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TUP DI)nDl.M)TILV /Iff is * I T t A T \ inc. nvvi inn i iio vi u.iiji, {X XL*RE FORCOTTOX AXD OTHER Plants. We perceive, that the application of salt as a manure for co:ton, is beginning to occupy the attention of many planters throughout the country. In several essays, which we have recently published, wo have given some account of this valuable manure as apoked to the long staple or sea. island cotton. Some of our correspondents have inquired, "whether salt lias ev- j er been applied as a manure, with equal j success to the short staple cotton ?" In j the last numbea of the Farmer's Register, we also find the following remarks from j its able editor, upon an article extracted from our journal. " It seems to us that salt must act as a specific .manure for cotton, and is essential to produce the fineness of filbrc that constitutes the value of the sea-island cotton. As different as is the quality mid appearance of this cotton from the green seed, or short staple upland cotton, they are but varieties of the same kind, the most valued ot which, rapidly runs into the other, by mere change of soil. The one kind is raised, in perfection, only on the low sandy islands on the cost of Georgia and South Carolina, and the adjacent shores of the main land. If the seeds, (which are naJxcd and black.) are planted in the interior, though hot little remote front the sea, the ' product is what is called the 44 long staple Santee," a green seed cotton, into which, however, con inucd planting front the same, finally brings the crop. ' It has been supposed that the vervsan-1 dv nature of the soil of the sea-island was j the cause of the peculiar value of the cot- ' - - I ton they bear. Bur il so, sonic spots at J least, might be found eq?*J'y sandy, in the interior of the country, ana the same kind of cotton there produced successfully. But the account \vc have in the foregoing and other articRs, cf tiie peculiar value of sab ' mud and salt grass, as manures for cotton, j indicate plainly that salt itself is necessary for the perfection of cotton, and that it is i owing to the salt already in the soil of the j sea.islands, and the adjucicnt low coast, i that to such narrow limits the production ! of that valuable variety of cotton has here.' tofore been confined." It is with pleasure that we are able to i furnish the information desired. SaJt has been applied with great success to both kinds of cotton; and wherever and whenever applied, has been found to improve the s'aple and yield of those plants. Salt mud, salt marsh, and salt sand, have been, for many years back, applied to the cotton lands of our sea-coast. In every instance, the result has proved beneficial. Convinced, that the salt contained in the respective manures, which constitutes their chief excellcncc, some planters were induced to trv the common salt itself. In every instance where the trial has been made, it was found to act powerfully as a condiment to the plant; causing i: to mature its fruit earlier, and. consequently, to produce a finer and more healthy staple. In several coses where the application of this manure has been made, the product of the field has been increased 50 per con4., and in no one instance have we heard of its falling b?low 15 or 20 per cent. Xo one passing by a field manured with this material can mistake its effect. Whenever the cotton comes in contact with it, the plant assumes a healthy green appearance, from its germination to its maturation. We speak in refernceto both varieties of cotton. Indeed, we might as well, here observe, that in the cultivation of the two cottons, there should v** IC on,? What is nrn. yg liuigi n uinjui"v'v,,>"" ' " I per for the one, is also proper for die other; and, as a general remark, it may be affirmed, that the same culture which vill produce a good crop of the long staple cotton, will, when applied to the o'her variety, yield a double amount. This, doubtless, arises Ijom the greater hardiness of the short staple cotton plant. This year, we have made several experiments with common salt, on our cotton and other plants. From the backwardness of the season, we have not, as yet, been enabled to come at at any conclusive results as to its effects. One important experiment, however, we can mention. Around several cotton plants, infected with bugs or worms, we applied common salt, in quantities from a tea-sponnful to a table spoonful. In both cases, the hugs or worms were forced away from the plan's, and in three days afterwards, not a vestige of them was to be found. Where the table-spoonful of salt was applied, the cotton has greatly suffered, and will, we think, die, from the quantity of salt applied being too large. Where, however, the