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t>0 I<; T RY, 6 UA'JJA Y Oi. KT* The following lines appeared in an English Magazine, shortly after the es tablishment of Sunday Schools in Eng * land. BY a>ts unknown or unessayed before, 0 shed instruction o'er a sinking land, Of gnorancc thy labyrinth t* explore, Aud lead to knwweidge wilh a liberal hand. ?^Vhence dawn'd the thought?--from Heav en itself it came, And future ages shall its power confess; Crowds yet unborn its virtues aball pro claim, '' And tongues, yet silent its kind influence 1 bjess. ? T-V-* Spirit of purest love 1 with ardent eyes, Wo mark where first that sacred influ* ence springs;' >* * * Arm'd with tcleadal Lower, o'er eanh it * flies'; ' Benignly flies?with a Healings on its wings." This is our mortal ?yttem?This appears Another planet; an dtp time shall s'line TJ* world's chief wonder} when ?rogrss siye years, v With growing zeal, shall perfect Che ? N design. ; * Him no enthusiast's hasty zeal, shall praise; Hut steady judgment, and reflection cool, To him shall vote the neter lading bays, ' Who urg'd, who planed, who frora'd the Sunday School, TRUEPJTTY, A beggar, cripled, starved and blind? Rehears'd hit doleful story To halt a score of auditors, - Who all Ifok* vastly sorry. ?? ; > ,v .?': ue pitied much, some very much, Some very much hideed ! But not one cent did they bestow To help the man of need. 'if ? '? i ;?> ? "? * * At length a Frenchman forward stepp'd %?-li^tty half, half-coler, _ _ : And emptying his purse?>" by gare! 'I phty you ttoo dollar ! ^jMISCELLJJVE o us. JFVom the ViUuge Jiecord. Too proud, or tto lasy, to weal c hjm a net, No fly for his supper-She spider will get. lis right^ ft* the laUVers entitled to bread; ' Tht idieidmtrve to go hungry to bed. And it is 110 matter, gentle renders, Whetl^efr it 6e a two ot four legged spider 5 4)no wjtli two eyes or six. Girls, did yott ev$r lt>ok at a spider through a microscope ?-?You would not, perhaps, if you should, discover all the strange things described by liowenbock; but it is a curious am tpal, well worth yout minute exam jpation. He has six beautiful eyes, and the teuuity of Ills thread surpass ed belief. The microscope unfolds t^e woadersof a new worbl, and if a survey of the heavenly bodies tend tAvtfikAtifithe mind exalted notions of the peity, a close inflection of the minutest work is not less calculat ed to impress the soul with admi jation, reverence, and lov% But my subject mns away with l&e. ' My intention is to point out a remedy for an acknowledged evil. There is a grekt complaint of dull times, and the stagnation of business. It is tmej the trmrr have changed. W e have been doing the business Of Europe for twenty live years?buy tag?selling?ahd carry is. g.?Peace b*s changed the aspect of commerci al affairs. ?urO|ie is able to manage bar own concerns?and we have in the country as well as the city, double the hands employed iu trade and speculation, p* unemployed al together, that are necessary. Profits so much divided become insufficient for a generous support, even to the industrious. As for the idle, the thrones in societyit is nO matter how soon they starve. A little resolution, and the work is done.*?Mother tarth is kind as ever. Proliflck of everj good gift, when wooed and courted, ?he offers tommy our?attention?the whitest bread?the fattest beef?and a pro fusion of good things. Now, ?my no iiouis, tliat every man who read* this, who is gaining nothing, or go ,iug l>ehiiul hand, should turu his at tention to agriculture. No uiattei wliether he is a merchant?wilhou4 customers; a physician?without pa 'tients; a lawyer?without clients: ?or the idle man?unless he has ten thousand 'in bank stock, or a tickel iii the lottery. r . The cultivation of the earth is ar employment as respectable as de* lightful aud productive. The uamt of Ciucinnatus descends to us thric* honored, from hid labors in the field. I Washington gloried in the oursuit. Nor is it, a^ some would believe, a business in which learniug would be useless, that the man of education could find no exercise for his know ledge in the employment. The com plete farmer should be an accomplish ed scholar.?His acquirements in chemistry, geology, mathematics,? and even astronomy, might be ren dered serviceable; for though41 ig norance may sneer," the influence ot the pl&nets upon the products of tbe earth, is not unworthy a thought of the wisest.. A metaphysician tbe farmer need not be ; it is a bewilder ing path, and leads to darkness and doubts. Of lawj he should know enough to keep clear from its toils; and of |diysic, to depend more upon iumivornn/^ii niwl avarriku li^ultli