BY G. SANDERSON $ E. CORNMANJ VO&OTOB 26, NO 51. Terms of-Publication. Tho American Volunteer Is published every Thursday morning, in the white frame building, (rear of the court house,) at 7’?yo Dollars per annum,' payable half yearly in advance, or two dollars and fifty cents it not paid within the year. . No subscription taken fora leSs term than six months, and no discontinuance permitted until ail arrearages are paid. A. failure to. notify a discontinuance at the expiration of aft'erto, will be considered a new engagement. Advertisements will be thankfully received, and published at the rate of §1 00 per square lor three insertions, and 25 cts. for each subse quent insertion. Those not specifically ordered will be inserted till forbid. Handbills , Blanks, Cards , &c. neatly executed at short notice, and at moderate prices. - ACTEWTS FOR THE VOIiEHTEEH. The following Gentlemen w.ill please act as agents for this paper* subscriptionsrcceivcd,and money paid to cither of theseindcviduals willbe acknowledged by ns. > John Moore, Esq. Newvillc; Joseph M. Means, Esq. Hopewell township. John Wunderlich, Esq, Shippensburg. David Clever. Esq. Lee’s Roads. . Joejn Mkiiaffy, Dickinson township. Abraham Hamilton, ogestown. George F. Cain, Esq. Mechanicsburg. Frederick Wonderlich, do. Jamf.j Ei.liOtt, Esq. Springfield. - Daniel Krysher. Esq. Churchtown. Jacob Longnecker, E.Pennsboro’lownjihip.’ GeorgK Ernks-t, Cedar Spring, Allen tp- POE TR ‘Yv^- . LUES On the distruction of the old Willow Tree that •stood on the green at the corner of the Wrist Church % the late hail slot m. There stands the old willow, Its branches hung'down; At once.the beauty „ And pride of our town; The sun in the morning Reams bright on its boughs. And perfum’d with dew drops, -- It offers iCs vows. A sad mournful change Hath pass’d over the scene, And standing, the willow. No longer is seen! The storm, cloud in fury And anger hath pass’d, And e’en the old willow Hath bow’d to the blast. And waving in beauty - Adorning the green, Its pendulous branches No longer are seen; No more will the ciders Be seen meeting there, To offer to Heaven For sinners a prayer. The soft balmy zephyr That floatStO'er the plain, Its lone hanging branches Shall stir not again ; When passing the wild bird Shall poise on its wing, And plaintively o’er It A requiem sing. Tho* oft it had triumph’d O’er tempest’s deform; Yet bowing so long * To the whirlwind and storm, It yielded at last; • And a hail driving cloud ' Encompass’d the willow. And furnished a shroud. • MISCELLANEOUS. For the American Volunteer. THE PAST. The past 1 what is the past but the sepul chre to .which oblivion consigns the chaos .of entombed virtue; and {he charnel house of shameless guilt? ’Tis ihe memory of scenes i —and events - that-now, exist-only in the-cell of the heart, engraved upon its tablet. ’Tis ■ the harbinger of futurity—ihe repository of those Saturniau dreams which in early youth cheered my buoyant spirit and taught me to anticipate in long perspective—an almost pempiternity of pleasure;-. The past! me thinks I hcar some'wearied spirit say it is. pleasing to resort to the past—to recall vis ions that have long singe departed, faded, blotted from the'page of the present.,.. It . is' _ _pJea_sing_;to _reyert_ toi_my_infantile days, . when my mind was pure and spotless,-as my fair brow and the bright auburn tresses wliich clustered o’er if; or when with the ad venturous daring of youth I recklessly scal ed the steep ascent and attained the summit of ambitions fondest hopes. They pass be fore me as spectred. shadows, pictured by_ the phantom pen of illusion;; yet as. I cogi tate on the.past I almost seem to realize the -Paradisical '"existence in- the poet’s fabled elysium. The future-is of occular imprr transibility, and poor impotent man shrinks from attempting to penetrate mystery, chok ed in obscurity. but of the'past we do know ’tie the record of time—the Chronicler of the world. Guided by experience inoursecu ■ lar pursuits we. profit by it—we discover er ror; hnd : substitute truth—wo fee the mis administration'of government and. are-pre pared to remedy the evil. The past—-those reverend chronicles of the. origin, progress and decline of grandeur and greatness*—thou art the repository, of the accumulated trea sures of ages—-the storehouse of science and - arf-r-King® nave roll’d - in ..thy_. wasteful AIIE It IC All V Oim Eli R. flood”—in thy course thou hast trodden crowns and sceptres —thrones have crum bled before thee, and the proudest fabricks of government have been swept away as with the blast of destiny. O. B. C. In -1828 the. whole number of this people