Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ufuiikwflwau riUI>\Y. Jl'I.Y IT, ItttV a ?? ?? i? ?!??? j?mmmwm $7* The Cilitor beg# the Header* of Uie cIcMope to excuso hi* aWncc for a short ue. I7*0^tcpir<?pood?nt.M J uveitis" Uuna-] .!.iTTy 1)Y>'\poncd until next week. Th*JM?f York Courier ami Enquirer are ci y foolishly sparring?The Courier and .nqulrer ?*y* thai the.-Telegraph la nohct ?i tlmn the Richmond WhignudCharleston Soulier?That U fooittf. IvlQICiUpV4 We refer,<wiv i icvti cout?itKd Inthelettc ilecli Balaam Hubbari! in tJUs days paper, u copy ot which haefceen kindly hsnded to ui by * Me^ W*<!o not kobw how he procured It, n6r will we answer far the ac thentlcUy of the information it contain!.? Ou the *ul>Ject of the tariff It U however alarming. . ^ , ? ? ? -'3Kti > -retf We oiieerve that the Newborn ! , in making boom observations in to that oil) and very carious work, ..Oil's Travels in Carolina, supposes that there are but two copies of the Book in this Country. Tho Charleston Courier, corrects the Spectator, by etaUng that there copy in tho Charleston Library prin ted in 1700. Tliero is a copy of tho same Edition in the Library of the South Caroli* 11a Coll.ge, and there is a copy alto in .lud^c Janus' possession. Tho travels of r.iK honest narrator from Charleston along tiie coast, through .'.lulls l>:w, up Uie San i?;o River, and along the high hills of San t?*e, through Ker.diaw and Lancaster and from tlumc through North Carolina to the Sea coast, is i-.:c?ediugly amusing, and frequently <ii*cribos tho country so well (when at that time it was entirely in the possession of tho tadians) that a person well acquainted with that section of coun try can follow him throughout his course within this Mato. When howover ho (toss ed along tly?so hills whore Statnsburgh now stands, anil looked across the Wateree valley tho high and dbtaut horison on the opposite' ride k( ruck hint ae a ridgo of lofty inotiuUiiiisi "out ono Alp (ho says) tower ?cd above them all.*' Ono cannot but smile, when they recognise'C'ookH mount'as thus dUcribed The Wounded Pigeon.? Those poor dear pigeons, Ciaks 8t Seaton, have for ?ome years pnot, neen snugly established In the dove cotc nt Washington, until they plainly thought they were lords and masters of the v>il. ?' There was not a fair garden in aU the land, but these hungry pigeons must have ?? at. Their craw> or>ulcl never be filled. They .scratched ami scratchcd and defrayed e?*ery thing of their neigh bors, at their will and pit-asm e. Hut they were ('Miinlhg pigeons ?nd touched not the th?cnilie'i oi"the;; Ion;. I oat was s.? <??feA. KuiiJtf ???!... |.i,j:ons~i;.UIU!C dared to nit Of il?l> #/!?'? ~aW vTtCa?<'i surh a i ?such a cooing, and peeling anil strutting w as never huard oI btf>?r?-, in or iumi* dove cote or rooI?"ry. The whole world (i.e. the household) wha disturbed. Year after year did this st .te of things continue, and tenants after tenants; sueccedtd as lord* and masters of t he man sion and stilt these* running sly little: pig eon < kept their ground and never ceased in their plundering, scratching, l!ap;>in~,. aw stalling c.;;eer. Ouec or twite up?:? a change of tenautr to the mansion, there was some dinttubailee in the dove cote ; bi t af ter a"littlc flattering, bowing, billing, ?;e. at the mansion thing* again went on as before. TAr pigeons still held sacred the garden ?>l of the landlord and preyed npon all other*, even the new premise* of their former loi d. But nt Inst theic enme diver, people abor.t anil claimed the mansion as theirs, and there were disputes and bargains and c?>n tracts and coalitions, which ait all the world .?aid ended, by an ouster of the lightful ('owner and the entry of one who by fraud and Intrigue had obtained surreptitious ti tles and there was n great comni' tion naiig the people and much talk about these unjust doings, and they determined to nuild up a new mansion for the just land lord. Jhit thceo wioked and ungrateful pigeon* not mindful of the many kindnesses th?y had received and of the long forbear ance of the inhabitants joined the new ten nut of the o!