tea-spoonful had been applied, the plants have assumed a beautifully healthy and vigorous appearance. Our mistake in applying the table spoonful, was, dial we applied it too immcdiatelv arov vremg and r'-i: Ifa ]' we scatted the salt between each plant, so as to divide its power, we are inclined to think that the effect would have been odicrwise. Neither the tea or table spoon should be filled up to what is called a heap. That salt will drive away bugs and worms from plants, we have also tested, by a very simple experiment, in our garden. Having several beds of very fine cabbages taken by grubs, we applied salt mud around the roots of the plants. In one night after this application, not a grub has been found ( upon the bed. That we might be sure of ' the effects of our experiment, we left one bed, without applying any mud around the plants. In this condition, we left i: for about a week ; at the expiration of which time, the grubs had eaten down almost every plant to the root. This bed we again j transplanted, taking the caution to apply the : mud as around tiie other plants ; not one j of them is destroyed; and they continue to grow as luxurantly as any plants we ever j saw. ft is tiic custom of some'of our planters of the sea-coast, to soak their cotton seed in salt water previous to planting. They say, it prevents worms and insects from ! attacking the plants when young. But, of ,1 the truth of :his, we can say nothing prac- 1 ticaliy. ADVICE TO A YOUNG LADY AFTER IIER MARRAGE. RY JUDGE IIERTTEL,OF NEW YORK. \ on arc now married; and as is usual on such occasions, your friends and ac- j quaintance will profess to wish vou jov. M any will do so as an act of common civ. i iltv, feeling little or nothing of the sentiment which the words import. When, j however, I express a solicitude for your j welfare, I thiuk 1 am entitled to the credit ^ of meaning something more than the per- j formancc of an empty ceremony. But, j 1 when congratulating you, I know no better , ~ C ilm cincm itit r\f r?, l>l-n. I ! \VU\ UI piu>lll^ IIIV OlllVVtlH VI IllJ |'| V I fessions, than by tendering you my advice J as to some of the means I deem necessa. i < ry to bo pursued in order to render your j i new situation a matter of real felicitation. !! ' Young people are very apt to think, if; they think at all on the subject, that when i' they get married their cares are all scattered ' to the winds, and that their happiness is se- ;' cured for life. So far from the truth is ' such a thought, that, when reality awakens 1 them from the dream of uninterrupted bliss, they find their sorrows certainly doubled, I and whether their joys are to be increased or not, depends mostly on themselves; and i they wiil still find causes enough to inter \< rtipt their happiness, though each should , do their best to prevent or counteract them. One thing is certain, that the married state may be made more happy than the single ! life, or it may become a state of perfect j wretchedness; and whether your present i situation is to be better than that you ex- !: changed for it, depends much, or mostly j on yourself. It is therefore a matter first j1 in order, as well as the first in importance to you, that ycu should endeavor to ascer- i tain the means best calculated to secure a ! continuance of that happiness which doubt-1 less you expected to experience in the 1 wedded life. On this subject I will cn- < deavor to assist you. "That you were happy during the peri- j od spent in courtship, you will not deny.? ) That you were so, arose from the con- ( sciousncss that you loved and were belov- 1 ed in return; and from the pleasing hopes j or moral ceriaintj' you would attain the ?/>I?one rPtn> Imnn Ic ! VVJV.^.1 VI ?vu. ""I I realized, and that you are happy now you i need no one to leil you. It is the recipro- 1 cated affections of your husband which j make you happy?It is yours which make j him so; hence, mutual affections constitute ! the source of connubial bliss; and it is equal- , ly true that the infelicity of the married state follows the loss of those affections. On the continuance of the affections, then, ! no less than on the choice of a husband, j depends your happiness in the wedded life. J The means to ir.suro a continuance of those j affections is the subject next in course for j your consideration. "So numerous are ihe instances in which ! married people have lost their affections for each other, that the unreflecting have j hastily concluded that it is easier to ac- i quire than should be more assiduous tore- j tain the affections of vour husband, than I / ' you were to gaim them. But it is not true to the extent which many believe. It is very unphiiosophical to argue that like causes wili not produce like effects, or that the