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m ' ..V .,. I .(PaSyv tTyftrnv ,-tft"v.i rkgv .' t .BzmL , mil ..a):? s. i!. fflLnw -cw. cvrvsvcv3v a. t ' .t - - ' J- -' V (T ' i . . .Our arctlic plans of fair delightful peace, nnwarp'd by party rage, to live like brothers. " C 11 VOIi. XL. .. ' i .... . -vLT. ' ' ' ' ' 'A NO. 40. - :;,,..;4v.viA.C:.,-.-.;-'- -,- j .. SAqpyRPAYyecsT 3, 1839. . :?jv''v JOSEPH GALES SON, EDITORS AND P rtcTPRIE TORS TERMS. ScBscniPTioiri three j dollars per annum one. half in udvtncei i rT Persons residing1 without the State will be required to payjihe waota amount of the year's subscription in advance. JR.MTES wiipVEUTSIJrG. For every 16 lines (th$ si?e iype) first insertion one dollar; eachisubscquent insertion 25 cents. Cnnrt Drr!fn!n'(l JhuliCial Advertisements will be eharffed 25 pef cen higher ami a deduct ion- of 33J per cent. waU be.made from th regular prices for adwejttisfralytUe year. . 03LrrrsM tci the Editors must b, postpaid. STATE 0F NORTH CAROLINA, HALIFAX COUNTY, ; Snperior Cour of Law AprilTerm, 1839. Charlotte Alsabrook, v. Willis Alsabrook. Petition for Divprce. fN this case, it appearini to the satisfaction of the UCoOK, that Willis Alsabrook is a non-rpiJnt of the State It is therefore ordered by the Court, that publication be made in the Raleigh Register for three months notifying the said Willis Alsabrook, that unless he l and appear at the Superior Court of Law to be held for the County of Halifax at the Court House in the town f Halifax en the fourth Monday after the fourth Monday in September next and dead, answer jor demur otherwise, judgment will be taken pro canfttto as to him and heard ex oarte. i Witness. Robert LJ Whttaker, Clerk of oar said Court at Offier, the fourth Monday after the fourth io March, A. D. 1839. ' ! 35 R.1 L. WHITAKER. C. S. C. Notice. To Abram fester, and others: TAKE notice that I have been arrested at. the instance of Abram Hester, and shall appear at the next County Court of Wake to be held at Raleigh, on the 3d Monday in August next, for the the purpose of taking the benefit of the Act of As sembly of 1822, for the relief of insolvent debtors. when and where you may attend and cross-examine if you think proper. WESLEY HODGE. Raleigh July 20, 1839. 38 3t From Richard F. Stitk Eiq. . Batrirtwicjt, May 10, 1839. DEAR SIR have been very, reluctantly, though unavoidably, compelled to keep the I'iano boxed.uD, which 1 purchased f you not long since, until very recently. It is now up, and I am confident I never heard a -more delightful toned In stniropntT Mywe. jwotf Has been a performer fiom the time she was eight years old, thinks it surpasses any Piano sirs has ever. touched; and all who have heard it, coinc de with her. Several have extolled the sweetness and tiielody of. the tone so highly as to cotipare it to thejsoftest toned Orran. It is con skleted so Very superior irt evay respect, that it is generally bettered that I gave $6t)0 for it. I fissure you, we could not be more pleased; and I now ten der you my grateful i acknowledgments for the very great care which yoii evidently tooin packing iu I would advUe alii who wish to purchase Pianos to give you a call before they go elsewhere. xours, most respeciruny, i ! R. P. STITH. To Mr. E. P. Nask, Petershflrg. I have now on hand (price $325, a Piano pre cisely o the same kiod in eery particular, as the one sold Mr Stith, aJIuded to above. I would defy any one. to point outj the slightest difference in tone or finish, if they were side by side. f " fE. P.NASH, Book 4- Piano Seller, Petersburg. June 21. 1-1 36 GENERAL AGENCY I. AND ! THE So rw-ri Iters have formed a 'Copartnership under the Firm of Frfxmait & Stitrs, and offer their services tor the public as General Agents and Commission Merchants. Apply', for the pre sent, at the Store of Messrs. W. & A. Stito. E. B. FREEMAN, W. A. STITH, t A. B. STITH. Raleigh, May 4, 1839. 27 Matchless Sanative. tZTTHIS invaluable Medicine, of the merits of 4s which abundant evidence is afforded by an advertisement in thisj paper, is kept constantly on hand for sale by the Subscriber, at the Post Office Chapel Hill. All orders will be promptly attended to." . I J. B.M'DADE. March 1, 1839. 