serious. Voltaire's vivacity at last turned clares one object to be, "The glory of God, SKETCHES OF EARLY PENNSYLVANIA HISTORY.-No. 2. t "No one circumstance, in the annals of Pennsylvania, has made a deeper impression upon history, than the treaty, or more correctly speaking, the conference under the Elm, which took place shortly after the landing of Wm. Penn." After noticing the fact, that the merit of treating with the Indians for their lands, has been claimed by others antecedent to Wm. Penn, Wharton proceeds banished from the island and forbidden to return, under pain of corporal punishment. He removed to England in 1745, and lived chiefly in London, and died at a very advanced age at Barking, in Essex, in the year 1786. His private character was amiable, inoffensive and unassuming. He became an approved minister in the Society, and paid several religious visits to various parts of England, the islands in the British Channel, Holland, France, Germany and Switzerland. He was remarkable for his industry and humility, and often travelled on foot, in the performance of his religious duties. His public ministry was sound, fervent and tender; he was frequently engaged in prayer, and his petitions were usually preferred in "Whether we consider the honesty of the appropriate terms "for the merits of the motive, the fairness of the whole proChrist." He was the author of several ceeding, or the faith which preserved it, works; he translated the first part of Penn's we are entitled to look upon it as an event "No Cross no Crown," and a selection by itself, one of those unique and striking from the memorials of deceased Friends Among the many claims which the illus- occurrences, which redeem and dignify the into French. His translations possess no trious founder of Pennsylvania and his as- character of our species, and gladden the great literary merits, and are written with sociates present, for the gratitude and ad- dark pages of the diplomatic dealings of cia strong English idiom. But although Claude miration of posterity, none are more power-vilized men with savages." Gay was no scholar, he was an upright, sim- ful or engaging, than those derived from ple hearted Christian. He lived an unblem- their honourable, just, and Christian treatished life, endured a lingering disease with ment of the Aborigines of our soil. It is a great patience, and declared to those who consoling reflection, that of the unnumbered conversed with him in his last illness, that woes and wrongs which have been perpe- "That prior to the landing of Wm. all fear of death was removed. How great trated on this noble and high-minded, but Penn, deeds of cession were made in seveis the contrast between the useful life-the deeply injured race of men, not a single act ral cases by the Indians to their European humble labours-the triumphant death of of oppression or cruelty is found chargeable visitants, collectively or individually, is a Claude Gay, and the splendid, though mis- to our forefathers. The kindness which they fact too well established to be denied, if chievous career-the false glory and the real received from these poor sons of the forest, there was a disposition any where to disdemerit of his celebrated countryman, whose was generously recompensed and recipro- pute it. Such was the case in New Hampname we have coupled with his. Two cha-cated. Whilst in many other parts of Ame- shire, Rhode Island, New York, Maryland, racters more opposite in all points cannot rica, bloody wars were waged, and fearful and the Carolinas, according to their sevewell be imagined-and the interview which outrages committed by the European set- ral historians. But, what appears to me to is recorded to have taken place between tlers, with the mercenary view of robbing the constitute the great and distinguishing methem, is curious and interesting. It was in one Indians of their lands,-our ancestors paid rit of the treaty under the elm, is the perof the visits to Switzerland which has been a fair and satisfactory equivalent for every fect fairness of the transaction towards the alluded to, that Claude remained for some inch of ground which they inhabited or ac- Indians; the equality of advantages with time at Geneva. He was noted there for his quired.-Whilst between the first settlers, which they met the whites; and the sincerigood sense, moderation and simplicity. The in many of the States of our Union and the ty and good faith with which the negotiaarch infidel heard of him-his curiosity was Aborigines, constant jealousies, heart burn- tions were commenced and concluded. In excited, and he desired to see him. I give ings, mutual encroachments, and bloody that ancient fable which describes the prothe remainder of the narrative in the lan- murders, were constantly occurring, in Penn- gress and consummation of the diplomatic guage of Simond.