trtiljftluiltr atftu CACl Inv ttft Iltattil^ than upon the drugs of ^he apothe carry., . ^ 1 A few years ago, there was in our neighbourhoods young roan of fine education?lively and enterprising. But be louged to be a merchant, aud grow rich faster than his father had done on his farm. He moved to the city?entered into trade?married a charming girl?lived genteelly, but not extravagantly compared with his associates. For a time, lie was re puted prosperous?nay, /rich. But when 1 last visited him in town, 1 could discover an occasional sigh, aud flitting clouds of gloom, shading his sprightly countenance; nnd was satisfied, that even when face beamed with smiles,- his ireart was the seat of anguish.?Time confirm ed my conjectures. After struggling with insurmountable difficulties, he closed hjs affairs without a stain up on his lienor, and retired to a farm. Now reader, it would do your kind hfftrt good to go and see him. The house is small, but snug and neatly furnished. The barn is crowd fed with hay and grain; and fifteen bead of cattle feed in the barn-yard. Milk Ho*8 in abundvnee, and Mary tells vat she can make as excellent ctifcese asshe used to nootidcake. Tin ducks and geese ?whn In the pool be low the Jioufte; the turkeys roam in the fields; and cn hundred fowls dis-j ly (heir glotsy plumage before the Frank does not toil like * slave; t he sees to every thing; rise* th the robin, and attends to bis ins; and labors, if necessary, until dinner. The afternfan, unless business- presses, more especially during the winter, devotes to read* tug and social converse* A happier fallow 3 on never saw; and he insists ftpon it, lahor is not an evil?but i?ut tliat it gives to food, and society, and repose, an efcqnisite zest, to which the sons of ease and indulg ence are entirely strainers. It would be a happy :j1ay for out country, if we could see thousand* following the example of Frank Woodgrove. Many an aching heart wouUI then beat clieefily. Then would farming become, as it ought, thet tilst among the most honorable profession. The science, which is yet in its infamy, would l>e highly improved?ten acres be made to pro !duce the pnfcent crop of twenty;? and happiness he sought, where alone ,it can he found, iu a middle iortuue I ' as far l>elow wealth and splendor .as it is above w ant. HERE-A Ml)-1 HERE FOLKS. A 1 " jlk thy *ri~vant was busy htrr^and-ihrre^ ? he *va* gont."~\ Kings, xx?.40. It is nn ahundeuce of such here and-ihere-buisvpsft, that occasions a considerable portion of the pinching I wants of the present day' A small farme cultivated with the utmost diligence apd care, will furnish prudent family with a inodcmlt sufficiency. Again 4% lie tUiit lias a trade, lias au estate,"' even although lie owns neither house nor ? But if the fanner and the trader, instead of attending closely to their proper callings, are busy here and there, they will , assuredly '? come out at the little end of the horn."? Moreover, though they buckle clow n, the one to ? his_ farm, and the other to his trade; yet, if their wives and daughters, instead of practising the like industry and the like good man agement within doors, are busy here and~therey what is brought iu at the door goes, out at* the w indow," all is gone. See you that farm, overgrown with thorns and thistles and briars, and its fences broken down. How comes it about? Is the owuer one of Solomou's sleepers? No; lie is a stirring man; he is busy here-and there, but seldom in the proper place. Perhaps he is doing head work a broad ; is chaffering horses or cattle ?nr sheep, or is ped ling, over tl?ej country, or is pursuing in a small way some oilier scheme of specula tion ; or peradventure he has either got a little commission that occupies i his attention, or is seeking after one ; in which ever case* die ? hand writ ing on the wattv elearly shews what he is coming to. Lo, an auction! Whatfs^fbr sale ? The goods of a grocer, and the tools grocer, of a mechanic. Are they profligates ? No. Are they inanimate clods? Far otherwise. What then ? They are lovers of chat, of company, ef fun; and so instead of attending dilligently to their callings, they were busy here-and-there. Mark the interior of that house ; no useful industry going 011; no or der; nothing in its right place, more wasted than is eaten. Is the house wife a dolt? So far otherwise, she is one of the most sprightly and la dy-like woman in the place; but she has no time to~ hestovr upon the affairs of her household; she is busy here-and-thcre. Look upon that cofhely young man in the hands of a bailiff. Has he committed a crime? Not so; his reputation is fair. How* comes it thgn ? He is in debt. Is