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VOL. III. GAMBIER, OHIO, FRIDAY, OCTOBF.R 26, 1832. • NO. 7.

REV. M. T. C. WING, EDITOR. When Mrs. Allen died, most of the people said his mill went perfectly well, pointed out af­ she died in consequence of the anger of a god ter an examination of a few minutes, both the de­ GEORGE w. MYERS. PRINTER. formerly worshipped there, but removed to make fect and the remedy. room for the building spot for the house in which Being intended for the church, he was placed THE WINGED WORSHIPPERS. she lived. But when I asked them privately if at the Exeter Grammar School; and here he dis­ BV C. SPRAGUE. they believed that was the cause of her death, tinguished himself by his proficiency in classical An impromptu upon two little Birds which flew into a house of they said, no; we know it was not, but we say so, learning, while he still retained his early attach­ worship during service. because the priests tell us so. When a company ment to mechanical pursuits, and exercised his talent Gay, guiltless pair, of four or five are asked what they think of Chris­ in the construction of several curious and ingenious What seek ye from the field of heaven? tianity, they say it is bad. We feel opposed to it. articles. At the age of eighteen, he entered at Ox­ Ye have no need of prayer, ford,where he took the degree of A. B. at the usual Ye have no sins to be forgiven. » Our religion is far better.” But when 1 ask them alone which religion is the best, they reply ; “ We time. It was during his residence at the universi­ Why perch ye here, know our religion is not good, and we should be ty that he conceived the idea of compiling a sys­ Where mortals to their Maker'bend? Can your pure spirits fear glad to join your church, but we cannot, because tem of divinity, to consist of selections from the The God ye never could offend? we shall be cast out. Do not tell any one what we best writers, and began to collect, in a common­ Ye never knew say.” place book, such passages as he thought would The crimes for which we come to weep: In illustration of the feelings they cherish to­ suit his purpose. Penance is not for you, wards the missionaries, she observes: “ When some On leaving college, he was ordained to the cu­ Bless’d wanderers.of the upper deep. of the missionaries died, Mr. Garrett, Mrs. Allen, racy of Moreton, in the diocese of Exeter, and To you ’tis given and Mrs. Hervey, &c. great numbers of the na­ not long after he removed to the adjoining curacy, To wake sweet nature’s untaught lays; tives gathered around the house and wept a long of Lustleigh, with a salary of £4-0 a year. In Beneath the arch of heaven time, even till many of them were made sick, at the year 1786 he published, by subscription, six To chirp away a life of praise. the funeral, and for a long time after also, they ap­ volumes of sermons, by way of introduction to his Then spread each wing, peared very sorrowful. When Mrs. Allen was ta­ intended work; but this proved an unfortunate Ear, far above, o’er lakes and lands, And join the choirs that sing ken sick the natives were at great pains to provide speculation, many of the subscribers forgetting to In yon blue dome not reared with binds. for her the best nurse that could be found. The pay for their copies, and he remained in conse­ Or if y e stay, woman procured, in her anxiety for Mrs. A. neg­ quence indebted to his printer above a hundred To jioto tlie oonacci uted Houi, lected a little child of her own so much that it pounds. This bad success, however, did not dis­ Teach me the airy way, died. As illustrative of the desires of the heathen courage him; he pursued his literary researches And let me try your envied power. that Christian missionaries should be sent out to and completed the work. But when his manu­ Above the crowd, them, she remarks; “The natives come to me script was finished, he found that, from its extent, On upward wings could I but fly, and say, tell the people in America, we wish it would cost two thousand pounds to get it print­ I’d bathe in yon bright cloud, And seek the stars that gem the sky. they would send out more missionaries to help ed. In these circumstances he again contemplat­ those who are here now. We think they would ed publication by subscription, and issued his ’Twere heaven indeed, do much good. We wish to have more teachers proposals accordingly; but the names he collect­ Through fields of trackless light to soar, On nature’s charms to feed, come to instruct us. Can you not persuade some ed were too few to induce any bookseller to risk And nature’s own great God adore. to come? Tell the people in America, ive think the expense of an impression of the work. De­ they do not feel much for us, if they did, they would termined not to be defrauded of the honors of MISSIONARY. send out more missionaries. authorship, Mr. Davy now resolved to become a When a little heathen girl ’asked me why my printer himself. So, having constructed his own From the Boston Recorder. parents did not betroth me to some of the little press, and purchased from a printer at Exeter a CHARACTER AND CONDITION OF THE boys at Bombay, I told her that in the country quantity of worn and cast off types, he commenc­ HEATHEN. where the missionaries came from, they did not ed operations, having no one to assist him except Mr. Tracy.—Believing that your readers, par­ do so; but permitted the children to wait, till his female servant, and having of course to per­ ticularly those who love the cause ol missions, they were older, and then choose far themselves, form alternately the offices of compositor and will be interested in the following communication when she replied, ‘I wish I were a missionary’s pressman. Yet in this manner did the ingenious from a little girl, daughter of one of the missiona­ daughter.’” Sedgwick. and persevering man, sustained by the anticipation ries to India; and thinking that it throws some new of the literary fame awaiting him, proceed until he light upon the condition of the heathen, I submit BXOGR.&PHY. had printed off forty copies of the first three hun­ it for publication. I shall give the conversation dred pages, his press only permitting him to do in the language of the little girl, as nearly as I REV. MR. DAVY. a single page at a time. Confident that he had can recollect. An Example of Extraordinary Perseverance. now produced so ample a specimen of the work To show how feeble is the confidence which the Perhaps the most extraordinary instance of lite­ as would be certain to secure for it the general heathen repose in their superstitious worship and rary industry and perseverance, on record is afford­ patronage of the learned, he here suspended his with what feelings they regard Christians, she re­ ed us in the Reverend William Davy, A. B., a labors for a while; and having forwarded copies marks. clergyman of the church of England. Mr. Davy to the Royal Society, the universities, certain of “At the festivals, the people bring liberal offer­ was born in 174-3, near Chudleigh in Devonshire, the bishops, and the editors of the principal re­ ings of food, and a variety of fruits, to the tem­ where his father resided on a small farm, his free­ views, waited with eager expectation for the no­ ples, and present them to their gods. After the hold. From a very early age he gave proofs of tice and assistance which he conceived himself people have retired, the priests place some of the a mechanical genius, and when only eight years sure of receiving from some of these quarters. food in the hands of the idols, and put some upon old, he cut out with a knife and put together the He waited, however, in vain, the looked-for en­ their mouths, appropriating the rest to their own parts of a small mill, after the