* "The Quaker felt great sylvania peace, concord, and the mutual in- alliance between the lion and the other reluctance, but suffered himself at last to terchange of good offices, were ennobling the beasts, we may find a type of the treabe carried to Ferney, Voltaire having pro- intercourse of our fathers with their rude, ties between Christians and the Indians of mised beforehand to his friends, that he but faithful and honourable friends; and it is this continent. In most instances of negowould say nothing that could give offence. well worthy of remark, that so long as our tiation with the natives for the purchase of At first he was delighted with the tall, religious Society exercised control in the their land-I believe I may say in allstraight, handsome Quaker, his broad-brim- government, or influence in its councils, so prior to the time of Penn, the colonists med hat, and plain drab suit of clothes, and long was the soil of Pennsylvania free from backed their suit with that powerful arguthe mild and serene expression of his coun- the stain of Indian blood. In the presentment, that last reason of kings, whose pertenance, and the dinner promised to go off and succeeding number of our sketches, we suasiveness the defenceless natives were unvery well; yet he soon took notice of the shall present a concise view of the early In- able to resist. They perceived on the part great sobriety of his guest and made jokes, dian History of our State, taken from a dis- of the Europeans, a determination to keep to which he received grave and modest an- course by T. I. Wharton, Esq. delivered in hold of their lands, for possession they had swers. The patriarchs and the first inhabi- 1826, before the Society for the comme- already taken without license; and they tants of the earth were next alluded to; by moration of the landing of Wm. Penn; and a could not but be sensible that the means and by, he began to sneer at the historical discourse delivered by Roberts Vaux, before were at hand, to enforce that determination proofs of revelation; but Claude was not to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, on which they had no power to resist; and that be driven away from his grounds, and while New Year's Day, 1827. It appears that in peaceably or forcibly their territory was examining these proofs, and arguing upon the very inception of his plans for settling to be obtained. WILLIAM PENN, however, them rationally, he overlooked the light at-his colony, Wm. Penn had prescribed for approached them with naked hands, with no tacks of his adversary when not to the point, other armour than honesty of intention; no appeared insensible to his sarcasms and his weapons but reason and justice; no band wit, and remained always cool and always of armed men was ready as make weights * Travels in Switzerland, vol. i. p. 396. himself, a course of conduct towards the * See Vaux's Reports, page 7. to fill up the deficiencies of argument; no fortresses frowned defiance upon the Aborigines, and admonished them to submit to inevitable necessity." vinces and the Indians of their vicinity, will I have quoted the whole of these very Extraordinary Preservation at Sea. B. Wharton then mentions some other usual accompaniments of treaties which were wanting on this occasion, and proceeds"But all was openness and peace; the dealings of men whom the common Father created equal in rights; and who, in the language which Penn himself addressed to the Indians, were equally accountable to him for all the deeds done in the flesh.' It was the unfeigned desire of our progenitors, I again use the language of the Founder, 'to enjoy the province with the love and consent of those whom they found in the partial occupation of it, and that love they hoped to gain by a kind, just, and peaceable life; and to preserve by the most exact and even justice. Herein, then, consists one of the points (and a sufficiently remarkable one,) of distinction, between the negotiations of Penn with the Indians, and those of other provinces; that whereas I repeat, in most other cases, the Indians were overawed by a military array or other irresistible force, and yielded their claims to what the emigrants were already in possession of; in the instance of our own State, the founder, a year before his arrival, made known to them his determination not to ocThe ship Mary Ann, of about 100 tons, loaded cupy an inch of the soil, without their full about three weeks since near Bangor, a full cargo of slates, with which she put to sea. The crew were and free consent; and, in the never to be surprised, after getting to sea, to find her very leaky, forgotten interview under the elm, consum- and that the leak gained very fast upon them. Conmated that intention, by a compact in which sidering the nature of the cargo, and the rate at which he met them as brethren of common lineage, she made water, they deemed it impossible to save and treated with them as the rightful pro-her, and lay at a distance to watch her sinking. They her. They finally took to the boat, and rowed from prietors of the soil. Another remarkable cir- continued to watch her till far beyond the time in cumstance about the treaties of Penn, and which they had calculated she would disappear. which would itself be sufficient to distinguish Surprised that she still continued afloat they returnthem from others made during that centu-ed to her, and found that the leak ceased to increase, ry, was their