(l mansion and opjiosrd the jus? lord, who li id been 4ct up by nil the people. Ami they preyed upon his garden ?u-and they snatched and destroyed every thing that th'y eonld light upon. And they were v.;.rued and f'jiieirtcd to desist, lhit till'; legaided not kind nhd warning word*?*nd stones and stick* were thrown n* Uiem,tofrigfitcii them away, hut they knew, they could noMte hurt In that way, hud so (hey anold got their craws filled it wM ?II tliey cared for. And then the inhabjt* *r.t* jot angry, mid took gnn* and snare*, and slu t them<Aud entnnred them in their w'.ekid wayforund the wounded pigeons, ?Mlftttu.gtHeirtnny warning* they JM re ' iv".upbraided and ahnscd the people, ind Accused thiWi Cif "acrimonious unre mitting intdleraniy/' ofn vai tot magnan imity and humanity, nnd tliey sworo that hey now had '? the meawre of their ma 'jjtunt ioflufh< ?r and they protested that hty would no longer contlnuo any of the onrt?>ic4 of life, with ?u<jh it n> ct," and that it was doubly cruel, { * most have been apparent to their lies l(pit they had so long been i plunder these grounds, that it must hsvi ten expevtt-d that they wouldhave forgot* i-n that any other fcelngs had a claim U ? ie soil.* And t|u?>? pigeon* drew up ' ftnd puffcd out th^lr neck* and twcllcd and swelled? until, alas ! they buiH and {died ; anil the people nil gn al ly r?jolced Htiil ever afierwaixjs lived in harmony uud peaoc. -1/i/itiiafKin.?People who for many year* by deceit uud double dealing and by wor shipping every wind that blows, have ac quired an intevure enjoyment of dishonest | g.iins and who think still to plunder and de ceive the world by their impudence, often continue to pursue their headlong course, under the delusive impressiou that their truo character la known to none but them tvlvet, until alas, too lata for them, they meet the punishment which had toil been prepared for th ? plication of the ?prifht * nicely |Mtve we fln| ^ a mettled laseal, peek, v dreaais, unpregaant of my caute. say notblef, no, not for a Kin*, rhose property, and most doar We, A dama*d defeat was made. A.n 1 a coward. Who calls ma villain? breaks my pate at nut rlucks off my beard, and blows in my hert Tweakrfate by the noeefglves ma tha lie i' Ibmat, As dcap m to t? the luags.' tvlio dues me tblifj Why, I should lake ll: for It cannot.be, Bui I <tm pigm* liMr'f. ' ^ ?See Nation^ Intelligence. uiloii of Carolinaglv#to the power to pardon, "la sar.li 'tams itnu" 4,hs lie thsli think pro|ter$^M|hua lllnson was eonvl led at lbs last Court ofPttssions at Camden, mul i<-iiirnejl to denth,f?>r forgery, llio cum- hdi one where 1 was v. ry JunMlnl, whether the execution wobtq not ralhw' ihock Ihnn have a beneficial effrcl upon Kocjety. HI* Bseelleney took lima to con aider ono.'fter consulting wltb several gentle men, for y hose opinions th^ community Ii. i great respcol, the Onvcrnor caute to the conclo (loo thai he would pardon Ilia prisoner, ii|>on condition that Ik would receive a sound floridly We understand it was well laid on In lb* gaol We think his Kxcelleney aeled very wisely ?* this occasion and we hope lite einwplq amy is many cas?s he followed?though wn would >>u1 have it understood wsfS^r opinion "that havgtng i i not a good thing in ill wiy," when |tro|?erly *f plled. It will l?e seen hy thn following letter to (??<? counsel of William Hiuson, under sentence ol death for forgery, who was to have beenettiCn ted in Ihistownoa Friday last, Hint His Kscel lency the Governor, hss commuted the punish ment of that unforlunn.o ynuug man We hni l?"?; not to my, that in Ibis act, Governor MiUer ha? nruoidcd ivilh the widtei of (hi* community. L'oindcn, Journal. rial. liil.L. Jui.v lit, 1820, Vrnllemen,?I have received thn application ' Tor llm pardon of William Hintno, convicted ol i |nr<? ry, "I the lu-t Court in Krithaw. I do aol tiolUivi. the MiKtit ol tl?? public injur y, or the cir r.oimtanco* attending tl?l? crlom, tnch a* woOM iuduco the , acllnn on IliU can. ?olel) In Inflict tli" |iunUlim?ut of death. Ki?rj,.','y mora ajeitravaied fornu mny vrr^ 'pTSrW tti*? etiTFreiyderrt nrnnr criminaljurltpm* deuce. If????