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s On PRINTED BY Hf 8, NOBLJtAIMSTOKES CO. NORTH-CAROLINA JOHN C. BLUM, PROPRIETOR. VOL. I. TUESDAY, JANUARY 6, 1829. NO. 1. IS PRINTED A!D PUBLISHED EVERT, TCESDAT MOKMNO. TERMS O.i e Dollar per annum, if paid in advance ; O.xe - Dollar and 25 Cekts, at the end of six months ; but if not paid within the year, the price will be Osz Dollar and r'irTT Cehts. A D V ERTIS E 31 ENTS will be inserted at fifty cents per square for the first insertion, and twenty-five cents for each succeeding week. AH letters on-biwiness mast be post paid, or they will not be attended to. . SEIiEOTTOITS. FROJI M'EWEN'S ESSAYS. The superior and distinguishbig 'advantages of the Christian in this life.. u It is true, there are beasts which excel us in bulk of stature, in perfection of sense, in igor of nerve?, in swiftness of their motion. The inhabitants of air are accommodated with wings; of water, with tin?. What then ! are ve not still emperors of the world ? Yes, we arc. Reason asserts our superiority, and reduces the most fierce, the most unwieldlv, the most un tractable of the brutal kind, under our yoke. By reason wc put bits in the horses mouth; tame the elephant, conqifer the lion. Birds and fishes are caught in their own elements, and served up at our tables. This heavenly gift maintains our glorious prerogative. We ascend where they dare notQarv and trace the paths of the stars. Nor are the goods of for tune, glory, learning, much unlike the qualifi cations of the irrational kind, w hen compared with the superior excellencies of true wisdom,5 goodness, and religion. Be it so ; the christian is not versant in mathematics, in history, in , systems of philosophy ; not a logician, not an orator. He never stormed a town, nor gained a victory. He has not what men call riches and honors. His clothes are not besmeared with gold. He ploughs not half a country with his oxen. He is not addressed with the high and sounding titles of your lordship, and your grace. He lives remote from courts and pala ces, and is not surrounded with a numerous train of servants. The circle of his acquaint ance is small. He lives not in the annals of time. He is not talked of among distant na tions. But when he dies, he is forgotten. Yet let him not envy the great the wealthy, the re nowned ; for, if true riches, if glorious honors, if refined pleasures can make him blessed, he is a happy man. He is not learned ; but he is. wiscj in what imports him most to know, as an immortal creature, wise unto salvation. Be hold his knowledge ! far as the twinkling stars of night are eclipsed by the glorious star of day, i to is tho wisdom of tfo world, by that which I comcth from above. He is not powerful ; but he hath taken the kingdom of heaven by vio lence, laid hold on eternal life, and subdued Lis earthly affections. Behold the wonders o! his might! lie is not wealthy, but he is rich in hope ; contentment is his natural wealth. He complains not of unsatisfied desires. Be hold his riches ! He is not " honorable ; but Hod is his father, Christ his brother, angels his servants, righteousness is his garment, holiness his ornament the cross is his coat of arms, heaven is his Inheritance, christian is his style. Behold his dignity J He is not renowned ; but God commends him, angels applaud him. His by the conflagration. Behold his fame ! In bondage, he is free; in poverty he is rich; in obscurity he is illustrious. Happy man! enjoy thyself in the possession of true felicity ; while others hunt after the shadow, and weary them selves in vain." FROM THE W ASHl!GTb5 (OHIO) REPCBI fCA!. IT ATTENTION ! THE UNIVERSE ! ! An imposter was brought into this town, on the 13th inst. who declared himself to be Jesus Christ ; and that he had recently came from heaven on purpose of judging the world, which was shortly to be at an end. He attempted proving his divinity, by showing tho prints of the nail on the ditferent members of his body; his judgment here was rather nonsuited ; for ; the citizens invariably believed him to be, not , only an imposter, but a felon, whose actions ! at some period, had merited an acquaintance j with hand cuffs and fetters. This strange prodigy is remarkably expert I m quoting scripture, ana ne is not without loi lowers, as might be expected ; he has erected his throne, for the purpose of judging the world, at Leatherwood, about seven miles from this place, where he has been for about five weeks. Oh the 12th inst. he ascended his throne, with all the pomp and presumption imaginable, and commenced the execution of his mission. On the same evening, after having suspended his judgments, he repaired to the house of one of his followers, (who accompanied him to this place) where all liis proselytes, about twenty, were collected for the alone purpose of wor