model of one that couragement came not. Still, although thus a use. If you ask the people in public, what be­ was then building in the neighborhood, the progress second time disappointed, he was not to be driven comes of the offering, they will say the gods eat made in constructing which he used to observe from his purpose, but returned with unabated cour­ them. But when I ask some of them alone, if narrowly every day, while he proceeded with equal age to his neglected labors. He no doubt they believe the idols can eat their offerings, they regularity in the completion of his own little work. thought that posterity would repair the injustice say no, but we must say so, because the priests When the large mill was finished, it was not found of his contemporaries. In one respect, however, affirm it; and if we do not, they will complain of to work exactly as it ought to have done, and the de­ he determined to alter his plan. His presents to us to the government, and we shall be cast out,— fect at first eluded the detection even of the buil­ the bishops, critics and learned bodies, had cost (deprived of all employment, and forsaken by their der. It is said that while they were endeavoring him twenty-six of his forty copies, and for the nearest friends.) They at the same time charge to ascertain what was wrong, the young self taught completion of these, so thanklessly received, he me not to tell what they have said, architect made his appearance, and, observing that naturally enough resolved that he would give fiin^ 50 GAMBIER OBSERVER. gone to Bayswater, expecting to hear him, and on rary degree of A. M., which was followed in 1806 self no further trouble, but limit the impressions by that of D. D., and subsequently by his election of the remainder of the work, so as merely to com­ learning that he was seized with the cholera, im­ mediately went to Mr. Hobb s house in Bayswater, as a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. Of plete the fourteen copies which he had reserved, late years he had lived in comparative retirement in this way saving both his labor and his paper.— where Dr. Clarke was staying, and rernained with him till nearly noon, when he started in a chaise but took great interest in the progress of Chris­ And he had at last, after thirteen years ol unre­ tianity, especially in the Shetland Isles, where he mitting toil, the gratification of bringing his extra­ to Heydon Hall, the doctor s own residence, for Mrs. Clarke, who returned with him about half-past was instrumental in establishing a Wesleyan Mis­ ordinary undertaking to a conclusion. The book, sion, which he continued to foster with great care. when finished, the reader will be astonished to 5, and found her distinguished husband breathing He has gone to his rest, and well has he earned learn, extended to no fewer than twenty-six vo­ with great difficulty. It appears that the doctor (if we may be permitted so to speak) the repose lumes 8vo., of nearly five hundred pages each!— had been relaxed as to his bowels for a week past, which he will enjoy. He will live long in the In a like spirit of independence, he next bound and that he was attacked with alarming symptoms all the fourteen copies with his own hands; after about 6 o’clock yesterday morning, when he desir­ remembrance of posterity as one of the wisest, which he proceeded in person to London, and de­ ed Mr. Hobb’s servant to call her master, who im­ best, most laborious, and useful men of his own or posited one in each of the principal public libra­ mediately obeyed the summons. Ih a short time of any age: and whether in the grateful remem­ ries there. We may smile at so preposterous a Mr. Greenley, (the son of a Methodist minister,) brance of this and of future generations or in the dedication of the labors of a life-time as this; but, Mr. Clarke (the doctor’s nephew) and Dr. Wilson, eternal enjoyments of the just made perfect, it will at least, the power of extraordinary perseverance a physician, were in attendance. On returning to be proved concerning him that, according to his was not wanting here nor the capability of being bed, he told Mr. Hobbs that he “thought he should motto, excited to arduous exertion, and long sustained die,” on which that gentleman recommended him FIDES CANDIDTOR CYGNO. under it, by those motives that act most strongly to put his trust in his Saviour: the doctor replied, that “he had done so already.” All that could upon the noblest natures—the consciousness of RELIGIOUS, honorable pursuit, and a trust in the verdict of be done by the united skill and exertions of the posterity. It is true, this temper of mind might medical gentlemen in attendance, was effected, SOCIAL PRAYER. but without affording any prospects of recovery. have been more wisely exercised; and the patience The chief fault of some good prayers is that The doctor said very little, being greatly exhaust­ ingenuity, and toil which was expended upon a per­ they are too long—not that I think we should pray formance of no great use in itself bestow upon some­ ed. Indeed, he was at times insensible, as was evinced by his occasional questions and observa­ by the clock and limit ourselves precisely to a cer­ thing better fitted to benefit both the zealous la­ tain number of minutes; but it is the better of the tions, such as, “ What do the doctors think of me!’ borer and his fellow-men. Yet this consideration two, that the hearers should wish the prayer had does not entitle us to refuse our admiration to so “Have they bled me?” “Rub my legs.” His sons, Theodore and John, and his daughter, to­ been longer, than spend half or a considerabli rare an example of the unwearied and inflexible part of the time in wishing it was over. This is gether with his afflicted wife, were present at his prosecution of an object, in the absence of all frequently owing to an unnecessary enlargement those vulgar encouragements which are generally death. Dr. Clarke’s remains are to be interred at the upon every circumstance that offers, as well, as believed and felt to be indispensable. to the repetition of the same thing. If we have “ A few years after the completion of his work,” City Road Chapel to-morrow at 12 o’clock. The funeral will be strictly private; but it is expected been copious in pleading for spiritual blessings, continues our authority, “I became acquainted it may be best to be brief and summary in the with him. Though advanced in years, and much that a vast concourse of persons will embrace this last opportunity of testifying their esteem for this article of intercession for others; or if the cir­ disappointed at the neglect he conceived he had cumstances of affairs, lead us to be more large and experienced, he still hoped that a time would pre-eminently useful and venerated minister. Thus suddenly died this great and excellent particular in laying the case of others before the come when his labours would be noticed. His Lord, respect should be had to this intention in the genius was decidedly mechanical, and his industry man—a man who had passed through a long life in remarkable exemption from the multitudinous former part of the prayer. There are, doubtless, great. He had formed a curious garden among seasons when the Lord is pleased to favor those the rocks close to his house, and his health and diseases incident to human nature—“broke by sickness in a day. who pray with a peculiar liberty: they speak be­ strength were unabated. He showed me the on­ cause they feel; they have a wrestling spirit, and ly copy in his possession. It was a curious one, Dr. Clarke was born in Ireland, but his father,a man of great learning was an Englishman, and hardly know how to leave off. When this is the being interspersed with manuscript remarks. The case, they who join