effect will cease though the cause be continued. The truth most probably is, j that, when the affections of married people become extinct, it is owing to their neglect to continue the causes bv which those af. j fectionsicere first elicited. What man in ! his sense, if he knew the disposition of the ladv he addressed, would fall in love with a sobcrjsulky, brawling, ill-natured woman It is the opposite qualities which he sees, or thinks he sees, in the lady of his choice, of which he becomes enamoured. It is a j r>min?rnnnre illumined with smiles, eyes I beaming with intelligence, a mouth (lowing i with sweetness and good nature?in short, j a deportment indicative of modesty, mild- j ness, and benignity, to which he pays the j homage of heart. If such were the causses, by which were quickened the tenderness of the lover, rely on it that nothing shortofthose will insure the affections of the husband; for when the causes subside, the effects must necessarily cease, a id then misery and wretchedness will become the inmates of your household. "More of the happiness of married people is involved their conduct during The ' first year, than in any succeeding period ! ? thcr ^enruhrji acv^iation. Th^ro ?.rn probably but few instances where person newly married do not discover, and tha too in an early period of their matrinionia relation, each in the other, some trait o character which much, of the felicity o their lives depends on the course they mat pursue on those occasions. Should tin newly discovered faults or follies of tlx husband appear to be such as to prccludi the hope of their being corrected, howeve unpleasant the task, the wife's easies course will be to endeavor to accommodati herself to them. If she cannot bring he circumstances to her mind, the altcrnativ< is to try to bring her mind to her circum stances. Custom and habit tend tolessei the effect of evils which cannot be destroy ed; and common prudence will induce he to conceal from her husband the knowl edge of those faults of his which she can not expect to obviate, because it will no increase his affections for her, should hi think that Iter's for hint are in the wane.? If a woman would correct the faults or fol E*?ofher husband, she should reflect tha she can only do it by means 01 ncr uuiu ence over him?that she has, in general no other influence than that which arise from his affections for her?that the con tinuance of the causes by which they firs were kindled: and you may rest assured that whatever female patience, mildness good humor, and tender affection canno accomplish wifti a husband, frowns, sulks sharp reproofs, and ill-natured reproache; can never achieve. By the former he maj be soothed and softened into complaisance and willingly led to abandon a foible or ; fault; but the latter will inevitably tend t( sour his mind, to curdle all the milk ofliu man kindness in Ins bosom, warm ins re scntment, excite Ins opposition, and con firm him in error. "My acquaimance with your husbnnc has induced mc to believe that his whoh heart and soul accompany his affection.1 and aversions; and that depends much oi mostly on the exercise of your prudence and discretion whether he will he to yot a kind and tender husband, or an unpleas ant and uninteresting associate. "Perhaps you are now about to ask, i the wife must make all and the husbant no sacrifice to promote connubial concord and domestic peace? I mean no sucl thing?on the contrary, so much depend.' on your mutual endeavors, that, without the husband's the wife's cannot succeed But the nath I have'pointed out for you K I I take is the surest, may, the only one to be pursued to produce or continue in him the disposition to a corresponding course ol measures. Can that be called a sacrifice which promotes a domesiic bliss? As wel may lie be said to sacrifice his money win gives for it a larger sum. ' You will he disappointed if you expect your husband's face always to be the sporting place of smiles and graces, or hi: mind at all times attuned to the soft niclody*)f harmonious strains. 'As well expect eternal sunshine, cloudless ski*-; As men forever temperate, calm, and wise. Sickness, disappointment, and perplexity Ii.'? I.n.lnnsi- on/1 oj tlimic.i ml n.imolnci Ill Hid UU}llli;.U) UIIU U llivui?