durability. Unlike some other articles of the same name, which have been manufactured in different parts of this continent, in recent as well as in the olden time, which scarcely survived the cooling of the wax with which they were sealed, the treaties of Penn were made for posterity, as well as for the existing generation. They were calculated, in honest good faith, for use, and not merely for show, and to serve some present purpose. From a small and unarmed band with which the settlement was commenced, the colonists had increased to a powerful and populous nation; while on the other hand, by that fatility which seems every where to attend them, the Indians had wasted to the very skeleton of their former strength. Of their ripid advances in strength, however, no advantage was taken by the government or people of Pennsylvania. Their compacts were preserved inviolate, the rights of these children of a common humanity were scrupulously re spected, and thus a prouder title and a higher glory was gained for Pennsylvania, than the most brilliant triumphs that military tactics could obtain over this defenceless race. I allude to the appellation justly bestowed upon the land of unbroken faith.' "That a similar degree of harmony existed between the colonists of other pro but they were perfectly at a loss to account for the ORIGINAL POETRY. FOR THE FRIEND. PARTED FRIENDS. Parted friends may meet again, Worldly cares may sever wide- Distant far their path may be- They shall once again be free. Death-the end of care and pain Death-the wretch's happiest meed- Parted friends again may meet, From the toils of nature free; FOR THE FRIEND. STANZAS WRITTEN AT SEA. And hail thee--Sov'reign Lord of all! Of vocal groves and laughing skies, Thy all controlling power I feel- Like leaf before autumnal gale, Or dash in angry foam away. Thou Sovereign of the skies and sea! If thine averted presence frown; The life thy matchless mercy gave- This night, or waft me o'er the wave. Ω The following pious effusion, in reply to the four lines in our last number, beginning "Yet who, upon thy mountain waves," in the third stanza of "Ocean," is from a female hand. Hope the Anchor. Though billows swell at midnight hour, Beneath the feeble bark, And threat'ning clouds with darkness low'r, Yet he whose mind is staid on Him, Who spake and it stood fast; Let helpless man, condemn'd to make When meteors glare, and mountains quake, Who holds on high supreme control, When whirlwinds agitate the pole, X. THE FRIEND. TENTH MONTH, 27, 1827. YEARLY MEETING AT GREEN STREET. "The Friends.-Yesterday morning the first yearly meeting of that part of the society of Friends adopting the opinions of Elias Hicks, was held in the meeting house near Green street. The females occupied the brick house, and the men a large temporary frame building, erected for that purpose, in the court. A vast crowd assembled, including many friends from the country. During the meeting, which will last the whole week, it is said some of their celebrated preachers THE SOCIETY OF FRIENDS IN ENGLAND. The following passage from Espriella's Considerable pains have been taken to dis- letters should make a deep impression upon seminate the idea that the society of Friends the mind of every lover of his country. in England is rapidly declining, and that Whatever may be the external splendour of many of its meetings have been discontinued a nation-if it is created by a moral degrawithin a few years. We have been at some dation such as is here pictured-if, in order trouble in order to ascertain the truth of these to excel the rest of the world in the manufacassertions, and are gratified in being able to ture of cloths and muslins, and pins and state that they are unfounded. Letters re-needles, the great body of the people is to be ceived during the present year from persons transformed into machines, of no more value, now in England, who have the best opportu- and scarcely more intelligent, than the spinnities of correct information, assure us, that ning jennies and steam engines, to which they for several years past the number of meetings seem almost subordinate and inferior-let set up exceeds those which have been laid down; and that there is an actual increase in the members of the society in that country. It is a fact that several meetings in difAs is stated in the preceding extract from ferent parts of the country have been dropthe Democratic Press, the first yearly meet-ped, in consequence of their members having ing of the followers of Elias Hicks, commenc- generally removed into the towns, on account ed on the 15th of the present month, and was of difficulties connected with agricultural concluded on the 19th. The separation of employments-particularly the great expothis body of persons from the religious society of Friends, and their formation into a new sect, may therefore be considered as completely effected. will visit them." Democratic Press. The women's meeting was held in the brick meeting house at the corner of Green and Fourth street. The men convened in a us keep to the plough, and to the frugal simplicity of our forefathers. The lamentation of the poet over the degradation of the peasantry, is as just as it is touching: "Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay, Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade; A breath can make them, as a breath has made. But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied." sure of the youth to various temptations, in be so beneficial to a country as manufactures. "Mr. remarked, that nothing could attending the corn markets. But it is obvi-You see these children, sir,' said he. 