scattered throughout the world, was estima ted at 2,700,000, and distributed as follows: Europe 1,674,000; Africa 480,000; Asia 542,000; Polynesia 2000; America 32,000. They belong to the different sects of Rabbi nists, Caraites, Samaritans, Yuhudis, Mala bars, &c., and are found in almost every country except Spain, Portugal, Sicily, and Spanish and Portuguese America. The a bovc estimate can onlybe regarded as an approximation to the truth, and is probably considerably lower than the actual number. The European Jews are divided between the several States in the following ratio: In the Austrian Dominions, Hun- gary, Gallicra, &c. Russia, and .Russian Poland, Turkey in Europe. _• 312,000 Prussia, and Prussian Poland, 153,000 France, Bavaria, Netherlands, Great Britain, (including Hanover,) 35,000 Denmark and Sweden, The Smaller German States,’ 32,500 Italian States, 30,000 , . Total,. . 1,674,000 In Asia then- were abont ~jo,ooo in the Turkish Dominions, making an aggregate under that government of 562,000; Persia contains nearly 100,000; there were 15,000 in the United States; 12,000 in British Ame rica; and’iibout 5,000 scattered through the Dutch, French, Danish and Swedish colo nics. For the Volunteer Our lot is cast in very wonderful times. VVc have reached, as it were, Mount Pisguli in-our march; and we may discern from its summit the dim though certain outlines of coming events. —The tide of action seems to be rolling back from the west to the east; a spirit akin to thatof Moses, when he beheld the Land of Promise in faith and joy, is ris ing up among the nations;—whatever con cerns the Holy Land is heard and read with lively interest; its scenery, its antiquities, its past history and future glories engage alike the traveller and the divine,—hundreds of strangers now tread the sacred soil for one that visited it in former days; Jerusalem is once more a centre of attraction; the curious and devout flock annually thither from all parts of America and Europe, accomplishing in their laudable pursuit the promise of God to the beloved City: ‘Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated so as no man went through thee, I will make thee an eternal excellency, the joy of many generations.’ , It would indeed be surprising if (he wide diffusion of knowledge among all classes of the civilized world did not create a wider diffusion of interest for the history and local ities of Palestine. All that can delight the eye, and feed the imagination is lavished ov er its surface; the lovers of scenery can find, there every form and variety of landscape; the snowy heights of Lebanon, with its ce dars, (he valley of Jordan, the mountains of Carmel, Taber, and Hermon, and the wa ters of Galilee, arc as beautiful as in the days when David* sang their praise, and far more interesting by the acclamation of re . ininiscences. The land, unbroken by the toils of the husbapdman, yet ‘enjoys her .Sabbaths;’ but Escliol, Basham, Sharon, and Gilead are still there, and wait but the ap pointed hour (so we may gather from every narrative) to sustain their to flow* as of old, with milk and honey; to become once more'‘a land of brooks and water, of fountains, and depths that spring out of val leys and hills; —a land of wheat, and barley, and . vines; and trees, and pomegranates, -.olive, oil. and honey;’ and to resume their j ancient and-rightful titles, ‘the garden of the Lords’-’and -the-glory-of.- all -lands.’—- What numberless recollections are crowded upon every footstep of* the sacred soj|. — Since-thev.batfle.' of the fijfe kings against four, recorded in the 14th chapter of Gene sis, nearly two thousand years Before the time of our Saviour, until the warsaof Na poleon, eighteei), hundred-years after it, this narrow but wonderful region has never ceas ed'to be the. stage of remarkable events. If, (hr the sake of brevity, we omit the enumer ation of spots signalized by the exploits of the children of Israel, to-whlch, hpwhvct l ; a traveller may be guided by-Holy -Writ with all the minuteness and accuracy of a road book, we shall yet be engaged by the scenes of many brilliantand romantic achievements of the ancient and modern world. Take the plain of Estdrselonjilone, and the ancient val ley of Jezreel, a scanty spot of twenty-five miles long, and varying from six to fourteen in' its breadth; yet more recollections' are called up here than suffice -for the annals of many'nation’s'. Here, by the banks of that* ancient,river, the jiver Kishon, ‘the stars iir their courses fought against Sisera, the ob ject-of the immortal song of Deborah and' - Barak; and here, tob. is Megiddo, signalized, by the death of the good Josiah. Each year, in a long succession of’.time, brought-fresh' evenfs; the armies of Antiochus and of Rome, Egyptians, Persians. Turks and. Arabs, the fury of the Saracens, and .the.mistaken piety of -the Crusaders! have found, in their turn, the land-‘as the garden of Eden before them, and have left it a desolate wilderness.’ 