-? inicn-i manifcMcd l>y the ra>|iec. lablfl citi/eu* who have Joined in ? petition in In-half of the convict, cannot ho permitted In prove him cuiliU***. it ii, at Ifaat, evfrboce of ili'-ir opinion*, lh.it lift does not dettrve death, I liavo determined to trtervethn highett punlah mi nt for crime? marked ?>>? more depravity, 01 perpetrated liy innre Ingenious andernfty agouti. Tlit* youth and ignorance of th? culprit may -?*e him fiom death, hat fnrnltli no tWini to inipnnily II* l?a?la thU Injlunce violated n pos. 'Uvr l.m, mm! been guilty of a corrupt and debet m:? oilmen, which oujbtto be puniihed whether we look to lite own, or llio public *e id In *t~ cirnlnr !TT?rpCW?r ve?ted In me,l mutt look to ihe intorcit of aoci' ly?The my broad termt hy whir.lt ilia power U conferred, permit the infer refice dial .'*erutl*e dUeretion may r.ha?i? n le .??it wwiiiy I tMVf, therefore, In tbi* c?v, re duced the pnnUhtncui from hanging to wbip iMi.t, nnd heicivlth forward n portion upon term* or h cmmnntPlion of the pnnuhuient.Cf which ilir (fkoittf1?11y avail ItImself. Vo?jr'?, m all rntOMtf . . Vl Kt'llKN D. Mlf.f<KR. Mei?r? I.avv U f.nvaia Jllrx. //, AW/V//.?.The public no doubt recollects Mr. Everett** Into Work o?i Amurico, wherein be find* no many faulfa itt our ItiHlituUutirt wild more particularly for Ibo want of a Church Ettahliahment. Cbuirh nnd Slate, Mr. Everott thinks muet go together well. V h much a man fit to repre*ent this Hepublic abroad 1 Wo oxtract the following ol** nation* from tlto " 15 Hi(,n (,'ommqapial C.ttcHr Tho fallowing article from (ho Salem (tii/.otlo Kevins to indicate, that thorn may Imvo beMi vory ^.und and m??lioimt t?n *on* for tlio removal rd'Mr. Alexander fL Evt rott, from the office of Minister at tbe Court of Spain. Some of our more modemte and diainlfrcated CJIair papi-rn, have nndo this ri-moval a groun?f fore- riotta complaint and grave animadvertion. If it ahouid an ?>ear tliat tho General of the Argentine H?> uublie it in the right, and that Mr. Bven>tt ban umkI bin official dignity to add weight to ntanderoue and malicious inculpntiotta of foreign dignitarie*, witli whom he had ho rtght to interfere, nntl tlial thhi waa known to the President in addition to the r>th?r circumatancca whkh urged the remo val of Mr. Kverott, in addition to the anti retmblkan character of Mr. Kverettn puhD ration*, there will he few who will bruits to I lo add to tho approbation with which the removal ought certainly foho regarded, tho ruost hearty and dintinct eppluune. The fVeqnency With which oaplanatioiif of re irtovabi^whieh at firat were of doubtful ex |i"dii'i,cy in the view of eajMid mch, are n?b?o?iueiitly met with, lead* ua to itom lhat tWre may Be a "reaction" of public rmhioti evon in Maaaaehuaetta, inaoinuehi that the huf?hcar!i*te Of - 'rtxvarda and ft tin nifttin" which the Clay payer* now puMmf, Will beoome an eontempltinle ae tlie ohjecta it th< ir publialiera. When a man puhliah M Iheru for a weekly or monthly ,t .not,OH ?Mm^ii polift'iana. dwinten^ted ISivea can hardly ho attributed' to "him' Jfrom the 9*hm UgdaUb, | . arrival _ lit Haiti. I; from a friend, pa L?l Pvataai: no*, respecting an official communication to the Spanish Court, by Mr. Abh*a?Daa ii. Kvmhutt, late U. S. MinUter to Spain. Tbe passage, i i out Mr. Everett's communi cation, Which (General Pucirrcdon quotas aa Uie cause of offence, and upon whkh he comment* with much severity, is a* fol low*.? "Pueirrcdou, who appear* to havtf bee* bought by the agents of Your when ho tilled the station of Supreme Di rector of the United Provinces of tho River La Plata, could not enlist beneath his ban ners a single man, but saw himself reduced to the necessity or abandoning his office and hie country, and it is believed that ho has fUnee died obeeurely, somewhere, of grief does not contain the reply