with them are seldom wearied, printing was not elegant, but fair and legible. He his mother a native or Scotland. lTis birth cook place near Magherfelt, in the county of London­ though the prayer should be protracted something still entertained hopes that the wnole would be beyond the usual limits. But I believe it some­ printed, as well as an index which he had comple­ derry, in the year 1765, He took early a seri­ ous turn, and his boyhood was passed in acquiring times happens both in praying and in preaching, ted to it in two volumes. In the year 1823 he re­ that we are apt to spin our time to the greatest commenced his printing, and worked off a new the rudiments of a classical education, and in at­ tending to the concerns of his father’s farm. He length; when we have, in reality, the least to say. volume of sermons; and in 1825, he publish­ Long prayers should in general be avoided, espe­ ed at Exeter an abridgment of his system of di­ was afterwards placed with Mr. Bennet, a large linen manufacturer; but taking a dislike to the cially where several persons are to pray succes­ vinity in two volumes, being then in his eighty-se­ sively; or else even spiritual hearers will be una­ cond year. (These volumes, however, the first business, and probably feeling a preference for a life of mental labor, he left that gentleman, with ble to keep up their attention. And here I would of which contains a print of the author, were not, just notice an impropriety we sometimes meet with, we believe, printed by himself.) In the follow­ whom, however, be continued on terms of unin­ that when a person gives expectation that he is ing year he was presented by the Bishop of Exe­ terrupted friendship till his death. He was brought just going to conclude his prayer, something not ter to the vicarage of Winckleigh Devon. He by letter under the notice of the Rev. John Wes­ thought of in its proper place occurring that in­ was exceedingly gratified by this circumstance, ley and became a pupil of that great man’s school at stant to his mind, leads him, as it were to begin and, contrary to the wishes of his friends, he re­ Kingswood. He had not long been there, where moved to his living. I he exertion was too much he displayed great talents and considerable apti­ again. But unless it is a matter of singular im­ for him, and he died on the 13th of June, 1826, tude in the acquisition of the dead languages, portance, it would be better omitted for that time. in his eighty-third year, and is buried at Winck­ when Mr. Wesley intimated to him his intention The prayers of some good men are more like leigh, having possessed his living onlyafew months. to send him out as one of his itinerant preachers. preaching than praying. Indeed, this can hard) Having acquired some property during the latter Accordingly in 1782, he commenced his labors in be called prayer. It might in other places, stand part of his life, he founded a school for the poor that character, and, though but 18 years of age, for part of a good sermon; but will afford Me at Lustleith, and endowed it with a meadow, worth acquitted himself to the satisfaction of Mr. Wes­ help to those who desire to pray with their hearts. about three hundred pounds. He likewise sub­ ley, a competent judge. He remained in this ac­ Prayer should be sententious, and made up ol scribed towards building a school-room, and gave tive and laborious employment, continually in­ breathings to the Lord, either of confession, peti­ some handsome communion plate to the church.” creasing his stores of knowledge and adding to his tion or praise. It should not be only scriptural reputation, and with great usefulness, till 1831, and evangelica but experimental, a simple and From the London Christian Advocate. when the Methodist Conference made him a sup­ unstudied expression of the wants and feelings DEATH GF THE REV. DR. ADAM CLARKE. ernumerary, not only, as we understand, without of the soul. It will be so, if the heart is lively his knowledge or consent, but also as it afterwards and affected in the duty; it must be so, if the I his melancholy and unexpected event occur- appeared, much against his wish. During this edification of others is the point in view. ed a quarter past 11 last night, (August 25,) and period—a period which would have been half a nas occasioned by the mysterious disease to which Many, perhaps, most people who pray in public, century had it extended to the present time__he so many of all classes have already fallen a sacri­ have some favorite word or expression which re­ travelled in most parts of England and Ireland. curs too often in their prayers, and is frequently fice. The venci able doctor was expected to preach At three several conferences be occupied the Pre­ at Bayswater yesterday morning, and, as usual a used as a mere expletive, having no necessary con­ sident’s chair, and retained to the last a popularity nection with the sense of what they are speaking. large congregation was assembled to hear him; but which the word popularity is not fitted to describe ; while they were lost in conjectures as to the cause The most disagreeable of these is, when the name for he constantly enjoyed the mingled veneration, of I heir disappointment, intelligence arrived that he of the blessed God, with the addition of perhaps admiration, and affection of both ministers and had been suddenly taken ill, and was not expected one or more epithets Great, Glorious, Holy, Almigh­ laymen of his own denomination. Of his litera­ to survive the attack. Mr. Walmesley preached in ty, &c., is introduced so often, and without neces­ his stead, and alludedto the melancholy circumstan­ ry, biblical and philosophical pursuits, we shall sity, as seems neither to indicate a due reverence not here make mention, nor shall we enlarge at ces in an affecting manner. The gentleman to whom in the person who uses it, nor suited to excite re­ we are indebted for our information, Mr. Thurs­ present on his ministerial exertions, it being our verence in those who hear. I will not say that ton, of Catherine-street, Strand, who had been intention next week to present our readers with a this is taking the name of God in vain, in the usu­ long favored with the doctor’s friendship, had more detailed account of his life and labors. In al sense of the phrase. It would be well if those 1805, his acquirements obtained for him thehono- who use redundant expressions had a friend to GAMBIER QB?Bible, and the characters who acted in them church, ‘so you are trudging home, after taking apology for drawing out this letter to an unusual have passed away and become matter of history, the benefit of the fine balmy breezes in the coun­ length. In general our scholarship and appropria­ so also must the customs have disappeared which try this morning.’ ‘Sir,’ said the man, ‘I have tions are inadequate. I believe their ordinary served as familiar illustrations between man and not been strolling about this sacred morning, was­ amount is $100 a year. If the student have where­ man, or between our Saviour and the human be­ ting my time in idleness and neglect of religion; with to supply himself with necessary articles, ex­ ings whom it was the object of his mission to im­ but I have been at the house of God, to worship clusive of his board, washing, lights, and fuel, this press with his doctrine. We are apt to be star­ him, and to hear his preached word,’ ‘Ah! what sum will be sufficient by proper economyj; tled, therefore, when we find ourselves actually then, you are one of those simpletons, that in these and this, let me say, it is his most imperative du­ surrounded by scenes almost identical with those country places, are weak enough to believe the ty to practice. But if this be his whole depen­ described in the Bible. Be all this as it may, 1 Bible? Believe me my man, that book is nothing dence, it is too small a sum to meet his expenses. could never see a Hindoo female sitting by the but a pack of nonsense; and none but weak and He comes to the Seminary with the certainty of steps of a well in India, with her arm thrown wea­ ignorant people now, think it true.’ ‘Well, Mr. receiving $100, which he has supposed will cover rily over the unfilled water pot, without thinking Stranger, but do you know, weak and ignorant as all the demands that must be made on his purse. of the beautiful story of the woman of Samaria, we country people are, tve like to have tzvo strings But he is disappointed and chagrined to find that the association being perhaps helped by the recol­ to our bow.’ ‘Two strings to your bow! what do all his quarter’s allowance, and perhaps more, is lection of a weli-known Italian picture, in which you mean by that?’ ‘Why, sir, I mean, that, to required at the very outset. His room must be fur­ the figures and the scenery are represented quite believe the Bible, and act up to it, is like having nished. He must have a couple of chairs, a table in the Eastern style, such as I was now beholding two strings to one’s bow; for if it is not true, I some place for his clothes, a few shelves for his it for the first time. shall be the better man for living according to it; books, and the indispensable apparatus of bed and “ Two women shall be grinding at the mill, the and so it will be tor my good in this life—that is bedding. Being a stranger, and not accustom­ one shall be taken, the other left,” conveys scarce­ one string; and if it should be true, it will be bet­ ed to purchase articles of this sort, he is probably ly any meaning to European readers. But in In­ ter for me in the next life—that is another string! imposed on, and pays for them more than they dia, where we see constantly two female millers and a pretty strong one it is. But, sir, if you dis­ are worth. In Andover, the rooms are furnished sitting cross-legged on the ground, turning by believe the Bible, and on that account do not live with all necessary articles, and in a very neat man­ one handle the upper of two small stones, we are as it requires, you have not one string to your bow. ner; and if the student comes from any of the at once struck with the force of the illustration And oh! if its tremendous threats prove true, oh, Eastern states, he is surprised to find it otherwise used to explain the uncertainty which should pre­ think! what then, sir, will become of you?’ This plain with us. He must also supply himself with the ne­ vail at the destruction of the city. It is difficult, appeal silenced the coxcomb, and made him feel, cessary text boohs. These he ought to possess. If on looking at two persons so engaged, to conceive it is hoped, that he was not quite so wise as he had he borrows them from others, or procures any of a situation in which it would be less easy to re­ supposed. them from the Seminary library, which contains a move the one without interfering with the other; few and but a few, they will soon be worn out, or and this point was admirably enforced by refer­ THE BIBLE. at least injured by repeated use. To the expense ence to a custom with which every listener in For mental philosophy—for the powers, pro of furnishing his room and purchasing his text books those countries must have been quite familiar. pensities, interests and destinies of intellects and add the cost of his clothing, and but little of the The industry of commentators on the Bible has, hearts—the Bible is unquestionably better than $100 will be left. I wish that the benevolent con­ I observe, long ago discovered the true explana­ any other or all other books.—Locke, Stewart, tributors to funds for assisting young men in their tion ol this, and many other passages apparently Edwards, Reid, Brown, Mason, and Paley, united, preparatory studies, would take this subject into obscure, but pregnant with meaning when duly do not contain so much common sense, they do consideration. You will not mistake me. I do investigated. Nevertheless, I aver that a whole not give that insight into the soul of man, they do not wish a student, to have plenty of money at quarto of commentaries on the above verse could not delineate his character as it is constantly ex­ command. If he has, he very seldom learns how not have impressed my mind with a tenth part of hibited before our eyes, they do not contain so to spend it judiciously, and never penetrates the conviction which flashed upon me when I first much sound intellectual and moral philosophy, into the art and mystery of economy in small saw two women actually “grinding at the mill;” as the books of the Old and New Testament. sums, the great secret of having comparatively all unconscious, poor folks, of the cause of my For the science of man—['ox physical, intellectu­ large ones. But I do wish his reasonable expen­ admiration, and as yet ignorant, alas! of the sub­ al, social, moraf religious man—it has more digni­ ses to be met, and his mind to be at ease. 1 do lime lessons, to enforce and explain which their ty, more grandeur, more sublimity, more utility, wish him to be put beyond the necessity of teach­ humble task was referred to. and more hope, than Astronomy, Chemistry, Nat­ ing, so that all his time may be devoted to the On the morning after my arrival at Bombay, I ural Philosophy, Botany, Mineralogy, or all of study of his profession, and that as he feels the got up with the first blush of the dawn, and has­ them united. The Bible, aided by observation, advantage of the Seminary course, he may also tily drawing on my clothes, proceeded alone gree­ and a minute examination of the subjects thenj- feel the obligation he is under to serve the church dily in search of adventures. I had not gone far, selves, ought to be the text-book from first to last: with his best energies. before I saw a native sleeping on a mat spread with the child of three years old, and with the man “From what I have written you will conclude, in the little verandah extended along the front of of gray hairs; with the poor man and the rich man; that I am in favor of making the provision for his house, which was made of basket-work plas­ with the farmer at his plough, and the mechanic necessitous students amply sufficient. I have no tered over with mud. He was wrapped up in a at his bench; withihe astronomer in his observa­ hesitation in saying that I am. But I would re­ long web of white linen, or cotton cloth, called, I. tory, and the chemist in his laboratory; with the quire something on the other side. I would re­ think, his cummer-bund, or waist-cloth. As soon husband and the wife, the father and son, the mo­ ceive no student who should be found greatly de­ as the first rays of the sun peeped into his rude ther and daughter; with the teacher and pupil; ficient in preparation. I would give no aid to any, sleeping chamber, he “arose, took up his bed, and with the ruler and the ruled, the President and the whose piety, in the judgment of judicious men, went into his house.” I saw immediately an ex­ Governor, the ins and the outs, the statesman and was doubtful. I would give nothing to the indo­ planation of this expression which, with slight the patriot, the philanthropist and the Christian. lent and inattentive. I would require industrious variation, occurs frequently in the Bible, in preparation for the duties of the seminary. These connexion with several of the mtsi striking anecdote of dr. mason. requisitions are no more than are demanded by and impressive of Christ’s miracles, particular­ We remember to have heard the lamented Bru- ordinary justice to the benefactors, who have a ly with that of the man sick of the palsy.