1 Nor did iiescape the ferocious - : ne of a revolu- CAROL HALL, THE JEWS. From the London Quarterly Review, State and Prospects op the Jews. ia_gripj “ NOT BOUND TO SWEAR IN TIID WOIIDS OF ANY MASTER.” Horace. CARLISLE, Pa. THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1839- tionary war; the-arch destroyer of mankind sent his armies thither under the command of Gen’l. Kleber, arid in 1799 gave the last memorial of blood to those devoted plains. But how small and transitory all such re miniscences to those that must rivet the at tention and feelings of the pious Believer! : — If Johnson could regard that man as little to be envied, who could stand unmoved on lona, or Marathon, or any spot dignified by wisdom, bravery or virtue, what must we say of one who cared not to tread Mount Zion or Calvary, or could behold with un moistened eye, “Those holy fields, Over whose acres walked those blessed feet, ‘ Which eighteen hundred years ago, were naU’d For our advantage, on the bitter cross?" We have heard, indeed, that Jew persons can contemplate the Holy City for the first time without emotion; not long ago it was brought to our knowledge that two young men (and they not especially serious) on ar riving-withih sight of its walls and moun tains, struck by the religio lad, ‘How dread ful isdhis place! this is none other than the house of God, and this is the gate of Heaven,'’ slipped involuntarily) from the camels, and j fell into an attitude of adoration. - j This interest is not confined to the Chris tians—it is shared and avowed by the whole body of the Jews, who no’longer conceal, their hope and belief that the time is uht far distant When the Lord shall set his hand a gain (he second time to recover the remnant of his people Winch shall be left, from As-1 Syria, and from Bgypfl'aJhd/from Petros, and-j from Cush, and from Jfjam, and from Shinar,. and from Hamath, and'from the islands of j the sea; and shall set up an ensign for the j nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of: Israel, and shall gather together the disper sed of Judah frym the four corners of the earth. Doubtless, there is no new sentiment a- '■ mong the children of the dispersion. The. novelty of the present day does not dim in the indulgence.of such a hope by that most venerable people—but in their fearless con fession of the hope, and in the approximation of spirit between Christians and Hebrews, to 'entertain the same belief of the future glories of Israel, to offer up the same er, and look forward to the same consuni-1 niation. In most former periods a develope-1 ment of religious feeling has been followed ; by a persecution of the ancient people of' Cod; from the time of Constantine to Leo ; XII. the disciples of Christ have been stim ulated to the oppression of the children of Israel; and heaven alone can know what myriads of that suffering- race fell beneath (he piety of the Crusaders, as they marched j to recover the sepulchre of-Mheir Saviour from the hands of the Infidels. But a mighty change has come over.the hearts of (he Gen title-; they seek now tli£ temporal and eter nal peace on he Hebrew people; societies are ) established in England and Germany to dif fuse among them the light of the Gospel; and the increasing accessions parent in stitutions in London, attest the public esti mation of its principles and services. Encouraged byjjiese proofs of a bettered condition and of The sympathy of the Gen tiles, who so lately despised them, the chil dren of Israel have become far wore ojten to Christian intercourse and reciprocal inquiry. Both from themselves and their converted brethren we learn much of their doings, much of their hopes and fears, that a few years ago would have remained in secret.— One of them, who lately, in the true spirit of Moses, went a journey into Poland, unto his brethren, and looked on their burthens informs us that ‘several thousand Jews of that country and of-Russia; have recently bound themselves by an oath that as soon as the way is opcn.for them to go to they-will-immcdiatcly go thither,-and there spend their time in fasting and praying un to the Lord, until he shall send the Missiah. ••••••* Although-it j was, he continued, ‘‘comparatively a short.