to thsse very I irit did, perhaps it t Uie space it would translate, howevtfr, the in i. that our reader* may esti in which it h written; "Refutation of an a trociou* calumny re* fleeting a General of the Argentine Rffiub lie, made wit/i too much levity by rtfr. Alejc under H. Everett, Minister Men (potent nry from the United State* of North America, nemrtfue Court ofSjfiain, "To Mr. Kvssstt, Mmistkh. fed. "It Is not, sir, from the mansion 6f the dead; hi which you phicOdmo more} than del bifontado, prime iniQittMsnM olic Majesty, taat I suu roe ldof0lf_^ teem of my fellow citiaens, that _ to you this letter and the document acooppany it, in refutation of the i calumny witli which you my name. ?*? ' i M A public slander jpfttgilt forward] official document, requires a natisfa eeillUy pirolic.?I am confident thai ten to repair tho injury you , by making public, in'reply t< roe frniu which you ohtahic ition of mvJieing "*old to bis olio Majesty, Whefitf held the office c , prenie Director of the |J. Provinces ?f !tne River La* Plate.* I shaH retain thin <&n fidonro tiR I find reason to behove tit;4 ffcu brrniftht forward a falsehood in that diu ment with the maliciotiH design of uonn my reputation. jPhavo taken proper measure* to a* 1> myself thai thin letter will l>e placed it^voUr hands, and I trust that I Khali re ceive a satisfactory reply through the miuo channel. If J do not. / -firotet / mill ob tain all the *ati*ficti')n rvhieh thr !u\)t of the country to which you belong ivill ojfurd at well oh that which the law of nuturr u( loivt mc to require of the defamer of my honor. "With consideration, fir. "JUAN MARTIN I)E PUEIRKEDON. 44 General of the Argentine Kefiub/h," Extract* from l.irut. Hammond'* Oration. ??When Ferdinand the First, tn4iods the clone of the Fifteenth century attended the throne uf the then, most enlightened nation in Europe, he Inid nut as the grand objects of his reign, the extermination i-f the Mthe expulsion of the Jewsfroifc hi* dominion*, ami the establishment of the lnaulniilon, nit of which lie accomplished ?nil was rewarded with the title of HOft this monarch that the New World waf.dlsnivercd by Christopher OlutrUns. Happily for u*, an an iclontal variation in hit course bore him front our shores to the regions of the South, The softness of the climate?the beauty of the country?the fertility of the soil, and above all the abulia dance of its precious metals, soon drew atl ter him all the adventurer*of Kuropc. Im mediately all the notions of the age?the ignorance and superstition- the wild spirit V adventure?the crituos and the ambition of the old world were transplanted in the new* augmented by the ardor of the climate and the licentiousness of misrule,nnddrawn Into one fatal focus of rapacious heartless, and insatiable avarler Wc have much reason to be thankful that it was nut until a century later that North America was ex* ploredand colonixcd by. a different raee of beings, under diflVient circumstances and with different view*. Our ancestors r? mained in Eutope cloying the advanta ges of progressive k#owledge and civilisa tion?until the great contest to which I hare referred wan well udv meed :?till the Ref ormation spread its happy influence abru-.d i Till the doctrines of civil and religious lib* city were begiimiog to Ih-understo d andto My rlboguixed i shirtAidg principles oi ar> t on. And when tow ?.id come, it was not as a b ?nd of roving adventurers, seeking to shun the refinements and restrictions hf the old world, and indulge in the licentious free dom of the new {?feasting on the hope of unbridled pleasure and tiic ?witrct of ac* cumulating wealth without labor or anxie ty. Here were no rivers of gold?no moun tains of precious stones no soil Yielding spontaneously nil the luxuries of life, and teeming whh perpetual Harvest. the coast wan for the most part literally, " iron bound, sterile and free." I? .iff n did no pmtecton for the wanderer hu< *hat win. pun based by core and toil?by trea?ure j and by blond. It yielded little sostcn.ince, but surh m* was t urned t>\ the sweat ot the I brow { and few pleasure,lint tbo?e wliich \ arose from the pmctiic of virtue nod the ntudy of nature in her rude?but (aire, and at plareit grand anil magnificent attire ? it bad some advantages. The clime v as ??? lubriou* and thtrc w . * 01 e plant of rare growth tlMt #as indigenous to the soil. It wea the Tree off.ibciiy, whichamor ii< the centre of the land and ?p??,.d cj inupl's from Ocean unto Or.enn ? In a?iv.,;e a il <lcrnc*s there could be no political tyranny ?but there la a no Irs* nrhitriry and far more degrading vassalage ><i .