'In ous that the mere change of residence does most parts of England poor children are a not lessen the aggregate number of Friends, burden to their parents and the parish; here other meetings being increased, or new ones the parish, which would else have to support established, in consequence of the accession. them, is rid of all expense; they get their The last printed account of the meetings bread almost as soon as they can run about, in Great Britain which is in our possession, and by the time they are seven or eight years was published in 1822, by direction of the old, bring in money. There is no idleness yearly meeting of London. At that time this ing; we allow them half an hour for breakamong us; they come at five in the mornmeeting consisted of twenty-six quarterly fast, and an hour for dinner; they leave work meetings, the half year's meeting of Wales, at six, and another set relieves them for the and the general meeting of Scotland. These night; the wheels never stand still.' include one hundred and one monthly meetings, and four hundred and four meetings for divine worship-exclusive of Ireland, and the meetings on the continent of Europe. Since 1822, the number of meetings has increased; and the total amount at that time will be found to be quite equal, we believe, to what The principal transactions were the ap- it has been at any period during the last pointment of a large committee of men and twenty or thirty years. As regards the conwomen to represent, and attend to the condition of the society in Great Britain, numecerns of, the yearly meeting in its recess- rous accounts, official as well as private, rethe issuing of an epistle addressed to Balti-present Friends as being preserved in great more yearly meeting, and one to their own members the appointment of a treasurer, and a conclusion to raise fifteen hundred dollars for the current expenses of the year. temporary building erected for the purpose, in the lumber yard at the opposite corner of the same streets. It may be well, in order to correct some misrepresentations which are already in circulation, to say, that by computation, the dimensions of the house and the number of benches being ascertained, the males attending on the first day it is believed could not have exceeded 1130. At some of the sittings the number was much less; and at the meeting on fifth day morning, it is apprehended there could not have been present more than about 700. We are further informed, that a committee to whom was referred the subject of transferring rights of membership without certificates, (a mode not sanctioned by the discipline of Friends,) reported, that under existing circumstances, neither the individuals who had thus transgressed the long established usage of Friends, nor the monthly meetings who had countenanced this disorderly procedure, by receiving them, were censurable, but that it was inexpedient at present to make any rule of discipline sanctioning the proceeding. 6 "These children, then, said I, have no time to receive instruction. That, sir,' he reGirls are employed here from the age you plied, is the evil which we have found. see them till they marry, and then they know nothing about domestic work, not even how to mend a stocking or boil a potato. But we are remedying this now, and send the children to school for an hour after they have done work.' I asked if so much confinement did not injure their health. 'No,' he replied, world could be. To be sure, many of them, they are as healthy as any children in the as they grew up, went off in consumptions; harmony and unity; and it is hoped that there but consumption was the disease of the Engis an increase of true spiritual religion among lish.' I ventured to inquire afterwards conthem. The youth especially, in many parts, cerning the morals of the people who were appear to have been favoured with a renewed trained up in this monstrous manner, and visitation of divine grace, through submission found what was to be expected, that in conto which a consoling prospect is afforded, that of both sexes, who are utterly uninstructed sequence of herding together such numbers a succession of faithful Friends will come up in the commonest principles of religion and in support of the doctrines and testimonies morality, they were as debauched and profcommitted to the society. There has also ligate as human beings under the influence been a considerable increase in the ministry of such circumstances must inevitably be; among them--that although our accounts the men drunken, the women dissolute; that speak of many deficiencies still existing however high the wages they earned, they among them, yet there is