>?u lO'.uv^v^. causes, cannot but sometimes operate tc disturb bis mind, depress bis spirits, anc becloud his visage; producing perhaps un usual taciturnity, or a strain of language not remarkable for its mellifluent cadences This is not the occasion on which lie is te be met with a corresponding deportment on the part of his wife. It is rather the time when the exercise of all her philosophy islindispensable; a time when her tent per is to be tried, her heart probed, anc Iter affections put to the test; the time when by her kind, sofl, and sympathizing language, and a countenance and conduc bearing testimony to its sincerity, he ha; to be comforted at least with the reflectior that he has a friend in adversity as well a? in prospority?a partner in his sorrows a? - - 1 1. _ l in his joys. 1 may possum ue singuiai in the opinion, but I could never entertaii the fullest confidence even in the virtue o that female whose sympathies could no be excited by the sorrows of others; anc surely a wife can never appear so interestingand amiable in the eyes of her husband, as when he sees her melting will kindness to him, and sorrowing for his sorrows. In short, it should be the objoe of your unremitted attention to make hiir feel that his home is a place of refuge from his cares, a sanctuary from the frowns o adverse fortune, and he will seek it a; naturally as he would desire his own felicity. But, when a husband ceases to regard his home as the happiest place or earth, he will shun it as he would ily lib troubles; and, as it often happens, will take the road to ruin, and seek, at the ale ? 1 house, the gambling table, or more inaecent places, a refuge from domestic broils the consequence of which, though ofter seen, arc too disgusting for detail. "It could not he deemed a compliment to your husband's taste to suppose he wil be entirely indifferent to your dress, 01 pleased to see you careless in this respect either at home or abroad. Those wive; have not rellected much who think a slipshod slattern hazards nothing of her hus. band's good opinion; or that the lack o neatness in domestic dress is not a certair indication of her indolence and the disor dered aspect of her ambition. If youi husband loves you, be could not but fee somewhat of disappointment, should tin personal appearance of his wife be raucl inferior to that of the girl he courted, or tc the generality of females with whom yoi may happen to associate. lie cannot bu make comparisons, and it should be you enre that they should not result in your dis advantage. "Erravagancc :u drcs* s'io'.'J a'so j' p????g?? ?? ?? s avoided, as ill-calculutcd to increase the re. t spectahilify of a married lad v, and i: somc1 times occasions surmises nowise creditable f to the female character. Indeed, you ought, f by consulting your husband's wishes in this j respect, to leave him not a doubt that your n dress is fashioned to meet liis approbation 2 more than to attract the gaze, or gain the 2 admiration of any and every person. I< r may be thought, perhaps, by some, that the t dress of the wife is, :o the husband, a mat2 tcr of very trifling consequence ; but rely r upon it, the effect of disregarding his opin ? ion on this subject is not always wholly un. important. 1 " You have doubtless seen and heard | enough to know that no' hing short of crime J r more impairs the lespeetability of a married lady, than of.cn being seen at public places unattended by her hus'umd. Should Kn-rj nr, Uncvvn In hr> thrnncrorl With | WMIO 1114 ? V/ H\J UV.OH V, iv-r t/w i wti^vv* ^ company at homo, nor disposition to seek it abroad ; or should you unfortunately aspire to live in a style inconsistant with his j feelings or resources, I have already said enough to show you that no action of yours, savoring of opposition?no look soured ^ with disappointment, nor expression tinctured with reproach, will dispose him the more to gratify your wishes. That such means cannot succeed with a man of sense ' and spirit, is as obvious as the indiscretion through which they are adopted. "Abrupt contradiction of anyone, tho* 1 sometimes the effect of an unguarded mos ment, is generally regarded as a sure indi1 cation of low vulgar breeding, but such 1 conduct in a wife towards a husband sel1 dom fails'to render him ridiculous, and her 5 contemptible hi the estimation of all who * may happen to witness such an instance of ' her folly and imprudence. Much of the * respectability of the wife is reflected from the husband ; and when she, by her indis' cretion, lessens his, she is sure to sink her 3 own in public estimation. s " To conclude: I have voluntarily, and r perhaps ofliciouslv, offered you my coun * * ay 1 - sel, anrl the best my judgement can anoru. 1 My motive is good ; but it depends on your self whether or not it will be useful to you. But keep this letter by you, and if, a! the f end of three or four years, you shall think 1 yourself not benefited by its contents, you may assent to burn if. ? 