-ppitite and passion, the natural production of n clime, whose aeif-floutishing luxuries invtet- in dulgence* ami the fervor and blandnoa of arhoae atmosphere, enRamf while thev en create* From this it was fr< t. Sm b was the rountry, which, under such cirrnm stances our forefathtifs sought. After suf leting all the evils of pertccatkm for the liberality of their religions doctrines and the l>otdnca? oI their political tenets?after sickening upon the deferred hope of ending their troubles without yielding up their right*?after discovering that to accom plish their just ends must be the w ??k, and the hold ami resolute and not Noodle <*wor|i of ages, amid the ommblingof thrones end the tearing down of dynasties i they gave up in despair ami preferring freedom to all Mhcr earthly bleaaings enthusiastic In her cause and thoroughly imbu'd with a honor for all arbitrary sway, they turned their faces towards the dreary wilderness leyond the untravell'd qcmo, and Uclibc ? lU-ly cyiltd tbeiMclvct Had their poster! oftheir fmefatherel The*? were the people whom the wars of the Catholics and the Hugonots, the proNdptlom of the English Church, end the irronnce of the Stuarts drove to the shorefof the Weeletn World. Thctc were the people, who Matching one brand from what appeared to be the latest beacon fire of liberty, bore it above wave and tempest aetata the bleak Atlantic, and hurling it Into our forest* kindled up a blase, which now lightens every corner of the land?and which lime van not extin Suith ! These were the people, chosen and t to be the apostles of political truth* and this the land in which to plant the holy banners of their faith.** * f ' U * ? 'Time allows me to apeak but briefly of the present state and future prospecta of our country. Of tlm present we are at all times incapable of speaking with strict lus lice There are but few men in America, m> entirely divested of all party feelings? all sectional prejudices, which inhere in the very nature of man in despite of all reason, fksto give a view of our domestio affairs ra tions) ly or impartially. Nor is it my friends V?ry important that there should be. 80 that we all unite upon the great point, thai political liberty is to be prised above .hly blessings, it imports but little? less than ia imagined, where any of be fouud amid the ordinary and il political excitements of the day t wever, of our internal condition 1, presents to us a question of 1 character, but one in which ill take npart, and upon which and lasting importance thnt we right. TF ^fundamental pvin r institutions nave been, and are tirtr an Investigation?bold and The value ot the American tins been spoken of. Upon this sub jcet adeep and intense interest, has becu awakened throughout the nation. I cannot go into it now but there has been hot blood auionc us. The people of the North overbearing #1 tlie people of the South have bccddnF chafed. The proud and towering hpirit of the descend ants 01 HugoiK'tK and thc^Vlow?but deep heated and imcmtqucrablP temper ol the cliildrenof the l>dgrim*bave been aroused, and arraved agafmt eilfl ?