- time since I had intercourse with my breth ren according to the flesh, I found a mighty change in their minds and feelings in regard -to-the-nearness-of-.theic-deliverance—Some, assigned one reason, and-some another for the opinion.thcy entertained; but all agreed in thinking.that the Time is at hand.’ Large bodies, moreover, have acted on this im pulse; we state on the authority of another gentleman, Ipmsclfia. Jewish Christian, that the- number of the Jews in Palestine, has been multiplied twent; within the last; forty thousand of that peopli there they amount' now thousand; and ,we can ct from other sources, that 470.000 450.000 60,0p0 55,000 80,000. 5,500 in multitude by large a, very recent'English tr many Jews on their roav invariably replied to liis cnquui*,... .—.vtney .were going.thither to.die in. the land of their fathers. For many years past this desire had prevailed among the Hebrevvsj old Sau dys had recorded it in his account of Pales tine—butit has been reserved for the present Slay to see the wislvso completely gratified, “ft. variety of motives stimulate the desire: the devout seek to be interred in the soil that.they love; the’ juperstifious, id avoid the disagreeable alternative of being rolled un der the'earth’s surface,, until they arrive in that land' on the great morning of the resur rection."” But Whatever be the motives of a people now blinded' by igporance, who does not see, in fact. a d ji : of the faith which animated* the death beds of the patri archs; of Jacob and of Joseph, who ‘when he died, made mention'of the departure of" the children of Israeland .gave ; commandment Concerning his bones !’ In all parts of the earth this extraordinary people, whose name and sufferings are in every nation under Heaven, think and feel as one man on the great issue of their restoration —the Utmost east and the utmost west, the north and the south, both small and large congrtgations, those who have frequent intercourse with their brethren, and those who have none, en tertain alike the same hopes and fears. Dr. Wolf heard these sentiments from their lips in the remotest countries of Asia; and Bu .chanah asserts that wherever he went among the Jews of India,.he found memorials of their expulsion from Judea, and of their be lief of a return thither. At Jerusalem they purchase, as it were, one day in the year of their Mussulman rulers;and being assembled in the valley of Jehosaphat, bewail the ov erthrow of the city and the temple, and pray for a revival of its glory. Though, they have seen the Temple twice, and the city six times destroyed, their con fidence is not abated, nor is their faith gone; for 1800 years the belief has sustained-them, without a king a prophet or a priest, through insiilt, poverty, torture_and_death; and now iiVthe nineteenth ectitirryrin the midst of the ‘march of intellect,’ and what is better, in the' far greater diffusion of the-written word of God both among the Jews- & Chris-’ tians, we hear from all a harmonious assent to the prayer that concludes every Hebrew festival, ‘the year that approaches* Oh bring to Jerusalem.’ This belief has not befcn be-' gotten and sustained by rabbinical bigotry; i of the reformed Jews I have excluded from their liturgy every pe | tition for restoration, and even for the Mes ! slab, yet it prevails more strongly,_il possi | ble, among the converts of Christianity.— We have now a letter before us from a He brew proselyte, dated but a few weeks ago at Jerusalem, which the writer was visiting for the first time; his heart overflows with patriotism, and the remembrance of hjs an cestry: he beheld the land of his fathers, to be hereafter his; ‘theirs not by'unholy war, not by stratagem or treachery, but as the gift of Him who is to be the glory of his people of Israel.’ It is only within the last few years that the Jews, as a body, have been known be yond the'circlc of curious and abtruse read - ers. Thoir-pursuits and capacities, it was supposed, were limited to stockjobbing, mo ney lending, and orange stalls; but few be lieved them to be a people of vigorous intel lect. of unrivalled'diligencc in study, with a long, list of ancient and modern writers,. whose«works —though oftentimes mixed with other matter, much of which is useless, and much pernicious, and calculated tar more to sharpen than to enrich the understanding— bespeak most, singular perseverance and a bifily. The emancipation of genius, which began under 1 Moses Mendelsohn- about the year 1757, brought them unlooked-for fame on the stage of profane literature—the Ger man, which had hitherto been rcgaided as an unholy language, because,Ahe favorite study of the liberalized Hebrews; thence they passed to the pursuit of the various sci ences, And of every