— en, who was Dr. Mason’s particular friend and fel­ right to expect that their money be disposed of My honest friend the Hindoo got on his feet, cast low traveller when he was last in Europe, remark in a way well calculated to advance the interests the long folds of his wrapper over his shoulder, that at a certain time they lodged together in of the church. And surely they are no more than stooped down, and having rolled up his mat, which the same room; and Mr. B. happening to be awake every religious young man of feeling would at was all the bed he required, he walked into the very early in the morning, heard Dr. Mason utter- 3 P. M., when the final adjournment took place, after prayer The most of the members being in ini- himself in a low tone. He at first supposed accompany each lesson, . , , lon(r by the Bishop, and singing the 202d hymn. 68 clerical mem., that the Doctor was engaged in his morning de- the morn of life, a reasonable hope is c lensi oft'erinAthens, Greece. bard, Rev. Benjamin B. Wisner, D. D., Samuel T. Arm­ Theological Seminary, and of' two thousand dollars to St. Phi­ The Alumni association was addressed by the Hon. Samuel strong, Esq., Charles Stoddard, Esq. lip’s Church. Though always liberal to our various Church L. Southard. The Rev. Dr. John McDowell, of Elizabeth • Secretaries__ Rev. Benjamin B. Wisner, D. D., Rev. Ru­ institutions, yet we were not prepared to look for so noble a town, was appointed agent of the Alumni, to carry into effect fus Anderson, Rev. David Greene. bequest from this good man to our chief general institution. the purposes of the Association—11,000 dollars have been sub­ Henry, Hill, Esq. Treasurer. It is indeed a glorious event, and calls for devout thanksgiving scribed by them for the endowment of a professorship. We John Tappan, and William J. Hubbard, Esqrs., Auditors. to Almighty God for so disposing his heart.”—There can be understand that the Trustees of the Institution have resolved The next annual meeting is to be held at Philadelphia, on but one sentiment of gratitude and joy at this noble endow­ to erect another large building for the accommodation of its the 3d Wednesday in September, 1833. Rev. Dr. McAuley, ment of the “school of the prophets.” May the Lord’s bless­ students. Mr Benedict Yager was appointed Professor of of that city, was appointed to preach the annual Sermon, and ing richly rest upon it, for the edifying of his Church and the the German and Italian Languages and Lecturer on Natural Rev. Dr. M’Murray, of New-York, his substitute. glory of his name.—The donation to St. Philip’s, (African) History, and Mr. Joseph Henry, Professor of Natural Phi­ Missionaries__ Eight ordained Missionaries and a Physi­ Church, of which Mr. Lorillard was always the steady friend, losophy.—Advocate Journal. cian, with their wives and an unmarried Printer, embarked on is timely and judicious.—Banner. the 26th of November, at New-Bedford, in the ship Averick, Joseph W. Farnum, M. D. formerly of Fredericksburg, Capt. Swain, for the Sandwich Islands, making in all 19 per­ Religious Liberality.— A church is building at Freiburg, has been chosen Professor of Chemistry, in Washington Col­ sons; and the most numerous company of missionaries ever in Brisgau, under circumstances that deserve honorable men­ lege, Lexington, Va. sent, at one time,from this country to a heathen land. tion. The late Grand Duke Lewis of Baden, a Protestant, North American Review.—The October number has been The Rev. William G. Schauffler, embarked at New-York having obtained from the Pope the creation of the above city issued, and contains articles under the following heads:—Ir­ on the 1st of December as a missionary to the Jews in Turkey; and its environs into a bishopric, the magistracy and common ving’s Alhambra, History of the Italian Language and Dia­ the Rev. George W. Boggs, of South Carolina, and who was council of the place, all Roman Catholics, voted the sum of lects, Wheaton’s history of the Northmen, Journal of the educated at the Princeton Seminary, embarked at Salem in fifteen thousand florins towards the erection of a monument, Landers, American Forest Trees, Sir James Mackintosh, May last for Bombay, the Rev. Asher Wright, from the Semi­ as a mark of gratitude to their Prince. But, it being subse­ Noye’s Translation of the Psalms, Bank of the United States. nary at Andover, joined the Seneca mission last autumn; the quently found that the Protestants in the town who had lately Rev. Elias Riggs, from the Andover Seminary, is expecting much increased in number, were anxious to have a place of Benjamin F. Seaborn, a laborer in the emploj of Richard soon to embark for the Mediterranean; the Rev. Win. M. worship for themselves, the Catholics, thinking that no mark Smith, Esq. as a brick-maker, was arrested on Saturday night Thomson, of the Princeton Seminary, and Dr. Asa Dodge, of gratitude would be more welcome to their Protestant ruler, last, on the suspicion of having robbed and fired Mr. Smith’s a regularly educated physician, are ready to embrace the first resolved to appropriate the money to this purpose, and the store, the house in which the late destructive fire originated; opportunity for proceeding to Beyroot; the Rev. Benj. W. building was actually commenced on the 25th of August, and, on Monday last, after a thorough and critical examination Parker, from the Andover Seminary, the Rev. Lowell Smith, 1829, when the first stone was laid by the Catholic Archbishop, of witnesses, before an examining court, conducted by the At­ from the Seminary at Auburn, and Mr. Lemuel Fuller, a attended by his Chapter! The Church is named after the torney General, was committed for trial at our next Superior printer, will probably embark during the present month for Prince in whose honor it was founded, and is a glorious monu­ Court. As it would be improper, at present, to publish the the Sandwich Islands; the Rev. Henry R. Wilson and Rev. ment of a spirit of liberality, which is making rapid strides evidence, we can only state that upwards of $6,000 was found John Fleming, from the Princeton Seminary, have been com­ in Germany. in the possession of Seaborn, part of which was identified missioned to proceed to the Cherokees of the Arkansas; the as Mr. Smith’s money; a fact which confirms the opinion Rev. Asher Bliss, from the Andover Seminary, is on the point heretofore expressed, that the fire was the work of some foul of becoming connected with the mission among the Indians incendiary.—Raleigh Star. in New-York; the Rev. Messrs. Samuel Munson, Ira Tracy, .[Cincinnati Chronicle—Extra.] and Henry Lyman, from the Andover Seminary, and the Lotteries.— Chances of Drawing a Prize.—I was informed Rev. Stephen Johnson, and Charles Robinson, from the Semi­ CURE OF CHOLERA. the other day, by a gentleman of my acquaintance, who has nary at Auburn, have been appointed to the mission in South­ Fellow Citizens,—Would you be cured of Cholera take the been in the lottery business for the last seven years, that, al­ eastern Asia; and a printer, Mr. S. W. Williams of Utica, disease in time. though he had sold thousands and thousands of dollars’ worth has also been appointed for the China press. Four other It begins with some sort of Bowel Complaint, or disturbance within that period, yet he never sold but one single quarter of a brethren who have completed their studies for the ministry; of the stomach. In this stage it is easily cured; and all who ticket that drew a high prize. Verily, said he, I believe the and a printer, have also placed themselves under the direction neglect this stage are in danger of perishing. chances for a man’s being killed by lightning are much great­ of the Committee, but have as yet been assigned to no parti­ Whoever has a lax or sickness at stomach, or Colic, should er than for drawing a prize.