44 That the blessings of health, peace, ? and prosperity may attend you through t life, is the sincere wish and earnest hope . of your friend." ' Ll"I 1 Ul J J_ . i *gaijai Character of Bustamentc.?We have ; generally been accustomed to look upon f Santa Anna, as the most talented and am> liitiimic nf ttip Afcvirnri chiefs. and the one I most disposed to establish a military dospo> tism. Hustamc-ntc lias generally been regarded as a mild and comparatively i notion sivc man, obnoxious to Sanhi Anna no i account of his popularity and his opposition s to his designs. The following letter displays Bustcmcnte in a new character, and if correct, proves \ ; that San'a Anna had good reasons for wish- i ing his rival out of the country, when he i r procured his banishment, some years since. ! 5 TA.U1MCO, MAY 1.?Dear Sir.?Ky j > the remarks of many editors of American 1 newspapers, it appears they arc totally ig. norant of the character of Bustamente. At ; first a physician, and the next a soldier, he , has always belonged to the party of 'Esco> ceces,' which has ever aimed at the estab} lishment of a cruel military and ccclesiasti, cal despo ism. More intelligent and cunning than Santa Anna, he availed himself of the opportunity presented by his being j enfrus'ed widi the command of the Army of reserve des'ined to operate against Bar. rados, in order to expel the President Gurt rero from the seat to which he was raised s by the same votes that made Bustamente the j Vice President; and under the pretence of 5 the plan of Julapa to 'restore die federal 5 comti'ution and the laws,' he usurpcdj'he . presidential clmir. caused Gurrero to be as. j sassinated, and with dictatorial powers made p his admimVra'ion a resign of terror. Con( tent to let Federalism remain in name, CenI tralism was created in fact and nothing hut the return of IVdraza could wrench the rod of iron from his hands. It is true that 11 during Ins administration ine immn^s nut apparently better managed than in previous J years; and that temporary tranquility resul^ ted from his despotic measures, and that hence foreign merchants gave some credit p to his name but in head and heart lie was then as ever the bitter enmyofal'freedom and * of all foreigners. Condemned to self-banisliment by the return of the popular Pcdrazn, whose residence in the Uni'ed Stages I had taught him to appreciate the real value j of our federal republican institutions. Bustnmente bore so inventerate an enmity to the very name of the United States, that he j refused *o touch at any of our per son hi' route to Europe, or his return to Mexico. I \vu:\n Pnmnn. he showed still further I ?? I1IIW 111 UUIU|,~, his abhorrence of constitutional liberty by skimming: across England and France indulge in Prussia and Aus'ria, his love of military despotism. Now. sir, can you believe 'hat this san* guinarv desoo' has any good feeling towards the people or government of the United ' S ates? No, sir. Depend upon it, lie is the worst encmv to our country that has ever 1 held supreme power in Mexico. Already are his emi?sar'*s sur-rcme among^he s r go r tribes on our Western frontiers. Already ' the bishop and friars of Mexico and of Spain i have opened their cofivrs to aid him in his j 1 modi ated war of extermination against! } Texas. Already do they chuckle on the 1 probable success of Don Carlos in Spain, 1 and the consequent ro-operation of Spanish r troops, and vessels from die Tsland of Cuba. T repeat again. Dot) Anastacio Pustamcnfe is as much more dangerous and invetcra'c t p'Tniv o" ^ t'' *cd S'ates thati ever was i your gracious aff -ctions and spiritual dt; sires? If you cannot, you have reason to pause, to consider, and to ask yourselves whether or not you arc "keeping yourselves in the love of God, looking for the f mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto eter> nal life"?whether or not you are "seeking 1 those things which are above, where Christ 1 sittcthon the right hand of God." 3. Iuquire further whether the pursuit of them > will afford you comfort iu the immediate prospect of death. "Will they help to assuage tiie sorrows of disolution, and dissipate the gloom of the grave? Will they contribute to sustian the confidenhe, the courage, and the hope of the departing soul, and to embolden her approach upwards to the tribunal of the Judge? Or are they or could be Don Antonio Lopez de Santr Anna (who will not remain in Mexico) in the heigtli of his power. To Mr. Kidd, Merchants' Exheange. Great Discovery in Surgery.?An article lias appeared in one of the Wall-streetj journals (the express) by which it seems there is some hope that the consumption may be cured by surgical means. The surgeon who makes this communication, purposes to cure the consumption (in any case where ones lung's is affected) in the following manner:?An incision is made between the libs, and an orifice opened to admit the air into the chest outside of die diseased lung?so that tio air, will be drawn into that lung through the windpipe at all. The lung will