he wanting in faculties? He possesses excellent faculties of body and mind. Is he indolent? No he is quick in motion all the daylong. Ho*y happens it (hen, that he, a single man, who never met with any heavy misfortune, is nnahle to pay his debts? He has beeu busy-hero-and-lhere. Connecticut Curant. HINTS FOR THE SEASOJV. ' 7~' *1 The followirg is copied from the Morning Chronicle, a new paper just established in Baltimore, and conducted by Paul * Allen, Esquire. We havp-arrived at the confines of a wildeVness <lf| beauty; nature is impairing. to spread her choicest itorea to gratulate the aiHwfl of the R^gTbe earth puts on her mantle of green, and the embryo floweret it* evolving in its blossoms.' Boon will the gloves become vocal with the melody of birdssoon will a broad expanding beauty, with infinitely di versified tints of radiance, illuminate evety bough. The season of beauty without licentiousness, of sons with out revelry, and of heart ex MHrating joy without debauch, is now advan cing. The poet Milton, when he de scribed the joys of Paradise, although his fancy was so serf phic in its flights, was obliged to resort to hfctnble na ture at last, for .a model, and he de* nominates them vernal delights. It is uot the told pencil only, that de lights us, although that pencil is the pencil of nature; this pencil is dip ped iti fragpraitite. The splendor of landscape by a hich we are surrouud ed, breathes with perfumes :?May is a gaudy vision, beautiful and de lightful while it 1a?ts, and may l>e denomiated the jubilee alike of man and beast. AU creatures, human and brute, partake of the kindness ot the season: there seems a general thrill of sympathy amongst all th? chords oi atiiuiauo uiitut'f? \\ lule i>u? hearts are preparing fur such a festi val oi delights, we would ask our readers the question, how we are able w ith such certainty, to promulgate such joyful intelligence ? How do we know that Alav is to bfcpoiue so re plete, so profuse of blossom, of fra !^ianuj, and oljoy? hatcommerce do we hold with futuiy; bow can beings so uncertain as we are of otir own existence, s|>eak with sucli con fident certainty of (he revolutions of the seasons ? - Tim shaft of death is perhaps already drawn, and aimed at the bosom of the writer, and before thi* paragraph !s finished, he may become, for aught h^uows, an in scnstate corpse : ? dust to dust, ami ashfcs to ashes," may be his destiny, before he pours upou his paper the sensations with whkli-Jiis huartja now throbbing. Of this the writer knows nothing, and he pretends4o know nothing; yet he speaks with absolute certainty of the approach of beauty, and fragrance, and song; and both of these ev ents are hidden in the clouds of the future. How comes it to happen that he can speak of the revolution of the sasoog with such abac *.;e knowledge, and of his own existeuce with such absolute igno rance ? The geuius of philosophy pretends to explaiu this matter. She takes her residence in the sun, and marks with an eagle eye the revolu tions of the planets round bis orbk. ?bo then sneaks of tU* l?? .?flHnir tion and of repulsion, of the centrum *&1 and the centrifugal fbm m and there her enquiry Is epdsd f sATind* those great properties existing in na ture, and futber than existence ?f 8Uch jlawa disdains to enquire. Hve the question still remain*, for the point is still presented for explanation, what hand uupressed the planetary orbs with attraction and Jepulsio?, and how were they first endowed with jtheir centripetal and centrifugal for ces? Here philosophy turns her blushing contenace abashed, and can proceed - oo. further in ber aolution. 'x't, now, the Christian explain thb phenomenon. Tbe voice of Deity has declared, that "while the earth remniveth, teed time and harvest, and cold and beat and summer and win ter, and day night, shaft not cease." In accoidance wldi this law, imposed by the Creator, we behold the regu lar and constant march of the Masons, and whether thin ta done by attrac tion, or by repulsion, or by any other law that He, in his divine sovereign ty, lias thought proper to impress up on inert matter, it amounts to the self *ame thing. , The only difference between the two case* is this, that philosophy has pointed (Hit the law, and Mqges has pointed ouUhe Legis lator, We will only in conehisioti remark, that we have the same evi dent* that we shall all arise front the dead, and stand before tbe bar of God for judgments that we have for the revolution oftbe seasons, snd that is, the promise df the Almighty. Let film,, then, who sees the desolution o! winter; contemplate with tbe same certainty his death; and when he beholdsjhe vernal resurrection of the floweret, contemplate with tbe same certainty, his own resurrection. ??;. - ' flfFi ?' --- 5 ' . Amercan Bible Society. On Thursday, the third anniver sary of the American Bible Society was celebrated at Hie City Hotel. The annual. Report of the Society contafagmg an interesting and highly tisfnctory account of the proceed-' ings of the Board fur the past year,1 was read bj which it apiiears that the Society have printed, during1 the past year, 47,820 copies of tlie Bible, and 24,000 copies of the New Testament, and during the 8 years of it* existence 100,270. copies' of the Bible and Testament. Tlie amount of its funds received during the past year is 84-2,723 94; of which have !