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Editor t You witlwblige some . cf your readers, god I hope disoblige none, by inserting in your useful pptr me iouomg essay ; h6tild Sunday School be encouraged 7 lu answering this important que tion, we must discuss two othe'ri I Are the exercises of Sunday Schools cno intent with the designs af the day ad ! there any need for them in this ., country f . Besides 1 the negative duty af abstain, iwa . ordin try, labors and amuse ments, the word of Cod requires that the sbbath should be spent in public and private devotional exercises, and in works of necessity and mercy. See Matt. xii. 1,13, particularly v. 12. - But to make out aur point, we must ' show thit the employments of a Sab. - bath School are works of mercy and necessity We think that it will not , be disputed, that it is a work of much . greater aecessity and mercy too, to af. ford a facility te acquire the informa . lion necessary to salvation, especially -rrai without the affording of that -facility i. iL . . ... , . ' is is more man prooaoie mat mat in- formation would never be acquired by ' thosa for w horn Suadiy Schoolt were primarily and vpecially designed.Hence ITjaosf Afjacb: penonsrwhhout the aid tf Sunday Schools, would perish for : lackof kaowledee. Andleavingcter ' . pity out of view, most of them would 010 w up and pass their whole lives, worse than a nuisance, a perpetual peat and disgrsee to. societY., Is it n.ot a woik of necessity, mercy and the most noble philanthropy, as far as possible to prevent alllhtsT "TfoneTujt a eaft of more than savage insensibility of .worc jnanzadamanua..hairdaess- of stroogvr than Homan Catholic preju ' dice j none but a heart that regards - not its fellow man's present or eternal weal or wono man but he who has ' no teats to shed over huaian wretched ness no disposition to make any sa- - crificc whitever, either of the purse or of personal exertion, to rescue frara that wretchedness, one is' tempted to think, can answer that question ia the negative. Suuday Schools have al ready rescued thousands from present disgrace and everlasting ruin. Read vlnny of the reports of any Union Sun day Schools, or Sunday Schbol Asso- ciations, and. you. will perceive that suchiacts. are. many, notorious, and CWcedingItinowragiog, -Bt"twratd -5 5s not thisbe tlone a nny othendsy7 bttr -r. auodiivf ihtherwho 'tad fault with TJZr Sun.aT'"5choort,--wiHjLi ' borheod, uudertake una accomplish, -trthtd-T9rnn1rc tettlW-t4:wijJiftIv-oa--Suadayj-for jny part, . 1 should be. perfectly willing to dismiss the Sunday School teachers .- from tlitir laborious charity. . . .But, Mr, Editor, . I suppose that neither you nor I have rhetoric enough to persuade such guardians of the Sab bath, to undertake this business in the 1 ' tieri. Most, and perhaps allj our Sun "T day School ieache.V catt&oV spare I'the ' timj in the week. v From these several Uait U result j that ift garl to the poorthildren,. !'liOi.wtyild..not ..other. r"' wise-be taugh t, Sunday School teaching . is deafly a work of peCessiiy and mer cyj as we observed before, a'much greater case of necessity than a goatirf a diuht (as those, in South Carolina are j) (Mr. Editor, pardon an ungrace ' ful p-jreotbesis,, or rather a couple of them,) or any other beast in tne mre. l Our blessed Lwe cd i-csr ' J cmed it a work or ., , ti ii-vt :i I,f ii'.e c'.i fi ih t ii ilrilviU it is a ca-.e t.t nr. tt iity u rrlicve, in t'ic detprst ex it'Nirr, an intellectual creature. Hut there are nie children at fnin- dy S Jia iU, vhf.te jwrenn are ahle fwe them taught at common schools. There are two claucs f these. 1 he first dats are the children of parents who, though able, are not willing to pay for the Instruction af their cMI- drci. Atd there are cot 'a few of these cruelly cavetous parents la this region, and, perhaps, la other regions of the gl6te7"The children, ia this case,, areas much, cbj ecu of . charity, as the children of the poorest people in France, Fortugal, or Ireland. The time arguments, theuLnr, hold ia this as in the former case. Hie ether dasi are the children of those who ire both able and willing to pay for the instruc tion of their children. These, of course, do not look to Sunday Schools for literary instruction, simply consid ered. The main, and as far as pnssi. ble, the only design of these, is to gain religious instruction. This, in deed, is the ultimate design in regard to all Sunday School scholars. The parents of this chss have another view in sending their children. It is to take off the seeming stigma of stand ing disclosed to the ptsblie eye as the poor, and thus to encourage the poor parents to send, and the poor children to come. This, surely, is a noble procedure of the independent and stealthy. Is it the duty of a parent, at home, en Sunday, to assemble his children around him, and instruct them in re ligious things I Is not this a littli Sunday School? It it then a crime, because several families are gathered together on Sunday for the lame pur. poset that is, to