collapse, and remain perfectly quiescent and in that state can be cured by the efforts of nature alone, or removed altogether. As there is a partition between the sides of the lungs, while one of them ceases its action, the other goes on with its ordinary functions. The operation is neither difficult nor painful, and may be performed upon a person in the last stages of consumption, without danger?as a person in that state would bear the operation better than one in robust health. The plan appersto be feasible, from the very fact that nature does sometimes effect a cure by the very same nrocess fdrving tin one lung) and it is the I ' C3 I only method by which a cure is ever effected. If this plan succeeds it will be the greatest discovery in the art of healing, in modern times. Discovery and use of Alcohol.? the following curious account of the first use made of alcoholic liquors, is translated from a French work entitled Le Scnour (The Sower:) Who, at the time when an Arabian chemist, devolved to the search after an universal solvent, by means of which he could transmute metals, discovered alcohol, could have determined the result, of the discovery upon the morality and prosperity of mankind? It did not really issue from the domain of chemistry till towards the end of the thirteenth century, when thev besran in Spain and Italy, to sell the c * _ spirits of wine tinctured with certain herbs, as a powerful remedy in various diseases. Latter still Genoes ex racted a spirituous liquor from grain. Passing it olT as a powerful specific, they sold in small viols, at a high price, under the nameofa^nn rite, water of life, or ran dc vie. Till the end of the sixteenth century it was considered but as a medicine, and was sold only by the apothecaries.? About that time the thought was suggested of furnishing it to miners, who labored in the mines of Hungary, as a preservative against heat and damp. The custom almost at the same time was introduced into Ireland. Among the ordinances of Ilenrv VIII, is one which prohibits more than one manufacturer of spirituous liquors to establish himself in the towns. In the reign of Mary, an act of parlimcnt which describes a liquor of which it is injurious to drink and daily to use, prohibits entirely any distilling. We find, however, some years after, the English soldiers, who supported the cause of Holland in the Low Countries, drinking it as a cordial. This is the commencement of the period from which is dated its manufacture on a large scale both in England, and on the conti nent. In England, however, the use of beer prevailed with the people till the reign ol William and Mary, when the government having encouraged distillation by various measures, the consumption of spirits became excessive. Smollet says that the retailers of brandy invited passengers, bv signs placed over their shops, to drink for the trifle of a penny?adding "that for two pcuce they could make themselves drunk, and that they could furnish with straw those who were in that state to lie upon till they should recover." The government became alarmed at such results: it endeavored to renew restrictions upon distilling, but succeded poorly; and it was till 1761, that the consumption of beer, which had diminished in proportion as the brandy had increased, arose again to the state in which it was previously. Beer again became the favorite ot English operI .1--- nn t ho cfilo ni 3UVCSJ LHll IIIU IUMIILUUU3 1111 ,llv. onx ... brandy having been abolished in l?S27, the use of that liquor threatened again tc become prevalent. The consumption increased to twelve millions of gallons, and now forty millions of gallons. E3LZGI0rsi~' CHRISTIAN TREASURY. Lawfulness of Amusements.?In judging of the innocence of immortality of prevalent amusements, you will do well to keep before your minds the three following questions as so many tests. 1. Can you make them the subject of believing prayer!? Supposingyou have ventured to engage in them, can you ask the blessing of God tc accompany them, for your benefit? and or returning from them, perhaps at the hour of midnight, can you offer up thanks tc him for having given vou the opportunity rhem? If voti cannot, bo as U I JWUIIHj, ... sured they arc amusements which cannol endure the scrutiny of an enlightened conscience, or the eye of a holy God. 2. Can von indulge in them without having j you r religious feelings impaired or weakened< j Can you return from them with an increaj | ed wish *>r the study of divine truths, anc ; the enjoyment of devotional duties? Car you say, after ruminating of the impres sions they have left on your hearts, tha t!:?v !iand s^rengthenec calculated rather to leave a sting in your awakened conscience, to plant a thorn iu your dyipg pillow, and to