6mo 18 11 otic C . To Johji Kan, and ! others: fr'AKE notice that1 1 have! i been arrested at the . J instance of John Kane, and shall appear at the next County Court ofj Wake, to be held at Raleigh, on the 3d Monday in August next, for the purpose f Uking the benefit of the act of Assembly of .1822, for the relief of j insolvent debtors, and when and where vou may attend and cross-examine if you think proper. ( " WM. D, BAGWELL. Raleigh, July 20, 839. , 383t. O.TICB TAKEN UP and entered art stray, by Richard Bullock, living 10 miles West of Oxford, on the Hiilgboro' Road, a Bay or Brown Horse, sup Posed to be nine years old, all four of his feet white, blaze down his face, and his left ear has the ap pearance of being bit off. Valued at $50. n I A. LANDIS, Ranger. Granville County, July 1839, 38 tyf( to 250 M0RU3 MULTIOAULIS Trees JJ of this year growth. They are well Comet 'V:1 Se- Apply at Raleigh, July 26, 1839. JYOTTCE. IPFFER for sale th at .valuaMo Tract of Land, well known as the NINE OAKS, containing 2000 acres, an beihg in the county of Granville, N. Carolina, on the Stage road between Oxford and VilliamslKroten mifes from the former and twp from the latter! village, and eight miles distant from a depot of the Raleigh and Gaston Railroad. On the Tract is a handsome and commodious Dwelling House, with lite necessary bat-huiKIics for a fami ly, and the location remarkably healthy, and well watered. The soil is well adapted to the produc tion of Tobacco,' Wheat and Corn, and the Focie- ly of the neighborhood, with the ereat facility of fretting produce to market, renders it a most desira ble situation; fThe'Sobscriber will take pleasure in ho wing the pretnisM to those desirous of purchas ing, and make kjown the terms, which shall be lib eral. P. HAMILTON, Villiarosboo, Granville Co N. C Jojy 1 6j 838 ,,,,, 88-2111. No. 26, Liberty Street. JfVtr- York, Juiy 19, 1839. - - . Huntington 2j Campbell, holesale Dry Goods Jtrtrch'is. offer for sal& a General Assortment of New FallGoods. 'The entire new plan on which they sell, gives great satisfaction. . July 27, 1839. 39-2m. ABUGGYand HARNESS for sale by Wi'& A. S Tj 1TTI. DELIVERED AT FORESTYILLE, lfahe County, July 4, 1839, DANIEL SAJVFORO CREASIIAW. By Request. Ladies & Gentlemen : Our Country - our whole I country how affecting are the ties which bind us to thee ! how ven erable are thyj claims to our faithful servi ces, to oor prurest affections ! By all that is most solemn and binding in duty; by all that is most eloquent and holy in love ; the voice ofsiiature and the testimony of all experience, the brightest and darkest page of history, the wisdom of Philosophers, the. energy of eloquence and the enthusiasm of poetry, all attest the truth, thy country is thy parent. Reverence, gratitude, obedi ence, and love, are due to her. How solemn is the review of the history of . na tions ; how doubly impressive tlte lessons taught by the ftnirfsi of free States. Tell me, is there one, either in thre ancient or modern world, . whose iiLstory we should be willing to adopt as the history of our own country whose institutions we would accept as models of our own ? Tru, their rise and fall forms no parallel in the history of ours. Assuredly, then, we cannot be insensible to the solemn truths which the fate they shared, teaches, and the affecting calamities which afflicted and destroyed them. In the structure of their States, of their society and government, we behold the hideous combination of Monarchy, Aristocracy and Democracy. Their civil dissentions, and more ferocious civil wars the insecurity of life, liberty and proper ty the selfish ambition ,of rulers, the reck less passions of the demagogue the de graded condition of woman, and the disre gard of social happiness and virtue, were among the prominent causes of aggregated misery. The age which gave them birth, and the pressure of external circumstances, stamp ed upon them all, the character of Military Republics. Their institutions were found ed by" the sword, maintained with the sword, and perished by the sword. Is it wonderful, then, that the experiments of freedom in the ancient world exhibit such a catalogue of guilt and misery? How little did the Republics of Venice and Ge noa ( if proud Aristocracies can be so called) promote the general good of he people ? How were the prospects of Con stitutional liberty in " Spain destroyed, by the arrpgant and despotic Kirnenes? How were its principles violated and degraded in England, by the first and second Charles ? How were they in Revolutionary France, the bleeding victims of Atheism and anarchy and the very fslaves of the Imperial Napole on ? And what shall we say of the Helve tic confederacy, scarcely known in the h!is lary of man but as the mother of the mer cenary soldiery of modern Europe, and held together