hear something; se. rious read and sung, to hear prayers, to read the Dible, to repeat memori zed passages of the liible, approved Catechisms and Hymns or Psalms? To have it impressed on the mind of children and youth, how mean and perilous it is to lie, or steal, or do any other bad things? For children and youth to receive most affectionate and impressive aavice so to conduct them selves, as to be'eome respectable and honorable in this life, and happy in eternity 1-1 he reader t now requested to compare these statements with the design of the Sabbath as stated in the outset." The second inquiry is, is there any need for Sabbath School . exertions In this country? Like Socrates, I will answer this question by asking other inquiries. Are there no young white men, and young whtte women, in the upper part of North-Carolina, who do not know a letter in the bek ? How would serval parts of Burke, Rather- ord audaincombe, answer thisques - s v ' . . . Creek and Crooked Creek, alone fur SisJff Shall I aaylTdtceir forthrxine, and half a dozen for the other ? Would not this computation fall very far short of the number r Un the supposition, that the remaining parts of Western North-Carolina are similarly circum stanced, may we not compute that there are hundreds, . if not thousands, in this region of country, .who cannot read ? Are there not thousands of chil dren in the same region, wh$ have no probability of ever learning to'read, unless they should be addressed by the mild accents' of charity, and appre hended by the kind hand of Sunday School mercy ? Do. 1 hear the hoarae. irueLaca centt J rntferin 1 ne parents 01 inese cnuaren are tnus fech3d"tflht!FWrfaTuTr . .1 nothing should be donsr i ortfejr xhjij- tion should ever rise in my bosom. I IJTnnofenWlhe ieelings of the neart objection so lavage. It requires no discussion, but only the expression of our horror, . , ..,.-. Do I hear' the cavil, that the law makes provision for the instruction of he poor, by making it the duty ot masters to hae their. apprentices in structed i Doe thi,- in'-fact, take in n. poor. childretJ r " Doea it"- take in- a i t . l . ; ' . ' a ' " i nundrecun part or tnem : tiave ic males any interest in it aralt i In what way do master generallyattend to this dutyt Dof this isrr make any proti sijuu for the moral and religious in. struction of apprentices? If thh law makes full provision for the instruction of all poor children, how does it hap pen, that there, are so rnany young white men, and young white women, who cannot read ? Is not this a pro vision that does not provide f t quota riucli "eould Bufmore-or-les-aggravated rVhat-a4cUgairiKapeAih asJhowty t j I f t mm lift . i.l . 1 -ii Oa tV.e VX 1 th'nV t!se itste r-f things require lr gislative interference. It would La a rood measure if the Ic. ;''' da! Mature should vote fifteen or twenty lars a year to every permanent Suu day school in the state If the independent and wealthy would form a Society for the encour sjemrnt of Sunday Schools, ia the writern part oi this state 1 appoint acriiti t set for them In every county to procure and distribute books t they would perform feat of noble patriot lira and philanthropy, , ONt Of THE LAJHJS. ras eisu strn, TUE JEWS. ,t: Not; nlyiauWcimaJV in Saxcoy, but in Home, that "scarlet sinner, are the persecuted Jews forced into the -adoption at least f aw outward shew of presclytism. In this enlight ened age, when every thing is "deliv ere d Kings delivered from resptn. sibility to the people and nations dc Hvered from the dangers of constitu tional government ) the Jews of course are to be "delivered from the faith of their forefathers. In Saxony the very increase of the seed of Abraham, which the Almighty foretold should be as the sands on the sea shore," is vainly and impiously attempted to be limned. And in Heme, the Israel itis are made to listen to doctrines which they cannot believe, and endure homilies that paia both the heart and the head. What an calightencd era we have reached! A German paper contains an edict of the Pope, given at Rome the 20th of February last, the principal part of which is as follows: " r or the pur pose of better diffusing light among the Israclitish nation, the measures taken in the time of Pope Clement VIII. te compel the Jews to ( at the Catholic sermons, and which have been discontinued only inconsequence of political events to which Italy has been a prey, are re-established, dating from the 1st of March last." The edict ordains that 300 Jews shall assist H m t every oaturdsy evening at sermoas by turns. So that they are to diffuse the 1 light" as well as receive it. Of this number there shall be 100 individuals from 12 to 13 years of age, and 50 girls mad women of the same age," -An age rather requiring instruction than fit to disseminate religious opinions, in which theycan have no faith. j Every time a Jew is -absent from a sermon, he shall p iya fine of five paeli t 00 excuse whatever shall be admitted. If the elders do not persuade the recusant, they shall be subject