarter knot the last remam8 of one of these mon voracIous frlnd. and app.area to commUDl 10 many placesr and tbe scenery I.

GULF STREAM -Prof Bache m his lecture upon the Gulf Stregm among other curIOus facts stated that tbe Coast Survev had found that the bottom f the Atlantic ocean was traversed by a fange of mountaInS SImilar 10 the cham some distal ce bBCk from tbe1:0a81 and that the Gulf stream pursued us way over the tops of these and had lin ev dant connex Ion wah them In the gorges of these ranges they found bands of cold water eVidently from the polar reg ons As far sou h as lot tude 29 degrees tbe register md cated at great depth water at only two degrees above the freez ng pamt These polar streams seemed to be pursuing a course from northeast to south wee and In a directly c mtrary dIrection to tbe bal ds of warm water which form the mam feature of the Gulf Stream H)w far thIS knowledge f the bands of cold water m ght be ma Ie available to commerce be would not pretend 10 say

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