>t|kr : It was a trying hour and ?tout heJn* quailed to see it?B<it thank God the worst has passed. The South may breath again : The Powers that presided over us in our day of darkness are no longer Lords of the ascendant. Ano ther star has ris^n and there arc streaks of light already visible in the Horizon which rtugu' tbe/lawnofanewund bright day I The night will pats awat^But we should take sol emn warning frnm^fe P?st. We should be wanted against the daoglrs of suffering petty jealousies ami local urcjudices to grow upon un. Thflfrtnin the Southern charac ter, for they. Stand conspicuous among pro verbially hiptf and generous feelings of the Southern people': and they msy one day carry us beyond those bounds which, apart from all nations 4fpolicy?-Ht ladeeply grie vous for a noble and brae* spirit to trans cend * Wc should be warned of the dangerof permitting the first approaches of usurpa tion to pass unnoticed : Of not meeting the first efforts of unchartered power bold ly, and annihilating}the Vunlieked monster " of oppression at tne very moment of his hirth. And we should be wmrneri~~nio*t flnwr ed the ascendancy aijd baring his unright raoi nriu im ii.icesour liberty? there it but course to pursue. It i? a bold and fear one. It is to of delusion?-or cowar e under uaurpa ?R Mind the truest ? II Iran en and natkoua, at alt h?*> to maintain their dignity and indepen* c. Nothing ever yet was gained by kofferfog the aligMe* imputation to reat upon national or individual honor. And the moment one section of this country per mit* itaelt to lie insulted Md trampled on without reaiating it?the Uniooia dissolved inevitably and forevei I" U " Hut the storm la patting away < It look ut powerfully fot a time?'Vet I trutt that nothing hat been injured. I trutt that our Union it destined to survive, a thout and ?liock<i like this I know that oar rKKKDOM i?. Our present political insti tution* which <*od forbid?may be destroy* cd?but the gre.it principle of liberty and >ly r<K?tcd in pen that can be anticipated from a change of systems. Let oor rapt ion with alow and baleful progrcta tip the Temple we have reared?let faction With daring hand tfar the veil from the Altar, and reckless dema gogue* drench the Holy Are with blood yet they cannot reach the Free Hpirlt that r< tides within. Come what may, it will ttBl survive. It will 9f to the forests end the rf?vert???to the rocks and the height*?and ?mini ling Its proud banhcra in unbending de tinner give the atari and atripea to the bre zt-t of the mountains." i m ii i il! J I l il i COMMUNICATIONS. HRF.AT PFYTlPAt/O TARIFF MKKTINO Pertiftft Hg, Con. July 1, 1*29. Dkak Hhoimkii? Ah it inny oe pmbnbly nmc day* before the m-< r?urjf'? account of the (Ireit 'i'krilf M< i ting of oar lA#n l? p<ibli?h?4, t will give you in the mean time a few particular* of It. The wenther being too Ana to loose from farming,the meeting w jw? put ofTfrotn time to ? i inr, hut yettertfl*f being * raimy day, the ft i<-ml h of the American *y?tem wire called togcthaflE v r ^ Zcfttbahel Pratt waa nailed to the rhair and Nebuchadnasar Hnydeft Appointed secretary. |>? y % ))e?ton Meebach fthadracb Abednego Hpaldhtg than iw to explain the otyetU of the meet big, bat Aid he thought It *p>ld; be hut eevmly Rt a christian country, pare their nikkjtfor the < ?ml th.t thou Id the Mm, *4 whwh Re had wotild tail o? a rare Abaolom AehHopfl Hetehkin obeervod that nothing catit be more properthan the would fain know whit form of prpyer waa to bo usa4? - What other replied the Deacon than a ted to a howling wilderneaaj whu .had c^? tablUhcd that immortal monument of thrir good sense and godttMM the blue laws, and had wrought hard W keep their doctrine pure by expe|ling here and all such aa^ enough to set up for ( eea of their own. ?