— Young Men’s Advocate. instantly take to his bed in a warm room, and drink hot tea of cular station.—Boston Recorder. The office of the North Western Bank of Virginia, at sage, balm, or Thoroughwort, or even hot-water, bathing his feet if Wheeling, was robbed on the 2d inst. of from $60,000 to cold, and applying a warm poultice over the bowels. $70,000 in bank notes. Another Missionary Gone.—By the following note it Without this nothing will do any good—All who go about will be perceived that another of our brethren has fallen at in the damp air after the bowel complaint has set in will get Bombay. The Board say in their last report, that the climate Cramps and Spasms and die—1 again say they will die! foreign. of Bombay is not peculiarly insalubrious; and yet it has cost Besides what I have mentioned, they should take a powder, The arrival of the packet ship Hannibal, Capt. Hubbard, the Missionary cause an unusual number of valuable lives. of ten grains of Calomel and one of Opium mixed, if grown at this port, has put us in possession of European intelligence We trust the Lord will put it in the hearts of many young dis­ persons, and children should take less in proportion; or a tea- to September 3d. ciples, to offer themselves for the station thus successively vaca­ spoon-ful of powdered Rhubarb. The cholera still exists in Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, ted.—N. Y. Evany elist. They should, also, take a tea-spoon-ful, every hour, of the Glasgow and Dublin, besides other places. The Note.—Brother Leavitt—Rev. II. Reed, of the Bom­ Aromatic Camphorated water, which is a cheap article, and The Rev. Adam Clark, one of the most celebrated oriental bay Mission, writes to Rev. A. Peters from Ahmednuggur, may be had of most of the Apothecaries. scholars of the day, died of attack of the cholera, on Sunday that our brother Hervey died at that place with Spasmodic All who are of a full habit, or have Fever, or Colie should evening last, aged 69. Dr. Clark was a Wesleyan Method­ Cholera on Sabbath morning, May 1.3th; having been taken he bled. ist, and one of the heads of the conference. ill the evening before. He suffered much pain, was able to Again let me warn every one, that the dreadful Epidemic The St. Simonians hsve been tried at Paris and found guil­ converse but litttle—said it was an afc ful thing to die—exhor­ commences as a mild bowel complaint, and in that stage may ty—one was sentenced to fine and imprisonment—two to tines ted the brethren to live near to God—said he had been an un­ be cured—when vomiting, coldness and spasms combined, come only. The court decreed the dissolution of the society itself. profitable servant. “Ilis mind was fixed on Jesus and the on, death will follow—lias followed, in almost every case that The details of wretchedness from Poland is heart-rending. resurrection.” Yours, C. Hall. has yet occurred in the city. He who goes about with a mild The Ottoman empire is in a tottering condition. Damas­ October 10, 1832. complaint upon him should expect to perish. cus, and some say Aleppo, have fallen into the hands of the The Epidemic would lose all its terrors, if people would Egyptian army. Greece is doomed to see troublous times. Murder and con­ Bible Society__ The Managers of the American Bible So­ attend, instantly, to the first srnyptoms—Go to bed, drink hot fusion prevail.—N. York Weekly Mess. ciety, have resolved to devote this year, $5,000 to print the water or tea, promote a perspiration, and send for their family Bible in the Mahratta language by the mission in Bombay; Physician. LATE FROM ENGLAND. $5,000 to print the Bible in the Burmese language by the Terror is a great exciting cause. The disease produced by By the arrival of the packet ship Philadelphia, the editors Baptist Mission there; $5,000 more to print the New-Testa­ terror requires treatment. Let no one presume to laugh ano­ of the N. Y. Commercial Advertiser have received London ment in the language of the Sandwich Islands. They have ther out of his fears. All the terrified should take to their papers to the 17th ult. % also resolved to print, as soon as circumstances shall permit, an beds—this will best counteract its bad effects. Great Britain.—There is nothing important in the con­ edition of 30,000 copies of the New-Testament in Mod.rn Ijgr Let all who read what is here written, recount it to tents of the papers before us as to British affairs. Greek, for distribution in Greece and the adjacent countries; their friends. Let us unite in aiding each other, for a few Sir Walter Scott.—This distinguished character continues and also, 1,000 copies of the Epistle of John in the Mohawk days—the Pestilential Cloud will soon pass away. The dis­ to sink gradually, though not so rapidly as had at first been language. ease, absolutely, is not catching. expected, and is not supposed at all likely to last another fort­ Cincinnati, Oct. 13. DANIEL DRAKE, M.D. night, even though he should have no fresh attack. For a Young Men’s Convention.—A National convention of month past, he has been entirely confined to his bed; indeed, young men was held in this city, on Friday and Saturday last, literary. the single gleam of recovery that occurred at Abbotsford was for the purpose of organizing a national society, “ for moral Centre College, Ky__ The Faculty of the college is now only of a few day’s duration. and intellectual improvement.” Henry E. Davies Esq. of complete, embracing a president, five professors, and four tu­ The Dutches D’Angouleme was in London; but contem­ New-York, was elected President, Messrs. Thomas Moseley, tors, who are all young men, of acknowledged talents, of re­ plated a speedy departure for Austria. of Pittsfield, Mass, and «S. C. Nichols, of Richmond, Va. spectable attainments, and of great promise. The number of Portugal__ The war in this country languishes almost to Vice Presidents, and J. F. Hanks, of New-York, and Cr. S. students (a large proportion are pious,) in the preparatory a point of ridicule, and in the slight conflicts which casually TYiVswi, of Utica, Secretaries. school and college classes, during the last year, has varied from take place between the hostile parties, it has been made a great The convention was opened with prayer, by Rev. Theron 70 to 95—and arrangements are now completed for the ac­ feature by the royalist general to communicate his suspicions H. Baldwin, of Illinois. Many important resolutions were commodation and instruction of at least twice that number. that some of the enemy were wounded! gaiikieb observes*. 