only by the chains of despo tism which girds them round ? And what of the Batavian Repuhlic, rescued from the weakness of its organization, and the ava rice of its commercial spirit, by. the inexor able pressure of surrounding monarchies ? How painful the feelings how solemn the reflections that arise on this review. Who does not gather from their lamentable fail ure the instructive truth, that the improve ment of the people the whole ' people in domestic and social virtue, intelligence aitd happiness, was not the great end of all their institutions. And yet, what other legitimate, laudable object, could they have had t Is not government founded, are not rulers ordained, only for the good of the people'? Except this be their end and op eration, society will always be a reproach to those who foundand administer Gov ernments. Instead W having been 'settled by the subjects of gloomy despotism from Spam and Portugal, or even from the gay, licentious and gallant France, wr country was colonized by that British race which alone of all men 'ancient of modern, ap- : ' . A m : : 1 i . pears to have understood the true relation of the people to their rulers and the character of Political Institutions. Is it not equally remarkable, that the ef ficient settlement of these shores was post poned, Mtill. the selfish and ambitious con-' tests of the red and white rose" till the sla vish spirit that marked the Parliaments of the tyrant Henry and the despot Elizabeth had passed away forever, and the foundations of modern British freedom had been laid by the Puritan, during the very century when the fearful struggle of their principles, against those of aristocracy and despotism, was going on in England? Those pnnci ciples were transplanted in a new worfd, and by the aid of experience, we will con tinue to improve, and cause them to spring up, in nobler, fairer farms, to elevate, hon or and bless the people of this youthful na tion. We never have been slaves; we were born heirs to liberty as our fathers' legacy. Shall we not fondly cheiish their virtues, imitate their examples, and follow their precepts? Having their assurance that op position to tyranny is not rebellion to God, let us, like Hannibal, swear eternal enmity to all usurpation of jwer. Their reasons, aa assigned in the Declaration of Indepen dence, are, unquestionabiy, the most con clusive, yet nobly independent, ever recor ded in the catalogue of National historv. It was the dawn of the day-star of Liberty, j which preceded the son and marked out his pathway, amid the crumbling ruins of -fallen greatness where the spirit of hope rested and resolved in future years, there to dedicate a Temple sacred to Liberty, to be guarded by the arms of the mighty and the spirits of the brave- whose walls are im pregnable, not laid in base stone and mor tar, but in the hearts of her citizens yet the mighty Lords of Europe threatened its overthrow and caused forces more than suf ficient to be landed on our coast; yet, our forefathers had vowed a friendship, and how well their infant arms redeemed the pledge, has been thundered in language which could not be misunderstood, from Boston to New Orleans, connecting with them, many incidents too painful to disclose. High Heaven, alone, has witnessed the torrent of tears and blood which has fallen beyond the sight of human sympathy. The mouniain cliffs, hills and valleys, have o pened their bosoms to conceal the crimson tide; and the pellucid rivulet has gently bom away seas of tears, which, in the anguish of hope and despair, has been committed to theif channels. Duringthe whole series of the Revolution, we have much to deplore, yet, more to admire. The inevitable con elusion we must necessarily diaw on sur veying the whole scene is, that the summit of human happiness is atttained by contend ing nobly with, and conquering the inci dents of life, knowing, that resolution is omnipotent, and whatever we resolve to do, we can accomplish, relying: on our own united resources and not on the fortuitous j influence of wealth, or mushroom force ofj birth. Such generous ambition, such insa tiable love of country, has exalted us to the stand amongst the nations of the earth we now occupy. We are no longer point ed out as vain enthusiasts, our views of re publican Government criticised as an un tried, unnecessary experiment. We stand firm in our own strength, under our Consti tution and Laws, preeminently superior to all the world, in our system of government and unbiassed institutions of learning, as