cause of thankful-were too improvident ever to lay by for a ness that, as a body they are, through mercy, preserved from the evils which have devastated some of the fairest portions of the society in this land. B. time of need; and that though the parish was not at the expense of maintaining them when children, it had to provide for them in diseases induced by their mode of life, and in premature debility and old age." COMMUNICATION. TEXT. COMMENTARY. their power to exclude Friends from their is compared to Cupid; whilst Hercules, own meeting house, they could not prevent Lady Melbourne, Emma Crewe, Brindley's "We feel an ardent desire, that in all our them from the performance of Divine Wor- canals and sleeping cherubs, sweep on like proceedings tending to this end, our conduct ship. The friends who were assembled, col- images in a dream. Tribes and grasses are towards all our brethren may, on every occa-lected under the shade of some neighbour- likened to angels, and the truffle is rehearssion, be marked with forbearance and love.-ing trees, where a solemn meeting was held; ed as a subterranean Empress. His laboriGreen street Address of the 4th month. and HE who has graciously promised to be ous ingenuity in finding comparisons, is with the "two or three that were gathered frequently like that of Hervey in his "mein his name," condescended to appear "in ditations," or of Flavel in his "Gardening the midst of thein," and overshadow the com- Spiritualized." "If Darwin, however, was not a good poet, pany with his heavenly presence. Under a grateful sense of the unmerited favour, pray-it may be owned that he is frequently a bold er and praises were reverently offered to personifier, and that some of his insulated his worthy name. The followers of E. H. passages are musical and picturesque. His were not satisfied with debarring Friends Botanic Garden once pleased many better from the use of the meeting house, several judges than his affected biographer Anna of them stood around the circle of worship- Seward; it fascinated even the taste of Cowpers, demeaning themselves in a light and per, who says in conjunction with Hayleyunbecoming manner, irreverently keeping on their hats, while a female minister was engaged in supplication. Friends removed to a neighbouring mill, in At Abington Quarterly Meeting held in the 8th month last, the adherents of Elias Hicks declared themselves independent of the Yearly Meeting held in Philadelphia, and formally dissolved the tie which had hitherto bound them to its communion. This conclusion was unquestionably a separation from the Religious Society of Friends, and the commencement of the organization of the Society, which has just closed its first general assembly. Those members of Abington Quarterly Meeting, who remained faithful to our principles and discipline-when they found that their efforts to prevent this secession was unavailing, and that the large majority of those present, had fully determined upon their course, interfered no longer with what they had considered the transactions of a new Society. After it had adjourned, Friends remained behind, in order to transact the proper business of the Quarterly Meeting. Instead of allowing them quietly to proceed in it, a number of the followers of Elias Hicks intruded themselves into the meeting, and behaved with great rudeness and disorder. They ridiculed those who attempted to speak, and addressed the company in taunting and contemptuous language. Several of them stood around the doors and windows of the women's apart-is ment, laughing and talking aloud. For the truth of this statement, we can appeal to hundreds of witnesses who were present on the occasion. Such are the facts relative to the first instance of the expulsion of Friends from their meeting houses on a religious account, during a period of at least one hundred and thirty years. (To be continued.) DR. DARWIN. The following fine criticism and just estimate of the poetical character of Darwin, from the pen of an accomplished judge of poetry himself the finest lyrical poet of the age. "Darwin was a materialist in poetry, no less than in philosophy. In the latter he attempts to build systems of vital sensibility on mere mechanical principles, and in the former, he paints every thing to the mind's eye, as if the soul had no pleasure beyond the vivid conception of form, colour, and motion. Nothing makes poetry more lifeless than description by abstract terms, and general qualities; but Darwin runs into the opposite extreme of prominently glaring circumstantiality, without shade, relief, or perspective. The clamour and confusion thus created was so great, that Friends could not proceed with the business, and were obliged to adjourn the meeting till the following morning. At the hour to which they had adjourned, Friends assembled at the Meeting House, and found the doors locked and barred against them. Application was made to the person appointed to the care of the house, with a respectful request that he would open it for the use of the Quarterly Meeting; but he informed Friends that he "His celebrity rose and fell with unexamhad been forbidden to do