themselves to a fine of thirty scudi.f What mingled tyranny and folly ! Christians who may attempt to muili the Jews during the sermon, shall be publicly whipped, or incur other punishment, as the case is mockery of Heaven! What an insult upon-Troth and Itdrgionf Clement VIII. assumed the papal dignity in 1395, and was succeeded by Pope Paul V. in 160 J. f A acudo is a silver coin, value something more thin a dollar. A ocudo io equal to ten paoEl. SIR CHARLES ASGILL. The Baronet of this name died lately in Eng land, at the advanced age of seventy years. The followiag notice of the most important incident in the life of this British officer, U taken from the Boston Cenuncl : " It will be recollected that this of- fUcFr when captain and a prisonert the American arms in the war of the revolution, was oesienated, bu lot. to :be"TjtecnKdin,?retatiatton'-r'''thel-" xt r 1 - 1 pr derers of the American captain were ttvippf-THiHifthed. It willoMhad saddles an4aom4a3'noBe some- so be recollected,' that the delay of the execution was owing to promises on the part of the British general to seek out and punish the authors of the out rage : that the perilous . situation of captain Asgill occasioned a great sen sation in England, France, and all Europe-? and that his - agonized mother, lady "Asgill repaired toi Paris, arid supplicated the beautiful Maria Antoi- ntta: "-or France; - (one t.r the be friend America-then, had in Eurojjei to rnterpose her powerful solicitation ta "ourreat commander-io-cjhief, to revoke his order," and liberate the de voted officer) and that the. petition of lady Asgill to the queen was consider ed to be one of the most pathetic ap peals in the English .language. This interposition of - the. queen, and many others," "were received by General Wmfiingtsfl, it is well anewn witji the . reipict they merited j but it is en-at'Iy will known, that thty had tie effect o llr great mind to divert him for a moment from his inflexible reso lution to put a atop to the enormities af the enemy 1 and when he found, as he did End, that the conduct of the enemy had been wholly changed by the measure! he had adoptedj and had as surancci that the executions would not be repeated that then, and then only the Christian Chief voluntarily and of bia own accord countermanded the orders given for the execution of his prisoner, and reatered him to his af flic ted family and friends j It h known that the family and nation of captain Asgu at first writ? to igtcraaVof tbt character of our great chief as to bei lieve and.report that Asgill owed his life to the powerful a pplicatioaa made for his liberation, and not a sense of duty in the American general Hot it is due 10 history to repeat, what it well known to hundreds now alive, and well acquainted with the motives which al wayi governed the conduct cf Wash ington, that the eventual revocation af the order was dictated wholly by that moral principle the attainment of a great object by the least sacrifices, without fear, favor, or affection." INDIAN CHARACTER. The Sangerfield, N. Y. Intellige'n cer, states that Abraham Antone, the Indian who was executed in Madison county, on the 12th instant, had com mitted three murders previous to the one for which he suffered. 1 he first was a child of his own, which he bu ried in the embers on the hearth, be- , cause he was disturbed bv its crying The second was a man, who he said insulted him by culling him Indian dor. lie followed him several days when finding him at an inn, be obtain ed privilege to sleep by the fire, and going to his bed in the night, gave him his death wound with a knife, and giving an Indian whoop of victory, s nped. The third was of an Indian whom he shot at 1 raising on the Sus quehannnh, on pretence that he had wronged him of part of a certain boun ty. J he fourth was on Mr. Jacobs for which he was hung. An tone's daughter murdered another femal through jealousy, at drawing away her Indian suitor, and was executed for It some years since at Smithfield. Jacobs was a principal witness against her, and to escape the threatened revenge Antone, leftthe country 1 but Antone sent hitn word that he might come back, for he would not hurt him. This was a plan to get him within his reach, for coming up to Jacobs, he took him by the hand in a friendly manner , and slipped a long knife frem his sleeve, with which he gave Vim several wounds which proved mortal, er. after some time, arrested, Therc Wirrtfnocher'rflurder wMch'if is'sup-" posed Antone committed, which he denied, and the evidence was not strong enough to establish the fact. HORSE RACING IN CANADA. Horse racing was introduced at Que bee by Sir James Craig, July 1 807, on the memorable plains of Abraham. Several gentlemen entered for the purse and rode their own harses. The ra ces lasted for a week, and the purses were made up by subscription. Gov ernor Craig gave a purse of ten gui neas, with saddle and bridle, to be run for on the last day by Canadian horses nty? This was the greatest scrub ever Tun in iWTountiryr ancT WrSDorSff CaTT fcuuiic 01 iioaua wiu never record auch another -ayaa this. A crowd of peasants were assembled with red caps, th - ..w1,u.,KcwMitjWA' siM'fr'Ki--.1,",'. ' : upon the ponies of the countrysome naa oriaies and others bad none, ouch flogging, kicking, yelling, and swear ing, were never before heard, , . At the tap of the drum, away they started, helter skelter y for the purse. Most tthe horses bolted many were foundered oh the occasion, and a ma jority of t htm threw their riders at the nrst lumpi . . , Not half a dozen horses survived, if we tnay believe Teport,' and the epee tators, particularly the English oJccrs, were convulsed- with laughter -at so mm a ctaciei3:-.