56 ______Irish of white many fathoms down. The loss of a Spanish who leaps across the prostrate foe, and with an adroitcut^ Sa Icon in chlse” I am persuaded, could hardly cause more bit- him open from snout to tail, and the tagedy is over, so fa^ POETRY. fer rZ’e or cal forth more intemperate expressions of anger the struggles and sufferings of the principal actor are’concer " ed. There always follows, however, the most lively curio■'?' THE SHIP IS READY. IndXati^nce. On the other hand, I supposeithe^symp­ toms «I an enemy’s flag coming in the fight wa. never on the part of the sailors to learn what the shark lias got BY MISS H. F. GOULD. joy’X™” f’ad'gS ed away in his inside; but they are often disappointed, Fare thee well! the ship is ready, stomach is generally empty. I remember one famous And the breeze is fresh and steady. pmmfrom'wouth to mouth; over, eye islighted i.p, and sueh tion, indeed, when a very large fellow was caught on board Hands are fast, the anchor’s weighing; as have not bronzed their cheeks by too long exposure to sun the Alceste, in Anjeer Roads, at Java, when we were proceed High in the air the streamer’s playing. and wind, may be seen to alter their hue from pale to red, and ing to China with the embassy under Lord Amherst. Spread the sails—the waves are swelling back to pale again, like the tints of the dying dolphin. number of ducks and hens, which had died in the night, were Proudly round thy buoyant dwelling. << When a bait is towed astern of a ship that has any motion as usual thrown overboard in the morning, besides several bas’ Fare thee well! and when at sea, through the water at all, it is necessarily brought to the sur­ kets and many other minor things, such as bundles of shavinc- Think of those who sigh for thee. face, or nearly so. This of course obliges the shark to bite at and bits of cordage, all which things were found in this huee When from land and home receding, it from below; and as his mouth is placed under his chin, not sea-monster’s inside. But what excited most surprise and ad- And from hearts that ache to bleeding, over it, he must turn nearly on his back before he can seize the miration was the hide of a buffalo, killed on board that day Think of those behind, who love thee, floating piece of meat in which the hook is concealed. Even for the ship’s company’s dinner. The old sailor who had cut While the sun is bright above thee! if he does not turn completely round, he is forced to slew him­ open the shark, stood with a foot on each side, and drew out Then, as down the ocean glancing, self, as it is called, so far as to show some portion of his white the articles one by one from the huge cavern into which they With the waves his rays are dancing, belly The instant the white skin flashes on the sight ot the had been indiscriminately drawn. When the operator came Think how long the night will be expectant crew, a subdued cry, or murmur of satisfaction is at last to the buffalo’s skin, he held it up before him like acur- To the eyes that weep for thee. heard amongst the crowd; but no one speaks for fear of alarm­ tain, and exclaimed, ‘There, my lads, d’ye see that! He has swallowed a buffalo, but he could’nt dis-gest the hide!’ ” When the lonely night-watch keeping, ing the shark. . . “ Sometimes at the very instant the bait is cast over the All below thee still and sleeping— stern, the shark flies at it with such eagerness, that he actually As the needle points the quarter Cure for the Toothach: the Yellow Iris__ “But above O’er the wide and trackless water, springs partially out of the water. This, however, is rare. all,” says Ettmuller, “I have hitherto known, the juice of the Let thy vigils ever find thee On these occasions he gorges the bait, the hook, and a foot 01 root of the Jra lutea rubbed upon the tooth that is painful, oi two of the chain, without any mastication or delay, and darts Mindful of the friends behind thee! the root itself chewed in the mouth, in an instant, as it' by a off with his treacherous prize with such prodigious velocity Let thy bosom’s magnet be charm, drives away the pain of the teeth, arising from whai Turned to those, who wake for thee! and force, that it makes the rope crack again, as soon as the cause soever. He that communicated it to me affirms, that whole coil is drawn out. In general, however, he goes more he had tried it at least forty times, with like success. I my­ When, with slow and gentle motion, leisurely to work, and seems rather to suck in the bait than to self have also various times tried it, and a great many others Heaves the bosom of the ocean— bite at it. Much dexterity is required in the hand which holds have done the same by my persuasion, and I hardly ever knei While in peace thy bark is riding, the line at this moment; for a bungler is apt to be too precip­ it fail.” l’he seeds roasted make excellent coffee, superior u And the silver moon is gliding itate and jerk away the hook before it has got far enough down any other substitute__ Johnstone's Flora. O’er the sky with tranquil splendor, the shark’s maw. Our greedy friend, indeed, is never dis­ Where the shining hosts attend her, posed to relinquish what may once have passed his formidable Let thy brightest vision be batteries of teeth; but the hook, by a premature tug of the Popish Confession.—The following anecdote is from1* Country, home and friends, to thee! line, may fix itself in a part of the jaw so weak, that it gives Rev. David Jones, a chaplain in the army of our Revolution, When the tempest hovers o’er thee, way in the violent struggle which always follows I he secret and may be relied upon as authentic:—One of the officers A Danger, wreck and death before thee, of the sport is, to let the voracious monster gulp down the came over in the French army was savingly converted unde While tiie sword of fire is gleaming, huge mess of pork, and then to give the rope a violent pull the ministry of Mr. Jones, and when he came to relate his Wild the winds, the torrent streaming, by which the barbed point, cutting the edge of the bait, bu­ feelings to the chaplain, Mr. Jones inquired of him if hews Then, a pious suppliant bending, ries itself in the coats of the victim’s throat or stomach. As formerly in the habit of confessing to the priest. “Oyes," Let thy thoughts to heaven ascending a shark is not a personage to submit patiently to such treat­ was the reply. “But did you confess all your sins to the Reach the mercy seat, to be ment, it will not be well for any one whose foot happens to priest ?” “ Certainly, I confess my sins to the priest.” “But, Met by prayers that rise for thee! be accidentally on the coil of the rope, for, when the hook is sir,” said Mr. Jones, “do you understand me? did you con­ first fixed, it spins out like the log line of a ship going twelve fess every one of your sins to the priest? “ Ah, inon amie! knots. now I understand, I did mt confess every one—them that MISCELLANY. The suddenness of the jerk with which the poor fellow is were too bad to be told, I kept to myself.”—N. Y. Bap. Rtj brought up, when he has reached the length of his tether, of­ From Captain Hall’s Voyages and Travels. ten turns him quite over on the surface of the water. Then TAKINO A SHARK. None, I say None!—The parent should instil into his chil­ commence the loud cheers, taunts, and other sounds of rage dren a hatred of ardent spirits, as much as lie does of theft.— But the fox-chase of the sea—the sport of sports—is fur­ and triumph, so long suppressed. A steady pull is insufficient He should no more suffer his children to drink a little, than hi nished by Jack’s hereditary enemy, the shark. to carry away the line, but it sometimes happens that the vio­ does to steal a little.—Kittredge. “ The lunarian, busy taking distances, crams his sextant has­ lent struggle of the shark, when too speedily drawn up, snaps tily into his case; the computer, working out his longitude, either the rope or the book, and so he gets off to digest the shoves his books on one side; the marine officer abandons his remainder as he best can. It is, accordingly, held the best Post Offices__ There are in the State of New-York, ris­ eternal (lute; the doctor starts from his nap; the purser resigns practice to play him a little, with his mouth at the surface, till ing 1600 Post Offices, and of course as many Postmasters.