shipping him : at his- presence they immediate ly prostrated themselves at his feet, calling him the true God. Amongst these enthusiastic de votees, are found some who were formerly con? sidered the most respectable citizens of that neighborhood ; even some who have preached the gospel in at least two different bodies, and have now descended to worship this strange god, who declares that he can shake heaven and earth with his nod, that he can engulf the human family in the vortex of oblivion, if he should but say it and that the whole hosts of heaven are prompt in the execution of his word. Tiie imposter was taken before a magistrate of this place, who could find no accusation (mirabite diclu!) against him; there being no law-applicable to a god, and consequently, Jupiter was dismissed. A citizen of Leatherwood, knowing the in jury he had done to his followers some of whom were entirely deranged, others,, careless of property,, had turned their Hocks into theirli cornfields, could not permit him to go with impunity, but immediately 'smote the divinity and gave him an opportunity of escaping. He embraced it, and left town, with seventy-five or a hundred citizens after him.. Such superstition and blind enthusiasm as has been exhibited at Leatherwood on the pre sent occasion,, of which this is but the outlines, has been unparalleled in modern times, even amongst the rude and barbarous tribes of the West, yea the heathen mythology, the history of Hindoos, or Ilottentotts, can scarce!? pre From " Guese at Truth," by Two Brother. London, 182S. The mind is like a trunk, if well packed, it holds almost every thing ; if ill packed, next to nothing. It is well for us that we were born babies in intellect. Could we understand and reflect upon one half of what most mothers at that time say and do to us; we should draw conclu sions in favor of our importance, which would render us- insupportable for years. Happy the boy whose mother is tired of talking nonsense to him before he is old enough to know the sense of it I love to gaze on a breaking wave. It is the only thing in nature which is most beautiful . in the moment of its dissolution. Seeking is not always the way to find ; or Altimira would hare found a husband long ago. A great man mostly disappoints those w-no visit him. They 4re on the look out for hi thundering and lightning, and he speaks about common things much like other people ; nay, sometimes he may even be seen laughing. He proportions his exertions to his excitements, having been accustomed to converse with deep and lofty thoughts, it is not to be expected that he will flare or sparkle in ordinary chit-chat. One sees no pebbles glittering at the bottom of the Atlantic- The tower of Babel could never have been built in a mountaiijous country ; nature there awes and defies rivalry. Simplicity of Manners. If we look into the manners of the most remote ages of the world, we discover human nature in her simplicity and the more we come down to our owniimes, we may observe her hiding herself, in artifices and refinements, polished insensibly out of her original plainess, and at length entirely lost un? der form and ceremony, (and what wc call) good breeding. Read the accounts of men and women as they are given us by the most j ancient writers, both sacred and profane, and you would think you were reading the history of another species. Addison. Rein Deer. The speed of the rein deer 13 very considerable, and his power in supporting the fatigue of a long journey very great. His pace, ascertained by an experiment, over a short distance, is nineteen miles an hour. Re markable anecdotes, are told of the swiftness with which rein deer journies have been per formed. In one instance, in 1699, an officer who carried the news of an invasion from the frontiers of Norway to Stockholm, went with a single rein deer and sledge, a distance of a 10 miles, in forty-eight hours. The faithful animal dropped down dead at the end of hi journey. London Magazine. Methuselah not so old as he might hate been. The London Atlas tells us that according toono of the Jewish authorities Methuselah did not live so long as he might liavc done had he at tended to good advice ; for it is written tliat as he was sleeping on the ground when well strick en in years, an angel came to him-and told hint that if he would" rise up and build himself a O lory is not bounded by the stars, nor ended cnt us with any thing exhibiting such a degree ! house to lie in, he would live 500 vears loncer oi numan aepraviiy, or wmcn nas nusea into, such a horrid flame all the impure and diabol-j ical passions, wluch rage in the human hearts Methuselah made answer, thatit was not worth while to take a house for so short a term f And so ha died before he was a thousand years okL
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