an illustrious example to the nations of the earth, that a free people are capable of fra ming and adopting laws sufficiently whole some and conclusive to make that people happy. We stand alone as on an eminence, firm in the citadel of our liberty as the lone ly pioneer, which must conduct in future ages, those who would be free, to a like state of happiness and prosperity. Even as the young Eaglet, seeing its mother soar aloft towards the sun, endeavoring to follow in her flight, spreads its untried wings, but finds itself unequal to the task and sinks to the ground; but after repeated trials and un availing efforts, it at length succeeds, and with expanded wings traces theairy way its parent went. Our system of government has produced changes in mankind which all the world must admire. Many strange inci dents have occurred in our histoiy. Whilst we admire the conduct of some, we repro bate that, of others. Some who aspired to greatness have sunk again to infamy; in con templation of which -we involuntarily ex claim, alas that the noble, accomplished or brave, should ever fall. The eulogies of the brave have been so often and nobly dehenated, they onjy require of us the sin cere devotion of our hearts to the cause of Liberty. Their unparalleled deeds are re corded high oh the imperishable Journals; of fame, to be admired and. imitated to all futurity. Fathers, teach your sons to re verence the names and deeds of, the sign ers of this Declaration ; Bring them up to the altar of your country on every Fourth of July; swear with them by the memory of all the past, by all the hopes of the future, to transmit this day, with all its associations, unimpaired, down to succeeding posterity. Thereby it will be well with us and our children forever. When the children of Is rael, were delivered from the cruel bondage under which, they groaned in Egypt, they were divinely ordered to commemorate the day of their deliverance, and this commemo ration was to be perpetual through all gene- 1 rations. They were solemnly charged to keep this ordinance in its season, from trueLyear to year, and to explain its origin and uesign to their children. Great national deliverances ought to remembered with the liveliest gratitude.' We hallow once more the returning anniversary which has, for 63 years, gladdened the hearts of millions the natal day of freedom, when a spark was kindled which will yet light Europe into a conflagration when three millions pealed a shout whose echoes yet ring throughout the world. 1 he scenes of that day have npt yet faded in the dim distancp-Mhe past the shadows'-ol&mehave not yet-obscured the mighty recollections of an age of undying fame. The actors of that period will be venerated and loved to the Litest pe riod of posterity a long list of heroes, sages and patriots, whose virtues were like the countless galaxy of the skies. The moral astronomer finds it impossible to as-certain-their distances, or.combine their en ergies; he is, therefore, compelled to group the dazzling whole in one brilliant con stellation of unclouded glory. But this day should not be spent in living over the past the present and future should also claim our attention. It is for us to enquire, on this glorious occasion, whether we re advanc ing or retrograding whether there are no shackles upon the intellect, no unseemly prejudices to be removed from the mind. It is proper we should enquire, whether true knowledge has shed its hallowed rays in every dwelling place; or whether the reat mass are left to grope their way in thoughtless ignorance. There is no halt ing phce, no neutral ground, to be occu pied no medium we must advance or re cede; our course must be upward and on ward, or downward and backward. If the star of our national prosperity is not ascen ding to the zenith of glory, it must be de cending to the nadir of darkness and deso lation. Nations are not immortal, like men, they die. The waters of oblivion cover their resting place forever. Ask the migh ty past, with its buried sovereignties As syria, Carthage, Tyre, Palmyra. The roar of the great world wakes not their repose. Think you we are secure from these fluc tuations, this ebb and flow of tide and time ? Are there no dangers to dread in this sunny land where liberty has reared her everlast ing home? Will the baleful shadows that even now are beginning to steal over our bowers of hliss ever become thick, black, impenetrable, like the midnight of Egypt? Have not nations, as happy and prosperous a3 ours, gone down'tb the