>een paid by Auxiliary Hocie lics 827,919 78, ?n<l 86,77* 92 by congregations and individuals for the purpose of consituting their pastors members tor lite, and tlie residue by contributions from m? inbers, dona tions, Inquests, &c. it also appears, 'that tbe number of Auxiliary Socie ties amounts, at the present lime, t > 92. Cum. .idi\ \N LI.ECTIONKERINO ADDRLSS. PHOM THE KEXT'JCK t'.Y LAUREL. i Declaration Jiled in I he %k Laurel Crfcc. Afiril 9, 13 19 Mr. Spkncer?Please inform the ;ood people of Montgomery county, hat 1 am a candidate for the next jieneral Assembly, and as they will naturally expect a specimen of my politics, ilo fev let iheui kuon that i am so much a federalist that I Wish the United States t>f North America to remain confederated agreeably to the Federal Constitution; and so much a democrat, that should 1 he elected, 1 should wish the people to tell me directly ami positively what they wished me to do, and 1 w ould strain every nerve to do it. And as ing system, and as I suppose the Banks will be made to answer some electioneering purposes, perhaps even to compose the big string on w hich we shall harp, I do declare that 1 wish the United States Hank was a whirlpool, and having the indepen dent nariks completely within its vortez, engulph'the whole of them, and sink them down to the bottom less pit, from whence I think they came; and that the United States Bank would tread close on their heels, as they entered the gate, where the Devil himself stood ap palled at the sight of bis eldest child, also Sitf 1 do also declare, that tthe public pressure occasioned by the scarcity of money* and its paper re pres^ntative, ought to be immediate* ly relieved by the accumulated know* ledge of our Legislature, together with the instruction of their constitu* ents, by tlie best possible means in tfieir power. And, as it is fashion able with people in my case, to say a ?ood deal about solicitations of heir frieftds, (declare that my friends lave never solkited me to offer for he Legislature* and if they do now wish me to decline my poll, 7 would thankthe^~tofhew their solicitudes as soon as possible, as a state of sus pense is but little better thau a state )f misery?and in as much as 1 am now offering my service to the Coun ty of Montgomery as a law-maker, nd as 1 mint care to be the first to violate those Ivws already made. I do declare that I will not give to any man either meat or drink, or even chewing tobacco, in any Considera ble quantities, as a bribe to induce liim to vote for roe; and now, gen tlemen, if you elect* me on those terms, I will serve you with plea sure? and further aayeth not, JAMfcS H. LANE. ELECTIONEERING. 7b free and independent Electors of the County Greene-*-!*?rmit me to claim your attention, while I offer you a few reasons for pro| rosing myself as a candidate for member m Assembly. In the first place, then, my name is Jerry Itlake?by trade I am % cooper?I am out of stockf and have no nfoney to buy more; of course I am out of busi ness, and can afford to vt ork cheap. 1 have been a uniform rejiublican, and oppoud to Banks. I am a friend to general reform, and opposed to lawyers; having twice (through their means) had my tools seized to pay my rent. Ilavmg never been honor* ed by being chosen even a delegate o attend a convention, 1 am opposed to caucus nemiqations; and like this mode. 1 am friendlv to free schools) and abould like to have tlieni litre; and havMknow nine children 1 think no one will doubt it. - 1 am friendly to inland navigation, and op|>osed to to Steam Boats, as I occasionally serve as a hand or a cock on board a sloop. I am opposed to high salaries though I pay no taxes. I am will ing myself to work as clieap in Al bany as I do here; and will, if elccted, provided 1 can have m\ first month's pay in advance to buy my self some cloths, serve you for six shilling a day nr?d lie found, or tea shillings and find myself. The public's hun.ole 8erV*nt, JKHEM1A1I BLAKE.