so, and exhibited pled rapidity. His poetry appeared at a a written authority to that effect, signed by time peculiarly favourable to innovation, and three of the Trustees, all Hicksites. Charles his attempt to wed poetry and science was Shoemaker, one of the Trustees for the pro- a bold experiment, which had some appaperty, and a worthy and respected member rent sanction from the triumphs of modern of Abington Meeting, endeavoured to per- discovery. When Lucretius wrote, science suade them to permit Friends peaceably to was in her cradle; but modern philosophy occupy their own property, which they had had revealed truths in nature more sublime unquestionably a right to do; but, persua- than the marvels of fiction. The Rosicrucian sion and argument were alike unavailing. machinery of his poem, had at the first It should be observed that the number of glance an imposing appearance, and the vapersons who were thus refused admittance riety of his allusion was surprising. On a into the meeting house, was about three closer view, it was observable that the Bohundred-that none of them had been dis-tanic Goddess and her Sylphs, and Gnomes, owned, and consequently were fully entitled were useless, from their having no to all the rights as members of that society, ployment; and tiresome, from being the to whom only the property belonged. But, mere pretexts for declamation. The variety though the followers of Elias Hicks had it in of allusion is very whimsical. Dr. Franklin em We therefore pleas'd extol thy song, That will not weave a wreath for thee, Campbell's Poets. "THE ISLES OF GREECE." It is not possible for any power of language, adequately to describe the appearance presented at the rising or setting of the sun in the gean Sea. Whether in dim perspective, through gray and silvery mists, or amidst hues of liveliest purple, the isles and continents of Greece present their varied features, nor pen nor pencil can portray the scenery. Whatever, in the warmest fancies of my youth, imagination had represented of this gifted country, was afterwards not only realized but surpassed. Let the reader picture to his conception, an evening sun behind the towering cliffs of Patmos, gilding the battlements of the monastery of the Apocalypse with its departing rays; the consecrated island surrounded by inexpressible brightness seeming to float upon an abyss of fire; while the moon in milder splendour is rising full over the opposite expanse. Such a scene I actually witnessed with feelings naturally excited by all the circumstances of local solemnity; for such indeed might have been the face of nature, when the inspiration of an Apostle, kindling in its contemplation, uttered the alleluias of that mighty voice, telling of Salvation, and Glory, and Power. DR. CLARKE. Mousing Rat.-On the farm of Lyonthem near Falkirk, there is a remarkable instance, not only of docility, but usefulness in a rat. It first devoured the mice caught in traps, and was afterwards seen to catch them as they ventured from their holes, till at length the whole house was cleared of these vermin, except it is believed a single one. It has frequently been seen in pursuit of this solitary mouse, and the little fugitive, which takes refuge behind the ingle, has a part of its fur singed off. From the service it renders, the family kindly protects the rat, and it runs about and gambols among them on the floor without the least uneast ness. It sometimes disappears for a week or ten days, and it is supposed that in these intervals it visits the stackyard in its professional capacity. thee, Nor tread the rough paths of the world by thy side; But the wide arms of mercy are spread to enfold thee, And sinners may die, for the sinless have died! Thou art gone to the grave!—and, its mansion forsaking, Perchance thy weak spirit in fear lingered long; But the mild rays of Paradise beam'd on thy waking, And the sound that thou heardst was the Seraphim’s song! Thou art gone to the grave!-but we will not deplore thee, Whose God was thy ransom, thy guardian and guide; He gave thee-He took thee-and He will restore thee, And death has no sting-for the Saviour has died! HEBER. From the Gentleman's Magazine, August, 1827. They who celestial roses cull, Of deathless scent and fadeless bloom, First travell'd through the briars of earth, And enter'd Heaven by the tomb. Rejoice, then, pilgrim of the skies, Your lot can ne'er be worse than theirs; Receive your souls-exclude your cares. From a Delaware Newspaper. The Springfield Journal states, that a Shaker village in its vicinity receives between 12,000 and $13,000 annually for garden seeds! An After Thought.-A young man of fashion lately threw himself, in a love fit, into the Seine; he was rescued from his perilous situation by a waterman, who heard him roar out most unmerci fully, that he had forgot to add a postscript to his farewell letter to his mistress. heart, and the exposedness of youth to the snares Voyage of Columbus.