*-. To this Mr. Abeotom Achitopel He hiss declared* that if that were the case, he must withdraw from the meeting* as he oould not listen to any formulary any butfthe pure and ?tnerable prayers of the Church of England. ? Thankful Piabocly objected to those of the Church of England?they were of fo reign importation. Mr. Obediah Jonathan Dolittle avowed that he would listen to no payers whatever that were to be made* unless the company were seated, und would wait quietly till the spirit moved them. There were several of the society ot friends present, and he ve rily believed, that with a little patience, Ihe outpourings of the spirit would not be wanting. There was then a mighty (lustration as it wire among ifee company, several spoke ui once and it was sometime before the calm was restored. ? v Mr. hsachar Howe roai) lie had a pro position which he thought would satisfy all; they hnd different formsof prayer it was true but that thi-y were ail drawn from thesami holy source. Why come with their nog. gins of water when they could drink fresli from the Inuntain? Why not rcud a chap* ter in the bible with the judicious crmmcn t?ry of (he immortal Scott, which he con sidered as the greatest effort of human intellect and excelled only by the Meaaed Word iUelf. : ' %. . Mr. Abholrm Achitopel Hotchkisasprung up und said he apologised to the company for interrupting the gentlemanbut that in conscience he could not listen to the gen tleman's proposition! that he considered Mr. Scott as a false prophet a? a blind lead* er of the blind, yea that w ould plunge them into Tophet; that he would hear no com mentary but the orthodox one of Messrs. Mant and Doyley, which had received the approbation of many reverend bishops, c*. pccialy the late pious bishop of Clogher be fore he was run out of Ireland. " Oh} my friend*" exclaimed Mr. Jere miah Job Ely, what do I hear? Is it come to to this, that the word and the WO|B ?lone is uot good enough for you, must that you must add thereunto the vagaries oi poor, weak, sinful man! Yea, you have al* one Watts, a mere man like yourselves and now you Hre even weurv of ili? tiitt'ja itself. * Vwiil" said he, ** compare the Word to h pound butter; the man of the hooK goeth to the ib^ket, and he biyeth, procu re th and bripgeth Minnie a pound of butter ?and the family part* e thereof and they find it savoury* Hrcfrcsbfetuhem at.d they ?re well content?they say iH^a good but ter, a pleasant butter, a wholcso?,e butter, Goshen hotter, but when their hfc*g?r fat appealed, they begin to loath 'he and when they return thereunto i.*y ?y la no longer the game butter?''tis 4 bad but. ter, 'tin an unwholesome and that they, for sooth, must have u little honey with their butter. But my brethren 1 say it is a mm! butter, a pleasant hotter, u wfo -Itionic but ter, 'tis the sstne button Ah! my dearly be* loved friends" said he with uplifted ayes and tears steaming down his face, "stick to the old butter." This truely pathctic appeal produced a serious and kplcmn feeling among the com pany, many of whom exclaimed amen! with much devotion. " Nothing" observed Nchemiah Je-obo am Munson 41 Could be more proper than a chapter froVn the bible, but not that book anally called the bible, or King James' translation. King James tnhdftirfti was a great scholar, but he lacked that tital pie ty thit could alone open the eyes of the un derstanding." He proposed that the trftnelation of the pious Mr. Thompson should be substituted with the exception of the book of lame* whirh with the Saxon reformer he eonsid ered as spurious. The Reverend Aaron Tubal Cain Oris wold comment ed with saying .that he had studied at Antlnvcr, and hoped ther<*frre that he would be heard with that degree of attention to which his snpcrior ki ' on such subjects entitled him not vain of his gifts, but he hard as a good and faithful ser prove ihc talent confided to him, and he trotted that the sterile soil of his Intellect pjbeen excedkigly holped by the mahutw of knowledge spread ever it from that great theological compost heap. He sail there were various translations of the bible, asWyektiflfs, the Geneva, 8rc. which last was sometimes called the breeches bi ble, because our great mother Eve was represented as making hersett breeehe* out of fig leases, which he bt est testimony of the fclr e emblem of what bad we to preached to lew thai this being the case be thought It bat meet that the bibWsbouM be reed In the original as written. Indeed he doubted with the learned Ifaltby wbetfa er any nun could get to Heaven without a knowledge of Greek; which was now par ticularly easy