— the Complete book; and every man and boy, however engaged, he becomes somewhat exhausted. During this operation, one For each of these, mails are daily or weekly made up at thi rushes on deck to see the villain die. Even the monkey, if could almost, fancy that the enraged animal is conscious of the New-York Post Office, in which there is more hard work per­ there be one on board, takes a vehement interest in the whole abuse which is flung down upon him, for as he turns and twists formed, and by fewer persons, than any similar institution progress of this wild scene. I remember once seeing Jacko and flings himsilf about, his eye glares upwards with a feroci­ perhaps in the world. running backwards and forwards along the after part of the ty of purpose which makes the blood tingle in a swimmer’s poop hammock-netting, grinning, screaming, and chattering, veins, as he thinks of the hour when it may be his turn to at such a rate, that, as it was nearly calm, he was heard all over writhe under the tender mercies of his sworn foe! No sailors, PHYSIC AND SURGERY. the decks. ‘What’s the matter with you, Master Mona?’ said therefore, ought ever to think of hauling a shark on board the quarter master; for the animal came from Tenerilfe, and merely by the rope fastened to the hook; for, however impo­ HE subscriber, having been appointed College Physician, preserved his Spanish cognomen. Jacko replied not, but tent his struggles may be in the water, they are rarely unat­ hereby tenders to the citizens of Gambier and its vicinity merely stretching his head over the railing, started with his tended with risk when the rogue is half drawn up. To pre­ This services in the various departments of his profession. eyes almost bursting from his head, and by the intensity of his vent the line breaking, or the hook snapping, or the jaw being Office directly opposite the hotel. grin, bared his teeth and gums nearly from ear to ear. ‘Mes­ torn away, the device of a running bowline knot, is always LEWIS DYER- senger, run to the cook for a piece of pork,’ cries the captain, adopted. This noose, being slipped down the rope and passed Gambier Sept. 17.—6t taking command with as much glee as if it had been an ene­ over the monster’s head, is made to jam at the point of junc­ my’s cruiser he was about to engage. ‘ Where’s your hook, tion of the tail with the body. When this is once fixed, the THE OBSERVER. quartermaster?’ ‘Here, sir; here,’cries the fellow, feeling first act of the piece is held to be complete, and the vanquished the point and declaring it as sharp as any lady’s needle, and in enemy is easily drawn over the taff'-rail and flung on the deck, the next instant piercing with it a huge junk of rusty pork, to the unspeakable delight of all hands. But although the TERMS__ _Two Dollars per annum, if paid in advance, am weighing four or five pounds, for nothing scarcely is too large shark is out of his element he has by no means lost his power Two Dollars and Fifty 'Cents, if at the end of six months. or too high in flavor for the stomach of a shark. The hook, of doing mischief: and I would advise no one to come within No subscriptions received for a less term than one year. which is as thick as one’s little finger, has a curvature about as range of the tail, or trust his toes too near the animal’s mouth. No papers discontinued until all arrearages are paid, except large as that of a man’s hand when half closed, and is from six The blow of a tolerably large sized shark’s tail might break a at the option of the publishers. to eight inches in length, with a formidable barb. This fierce man’s leg; and 1 have seen a three-inch hide tiller-rope bit­ Those who may wish to have their papers discontinued, are re­ looking grappling-iron is furnished with three or four feet of ten more than half through, full ten minutes after the wretch chain, a precaution which is absolutely necessary; for a vora­ quested to give notice thereof, at least thirty days previous had been dragged about the quarter deck, and had made all to the expiration of the term of their subscription, other­ cious shark will sometimes gobble the bait so deep into his his victors keep at the most respectful distance. I remember wise, it will be considered a new engagement. stomach, that but for the chain he would snap through the hearing the late ,I)r. Wollaston, with his wonted ingenuity, rope by which the hook is held, as easily as if he were nipping suggest a method of measuring the strength of a shark’s bite. *** All communications relative to this paper,must be di­ the head off an asparagus. If a smooth plate of lead, he thought, were thrust into the rected to the Editor, Gambier, Knox Co. Ohio “A shark, like a midshipman is generally very hungry; fish’s mouth, the depth which his teeth should pierce the lead, LIST OF AGENTS. but in the rare cases when he is not in good appetite, he sails would furnish a sort of a scale for the force exerted. Rev. JOHN'L. BRYAN...... Boardman, Trumbull Co. 0bi«- slowly up to the bait, smells to it, and gives it a poke with his “I need scarcely mention, that when a shark is floundering Col. HUBBARD...... Ashtabula, shovel nose, turning it over and over. He then edges off' to about, the quarter deck becomes a scene of pretty considerable Rev. AuVA SANFORD,...... Medina, Medina Co. ‘ the right or left, as if he apprehended mischief, but soon re­ Rev. WM. PRESTON,...... Columbus, confusion; and if there be blood on the occasion, as there ge­ GEORGE BEATTY,...... Steubenville, turns again to enjoy the delicious haut goui, as the sailors term nerally is, from all this tough usage, the stains are not td be Rev. J. P. BAU3MAN...... Chillicothe, the flavor of the damaged pork, of which a piece is always se­ got rid of without a week’s scrubbing, and many a growl from ARIUS NYE ...... Marietta, lected it it can be found. While this coquetry or shyness is JOSIAH BARBER ...... Cleaveland, the captain of the afterguard. For the time, however, all SYLVESTER P. ALDERMAN...... Windsor, exhibited by John Shark, the whole afterpait of the ship is so such considerations are superceded, that is to say, if the com­ J. W. SCHUCKERS,...... Wooster, clustered with heads, that not an inch of spare room is to be mander himself takes an interest in the sport, and he must be WM. H. MARSHON...... Dayton, had for love or money. The rigging, the mizzen top, and even MADDOX FISHER, P. M...... Springfield, Clark Co. rather a spoony skipper that does not. If he be indifferent Dr. ASA COLEMAN,...... Troy, Miami Co. the gaff", out to the very peak; the hammock nettings and the about the fate of the shark, it is speedily dragged forward to ROFF & YOUNG ...... Cincinnati, " UWinr . A«,r * T T T»„ quarters, almost down to the counter, are stuck over with the forecastle, amidst the kicks, thumps and execrations of the Rev. HENRY C \SWALL,...... Portsmouth, breathless spectators, speaking in whispers, if they venture to Rev. R. V. ROGERS,...... Circleville conquerors, who very soon terminate his miserable career, by ROWLAND CLAPP,...... Cuyahoga Falls, * speak at all, or can find leisure for any thing but fixing their stabbing him with their knives, boarding-pikes, and toma­ WM. M. BLACKFORD...... Fredericksburgh, Va. gaze on the monster, who as yet is free to roam the ocean, but Col. LEVIN S. J( YNES,...... Onancock, E. S. Va. hawks, like so many wild Indians. Rev. J. T. WHEAT,...... Wheeling, Va. who, they trust, will soon be in their power. I have seen this “ The first operation is always to deprive him of his tail, go on for an hour together; after which, the shark has made JAMES ENTWISLE...... Alexandria, D. C. which is seldom an easy matter, it not being at all safe to come WM. S. DRUMMOND,...... Washington, D. C. up his mind to have, nothing to say to us, and either swerved GEORGE W. JEWETT,...... Ann Arbour, Michigan Tet. too near; but some dexterous hand familiar with the use of the away to windward, if there be any breeze at all, or dived so Rev. JOHN O’BRIEN...... Monroe, “ broad-axe, watches for a quiet moment, and at a sino-le blow Messrs. HOLDSHIP & SON...... Pittsburgh, Pa. deep, that his place could be detected only by Lint touch or a severs it from the body. He is then closed with by another CHARLES S. YOUNG,...... St. John, New-Brunswick, C. GRISWOLD,...... Utica, New-York.