language, whether liv ing or deadjjheir commentators and critics, philosophers and historians, condescended to a rate with the secular Gentiles, and gave, iiVtheir success, an earnest of the fruit that their native powers could reap from a wider field of mental exertion. Thaif''ihe Jews should be'degraded and despised is a part of their chastisement, and fulfilment of prophecy; but, low and abhor red as they still are, we now hail for them the dawn of a better day, a day of regenera tion and deliverance, which raising them a like from Neology and Rabbinism, shall set them at large in the glorious liberty of the gospel. This desirable consummation, though still remote 1 , has approached us-morerapid ly within the last few years. The Societies at Bhsle, Frankfort-on-the-Maine, Berlin, Posen, and Breslau, for promoting Christi anity among the Jews, have been eminently prosperous; but the London Society, the .first m date, is likewise the first in its magnitude and success.’ ’ • _„ltisa Y.cryJmportantfeatureJ n.the.ge n erality of the'eonversions, that they have ta keil place among persons of cultivated un derstandings, and literary attainments. We are not to be told that those excellent socie ties have operated with success on ignorance and poverty, purchasing the one'and persuad ing the other, where either necessity or in capacity lay passive before them.—These Jewish converts, like their prototype, St. Paul, brought iip at the feet of their Gamal iels in all the learning and wisdom of the Hebrews, nuw“preach the faith which once they destroyed.* s —We haye already men tioned that several 1 haVe‘ become ministers of the Church of Englarld; on the continent we find many among the'Lutheran and Reform ed clergy; they have also their .physicians, lawyers, head and assistant ihastero. of-the G,erraan Gymnasia; there are three profes sors and two. lecturers; formerly Jews,', in the University of Breslau; five professors in' Halle; in Petersburg a professor of medicine; in Warsaw, Dr. Leo, a convert, is. one of the most celebrated physicians; in Erlaugeh we find Dr. Stahl; addin Berlin Dr. Nean der, the celebrated church historian', fully proves that poverty of intellect is not .an in dispensable preliminary to Jewish conver sion. , . . But even where the parties have not been fully brought to the belief and profession of the Gospel, a mighty good, has resulted from the .missionary exertions. 'Ancient antipa thies are abated, arid prejudice’s are subdued: 1 the 'name, of Christian ds less-odious to the ears of the Jews; and jnany of the nation. adhering still to the faith of their forefathers, ceased to uphold the Talmudical doctrine, that the Gentiles are beasts created for the purpose of administering to the necessities of Israel. They have conceived a respect for our persons, and still greater for out;in tellects; an ardent desire is now manifested by the Jews to hold conversation’with the missionaries; along the north coast of Afri ca, in Palestine and in Poland, they have visited them in crowds; and many, doubt less, have borne away with them the' seed which a study of the Scriptures will ripen into conviction. As a conseififence of this more friendly intercourse between Jew and flfmtile, we must mention the kinder feelins£entertain ed by the, Hebrews towards a converted brother. We have heard, indeed; from the lips of a proselyte, that he had, even within the last four or five years, observed an im- f movement in this respect among his own re ations, and the same fact is there amply" tested by the opinion and experience of Mr. Herschell. . .. . We wish we could say that this sentiment is universal; but, alas, we know many and lamentable exceptions; There are Jews in all parts of Europe who dare not avow their Christianity, so great is the fear of public ■ reproach or domestic tyranny, In Constan tinoplc, Tunis,' and Turkey generally, where the Jews have a phlic'e, .'and' authority over their own.body, conversion is, as dangerous as,_in Ireland itself. Whenever a Hebrew is suspected of wavering in his Rabbinical al legiance, lie is imprisoned and bastinadoed; ‘and no later than January of ,thjs year a young man in Tunis who had discovered ah inclination to the hated faith, was assaulted so" violently by his-relations that ‘he fainted on the spot,’ says the missionary, ‘and lin-, gered a few days when he died.’ Neverthe less, conversions, even there, as in Ireland, are constantly on the increase;- it being still the good pleasure of God that the blood of the martyrs should be thfc sped of the church. ■ A desire, corresponding to this change ol sentiment, is manifested to obtain possession of the word of God, and they eagerly demand copies of the Society’s editions otedho Old Testament in Hebrew. In the rest two years 5400 copies have been sold by Sir. Stockfpldt, in the Rhenish provinces; sev eral thousands On the coasts of Africa- by Mr. Ewald; and in Konigsburg, Mr! Bcrgh feldt'sells copies to flip amount of ohe hun dred pounds annually'. In Poland and Je rusalem, the missionaries can dispose of all that are sent; and the last report-of the So ciety informs us that a-less additional num ber than twenty .thousand, copies would bo utterly inadequate to the demands of the Israelites in all parts of the world. It is al so very_ observable that the translation in the vernacular dialect has excited the live liest interest ainong the long neglected fa milies of the Hebrew nation'.—All this indi cates a prodigious change; hitherto (hey have cared-little for the legends oOPalmud and “Rabbinical preachments; they now betake themselves to the study of Scripture, and will.aCcept the Pentateuch printed and pre sented by the hands of Christians!' This a bundant diffusion of the HebrOrV Bible has, more than any other cause, Contributed to abate prejudice and conciliate affection. But a more -Important undertaking has already been begun by the zeal and piety of those who entertain an interest for the Jew ish nation. They have designed the estab lishment of a church at Jerusalem, if possible on Mount Zion itself, where the orders "Of our service, and the prayers of the .Liturgy shall daily be set before the faithful in the Hebrew language. A considerable sUm has been collected for this purpose; the mission aries are already resident on the spot; and nothing is wanting but to complete the pur chase of. the ground on, which -to creeb-the sacred edifice "File growing interest mainfested for these regions, the larger investment of British capital, and the confluence of British travel lers and strangers from all parts of the world have recently induced the Secretary of Slate for Foteign 'Affairs to station there a repre scntafivej.Of ..our. Sovereign,.in,the..persoii-of h'Vice Consul. This gentleman set sail for Alexandria at the end of last September— his residence will be fixed at Jerusalem;-but his jurisdiction will extend to the whole country within the ancient limits of the Holy Land; he is thus accredited, as it were; to the former kingdom of David and-the Twelve Tribes. • ■ . ; ■ - •The appointment has been conceived and executed in th'e spirit of true wisdom. We have done a deed which the Jews regard as an honor-to -their-nation;-and have thereby conciliated a body of well-wishers hi every people under heaven, Throdghoutjhe east they nearly monopolize the concerns of traffic and finance; and maintain a secret but uninterrupted intercourse with their breth ren. in-lhe.-westi~-Thousands-visit Jerusalem inevery ycar,from all parts,of.the globe, and carry back to their respective bodies that intelligence which guides their conduct, and influences their sympathies, . So rapid and accurate is their mutual.communication, that Frederick the Great confessed the ear lier Si superior intelligence obtained through the Jews on all affairs of moment. Napoleon knew well the.value.of an Hebrew, alliance; and endeavored to reproduce in the capital of France,'the spe’ctacle of the, ancient San hedrim, which, basking iri the sunshine of Imperial’favor, might give lawa.to fhe.whole body of the Jews throughout the habitable. ■ world, and aid hitn£iib doubt,' in his auda cious plans against-’Poland and the East,— Hia schemejijt.iß true, proved aborfifejUbr ihe.inas? ofthe Israelites were by no.mieans [AT TWO DOLLARS TEll ANNUAL ... NEW SERIES—-VOL. 3, NO 8. inclined to merge their hopes in the destinies of the Empire—cxchnngfiZion for Montmarr tre, arid Jerusalem for. Paris. The few lib eral believers whom heattraoted tp his ruined Ins prospects With the people by their impious flattery; and averted the whole body of the nation by--blendirig,-on the -15th of August, the cipher of Napoleon and Joseph ine with th 6 unutterable name of Jeho vah, and elevating the imperial eagle above the representation of the Ark of Covenant. A misconception, in fact, of the character of the people lias vitiated all the attempts of various Sovereigns to better their condition; they have sought to amalgamate them with the body pf their subjects, not knowing, or not regarding the temper of the Hebrews, and the plain language of Scripture that “the people shall dwell alone, and-shall riot be reckoned among the nations.” It is a matter of very serious reflection that the Christians themselves-have cast in numerable stumbling blocks in. the way of Hebrew conversion. To pass over the weak and ignorant methods that men have adopted to persuade the Jews, let us ask whether the Christians have ever afforded this people an opportunity of testing the divine counsel, ‘by their fruits ye shall know them?’ . What is the record of the'Christian periods of the second dispensation?—A history of indo lence, plunder; and blood, that fill even now the heart bfevery thinking man with’indig nation and shame! Was this the religion ot the Messiah? Could. this be in their eyes the fulfilment of those prophecies that prom ised security and joy in his.bappy days when his.officers should be .peace and his exactors righteousness? What, too, have they wit nessed in the worship, and doctrines of,. Christian states? The idolatry of the Greek and Latin churches, under which the He* brews have almost universally lived, the mummeries of thcii ritual, and the hypocricy of their precepts, hive shocked and aVertcd the Jewish mind. We often times express our surprise at.tlie stubborn resistance they oppose to the reception of Christianity; but Christianity In their vlew.is synonimous with image worship, and its doctrines with perse? cution; they, believe that in einbracing tlic dominant faith tliey must . violate the two first commandments of the Decalogue, and abondon that witness, which they have nobly maintained fur eighteen hundred years,, to the unity of the God of Israel. „ It well imports us to have a care that we no longer persecute or mis-lead this once; loved nation; they are a people chastened, but hot utterly cast-oil; “in all their affliction - H e was afflicted.” For the oppression ot this people there is no warranty-in (he Scrip ture; nay. (ho reverse;'their oppressors are menaced with stern judgments; I am jualoun for Jerusalem and for-Zion with a great jeal ousy, and I an very sore displeased with the heathen-that are at case; for I,was but a lit j tie displeased, and. helped fonmrd the ajjlic- This is the language oT the prophet Zachariah; and we may trace in the pages of history the vestiges of his never slumbering Providence,, No sooner hitd England given shelter ,to (he Jews under Cromwell and Charles, than.she started forward in a com mercial career of unrivalled and uninterrup ted prosperity; Holland,. embracing the principles of the Reformation, threw off the yoke of Philip, opened her cities to the He brew people, and obtained an importance far beyond her natural advantages; while Spaiiij in her furious and bloody expulsion ot the race, sealed her own condemnation. (How. deep a wound,’ says Mr. Milinan, 'was in flicted on their national prosperity!}}' this act of the ‘most Christian sovereign,’ cannot easily be calculated; but it may be reckoned amongst die most effective causes of-the de cline of Spanish greatness— - - . • Sentence- or .Septimus-Hunter;" TiriT Quack Doctor. —This man, was on Satur day found guiltyuf manslaughter in the.4fli degree, in having through his criminal igno rance of his assumed profession, causecTtlie death of Mrs. Justine Co/.zens, was brought' before the court of General Sessions, Kcw York, on Tuesday, to receive his sentence. -Thn prisoner-declared-that he was ; -wholly innocent-of. .the. heinous and murderous charges. The Recorder, in addressing, the prisoner; .remarked that a‘clearer Chse of gross and criminal ignorance had probably never been established before a jury. Had the-jury rendered an unqualified: vcidfct of "guilty, of manslaughter, in, the ,4th degree, 5 ? the court would have felt it tfieir, duty;; to inflict the fullest penalty of the law, which would be two years in'the State 5 s Prison and a fine of $1,000..' acconly pahied their verdictJiy a/recommendatiotrtd: mercy,must, however, operate in mitigation of punishment, and the, fine would, in. con sideration thereof, be wholly remitted, and the judgment of, the Court stand recorded, '•lmprisonment in the penitentiary for one year. , l~&altimareSun.^--^~-~——'~ slL ~— ' LAZINESS.—One fired day afarniei* went forth to his. mo wing, lot; where ihehad hired half'a dozen «hcn.tp ; cut',. grass. He came upon 1 .them, suddenly. an,S ' louml them all-lying under ah .apple free.. * Well/; said the indignant ' farmer, ‘l’ll give an extra half doliarto thelazieSt-fel* loWamongatye! , L ; ;1 "r.-.'.v ’ > ir, All ’jumped upon their fedt.to.claiih ;tho donation, but one mapAvlio laid still.), Ao.-.s , . ’Ah!’ said has won the money., Hdrt.’ rtijr{ JT9«Wt ■money.” / ■ • Ttf which Indolence replied, ‘Won’t ypit please put:it in my pocket? * ' .m! s p ... . i.!.. - V Askthypursoi^Katthou^hould^tbay.*,'^ /■
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