cast an additional shade on tho dark valley. Ah! my young friends, these are so many criteria by which you may judge the character and tendency of fashionable amusements, and discover the duty and importance of "choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the 'pleasures of sin for a season. I most readily grant that periods of relaxation are necessary to refresh and invigorate the powers of our minds. But it does not follow, that we are at liberty to fritter away valuable portions of of time cither in abject sloth or frivolous recreations. As moral beings, accountable to God for the use to which we apply our passing hours, and awaiting an immortal existence beyond the skies, wc should see whether there may not be found recreations that combine utility with relaxation. It is by no means necessary, as the popular notion is, that the charge sould be from an ' ? ? * A 1 - ~ * ? /% rtrio tllQt 1Q employment mai is usciui iu wuw ? useless; but the object may be even better accomplished by a change that shall keep the mind still employed to advantage. If your ordinary employment is one that lays your faculties under severe contribu. tion, that to which you resort /or amuse, ment ought undoubtedly to require but moderate mental exercise ; and in cases of great exhaustion from intellectual effort, it may be proper to give the mind, for a season, an entire dispensation from the labour of connected thought. But in all ordinary cases, you will find that in unbending from severe exertion of mind, with reference to renewing that exertion with greater success,you need not yield to positive inaction, or occupy yourself with any thing that is trifiinfT. hut mav still be doing something O' 1 w _ lor the benefit of yourself or your fellow creatures, lfyoa regulate your amusements by a regard to this principle, you will find it a most effectual means of redeeming time, and tvill have the pleasure o reflect "that even your hours of relaxaion are hours of usefulness."?Macindoc. ON PREACHING CnRIST. 1. He is the text; and all preaching beside Christ is preaching beside the text: therefore keep to your text. 2. Christ is the very foundation and subject matter of preaching; and all preaching without Christ is building castles in the air. 3. Christ is the life and soul of preaching, and all preaching without him is like a body without life and spirit. 4. Christ is the ' grand end of preaching; preaching is to magnify his glory; and when Christ is not nn-nrhorL tho n-reat end is lost.?Dr. t" ' o South. To preach duly without Christ is the . i way to make moralists ; to preach ciu:y before Christ is the way to make legalists, ; and to make the world think they can be 1 religious without Christ. But tnc true gos. pel preaching, lies in preaching Christ in order to duty; for until Christ be revealed in us, there will be no true holiness, no freedom from the bandage o? corruption.? In Mr. Ivime's Sermon, preached as a 1 tribute of respect and affection to the mem. 1 ory of Andrew Fuller, he mentions, that ( he once was complaining to Mr. Fuller of the difficulty he found in preaching so as truly to edify the people. 4 Preach Christ\ i replied Mr. F. 4 Make Him prominent, in \ every Sermon? Mr. Fuller added, "some , years ago, before 1 left a town where I had ; been preaching, I heard that it was said, i I had not preached Christ to them. 1 rnu. nn this, when returning home, and . thought, 4 Well, it may be possible that I F did not preach Christ sufficiently to them ? , But I resolved by divine aid, that my heari ers shall not have to complain of that again; for Christ crucified shall be my constant I theme in future."?Eng. Bap. Mag. THE rious AFRICAN. 4 In the memoir of Dr. Porter, recently published by Messrs. Perkins & Marvin, we find the following instance of the triumph r of faith in a pious African, which came to ! the knowledge of Dr. P. in one of his , Southern cxci rsions, and which so deeply . impressed him that he recorded it. * A , Christian Negro, on his death.bed, when , he was called poor, Pornpeyj said?4 No , J say poor Pompcy now I King Pompey.' | To the record Dr. 1'. added the remark, ! 4 Pagan Athens furnished no parallel of . sublimity.'?Christian Watchman. 1 FAITHFUL PREACHING. Sinners cannot bear plain dealing, and when their darling sin is struck at, their hearts swell with indignation. * I hate ' him,' says king Ahab, concerning Micaiah, 4 for he doth not prophecy good concerning : me, but evil.' When John the Baptist came ' to touch on Herod's particular sin, his be. loved Herodias, then John's head must go I for it. A profane gentleman once said of a i godly preacher.?4 lie divides his text like a scholar, and follows his doctrine like a t logician, but the devil cannot stand his a p.