-s .,;-r:"."','".r..i Mrs; Kn, said .to her husband. that if she died, rather than live single, he .would marry, though it were to the Devil's daughter ! " No, my dear," said he,'T should not choose ta mar ry taice in .the earn family.'- '"" tlANTiY TTAT3. dur city has been 'much amt with a low tripod kind of a hit, n-, j of fee beaver, end worn by our ups. Some call them the Touth, eth ers the Gate and 4arjlhe real tumt U the Bolmgbnke. It Is akxii 6 hi thes in crown, and 4ia rim, shaptd like aa inverted cone, It is a real tip py We yesterday saw one af U.t fancy dressed quits unique,Uue frock, black lilk Wellington cravat, buff waUt coat, Cossack pantaloons, high keel boots, black ribbon and eye glui, bushy hair frizzed, and surmounted with one of these little tippy hats,- Ilk looked like an hour glass, aaj . minced his steps along Broadway ia iuOlfil 'Jemmy Jbmprtyle;"rn" ladies were highly amused, and more glasset were directed towards him, thsn would be to the-Emporor Ittrrr bide had he just landed while our blood insensible to all this curiosity, danced up the street humming the fa. verite air of " Look here ma'am, Jl'm quite the thing f natiui hay, tippity ho!" N. T. Advocate, TWO fcHKAT MERCIfANTS. Dr. Richardson, in his "Travels, says that the Pacha or Governor of K gypt i the only merchant in the coua try . He furnishes the shoemaker with leather, and pays him so mock a day' for his labor f the shoes are deposited in a general store and sold to the pub4 lie for the benefit of the Pacha- who pockets all the profits. It is the same with doth. He provides the weaver with yarn t pays him about 6 cents per day for his labour j the cloth is then sold out by the scents of the Pacha, The King of Siam, in India beyond the Ganges, is said to be tne only mtN cha.nt in his kingdom. No subject dares offer to purchase any thing until the kin g has made hie bargain. His agents then sell out the articles at re tail, and uSe king receives a handsome profit. It srppears that during the last year, the English seat an embassy to Siam, for the purpose oFdpenTng a commercial intercourse with that king--dom but the Siamese were so jealous aod cautious that they could not be persuaded to relax their restrictive system. , A FABLE JbFi. - ,! Wise men say nothiag in dangerous times. The lion called the sheep, to ask her if his breath smeltunpleasantr she said aye ! and he bit off her heal for a fool. He called the wolf, and asked him : he said no ! he tore him ia pieces for being a flatterer. At last he called the fox, aed asked him: "Tru ly," said the foi, " I have caught a cold, and cannot amell.l... Th ere is a propensity existing ia the minds of the most of mankind to re sist the claims of those who appear te - thinHhat they deserve distiacUon-ani J The best vay, therefore, to Win ap tdami-; ntt to court it. Persevere ia I av the path of re ctitude, and if fame fol lows you, very well nut never rui after it. A fashionable doctor lately told Hi. friends, in alaree mpany, that ha had been passing eigM days in th country. " Ves (said oie f the par ty) it has been announced ia one of the journals." ",Ah ! (sai'd the doc tor, stretching his neck W? impor tantly) pray7 in what terms i' lB what terms ! Why, as well as Ij cIk rememberia thejfollowing: " 'a tX0 were last week sevehty-sevexrin cr-. Tffents rVwthan the week: before;'- -v"- doctorVneck was seen suddenly " T shrink down, till his head nearly iouc."T!' ed his"shduldersXand shortly jafter M-. i bib mwilil' frHiM: rW.','lAHn',14 't)ll .ni:ri:: small diversion of the company;"' ' f Good Advice.' Electioneering goes on briskly in our sister state of Penn sylvania Gregg and,- Schultze,- and Srhultze and Gregg, are the principal subjects which engross the. time and attention of Editors and partizans. The character! of both are traduced and vilified and to us, who ere at a drsiance. the whole scehe is'toaths'oinf and disgusting. , WVhave no right ta express our epintoir for ar against t . t her of the candidates'; but jwefcv - righv as neighbors,-to advise editor and partizans not to lose sight of fl - cency and self respect in, their polio "V Cal wairfare. Ted, Rep. None are so fondt of secrets as tkos. who do not mean to keep them i ucb aer' sans covet secrets as a spendthrift cerc jnoney for the 'purpose af xirsaUuefl; -
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