sepulchres of the departed, almost without a warning, in the midst of their strength and undecayed vigor? What ruined the Republics of olden time ? Wealth, luxury, fictitious prosperity ; and solitude now nestles in their palaces.. It would appear, inferring from these coun tries, that Providence has ordained in the moral, as in the physical world, the same gradations from darkness to light, and from light to darkness. Even as the great lumi nary of day increases in light and brilliancy from dawn till he reaches the meridian, when all nature Js pervaded by his beams, and cheered by his light; but when this point is gained, his decline is indeed begun; by imperceptible degrees, he withdraws the light and warmth he gave, and soon leaves the world enshrouded in its original dark ness. So, in the infancy of nations, the Star of reason struggles through the clouds of ignorance and superstition, till the hu man mind is' fully enlightened ; for a time that star seems stationary, yet it is but too surely retrograding with hasty decLne to its primaty state of obscurit'. Where now, is the Forum, Colliseum, co lossal monuments, oracles and proud Im perial seven hill City, throned on its hun dred isles ? Gone like the fatalist's dream of destinyIike the gay gossamer before the morning Sun. Time and the devasta ting hand of ignorance has scattered them before the winds of heaven, yet a halo, sa cred as the spirit of prophecy, seems to pervade that once favoured land, whilst the bondsmen pf slaves chaunt their native ditties over the tombs of the illustrious dead, who years ago, crossed swords in de fence of that devoted City. Bright spirit of fortune, guard us from a similar fate; let net cur civil or religious privileges, be invaded ; let us never sacrifice principle to expediency ; let us not disappoint the hopes of the world ; save us from internal distention, and we are based on foundations impregnable as the Pyramids of Heaven, and like them, shall stand until the Heavens and the Earth shall pass away ! You, Ladies, should be aware of the in fluence you exertin the world. Your smiles and tears are arguments unanswerable and invincible. Ia the classic groves and vales, where your steps have never strayed, it is often felt, and causes .the midnight lamp to shed a cheerful ray wnenall around is drear and dark, and nought, save the untiring as pirant for thy favor, guards the citadel which thy fetters have bound. All the world ac knowledges thy sway. Xerxes, Hannibal, Cffisar, Nere, Anthony and Bonaparte, were controlled by the fairy spell whieh the win dows of thy soul convey to the heartland even, where thy intellect is not respected, thy charms hold absolute, even despotic control. Your ambition should be to pre- side in a circle of chosen sDints. ahtl seet youreles surrounded by the lights and or-j naments of the age. It was for a saintly smile, that the enamoured Leander braved the fatal waves of the Hellespont. What' incentive so powerful to court distinction ? For what do we wear the chaplet pf fame, but to win thy approval to shine as an emer ald in the crown? For this, Wars have been waged, kingdoms depopulated, thrones and sanctuaries corrupted, and mighty rea son has fallen a weak and hapless child of circumstance, the mere plaything of time and chance, at thy feet. Thy daring deeds of valor, thy devotion to the cause of liber ty, and thy unexampled constancy, have no bly won for thee, the Eternal gratitude of an American pedplei Thy enrapturing voice has oft reclaimed the prodigal, whp was abandoned to despair and lost to every other argument; and, since thou at destined to wield the sceptre of nations, you should wisely judge and prudentially act. .Here, you realize the elevation and dignity of the situation you occupy, compared with the Females of other countries ; here, you feel and know, that you are the wives, mothers and sisters of freemen, who have never served or bowed the knee to any Prince, except to Heaven's King. When you assem ble with us on the 4th of July, and join in the celebration, your presence enlivens the scene and gives a higher interest to the whole occasion. Hail woman, first in Eden's bovrcrs, The loveliest and the best, Empress of this fair world. I must not close this picture, without en treating every American often to recall the memory of a Washington, Warren, DeKalb, Wolf, Marion, Green, Lafayette, McDon ald, Montgomery and Jackson, whose deeds should be emblazoned to all futurity : Thrir names are enrolled among the great and the