since the publicaUoajTBtr ker's new editions of Stephens' Thesusaurus in thirty that he re^ifrded ul wards Heavenj to ohlybeadde#He? MMister, Parkhu rail's Thasmirw, ] en# MftitUfidi ImwU Hftffftft Lambert Bos' H tarius Linguae go iocupletissima Salmasius' Fuuus LI John Baptist Caspar Am lipistolse Vinarien Here Jeremiah lob Sly ator by asking if he int their edification the wh cock's catalogue of psrt he posse sscd no he considered as his head according I As for the Greeks often that they were cliristaiu ought to have their HeatbeoUh invent touch pitch and not be dt Deacon Meschah Shadra^l Spalding regretted that Hev. Cain Griswoid had been inter very leurned ?peech;a speed led him with amazement & tr of belonging to a state whieh .. n prodigy. He no longer wMdtij bucccsft of the missionaries in \ Island*, seeing how well tho* understood the heathen language Ho hoped that the reverend gentlema ? ?wa concludc what hi* had so well begpn. t ? The lievereml Aaron Tubal Cain Grit world then'took the floor again. He aisured the company that he had bo intention of trespassing again on their p? tiencet he would merely explain me points a point of Immense importance: a point of vital importance to Christianity* a point not generally known and that he had only fisth* omed, by long, patient and profound re searches: that was, there were two Polly* glotts,one by Cardinal Ximines, the fbundr der of the Jnqltis in the time of the Empe ror Charles the fifth* King of Italy, just be fore the Invention of printing, the other by Isaak Walton author of a celebrated Use en fishing. To this, the Rev. Gideon Pardon Good rich said: > " He approved the reading of the new testament in Greek, provided all the various readings of the Utwnoufl were given* as he bad doubts as to the trao wording ol many parts but that if the pfh tuteuch was to be read, he hoped it should be in tH* Hebrew text and ip that ?u? jie wouto P** *h*m bis re?. ithftb for preiering the Hebrew to t, maritan text." He then drew out pocket about two quires of foolscap^ written whieh he was proceeding to when the Rev. Aaron Tubal Cat* Gi ~ arose for the third timet "he* don for stopping the reverend but that whefc he was up before one ?m vation had slipped his memory, whieh so all important that he would now < nicHte it to them: via. that there one edition pf Isaak Walton's Poll, though there were different ? to Oliver Cromwell and ?w^Meor Charles the first: he "^flastell's Lexicon was r with the^tpHygott. He would i py to hefftKa Hev. Gideon Pai rich's dissertajon on the H< Mr. Jer*mHh iob Ely that he oould no?onger u among a set of Phai-Hfo^^ uiternus generation) first ^ey cd Heuthe?< Greek and thv, supposed,y?e. next propositi circumcise the company} wi the confljamjr muttering sc the gMd9 calf, and Sodom .. It rilifrfhe confessed that. ings now hptame somewhat their sfi^ and many upli switched the rising flame i ifched by the enti AflMprifltfy then took I Mime wl^tes triftil n proposition i Squire Nicodemus Morse seemed to with general approbation. The* Mrvcd that It would lie very easy'to satlfy utts It ?H only necessary toghe * -fr* momenta respite, daring which ?f?ery one should peifrwm hla devotion* according to Itia ?wn creed and eonerUmce." - f Thereupon aome few kneeled down, *th era remained steading, but la ft jfevJwfKutc^ the company appeared ready foe business. Deacon McthoOli Shadrack ttpautdfng, atone remained on I with hiefcee bealort the chair a wreetle amain. Itewaae*eri ablnhrg light* bat ktodei ed to abaorh the whole m?ti the bystanders awaited with plooa awe the conclusion ot hla deep commamona until a loag drawn snore, testified that ataesbcr had overpowered the eyelids of the worthy man. Upon being awakened h? stated that Me bad beea kept up eery lato the preced ing night In adaalnUterinf ghastly romfort to aa aftleted widow, whom ke treated tie kad muck refreshed. *. The tteaoen than explain Ike otyetyof tka meeting/ after eetne pre hesald "tka Aniert -eetabliakedllrmty.it cjtircn* to labor in th<. M % u ? ??'