-The public will be happy to learn that Messrs. Wait & Son have published and English translation of the The Augusta (Geo.) Constitutionalist contains an Personal Narrative of the First Voyage of account of an attack made by an alligator upon a Columbus to America. This Narrative has female negro, who was going into a swamp with a basket of corn upon her head, to feed hogs. She been recently, for the first time, published was struck suddenly and severely on the breast and in Spain, by Mr. Navarrette, from the origiarms, by this ferocious creature, who attempted to nal manuscript lately discovered.-Boston devour her, tearing her flesh and clothes with his claws. She extricated herself with difficulty, and fled, pursued by the alligator; she sought shelter upon a log, one end of which rested upon a stump; her cries brought to her assistance several slaves from an adjacent field, who killed the alligator, and relieved the woman from her perilous situa tion. A Grand Speculation.-"Ma foi!" said a little Frenchman to his friend, as they walked behind young Strut, who assumed a vast consequence on the strength of being worth thirty thousand dollars "Ma foi!" I should like to make one grand speculation." And in what would you speculate, Monsieur?" asked his companion. I should like to buy that young man for what others think him worth, and sell him for what he thinks himself worth: ma foi! it would make me one grand fortune." Cheap enough.-Good beef steak may be bought to serve two families for a breakfast.-Western FROM THE ALBANY ARGUS, Oct. 22. A rare instance of honourable conduct.-About ten years ago, a gentleman engaged in mercantile pursuits in the interior of this state, met with reverses, gave up all his property, compounded with his creditors, and was fully and unconditionally discharged by them. A few days since, he called upon them respectively, several of whom reside in this city, and paid every farthing of the original debts, with interest to this time, amounting to near $20,000. We are happy to add that his creditors here presented him a service of silver plate, as a testimony of their high regard for him personally, and their admiration of the exalted principles by which he had been governed. paper. In a note in the statute book of Connecticut, published since the late change of the state government, it is said "The people of Connecticut have always considered the education of children to be a subject of primary importance, and have attended to it with peculiar solicitude. At an early period they made provision for common schools, for the purpose of disseminating the most necessary and useful knowledge to every part of the community.-Prior to the revision in 1672, a regulation was made, that in every town where there were more than fifty householders, a school should be kept, to teach the children to read and write; that a grammar school should be kept in each county town, and that the master should be paid by the parents, or inhabitants in general." The early regulations of the colonists on this subject, have been faithfully and zealously pursued by their descendants down to the present time. The towns were divided into small school districts, the inhabitants taxed, at least in some of the states, and we do not know but in all, for the support of schools; and the result has been, that with very few exceptions, every person born and educated there is able to read and write, and generally understands arithmetic. From this course has proceeded that spirit which now operates with such astonishing success throughout our vast republic, and particularly in this state, on the subject of education. The advantages which a com"Have I come to this?"--How painful must be the munity derive from this universal diffusion reflections of a young man who has enjoyed the of knowledge, cannot be measured nor perprivilege of society, moral instructions, and faithIn no part of the ful admonition, to find himself arrested in his wick-haps fully appreciated. ed career by the arm of justice, and about to repay globe about which we have any knowledge, the penalty of the law for his crimes, while com- are they enjoyed to such an extent as in this paring his advantages with his present circum- country.-N. Y. Daily Adv. stances. Indeed he may well say, "have I come to this?" In the year 1761, the society of Friends in the bo- B. F. Mode of stopping Epistaxis (bleeding at the nose.) A young man, nineteen years of age, bled from the nose two days, so profusely that he fainted several times. Mineral acids, ice to the nape of the neck, &c. were tried, but without stopping the flow of blood. Dr. Brunner was called in on the third day, and he blew up powdered gum Arabic through a quill-the hemorrhage ceased directly.-Philadel phia Journal of Med, and Phys. Sciences, It so tentiaries. Among the number was a young man MARRIED, At Friends' Meeting-house in Mulberry-street, on the 18th inst. Thomas C. Garrett to Frances Biddle, daughter of the late John Biddle, all of this city. DIED, On third day morning, Martha Powell, in the 86th year of her age. The deceased was a member of the society of Friends, and, with the exception of about six weeks, resided in the same house during the whole period of her long and useful life. Departed this life on the 20th inst. Hannahı Elton, in the 65th year of her age. |