good, Eternal stations they've won 'mid that high brother hood ; , Deep in the hearts of all, enshrined thry'll be, And shine' as a beacon to far posterity ! Like the fallen Othello, their last consola tion was, that they had done the State some service ;" and, knowing in the lan guage of Napoleon, that posterity would do them justice and demonstrate to the world they had lived not in vain, this recollection more than repaid theni for a life of toil and hardship. Would that Heaven had made us such men ! To the few survivors of all that mighty band, how melancholy must be the reflection, when you recall those spirit-stirring-times of the past ; when, side by side, you marched in battle array; the meas ured steps of the wakeless sentinel, as he walked the dark alignment rounds when all was hushed in silence and surrounding gloom, save now and then the murmurs of the gay cavalier, whose midnight slumber is disturbed by dreams of home and friends. The reveille of the drum, at day, calls to immediate action as the line of march is re sumed ; the lovely rays of the moruing sun burst forth' upon the glittering steel and makes the hearts of all around joyful. ' Poor pilgrims of a wintry day, by time and chance you're driven." l&efore that mighty monarch of day shall hide his face beyond the Western hills, or the burning sapphires of night unveil their lustre in the blue expanse of Heaven, thy proud manly farm, with all its beauty, shall lie a mangled corse on the dreary plains of battle ! Thy gallant spirit shall have winged its way to scenes of immortality ! When in meditation like this, you call the friends of your youth, and ask where are they ? the mournful echo alone answers Where are they ? Here and there only, can you find a congenial spirit to unbosom yourselves to. You are the remnant of an illustrious band may the declining days of your existence be 4ong protracted : Filled with the face of Heaven which, from afar Comes down upon the waters; all Us hoes, From the rich sunset to the rising star. Their magicat variety diffuse ; I And now they change a paler shadow strews1 hs mantle o'er the mountain's parting day Dies like the dolphin which, each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away Till life is gone, and all is grey! Alas ! for ambition the path of glory leads but to the tomb ; and 'lis a precedent, without exception, that the lapse of time which immediately succeeds a Revolution is the time when liberty is mostly prized; when the arts and sciences are more liberal ly encouraged ; and when virtue and mor ality exert that influence which is calcula ted to add to the general happiness and pros perity of a people. Yet, by some strange infatuation, we cease to esteem those things with which we are most familiar, notwith standing they contain in themselves the natural and only-sure elements of our hap piness. Our love of novelty is such, that we go on to seek new enterprises, in search of which we dissolve the enchantment which was the first web to bind us. And Oh, how differenUy has been revealed to us, the af-i ter piece of all our fond anticipations ? How brightly broke the morning of our lib erty ? With what sanguine, warm enthu siasm, our forefathers hailed the brilliant light ? Tha sun, in his gradual ascent, has dawned with cheerful lustre on the dark chaos of .much anxious solicitude, and in vigorated the dying energies of liberty, and though storms have passed beneath, and clouds have obscured his light for awhile, his brighter refulgence, as if by magic, has dissolved the vista and now appears conspi-J cuously fair a form .of perfect beauty. chaste as the icicles of Dian's ternple and pure as the driven snow- and yet in the face of day, vain, ambitious, dissatisfied man thy acts are an omen, and foretell of many a change to come. The exaggerated 'ex citement, produced by the fi'rs't hallucina tions of liberty, has been sobered down ,to every days life and practice,! suited to the temperature of an American clime andatlap ted to the wants of an American people. Here, liberty' has fixed her seat, spread her rich banquet; and invites us all, toibe hec welcome guests. Health peace and plenty fillj oorland. Here, the loveliest smiles of female beauty reward the noblest deeds of . manly, courage ; here, Literature and ScP ence shed their mildesbrighiesl effulgence, while the great Sun of Righteousness shinejt with his clearest splendor giving beauty, strength and glory, to all our land "No direful sounds from the clarion of.War-.-no cries of suffering, bleeding, agonjzlngVdy ing countrymen, is heard in all this mighty land.. The laurel wreath encircles us from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same Angels of light behold our un- , paralleled prosperity, and whilst you gaze intensely on the admiring scene, waft the sincere asperations of devoted hearts to Hra, in whose hands the desiinies of men, an gels and worlds, are deposited, that he may long continue our happinessand hurl Hea ven's vengeance down to blight forever ihe hand or voice, that may first dare to dis turb this calm, or violate the sanctity of this proud Temple of Freedom, founded in our fathers blood, bedewed by their tears and consecrated by their prayers. The triumph ant reign of tyranny is forever banished from these shores, and the towering Eagle, perch ed on the summit of the Tree of Liberty, with the talisman's glittering elorv encircled in his talons, whilehe gazes on the sun, dis- . play3 in his beak pur motto 'vveare one." . Happy Iririce happy America ! Arise with thy diadem of stars, wing thy way to shine as a coronet in the crown. of the world, for thou, and thou afone, art worthy ! A Description of the Person of Jesus Christ it was found ifi an ancient manuscript, sent by Pvblws Lentulu. President of Judea, to the JSenate of Rome. There lives at this time, in Judea, a man of singular character, whose najme is Jesus. -Chiist. The barbarians esteem hiiw prophet, but his followers adoreim" as 4ne immediate offspring of the. immortal God,! He is endowed wiih such: unparalleled, virtue as to call back the dead from their-: graves and to heal every kind of diseasa if". with a word or touch. His person' is tail ' and elegantly shaped,? his aspect amiable, reverend. His hair flows in those beauti - ful shades which no united colors can match, - -falling into graceful curls below his easy agreeably touching on his shoulders, and parting on the crownjbf his head, like the head dress of the sectpf the Nazarites.- His forehead is smooth and large, his cheek without spot, save that of a lovely red: his nose and mouth are formed with ex quisite symmetry ; his head is thick and suitable to the hair of his head, reaching, a "little below his chin, and parting in the middle like a fork ; his eyes are bright, clear and serene. He rebukes with majes ty, counsels with mildness, and invites with . the most tender and persuasive language. His whole address, whether in word, or deed, being elegant, grave, and strictly characteristic of so exalted a being ! No man has ever seen him laugh ; but the whole world behold him weep frequently; and so persuasive are his tears that it, i difficult to keep from joining in sympathy with him. He is very modest temperate and wise. In short, whatever this phenomenon may turn put in the end, he seems at pres ent a man for excellent beauty and divine perfections, every way surpassing the cbil dren of men. . - A CURE for a. Snake-bite. An occur rence happened one day last week a few -, miles from this .place which ought to be generally known John Presnall, Jr. a Farmer on Little River in this county, was severely bitten by a Pilot Snake in his harvest field. After striking the snake' with his scythe arid , cutting it in two, he made his way- to hi. ' house as speedily as possible, and sent off to a near neighbor for some brandy , having heard that was good for a snake bite; and there was no physician nearer, than Ashe boro.' Not knowing what to do, and be- ' ing in great pain, the sufferer casually laid hold of a bottle of camphor abpui half full, (camphorated spirits probably bran dy,) arid placing thd mouth pf the bottje to the wound, (the, ancle- we believe,) he felt partial relief instantly. .All present thought they could plainly see the poison ous nuid escaping- irora me w,opu inw the bottle. By. continuing; this process an. hour or two, he became entirely reljeved, ' and went back to his . work VagafrJ i jwithput further inconvenience.. IJThe :. above facts were related to us by Mfc Michael 'Lttiheft a neighbor of MrV'rressnall. and a man of undoubted veracity.-Southern Citvtetf. Not far from two &Mmgal Scph tish Legislature enacted thayafbod anJ sufficient school shall be erected and main tained In every parish." To these five little words " a good and sufficient school: longer than a manTs ubt'ijqflaDd a- debted at this day for the superfonfy in, morals 'and intelligence which bet people, possess ever all others in Europe " .1 v- , J. L-n :
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